Forfeited a Fortune in Santa Cruz Elopement Plan
The San Francisco Examiner recounts the elopement of Percy Carol and Daisy Tweed from this city. Daisy, ward of the Mocker family, secretly wed after wary guardians blocked their romance. They arranged a swift escape via window transfer and a Bellevue-warded journey to Santa Cruz, then remarried in San Jose, triggering the loss of a family fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Carol
Daisy Tweed
New York
Taskers
Santa Cruz
Veranda
Daisy
San Jose
Ian
Carol
Te Imauramca
Talen
Mies
Tweed
Bankyancisco
Macker
Lada Jose
Mrs Pinkham Talks to the Future Woman
A period style appeal promoting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veritable Compound for female health. It quotes a testimonial from Miss Jugsin Euan detailing ovarian inflammation and relief after using Pinkham products, urging women and mothers to seek guidance and avoid surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Pinkham
Ontyre
Finkham
Talova
Lydia E.tinkham
Tocqueville Portraits and Napoleonic Ambitions Recalled
The article relays Alexis de Tocqueville’s private critique of Louis Napoleon, noting his contempt for assemblies and taste for luxury. It cites Tocqueville’s warning that Napoleon posed a danger to the Republic and, if aided, could gain a strong position within it. It also references Philip V’s Spanish throne, Spain’s once vast empire, and a Johnson quote on oppression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luis Nape- Jean
de Tocqueville
Yrigar
Louis Napoleon
Shakespeare
Karl Blind
Philip I
Rome
Europe
Spain
Samuel Johnson
Odds and Ends From Far and Near in 19th Century News
A miscellany notes Gladstone's vast library at Hawarden with 35000 volumes, world matchmaking games, a Kansas City wife gifting a grocer’s baton, rabbit pest control in Kansas orchards, and czarist Russian card games. It recounts Havana’s war timing, Cuba’s rainy season, a single 1856 snowfall, possible succession names for Prince of Wales, Vanderbilt engagement, Benedictine order history, North American timber stocks, a baseball umpire’s insurance suit, ramble plant fibers as future textile, and quirks about Manx language. It closes with cannonball speeds, a Napoleonic anecdote, and a London street definition dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Altgeld
Havana
Cuba
Prince of Wales
Albert Bdward
Albert I
Edward VII
George Vanderbilt
Benedick
Order of
West Indies
Southies
United States
Oregon
Cnarches
Treland
Isle of Man
Where to Buy Your Piano
Advertisement for piano purchases from the S A Mondshein Piano Co at 418 Broadway Milwaukee Wisconsin. Claims pianoists manufacturers’ new uptights with prices from ten dollars upward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Mondsehein Piano Co
Broadway
Milwaukee, Wis
Practical kindness from The American Tobacco Co to troops
The American Tobacco Company distributed free tobacco to U S Army camps and hospitals since the war began. It supplied over one hundred thousand pounds of Battle Ax Plug and Dukes Mixtures, bought fifty thousand briar pipes, and spent between fifty and fifty thousand dollars. Headquarters operated in each camp and thirty ships in Cuban waters shared the rations. The effort demonstrates a corporation with a soul in wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Tobacco Co
U. S
Enogh
United States Army
United States
Cuban
Austrian Legation Observes Six Weeks Moulding Death Empress
The Austrian legation will observe six weeks mourning upon the death of the Austrian Empress. The notice specifies formal acts of remembrance and official condolences during the period.
Dr Samuel Eliot and Dr John Hall Obituaries Reported Globally
Obituaries note the death of Dr Samuel Eliot former president of Trinity College Connecticut at an illness age 49 and separately Dr John Hall famed New York preacher died in Ireland. The items appear among scattered notices and miscropping snippets including health cures and political resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alrakara M. Owen
Eyansville
Ind
Samuel Eliot
Trinity College
Connecticut
John Hall
New York
Ireland
Captain Aliya Capron Dies at Fort Myer Home
A report notes the death of Captain Aliya Capron of the 1st Artillery at his residence near Fort Myer Virginia. Details on the cause remain unclear in the fragmentary notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aliya Capron
Fort Myer
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San Francisco
Misa Jessis Honer
Columbus
Armerica
Sapolio
DH Tocqueville
Lee
Jackson
Virginia
Tennessee
Jordan
London Chronicle
Antomarchi
Napoleon I
St. Helena
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago
England
London County Council
Joe Worth Hay
Platt Unl
Hoosevelt
Lane
Ags
Gol Hanetti
Fooma
Minute Chemical
Forts
Kline
H- Kiang, Ltd Sa
Philadaphia
Gerad
Plsa
Gosteringtin
Pwner
Bree Wal
Svatile
Fihaliey
Day
Moore
State Department
Kemp
Pyle
Winchester
New Maven
Cone
Tae
Ayer
Bf Eofoy
Plang
Vartess Staten
Walter Baker &Co
Dorchester
Mass
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
David H. McuPay
Newark
Pleasant
NevarSicken
Be. Bey
Bierling Tieedy Company
Chase Montreal
Saw York
Ts Saay
Coutamin
Chamigalod
Bebe
Dalsonouk
Dragglets
Duke of Sharpie
Addigan
Witeus
Purchexing
Roy TU
Gar
Old Caine
Feng
NW Morris
Washington
Bula
Wis Pub Union
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