Lovers Learn to Love Amid Red Room Revelations
In a stormy social pageant, Henry Carrique narrates a tale linking a mysterious Polish girl to a decades old carew family portrait. A dream matched with real encounters reveals Drusilla Carew’s legacy and Jenny Merryweather’s bond with Henry, ending in their betrothal and the Red Room legend fading from memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Merryweather
Henry Cartique
Tom
Mary
Carew
Carrique
Frank
Frank Carrique
Henry Oarrique
Shakespeare
Heaven
Grandmother McKay
Red Room
Nora Perry
Peterson
The Mistakes of a Night at Borcher’s Store
Riverr January 25 1875 report recounts a humorous night scare near Borcher’s store on east Eighteenth Street. An old man chased a cow through a gate, the cow knocked his bulldog Tiger into a cistern, neighbors rushed to help, and the farce ended with the dog alive and the old man causing mistaken alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverr
Borror Journan
Borcher
East Eighteenth Street
Tiger
Gabriel
Daring Robbery in Madison Street Bank District
A bold morning robbery on Madison Street in Memph is described as meticulously planned. Messenger John Brady, delivering a package worth about ten dollars from Collierville, was assaulted, his pouch seized, and robbers fled through a back alley door. Brady sustained serious injuries but survived. Police, volunteers, and river skiff suspects scoured the area. a $1,000 reward was posted by the Express Company. The crime is linked to a man who posed as W R Parker & Co and possibly the God's Hill gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memibitts
Tenn
Madison Street
W. Parker
Knickerbocker
W. R. Parker & Co
First National Bank
John Brady
South Express Company
Collierville
Brady
Express Company
Memphis
Express
Beecher and Tilton Scandal Recalled by Brooklyn Poets
Citizens recall Henry Ward Beecher in a street overheard chat. The talk centers on Beecher's famous clash with Theodore Tilton and the broad curiosity about the preacher's actions. Neighbors debate the sensational case and its social impact on women’s talk.
Pequannock Nitro Glycerine Blast Scares Colonial Area
A nitro glycerine explosion at a Rendrock powder mill in Pequannock New Jersey at midnight Thursday shattered a frame building, sparking a massive false earthquake across Westchester and northern New Jersey. About 800 pounds of nitro glycerine exploded causing $2000 in damages while nearby structures remained largely intact and 30 workers faced temporary unemployment.
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Pequannock
Paterson
N. J
Delaware and Lackawanna
Hoboken
Mench
Spring Valley
Ridgwood
Englewood
Westchester County
New Jersey
Rockland County
Messrs
J. A. Rand & Co
Park Row
King Kalakaua’s Father and the Sandwich Islands Origin
In 1821 a New England mariner survived a wreck near New Bedford and, after years among the Kanakas, married the king’s daughter and became prince consort. His son Kalakaua later became sovereign of the Sandwich Islands, with the family origin traced to Barnstable Massachusetts. The narrative notes the ruler’s name meaning date journey or good speed and foreshadows the son’s education in San Francisco before visiting Barnstable after meeting the U.S. president.
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New Bedford
Sandwich Islands
Barnstable
Fo Goon
Mariner
New
David
San Francisco
United States
Salt Lake
Humorous Fragments and Wit From Public Notices
A collage of jokes and quips recounts a drunken man haltered in a horse pound, a stump speaker praising the nation, a donkey joke at a carriage, a Highland cabby retort to Mackintosh, a court peanuts fine for contempt, and two boys joking over buying a cigar with shared money.
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London
Mackintosh
Council Bluffs
A Hindoo Clock and the Moving Body Figures
A strange clock once belonging to a Hindoo Prince features a gong in front of its disk and a pile of artificial human limbs. At each hour, the number of body parts necessary to form a man emerges, the figure rises, strikes the gong, then disassembles. At noon and midnight all twelve men assemble sequentially to strike.
Six Largest Steamers Named by American Manufacturer
The six biggest steamships listed are the Great Eastern owned by the International Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., 674 feet long and 77 feet broad. the City of Peking launched on the Delaware for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., 6,000 tons, 428 feet long, 48 feet broad. the Liguria of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., 4,820 tons, 400 feet long, 45 broad. the Brittanic of the White Star Line, 4,700 tons, 455 feet long, 45 broad. the City of Richmond of the Inman Line, 4,600 tons, 453 1/4 feet long, 43 feet broad. and the Bothnia of the Cunard Line, 4,500 tons, 425 feet long, 42 broad.
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Great Eastern
International Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co
City of Peking
Delaware River
Pacific Mail Steamship Co
Liguria
Pacific Steam Navigation Co
White Star Line
City of
Richmond
Bothnia
Colored People Appeal to War for Lawful Enfranchisement
A Washington memo from February 1 reports a private meeting of Southern representatives led by Raps, Pinchback, Gibbs, Pine, Douglass, Downing, and others. They urge Congress to enact protections for loyalty, warn of Democratic gains, and call for action to defend rights of colored citizens in the South.
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WasuiNdron
Washington
Raps
Alabama
P. B. Pinchback
Louisiane A.M. Gibbs
Arkansas
George W. Pine
North Carolina
Fred
Doulass
George Downing
Lanost
Sampson
Burvis
4 Gustas
Congress
Constitutional Freedom
Union
South
United States
Congo
Democra
Fredsrick Dovenas
Joan M. Lanoston
A. M. Gress
Ark
Paillip Josgra
Alay
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Family Circle
Martha
Frank Oarrique
Geo
Jenny
Henry Carrique
Edward Everett Hale
Henry
Munich
Kate
Paris
Heydons
Johnny Carew
New England
Drasulla Carew
Droisilla Carew
Yinia
Hs Lips
Drustila Carew
Drusilla
Johnny Aaren
Henry Garrigue
Mymemorandum
New York
Boston
Grandmother Durrique
Drusilla Carew
Colonel Carrique
Stuart
Tremont Temple
John Weiss
Drusilla Qarew
Germany
Balem
Johnny
Miss Drusilla
Oarrique
Matt
Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
Theodore Tilton
Beecher
The
New York Herald
Kalakavs
Humors
Blake
Blak
Stephenson St
Bigelow
Blake & Blake’ Bigelow’s Old
J, Mease
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