Youth Danced Before Europe Crowned Heads Then Sought Charity
Amalie Ceruti a former German prima dancer born in Silesia fifty years ago life in New York flat with a sick husband. Once courted by kings and emperors she earned fame in the Black Crook and Ballet. now she and her husband face poverty, pawned jewels, and possible legal help after a long career and mounting hardships. Louis Ceruti, her stepson, is a photographer with his own family, adding strain.
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Macdonge Street
New York
Amalie Feruti
Silesia
Amalie Vosler
Germany
Austria
Hungary
United States
Black Crook
Academy of Music
Bonfanti
Beautiful
Gov
John T. Hoffn
Emily
Betty Rigl
Regal
Baptistin Ceruti
Baptistin
Pier
Hely
Louis
Strakosch
Col. Mapleson
Adelaide Neilson
Ceruti
Amelie Ceruti
Moat de Plete
Metropolitan Opera House
Mme
Vestrin
Elisters
Taglioni
Millionaire Bridegroom Weds 73 Year Old Heiress in New York
Young Mr Weglid, famed for capturing a million dollar fortune, marries a 73 year old New York heiress. He performs as a pale theatrical aristocrat in a Daly farce, showing dramatic flair and sharp self belief. The couple wed recently in New York.
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Mr. Weglid
New York
Franklyn Reglid
Lorillard-Ronalds
Daly
Reglid
Regli
Oldest Book in the World Found Papyrus at Paris Library
A writer in the London Literary World calls the Prise Papyrus in the Bibliotheque National Paris the oldest book, dating to 3350 BC. It has sixteen pages in forty four chapters, with rules for wise governance and the singular use of God’s name. An English translation by Professor Osgood is cited, beside older leaves attributed to Kakimni, Viceroy under Senefru, dating to 760 BC.
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London
Iublictheque National
Paris
Hotep
Ptaltep
Osgood
Kakimni
Senefru
Congress and Seeds Reform in Seed Distribution
Secretary Morton seeks to reform government seed distribution after a bill grants each congress member a clerk. Seeds will be sent directly from the department to addresses provided, saving clerk salaries. The conference report requires eight clerks and removes the rare varieties restriction.
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Congress and
Morton
Congress
Senate
Pollination influences pear varieties through pollen dusting
A Washington department report details how dusting Bartlett and other varieties with pollen from Anjou Agouleme Winter Nelly and Clapp can alter pear traits. Results vary by season and pruning, with no single variety crossing boundaries. heart rate noted as about seventy beats per minute with roughly two ounces of blood per beat.
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Washington
Bartlett
Anjou
Angouleme
Jock
King of Explorers and the Nineveh Discoveries
Obituary of Sir Henry Layard highlighting his archeological work in Nineveh, the winged bulls, royal library findings, and his impact on modern exploration. Notes Layard’s cosmopolitan origin, early travels with Edward Mitford, and later political roles including ambassadorial duties and works in Britain and abroad. Mentions Disston’s Florida land and Queen Victoria's Dairy as contemporaneous items of interest.
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Sir Henry Ward
Ninevah
British Museum
Royal Library
Henry Austen Layard
Henry P. J. Layard
Ceylon
Paris
Italy
Edward Mitford
Lay‘d's
Layard
John MacNeill
Charles Fellows
Asia Minor
Sir Henry
Lion of London Society
Constantinople
Mr. Gladstone
Madrid
Lord Beaconsfield
Henry Elliot
Cyprus
Mamatton Dieston
Axa
Hamilton Disston
Philadelphia
Florida
Maryland
Disston
Widow McCool and Jim Kidd in Dry Cheyenne Tragedy
A Wild West tale centers on Widow McCool and Jim Kidd after a planned marriage to Matt Huntoon. In Sheffield a gunfight erupts as Kidd defends the widow, killing Ed Cook and another man. The pair flee by night toward Douglas, then Chadron, Nebraska, with Kidd wounded but alive, while Huntoon’s pursuit continues.
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Jim Kidd
Eli Basford
Wolf Canyon
Jim
McCool
Metool
Beau
M.cool
Ute
Buffalo
Dry Cnegen
Hienne
Jim Edd
Matt Huntoon
Cheyenne
Shefield
James
Mart Huntoon
Sheffield
Matt
Ed Cook
M Cool
Douglas
Dougla
Charon
Chadron
McCoo
When Wigs and Hoaxes Stole a Chicago Race Story
The New York Herald reports a fanciful tale of a Chicago race where a false start and a clever ruse by a tall boy and a woolly patchwork flag led to a black horse being proclaimed the winner twice. The scene shifts to London’s wig fashion history and a streetcar joke, finishing with a humorous dialogue about proper play between Tommy Loft and Jack Potts.
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Ye Herald
Chicago
Vanta
Diack
Fragmented Victorian News Sketches From Nondescript Pages
A collage of dated notes and anecdotes mentions taxation in France since 1830, a Ontario railway claim of two million, a torn fence, a coroner's jury on a suicide, and a London eggsquare anecdote about a bishop and a guest. The pieces read like a miscellany of period curiosities and trivial events.
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France
Ontario
Alam
Mahon
Spea
London
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Mes
Nineveh
Loyard
England
Henry Veh
Babylon
Armenia
Kurdistan
Desert
Geographical Society
Albania
Roumania
Turkey
Nimrond
Wisdor Totte
Mosul
Queen Victoria
Windsor
Sir Henry Austen Layard
Mrs. M'Cool
Aho
Matt Hunton
John Bull
Rapapa
Tommy Loft
Jack Potts
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