The Gay Young Man From Town Love Ballad
A rural romance centers on a gay young man from town who flirts with Susy the maiden brown under an apple tree. He reveals his strained home life and a wish to marry for true love, not wealth, while Susy plans to marry for genuine affection. They reject a wealthy match and vow to marry for love, facing old folk disapproval.
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Susy
Brown
Thomas Inn
Ledger
Circuit Court
Chicago Journal
Tragic Nihilist Pair End Their Lives in Geneva
A Russian Nihilist Andre Franjoli and his wife Eugenie committed suicide after a life of underground activism. The couple, bonded by love and loyalty to Narodnaia Volia, died within hours of each other in Geneva, killed by a life shadowed by exile, danger, and explosive work for the revolutionary cause.
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Geneva
Soi-Disant Nihilists
Western
Europe
Andre Franjoli
Russia
England
Black Sea
Young Revolutionary
Franjoli
Andre
St. Petersburg
Kieff
Odessa
Tchernigoy
Firom House
Solvitehegodiv
Solvitchegodiv
Mlle
Eugenie Zadadray
Tose
Heinrich Heine
Eugenie
Mlle. A. R
St.Petersburg
Narodnaia Volia
Andrew
Franjolis
Katarina
Domenico Guerrazzi
St Np
Alexander II
St. Petersburgh
Eneva
Jack
Nore
Iend
Russ
Noradnaio Volia Party
Coz
London
Daily New
Peril of Bangles Sparks Gold Coin Imposture Tale
A Boston newspaper recounts a Yankee jeweler in Massachusetts who minted imitation five dollar gold pieces with initials for bangles. Police warned, the maker surrendered dies and pieces, which were melted down to stop the ruse. The piece laments tradesmen and family losses to fashion while preserving era speech and cautionary tone.
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Charles
Albert
Willis
Fred
James
Harry
Aleck
Bertie
DeWitt
Chrissy
Massachusetts
United States
New York
United States Detective Service
Notable Social and Intellectual Vignettes of 19th Century Figures
A collage of brief notices highlights varied lives and opinions. President Arthur pays New York taxes on 285000 worth of property. M Worth, the Paris fashion king, is described as fifty five, fat and bald. Miss Chamberlain returns to Cleveland from England. John L Stoddard earns 22000 a year plus expenses. Mrs Reynolds in Buffalo inherits 2 million and severs ties over extravagant spending. Rev H Root sues for 17000 damages but jury grants six cents. Bill Nye resigns as postmaster of Laramie and plans a book titled Baled Hay. Rosa Bonheur, aged sixty one, shares views on world opinion and study. Christian Commonwealth editor on novel reading questions virtue and relevance.
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Arthur
New York
N.Y
Reynolds
Elmira
Dr. Eldridge
Buffalo
Detroit Post
Bill Nye
Laramie City
Walt Whitman
Chicago Journal
Rosa Bonheur
N. Y. Graphic
The
Christian Commonwealth
Snappy Bits and Jokes From Various Papers
A collage of light humor and quips from Chicago Telegram Burlington Free Press N M London Punch Boston Post Lowell Citizen Chicago Trib une Marlboro Times Norristown Herald Post Chicago Times featuring jokes on journalists bluster marriage celebrity and music lessons with pithy one liners and comic mismatches across multiple outlets.
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Chicago Telegram
Darwin
Burlington Free Press
Frost Forecast Fails Farmer Turns to Market Bargain
An old farmer confronts the Signal editor over a failed frost prediction for September 21. He recalls losing eight hundred bushels of apples sold for half price and then seeks a new forecast to buy his neighbor’s forty acres of potatoes at ten cents a bushel, claiming the bureau is sometimes mistaken.
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Cleveland
Andy and the Hornets Rise From Nursery Nightmares
A curious tale follows Andy a discontented boy who wishes to be a hornet. He learns hard work in a hornet colony, wakes in his nursery, and returns home relieved to be himself again, realizing boys endure a tougher life yet prefer home. A second tale tells of a shepherd-boy who gains a Greek Bible and later becomes Rev. John Brown, illustrating diligence and opportunity across humble beginnings.
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Andy
Susie
Nurse
Mamma
Papa
Alsom
Buzz
Rascal
John Brown
Haddington
Solomon
N. Y
Novel burglar alarm matting rents by day for doors and safes
A Sun report describes a wooden matting alarm using four foot strips with alternating wired plates that complete a circuit to ring an electric bell when stepped on. The device, under carpet or in front of safes, can be rented for five cents per day per door or window with the battery housed in a closet and the bell deliverable in single stroke or continuous ring.
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The
Sun
If at first you don t succeed try again
A child Margy struggles with a long arithmetic sum while her gray haired grandmother encourages perseverance. After a slip the grandmother rewrites the problem in large letters and Margy learns the lesson to keep trying until the correct result appears. The tale ends with Margy vowing to make try again her song.
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Margy
Sonia Margy
Grandma
Harper's Young People
Tragedy at Kingston Squib Factory Explosion
Eight youths fatally burned when a Kingston squib factory exploded at about two in the afternoon. The injured include Hattie Norris and Lizzie Edwards, both severely burned, with several others dying or dying soon. The accident followed by a creaking blast damaged the frame building near a creek, and authorities note powder and straw squibs as the cause while linking it to a recent Woodward mine disaster in Kingston.
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Fuli
Wilkesbarre
Kingston
Mattie James
Hattie Norris
John Evans
Lizzie Edwards
John Smith
James Steel
Albert James
Mattie Jamies
Mary Moss
Lizzie Quinn
Woodward
Editor Attacked in Flemingsburgh Street Fight
Charles McCartney was attacked by James Tennell and Frank Thompson with stones in Flemingsburgh Kentucky. McCartney fired a revolver, killing Tennell and mortally wounding Thompson. McCartney was arrested amid a string of other notes on embezzlement and legal curiosities from various papers.
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Crincinart
Flemingsburgh
Charles McCartney
James T. Tennell
Frank L.thompson
McCartney
Tennell
Thompson
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Defiance
Ee Express
Ohio
Joli
Kearthry
Personal and Literay
Tawnm R. Byrnesmonkey
Boston Post
Lowell
Chicago Tribune
James Gordon Bennett
Robert Bonner
Charles A. Dana
Marlboro Times
San Francisco
John Gyumber
John
Norristown Herald
Post
Chicago Times
Fair Play
Andy and the
Hornets
Edinburgh
Chicago
Inter Ocean
War Department
Washington
Charles Read
Springfield
Mass
Boston Herald
Tom Ochiltree
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