Odd Figure Johnny Lookup Follows Funerals in City
Andrew J. Gallagher known as Johnny Lookup, with a neck malformation, has for ten years followed funeral processions to cemeteries. Hurt by runaway horses, he lies in Bellevue Hospital after a long life of wandering and occasional charity from undertakers and hackmen.
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Johnny Lookup
Bellevue Hospital
Johnny
Andrew J. Gallagher
Fifth Avenue
Sexton
Calvary
Evergreens
Woodlawn
Long Island
Thirtieth Street
Thirty-third Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Twenty Eighth Street
Thirty-third
Twenty Ninth Street
Lot
Fuameral
Yorkville Court
Fifty-seventh Street
Johnny Ain
Hackmen
Calvary Cemetery
White
Mr. White
New York Sun
Duse eyelid creators new beauty trend in society
New York Journal notes the Duse eyelid replacing older eye styles like Bernhardt mouth and Ellen Terry skip. It claims the drooping lid conveys dreamy intelligence and female sentiment, suits brunettes, and requires pale makeup with simple hair.
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Rejane
Ada Rehan
Della Fox
Duse
New York Journal
A Good Thing Transmississippi Exposition Push
A New York World endorsement urges supporting an 1898 Transmississippi Exposition in Omaha. The piece argues such a fair would broaden eastern understanding of western growth, strengthen national unity, and showcase America's resources through increased travel and interregional ties.
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Omaha
East
Omaha Exposition
New York World
Hat raising device patent by James C Boyle in Spokane
The commissioner of patents granted James C Boyle of Spokane Washington a patent for a saluting device attached to the head. A nod starts interior machinery that lifts the hat about a foot, then the hat moves in a semicircular arc and returns to the head.
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Commissioner of Patents
James C. Boyle
Spokane
Wash
Not Our Style. An English book on etiquette saga
An English etiquette work notes calls often occur between two and three in the afternoon. A gentleman in town should stay with his visitor, while a carer holds the visit. A reference mentions Anjeranga in circumference from a tree at Pomona California. It is to be bent to Europe as a specimen of California fruit.
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Pomona
Cal
Europe
California
Fortuyne
Chicago
New York
Mney
Calhoun St
Samuel Fisher
Ry. Brax B. Fisher
Sommer’s
Moellering
Rescue Medicine Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Battle at Jonesboro shows luck in Thirty eighth Ohio record
The Thirty eighth Ohio volunteers after two years fought in ten battles around Atlanta with 140 total fatalities. In the Jonesboro charge on Sept. 1 1864 the regiment suffered 20 killed and 150 total losses as 360 muskets faced fierce Confederate fire. Heroic flags and losses marked the engagement, ending with no Federal soldiers missing.
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American Press Association
Thirtyeighth
Ohio Volunteers
Mission Ridge
Sherman
Atlanta
Resaca
Kenesaw Mountain
Peach Tree Creek
Jonesboro
Thomas
Army of the Cumberland
Hood
Hardee
Jonesbeare
Edie
Carlin
Kentucky
Thirty-eighth
Fourteenth Ohio
Estes
Randall
Baird
Stranser
William A. Choate
Dousley
Strauser
Young
Kentucky Union
Ohio
Beely
Snooks
Phelps
Utoy Creek
Defiance County
Chickamauga
Brannan
Chattanooga
Grover L. Kinmer
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Bernhardt
Delta Fox
Thirty Eighth
Decatur
Ala
Stone River
Tenn
Hoover’s Gap
Dallas
Ackworth
Chattahoochee
Egra Chapel
Gsa
Nashville, Tenn
Vane
Ayers
Eva Braan
Lincoln, DL
W.g.burket
D.D.S
The
Business College
Evening Post
G. Kluq’s
Hanna ST
Lars
Lakeside
Lakeside Co
Freese & Ranke
Carhoun Street
Masonic Temple
A. J. Keller
Lay Block
Calhoun Street
Washington Boulevard
Geo. H. Seabold, Sr
Pearl Street
Indianapolis
Denison
Indiana
Alfred Grindle
Bass Block
Fort Wayne
Bradley & Son
Wayne St
Calhoun and
Wayne Streets
Geo. C. Stemen
M. D
Fisher Brothers
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