Strength for to-day amid a seaside fiction of romance
A domestic tale at Clovis cottage near Sodus bay unfolds with Lily Kate and Cecile as three yachtmen visit. A mistaken advertisement leads to social awkwardness, a luncheon rendezvous with Detroit Churchill family, and a planned Siren's Bay summer.
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Ciovis Cottage
Qtolia
Kate Davis
Lily
Miss Davis
Cecelia Chishom
Tam
Kate
Peronctiste
Cecile
Clovis Cottage
Detroit
Sodus Bay
Kamchatka
Papa
James Will
Sama
Sodus Point Runner
June
Sodus
Jane
Tun
Varanda
Lita
Sam
David Churchill
Ceciel
Mr. Davis
Spolesthen
Biren
Clovis
Rochester
James Davis
Walter
Harold Churchill
Algo
Cecila Chisholm
Davis
Will Carleton
Messia
Churchill
Chicago News
Thrifty Outskirts Gentleman Hoards Gold and Tries Dog Tax Scam
An elderly man living on Chicago's edge hoarded gold in stockings and boxes and spurned meals and clothing. He trained a barking dog imitation to scare neighbors, then faced an abrupt demand for dog tax, exposing his ruse as Rambler recounts.
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Chicago
Normandy
Mendicant Skips Money After Clarifying Status
A street exchange in Chicago humorously pits a mendicant asking for alms against a passerby who queries his marital status. The beggar reveals he is married, twice, prompting the man to refuse further aid and tell him to move along.
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Chicago
Four Men Die In Beech Creek Engine Explosion Near Elmira
Four men were killed when a Beech Creek locomotive exploded near Elmira New York. Engineer Philip Knight James Warren and machinists Joseph Welds Allen Ramsey and John Stapleton were on board. Stapleton survived after being thrown twenty feet. The blast tore up track and blew pieces of the locomotive far from the wreck, with the report heard miles away.
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Beech Creek Railroad
Elmira
Philip Knight
Allen Ramsey
Iremian
James Warren
Joseph Welds
John Stapleton
Samii
National game season plans and league changes hinted
The piece notes Chicago facing a six catcher roster with Gong moving to New Yorks, and two sides opposing new pitching rules. It cites Cleveland figures on new American Association positions, Newark and Jersey City clubs joining, modest pay-ins from St Louis and others, and confirms at least four colored players in the International League. Pittsburg Club strengthens for a strong NL showing. Western League cities listed, pending Pueblo and Kansas City, while four strike rule confusion remains unresolved.
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Chicago
Gong
New Yorks
Cleveland
American Association
Newark
Jersey City
St.Louis
Fowler
Binghamton
Grant
Buffalo
Stovey
Walker
Newari
Pittsburg
Tae
Pueblo
Kansas City
Omaha
Leavenworth
Topeeka
Lincoln
St Joe
Denver
Miscellaneous 19th Century News Snapshots From a Dated Era
A collage of brief notes features Manx Twain's estimated fortune near a million and a half, Michael Davitt predicting Irish home rule in three years, and the Hancock widow choosing Washington as home. It notes the Empress of China’s twenty-year reign ending with a February succession for her son, Dr DotGrass’s wintering in the South after caring for General Grant, and Secretary Lawar residing in Washington with a married son. Also: Larry A. Wales’s death from bromide overdose in New York, Massachusetts Governor Robinson and a toboggan club tease, Henry M. Stanley’s reception and lectures, Umbria captain Carrain McMicken’s career, and ex-Governor Kirkwood’s election defeat. Other items mention Minnesota’s Ex-Nileson’s re-election odds, Lincoln-era recruitment details, Cabinet turnover under President Arthur, Italian hero Kine Huxsert honored for cholera bravery, and Chile’s president-elect Boxar Don Jose Manuel Balcameda’s birth and stature.
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Michael Davitt
Ireland
Hancock
Washington
China
DotGrass
General Grant
New York
Lawar
Larry A. Wales
Ropinson
Massachusetts
Troy Times
Henry M. Stanley
Kirkwoon
Iowa
House of Representatives
ExvrTe Nileson
Minnesota
Lincoln
John
Staples
Stroudsburg
Penn
Arthur
Drelinghuysen
Folger
Hatton
Chicago Mail
Chicago
Gresham
Brewster
Leare
Teller
United States Senate
Kine Huxsert
Italy
Naples
Boxar
Jose Manuel Balcemeda
Chili
Hos
Chamber of Deputies
Newly Gleanings and World Notes From Various Cities
A Dane opens a wooden-shoe factory in New Richland Minnesota and a woman is arrested in Des Moines for horse stealing. Population of the United States is estimated at 62 775 000. Brooklyn plans the largest tobogan slide with a 200 foot descent and 400 foot run. Mown Taoxerny touts an electric steel railway in operation. Cattle losses from pleuro pneumonia are pegged over 2 million dollars. California vintage this year tops 19 million gallons, about one seventh turned to brandy. Gauvenant’s alms-house for broken down writers nears completion at Neuilly in France. An Australian farmer uses wire netting against rabbit plague. Cane sugar crop estimates rise this year by 8 tons per acre with 6 89 Dept sugar crop predicting a drop of 520 700 bas.
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New Richland
Minn
Des Moines
Iowa
United States
San Francisco
Brooklyn
California
M. Gauvenant
Neuilly
France
Fiery Steamboat J B White Destroyed Near Baton Rouge
The steamboat J B White from Vicksburg to New Orleans burned at Blue State thirty miles from Baton Rouge. About 45 passengers were aboard with many fatalities. The vessel carried 2100 bales of cotton and 6000 sacks of seed valued at 150000 dollars and was built in 1878 costing 223000. Fire trapped passengers and crew. pilots jumped into the river and were rescued. The explosion hurled burning cotton and timbers. two children were saved, but the Superintendent and his wife perished. Authorities cite 36 dead as the toll.
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J. B. White
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Blue State
Baton Rouge
Mississippi River
Alexander McVay
John Stout
Bob Smith
New Texas Landing
Bayon Sara
Natchez
Wm. Melheavy
Pointe Coupee
Barry
Janny
Tom Muller
Callaian
Hill
New Texas
Andrew Perce
Antonio Rebatta
Henry C. Brown
Crop reports show advance in corn and oats with declines in wheat rye and barley
Department of Agriculture releases December farm price averages by county. Corn rose to 37 cents per bushel from 33, oats edged higher, wheat averaged 69 cents, rye 55, barley 53. Prices varied by state with notable drought impact in cotton regions and California at 73 cents. Hay values near $3 per ton. potatoes 44 cents. A Nebraska bank note reports a vault safe escape incident at Long Creek with a nickel-deposit.
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Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Cliavis
Osio
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Eclipses and celestial events for the year 1897
The article lists eclipses and astronomical events for 1897 including four eclipses two solar and two lunar. It specifies a partial lunar eclipse on February 8 visible in the United States and Pacific regions and a second solar annular eclipse on February 22 visible in South Pacific and western South America. It notes other eclipses and planetary visibility across various dates and locations.
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United States
Pacific Ocean
Amin
South Macfic Ocean
South America
Sient Sidalanis
Berlin
Germany
Konigsberg
Planeta Brightest Chart Note Fragment
A fragmented text lists planetary appearances with scattered dates and months including Mercury Venus Saturn and others. The notes mention March July April and January dates in unclear phrasing.
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Venus
Mara
Ant
Aptter
Mercury
Planeta
Shen Jr Cafter
iTba
Rining
Trapiter
Satore
Four Seasons Calendar Fragment
Fragmentary OCR notes mention winter and autumn dates with scattered month names and years. Readable items include December 24 1886 and September 23, but surrounding context is garbled and names or events are unclear.
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Issi
Five Sailors Lost In Lifeboat Rescue Effort
First officer Bartholomew H. Henry and four crew members of the steamship Knickerbocker perished while rescuing a disabled schooner Mary D. Credmer about 150 miles from New York off New Jersey. The life boat capsized twice in a gale and sank. only Henry's body was recovered later.
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Bartholomew H. Henry
Knickerbocker
Cromgall
New York
New Orcleans
New York City
New Jersey
Oliver Henry
Keers-Amt
Breathles
Mary D. Credmer
Philadelphia
Henry
Pleuro Pneumonia Bill Moves Toward Action in Congress
National Cattle Growers Association members meet in Washington with lawmakers to shape a bill for eradicating pleuro-pneumonia. The plan orders a presidential commission of three with broad powers to quarantine, slaughter, and reimburse diseased cattle, with penalties for obstruction and a $1,000,000 appropriation. Also noted is resumption of funds for the North Hudson River twin tunnel project in New York as financing is in place.
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Consolidated Cattle Growers' Association of the
United States
Congress
Washington
Hudson River
New York
Irish Land War tensions rise in Kilkees Clare estates
Dublin reports detail clashes between landlords and tenants as evictions loom on the Stackpoyle and Westrop estates. The Land Court official vows to treat the Plan of Campaign with contempt while government cases resume. Nine men arrested near Castleisland for arms raids, and abatements on rents are debated amid calls for liberty and open-air meetings.
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Dublin
Westrop
Kilkes
County Clare
Sls
Aen
Jude Boyd
Land Court of
Dubtin
Irih Land League
Dillon
Soria
Castle ‘Ishand
Tubbermoing House
Cahill
Limerick
Rnaoe
Sexton
Ireland
Howe Rilers
Clarke
Lord Randolph Churchill
The Fishery Dispute Damages Demanded for Losses
President Cleveland transmits correspondence to Congress on American fishermen losses in the Canadian provinces dispute. Secretary Bayard and Minister Phelps argue for a permanent commission to gather proofs of damages and secure settlement with Great Britain, amid treaty and seizure disputes.
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Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Sac- J
Dominion of Canada
North Atlantic
Grover Cleveland
Seonary Bayard
Great Britain
Dominion
Canada
Perpetuay Rei
Her
Unst
Phelps
Earl Roschsry
David Adams
al Agether
United States
Patrice David J. Adams
Mana
Provingcubo
British North America
Bayard
Rosebery
Lansdowne
Urrite
Savage eagle attack in Minneapolis injures two surveyors
Prof W W Carr and Samuel Curtis were surveying on Nicolet Avenue when a large eagle swooped down attacking them. The bird knocked Carr, tore his trousers, and sank its talons in his leg before others intervened and pinned the bird. Both men suffered injuries but escaped with aid.
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WW. F. Carr
Samuel Curtis
Nicolet Avenue
Minneapolis
Bird of Liberty
Washburn
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Ernest
Globe-Democrat
Wanntau
Ava de Lone
Long Creek
Jupiter
Satan
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