Epitome of the Week notes varied events across 1860s
Counterfeit tre bonds seized in Chicago and a toppling fulsy machine demo at the Patent Office. Oil well fire in Bradford burns two workers. Chicago grain and flour receipts for 1860 shown. census data for Washington DC and Rhode Island. Tea and coffee firms assign, rail and postal figures, and temperance union reports amid storms and wrecks.
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Doyle
Chicago
Tresaury Department
Washington
William Mallarkey
Bradford
Lellow
District of Columbia
Toy Anionia Watch and Clock Works
Brooklyn
N. Y
United States
Ristany & Co
New York
Frm
Rhode Island
Tax Nations Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Boston
Brances E. Willard
Thee
Department
Congress
United States Revenue-Cutter
Walcott
Alert
Port Townsend
Man Doyle
Crances Trevor
Henry Munn
Cincinnati
Bitting Bull
War Department
Terry
General Land Ofice
Cago
Lakes
Jxssa DB
Antony
Troy
J. R. Pettis & Co
Pancecurety of
Menonte Regalia
Uniton—National Bank of Troy
Troy Steam Heating Company
G. W. Hayward& Co
Isdy Nam
Iite
Bridgewater
Psn
James Cunnningham
Charles Cunningham
Micheal Cunningham
Thomas Langan
Firemen Remembered After Collision Leaves One Dead
Thomas Anderson died while John Goudy and George Thompson suffered minor injuries in the crash. None of the passengers were hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Anderson
John Goudy
George Thompson
International unrest and European conflicts report
The telegraph with Cabal is cut and rumors of an Afghan sultan’s death circulate. Ireland tightens control as Land League leaders face arrest while elections are annulled for bribery. A British storm devastates coastal areas with many shipwrecks. Turkish Kurds seize Ooromiah in Persia and Basutoland unrest grows as troops are requested for the Cape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
West Riding
Cork
Ireland
Irish Land League
Davitt
United States
Cabal
Ameer
Belgium
Ooromiah
Persia
Dulcigno
Montenegro
Dublin
Land League
Parnell
Dillon
Oxford
England
Inga
British Isles
South Africa
Basutoland
Cape
Dubigne
Marseilles
Perpignan
Ponnes
Avignon
Hayes Visit Prompts Crowd at Lafayette Depot
ProcarEnt Hayes and party passed through Lafayette Indiana on the Blaz ult evening en route to Ohio. A ten minute wait drew a large crowd at the depot and a WC. T. U. ladies delegation called on Mrs. Hayes. Hayes designated November 25 as National Thanksgiving Day.
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ProcarEnt Hayes
Lafayette
Ind
Ohio
Traf
WC. T. U
Hayes
Naraxis
Mount Vesuvius
United States
Cine Brooxa
Government Secret Service
Washington
Doyle
Chicago
Brock Way
Upton
the Treasury
Tere
St Louis
Lucas Market
Tom Biomarck
80Th Ul
Fort Keogh
Miles
Huggins
Second Cavalry
Sitting-Bull
Spotted Eagle
Denver
Deposit swindle in Boston shocks officials and investors
New York Times details the Ladies Deposit swindle led by Mrs. Sarah K. Howe in Boston. It claims a forty year operative bank origin in Alexandria, high returns up to ninety six percent, and mass redemptions by middle and lower class depositors. Many Boston business people mortgaged properties to invest, hoping to double capital in a year. Howe is described as elderly, unattractive, and unable to write, with a degrading public record and extensive losses.
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Wonton
Costo
Boston
Sarah K. Howe
Alexandra
Remarkable Case of Kate Dashfolds at Bayview Asylum
Kate Dashfolds, a forty eight year old woman who had the head of a grown woman and the body of a child, died at Bayview Asylum after epileptic seizures. Born from a county alms family, she lived most of her life under care at the County Alms and Bayview Asylum, where she attracted medical attention for decades and displayed a rare condition attributed to epilepsy.
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Tuere
Tuceday
Bayview Asylum
Bayview
Kate Dashfolds
Old County
Bdayview Asylum
Kate
Lallimare Wazelte
Railway Accident Records For September Report
The Railroad flazette records September accidents with 14 killed and many injured. It notes increases from August and compares yearly totals, detailing deaths and injuries and the overall rise in incidents.
Brave Seawanhaka Rescue Boys Awarded by Irving Club
On the Seawanhaka disaster last summer Fred H Wightman Herbert H Dean and Edward L Lamb ferried to Ward's Island in a rowboat and saved fourteen people including the steamer captain. The Irving Club of Harlem voted to present gold medals for their gallant conduct, with a scene of the boys amid the rescue and the inscription noting bravery at the burning on June 23.
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Seawanhaka
Irving Club
Harlem
Niffany
New York City
Scawanhaka
Cor
Utica Herald
Pocahontas Name Myth Revealed In Pocahontas Legend
The Powhatan princess traditionally known as Matoaka was called Pocahontas by the English, a name tied to a now disputed superstition about protecting the unknown. The passage notes the myth that unknown names shield a person from harm and records the naming as part of colonial lore.
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Phoiribe
Matoaka
Pocahontas
Calhoun kin to debut Juliet in San Francisco
Miss Nellie Calhoun, kin of the famed South Carolina Calhouns, is set to debut as Juliet in San Francisco. The piece notes Warsxy as the notable enemy a man loves, reflecting light theater gossip.
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Nellie Calhoun
Calhouns
South Carolina
Juliet
San Francisco
Warsxy
Fatal accidents and political shifts sweep Decatur area
Reported deaths from a freight car collision at Decatur claim 15 year old George Barnett and a coal miner Witt Crowell near Belleville. Other notices recount burglaries at Springfield and decatur stores, a disputed congress race ending with Samuel W. Moulton’s nomination, and various local incidents from Morgan to Jacksonville.
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Decatur
George Barnett
Hele
Mary E. Barnett
Witt Crowrt
Southeastern
Belleville
Crowell
Childer
Joan R. Bpxon
Colonel Filler
Congress
Samuel W. Moulton
Shelbyville
Missouri
Cairo
Alexander
Pulaski
GenzRat Fonpa
Quincy
Chester Penitentiary
Sulphur Springs
Morgan County
Jacksonville
Bpringfeld
Henry Elshoff
Elshoff
Gunn & Bchmide
Fie
Gunn & Schmidt
James Furlong
Pereaons
Wash Corbin
Atullion Amboy
St. Louie
Corbin
Guno
Springfeld
Harry J Price
Price
Thomas Jones
Mitouls
James Flint
Moline
Rock Island Watch Factory
Arana Ripneway
Ho 'Ved
Grand Tower
Murphysboro
Blackburn University
Carlinville
Springfield
John Potts
Tuere
Bloomington
McLeai County
Mtnals Central Railroad
Treasury
Fifty Years of Global Parades and Pensions Noted
In a summary of monarchs and rulers, Italy pardons political offenders during Rome’s tenth anniversary. London hosts three hundred printers at Mansion House with a significant share of young women guests. The Crown Prince of Austria praises the German army and notes Austrian gains. Paris unveils Thiers’ statue near his final resting place. Russian editor RumlaANKEFF’s unlikely rise from Volga barge to journalism is recounted. Lord Hartington is praised as a hard working minister with broad interests. British pension costs draw scrutiny as long-standing grants to St Vincent, Rodney, Schomberg, Marlborough, and Wellington are profiled, noting large and enduring sums amid broader favoritism concerns.
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Rome
Italy
London
Austria
Prussia
Thiers
The
Red
Paris
France
Belfort
M. Rumlaankeff
Lootch
the Ray
Volga
Persia
Russia
Lord Hartington
House of Commons
England
India
House of Comemons
Lord St. Vincent
Lord Rodney
Duke of Schomberg
Dukees of Marlborough
Duke of Wellington
Americans in Europe show large travel expenditure in 1880
The article argues that many Americans visited Europe in 1880 and spent heavily, with estimates like sixty thousand landing in England and an average of about three thousand dollars per person. It notes luxury purchases and hotel outlays as elevating the total, while acknowledging some travelers spend less. It also mentions gold flows and banking by London agents as part of the broader balance of trade discussion.
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Europe
United States
England
Great Britain
London
Meissonier
J. Vanderbilt
New York
Notable feats and discoveries from Science and Industry
Reports cover illumination of a tunnel in Washington 1881 under government authority. Mount Etna summit lowered by recent eruptions. trees and long life spans noted. Arlberg tunnel progress on Austrian Swiss sides. Magnetic needle sensitivity similar to long steel bar. U S House approves grant for Saragossa Sea exploration including soundings and currents. Proposes river current powered dynamos for lighting towns. Bronze age lake village found near Neuchatel Auvernier revealing possible factory sites. Claude Bernard shows protoplasm similarity in plants and animals to anesthesia effects. yeast cells breathe like aquatic animals.
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Washington
Sirvxsixi
Mount Etna
Hellas
Arlberg
United States
House of Representatives
Auvenier
Neuchatel
Claude Bernard
Erm
Schuttenberger
Arkansas Woman Fasts Sixty Days Without Food Or Drink
Report from Harrisburg recounts Mrs. Annie W Fields born 1844 Greenville Virginia who began a formal sixty day fast on September 18 1879 under guard to prove her claim of sustaining life without eating or drinking despite doctors disbelief Dr Thomas H Jones corroborates the events noting she weighed ninety pounds at the start and weighs the same today while her husband and local witnesses attest to the strange case and its publicity in the Arkansas Tribune.
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W. H. Care
Lonesboro
Craighead County
Arkansas
St Louis
Wm. M. Senter
Main Street
Thomas H Jones
Nashville Medical University
Harrisburg
Poinsett County
Annie W. Fields
Greene County
Thomas N. Jones
Iod
Greenville
A. H. Stancell
John W Welds
Missionary Baptist Church
St. Louis
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Henry Republican
Geo, Burt
Joux Dory
Union Pacific
Hannibal &Bt
Joe
Jamaice Plaind
Maas
Eisner Daegwrt
Methodist Episcopal Church
Richmond
Sagan Baenharpt
Lixeaux
Clarendon House
Christiancy
Equity
Frances FE. Wiltarp
Evanston
Women's National Christian Temperance Union
Mary A. Woodbridge
K Railroad Casualtion
Nui
Thale
Tleiots
Lafourche
Stith Arms
Edege
Leith
Science and Industry
Dr. Tanner
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