The wedding on the wheel craze spreads abroad
The piece notes an English couple wed by bicycle in trim attire with guests riding to church and returning to breakfast, describing this as the first known event of its kind and recounting the cheering crowd and rice throwing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Godey
Magazie
Pean
New York
London
America
Rupert Hughes
Manuscript Society
Gerrit Smith
Japa
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
T. J. Gattis & Son
Jealous husband kills wife then suicides in Wicarta Kansas
A prominent farmer C E Hart shot and killed his wife Ida after accusing her of infidelity and then shot himself in a double tragedy. Neighbors heard the shot and both died within minutes. Hart was the nephew of Judge Ash, a leading attorney. The item also reports superstition notes and a humorous aside on Napoleon Bonaparte and McKinley with a height statistic column and an advertisement for hair renewer.
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Wicarta
Kan
C. E. Hart
Ida
Hart
Ash
Thirty Thousand Dead in Japanese Earthquake and Tidal Wave
Washington dispatch reports a Japanese earthquake and tsunami death toll exceeding 30,000 with no American fatalities. The note notes other content from Godey’s Magazine and a discussion of friendship and politics, including Lenoir and Chicago conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Herod
Legation
Tokio
Faces of Reform in a Turbulent National Convention
The piece blames a few elites and foreign gold for America’s ills and praises reformist Democrats who walked out of a party in protest. It notes looming clashes at the Chicago convention and endorses Captain S. A. Ashe for state treasurer while urging loyalty to reform. It warns of mob violence in Danville as a lynching follows a crime confession.
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Wash Hesbo
Washington Post
Refenee
Chicago
Winston Republican
Stevenson
Tillman
Adlai Stevenson
Washington
Greensboro
Chapel Hill
Ben Tillman
South Carolina
Wall Street
St. Louis
Rothchilds
Teller
Christ
Abraham l
Isaac
Danville
Lawrence County
Moulton
Orr
Saat
McKinley
Hobart
Onn
W. F. Moody
Charlotte Observer
Capt
A. Ashe
Huraip
Capt. Ashe
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Wilmington Star
North Carolina
Horace Boies
Julian S. Carr
Tur
Mobile Register
Ohio
New York Journal
Mr. McKinley
United States
California
Coustine
Congress
Calhoun
Clay
Webster
Benton
Russell Sage
Wilmington
Themington Star
New Orleans Times-Democrat
O'Neill
Stockholm
Trenton
D. C
Charleston News and Courier
Waco
Texas
Baltimore
Stickney
Congregational Building Fund
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Recorder
J. D. Castillo
Cuba
Maceo
News and Observer
Napoleon Boneparte
Waterloo
William McKinley
Napoleon
Bonaparte
W. J. Peele
Grouch
Grouchy
Blucher
Wellington
Watterloo
St. Louis Republic
Europe
Adam
Hall
Lelse
Lenoir
N. C
Simon Gragg
Moore
Bowman
Franklin
Charlotte
West Main Street
Pridgen & Jones
J. I. Nissen
Starke
DIXIE
Oliver
Clarke
Llady’s Hardware Store
Leeds
Rawly’ Bros
Rawly’ Old Stand
W. H. Proctor
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