Margaret Ashton’s Matinee Musician Rise to Fame
Mrs. Stewart Allenby’s grand matinee musicale in South Kensington hinges on a missing aria. Margaret Ashton, a humble visiting governess with a dream, finds courage to sing the cavatina from Linda da Chamounix, winning an ovation and a reunion with Basil Hepburn that could lead to marriage and a brighter future.
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Signora Belcore
Linda da Chamounix
Mr. Allenby
George
Stewart Allenby
Soverness
Charwoman
Miss Ashton
Margaret
Constance
Line du Dé Chamounie
Charlotte
Margeret
Mamma
Mrs. Ashton
Bmsil
Egypt
Nile
Mrs. Stewart Allenby
Mrs. Allenby
Donizetti
Jenny Lind
Marcaret
Holy Land
Basil Wepburn
Mer. Hepburn
Mr. Mepburn
Basil
Tom
Walt & Dozen
Invaluable Apple for the Table Fruit and Digestive Ease
An excerpt argues eating quality depends on tender flesh and gentle acidity. It praises Fameuse Snow apples for digestion friendly, mild sub acidity, and pleasant flavor. Also notes interest in future apple recommendations for the table. Travelers in Egypt report widespread ophthalmia linked to poor eye hygiene at birth.
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Mer
Egypt
Cairo
Literary Theft and Davitt in Montreal Letter
A London Times letter by Ouida condemns international copyright piracy by American firms and laments wholesale theft of English works. Davitt remains popular in Montreal as locals seek to secure his release and fund a homestead for him with a rent-raising drive.
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Ouida
London Limes
Board of Trade
America
Messrs. Lippincott & Co
Philadelphia
Munro & Co
Lippincotts
Munro
Hogland
Davitt
Montreal
Mr. Davitt
Grant's Mexican War tale tests Kentucky race politics
The Lexington transcript reports Rev. John Shackleford recounting Gen. Ulysses Grant praising Gen. Williams for a political race in Ashland district. Grant recalls a Mexico incident: Williams on a Kentucky mare collides with a water jug carrying Mexican water, killing a man, a story he says he never told Williams to spare his feelings.
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Lexington
John Shackleford
Grant
Ashland
Williams
Gen. Williams
Mexico
Old Trapper Lobb recounts Piseco Lake legends and bears
Roine Sentinel reports Floyd F. Lobb a longtime Piseco Lake trapper and guide visiting the city. He recalls Piseco as a vast wilderness with abundant deer wolves and fur bearers. He describes a 26 pound salmon trout caught in a boat and a 27 pound record. He recounts surviving a twenty day snowbound prison in a bark shanty and a dramatic bear encounter where he killed a bear by striking it with his paddle. He ends with reflections on theatre fires and safety failures in public buildings.
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Roine Sentinel
Floyd F. Lobb
Piseco Lake
North Woods
Piseco
Timothy Thurman
Lobb
Bruin
Jonah
Remarkable Desert Grapevines Reported in San Francisco Chronicle
A discovery in the Byhoe Desert is claimed to revolutionize Southern California viticulture. Grapecuttings inserted in cactus trunks reportedly sprout vigorously like cultivated vines. A chisel enables planting a large vineyard in a day, with vines climbing cactus and thriving without irrigation. Hot desert sands may dry raisins, while other crops like melons cucumbers and tomatoes reportedly grow from the same stock.
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Byhoe
San Pracisco
California
Connecticut adjournment plan favored in legislature
Ex Gov Hubbar Connecticut proposed adjourning the legislature for one week before final adjournment to study the many bills passed late in the session. The measure met with considerable favor, and it is said Gov Biglow may seek a similar delay.
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Hubbar
Connecticut
Biglow
Burdock Blood Bitters Restore Health For Ailments
An advertisement proclaims Burdock Blood Bitters cure disorders caused by impure blood including pimples dyspepsia and constipation. It promises relief for digestive and bodily issues with a trial size offered at 10 cents and a full bottle at one dollar.
Rub It In
Jacob Loeckman of 274 Clinton Street Buffalo New York says Thomas Eclectic Oil cured his rheumatism after a single bottle eased a lame back and enabled him to move again.
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Jacob Loeckman
Clinton Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Tutt
Murray St
New York
Tutts
Dyspepsia Relief Ad By Carter’s Pills
Dyspepsia in its worst forms will yield to the use of Carter's Little Nerva Pills aided by Carter's Little Liver Pills. They not only relieve present distress but strengthen the stomach and digestive apparatus. Sold by Emmert & Burrell.
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Carter
Emmert & Burrell
G. Co
Rochester
N.Y
Toronto
Only Lung Pad Brings Rest to Adrian Asthma Sufferer
Chas e Frary of Adrian Michigan reports a surprise outcome after using an Only Lung Pad. He notes he slept well the first night and had suffered from asthma for years.
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Chas.e, Frary
Adrian, Mich
Ady
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