Colin Seaforth Ailing Reporter Finds Fame and Death
Colin Seaforth leaves Lancashire for New York to seek journalism glory. He rises at Harlem police beat assignments, falls ill, and writes a masterful story from a hospital bed. His success costs him life, but his work earns a celestial crown through his brother and mother.
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Streeter for President from New York to Illinois origins
Alson Jennes Streeter of Illinois, a Labor Party presidential candidate, rose from a New York farm to Knox College, California cattle drives, and Mercer County farming. A war Democrat, he joined Grangers during the 1870s and later ran for Congress on the Greenback ticket in 1878.
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Rensselaer County
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Congress
Beyond the Grave editorial quip in The Sun
A brief, sharp clipping from The Sun at 79 East Ohio Street notes an editor quip about paying for burial of a proof reader who died penniless. The exchange suggests a cynical joke on press costs with a phone contact at 880 for assistance.
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East Ohio Street
Odds and Ends From a Quirky Page in Ma con Ga
A recap of curious tidbits including petty theft in Ma con Ga and Baltimore, a note on old maid's wedding shoe buttons, and London soot used as fertilizer. It reports on New York slumming loss, baldheaded Indians, a Methodist minister appointment, and a hand shaped flower in Yucatan. Also covered are extinct birds, tiny circular saws, cattle calls, a Kansas City nude boy nab, a Mechanicsburg man finding treasure, a Fremont burr oak mystery, bazar labor trends, Emma Byers’s eye figures, a fatal horse accident in Ypsilanti, a talking parrot in Bangor, and a parrot nose injury from a prank.
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New York Sun
New York
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Methodist Church
Yucatan
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Virginia
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Sookey
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Russia
Kope
Alabama
Galltie
Kansas City
Delaware
Thomas Mank
Mechanicsburg
R. Compton
Yalo
Fremont
Lake County
Advertising Did It Alligator Tale Goes Too Far
Advertising did it as Col. Lamont retold another alligator story after returning from Florida. He claimed a family seeking a missing boy posted an ad in a daily paper and later an alligator crawled from a swamp to the front door with a stranger’s findings in its stomach, including red hair bone buttons a glass marble and a small paper collar.
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Florida
Col. Lamont
Corsets Offered In Special Bargain Line At State Store
150 dozen Corsets advertised with prices around 45 cents each and a refined selection in the state. Includes 25 pieces Black Gros Grain Silk at 49 cents to $1, marketed as a special bargain believed to be worth double the money.
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