A. J. Stewart's Palace and the Millionaire Prince
The piece recalls A T Stewart death in 1876 and his Vanished bequests. It argues his marble palace and Garden City failed their intended charitable purposes after his fortune, noting the cathedral tomb and rumored theft of Stewart's remains and the decline of his sprawling enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pry Goods Prince
Mrs. Stewart
A. Ttewart
A. Stewart
Stewart
Marble Palace
Grand Union
Saratoga
Metropolitan
New York
Fifth Avenue
Garden City
Long Island
A. T. Stewart
Westchester County
N. Y
Money Loving Dick the Toady Dog of New York
Special correspondence from New York describes Dick a dog with a strong money fixation. He worships silver coins, shuns paper money, and targets wealthy or garbed people for meat purchases. He learns to distinguish coins, guards a coin stash, and reacts fiercely if anyone tries to touch his wealth. The story satirically notes how money can corrupt even dogs and reflects on civilization’s financial lure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herkimer
Shakespeare
Gertrude Garrison
Brakemen's Brotherhood shows growth and leadership
The National Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen founded in 1883 reports 244 lodges at a San Antonio convention, nearly 15,000 members. Edward F. O Shea, 26, serves as grand secretary treasurer, credited with stabilizing finances and guiding the order. Cassius M Clay is also profiled for his abolitionist and political life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen
San Antonio
Tex
United States
E. F. O'Shea
Edward F. O'Shea
Order
O'Shea
The
Western Business College
Galesburg
Ills
Brakemen’s Brotherhood
Aerial photographs by Tissandier and Nadar reach 1700 meters
A recent La Nature report describes M. Gaston Tissandier and his brother using balloons with M. Paul Nadar to take thirty instantaneous photos during a six hour ascent from Auteuil to Segrie. Photos at 800 to 1200 meters are clear, but 1200 meter images fail to reproduce. some images enlarged with Eastman paper show promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Gaston Tissandier
la Nature
M. Paul Nadar
Auteuil
Segrie
la Sarthe
M. Nadar
M. Tissandier
Eastman
Marriage Lottery Shows Quick San Antonio Wedding
The Chicago marriage lottery, now in Texas, matches ticket buyers by personal descriptions. William Carothers, 70, from Atascosa County, worth $50,000 in sheep and lands, drew Mrs. N. M. Kaiser, a 41 year old widow of Stevens Point Iowa. They married in the Central hotel in San Antonio within twenty minutes of her arrival.
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Chicago
Texas
William Carothers
Atascosa County
Tex
N. M. Kaiser
Stevens Point
Central Hotel
San Antonio
New York Sun
Wisconsin hunting season promise in northern woods
A Chicago Herald quote notes heavy game there as fires push bears and deer into Ashland and Lake Superior country. Riflemen expect good living and rare sport with snipe, prairie chicken, plover, ducks, wild turkeys and geese, with sighters of big drives, in fall and winter.
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Wisconsin
Northwestern
Ashland
Lake Superior
Chicago Herald
Yale Professor Whitney to Pause Classes at Sheffield
Professor Whitney of Yale college has overworked on the new dictionary and must suspend his classes in the Sheffield Scientific school for several months at least.
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Whitney
Yale College
Sheffield Scientific School
Senator Mahone to Leave Senate for Real Estate Ventures
Senator Mahone will bid farewell at the end of his term and will enter the Washington real estate market after making sizable investments.
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Mahone
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Duke of Buckingham Aids Fire Engine Crew At Night
The Duke of Buckingham rose at 1 a.m. and helped operate a fire engine, working energetically for five hours to protect a neighbor’s hayricks and barns from a blaze.
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Duke of Buckingham
Philadelphia Times
Montreal Carnival Dates Set For February Start
The executive committee of the Montreal winter carnival announces the event will begin in the first week of February. The ice palace will be grander than ever before, as reported by Frank Leslie's.
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Montreal
Frank Leslie
Maury Reappointed minister to Colombia after failed senate vote
Dabney H. Maury, previously blocked by the Senate, is reappointed minister to the United States of Colombia. He earned two duels, the first with Col. de Rivier of the French army over a Alabama affair. The duel occurred on a Mobile Bay sandbar in April 1861. Maury was arrested, de Rivier married the lady and took her to France. A later Virginia duel ended in reconciliation without injury.
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Cassius Marcellus Clay
Kentucky
Yale College
Mr. Clay
Turner
North
Russia
Dabney H. Maury
Senate
United States
Colombia
Col. de Rivier
Alabama
Maury
Mobile Bay
de Rivier
France
Virginia
Multiple historical notices from varied subjects headlined in one note
A compilation of brief items reports Mary Anderson’s father’s Civil War death and burial in Magnolia cemetery Charleston. Other items note heavy autumn Yosemite travel, European tourists, grass scarcity in Montana, Simon Cameron sole survivor of Polk era senate, the death of Poure-Hopkins who introduced steel pens to France, the Pasteur institute fund reaching 1 442 000 frances, Ramon Vejar of Pomona California killing a four legged quail, Gen. Lew Wallace composing a Turkish life romance, Dwight L Moody’s winter evangelistic plans in the south, wildlife on upper San Joaquin mountains, a double apartment nest with sparrows near Rochester, Pendleton returning to work in Berlin, thousand African Americans joining Columbia church after an earthquake, plans to honor Miles Standish in Boston with Pris cilla and John Alden, and Texas drought relief for ten counties easing.
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Mary Anderson
Magnolia
Charleston
Yosemite
Montana
Simon Cameron
Senate of Polk
David J. Yulee
Poure-Hopkins
France
Pasteur Institute Fund
Paris
Ramon Vejar
Pomona
Cal
Lew Wallace
Dwight L. Moody
San Joaquin River
California
Rochester
N. Y
Pendleton
Columbia
S. C
Wine and Cakes Legacy in Old London Church
A Boston Advertiser reader recalls entering a venerable London church where a beadle offers sherry or port. He explains that three centuries ago a parish widow endowed funds to supply wine and sweetcakes for clergy at every service, a custom that endures.
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Boston
London
Beadle
New York Sun
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A. J. Stewart
Stewart Palace
Shylock
Silver Lake
Ohio
Feller
Tam
Will HupBarp Kernan
San
Antonio, Tex
Cassius M. Clay
She
St. Paul Globe
George B. Thayer
Thayer
Connecticut
Vernon
Conn
Pacific Coast
Grates
West
Arapahoe ST
Denver
Colo
Nee Else
Caeng
Randly
Haier Took Co
Portland
Maine
Wood & Mayer
Portland and Loniville Cement
Plaster OF Paris
RED Cross Paints
Marshall and Welch
Medley & Beals
Skinner Block
Corner 16Th and
Lawrence St
16Th St
Pleasant and Central
P. R. Fawcett
Lawrence
E. Weatherhead
Larimer
Walker, Brown & Meyring
Hollaiday St
Elgan & Owen
16Th Street
BLOOD
Larimer St
KS. E. M. Medina
W. Michael
Colorado Hot Air Furnace Works
15Th Street
W. L. Clayton
WAL Wuul LM
Yard
Mason
Greeley
Senator Mahone
Greenlee & C9
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
America
Miles Standish
Priscilla
John Alden
Legacy
Castoria
Ponons
HL A. Arcuer
M.D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Tas Caytars Company
Fulton Street, N. Y
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