Tragic Gossamer Vessel Disaster Off South Devon Coast
In the Gossamer wreck near Prawle Point the captain Thompson and his wife drowned after a wave swept them overboard. A crew member offered to fetch the wife ashore but the captain stayed with her. ten of thirteen drowned were recovered. Bodies buried at Chivelstone. the ship had just fast passage from Shanghai.
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Tun Waeox
Devon
Thompson
Prawle Point
Kingsbridge
Dartmouth
Chivelatone
Shanghai
Plymouth
Farnham
Kent
London
Alderman
A. O. Charles
Railway Opening Set for January First
The Hammersmith and Richmond Railway will open to traffic on January 1. Cassell and Co. issue penny editions of Bunyan and Foxe. An agriculturist near Midhurst memorializes Cobden with sandstone obelisk. A Juan Fernandez monument honors Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. An American editor notes damp papers due to rainfall. Local squib and jokes thread through readings on cold and Sabbath keeping. A Bloomsbury court case begins with Mrs Ready filing action.
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Hammersmith and Richmond
Messrs. Cassell and Co
Bunyan
Foxe
Midhurst
Cobden
Juan Fernandez
Alex. Selkirk
de Foe
Robinson Crusoe
Nehemiah
Rogers
D.D
North Wilts
Corsham
Bloomsbury County Court
Hairdresser suit at Camden town over lost hair
A Camden hairdresser fight centers on a claim for 101 compensation after two incidents of hair loss. The defense denies the charge and a jury failed to reach a verdict, resulting in a discharged jury. The piece also notes a New York street scam involving a blind woman and a drunken sailor preying on passersby for money.
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Camden Town
Tun
Menorcanoy
New York
Goodenough
America
London General Omnibus Company
Caffe
Journal Des Connaissances Médicales
Stuttgard
Holloway’s Pris and Ointment Promote Quick Health
The ad extols Holloway’s Pris and Ointment as unmatched remedies popular worldwide. It claims pills and ointment purify blood and strengthen organs, preventing illness or injury with safe, potent cures for internal disorders and external blemishes.
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Holloway
Births Marriages and Deaths Notice Sample
Births listed December including Rameley Gray White and several others with dates and locations. Marriages recorded between Farrar Hoyle Symons Staple McLaren Schwabach Humphreys Timms Chambers Boyd Eldershaw Watson Pownall Fowler Hodgson Bryning Eady Toller. Deaths note Scott in Jamaica and the Rev William Turner of Hindley aged eighty four.
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Thomas James
T. S. Guest
William Henry
J. B. Farrar
Enq
Heatherstone
Halifax
Hannah
Richard Hoyle
Fairfield House
Clrfax
Symons
Ebenezer Chapel
Chapel-hill
Exmouth
T. M. Bull
William
H. Symons
Louisa
W. Staple
McLaren—Schwabah
Athole
Glasgow
John McLaren
M.P
Edinburgh
Julie Auguete
H. L. Schwabe
Humphreys—Timms
Richmond Baptist Chapel
Liverpool
Robert Eldershaw
Jane
John Watson
Pownall—Fowler
St. Peter’s
Haton Square
Fuller
Charles Pownall
Hsq
Board of Trade
Annie Margaret
George Fowler
Pimlico
Hodgson~bryning
Lytham
Clarkson
Richard Hodgson
Bispham
Margaret
Edward Bryning
Balham
Eady — Toller
Market Harborough
William Clarkson
Joseph Chamberlain Eady
Mary Jane
Henry Toller
Scott
Four Paths
Clarendon
Jamaica
Agnes Maria
J. W. Scott
Kay
T. H. Clark
Turner
William Turner
Hindley
Wigan
Obituaries Two Dated Notices From English Parishes
A series of death notices from December list William Rigden Mummery Hay JP at Maison Dieu House Dover aged 48? actually 49. Thomas Heritage Homerton aged 48. Joseph Christopher Ewart Beas Devizes ex MP Liverpitl. Sarah Spong Frindsbury Kent aged 76. Rev Thomas Haswell Wesleyan minister died at Trowbridge. Anna Wade Leeds wife of John Wade aged 52. Florence Mary Stanton Stroud aged 2 years 4 months. James Macintyre Grange Cottage Burslem. Edward Edwards Hulme Manchester aged 63. Friends asked to accept this intimation.
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Mummery
Maison Dieu House
Dover
William Rigden Mummery
Hay
J.P
Heritageh
Church-road
Homerton
Thomas Heritage
Ewart
Beas
Devizes
Joseph Christopher Ewart
New Brighton
Cheshire
M.P
Spong
Windsor-road
Denmark-hill
Cimberwell
Sarah
Ambrose Spong
Frindsbury
Kent
Haswell
Trowbridge
Thomas Haswell
Wadh
Anna
John Wade
Moorland-road
Leeds
Edward Baines
M.P. Stanton
Stratford Lodge
Stroud
Florence Mary
Walter J. Stanton
MacIntyre
Grange Cottage
Burslem
James Macintyre
Edwards
Edward Edwards
Dryden House
Hulme
Manchester
London Market Report and Bank of England Totals
Bank of England notes issued and securities held for week ending Dec 16. Bread prices rise in London with wheaten bread from 7d to 9d. Metropolitan cattle market shows limited foreign stock, steady trade, and varied prices by breed. Imports and meat supply data from Amsterdam, Hamburg, Harlingen. beef mutton veal pork prices listed. Provisions note Ireland butter and bacon imports. Irish butter prices steady. foreign meat markets show price gains.
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Lownpon
London
Colnshire
Leicestershire
Northamptonshire
England
Scotland
Ireland
Amsterdam
Hamburg
Harlingen
D&o
Waterford
Ties
Inc
Public Dei
George Forbehs
Lonnon
Newcorn
Hesex
Kent
Pras
Chevalier Ee
Harrow
Norfolk & Suffolk
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Bank OF England
Victoria
Smithfield Mhat
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