Recollections of Tilton on John Brown's Body Care
The late Theodore Tilton recounts his role in transporting John Brown's body after the 1859 execution. He recalls meeting with undertaker John Hopper in New York and secretly moving the body to a private Bowery room before burial in a simple yet elegant coffin. He notes Hopper refused payment as a sign of respect for Brown.
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Origins of mankind and Eden climate debate
In a discussion about human origins the claim is made that the globe cooled first at the poles making Earth hospitable for humans there rather than the tropics. Fossil shows Arctic Greenland and Siberia once hosted flora and fauna matching Eden garden climate.
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Thieves Loot Paodena Post Office for 13000 in Stamps
A Post Office at Pasadena California was entered by thieves who blew the safe and escaped with stamps valued at thirteen thousand dollars. A dairyman named George Dittman was found dead in his North Collins New York home in a pool of blood after his wife threatened to leave him. Francis Aldape set fire to his Mexico City home killing four people. High rents and costs burden San Francisco building trades. A famine threat worries school directors in Lehigh and Northampton counties amid a June wedding craze.
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BASE BALL RECORDS Standing of the Clubs In the Race For the Championships
In Garments Logansport Indiana June 3 Miss Emma Albany of Wabash attempted to corner all high priced garments in North Manchester. Believing manufacturers would produce only cheap goods, she was taken to the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane. $12,000 Paid For Sick of Old Plays Sotheby's London sale featured a Shakespeare first folio fetching $12,000 and a first edition of Yorke and Lancaster, foundation of Henry IV, selling for $95,850.
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