Hadley Frontier Shelter for Regicides Revealed
Workmen uncover old cellar masonry in New Haven linked to Whalley and Goffe. The regicides hid for years in Connecticut towns Hadley and Milford before final concealment in West Rock hollow. Their tale ties to Cromwellian era trials, royal indemnities, and a famous Hadley siege memory.
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New Haven
West Rock
Tomkins
Milford
Boston
Hartford
Wethersfield
Connecticut River
Mr. Russell
Hadley
New England
Whalley
Goffe
England
Hadley Whalley
Russell
Prince Rupert
Naseby
Philip
Hutchinson
Leverett
Twenty Two Akron Church Members Sign Sheldon Pledge
Twenty two members of the Wabash Avenue Church of Christ in Akron Ohio pledged to live as Jesus would in daily life after a church service on the Sheldon Ideal. Pastor Rev B C Caywood learned of the plan shortly before special services.
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Ohio
Wabash Avenue Church of Christ of Akron
Jesus
Cleveland Plain Dealer
B. C. Caywood
Chicago Man Hangs Daily in Failed Treatment Trial
Reinhold Meyer, police surgeon, at St Joseph's hospital in Chicago is suspended by a halter daily in a controversial attempt to cure loco motor ataxia. The World cites a two month or longer regime as physicians monitor the perilous procedure. A hypodermic of gold sodium compound precedes each ascent. Meyer rises from bed for about 90 seconds per suspension.
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Reinhold Meyer
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Chicago
New York World
Meyer
Gyp of Martel Seeks Elysee Return Amid Paris Turmoil
The Paris journalist known as Gyp claims to have been kidnaped as part of a seventeenth century style plot tied to the Elysee and political factions. She ridicules President Loubet and Faure, praises influence over salons, and attacks Dreyfus and Jewish policy while portraying herself as a master of public life and intrigue.
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Gyp
Countess of Martel
Paris
France
Man In
Loubet
the Elysee
New York Herald
Nichalas
Faure
Libre Parole
Eva-la-tomate
Gabrielle Sybille Marie Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau
Comtesse de Martel de Janville
Mme. Faure
Mile
Lucie
Dreyfus
Devil’s Island
Nicholas
Elysee
The
Republic
Sea Witch Boarded by British in Portuguese Waters
The American clipper Sea Witch, carrying flour for the Transvaal, evaded British ships near Delagoa Bay and was boarded by H M S Wasp crew. Captain Howes defied the British officer claiming the ship as United States territory and warned of a Majuba Hill reaction.
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Press Publishing Company
New York World
Sea Witch
Transvaal
Wasp
Howard C. Hillegas
South Africa
Laurenco Marques
Henry S. Howes
Boston
Lourenco Marques
Howes
Pretoria
Kruger
Walleroo
Australia
Delagoa Bay
Durban
Arthur Claxton
New York City
Claxton
H. M. S. Wasp
United States
Majuba
Club de Lourenco Marques
Murder Charge Hits Liberty Man Ernst R. Clevenger
In Liberty Missouri Ernst R. Clevenger was hanged for murder. A separate St. Louis accident left J. J. Hoban fatally shot by a co worker. Chicago building trades unions plan to oppose sympathetic strikes. General Macabulos, a Filipino leader, surrendered with 124 men and guns. Business failures for the second week in June show United States 162, Canada 21 versus last year 136 and 18.
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Liberty
Ernst R. Clevenger
J. J. Hoban
St. Louis
Building Trades Unions
Chicago
General Macabulos
United States
Canada
Lucky Baby Joe Falls from Elevated Train
Three year old Joseph McGrath toppled from a Third Avenue elevated train near Houston Street while trying to stay cool. He hung onto a telegraph wire briefly before dropping into the arms of two men on the street. The crowd gasped as onlookers watched the dramatic rescue. His aunt Miss Mary McGrath accompanied him en route to the Thirty-fourth Street ferry.
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Joseph McGrath
Third Avenue
Houston Street
New York Evening Post
Mary McGrath
theeThirty-fourth Street
Boy Falls From Moving Train Near Houston Street Station
A boy dropped from a car of a Downtown area train about 200 feet from Houston Street station. Passengers on adjacent trains and crowds below shouted and rushed to assist as another train stopped and blew its whistle. Fifty men and boys stretched to catch him as the boy released in fear. William D. Rothermel and Morris?
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Houston Street
Bowery
William DD. Rothermel
Morris
Boy escapes injury after fright on elevated train
The boy appeared unharmed after a fright on an elevated train. An ambulance surgeon confirmed no injuries. The boy’s aunt hurried to the Houston street station, then continued her trip on another elevated train amid cheers as it departed.
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Goldstein
Houston Street
Lost boy on great steamship seeks mother aboard
The New York Times recounts an incident on a large ocean liner where a seven year old immigrant boy became separated from his mother. He wandered the ship for four days and slept in a coal box near the engines before crew and six stewards helped locate his mother who had also been lost.
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The
New York Times
A Negro View of Creation from a Missionary Tale
A South African missionary recounts a native chief’s sharp reply to universal charity toward mulatto people. The chief rejects the idea, saying God makes coffee and milk but not coffee milk, illustrating a rigid, racial viewpoint.
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South Africa
The
New York Commercial Advertiser
Milwaukee aids ancient mine in biblical Tarsa tale
The Inter Ocean notes a Milwaukee firm will supply machinery for the Tarsa mine once owned by Hannibal. Romans used it for slave labor in copper pits. E. P. Allis Co. signs contracts with Rio Tinto leaders for a plant costing a large sum. Milwaukee machinery is widely used abroad, with two large city firms focusing on foreign trade.
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Milwaukee
Hannibal the Great
Tarsa
Bannibal
Chicago Inter Ocean
E. P. Allis
Rio Tinto Company
Japan
China
Russia
Africa
Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Tite Away Ad
An old advertisement promotes Me-Too-Bac as a wonder remedy to quit tobacco. It claims to make weak men strong and sells a booklet and sample for free or 50 cents, with Sterling Remedy Co. of Chicago or Nowore as the contact.
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Gore
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Mackintosh
Express
C. O
Davis
Sears, Roebuck & CO
Chicaco
Ill
Sexe, Roebuck & Co
Dewey’s Memphis visit ends with Confederate salute
Admiral Dewey met with former Confederate officers and soldiers in Memphis. He toured Gen Luke Wright’s home and a DAR reception then addressed veterans at the Cotton Exchange. Veterans recalled the Mississippi sinking and Dewey’s escape, and many pledged to fight for him again.
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Admiral Dewey
Memphis
Luke B. Wright
Gray
Port Hudson
William Robin— Son
Hard Luck Perry Patetic Plea in a Philadelphia Queue
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press shows a chance encounter where a distressed man, out of work for over a year, asks for aid from a kind passerby. The woman offers a quarter but the man laments his long absence from work and doubts he could recognize a job if it appeared.
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Perry Patetic
Philadelphia Press
London’s first coffee house opens in 1852
A Greek servant to a Turkish merchant opened London’s first coffee house in 1852 marking a milestone in the city’s social and commercial life.
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London
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