Leaping for Life from a Burning Greenwich Street House
Benjamin Davids and his family were rescued from a Vesey and Greenwich streets tenement after a heavy fire. He lowered his sons from a window, then enabled his wife Catherine Doyle and the servant to jump with injuries. Davids and three others were hurt, while bystanders aided as smoke and flames raged.
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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 for Ceremony
The New York Sum reports a marriage arrangement between Lucie Zarate a 15 year old dwarf bride and Gen. Mite a 14 year old dwarf groom weighing nine pounds. They plan a Sunday wedding with Lucie in a pearl studded white satin dress and Gen. Mite in a white vest, amid questions of convenience and family separation risks.
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New York
Lucie Zarate
Gen
Mite
Francis J. Flynn
Lucie
Russian Clergymen and Clergy Family Estimates
The European Messenger of St. Petersburg reports about 100000 persons in holy orders in Russia. Assuming each clergyman has a three person family, 400000 people belong to the clergy excluding monks. The article notes 420 cathedrals currently in Russia.
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St. Petersburg
Russian Empire
Russia
Two Kinds of Modern Journals Discussed in Harper's May
The piece argues editors fall into two types. One group seeks to shape public opinion with convictions. the other mirrors current trends. It praises Greeley for independence and contrasts the Times as a reflection of the moment, noting temptations to conform and the dangers of selling principles for money.
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Greeley
London Times
Times
Bray
Viscontis
Sforzas
Malatestas
Harpers Magazine
Running Down a Black Mountain Wolf in Missouri
Mr. L. Kirtley, hotel proprietor at Brownington, chased a large black mountain wolf across prairies near Hillegras and Lowry City. The horse led r, numerous neighbors joined, and after 20 to 25 miles the rider toppled the wolf. Kirtley captured the beast by the jaws, a cord accidentally strangling it as help arrived. The wolf stood about three feet high and weighed around 100 pounds.
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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 scorched by sun with wind driven sands and treeless hills. A solitary stream named White-water runs between San Bernardino and Yuma with no vegetation along its banks.
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San Francisco Argonaut
Colorado Desert
San Bernardino
Yume
Westbound migration shifts from South to Midwest
A correspondent states the largest share of foreign immigrants to New York settle in Iowa Kansas Nebraska Minnesota and Colorado with Ohio Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin also receiving many. Only 14 percent head South chiefly to Texas while more white residents have moved West from the South in the past year than have moved into the region from elsewhere.
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New York
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Colorado
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Texas
Chicago Journal
Plowman's Return Ties Long Lost Family in Scotland
A Scottish plowman who fled to Australia and then the United States returns home after two decades to find his wife and father-in-law, now reconciled. The Ohio based story ends with father and son reuniting in Scotland as the former penniless laborer becomes a merchant clerk married to his former love.
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Orkney
Plowman
Australia
America
United States
Illinois
Scotland
New York Tribune
Credit of Nations Shows Broad South American Debts
The Credit of Nations notes that South America presents an unbroken front of bankruptcy and repudiation. A survey of sixty two national loans finds only six nations with bonds at par, meaning a dollar pledge still passes for a dollar today.
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South America
Hartford Couvent
Doctors Fees Tariff Proposed By Prussian Minister
The Prussian Minister of Public Instruction proposed abolishing doctor fee regulation in favor of a tariff for court applications. First visits would be two marks, with one mark for each subsequent visit. Consultations would pay five marks initially and three marks thereafter. In the physician's house first consultation 37 cents, each later visit 18 cents.
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Minister of Public Instruction
Society of Medicine
Ghosts of what they once were in a cough filled panorama
Not Col Ingersoll's aristocracy of the air but real a man ghosts. Ghosts that were once healthy men and women, now the ghosts of what they once were. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets are touted as cures for coughs colds and early consumption, with cautions about advanced disease. Brown's Bronchial Troches offered as relief.
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Col. Ingersoll
Pierce
Saga
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