Leaping for life as family escapes burning house
Officer Davis spots smoke at 218 Greenwich Street and a man in peril when a fire breaks out. Benjamin Davids frees his wife and six children by repeatedly dropping them from a window to a stairless street, later joining them at Chambers Street Hospital with severe injuries to himself and his son Morris.
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New York Sun
Davis
Church Street
Enjamin Gross
Greenwich Street
Vesey Street
J. H. Wellbrook
Benj. Davids
Vesey
Greenwich
Mr. Davids
Mr. Wellbrook
Catherine Doyle
Jacob
Morris
Davids
Cotsin Chambers Street Hospital
The Marriage of the Midgets Arranged in New York
The New York Sum reports a marriage arrangement between Lucie Zarate a 15 year old dwarf bride weighing about five pounds and Gen. Mite a 14 year old dwarf groom weighing nine pounds. They plan to wed next Sunday or Saturday week in a ceremony meant as a union of convenience.
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New York
Lucie Zarate
Gen
Mite
Francis J. Flynn
Lucie
Russian Clergymen in the Russian Empire
The European Messenger notes about 100000 persons in holy orders in Russia. Assuming each clergyman has a three person family, about 400000 people belong to the clergy excluding monks. Russia hosts 420 cathedrals.
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St. Petersburg
Russian Empire
Russia
Two Kinds of Modern Journals and Their Independence
The piece contrasts two journal types the independent voice like Mr Greeley and the Times style of merely reflecting current opinion. It notes editors face temptations to conform yet true independence survives in those who preach conviction over pandering. It cites solders of fortune Viscontis Sforzas Malatestas as warnings.
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Greeley
London Times
Times
Bray
Viscontis
Sforzas
Malatestas
Harpers Magazine
Black Mountain Wolf Chased Across Missouri Prairies
Mr. L. Kirtley of Brownington pursued a large full grown black mountain wolf over twenty miles across prairies and fields. The pursuit drew a dozen followers until Lowry City where the wolf was knocked down and captured by the rider. The animal died after being strangled when the mouth cord tightened.
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8. L. Kirtley
Brownington
Fnday
Hillegras Prairie
Cawthon Storm
Lowry City
St. Clair County
Kirtley
Henry County
Desert of Colorado described as barren and desolate by Argonaut
The San Francisco Argonaut portrays the Colorado desert as utterly barren and dreary. It notes scorching sun, burning winds, and rocky, treeless hills surrounding a shifting sand plain. A small stream named White-water appears, but vegetation along its banks is described as worthless.
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San Francisco Argonaut
Colorado Desert
San Bernardino
Yume
Immigration patterns draw most newcomers to Midwestern states
A Chicago Journal correspondent notes that the largest share of foreign immigrants arriving in New York settle in Iowa Kansas Nebraska Minnesota and Colorado. The next largest groups go to Ohio Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin with only 14 percent heading south mainly to Texas. The piece adds that more white residents have moved west from the South in the past year than into those states from elsewhere.
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New York
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Colorado
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Texas
Chicago Journal
Return of the Scottish Plowman Reunites Father and Son
A Scottish plowman leaves his Orkney home after a romance with his farmer father in law. He migrates first to Australia then the United States where he becomes a clerk in Illinois and discovers the firm head is his own Scottish father. Father and son meet in Scotland with joyous reconciliation and a reunited family.
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Orkney
Plowman
Australia
America
United States
Illinois
Scotland
New York Tribune
The Credit of Nations and South American Bonds
The article notes that South America shows widespread bankruptcy and repudiation in quoted loans. It cites sixty two national bonds with only six at par, where a dollar pledge is worth a dollar today, per Hartford Courant.
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South America
Hartford Couvent
Prussian plan for doctors fees and tariff scale
The Prussian Minister of Public Instruction proposes abolishing fee regulation for physicians and introducing a tariff. First visit priced at two marks, subsequent visits one mark. Consultations would earn five marks for the first and three marks for each later. In-home visits charge 37 cents initial, 18 cents each follow up. The plan faces strong opposition amid medical and public concerns.
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Minister of Public Instruction
Society of Medicine
Ghosts of ill health haunt a medical ad era
An old time medical ad describes lingering illnesses and ghostly remains of past health. It touts Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as effective for coughs, lung issues, constipation, and liver irregularities, with caveats on severe disease. It also promotes Dr Hall’s Balaam for lungs and Brown’s Bronchial Troches for throat symptoms, urging timely use.
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Col. Ingersoll
Pierce
Dr. Sage
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