From Errand Boy to Great Artist in Two Continents
Hartford artist Piero Torsio, once an Hartford errand boy, has risen to fame as a painter. His Naples Academy of Fine Arts graduation, a painting bought by Italy's Gallery of Modern Art, and a sold Paris salon piece portend a rising career. He plans a U.S. winter stay then returns to Italy, visiting Hartford mid December.
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut League of Art Students
Chas. Woel Finge
Piero Torsio
League
Ruyo de Monti
Potenwa
Italy
Tozaio
Boston
Sweeney
Market Street
Hartford
Naples
Tallan
Gallery of Modern Art
Rome
Venice
Piero
Century Club of
New York
United States
Fable of the Two Fleas Told by Tifa
Two fleas on a starving dog seek a better life after watching a carriage pass. They jump aboard and enjoy luxury until the terrified terrier’s mistress brings a physician. A flood of treatment drowns the fleas before they can escape. The moral warns against never knowing when to stop.
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Aald
Birthplace of Toy Soldiers in the Old Town Market
In the Trocdel market of Muremberg an old low‑eaved house hides a dark doorway into a vast toy warehouse. Pewter and tin soldiers line the walls as a rusty man proclaims the toys are guardian Holders while regiments wait to march in imagined campaigns from antiquity to Napoleonic battles.
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Trocdel
la- Land
Muremberg
Mana Rualy Witke
Trowdel
Waltlog
Niue
Troy
Alexee
Coeur de Lion
Napoleon
Gocaregny
Charm of the Sun Parlor Room Meant As Out of Doors
An 19th century architectural note extols the sun parlor as a wind treated indoor out of doors space. It should remain unheated, with south length and east west ends, shaded windows, and minimal furnishings. The piece urges keeping it open to air and weather while enjoying quieter interior comforts.
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New York Tribune
Pottawattomie Indian Becomes First Full Blood Catholic Priest
The Topeka Capital reports Albert Negahnquet of Kannas, a full blood Pottawattomie, ordained in Oklahoma City after studies in Carlisle and Washington. He celebrated the first Mass by a full blood Indian priest on American soil and serves in Oklahoma Territory under Bishop Theophile Meerschaert.
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Pottawattomie
Rome
Topeka
Albert Negahnquet
Kannas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Negahnquet
Father Negahnquet
Pottawattoomle
Btmares
Church of the Assumption
Pottawattomie Country
Catholica
Pather Negahnquet
Katherine Drexel
Drexel
Philadelphia
Theophile Meerschaert
Guthrie
Okla
America
Bath for City Birds on a Fire Roof
A night fire headquarters operator watches birds bath in the steam pool from an exhaust pipe on a neighboring roof. Sparrows dominate the scene as pigeons and swallows share the makeshift morning bath before a sparrow attack drives the pigeons away.
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Kansas City
Bath
Kissing Customs Across English Towns and Austrian Tale
A London Answers item recounts Hungerford’s April Hocktide kiss by tutty men who collect tithes. It notes Newcastle barge day where the mayor and sheriff select and kiss women for presents. Maid enhead beats bounds with crowd viewing and bumps. Halmagen Austria on Theodore’s day grants kisses to visiting men after a Turkish raid.
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London
Hungerford
Kerkshire
Newcastle On Tyne
Thames
Maidenhead
Halmagen
Austria
St. Theodore
Father Shoots Son by Mistake in War Era Tale
A retold clipping mixes satire and recollections of wartime sorrow. A Georgia father shoots a deaf returning Confederate soldier mistaken for an intruder, then mourns the tragedy as family and neighbors learn the truth at the plantation home.
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New York Sun
Lee
Appomattox
Women dog thieves move in on Oxford and Regent streets
London News reports a spike in canine thefts in Oxford Street Regent Street and Piccadilly with women suspected of luring small terriers into cloaks or hansoms. Larger dogs like collies and poodles fetch high prices abroad while smaller breeds may be faked sold at Shoreditch Club Row or held for ransom. Rewards of 1 to 20 pounds appear at Vine Street Marlborough Street and other West End stations.
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Peta
London
Oxford Street
Regent Street
Piccadilly
France
Shorediurch
Vine Street
Marlborough Street
West Bind
Race Between Trains Ends In Comical Loss Of Tail Lights
Two freight locomotives racing from Clark to Mexico collide with a joke on a missing tail light. The Wabash engine appears shorter after the signal broke the train, and both crews reach Mexico at the same moment. The Alton engineer quips about tail lights as the other laments his missing portion.
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Kansas City Times
J. D. McNamara
Wabash Railroad
Clark
Mexico
Alton
Centralia
Allen
Acros
Bud
Chicago and Alton
Fortune Telling by Playing Cards in Society
From the St. Paul Dispatch comes a humorous account of fortune telling by cards. Jefferson De Angelis describes gatherings of five men using colored discs and five cards to read omens. The piece notes signs from aces and four of a kind, the social etiquette, and the curious ritual of fortune telling with cards.
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St. Paul
Jefferson de Angelis
Wraa
Niles
Littis
Fortune Batera
Stories of Scotch judges and levity over life
Recounted by Lord Balvesen in Edinburgh, Scottish judges once joked during life and death cases. Sir Frangla Bacon faced mercy pleas with a pun about bacon and hanging. Lord Braxferd pressed for convictions, and a juror friend was urged to help hang others. Lord Kalmes at Matthew Hay’s 1870 chess tied trial quipped checkmate.
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Weatminster Garege
Lord Balvesen
Edinburgh
Frangla Bacon
Bacon
Braxferd
Lord Kalmes
Matt W Hay
Matthew
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Errand Boy
Piero Tozzio
Salon
Paris
Charm OF the Sun Parlor
Chicago
MR. Happihome
Walter Wellman
Hans
Wudge
Atchigon Globe
Boy
Mr. Oldback
Miss Oldmald
Women Dog Thieves
Jovy
Hoeneet
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