Somnambulist Confesses To Murder In Sleep
In New York a pale faced youth named Peter Coby aged eighteen walked into the Fifth Street police station and told Sgt Hagerty he killed his girl. The man claimed sleepwalking as the cause and was later brought before Justice Flammer at Essex Market police court where friends testified to his habit of semi conscious wandering and self accusation.
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Fifth Street
New York
Hagerty
Jvs
Gleason
East Fourteenth
Vissart
Mr. Gleason
Sergeant Hagerty
Peter Coby
Justice Flammer
Essex Market Police Court
Coby
Blown Up and then Married in Balaklava Romance
An English tourist fell for a Scotch vivandiere in Balaklava and wooed her with persistence. After she banished him, he killed himself by blowing up a powder pit behind a slab, leaving a fortune to his beloved. The explosion produced a charred figure, prompting sailors to glimpse a heavenly visitor before the vivandiere relented.
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Balaklava
Courageous Erie Engineer Rescues Girl On Track
An Erie lightning express near Cochecton encounters a wandering eleven year old girl. The engineer spots her, halts, and rescues her just before she falls from the train's path. The girl, shaken but unharmed, is reunited with her relieved mother as passengers wait.
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Erie
Elaware
Cochecton
Hoe
Paris Exposition Opens Amid Splendor and Rioting Cheers
Opening ceremonies in Paris featured Marshal MacMahon at the Elysee, a formal declaration of the Exposition, and a lavish pageant along the Champ de Mars. Crowds cheered Vive le President while flags, fountains, and cannons across the city framed a night of illumination and spectacle.
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Marshal MacMahon
Elysee
France
French Republic
Mount Valerien
the Invalides
Seine
Tribune
MacMahon
M. Krantz
Prince of Wales
Prince Amadeus
Champ de Mars
Institute
Legion of Honor
Army
McCormick
America
Paris
Greeley and the Journalistic Aspirant
An anecdote recounts a young applicant seeking work at Greeley’s newspaper. Greeley questions the newcomer’s qualifications and journalism experience, dismissing his Cornell claim and asserting blunt standards. The applicant leaves, likely convinced he cannot reform the papers.
Two Jokers On A Train Use Pup Gags For Fun
A Burlington Hawkeye item recalls two clever young men on a Burlington and Cedar Rapids train who entertained passengers with jokes about a dog. A lady with a little girl and dog halted the act when she dryly warned them to stop before the conductor arrived. The crowd’s laughter faded as the scene shifted away.
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Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Providence
Jerusalem
Fragments Reflect Early 19th Century Curiosities and Tragedy
Reads like a collage of curiosities and incidents: snippets about cutting remarks, a Wisconsin merchant Mr Will Ustick, a Vermont farmer’s wife, Sing Sing inmates, eggs division puzzle, and rising concerns over fuel and coal. Includes unusual poems, theater stats in London, and stray moral commentary on deceit and child tragedy in Lumpkin county Georgia.
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Will Ustick
Crosse
Wis
Sing, Sing
N. Y
Edwin Alonzo
London
United States
Bad
England
France
Austria
Germany
Pomfret
Elie
New Yerk
Oregon
Tne
Jacksonville
Fla
Paris
Elizabeth Herald
John Pore
Lumpkin County
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Providents Press
J.T. Payne
McGregor
Edgartown
Capoge
Cornell Univn Greeley
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