Happenings of the Day and Curious Notes
A collage of opinions and curiosities on politics, poetry, accidents, and fashioners from Philadelphia to Chicago. Items include typhus in exchange for wheat, royal misgivings, and a look at New York City public health methods and hotel fire lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New York
Pour Hundred
Chicago
Ward MeAllister
Verlity Che
North Brother Island Hospital
New York City
North Brother Island
East River
Fordham
Health Department
Franklin Edson
East Sixteenth Street
South Brother Island
138Th Street
Chicago Comeliine
William J. O'Brien
Gloucester
Mass
Boston
O'Brien
Canada
Yee
Tan J. F. Dorman
John F. Dorman
Tenth Ward
Ger Uh
Cnge
Seeting
Springwel
P. J. Gorman
Lowell
South Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
J. Aorsay
South
S-M. Gosselin
Stephen M. Gosselin
Seventeenth Ward
West Side
Harter Praised For Saving Washington and Pope
Jerry Simpson lauded Thomas O. Harter of Ulysses Grant County Kansas for preventing a Confederate capture of Washington in 1862. Harter allegedly spied within Richmond lines, swam a river, and delivered key intelligence to General Pope, with signatures from Generals Pope and Sigel as proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas O. Harter
Lee
Jerry Simpson
Speaker
Ikkansans
Harter
Thos. O. Harter
Ulysses
Grant County
Kansas
General Pope
Washington
Secret Service
Richmond
Pope
Sigel
A Helpful Virginia Girl Aids Family Amid Illness
Florence Munday, 18, the youngest daughter in a Waterford Wheatland household, cared for six horses and six cows, fed cattle, carried corn through snow, and helped the sick while her parents and siblings fell ill with the grip. A neighbor was summoned for a doctor, bringing aid to the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
George Munday
Waterford
Wheatland
Florence
Richmond Dispatch
Nebraska World’s Fair building in Romanesque style
The Nebraska World’s Fair building features a Romanesque design emphasizing utility and low cost. It covers 9,652 square feet with a 100 by 60 foot exhibit hall, offices and lobbies on the first floor, a second story hall for art and education, and a dome reaching 84 feet, with a total cost not less than $15,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Little Lake
Name Mischance in a Detroit Free Press Exchange
In a witty Detroit Free Press item a mother and friend discuss a daughter’s marriage to a wealthy man. The friend notes the husband’s peculiar surname Frizzlewiggle, deemed horrid yet “beautiful on check,” while the mother defends its melodious effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge
Frizzlewiggle
Detroit Free Press
Supreme Court ruling limits defendant presence rights on appeal
The Supreme Court holds that common law requiring a defendant to be present and able to object applies only to the court that sentences and not to an appellate court which only affirms or reverses. The ruling narrows procedural protections in sentencing review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Aorickel
Supreme Court
Seriou
Also Mentioned on This Page
Topics OF the Times
Buffalo Bill
China
Grovera
Mick Hackery
James W. Moore
The
Gazette
Watertown
Wis
Breue
Tennessee
Ingalls
New Jeins
Teauregard
Barry
Wall Street
Missouri
Stanley
Cincinnati
Beauregard
Wolverhampton
Pus
Aiaes
London
Loyil
War Department
St. Valentine
Ife
Rosalind
Stean
Niagara
Dells
Valentines
England
Chile
Valparaiso
Valpara
Times
Standard
Globe
St. James’ Gazette
Craig
Brother Island
Mr. Craig
Edson
Tealth Board
Willard Parker Hospital
IER
Oncle
Wotlaing
Enthen Hous
Fiji
D. K. O'Brien
Daniel R. O'Brien
Goose Island
DR. O'Brien
North Market
Franklin Street
Kinzie
North Town Clerk
North Town
Micholay Cremer
Nicholas Or
Nic” Cremer
Sherman Street
Jones School
Harrison Street
Plymouth Place
Sher Man Street
Ald. Cremer
Philip Jackson
Fourteenth
First
Old Philip Jackson, First Ward
Council
Cremer
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