Local Calhoun Street listings and merchants directory
A dense OCR of a street directory listing firms and shops along Calhoun Street and nearby streets. It enumerates merchants in clothing, hats, furs, saddlery, tailoring, millinery, toys, wallpapers, sewing machines, and related goods with multiple addresses such as Columbia Street, Calhoun Street, West Berry Street, and Main Street. The page cites many firm names and storefronts including Gents, Morgan & Beach, Oakley & Son, Harper & Co, Updegraff & Co, Jas M Kane & Bro, Grover & Baker, Singer, Grover & Co, and others, presenting a snapshot of a bustling commercial district.
Harper & Cos Offers Fine Hats in Calhoun Block
Aan Bhs and Styles of So al pes pring ty ea ft and Stiff Hats just received at his HARPER & COS, No 8 Phoenix Block, Calhoun Bt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Pes Pring
Ty Ea
Jis Harper & Cos
Phoenix Block
Calhoun Bt
Summer Days of Beauty and Peril in a Forest
A flowing poem recalls a perilous bliss of June and forest roses, then shifts to a domestic intrigue. A medical man aids a distressed household, a bird escapes, and two months later a note reveals a diamond theft worth fifteen million francs, with no signature and no capture.
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Albert
Valpasa
Madame
Valpass
Steffano
Petragi
Constantinople
The Diamond Robbery
A mysterious Austrian gentleman posing as Count Perragi arrives in Constantinople and funds a charity drive in aid of Madame Sophie Cartenagg, then vanishes after raising about 35 000. In parallel, Dr Jacob Valpass becomes entangled with Madame Estelle Dearest at the Hotel d Europe as a plot unfolds around a diamond necklace he purchases and later aids in a hasty theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Lloyd’s
Vorwarte
Count Steffano Perragi
Mesiine
Peru
Imperial Guards
Diet
Turkey
Sophie Cartenagg
Cartenagg
Berlin
Count Perragi
Perragi
Madame Cartensgg
Mohammed
Madame
Crescent City
Cafe de Paris
Madame Estelle Deorest
Albert
Europe
Paris
Jacob Valpass
Cera
Jacob Valpars
Vaipasa
Valpass
Hotel d
Madame Dearest
Doctor Valpass
Code of Honor Explained by Old Skoepondike Student
Editor Cincinnati Daily Times summarizes a humorous fictitious “Code of Honor” with absurd rules about insults duels and posting. The piece parodies duel culture with comical examples including Epiphreditus mith and Ike de Paperkollare, showing the code’s impracticalities and outrageous stipulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skoepondike
Cincinnati Daily Times. Ltd
Sleeping Cars Spark Debate on Nightly Compartments
A lady traveler criticizes current sleeping car arrangements as inappropriate for mixed lodging. She urges one large car split into two separate accommodations for the sexes at night, calling it a public blessing. She notes women would adapt by using curtains and hooks while fearing prying eyes.
McCoole Challenges St Louis Bruiser For Fight
John Hussey of this city has offered to fight the St Louis heavyweight for 2500 dollars or more within sixty days from signing, on the condition the bout occurs within one hundred miles of the city. Philadelphia reports little wedding buzz as Pickleton and Julia Sardine marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoole
John Hussey
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Mr. Pickleton
Julia Sardine
Jualis Anya
Lights and Shades of Freedom on Governmental History
Jaquis Carim argues for a government based on voluntary principle and moral liberty, condemns authoritarian Brazil and its Paraguay war, praises Venice for enduring freedom, warns against constitutional change, and urges reclaiming original U S principles to prevent republic collapse.
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Sven
Brazil
Paraguay
Lorez
Seacagh
Lopez
Republic of Venice
United States
Congress
Looxz
Hamppren
Chinese Girls in Speciety Dinner in Hong Kong Narratives
A Sacramento Bee reader recounts a Hong Kong dinner attended by Chinese musicians and dancers. The guests describe a multi-course meal of preserves and rice with savory curios, lively terpsichore performances, and elaborate fan pleasantries. The piece notes refined dress, gilt hair ornaments, and the social etiquette shaping the experience.
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Emily
Sacramento Bee
Hong Kong
China
Agather
Sin
Yuen
Revival induced insanity shocks Davenport community
A young woman Lydia Fisher 22 was seized by religious fervor after revival meetings and wandered through Davenport in a semi delirious state. Wet torn clothes and incoherent speech followed her encounter with a crowd and police, then treated at Major Schnitwear’s room before jail housing while a place is found. Local reaction notes a wave of sensational interest and debate over women’s access to colleges.
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Neck Island
Davenport
Ottows
Fisher
Lydia E
Joseph Shields
William Nelson
Main Street
E. A Tillebein
Shields
Third Street
Second Street
Miss Fisher
Schnitwer
Miseisher
Baptist Church
Hats and parasols of fashion in the New York Standard
Fashion notes critique bonnets and hats, praising Metropolitan shapes and the Nespolitan Petite. It describes parasols growing in size with lace options, warns against overpacking for country trips, and shares a traveler’s lean wardrobe lesson.
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New York Standard
Milan
Ike Soyer
Lucretia Borgia
Portia
Mother Hubbard
Bavaria
Fifth Avenue
Mayne
Murder Trial in Nevada A Judge’s Lurid Narrative
A defiant court scene unfolds with a Spanish desperado on trial for killing a Mexican woman’s husband. The judge recalls a sunlit, tedious day as witnesses yawned and the grieving woman radiated fierce hate, her eyes flashing summer lightning while the jury lingered on the brink of conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Galaxy
Anouatti
Pneumatic tubes for fast dispatch in the English post
A reader reports a private Glasgow letter describing pneumatic tubes used by the English Post Office to transmit manuscripts between London and Glasgow in about five minutes. The note claims a dispatch traversed four hundred miles at eighty miles per hour, with the system apparently government operated and not yet patented or widely tested.
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Great Britann
Glasgow
London
Eepriopey
Government
Honeymoon Brisk Season and Senate Salary Debates
The article reflects on 1870 tourism at Niagara with twenty seven couples and social scenes at a hotel, followed by a Senate debate over gender pay equity. It covers Mr Corbett's opposition to equalizing male clerks salaries, and amusement at the lively congressional amendments favoring female clerks, with remarks by Morton Pomeroy Trumbull Morrill Sherman and a Washington correspondent. A Brooksville Indiana Democratic county convention endorses Franklin county for D S Gooding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Corbett
Trumbull
Morrill
Maing
Morton
Pomeroy
Messrs
Buncombe
Washington
Brooksville
Ind
Franklin County
Gooding
Harrison County
Hall
Vincennes
Terre Haute
Paapetevena
Fort Warne
Richmond
Putnam County
Greencastle
San Juans
Crry
I County
Whitley
Pulaski County
Indianapolis
TRE Terre Haute ‘Journal
Voorhees
Congress
New Albany
Alvin Mort
Pulaski Cound
Brengehal al Good
Cincinnati
Evansville
Dying Major Fulton’s Vision At Death Revealed
A long account from the Mustative Journal details Major Charles E. Fulton's final hours. In lucid moments he spoke of spirits, greeted loved ones, and affirmed heaven’s reality as he prepared for death. His words included five million spirits and a vision of welcome in a bright afterlife.
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Charies
E. Palton
Pidmiont
Citoenida Lenin
Myns
Fulton
C. E. Fulton
Atrenael
Newton
Awell
Charley
Father Mast
Mary
Virginia
Heaven
Charlie
Darling
Jesus
Anore Aree
Neeton Oia
Maj
Felton
London County
Champaign County
Ohio
Iowa Wesleyan University
Harvard Law School
Lew
Cincinnati
Queen Vic and Abert Face Matrimonial Rumors
A London dated letter to the San Francisco Chronicle reports Queen Vistona may wed a Prince of Schleswig Holstein. It notes a distant prince, and mentions Princess Victoria as a favored match despite a suitor’s objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vic. Abert
Anna Cara Mowatt Ritchie
London
San Francisco Chronicle
Vistona
Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian
Mem
Christian
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Norton
Cahown Wayne Sts
Nery
C. Padre
Uae
BE & Bons
N. Ward
Ain
Columbia Street
Court House
Giove & Metten Factory
Calhoun Street
Ruestis & Namilton
Eee Bolizs Bro
Calhoun
Pratt
Morgan
Beach
Oakley & Son
Sen
OOP
Josep Black
Harper & CO
Millinery & Notions
Updegraff & CO
Anedyt Eras Motions, Is, Toys, Ac
JAS, M. Kane & Bro
Starkey
West Berry Street
Erames
Chemin DE Grofe
Nelson 166
Arid’ Eet
Grover
BAKER
L. Jaimbach pAg
West Berry Stree
Singer’s
L. P. Gribs
Rent
Calhoun St
McDouga F Block
Calhoun $T
Ewing, Hood & CO
Main, Corner Y
Clinton Street
Smith & CO
H. Lingenfeller & Bro
East Main Street
THE
Democrat
Yanie
Eorin
Areca
Nere
Gunde
Dgat
Baerg
von Muggins
Chevoit
Epiphreditusmith
Epiph
Baron von Muggins
Africa
Ike de Paerkollare
Burrbak
Burr Oak Stuffed Club
Ike de Paperkollare
Rialto
Ike
Burr Oak
Sunder
Onrithes
Democrats
United States of America
Jaquis Carim
Srick
Mrs. Stanton
Rutgers
Telegar
Louisville
Courier-fourmal
Niagara
Jove
Pippin
Amicus
Huntsceanon
Winchester’ Gazette
Cox
Tantintey
John Collett
Vermilion County
Doblebower
Dispatch
Doblebowar
Boston
New York
New Era
Boston Times
Dear
Tierk
John A. Conwell
Frank Leng
B. D. Slater
R. D. Dorman
Warren Sibbe
J. Scott Harrison
John ‘McHale
Vigo
Second Streets
McHale
Esimg
Moh
Decatur Republican
Zist
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