Parisian Benevolent Scheme Shelters for the Homeless
Paris opened a second refuge after a public outcry over the first. A new site near Hotel Dieu and another on the Quai de Valmy will house up to 300 guests. Admission now requires names, occupations, and explanations to officials before entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Georges Berry
Place de la Chapelie
Tlace de la Chapelle
Hotel Dieu
Quay de Valmy
Paris
Philadelphia Times
Curious Mansion Under a Wooden Shet Built by Mrs Scott
The late Thomas A. Scotts family, prominent Philadelphians, built a vast wooden frame palace over two adjoining houses on Rittenhouse Square. The exterior presents narrow jaillike windows, concealing a fifty two room interior, with completion pushed to a year or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Scott
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Philadelphia
Scott
Rittenhouse Square
Eighteenth Street
New York World
Oldest active journalist John M. Laird of Greensburg Pa
The note recalls John M. Laird the veteran Greensburg journalist, and Edwin M. Stanton once apprenticed in Steubenville. During the Civil War Stanton, a Union Democrat, opposed him and once had to defend his office from furloughed soldiers. Stanton later pardoned a young sentry condemned for sleeping on post, a rare wartime mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Laird
Greensburg
Edwin M. Stanton
Steubenville
Stanton
Laird
New York Tribune
Texas lawmaker pushes 44 caliber pistol ban bill
A Texas legislator proposes fines for making importing or selling any pistol under 44 caliber to save lives. He argues 44 caliber bullets are deadly enough to prevent return fire and that such pistols cannot be worn concealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
New York Tribune
Garden City Chicago From Onion Fields Origin Story
The Potta watomie Indians named a place with abundant wild onions Chicago, calling it Garden City, a term later linked to the city. They believed the skunk’s odor came from eating onions, a folkloric etymology cited by the Pioneer Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Garden City
Cor
Pioneer Press
Learned Pig A Hog That Carries A Cob To Breathe
A hog owned by Farmer Redmond near Sturgeon Missouri cannot breathe through its nose. The animal has been trained to carry a cob in its mouth to keep its jaws open so it can breathe. For four years the hog travels about with a cob. It lays down the cob to eat and picks it up again afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Redmond
Sturgeon
New York Sun
Long Lived Couples in Harborville Bay of Fundy
In Harborville New Brunswick on the Bay of Fundy ninety residents are over 70. Among them twenty couples have celebrated fifty years of marriage or more, and five husbands are brothers. Chicago Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harborville
N. 8
Bay of Fundy
Chicago Herald
Fred Douglass Encounters Tobacco Free French Deputies
During a visit to the French House of Deputies Fred Douglass notes the absence of tobacco chewing smoking or unseemly postures among members. He remarks contrast with behavior he observes in our own national legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Douglass
House of Deputies
Various Global Notes Reflect World Headlines
Items report on Lord Tennyson’s fading eyesight and Blair Nebraska phonography in schools. Notes cover Connecticut legislators, London hansom cabs, summer hotel woes, a crow in Indiana, Paris bullfights profits, Vanderbilt’s milk house tiling, Susan B Anthony on Lincoln, Comte de Paris in Ireland, Queen Victoria buying crown jewels, a Hawaiian newspaper, Cleveland receipts, Ward tainted tobacco labels, English spelling bees, Suez canal electric light plan, Kinch Kitchen notoriety, Rochester Chinese snow cleanup by flat iron, a Fargo boy seeking his mother, a yearling calf delivering by hand sled, French tomatoes and blood poisoning, McNeil’s Island hair rule, and Good American Diakonessen nurse training group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Tennyson
Blair
Neb
Connecticut
London
Europe
Chester
Inls
Paris
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Susan B. Anthony
Abraham Lincoln
Comte de Paris
Ireland
Victoria
Cleveland
Baltimore
Ferdinand Ward
Sing Sing
England
Suez Canal
Kinch Kitchen
Tallapoosa
Rochester
N. Y
America
Fargo
Sioux City
France
United States Penitentiary
McNeil’s Island
Puget Sound
New York
The
Good American Diakonessen
Remarkable Goshen Triplet Sisters' Long Lifespans
In Goshen born March 26 1788 triplet sisters Sibyl Sarah and Susan Hurlburt lived nearly a lifetime. Sibyl married Luddington died 1875 at 87. Susan Grennell died 188? at 88. Sarah Bushnell died 1883 at 5?. the trio remained nearly indistinguishable to friends into old age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goshen
Sibyl
Sarah
Susan Hurlburt
Gideon
Anna
Beach) Hurlburt
Luddington
Susan
Grennell
Bushnell
The Morphine Habit and Public Discourse
A 19th century notice discusses Dr B Ball’s treatise on morphine addiction highlighting the risk to mind and body and urging readers to study the work. Other items mention March Forum contents on Christianity science and society, Harper’s March issues, and Scrivener’s Magazine notes tied to Denver history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Ball
Paris Faculty
Ball
J. Fitzgerald
Chambers Street
New York
St. George Mivart
Remarkable recovery after King's New Discovery in Paris Texas
Excitement in Paris Texas follows the rapid improvement of J B Corley once bedridden with consumption. A trial bottle led to full recovery, with two boxes of New Life Pills and two bottles of the Discovery restoring health and adding thirty six pounds. Free trial bottles available at J F Fezer's. Also note scarce housing in Monte Vista pushing newcomers to Del Norte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Texas
J. B. Corley
Mr. King
Dr. King
J. F. Fezer’s
Monte Vista
del Norte
Electric Bitters touted as universal cure in local ads
The record quotes W D Sult of Bippus Indiana and Abraham Hare of Bellville Ohio praising Electric Bitters as the best remedy. Druggists claim cures for liver kidney and blood issues and note sales at J F Fezer and E & L Seelbach. Advertisements also mention workers at the Denver Rio Grande blasting near the Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Sult
Bippus
Ind
Abraham Hare
Bellville
Ohio
J. F. Fezer
Denver & Rio Grande
Springs
Debutante’s Wig Causes Opera Night Sensation
The New York Letter notes a young debutante at the opera who drew attention in the boxes by wearing a wig. She openly shows off the wig by cocking it over her eye and playful antics amuse friends. After recovery and hair regrowth she will be a lovelier bride in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merlin
New York
Photographer Trades Crisis Photos For Profit
A Buffalo photographer says he follows newspaper reports of fires explosions wrecks and similar disasters then travels to the scene with a landscape camera to capture the catastrophe. He prints proofs and mails them to interested parties and in most cases receives orders for photographs at good prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
New York Sun
Tavernier Panorama of Sandwich Islands and Mauna Loa View
A compact review notes Jules Tavernier’s new panorama of the Sandwich Islands and a vivid Mauna Loa eruption scene painted two years ago. The item links Tavernier with Frenzeny, reflecting Western life sketches and upcoming U.S. exhibition plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jules Tavernier
Frenzeny
Sandwich Islands
Tavernier
Mauna Loa
Harper's Bazar
A Genial Restorative HostetterStomach Bitters
Hostetter s Stomach Bitters is pitched as a genial restorative that gradually rebuilds health without abrupt change. It claims to aid digestion and bowel regularity, prevent biliousness, and act as a diuretic and malaria guard, suitable for delicate constitutions sensitive to mineral drugs.
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Harpers
New York Police Department
Russia
Louisiana
Charles Dudley Warner
Harper
South
Chattanooga
Cven
Georgetown
Scriimer’s
G. W. Wheeler
Silver Cliff
T. A. Uzzell
Denver
Cherry Creek
Wheeler
Chestnut
Journal of Commerce
E. & L. Seelbach’s
G. Cook
Heaton
Cook
Castoria
Corea
New York Post
Winter Palace
American Trading Company
New Orleans Times Democrat
Widder County
D. T
Tilden
Celeste Stauffer
New Orleans
Mise Stauffer
Lancaster County
Thomas Tifany
San Francisco
Piflany
E. von Gehren & Co
E. VonGohren & Co
Aplifornia
Cirewar
Abietine Medical Company
Oroville
Cal
Santa Arie
W. B. Mason
Greeley, Colo
J. K. Feld
T. West
West
East
A.ico
Creeley, Colo
Taylor's
Taylor
H.C. Watson & CO
Gale, Lee & Wilson
W. A. Nichols
Harley Colorado
P.S
ABE. Meads& CO
Union Bank
Percheron
M. W. Dunhams Toto
Draft & Coach Stallions
Colorado
John A. Witter
Colo
J. K. Thompson
East Greeley
D. F. Camp
E. M. Nussaum
Greeley
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