Gambler Sold At Auction Paid For Alexandria Clock
A tale from Alexandria Virginia recounts how a gambler who robbed a merchant was sold at public auction to repay the town for a city clock. The tale, set near the Potomac across from Washington, details a swift bid duel that ends with the blackleg’s sale and a public lesson.
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Alexandria
Potomac River
Washington
Andria
Peyron
Citizer
Blackleg
Luis
Deserter gambler sold to fund town clock project
Companions abandoned him and a crowd forced a high bid of 3500 dollars for the gambler in Alexandria. The money went to the town to buy a town clock and build a new town hall and market after a prior fire. The 2 new structures replaced the old site with a replica steeple and clock.
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Alexandria
Isti
Kansas City Star
Drunken actor’s late night caper ends in library reading
An old actor, praised for little cheer, gets drunk after a bill board dinner and heads home. In a cab he proclaims he will read aloud but cannot see the words at the library. His wife mocks him and orders him to bed with scorn.
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Sal
John Knox as a Prophet and Predictions Fulfilled
The reformer John Knox appeared to foresee public events and the fates of individuals. He calmly accepted galley punishment at Rochelle and predicted he would preach in St Gile Edinburgh within two or three years. He foretold the deaths of Maitland and Kirkcaldy and warned Regent Murray not to go to Linlithgow, where he would die.
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John Knox
Rochelle
St. Gile
Edinburgh
Knox
Thomas Maitdand
Kirkcaldy
Granse
Murray
Linlitheow
Lavish Boudoirs at Olympia Horse Show in London
A London cable to the New York Sun describes Olympia stalls as boudoirs with white chiffon and red yellow plush for Armour and Vanderbilt horses. Guinnesss and Winans also adorn their boxes with rich fabrics. The arena mimics a sylvan scene with earth, turf, and trees, creating an expansive display for competing horses.
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London
Arena
Olympia
New York Sun
Mr. Vanderbilt
Mr. Winans
Guinnesses
Dublin
Cambridge
West
Navy sponsors forming nationwide group of ship christeners
Alabama and Massachusetts women Mary Campbell of Birmingham and Lorena Pinnock of Salem plan a national organization of naval sponsors. Campbell pressed Congress to identify all ship sponsors and coordinate names across states from Washington to Virginia, linking past and future christeners amid a broad roster. Meanwhile in New York a Polish immigrant Ladislaw Barbowitz, living in Shadyside New Jersey, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill five family members. family barricaded inside as police intervened.
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Alabama
Massachusetts
Mary Campbell
Birmingway
Washington
Montana
Colorado
California
Nevada
Florida
Bearsarge
West Virginia
Georgia
Maryland
Virginia
Navy
New York
Ladislaw Barbowitz
Pole
Shadyside N. J
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Society OF Navy Sponsors
C. Thos. Kemp
Tata
Doll Bros
Matt
Frederick
W. Patrick
E.S Mobley & Bro
Fase Up
Oxfords
Formen, Women and Children
LA France
W. L. Douglas
H.R. Flautt
Geo. H. Wiener
Haas
Court Street
North Market Street
H. Wiener
Besant & Knot
GEO. L. Cramer & Son
Liberty
Pearl
Tre
Peayaville
Linganora
Martinsburg
South Street
Woodsboro
Ladiesburg
Price
Sore
Union Bridge
Walkersville
WONEY
Rooh &, Cubtral Tational Bank
Pasibable TO
Avad
Kent Golub
Mission
Carty’s
Patrick Street
City Hall
S'Zes
Colgate
O. P. Bennett
UNION
Ralston Health
B. Rosenour & Sons
Marezet and
Patrick Streets
Etchison
Bouth Market Street
Edwin
Devilbias
Clary
Q.'Akob Arnie
Devilbiss & Urner, Insurance
Dcll & Albaugh Building
S56 N Market Street
Freirtics
Ernest Helfenstein
W. Patrick St. Frederick, Md
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