European confidence man foiled at St James hotel
In York a plainclothes hotel detective foiled a con man posing as an army officer seeking a loan from Mrs Watson wife of a retired officer. The visitor Jack Williams was escorted out after Capt Moorehead identified him as a known confidence man. Des Moines Iowa reports similar incidents of a “European importation” scam at leading hotels.
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York
St. James
Watson
Major Hobson
Hobson
N. W. Mooread
Capt. Moorehead
Jack Williams
Europe
Moorehead
Two Valuable Hotels Destroyed in Dunkirk Fire
Fire destroyed the St. James and Eastern hotels in Dunkirk New York last night causing about 75000 in losses. Earlier Yonk ers New York saw W J Washburns brass and iron foundry damaged by fire this morning with an estimated 20000 in losses.
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Dunkirk
N. Y
St. James
Yonkers
W. J. Washburn
Four Children Burned in Oil Can Explosion
Four children tampered with an oil can while parents were away and were severely burned in an explosion. They are hospitalized and not expected to recover.
Crime in New York and corporal vigilante threat
Police believe Mooney who tried to burn the steamship Queen is the man who attempted to blow up the steamer Guyandotte in January at North Adams Massachusetts. James Maxwell aged 30 enticed the nine year old daughter of N W Robinson into the woods and assaulted her. The mob at the jail urged swift lynching if the girl dies.
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New York
Mooney
North Adams
Mass
James Maxwell
N. W. Robinson
Maxwell
Grant and commission firm seeks rail Y at Aberdeen
The firm C. C. Wolcott & Co. of Minneapolis and Duluth applies to Dakota railway commissioners for a Y at Aberdeen Watertown and Ellendale to place buyers there for grain. They want Y connections to route shipments to Manitoba or other markets and to link with other roads at these points.
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Farno
C. C. Wolcott & Co
Minneapolis
Duluth
Railway Commissioners of
Dakota
Aberdeen
Watertown
Ellendale
Manitoba
The Crystal Palace and Detmold’s Role in Its Rise and Fall
A historical profile of Christian E. Detmold the supervising architect of the New York Crystal Palace. It recalls his life from Hanover to New York and Paris, his influence on the American exhibition, and the later collapse and fire that destroyed the Crystal Palace in 1858 with substantial losses.
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Christian E. Detmold
Detmold
Christian E.,detmold
New York Crystal Palace
New York
Hanover
Germany
England
Europe
Paris
Crystal Palace
New York Mercantile Library
New York City
Reservoir Square
Association
Presiden Pierce
Theodore Sedgwick
P. T. Barnum
Mr. Barnum
Henry Ward Beecher
Elihu Burritt
Voorhies Remains Jailed After Guilty Finding
Oscar Voorhies, arrested in Dakota two months ago for securing $1,000 from Graves and Vinton by mortgaging his brother’s property, was found guilty by a jury. He appeared before Judge Brill. the motion for a new trial was postponed until Monday next.
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St. Paul
Oscar
Voorhies
Dakota
Graves & Vinton
Brill
Forest fires devastate areas along Green Bay line
Advices from Green Bay report wildfires raging along the Green Bay Winona and St. Paul route causing damage at multiple points. The Sherwood forest near Morrison Junction suffered extensive loss of property while Lynp Barter’s Sandpit area burned destroying stock. Captain Thomas Latesh’s sawmill and home narrowly survived as rain dampened the flames.
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Milwaukee
Green Bay
Winona & St. Paul
Sherwood Forest
Morrison Junction
Thomas Latesh
Prohibition Referendum Yields Large Texas Majorities
Election returns across Texas on August 4 show broad anti-prohibition majorities. Estimates note a statewide anti-prohibition win by about 8,560, while Fort Worth reports Prohibitionists defeated by around 15,000 and anti-prohibition backers claiming 50,000.
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Iouston
Texas
Fort Worth
Fire destroys Mason cracker bakery and adjoining works
A morning blaze razed the Mason cracker bakery on Pratt Street and Henderson Louis & Co. cracker works next door in Baltimore. Fireman Wa. Schultz was killed as ruins collapsed and several other buildings fell victim. Total losses estimated at about half a million.
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Baltimore
Jas. D. Mason & Sons
Pratt Street
Henderson, Louis & Co
Wa. Schultz
Indian outbreak grows as two squaws seized at Atkin
In Atkin Minnesota the Indian outbreak worsens with the arrest of two squaws who broke into a house and threatened a woman. More than 100 residents from the nearby Mill Sacs reservation camped nearby demanding their release. The situation is described as critical.
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Atkin
Minn
Mill Sacs
Beer vat explosion at Ruhr brewery kills six in Green Bay
A brewing accident in Green Bay Wisconsin killed six workers when a vat in Ruhr's brewery containing seventy five barrels of boiling water exploded last night. Victims named August Delforge and his two sons Frank and Joseph John Biennret J B Haile and J Hubert. Cause of the blast is unknown.
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Green Bay
Wis
Ruhr
August Delforge
Frank
Joseph
John Biennret
J. B. Haile
J. Hubert
Death of John F. Smyth Former New York Insurance Chief
John F. Smyth ex superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department dies after months of illness from dropsy and congestive chill. Born 1825 in Glasgow, he immigrated in 1850 and held posts including supervisor of internal revenue, Albany postmaster, Republican State committee member and chair, and later insurer chief for five years under Governor Robinson. He leaves a widow and one son.
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John F. Smyth
Insurance Department
State of
New York
Empire State
Mr. Smyth
Glasgow
McGarigle Reported Hidden by St Johns Canada
St Catharines reports McGarigle is being hidden by St John. He has been seen in several Canadian cities by multiple parties. Twenty five thousand G A R veterans attended the funeral of ex Department Commander George I T Patch in South Framingham Massachusetts.
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Cuicano
St. Catharines
Ontario
McGarigle
St.John
Canada
George IT. Patch
South Framingham
Mass
Magician Uses Rabbits and Secrets Under Curtain
The New York Sun describes Hermann performing a magician’s act with rabbits and misdirection. A confederate hid a third rabbit while Hermann concealed a second, then he appeared to vanish and reappear rabbits as a pistol shot signaled a finale before the curtain fell.
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Hermann
New York Sun
Early Remedies Stir Childhood Dreads and Drowning Tragedy
A nostalgic rant on harsh old laxatives contrasts with Dr Vierce's pleasant pellets. The piece ends with news that Miss Bessie Powers and Anne Christian drowned when a sailboat upset near Slairfax, Nova Scotia.
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Dr. Vierce
Bessie Powers
Boston
Anne Christian
Prospect
Slairfax
N.S
The Late Ben Holliday and His Storied Career
A compact portrait of Benjamin Holliday, the Overland Stage magnate, tracing his rise from a western New York farm boy to a railroad and steamship boss in Oregon. The piece highlights his wealth, family alliances with French nobles, and dramatic decline after 1873, ending with a cautionary note on fortune and fate.
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Ben Holliday
Benjamin Holliday
New York
Missouri
California
Oregon
Far West
Mark Twain
Count Pourtales
Baron Bussiere
Holliday
Ophir
Westchester County
N. Y
Plains
Rocky Mountains
Northwest
Texas Lodging Roundelay From Mother Goose in Hotels
Fragmentary verse sequence set in a Texas hostelry features characters a cook, waiter, landlord, and drummer. The kitchen staff and inn crew exchange playful jibes about roles while a relative’s orchestra position surfaces in a brief domestic aside. The piece reads like a traditional comic verse with recurring chorus references.
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Texas
Dowm
Dr Sage's Catarrah Remedy Offered With Reward
In good faith the manufacturers offer a $500 reward for a catarrah case they cannot cure. The remedy is described as mild soothing and healing and said to cure cold in the head catarrhal deafness throat ailments and related complications. 50 cents by druggists.
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Dr. Sage
Symmetry and achievement in labor and form
The piece argues small, well built bodies outperform larger, poorly balanced ones. It notes adaptation principles across animals and hints social laws hinder harmony in humans. It cites D A Sargent and remarks on labor division reducing needed faculties. A light note about summer, a hotel waiter joke, and a California grape thimble claim close the passage.
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Animal Kingdom
D. A. Sargent
Scribner’s Magazine
Depreciating Hen Ruins Garden In Humorous Verse
A comic piece recounts a dep raising hen wreaking havoc in a cabbage bed and garden, with exaggerated mischief and a punch line about wringing the neck. The verse includes a brief joke about a dog swimming to save labor.
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The
The Power of Sympathy Dog Death Joke Card
A council exchange in the Omaha World humor column features two councilmen discussing a sick dog and a doctor’s diagnosis of blood poisoning from bad air. They then joke about hiring another dog and funding more police to keep streets clean.
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Omaha
Portents of Pleasure Travel at the Union Depot
A Passenger Agent observes travel trends at the Union depot noting pleasure trips favor older travelers. He notes young men are tied to work, while women travelers are often homemakers accompanying husbands working away from home. He laments the lack of young, affluent women touring before aging.
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Union Depot
Globe-Democrat
Grave of Bryant Marking His Rest at Roslyn Cemetery
The grave of Bryant lies in Roslyn village cemetery near Cedarmere where he lived in summer and wrote some songs. The lot holds four graves the poet his wife and two grandchildren. A plain granite monument stands in its center with the poet’s name and birth and death details on one side and his wife Fanny Bryant’s epitaph on the other.
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Bryant
Roslyn Village
Cedarmere
Fanny Bryant
Christ
Brooklyn Eagle
Buffalo lumberman cites shingles to punish fathers
A Buffalo lumberman on Michigan Street argues that annual shingle sales could supply every father with a corporal punishment instrument. He estimates 15 000 000 fathers inflict 167 000 000 spankings yearly, averaging 7 000 000 pounds of pressure, noting slippers and rulers also used and about 13 000 000 shingles wear out yearly.
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Buffalo
Michigan Street
Buffalo Courier
Pardon Escalates in Post Office Encounter
A passerby questions a man exiting the post office, asking if his name is Gray. The reply denies the name, prompting a playful exchange about apologies and mistaken identity in a brief Detroit Free Press moment.
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Gray
Detroit
A Camera in Danger Preview in Drake's Magazine
A dialogue notes summer nuisances and an amateur photographer near Farmer Jones. Drake's Magazine hints at a confrontation as Jones prepares a club to handle the intruder once found.
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Farmer Jones
Drake
Market Report Sparks Butcher Debate Over Bologna Firmness
In a witty exchange from the Newman Independent, Smith notes imported bologna sausage remains firm while Jones replies a bulldog would not let go. A Drake's Magazine quip has a judge chastising a condemned man who counsels faster action.
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Smith
Jones
Newman Independent
The Picnic Poem Captures A Texas View
A Texas poet sums up a picnic with lines about pies and sighs and flies and crunched chestnuts. The verses mix humor and hardship as trees, breeze, sneezes and cracked wallets mingle with cakes lakes and snakes and fleeting dreams.
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Texas
ON THE WATER AROUND YACHTS AND CRAFT
George Goulds Hildegarde is not a three masted schooner. Capt Thomas Cooley commands Speranza owned by H W Collender. Tennyson recovers from gout after a Devon Cornwall cruise. Dr John C Barron travels to Europe to discuss the Thistle on return. Metropolitan Rowing Club to enter Canadian regatta Aug 6 with multiple shells. FE Platt Johnson of Nassau Boat Club commissions a 26 pound cedar racing shell. Capt George Cooley of Red Bank owns the fast ice boat Grover Cleveland. Kill von Kull crew distrusts wooden shells in rough waters favoring paper craft.
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George Gould
Hildegarde
Thomas Cooley
Speranza
H. W. Collender
Tennyson
Devonshire
Cornwall
John C. Barron
Atlantic Yacht Club
Europe
Metropolitan Rowing Club
Platt Johnson
Nassau Boat Club
George Cooley
Red Bank
N. J
A. Cass’ Canfield
Priscilla
Grover Cleveland
Kill von Kull
Musicians of New York and Summer Orchestras
The article notes good trombone players are scarce, the Philharmonic club touring the northwest, Gilmore's band at Manhattan Beach, Cappa providing music at Brighton Beach and Central Park. It cites many German born musicians, high pay in New York, and 8,000 people employed in bands locally.
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Philharmonic Club
Northwest
Gilmore
Manhattan Beach
Cappa
Brighton Beach
Central Park
New York
Early English Innovations and Inventions Timeline
A compilation listing when cricket began, post offices appeared, canals opened, money coined, maps drawn, spectacles used, wool weaving started, pens introduced, steel pens arriving, the first London directory printed, and Magellan’s Victoria completing the first circumnavigation in 1519.
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England
Facts About Ceylon in a Historic Summary
Ceylon exports about 236000 pounds of cocoa yearly and 15000 pounds of cinchona annually. Tea is pungent with excess tannin while coffee exports decline and tea exports rise. Population nears 3 million, mainly Singhalese and Tamilo, with 128 post offices and 1100 miles of telegraph lines. There are 32 newspapers, and religious makeup includes Buddhists 1.7 million, Hindus 600000, Catholics 220000, Protestants 60000, Muslims 200000.
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Ceylon
Beans and Women Echo New England and Europe Trends
A mixed report notes Vermont leads in bean production while California exports many beans and a Boston firm plans 4 800 000 baked bean cans this year. It also surveys notable women from Mrs. Ole Bull in New Hampshire to Queen Victoria and Miss Caroline Hall earning Milan prize, with international social glimpses.
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Boston
Michigan
Canada
Vermont
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Persinger Times
Persinger
Potts
East Side
Ife
Ohio
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Vine Street
the Daily Fire Record
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Judge Lynch
Joan F. Smyth
MecGarigle
Herrmann's
Late Ben Holliday
Africa
San Francisco Chronicle
Jimson
Yonkers Gazette
Homa
San Francisco
Tom
Travelers
Exchange
Musicians OF
Mr. Thomas
Maine
Ole Bull
New Hampshire
Queen Victoria
Aldershot
Mary Mapes Dodge
Cleveland
Janette M. Thurber
Louise Chandler Moulton
Browning Society
London
Josephine Holmes
Harper's Fidelity Bank
Mrs. Pickett
George E. Pickett
Eugenie Marlitt
America
Auerbach
Heyse
Thuringia
Athens
Mme. Bakhmetiev
Legation
Anes
Pond’s Extract Coo
Fifth Avenue
Armerics
H. J. Johnson
Eighth Ave
Gorge Svinson & Co
Portand, Me
H. Halleerr & Co
Poriand
Capini
Grand Outfit
Thon & Oy
Augusta
Guy
Waser
Vortined
Sunmons
Teioipohy
Bidzin L. Dusenburybury
Dakotla
Preetor Lilburn Dusenbury
Wiel
Disi Wiliitn
Davisel
Ain the Whoti
Alexandria
Daseta Treitung
Alexandria C. T
A. B
R.& Kt
M. Dorr
Mitchell
Cuk
Belle M. Baker
Ney
Eugene West
Dav
Henry Parry
Aldrew Au Upaus
Gro
B. Eysmitt
Register
H. E. Mayhew
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Adress
West Broadway
New Yorke
ARR & Tuab
Randolph St
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