Globe Offers Delicate Furnishings At Discount Prices
Imported fancy half hose in dots stripes and plaids 35c quality at The Globe 8 W Baltimore St. Also fine Balbriggan underwear in plain colors and mottled effects French neck bands peml buttons price at The Globe 8 W Baltimore St only Percale and Cheviot shirts with or without collars attached stripes checks and figures worth 75c price at The Globe 8 W Baltimore St only 39c Silk puff bosom shirts new patterns stripes light tints sold elsewhere for 160 price at The Globe 8 W Baltimore St only 98c.
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The
Globe
Baltimore St
the Globe
W. Balti More St
Notice to Taxpayers Maryland 1892 levy due date
Notice to taxpayers of Caroline county that the County Commissioners have levied taxes for county and State purposes. Taxes are due and payable starting September 1. The treasurer will sit in the principal town of each election district to receive State and county taxes for the year 1898.
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General Assembly of
Maryland
Caroline County
Biw
IL Whitby
Hanging by Railroad Time Sparks Panic in Nebraska Town
A dramatic tale describes Bruce Mattingly’s near execution in a Nebraska jail and a mis-timed hanging order based on rail timetable. The engineer of Burlington No. 8 feared a governor’s reprieve while a crowd awaited 8 o'clock, but the death was scheduled by No. 3’s clock, causing a tense, comical misalignment that haunted the crew for years.
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Burlington Railroad
Nebraska
Nada
Bruce Mattingly
Mattingly
Law Courts of Appeal
Moinlg
Mr. Mattingly
Burlington No. 8
State Fish Commissioner
No. 8
High Board
Gov'nor
Caat
P’lutin
No. 3
Chicago
Beagle-Old Foxley Dead Leaves Debts Behind
His memory endures in town as Beagle-Old Foxley dies. Reports say he left substantial bequests and debts totaling about 50000 dollars. A humorously clipped exchange follows about inquiries to Mrs Smith and the housemaid’s absence. A traveler jokes about heat near the equator, noting natives chill eggs in ice to keep them from hard boiling.
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Beagle
Foxley
Spitlsk
Boston Transcript
Equator
London
A Counterfeit Scheme Ends in Wives Arrest
Dodson lends Blobson a nickel and shares a scheme to stop wives rifling pockets. He reveals how counterfeit money he hoarded over 30 years led to his wife’s midnight arrest for passing counterfeit notes, leaving him to pose as an indignant husband while the affair unfolds. The tale ends with his wife only accepting a check now.
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Dodson
Blobson
Brobson
Toma
Sam
Awell
Gince
Detroit
Reo Press
Monitor and Torpedo Boats in Naval Warfare
The article explains the Monitor as a low freeboard floating battleship with armored revolving turrets, highlighting its origin from the Merrimac clash and its influence on naval warfare. It also describes torpedo boats as swift, small craft designed to launch torpedoes, and notes torpedo boat catchers as larger vessels built to pursue and destroy them.
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Merrimac
Hampton Roads
New York Tribune
Vicious Bluefish Terrifies Atlantic Waters
A historical account describes bluefish as a fierce, highly aggressive predator reaching arm length with sharp teeth. They travel in schools, decimating shad, spot, menhaden, and even larger prey. Victorious, they fill stomachs with various fish and continue attacking prey, creating foam on the water.
Madrid publications span religion to tauromachy sheets
The piece surveys Madrid print culture from religious and anticlerical weeklies like El Motin to illustrated journals such as La Clustracion, and explains tauromachy sheets that report bullfights in quick, opaque Spanish. It notes artists, writers, and the prominence of satire and blackmail sheets, plus a bizarre bell invention by Hanau’s Qhan Raale Everr Appunn and a tangential remark on map weights.
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Madrid
el Motin
la Clustracion
South America
la Lidia
la Nueva
Qhan Raale
Everr Appunn
Hanau
Overwork and dwindling populace in dismal prospect
An Indianapolis Journal excerpt cites Everett Wiest and Dismal Dawson discussing doctors warning that Americans are gradually killing themselves with overwork. They express concern about a future with few people left but only the remaining workers to carry on.
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Everett Wiest
Dawson
Indianapolis Journal
Successful Diplomacy In Dealing With Un Disciplined Labourers
A Chicago Record account recalls how a railroad project in Georgia after the war faced delays from drunken labor and idle Sundays. A New York visitor secures contracts for possum and cotton dinners to motivate workers, hires a circus tent, and stages debates and feats to keep men at work, culminating in a resumed buildup and a claim that possum and coon aided early railroad construction.
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Georgia
New York
Atlanta
Chicago Record
Young Charles Wager's First Sea Command
In colonial New England tales a Gloucester or Newport privateer tale recalls Charles Wager, nephew of Newport merchant John Hull. As a lad he led a boarding mob against a privateer, impressing his Quaker uncle who urged restraint. Wager rose through royal service to become Sir Charles Wager, first lord of the admiralty, with Westminster Abbey memory.
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New England
Royal Navy
Charles Wager
John Hull
Newport
Wager
Charles
Admiralty
Westminster Abbey
Burial Reform Promoted by Little Rock Ministers Alliance
The May meeting urged reform of funeral practices including dropping crape gloves and undertaker supplies, limiting carriages, banning costly caskets unless rail transport is needed, endorsing embalming for long storage, abolishing public leavetaking, curbing eulogy, avoiding Sunday funerals, insisting on punctual services, covering heads at graves, and shortening open air services in bad weather with grave filling supervised by a family friend.
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Little Rock
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dress In Miss Austen's Day Comfort Warming Changes
A reminiscence contrasts 19th century dress with modern warmth, noting mothers in blue riding habits, babies in white frocks, and women shifting from shawls to ulsters and jackets. It also reflects on fashion evolution from lace and scarves to cardinals and capes. Meteorite discussion follows, explaining entry into Earth’s atmosphere and possible outcomes.
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Miss Austen
Aly
Ulsters
Cornhill Magazine
George McClellan and the Civil War Portraits
A fragmentary narrative sketches George McClellan as a Napoleonic figure, detailing his rise from railway office to army command and his clash with public orders to seek peace with correspondents. It then recounts the Hicks tree’s destruction and a Confederate raid tale akin to a Jules Verne plot, praising daring Civil War exploits by John O. Braine and companions.
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Garnett
Pegran
Napoleon
George
Cincinnatus
Richmond
Washington
William Howard Russell
LL. D
North American Review
Atlanta Constitution
John O. Braine
New York
Fall River
Braine
Charleston
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