Fire and cold grip headlines from Bradford and New York
Five 1600 barrel oil tanks burned at Bradford Pennsylvania along with other property. In New York loft a pile of human bones found in a house attic. Newland reports extreme cold and winds with Mount Washington worst since 1876. Brooklyn orphan asylum ruins yield eleven boys and two adults found, with about 120 missing. Diggers work as fear grows, loss estimated at $250000.
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Bradford
New York
Boston Dispatch
Newland
Mount Washington
New York Dispatch
Brooklyn
Fire and crime tales from Ohio and Michigan events
Reports describe a masked robbery near Geneva Ohio resulting in the shooting and death of Salena Lewis. Also noted are fires at a county poor house in Lapeer Michigan and a residence in Flint with art losses, plus a boiler explosion at Plammer's mill in Jackson Michigan and multiple nearby fires with substantial property losses.
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Perry Harrington
Geneva
Ohio
Harri
Iowa
Athens County
Margaret Mather
McVicker's Theater
Macbeth
Lapeer
Mich
William B. McCreery
Flint
Plammer
Jackson
Stanton
Griffin
Youngstown
New Orleans Exposition Opens as Arthur Activates Machinery
In a White House ceremony on December 16, President Arthur pressed the electric button to start the New Orleans Exposition. Large attendance and speeches marked the opening, with notices that the coinage of the silver dollar may face congressional hurdles. At the Exposition Building exhibitors urged removal of Samuel Mullen, Chief of Installation, for unbusinesslike conduct. Edward Grimes was carried into Baltimore Criminal Court for a five year arson sentence, fainting en route to the cell.
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White House
Arthur
New Orleans Exposition
New Orleans
Exposition
Congress
Samuel Mullen
Epward Grrmnes
Criminal Court
Balitimore
Congressional recommendation to fund Freedwen's Bank claims
The Controller of the Currency backs a 950000 appropriation to liquidate depositor claims against Freedwen's Bank. An effort will seek passage of a bill to keep West and Southwest cattle trails open, opposing fencing that blocks drives to Eastern markets. Likely no more effort on reconciling electoral count bill differences.
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Congress
Prici
Blaines libel suit dropped amid partisan bias claims
James G Blaine writes counsel to dismiss his libel action against the Indianapolis Sentinel. He argues fair trial is impossible in a politically charged climate as Democrats rally against him, noting personal integrity concerns and bias in Indiana juries. Cabinet gossip follows in dispatches from Chicago Tribune, naming Bayard Garland and McClellan for posts.
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James G. Burie
Indianapolis
Sentinel
Purison
Miller & Elam
Mc Law
Gextlemeen
New Vie
Indiana
Democratic Party
Aly
Iam
India
Iblic
James G. Blaine
Ture
Senator Bayard
the Treasury
Garland
General McClellan
Navy
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Bayard
The
Treasury
Garof Arkansas
Gen. McClellan
New Jersey
Cleveland
New York
Dent. Garland
Ao Cation
Senate
War Department
Judge Thurman
Pendle
Snowbound rails and stalled cities sweep country
The report notes heavy snow in Lynchburg Virginia and two feet of snow in Leadville Colorado blocking all railroads. It cites Jerome Taylor of Indianapolis ruling the Pullman Car Company liable for passenger possessions with a $71.40 judgment after a robbery aboard a sleeper. It adds Wabash Road wage cuts and spy trains, a Montreal jewelry store robbery worth $10,000, and Sir John Macdonald backing a England Canada Australia alliance on autonomy. Bradstreet’s shows 316 000 unemployed across twenty one states with 305 business failures last week. Mackay Bennett cables are back in service after repairs.
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Lynchburg
Leadville
Colo
Jerpce Taylor
Indianapolis
Pullman Car Company
Wabash Road
Montreal
Sir John Macdonald
England
Canada
Australia
Bradstreet
Mackay-Bennett
Decree Expels Jewish Traders In Little Russia
The Governor-General of Little Russia issues a decree expelling all Jewish traders unable to obtain special permits, placing Jews under local Russian officials. Reports of a 200 lb dynamite cache found in a Dover ship, and a £5000 England reward for bridge attackers. Other notes include Stanley urging Congo neutrality, a Faust and Schaeffer book sale price, Beecher’s possible London appointment, Bismarck’s imminent retirement, and a Vienna banker Janner's suicide.
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Govermor-General
Little Russia
Dnieper
Dover
London
Henry M. Stanley
Congo
Great Basin
Systen
Faust & Schaeffer
England
Henry Ward Beecher
Lowell
St. James
Bismarck
Janner
Vienna
Explosions, crimes fill western Pennsylvania news
A Pittsburgh special reports multiple explosions across Butler Washington and Pittsburgh causing deaths and injuries. Destruction includes a Mages Street grocery store with $1,000 damage and the Rabe family fatalities in Washington. Other items cover shipboard murder, Charley Ross lookalike, a Traverse mob seizure, Shanghai dispatches, Chicago murder, Brinkley assault, Pratt oil works blaze, Dayton death, Toledo murder, and Senate military and naval actions.
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Pennsylvania
Butler and Wahington
Mages Street
H. Studt
Washington
William Rabe
Rabe
Liverpool
Counsul
William Raucher
Ferdinand Koelpin
J. F. Chapman
San Francisco
A. Jansen
Hewes
Isaac Lazarus
Rochester
Charley Ross
Hurst & Moody
Lazarus
Ross
Traverse
Dakota
Willmot
Shanghai
Paris Nationel
China
Chicago
Machowski
Sila
Brinkley
Arkansas
Henry Hoskins
Little Rock
Lafayette statue bill move and senate debates in 19th century session
Senate reports favoring a Lafayette statue bill and debates on tariff and currency measures. Congress considers the Dakota bill, commerce reforms, and a department of agriculture. Navy survey for a Nicaragua canal, pensions bills, and a holiday recess are noted amid party votes and executive confirmations.
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Sherman
Megan
Union
Propo
Lacey
Treasury
Peters
Commerce Committee
Revenue-Marine Service
Department of Agriculture
Aiken
Committee On Agriculture
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Central and South American
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Porto Rico
San Domingo
Garland
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Beck
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Missouri River
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Mills
Goff
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Cullom
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West
Secretary of War
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Eastern District of
Arkansas
James Monroe
Western District of
Michigan
Leo T. Goshorn
Piedmont
W. Va
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Springfield
Ohio
August Beadles
Cresco
Wallace G. Agnew
Osceola
Nimrod Headington
Portland
Ind
William H. Hart
Frankfort
Thomas J. Lucas
Lawrenceburg
Abbie M. Lawton
Griggsville
Masked impostor at court masquerade scandal
In George St. a master of the revels named Heidegger, an eccentric, had a plaster mask made from his face. At a masquerade a counterfeit Heidegger, wearing the mask, caused mischief by switching tunes from God Save the King to Over the Water to Charley. The scene amused yet distressed the king as the mask was finally removed and the mold promised to be melted. The incident sparked a vow from Heidegger to avoid public amusements until the mask was destroyed.
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George ST
Heidegger
Paris
God Save the King
Charley
E of Montague
Munson
Diffident actor Mr Sims watches his plays from afar
The Chicago Times notes Mr Sims avoided theater for Crutch and Toothpick, pacing outside the building with friends reporting progress. For Romany Rye he fled to Scotland and only returned after friends swore the show was a success.
Irish character quirks and a boastful apology
A fragmented excerpt praises Irish bluntness and the habit of apologizing. The speaker cites a home truth about liking action yet hating work, and recalls a Kerry man attributing drunkenness to a neighbor's pipe smoke. The text includes garbled phrases and a stray advertisement fragment.
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Withrop
Kerry
Opening of the New Orleans Exposition Aims For Brilliance
The New Orleans world fair opened with a grand parade and ceremonies. Gov McEnery and Mayor Guillotte spoke as 11,000 seated guests and thousands more watched the procession from the riverfront. Exhibits include the Smithsonian, naval models, Arctic remnant gear, and a vast Chicago railroad display. About 60,000 visitors arrived, with rail and river transit moving crowds smoothly despite permit delays and bonded imports awaiting clearance.
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New Orleans
Phila
Dbt Gn
United States
Fred A. Blanks
Blanks
Exposition Wharf
Brooklyn Tabernacle
MeHnery
South
Mary Ashley Townsend
Xariffa
J. V. Guillotte
Crescent City
E. A. Park
Ed Richardson
Richardson
Arthur
McEnery
Finois Central
Louisville
Nashville
Treasury Department
Washington
Badger
McCulloch
Europe
Great Eastern
London
Mexico
Pittsburg
Smithsonian Institution
Geological Department
Patent Office
State Department
Navy Department
Arctic
Greely
Illinois
Ohio
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Virginia
Delaware
New Jersey
New England
Connecticut
Indiana
Nebraska
California
Dakota
Wyoming
New York
Pennsylvania
Louiiana
Pacific Coast
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Tropics
Burke
President Arthur Opens Exposition by Wire at Sea Mansion
President Arthur inaugurates the Exposition by wire at the Sea Mansion. The ceremony proceeds in the afternoon with a brief address and demonstrations, highlighting new telegraphic and industrial exhibits for the public.
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Arthur
Seae Mansion
Ariou Ab
World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition Opens
A telegram from New Orleans dated December 16 announces the opening of the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. President Chester A Arthur declares the Exposition open at 3 p.m., praising national unity and international cooperation, with ceremonies ending amid music and broad enthusiasm.
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New Oreans
United States
New Orleans
Edmund Richardson
Republic
Southwest
Commonwealth
Central America
South America
Central
Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
House of Congress
Chester A. Arthur
House
The Main Building Exposition of Industry and Progress
A correspondent describes the Main Building occupying thirty three acres with over six miles of aisles crowded with fruits of industry, mechanical triumphs, and treasures of nations. It showcases steam and electricity at their finest, illustrating modern progress.
Nation’s Building Showcases America’s Vast Resources
A grand Government and States' Building displays diverse riches of the country. Cotton, Corn, Lumber, Coal and more are labeled as kings in separate sections. Each state and territory presents its natural dowry, with the National Government at the center across admin departments.
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America
Horticultural Hall presents tropical panorama of plants
A long description details Horticultural Hall with a third building in good order. The centerpiece is a fountain encircled by magueys date-palms erges cocoanuts and banana-plants and exhibits of other tropical trees. Long aisles hold thousands of plates of fruit in diverse forms colors and scents. Nearby are hundreds of tables displaying rare luxuriant plants and flowers creating a vast panorama for Northern visitors.
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Tropics
Art exhibition progress noted at visitor venue
The narrator notes that the visitor-sufficient facilities are ready to repay a visit while several structures remain incomplete. The Art Hall will be the first to be operational, with Mexican buildings and Public Comfort structures still under construction but progressing toward exhibition readiness.
Cost of Visiting the Exhibition in New Orleans
Commissioner Bacon describes the Exhibition in New Orleans across from the St. Charles Hotel. He notes contracts with boarding houses and hotels to cap prices during the Exposition, with beds from 75 cents to 1.50 dollars a day and lodging from 1.50 to 3 dollars daily.
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New Orleans
Bacon
Georgia
Department of Information and Accommodations
St. Charles Hotel
Exposition Company
St. Charles
Regal
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Exposition Notes On the World Fair Displays and Rooms
Exposition notes describe massive displays from California Nebraska Nevada and Wyoming with Mexico attendance near 20000 on opening day. The Colored People's Exhibit is led by R H Bruce of Missouri. Minnesota shows rich resources while the main Exposition Building spans 1378 by 905 feet covering 33 acres. The Exhibition organ weighs about twenty tons and uses 16000 feet of lumber and 3000 to 4600 pipes. Tourist observations from New Orleans note open sewers wells and unique cemeteries. Ireland records 22 percent of violent deaths from burns due to open peat fires on cabin floors.
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Mexico
California
Nebraska
Nevada
Dake
Montana
Wyoming
R. H. Bruce
Missouri
Illinois
Chicago
Edmund Richardson
Horticultural Hall
Crystal Palace
London
Minnesota
New Orlans
Ireland
Rheumatic Cure Helped Aged Man Endure Pain
A Iowa man 78 years old describes a decades long battle with rheumatism. After six months of paralysis and year of agony, Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure restored use of his limbs and eased pain. Endorsed by Elder Overcamp and F W Brinkhoff as effective, urging others to try it.
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New York
W. DeGens
Tela
Iowa
Sim
Sam
Elder Overcamp
Warner
DeGens
F. W. Brinkhoff
Riches and Poverty in a Diffused Wealth Era
In Macmillan's Magazine the piece argues wealth is spread among more people rather than concentrated. It notes that income tax data show trebled national income, with many families rising from poverty to competence within a few generations. It contrasts opulence with widespread middle-class growth across Europe and America.
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Egypt
India
Elizabeth
Yorkshire
Dorsetshire
Europe
America
Levi
Macmillan’s Magazine
Wealthy widow draws Kosciusko Murphy’s cautious attention
A humorous slice from Austin gossip notes Kosciusko Murphy paying attention to a wealthy young widow who moved to the city. She tells him she sees some resemblance to her late husband, prompting a wry, self-deprecating reply. The item also fixtures mock stories about gifts, a canned fruit tale from Pompeii, and ads for tonics and New York lodging.
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Kosciusko Murphy
Austin
Murphy
Texas
Dairymen Prefer It and Local Remedies Endorsements
Dairymen praise Improved Butter Color for not rancidifying and helping higher market prices. Druggists and local readers report Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh and a Tonk hannock lawyer credits Athlophorus for neuragic rheumatism relief. Prices cited: 50 cents to $1 per bottle.
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Messrs. Weis
Richardson & Co
W.S. Nay
Underaill, Vt
Pittson
Ely
Barber
Tonkhannock
Pat al Darness
Tson Pa. Gazette
It Will Cost You Nothing Vitaling Treatment Ad
It will cost you nothing for a medical operation in your case if chronic disease remains relief. Drs. Starkey and Palen dispense the Vitaling Treatment by Compound Oxygen at 1109 Girard St Philadelphia. Write for information to gain an intelligent idea of its nature and action.
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Sage
Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard St
Philadelphia
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