Lion and Elephant of Cincinnati Zoo Inspire Civic Pride
Special correspondence from Cincinnati details the Cincinnati Zoological Garden origins and growth since 1868. Andrew Erkenbrecher funded a $225,000 stock venture with $250,000 spent on grounds and animals, emphasizing nonprofit dividends and education for the Ohio Valley. The piece notes rare species, including buffalo, giraffes, polar bears, and the only ground hornbill in America, plus curios like a donkey that defeated a lioness in 1874 and a legendary romance of a keeper and a woman who toured carnivora cages before marriage.
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Erkenbrecher
Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Fountain Square
United States
Western Plains
America
Africa
Cincinnati Garden
Adam
Animal Kingdom
Ess
Arthur Lawson
Asbury Park Notes on a Summer Paradise
A vivid tour of Asbury Park in August describes wide streets, flowered cottages, a lively board walk to the Beach and Long Branch, bands with moral coloring, and ample leisure for rest. The piece notes social scenes, bathers, churches, and a sanitary plan by Dr. Fiske Bryson for tenement mothers, plus a anecdote about treasury clerks flirting through the building corridors.
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Asbury Park
Ocean Grove
Long Branch
Cupid
L. G
Fiske-Bryson
New York City
New York
New York Sun
Wrong End of the Stick
A Kingston man misplaces his cane head after a late night mix up. He had borrowed his neighbor’s hand to hand him the cane, then realized he was holding the wrong end, prompting laughs at the windows. The incident ends with the line good joke by jocks.
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Kingston Freeman
Medical Congress Debate Advocates Conservative Practice
At the Medical Congress opening Professor Zemmola of Naples urged caution toward bacteriology and a return to safer, experimental methods focused on curing disease. The session adjourned after thanking him for his paper. In London, the Times questions Gladstone’s suitability to represent England at Philadelphia’s constitutional centennial.
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Wasnixeron
Davis
Durante
Rome
Italy
Naples
Zemmola
Zimmola
London
Gladstone
Philadelphia
the Times
England
Blaine
United States
Ford and Liddell Sighted Near Las Cerrillos Mining Town
The Las Vegas Car notes Bob Ford once killed Jesse James is now penniless and baleful as a saloon hanger-on in Las Cerrillos. Dick Liddell appears reformed living with a wife from the town, aided by locals. Mark Twain spends summers in Elmira with privacy on Quarry Hill and his own routines.
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Bob Ford
Jesse James
Las Cerrillos
Dick Liddell
Ford
Las Vegas
Kansas City Times
Mark Twain
Elmira
Langdon
Mark
Quarry Hill
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Cincinnatis
Animal Show
Paris OF America
Crecisnati
Andrew Erkenbrecher
Zoological Garden
Bavaria
Germany
Cincinnati Acclimatization Society
Bear Garden
Monkey House
Asbury Park Notes
Treasury
Treasury Department
New Order
Washington Cor
Chicago News
Ilankers
City and Farm Loans
Curtis St
Denver, CoLo
Plaster OF Paris
Marshall and Welch
Roya Bakise ‘Owner Co
Wall St
N. Y
J. H. McLean
J. IK
Thompson
East Greeley
Taylor
Taylor’ S
H.C. Watson & CO
Gale, Lee & Wilson
W. A. Nichols
Greeley
Walnut Street
Madison Avenue
H. A
A. Z. Salomon & Company
A. L. Welch & CO
Weld County
City
Sixteenth and
Champa Streets
Grenlee & C9
Denver, Colorado
FOR
E. Brooks
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley Colorado
E&. Hart
H. A. Aucurr
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Tus Centaur Company
Fulton Street
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