Lion taming wager ends in champagne toast in Frankfort
The Berlin correspondence reports Herr Muller Herrfurth editor of the Frankfort Sun, entering a seven-lion cage with Mlle Marguerite during a Saturday show. He shared champagne with the performer, patted the lions, and toasted the courageous lion-tamer as the crowd roared. Also recounted is a Phoenix Arizona tale of A Porterie who survived extreme desert thirst in 1877 after nearly dying at Grand Gulch copper mine, revived by ranchers found days later.
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Ion
Frankfort-on-Main
Herr Muller Herrfurth
Frankfort
Mlle
Marguerite
Herr Muller Herrforth
Mullerr Herrfurth
Mile
Herr Huller Herrfurth
Muller
Mille
Mademoiselle
Mul- Ter
London News
Berlin
Desert
Terribio
A. A. Porterie
Phoenix
Ariz
Porterie
Grand Gulch
Grand Wash
Colorado
Supal Plateau
Tie
Telephone From the Grave Sends Italy’s Teresa Allesandi to Court
In Florence a patrician young woman believed dead woke inside a tomb and, amid fear, used a built in telephone to call her family in the adjacent chateau. The revived beauty, Teresa Allesandi, has since been praised in Italian papers and presented at court.
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Florence
Italy
Teresa Allesandi
Chicago Tribune
Woman Bear Hunter Beats Bear Solo in Wyoming Hills
Cody cor respondent reports Mrs. O. D. Marx a Bruton resident and famed hunter in Big Horn County shot and killed a large black bear near Beaut Creek on the Shoshone River. Mounted on a Winchester rifle she fired twice then again delivering a vital shot after reloading and the bear fell at her feet. She shares the tale with neighbors as pieces of the bear meat are distributed.
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Cody
Bruton
O. D. Marx
Big Horn County
Beaut Creek
Shoshone River
Hunter kills enormous northern bear near Mount Lowe
George Miller of Highland led a party chasing a gigantic grizzly north of Pasadena. After eight hours the hunter pressed on alone and shot the bear, estimated at 1800 pounds, with the shot entering above the eye and dying in the bear’s brain. The skin and claws were shown at Miller’s horse.
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Pasadena
George Miner
Highland
Mount Lowe
High Feather
Mier
San Bernardino
Miller
Brain
Larnardino County
Pasadeusa
Cal
What He had Saved My Jones Puck Cartoon Snippet
A humorous Puck cartoon caption features Mrs Jones quipping about savings. My Jones states he has not saved since marriage, while she retorts that he saved only half of their former bank amount, prompting a witty exchange.
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My. Jones
Mrs. Jones
Puck
Trade Review notes ongoing price readjustment in January
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review reports continued price readjustment in the second week of January with the general average much lower than at year start. Manufacturing largely steady, but staples and securities down. transport, railways show gains. iron and steel outlook bright. copper and wool prices mixed. foreign demand weaker. wheat and corn exports down. US failures total 334 for the week.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Bessemer
Pittsburg
Germany
Youngstown
Gorn
Atlantic
Wask
United States
Old Joe the Night Watchman and St Jacobs Oil Tale
A Pall Mall Gazette piece extols Old Joe the night watchman of Tam beth Water Works enduring rheumatism and how a bottle of St Jacobs Oil helped him recover. The anecdote promotes the product’s cure all claims, noting immunity of rich and poor and its fifty year history.
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Joe
Pall Mall Gazette
London
Hee Eat
Windom
St. Jacobs Oil
Tambeth Water Works
Ife Haa
Old Joe
St. Jacobs
Guy
Grorld
Eating Habits of Russians and Their Tea Traditions
The article notes Russians eat at irregular times with six meals a day for Tie and many lunches for fle, plus tea at every station. It describes Russian table manners as displeasing to others, with elbow on the table and loud throat noises, plus rinsing the mouth with a finger bowl and squirting water back in.
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Tie
Fle
California Fig Syrup Co
Thackeray House Sells for Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars
Thackeray's house in Kensington, built by the novelist, was sold by the auctioneer's son after 41 years of lease. The red brick mansion, once questioned for pen strain, fetched 75000 dollars last week, confirming the speculation as sound.
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Thackeray
Kengington
Leasg
Winslow’s Teething Drops for Infants Advertised
An old advertisement extols Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a remedy for teething pain and wind colic, claiming quick relief for infants. It brands the product as a universal cure all for throat and lung ailments and mentions a long-winded endorsement from Vanburen Indiana.
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Ohio
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East Liberty
Ape
Ceese
Denmark
Brooklyn
Garfield ‘Tan
Cara
Globe
San Trancisco
Kine
Kusan, Ltd
Arch St
Phila
Thomas ‘Lipton
Thackeray's
Vanburen
Ind
Ana Bates
Ayers
J. A. Gruenenfelder
Grantfork, US
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Ayer CO
Lowell, Bass
the South
Atlanta, Ga
the Sunny South
South
Mola
Joel Chandler Harris
Harry Stilwall Edwards
Anthony Howe
Maurice Thompson
Sidney R. Crockett
George Corbett
Arthur W. Marchmont
National Note
Ste Gunny Squtei
Wil
Assart Hsoilf
Sunny Souter
Woolly
Ardreas Alt Communications
Sunny South
Louisville, Ky
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