The Bank of Monte Carlo Ends in Tragic Firelight
A dramatic scene at Monte Carlo's gambling hall centers on Esther the beautiful roulette player and Henri de Labant who loses fortunes then dies by her hand driven to desperation. Esther wins massive sums, then a shot silences Henri as police and onlookers process the tragedy and the graveyard vigil.
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Bank of Monte Carlo
Henri
Esther
Fieuy
Hor
Cedars
Lebenot
Henri de Labant
Henri de Laband
France
Frances
Parbleu
Madame
Devil of
Monte Carlo
Henri de Lebend
Great peat bog slide near Killarney buries fields and houses
A nighttime bog slide in Ireland near Killarney sent a ten mile flood of black sludge from a hillside 700 feet high. A house with eight people was swept away while roads bridges and fields were buried. The wall of sludge spread silently, leaving locals unaware until daybreak. It notes an estimate of vast silver content in Earth’s waters.
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Killarney
Ireland
Ownacree
Nickerson Named New Secretary of the Treasury
Samuel M. Nickerson, longtime Chicago banker and former president of the First National Bank, will succeed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of the Treasury. Nickerson, born in 1830 in Charlham, Mass., has served Chicago finance and transportation roles, including leading the Union Stockyards National Bank and a Chicago street railway, and traveled widely while shaping banking policy.
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Samuel M. Nickerson
Secretary of the Treasury
Hill
Amuel M. Nickerson
First National Bank of Chicago
Lyman J. Gage
Chatham
Mass
Chicago
Nickerson
First National
Gage
Chicago City Railroad
Union Stockyards National Bank
National Live Stock Bank
Street Railroad Company
First National Bank
Gages
Koreshanity: The Koreshanites Religion and Beliefs
A Chicago sect led by Dr. Cyrus E Teed known as Koresh. They teach a hollow Earth with a central sun and layered atmospheres, and that celestial bodies are energy forms. The social order divides into celibate and marital groups with celibacy seen as spiritual renewal. Headquarters are Chicago, plans to move followers to a Gulf of Mexico settlement.
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Koreshanity
Chicago
Cyrus E. Teed
Koresh
Teed
Efiw
Estere
Gulf of Mexico
Ladies of Llangollen remember the reclusive duo
A Century Magazine piece recalls Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon Sara Ponsonby, aging in seclusion at Llangollen. Dressed in male style, they attracted attention at a Oswestry theatre where actor Charles Mathews said they resembled two respectable senior clergymen. The article also notes a grand temple plan in a 10 square mile site with a circular sea.
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Century
Llangollen
Deeside Vale
Eleanor Butler
Sara Ponsonby
Dubno
Eleanor
Chas. Mathews
Oswestry
New Jerusalem
Estero Bay
Estero River
Door lock design uses knob-end key entry
A newly designed lock accepts the key only at the end of the door knob with no additional keyhole elsewhere. The single access point emphasizes a compact mechanism and simplified security by restricting entry to the knob face.
Miss Brinsley Sheridan Leads London Stage Return
Miss Brinsley Sheridan and Miss Emily Brinsley Sheridan appear in Marie Corelli’s Sorrows of Satan as Mavis Clare marking her first London stage appearance since acting with Mrs Langtry at the Opera Comique over a year ago. Daughter of Henry Brinsley Sheridan M P and granddaughter of Sir Richard Perrott she was a successful amateur before turning professional.
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Emily Brinsley Sheridan
Mavis Clare
Marie Corelli
Sorrows of Satan
London
Lincoln's Grave Monument and Robbery Trials
Lincoln lies about a mile north of Springfield Illinois under a 120 foot monument of marble granite and bronze. The cost was 250000 raised by popular contributions with several body theft attempts thwarted when the lead coffin was sunk and six feet of concrete sealed the crypt. A scattered Victorian ad mix mentions No To Bac tonics Edison blindness cures and potato distilling for alcohol in the south.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
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Miss Brinsley Sheridan
Edison
Iowa
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Waukegan
Ethel
Papa
van Ishe
Kline
Mesteror
Howe
Iryarys
Rose
St Arcoot
Lady Randolph Churchill
England
HALL
Rpall & Co
Nashua
Storm
A.J. Tower
Boston
WEA
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Tenler
Reece
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Sallke Ow, PA
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