Fragmented 19th Century News Snapshots Gathered From Edges
A garbled midcentury column offers scattered items: notes on engraving removal methods, Turkish debt law, a Brooklyn resident’s misadventure, a Chicago janitor with multiple voices, and mentions of cultural figures like Mr. Thomas Spurgeon, Alma-Tadema, and Ballington Booth. Also referenced are a Roman bride sculpture, fifteenth century tapestries for Washington’s Episcopal Cathedral, and a world voyage schooner, all amid blurred dates and stray anecdotes.
The Lane of Como and the Raphael Heist
An art lover recounts a famed hoax tale about a vanished Raphael St Sebastian and a counterfeit Lake of Como. He admits smuggling the work from Italy, only for it to be swapped by Poggi and Bratti in a long, evasive confession of theft and mistaken ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wormwood Gall
Gall
Berty
Lake Como
Gail
Guill
Tye
Europe
Ashion
Fountain Head
Taly
Italy
Tome
Napies
Bologna
Ferrara
Venico
Pacing
Siena
Florence
Raphael
Areck
St. Sebs
Rome
Ely
Cavalera
Restocsr
Bratt
Itina
St. Sebastian
Como
Cavaliere Bratti
Civita Vecchia
de Bariure
Offleety
St Sebastian
Galt
Tansy
Hatlan
Efe
Chough
Poggi
Jim
Lilm
Osvaliere Brattl
Sienoe
Cavaliere Beatti
Bratti Raphael
Sienoe Poggi
Lim
Lake of Come
Raphael’ “Steney
YW. D. Cummiig
Gumming
Tony
Rahgoon
Tid Street
Traveters in Florida Church Try to Raise Debt
A Washington Star account recalls a Florida church visit where a traveling party attended a Sunday service and witnessed a concerted effort to raise funds to cover a large treasury deficit. A speaker urged donations and warned of doors being locked if contributions lagged, prompting discomfort and silent resistance from the visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travetees
Florida
Washington Star
Heian
Mason and Dixon
Ninpen
Young Cyclist's Amazing Across America Journey Told
A London boy, Peter McClellins Croas-Continent, recounts riding his wheel from Vancouver to Boston. He details stops from Tacoma to San Francisco, paying for travel with odd jobs, surviving a robbery attempt, helping a woman in danger, and finishing the journey via Chicago and the Boston trip, expressing fondness for the country and a wish to continue roaming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Jannae
England
Peter Metiellan
Peter
Jourisl
London
India
America
Vancouver
Ameries
Washington
Tacoma
Seattle
X White
Tacmna
Manger
St. Louis
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Chattanooga
A Fickle Girl and a Laska Voyage
A New York Weekly excerpt portrays a playful letter exchange about love with a quip on its word usage. It then shifts to the schooner Laska on the Atlantic smug-hunting voyage to British waters with Dease in Wer cabin and prizes aboard, aiming to surpass the Genesta’s Cape May challenge cup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Mabel
Pricnl
Arthie
New York Weekly
Genesta
Conquering a Tiger in a London Yard Tale
A chaotic scene unfolds as a tiger breaks from a collapsed structure in London. Mr. Jamrach and bystanders confront the beast with improvised tools. After a tense pursuit, the tiger bayonetts into a yard, snatches a child briefly, and is eventually subdued and retreated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daiwrach
London
Pealeinsin
Aden
Janurachmin
Jamench
A Soldering Stick for Linemen
A soldering stick for linemen offers a cleaner flux method for electrical joints. It melts, spreads and adheres to the wire producing bright surfaces with no waste and no dripping of destructive liquids. The six inch by one inch stick contains non corrosive materials and does not affect wire insulation.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Turkey
Flatbish
Brooklyn
Willian Yaney
Kings Bias
Aliss Ben Terry
Gordon Craig
London Lyceum
Thomis Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Carler
Charles M. Foulke
Episcopal Cathedral
Jesus
Poulky
Yoman Place
George L. Wrenn
Ballington Booth
The
Salvation Army
Ciildren
Waslington
Col On
Leefe
Bissell and Smith
Merrovits Hus
Yaan
Peter McClellins
Continent
Grenadiers
Barmel
Portland
San Francisco
Chen
Los Angeles
Christus
California
Aoul
Traina
Waltby
PorUand
Chee
Philadelphia Times
Netort
France
Napoleon Gonparte
Alexander I
Napoleon
Erfurt
Ian Oace
Prenacher
Cxar
Alexander
Mar
Grenadier
Heezny
Iere
Promidiera
H. Im
Challenger
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