New York Nihilist Hartmann and Perowsky in Russia terror tale
A detailed portrait of Leo Hartmann and Sophia Perowsky, leaders of the Red Terror, their flight and trials across Europe. The piece traces Hartmann from Archangel to New York, their conspiracies to the 1879 Odessa and Moscow mines, the 1881 executions of the couple and the broader view of Russia as a despotic state driving political violence.
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New York
Longness
Sophia Perowsky
Leo Hartmann
Alexander I
Russia
St. Petersburg
Germany
Paris
Clemenceau
Victor Hugo
Wendell Philips
Garibaldi
Beo Butler
France
England
Hartmenor
Charles Dike
Gladstone
Hartmann
London
Holy Guard
House of Romanot Sworm
United States
Ga- Reid
Guiteau
Ben Butler
Charce
John Swinton
Wendell Phillips
James Redpath
Archangelaor
St. Peterburg
Manter
Soloviet
Lous
Executive
Siittes
le Ehartin
Susbani
Hortoiian
Barta
St. Yeterburg
Crimea
Odessa
Alexandrovsk
Moscow
Sophia Perovsky
Alexander III
Europe
Fraulein Planner of Flub honored for sixty years of service
A longtime domestic worker, Fraulein Planner of Flub Prussia, has spent over six decades in service to a single family. Her dedication highlights the enduring role of long serving houseworkers in households across history.
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Flub
Prussia
United States
Vivid account of thirst and desert ordeal in Arizona
The narrative recounts a perilous journey across the Gila country by a correspondent whose water ran dry. He endures heat, alkali dust, and parched lips while searching for a spring, hallucinating visions of palms and a river before collapsing and being rescued by a Mancopa hunting party.
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Sint
Bate
Gila River
Old City
Hin
Santa Fe
Thad
San Seis
Arizona
Bat
R. EL L. Rogrssev
Rule of conversation and hospitality stressed in ancient code
The passage urges never to withhold meaningful talk and to avoid leaving anyone unsatisfied. It emphasizes valuing elders and visitors by giving them the best seating and care, insisting hosts go beyond form to ensure comfort and happiness.
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Howe
Forger Annie Murphy Rocked by Jail Stays in St Cloud
Mrs Annie Murphy a 25 year old alleged forger of forged drafts across states is housed in Stearns county jail St Cloud Minnesota. Biography links her to Alexander McCrea and two marriages while detailing her alleged crimes from Minnesota to Maine Mobile Detroit and Tacoma with drafts of 700 500 and 1450 and a hiding of a yellow covered novel.
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Gow
Annie Murphy-Wood-Doolittle
Stearns County
St. Cloud
Minn
Annif Strphy Bermen
Alexander McCrea
Perham
Main
St Cloud
Annie McCrea
Spokane Falls
Annie Murphy
Hichlands
Wis
First National Bank
Charles J. Merzroth
Chase National Bank of New York
J. W. Wallace
National Bank of Commerce of
Tacoma
Maine
Mobile
Arthur Doolittle
Mra Thomson
Louisville
Marnefield
Recrui Ber J
Jersey City Judge Fines Woman for Common Scold Offense
A Jersey City court fined a woman ten dollars for the offense of being a common scold. The article recounts a second conviction in the same court for this now-archaic charge, with neighbors and a reporter describing the accused and the unruly scene outside the courtroom in a slang-filled exchange.
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Jersey City
New York Sun
Adam
Choory
Uppron
O’brien
Beggar Demographics and Notable Figures in Paris Rumors
A Paris report describes 180 adrs in the city and 6000 beggars in shabby dwellings, with 4000 sleeping at wine shops or outdoors and about 200 aristocrats living privately. A 1840s cable scheme is noted, and Newton Martin Curtis of New York is cited as the congress's tallest member at six feet one inch.
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Berga
Paris
Louis Philippe
Brett
Congress
Newton Martin Curtis
New York
Ifis
The Almost Incredible Bank Fraud at Bow Street
Charles Wells, dubbed The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, appeared in Bow Street charged with elaborate swindles. He lured Miss Catherine Phillimore and others with fake inventions, obtaining about £143,000 from multiple victims through false promises and misrepresentation. He traveled on his yacht when arrested at Havre.
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Eng- Wah Banko
Monte Carlo
London
Bow Street
Catherine Mary Phillimore
Kennington
Charles Wells
Wells
Phillimore
William Cosby French
Ireland
Charlie Wells
Havre
Poetic Justice Among the Vannaar Brothers in Furi
A fragmentary tale recounts four brothers forming a gang in Kansas and their journey by wagon toward The Celestade Quis. An aged teamster confronts Younger, who is unarmed, but a gun misfires, and the elder fires back, ending with Younger slain by a revolver shot as the teamster’s weapon misfires.
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Vannaer
Furi
Sean Tees
Kansas
Bunaiar
Drarcsver
Ansen
Picea
Younger
The Capture and Escape in a Sierra Madre Hunt
A San Francisco tale recounts a 40 year romance with rival Romero paying $10,000 for a life, a dramatic ransom bid, and a near execution. Romero is foiled when the narrator outbids him, then Romero aids in a rescue, while a separate elephant episode tells of Beta the elephant’s stomach surgery with Nigger Joe guiding the extraction of a swallowed iron bar.
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J_S_ House
Mexico
Lovo
Romero
Sierra Madre
Mr. House
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San Francisco Examiner
Eben
Romero Big
Elephant
Seport
Conn
PT. Barnum
Beta
Nigger Joe
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Instrantons
Love
Joe
So Clean Gold Jewelry Techniques From A Fragment
A partial instruction discusses cleaning gold jewelry with warm soap and water. It mentions brushing, drying with sawdust, and heating sawdust in an oven to finish the process, though several words are garbled and unclear. The fragment lacks complete steps.
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