Umbrella romances and long lost property tales
The piece recounts London like anecdotes of missing umbrellas in repeated recoveries and a Baltimore episode where an elderly lady returns a borrowed umbrella. It shifts to Gen Benton reminiscences about a chaotic end to the Thirty third Congress with a playful clash over Benton's status and a chorus of laughter.
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James L. Abbott
Strestland
New
New York
Wilmington
Paschslville
Chester
Charles Street
Baltimore
Gooduck
San Francisco
Boston
England
London
Buffalo
Walnut Street
Tom Benton
Perley Poore
House of Representatives
Senate
Sabpath
Orr
Woman stops train after umbrella waved at engine
A passenger train on the Pittsburgh Division halted near a flag stop when a woman in holiday attire frantically waved a large umbrella at the engine. She asked if Jeff was aboard. the conductor urged her to board, but she refused unless Jeff was present.
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Pittsburgh
Jeff
Vast 18th Century News Clippings Chronicle
A late 18th century collage of scattered items from a New York era paper recounts naval and river discoveries, uprisings, fires, and obits. It mentions copper samples near Brookings South Dakota, arrests on a Nickel Plate freight line, a Marmaton River surface mystery, and a Valparaiso incident with tramps. It also notes Henry Ethn’s death in Georgetown and a Muscle Shoals canal project, plus a Kentucky tannery fire injuring a chief and a large monument unveiling in Darto.
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Sona
Greg City
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Priddy
Evebing
Cope
Garpenta
Sonia
Dusa
Brookings
Valparaiso
Ind
Nickel Plate Road
Fred
South Whitley
William Laigh
Belknap
Si Gaunt
Secon
Hanover
Boyes
Agaa
Erie
Three children drown in Guew Bay river tragedy
Three young children of Joseph Ashley drowned after attempting to rescue a companion in the Guew Bay Wisconsin river. The accident occurred in July 95 near the riverbank, leaving the family in deep sorrow as authorities investigate the ordeal.
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Guew Bay
Wis
Joseph Ashley
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