Japanese Firemen in Yeddo Brave Burned Mansions
A graphic English account of Japanese firemen fighting a major blaze in Yeddo. Firemen battle flames with hooks ladders and battering rams amid chaos as houses collapse and brave crews push into burning manses to prevent spread. The captain on the roof directs the brigade while cooling jackets are shed and the crowd roars approval.
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Constantinople
New York
King
Japan
London
Yeddo
Toto
Europe
Remains Mutilated in Public Cause Buried Tomorrow
Two or three poor blackened remains are removed on shutters after a fatal incident. The dead are described as tollicking fellows in their prime. They will be laid to rest tomorrow under cryptomerias and azaleas on the hillside, as crowds of relatives and comrades mourn their deaths for the public cause.
Chief Joseph's Family Visit Reveals Native Camp Life
A St Louis Globe Dem correspondent among the Nes Perces describes Chief Joseph's camp. Mrs Joseph, a pretty squaw, greets with a handshake beside buffalo robes and war gear. A brown papoose on a board sleeps calmly, strapped and bead-adorned, while the story notes the child’s age, calm summers campaign, and mystery of the missing daughter from the last fight.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nes Perces
Joseph
Sitting Bull
Bundle of Five From Monumental District
Five youths from the Monumental District exited a dry goods store after holiday shopping and grabbed a neat package suspected to contain a dress pattern or velvet cloak. Their hopes turned to disappointment when the contents proved to be a soiled worn pair of pants, likely exchanged for new ones.
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Boston Journal
Buried Italian Town Uncovered Near Manfredonia
An ancient Sipontum near Manfredonia in Italy has been unveiled, revealing a Diana temple, a 20 metre portico with bare-columned arches, and a 15 000 square metre necropolis buried by an earthquake. Inscriptions are headed to Naples museum as excavations continue. coins of gold and copper and a monument to Pompey have appeared.
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Italy
Pompeii
Manfredonia
Gargano
Diana
Naples
Sipontum
Strabo
Polybeus
Livy
Pompey
Burdette Delivers Humorous Mustache Lecture at Hanson Place
Burlington Hawk-Eye writer Mr R J Burdette described in Brooklyn as at home in the pulpit, entertaining listeners with a comic history of Tom and his growing mustache. The tale follows Tom’s chaotic trials from childhood grooming to first beard ambitions, ending with a playful denouement in front of Laura and an amused audience.
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R. J. Burdette
Burlington
Tom
Laura
Irrepressible Tom Spurs Brass Band Hire for Loneliness
A quirky note describes a remarkable Tom whose constant cheerfulness drives the sire to hire a brass band to fee from being lonesome when his hopety seion is out.
Old-Time Hanging In Philadelphia Mail Coach Robbery
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts an 1830 mail coach robbery near Turner's Lane in Reading bound for Reading. Passengers were intimidated, money and jewels taken, Porter and Wilson convicted. Porter hanged after witness Potete testified. Wilson later pardoned. Potete returned to Baltimore to serve a term. Hulett, a material witness, linked to the case.
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Samuel Hulett
Philadelphia
Restling
Wilson
Porter
Potete
Reading
Turner’s Lane
William Miller
United States District Court
White Swan Hotel
Baltimore
Arch Street
Hanging Ground
Eastern
Philadelphia Ledger
How Congressmen Live in Washington Letter to Enquirer
A Washington letter in the Cincinnati Enquirer warns that diet, exercise, and home habits sustain Congressmen. It condemns dining out, lavish wines, and public dinners as dangers to health and judgment, noting some public men avoid the wine yet are ensnared by temptation. It contrasts English statesmen facing harsher climates and ends with a biblical allusion.
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Gath
Washington
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hebe
Carrie
Valuable Literary Treasures At Lenox Library New York
The Lenox Library in New York now houses Washingtons farewell address manuscript after Mr Lenos bought it for 2003 dollars. The collection includes rare works like a superb Gutenberg Mazarin Bible printed in Mentz in 1455, a pivotal movable type edition with only two copies in North America. The Bridley executors near Hartford plan to sell the other copy and Perkins London sales in 1873 fetched 17000 pounds for vellum and 13550 dollars for paper.
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Washington
New Lenox
New York
Lenos
Mentz
Gutenberg
George Bridley
Hartford
London
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