Englishman's tribute sparks London praise for Americans
A praise filled clipping notes an unnamed English youth and a London weekly extolling Americans for kindness and hospitality. It urges English readers to welcome and retain U.S. visitors amid rising tourist flows and warns of overpriced, low quality goods abroad while Wembley Park construction advances. A separate item reports Isaac Fieldheim facing assault charges after a servant girl incident in Kensington, reflecting changing social norms.
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America
Goontiewoman
United States
London
England
Europe
Paris
New York
Isaac Fieldheim
Westbourne Grove
Fieldheim
Chepstow Villas
Kensington
Mary Ann Dolling
Boone and Daniel Boone in St Nicholas account by Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt portrays Daniel Boone as frontier hunter and leader in repeated skirmishes with Indians. It recounts captures and rescues of Boone’s kin, ambushes and battles around Boonesboro, and Boone's command at the Blue Licks defeat where riflemen fell before a larger Indian force.
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Boone
Hunter
CTR
Boones
Simon Kenton
Detroit
Great Britain
Boonesboro
The
Blue Licks
Kentucky
Lakes
Theodore Roosevelt
St. Nicholas
Wellington Foiled Ambush on Adour River Sand Dune
Historical note recounts Wellington narrowly escaped an ambush on a sand dune above the Adour as French forces plotted a trap. General Thouvenot warned him via mounted orderly. Wellington redirected. The tale, cited by Morel and echoed in Macmillan’s Magazine, reflects odd chances altering history. Includes a French tale of Russian peasant swindlers and a New York merchant touting a Chicago to St Paul train.
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Wellington
St. Jean de Laz
Blanc Pignon
Adour
Bourgeois
Thouvenot
Bayonne
Morel
Macmillan's Magazine
Russia
Saratov
Jupiter
Westminster Gazette
New York
Europe
America
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sousa Boyhood Reminiscence From Cincinnati
A Cincinnati resident recalls Sousa the bandmaster as a boy in Washington. He notes Sousa’s German mother and Spanish father shaped a favored upbringing with many instruments, and mentions Ed Sousa starting as a drummer boy and later leading the Marine band.
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Cincinnati
Sousa
Washington
Childr
One Price Store Clash Over Neckwear Says Roxbury
A Roxbury Gazette brief recounts a comic confrontation at a shop where a tough customer challenges a clerk over necktie prices. The clerk cites a quarter, 50 cents, five and a dollar while the customer questions the store’s one price policy.
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Roxbury Gazette
Teachers trip deals and sales at state fair in 1895
Amid talk of a failing marriage invited guests and the National Education Association meeting in Denver prompted cheap travel to Colorado, Utah and Pacific coast points. Rail lines promote special excursion plans for Pennsylvania teachers with organizers in Millersville and Philadelphia. Also advertised are men’s patent leather shoes and an Orphans' Court sale notice set for 1:00 PM.
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National Educational Association
Denver
Colo
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Pueblo
Colorado
Utah
Salt Lake
Ogden
Yellowstone National Park
California
Alaska
Chicago and Northwestern
Union Pacific
Chicago, Union Pacific and Northwestern
Middle and Eastern States
Pennsylvania
Dr. E. Oram Lyte
Millersville
Lancaster County
T. P. Vaille
4Th Street
Philadelphia
H. A. Choss
Broadway
New York
Ordinance Grants Indiana Telephone Line Access
The ordinance grants the Indiana Telephone Company permission to erect and maintain posts poles and wires in West Indiana and connects with a line in Indiana. It requires unobtrusive placement in alleys and streets and calls for good repairs and adherence to street and property rights. The Street Committee will determine pole locations. June 21 1895 West Indiana Pa.
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West
Indiana
Burgess and Town Council
West Indiana
Indiana Telephone Company
Indiana Telephone
G. J. Keller
Burgess
Notice of Partition In Orphans Court Is Pending
W N Stewart attorney announces in part for heirs of Elizabeth Fetterman to have an inquest and partition of undivided interests among Alexander and John Fetterman Catharine Susan Mary and Harriet in Indiana county and Guthrie Iowa and Jefferson Pennsylvania. Court plans September 2 1895 valuation and appraisement with six jurors.
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Orphans’ Court of
Indiana County
H. M. Lowry
Mary Robertson
West Indiana
Indiana
Alexander Fetterman
Canoe Township
John Fetterman
Banks Township
Harriet
Absalom DeHaven
Catharine
Jonathan Shafter
Guthrie County
State of
Iowa
Susan
Abraham Wineburg
Jefferson County
Pennsylvania
Mary
John Swab
Brushyalley Township
Elizabeth Fetterman
Commonwealth
Orphans’ Court
Harry White
E.q
James McGregor
Backbone Broken and Hard Times in Trade Slump
A fragment notes that a broken backbone signifies calamity yet references easing panic. It mentions hard times passing and trade improving, with prices in some lines rising while overall goods are cheaper, guiding where money buys more value.
Bargain priced men women and children clothing sale
J R Stumpf & Son advertise a wide range of clothing and accessories with men's suits from 4.00 to 10.00, boys and children's suits, pants and overalls, shoes for all ages, hats, hose, millinery services, and jewel items including Elgin watches and pins all offered as great bargains across lines.
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Elgin
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Great Tower
London News
Boone and
Thi Uilians
W. B. Knapp
Litchfield
Hillsdale Co
Michigan
Pitcher’s Castoria
Detroit Tribune
Addison
J. N. Banks
John Thompson
Tadiana County
Center
Joseph Steel
William Ray
Joseph Ray
John Graham
Augusta Stear
Isaiah Thompson
George E. Thompson
Center Township
Auphor
W. B. Kline
Margaret A. Downey
John A Scott
Jack & Taylor
John A. Johnston
Indiana Borough
Penna
John
A. Johnston
D. W Simpson
D. W. Simpson
JNO
H. Pierce
L. Stewart
Maria Henry
White Township
Register of Wills
S. M. McMasters
Watson & Keener
Wm. E.nickle
East Mahoning Township
James M. Nickle
Sidney Marhein
Sec
Council
W. N. Stewart
Samuel Griffith
W. G. Lewis
James Albert
William Shields
D. C. Mack
Sanford & White
ELKIN
Philadelphia Street
G Gilbert Bro S
Indiana, PA
Gro. W. Giuserit
J. R. Stumpf & Son
M. F. Sharretts
Senator Conkling
Ier
G. W. McKinsey
Kokomo
Ind
Dr. Miles
G. W. McKinsey, P. M
Keeley Suit
Sher
Pitttburg
Keeley Institute
Fifth Avenue
Keeley
Beate
the Atlantic Refining Company Pittspurc Department
Pittsburg, Pa
Yoour Groome
Atlantic Refining Company
Vicinity
J. F. Barnes
Hoke
C. W
Crawford’s Restaurant
First
Bobacco
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