Ripper Murders Plague New York Tenement
A brutal wave of killings shocks New York as a knife attack in a five story tenement leaves Alice Walsh dead and brutality described akin to Jack the Ripper. Investigators note multiple bruises and a deep wound likely from a long blade. The case follows a prior murder of Curtis and involves frightened tenants and a mysterious assailant.
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Curtis
Alice Walsh
Carmella Ruggiero
Frank Tugulero
Sire Door
Ruggleo
Bellevue Hospite
Finch
Ody
Jack the Ripper
Carrie Williams
Bellevue
Carrie
Alice Ws
New York City
Calf with Eyelets for Eyes Stuns Loyalhanna Farm
C Coppersmith of a Loyalhanna area farm owns a four week old calf bizarrely formed with no eyes. A small hole marks the missing right eye and the animal remains healthy and able to move between fields and the stable.
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Loyalhanna
Tragic End of a New York Girl Julia Gross 16
A 16 year old New York City girl Julia Gross leapt from a fourth story window after being doubted over a tale of abduction. Her parents planned sending her to a reform school. she died on the flagstones outside. She had gone to school and a typewriting class and told of a stranger note urging her to accompany a man to a down town room. She escaped and sought home but died after the family doubted her story and prepared further confinement.
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Julia Gross
New York City
Witc
Julia
Fourteenth
Fourteenth Street
Wilds of Texas Piney Woods and Lone Souls
A Plantersville Tex correspondent guides readers through western Louisiana pine belts and into Plantersville area Texas pine woods. He describes desolate roads, scrub basins, persimmon flats, sparse wildlife, meager farms, bare churchless Sabbaths, and distant hopes of leaving behind isolation for a world beyond the piney frontier. He notes local life: mud chimneys, women at home, boys and men at work, and a mix of tenants, Bohemians, and foreign workers shaping an antebellum town.
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Louisiana
Plantersville
Tex
Philadelphia ‘Times
Texas
Texas Pine Woods
Solomon
Australia
South America
England
United States
Watsons Wives Damages Suit Over Alienation
Ella May Watson sues Antoinette Watson for 50000 damages in New York claiming alienation of her husband Thomas Watson of Williamsport. She states she married him in Meadville and that Antoinette, formerly Antoinette Page, married him in January 1894 after a period of separation and her husband failed to support her.
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New York
Ella May Watson
Antoinette Watson
Thomas Watson
Williamsport
Mr. Watson
Iss
Meadville
Watson
Antoinette Page
Royal Household Payroll Vastly Expands Royal Staff
A report details Queen Victoria's household with a yearly $2,500,000 budget for nearly a thousand staff. Many posts are ornamental or light on duty, including steam apparatus men and a bargemaster with $2,000 salaries. Other roles such as a wax fitter and lamplighters earn $500, and a queen's rat catcher is paid $73. The Commons reviews this supply vote each session.
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Queen Victoria
Henry VIII
Thames
Forest of Windsor
Duke of St. Albans
Buckingham Palace
House of Commons
Committee of Supply
Sodium Hazard in London Electrical Boxes
Explosions in the streets may be explained by a discovery of a large sodium deposit in insulators of electrical supply boxes in London. Sodium reacts violently with water and could ignite escaping gas, accounting for the blasts observed.
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Major Cardew
London
Trade of mending clothes grows during hard times
A Columbus avenue tailor told a New York Sun reporter that mending men's clothes has surged in the past two dull years. He notes piles of garments awaiting needle, sending some repairs via messenger, and hints that even rich customers seek upkeep. He says new clothes are not as cheap as mended ones.
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Columbus Avenue
New York Sun
Lighting a Pipe in a Wind by a Sportsman
A York sportsman recounts lighting a pipe in strong wind using a crumpled newspaper wad as a windproof tinder. An old Californian demonstrates shielding the match with hands, transferring the burning wad to light the pipe, a practical windproof ignition device for outdoors use.
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Lebermer
York Sportsman
Fashion Factories of London and Paris Inspire Spring Styles
The column catalogs current fashion trends with vivid details from London and Paris. It notes plaid coin purses, esden ribbons, economical skirts, white jet trims, Italian lace lamp shades, cinnamon brown Derby hats, white and black lace sacques, silver wedding gifts, fashionable window furniture, the sailor hat’s decline, feather boas, colossal summer hats, Austrian china dinner sets, heavy lace cutouts in plush, passementerie trimmings, and jeweled brocade embellishments.
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London
Paris
England
Inmates Testify To Ward's Island Asylum Misery
A New York telegram describes Ward's Island asylum inmates seeking liberty. Thomas Hunt, a 40 year old widower and former machinist, testified about mistreatment after Bellevue Hospital treatment. He recounted being searched, robbed of money and papers, and confined awaiting release, triggering a city paper letter and an investigation.
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Kane
New York
Boston
Labe Iy
Ward
Thomas Hunt
Soy
Bellevue Hospital
Sierra
Iith
Improvement Urges Better Beef and Butter Breeds
The piece laments Argentine cattle quality and urges adopting Hereford and Jersey stock to lift beef and butter yields. It recalls T C Eastman on quality driving shipments, notes historic shifts toward 400 pound dressed bullocks, praises breeders who persist for purposeful stock, and warns critics to avoid prejudiced gatekeeping.
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Argentine Republic
America
T. C. Eastman
New York
N. Y. Central
Hudson River
West
Jersey
Railroad Farewell Sparks Mixed Feelings at Departure
A family sees Phabe off at the station as she travels alone for the first time. Mothers and fathers caution her about boys while packing items from hats to raspberries. In the car, a spry traveling man flirts, and Miss Phabe jokes about belongings and goodbyes before boarding.
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Pheob
Phasbe
Jim
Phaebe
Reuben
Phabet
Busine
Mise Phar
B Newton Center
Chicago
Yan
Pheeb
Overflow Tales from the Arkansas Traveler in Venice
A humorous exchange compares floodwaters with Venice as a traveler explains how rivers overflow, paddling in canoes and life in Arkansas. The narrator notes confusion about government aid and local conditions while the water rises and then falls, highlighting regional resilience.
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Mistal River
Venice
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Uenep
Dodge Street
Cleveland
Joseph Fox
Pe Jeraville
Pittsburg
Mr. Fox
Lone Star State
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Uncle Sam's
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