Unarmed Parade Fleeing Cannon Fire In Paris Commune
Mme de Hegermann Lindencrone recounts March 20 1871 Paris events as crowds gathered at Place Vendôme, cannons fired, a man named De Pene killed, and the escape via Worth’s stairs and Worth’s atelier to reach the Rue St Arnaud carriage. She describes danger tightening around her carriage and safe return home.
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Mme, de Hegermann- Lindencrase
Paris
Henri de Pene
Place
Vendome
le Peuple
Rome
Worth's
Place Vendome
Rue de la Paix
Worth’s
de Pene
Les Amis du Peuple
Amis de Ordre
de Pere
Rue St. Arnaud
Ateliery
Worth
Demoiselle
Porte Cochere
Louis
Monsieur
Salut Publique
Rue de Courcelles
Mlle. W
Pasha Buys Belleau Estate With Two Million Francs
Ismail Pasha, Egypt's former viceroy, admired Bravais estate Belleau in France and offered to buy it. After a joking price, he later paid two million francs by check, declaring the purchase and gifting Belleau to Bravais. The tale, recounted by Arthur Meyer.
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Jamail Pasha
Ismiah Pasha
Egypt
France
Belleau
Bravais
Bravals
Bellena
Ismail
Ismail Pasha
Arthur Meyer
Malet’s Daring Plot to Seize Paris in 1812
A French republican general Malet, ruined by Napoleon, escapes a prison in 1812 and as a disguised officer leads a bold plan to seize Paris. He compels a series of troops and officials into action before being recognized and arrested. Malet and twenty-three followers are executed.
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Paris
Malet
Napoleon
Russia
la Moree
Laborie
Guildal
Senate
Savery
Police
Hotel de Ville
Seine
Laborde
Potatoes as Quack Remedy in 19th Century Notebook
A Notes and Queries writer recalls a man whose cabinet holds wrinkled potatoes as curative tokens. Carrying a petrified potato from 1888 to 1890 supposedly eased rheumatic twinges, with the old specimen stored away when effects waned.
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London Chronicle
Almanac Maker Punished By Bastille For Omission
A historical note recalls an almanac maker sent to the Bastille by the Duke of Orleans for omitting King George I from a royal almanac. The crime cited was disrespect to the king, and the duration of imprisonment remains unknown.
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Duke of Orleans
Louis V. of
Wrange
Laurence d'Henry
George I
Great Britain
Native doctor fills death certificate in India citing starvation and possible drowning
An elderly native physician in India recorded on a death certificate that the person may have died from lack of food or nourishment and possibly by drowning. The wording suggests uncertainty and comments on other comforts or conditions that could have caused death.
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India
Bid Talk in a London Auction Scene
A fragmented London dialogue shows two buyers bidding on goods. The first asks what the seller wants, the second replies thirty shillings, and they exchange brief questions and a polite good morning as the scene ends.
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London
Nothing to Brag About Reflection on Ancestry
A short dialogue from the Destruit Pree Press features a comment about ancestors who all had to work for a living, challenging pride in heritage and suggesting humility in boasting about lineage.
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Destruit Pree Press
Narrow Escapes From a Bison in Roughing It In Southern India
In a graphic excerpt from Mrs. M A Handley s Roughing It In Southern India an unnamed hunter F facing a savage bull bison endures a tense chase. He is tossed by his belt knocked into rocks and finally killed the animal with a rifle shot after comrades distract the herd.
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India
M. A. Handley
Syho
Strie
Weight of a Piece of Ice by Quick Calculation
A rough method to estimate ice weight uses 57.25 pounds per cubic foot. Measure length, breadth and height in inches, multiply to get cubic inches, then multiply by 0.83 to estimate pounds. Example: 8 by 9 by 10 inches equals 720 cubic inches and about 23 pounds.
Quotes on suffering and ambition from Chicago papers
The excerpt presents a series of quips about domestic strain and personal failure. It juxtaposes a woman's plea about abuse with a husband who ignores her and a remark from a Tribune misfit about falling off the wagon, ending with a proverb on those who always creep never falling.
Auction Notices From Lititz Area Real Estate Listings
A farm in West Cocalica township two miles from Denver offers 134 acres with a good horse and bank barn priced at 5500. A two story brick house on Front street Lititz borough has steam heat bath hot and cold water electric light and gas priced at 2500. Other homes on Broad street Lititz Warwick and Orange street Lititz with easy terms and modest prices. Also several good Bank stock shares and a few percent bonds offered.
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West Cocalica
Denver
Front Street
Lititz
Warwick
Broad Street
Orange Street
Main Street
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H. Green
Einbach
Lancaster
Scotland
Chicago Record-Herald
Chicago Tribune
Hershey & Gibbel Lititz
Valles
Brunnerville
W. D. Siverling
Ind
Westinghouse
Lititz, Pa
Wront Street
New Street
A.B. Reidenbach
Road Street
Marion
James Shsseman
Buch & Hassler
W.S. Buch
Attorney At Law
S. C. Hassler
Auct
People’s Warble & Granite Works
J. H. Keener
Maytown
Elizabethtown
Marietta
W. M. Grube
Ae. Main ST
York
E. C. Ritchie Railroad
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