Colonel Moore Survives Extraordinary Cliff Fall While Riding
Irish officer Colonel William Yorke Moore rode his horse over a sheer cliff 247 feet high and lived. After a violent fall he lay amid rocks and sea, severely injured, bandaged with a red cloth, and was rescued by his English servant and soldiers, recovering over months without lasting disability.
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Thormandy
William Yorke Moore
Moore
Dominica
Colonel Moore
Virin
Flerze
Culene Moore
Beck
Hirth
Brracks
Fitin
Chloride of Lime as a Safe Destructive Agent
The article discusses chloride of lime as a superior, safe, and cheap disinfectant compared with corrosive Sublime. It lists uses including water supplies, sewage, street sprinkling, gutter flushing, disinfection of hospitals and factories, and extermination of vermin such as typhoid-carrying houseflies.
Proverbic Wisecrack From Italian Saying
A compact Italian proverb suggests that talk costs little while actions yield results. It contrasts speech with outcomes, implying that speaking promises or plans often yields less impact than concrete deeds.
Governor Ferris Delves Into Copper Country Strike
Governor Ferris of Michigan, amid the Calumet copper strike tangle, visits Sheriff Cruse in bed and hears from miners, companies, and citizens. Cruse states four gunmen are in the county under $10,000 bonds tied to the Seeberdle case, while the strike has cost Houghton county over $100,000. The governor regrets gunmen intrusion and cites the Moyer incident as the era’s most unfortunate episode.
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Ferris
Houghton
Mich
Michigan
Calumet
Jiumens M. Cruse
Houghton County
Kenesaw
Cruse
Seeberdle
A. O. Edwards
Board of Supervisors
Moyer
Good with teeth and boot Clergyman mauls saloonist
In Berwick Pennsylvania on January 7 a Beach Haven Methodist pastor Rev Hugh Strain paraphrased a sermon on saloon responsibility. After demanding a retraction from PD C Johnson proprietor of the village hotel he was forcibly ejected. A scuffle on the porch ended with the minister biting Johnsons fingers as they wrestled and exchanged blows.
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Berwick
Hugh Strain
Beach Haven Methodist Church
PD. C. Johnson
Johnson
NO FIRE ESCAPES AND FATAL HOTEL FIRE
A two story Gus Ker hotel on Second Street was destroyed by fire killing five people and injuring six others. eleven occupants died or were injured, with no fire escapes present. Names include Ogle sixty, Liggett forty, McParland thirty, Louis Srelver forty four, and an unidentified man among the dead. Six labor union defendants in Indianapolis were granted new trials on conspiracy to transport dynamite charges in the Seventh Circuit.
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Newark
Ocean
Indianapolis
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh
Clay A. Tinetmoe
San Francisco
William McCain
Kansas City
Mo Pred Sherrit
William Bernhard
Cincinnati
Sames B. Ray
Peoria
Richard H. Houlthan
Chicago
Miraculous Escape by Horse and Wagon on Rail Tracks
A horse hitched to an Adams Express wagon dashed onto Lake Shore railroad tracks in Sandusky on South Carobell street and directly in front of a fast train. The animal survived with a few scratches while the wagon sustained slight damage and the pair were carried almost to a depot about a mile away.
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Sandusky
Adams Express Company
The Game of Golf on Liverpool Club Notice
A Liverpool golf club notice board quotes verses in a typewritten note. The piece describes swatting the ball, walking, and the humor of golf’s paradoxes, ending with the quip that golf is a good walk spoiled and a comedian’s riff on winning by finding the ball the same day.
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Liverpool Golf Eich
Liverpool Post
Kean's Fearful Grimaces Frighten Cast In Richard the Third
While acting Richard the Third Charles Kean caused laughs with terrifying expressions. A new sentinel forgot lines and stammered the wrong words leading to a village clock cue misread as a crow. The audience roared as Kean challenged him to crow.
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Kean
Charles Kean
Richard
Settinel
Wed
Denmark's Flag and the Crossed Wires Confusion
A fragment from the New York Tribune notes a misheard exchange about Mr O'Cohen and a remark on Denmark's flag status. The item claims Denmark home to the oldest national flag in the world dating from 11210.
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O'Cohen
New York Tribune
Denmark
Honest Lad Watches Customer in Small Duty Shop
A shopkeeper trusts a boy to watch a customer and ensure he does not steal while the proprietor fetches change. The boy then repeats that the man did not steal, claiming he watched him. The fragment reflects early 20th century prose and scattered anecdotes about rats, slang, and famous figures.
Plumber birds named by a tall man in Cincinnati Enquirer
A tall man in Cincinnati Enquirer recounts a joke about birds in parts of Brazil described as having hills a yard long. The short man asks for the name and the tall man replies plumber birds.
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Brazil
Cincinnati Enquirer
Welcome Calter Visitor and the London Tit-Bits Framing
A brief conversation recalls a visitor admiring furniture and a seller's regretful sale. Little Tommy notes the seller’s apology, mentioning the source and the ongoing impression from a London publication.
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Calter
Tommy
London
Matrimonial Fears Delay Hope In New Orleans Plea
A fragmented note from New Orleans hints at a love dispute where a man longs for reconciliation but fears rejection after a period of suspense. The text suggests personal measures of effort and change as the couple weighs marriage.
Verdi Hymn of All Nations at London Opening
Saint-Saens attended the London opening where Verdi’s Hymn of All Nations was first rendered. Napoleon allegedly applauded briefly in his box as the crowd stayed silent. a Swiss interpreter noted language barriers in a chaotic scene at Hampstead Green post office and elsewhere.
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John Paul Jones
Paris
Marie Antoinette
Camille
Saint-Saens
Verdi
London
Sind
France
Napoleon
Hampstead Green
Raines
Oxfordsstreet
Clert
Ghronicte
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Dudge
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the Savings & Trust Compan
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British Isles
Twein
Washington Star
Monaco
Orleana
Amin
Carlyle
Waverly Oil Works Co
the Farmers Bank of Indiana
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