Romantic career tale of Armitage and Elton in Civil War era
A Philadelphia widow Mrs. Fanny Elton Armitage seeks dower in two West Philadelphia houses and a city tract after her husband Wilberforce Armitage, born in Leicestershire, lives a tumultuous life. He deserts a legal career for the army, travels to India and Canton, rises in business in Jamaica, fights for the Confederacy, hides with Miss Elton’s help near Virginia, and returns to California before settling in Philadelphia where they wed after a distant civil war past and an eventual marriage proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Common Pleas Court
Fanny Elton Armitage
Philadelphia
Bridesburg
Armitage
Wilberforce Armitage
Leicestershire
England
Henry Standish
Cambridge
Bhim
Standish
India
Captain Standish
Canton
China
Jamaica
Tea
Boston
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Artutage
Ene
Geing
Virgina
Carohine
Lena
Isaiah Elton
Elton
Aremitge
Cutinre
Fannie Elton
Miss Elton
Liss Elton
Ui Lue Wat
California
Bin
Captain Brandish
Niewens
Fragmented legal notice on property and marriage appeal
The passage shows a court proceeding involving a person seeking a one third property interest and a marriage certificate. The matter has been referred to Lawyer P. Fy. RotLermel to examine testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Fy. RotLermel
Labor Statistics and the World of Work in Europe
The piece discusses a circular from the Department of State on global labor conditions, wages, prices, and worker welfare, with focus on wages, living costs, unions, strikes, arbitration, cooperatives, safety, and political rights. It also reports a Washington cornet about Omar D. Conger of Michigan, his career, romance, and marriage to his Ravenna sweetheart who later joined him in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Bureau of Statistics
Sty
Fife
Concer
Michigan
Wolverine
Washington Cor. Costen Herald
Omar D. Conger
Hudson
Ravenna
Conger
Port Huron
Mich
Congress
West
Washington
M Street
Thomas Circle
Sam
Deadly spark on Villa street leaves woman badly burned
Frank Shirly and Miss Emma Kempf of Kenosha rode on Villa street when a cigar ash ignited her dress. She leaped from the buggy and a bystander intervened, but flames enveloped her muslin dress. She sustained severe burns to the left arm chest and back and may die. Shirly is distraught. the injured woman is about eighteen and was taken home in Kenosha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Frank Shirly
Emma Kempf
Kenosha
Villa Street
Dames
Esser
Sairly
Remarkable surgery aids man with crushed legs at St Vincent’s
Dr Keene reports a dramatic case at St Vincent's Hospital in New York where Bernard Nierney survived near total leg damage from a two ton corner stone. Using preserved periosteum and decalcified bone tubes to replace arteries, nerves, and muscles, the surgeon expects Nierney to walk with crutches in two weeks and likely walk unaided in two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LN. XY. Herald
Keene
St Vincent’s Hospital
Iergold
Charles Hoffman
Herald
Bernard Nierney
Clinton Place
Fifth Avenue
Niekney
Sudden Collapse of an Interview with a Sylv Medium
A Toledo American tale reports Mrs. Smigate’s failed séance in the Eighth Ward circle of spiritualists. The widow sought communication with her deceased husband Zachariah Smiggles. The medium allegedly confirmed the spirit and replied “You are dead, ain’t you Zachariah” and “Are you happy,” then uttered a grim “In hell” ending the interview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Briggles
Zachariah
Horrible Spectacle in Washington Avenues Crowd
A man described as Joseph Claxton acted like a rabid animal on Washington Avenues near Sixth. He barked and snapped, foaming at the mouth, and was treated as a possible hydrophobia case by police and medical staff. In ambulances and at City Hospital he displayed alternating calm and frenzied fits, prompting cuffing and safety measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Washington Avenues
Joseph Claxton
Drs. Epstein
Dorsett
Ami
Pants in Window Spark Brooklyn Scandal
A domestic dispute erupts in Brooklyn when Colonel Richard Behrman prints a sign accusing his wife of gossip and places his trousers in a first floor window. A crowd gathers as officers disperse the scene and the couple quarrels over money and reputation amid Sunday school onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suydam Street
Brooklyn
Snyder
Ninth
Richard Behrman
Behrman
Jennie
Peddling Out Titles and a French Noble Scams
A fanciful French nobleman exploits a grafted practice of recognizing illegitimate children by noble patrons to profit from fees. His scheme weaves through Paris society from Boulevards to Ste Perine asylum, detailing escapades of Mile Schumacher, a US adventuress, and a brazen world of titles, weddings, and patronage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Leter
London
Trach
Pergs
Rochafort, Gramont
Maurice de Talleyrand
Moncher
Boulevard Des Italiens
Asnieres
Corps de Ballet
Mile Schumacher
Marquis de Mobreuil
M. de Muaubreuil
Napoleon
Vendome
Westplatin
Fontainebleau
Talleyrand
England
Louis XVII
Cathedral of
St. Denis
Tallyrand
Mile
Schumacher
France
Ishalk
Joliy Jolly
Paria
Champs Elysees
Tuileries
Chambord
Scenet
Ste Perine
Josephine
Pelny
Money in Baseball Salaries Show Wide Ranging Wealth
A survey of early professional baseball earnings highlights Al Spalding and Al Beach as top earners, with fortunes ranging from twenty seven thousand to two hundred thousand dollars. It notes Jim Mutrie’s big first season, Billy Barnie’s rise to fifty thousand, and other players building wealth through real estate and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Spalding
Chicago
al Beach
Philadelphia
Spalding
Beach
Jim Mutrie
Metropolitan Club
New York
Billy Barnie
Murrie
Hauck
Baltimore
Baltimore American
Barnie
Atlantics
Emil Gross
Chicago Unions
Faller
Mika McGeary
Anson
Chicago’s
George Wright
Boston
Harry Wright
Dunlap
Walons
Gleason
George Strief
Cleveland
Latham
Lew Simmons
Sharsix
Mason
American Association
Louisville
Tb New York League
St. Louis
Hunting Spiders Leap Like Tigers in Prey Capture
A description of hunting spiders that stalk and ambush prey with swift, precise motions. Spiders approach noiselessly, time leaps with exact distances, and strike swiftly, making their prey seem to be controlled by a hidden force.
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Wuberforce Armitage
Common Pleas
Metropolitan
Passaig Falls
Paterson
N. J
Austin Howard
Falls Bridge
George Grant
No. 164
Olive Street
Grant
Society Dam
Grimshaw Broughton
James Garrison
Joseph Chamberlain
Great Falls
Thcod
Vegus
Staegareho
Perine
Willes
Letepes de
Ste. Clotille’s
Mme. du Montatembert
Caroline
Tuilerigs
Ste. Perine’s
Comtesse de Bassonville
Louis Philippe
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