President Cleveland Enjoys Adirondack Summer With Bride
The article describes President Cleveland vacationing at a Saranac Lake cottage with his wife and mother-in-law, traveling in the Delaware and Hudson Railroad director’s car. It praises his departure from etiquette, notes the Swiss chalet style cottage owned by W. R. Dutton, and mentions renovations at the White House and a missing gas chandelier pendant. Martha Washington appears on a banknote, with a suggestion for Francis Cleveland’s image.
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Folsom
Saranac Lake
Washington
John the Baptist of Old
Adirondacks
Grover
W. R. Dutton
Philadelphia
White House
Sharpshooters at Petersburg Told by Baltimore Lieutenant
A Baltimore police lieutenant recalls Petersburg trench fighting with Dick, a fellow in Pickett's division. He describes breech loaders versus muzzle loaders, close hits, sharpshooters in trees, and Union marksmen from the West who rarely miss a man at a mile. The tale ends with a Chicago Ledger attribution.
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Baltimore
Petersburg
Pickett
Longstreet
Chicago Ledger
National Kriegerfest Meets in Cincinnati Highlights Veterans Leader
The National Kriegerfest gathering in Cincinnati honors German veterans who fought in historic European battles such as Koeniggratz Sedan and Franco Prussian War. Henry Bushmann, president of the Landwehr Verein and a Goettingen alumnus, joins the group after service before becoming a peaceful Cincinnati citizen.
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Cincinnati
Europe
Prussia
Koenigratz
Taravelette
Sedan
America
Landwehr Verein
Henry Buschmann
University of Goettingen
German Empire
Landwehr
Germany
Superstitions About Clothing Across Regions
A compilation of old beliefs about clothing and luck notes that placing money in the right pocket ensures fullness, while the left pocket brings poverty. Wearing clothes inside out brings luck. dead people’s garments rot with decay. in Denmark and the Netherlands prohibitions exist on burying or gifting clothing and rings. Aprons, petticoats, and stockings carry regional omens about luck, love, and misfortune, with Yorkshire and Scotland cited for specific signs.
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Denmark
Netherlands
Yorkshire
England
Scotland
New York Commercial Advertiser
American Humor Lost in London Critique
Col Sanford of Marshalltown Iowa recalls delivering a lecture in London using the phrase patheticker and patheticker. A London daily criticized the joke as wrong and suggested more and more pathetic. The Norristown Herald's Williams was accused of false Shakespeare claims as editors note England’s critique.
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Col. Sanford
Marshalltown
Iowa
London
England
Williams
Norristown Herald
Shakespeare
Indianapoli
Death of a Western Pioneer Gurden Hubbard of Chicago
Gurden Hubbard, Chicago’s oldest settler, died in Chicago on the 14th at age 84. Born in Vermont, he joined the American Fur Company at 16, worked from Mackinaw, and helped shape early Chicago from its frontier days to a thriving city. He built the largest brick building in 1833, opened the first store and beef packing operations, issued Chicago’s first insurance policy, and witnessed the first railroad near Chicago in 1847. He recalled Chicago’s transformation from a wilderness to a global metropolis and stayed tied to its growth until death.
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G. & Hubbard
Chicago
Gurden & Hubbard
Vermont
American Fur Company
John Jacob Astor
Mackinaw
Garden
Hubbard
Fort Dearborn
Lake Michigan
Scott
Detroit
Ypsilanti
South
la Salle Streets
Iubbard
Little Fort Dearborm
Thomas Courtland Manning Persuades Public Service Move
Thomas Courtland Manning former news minister to Mexico and Louisiana chief justice details his career from North Carolina birth to roles as adjutant general in 1863 and associate justice, later chief justice, and his 188? appointment after meeting with President Cleveland who urged public service.
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Thomas Courtland Manning
Mexico
North Carolina
Alexandria
Pelican State
Allen
Supreme Court
State of
Louisiana
Manning
Cleveland
Peabody Fund
Gen
Grant
Bayard
Jackson
Albert Griffin Leads Anti-Saloon Republican Movement
Albert Griffin, editor of the Nationalist at Manhattan Kansas, was the chief promoter of the Anti-Saloon Republican movement. He was chosen chairman of the organizing committee and traveled through eastern states to unite prominent Republicans for the Chicago convention. The movement began in Kansas, a Republican and Prohibition stronghold.
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Chicago
Albert Griffin
Manhattan
Kan
Kansas
Phineas C Louns bury for Governor of Connecticut
Phineas C Lounsbury, a Republican nominee for Connecticut governor, is a Ridgefield native son and farmer’s son. He worked in New York, then formed Lounsbury Bros boot and shoe firm with his brother, later retiring. He served in the Connecticut legislature in 1874 and was a private in the Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers. He became president of the Exchange Bank in 1885 and sits as a director of the American Bank Note Company. In the last state convention he polled 195 votes while the governor secured the required tally.
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Connecticut
Phineas C. Lounsbury
Ridgefield
Fairfield County
New York
Lounsbury Bros
Phineas C
Lounsbury
Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers
Exchange Bank
American Bank Note Company
Egyptian Burial Beliefs Shape Grave Craft and Domestic Architecture
The Boston Budget notes that ancient Egyptian concepts stressed preparing a permanent house for death rather than the body. It claims thousands of graves were surveyed yet no remaining house reveals general character of domestic architecture, reflecting emphasis on corpse care over living dwellings.
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Perenens
Sis
Runaway Blaine Jr Marries in Secret Archdiocese Match
James G Blaine Jr youngest son of ex senator Blaine defies family by secretly marrying Miss Marie Nevins of Columbus Ohio after Archbishop approves. The couple fled to New York for the ceremony missing public notice. press kept it quiet for a week.
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James G. Blaine, Jr
James G. Blaine
Washington
Capitol
Wesleyan University
Blaine
Harvard
Johns Hopkins University
James
Augusta
Marie Nevins
Col
Richard Nevins
Columbus
Samuel Medary
Ohio Statesman
Col. Nevins
the Statesman
Father Ducey
Mr. Blaine
Baker
Soldiers Memorial Arch Dedic at Hartford Connecticut
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Hartford is a distinctive arch spanning a stone bridge leading to the city park and capitol. Two 60 foot high towers, each 67 foot circumference, support a 30 foot arch with a 175 foot frieze above. The monument uses Connecticut brown stone with terra cotta frieze and heavy stone dressings.
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Hartford
Conn
State Capitol
Hertford
Theo
Connecticut
Brown St
Buif-Co Rei
Notice on genuine blue wrappers and cattle disease consultation
The alert warns readers to beware of imitations and to seek genuine blue wrappers. It notes an earnest consultation held in Chicago concerning diseased cattle in the area and directs correspondence to G Evanovitch, General American Manager, P O Box 1968 AA York City, mentioning the paper.
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London
England
G. Evanovitch
York City
Soleagen
Chicago
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