End of the International Exhibition of 1871
The International Exhibition closed on Saturday with no ceremony beyond the National Anthem. Season ticket visitors totaled 1,495 and 16,100 paid entries, bringing total attendance since May to 1,144,154. The Daily News cites Whit Monday peak attendance at 21,946 and August 18 low at 5,400. No thefts or misconduct were reported, aided by retired police at turnstiles. Receipts after expenses roughly 30,000. One accident occurred with two ladies on a staircase.
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The
Daily News
Albert Hall
Jerusalem
Frankfort
Israel
Palestine
Germany
Pall Mall Gazette
House of Commons
Macmillan
G. P. Bentinck
Cavendish Bentinck
Newdegate
Beresford Hope
House
Joan Govan
Faram
John Samuel Gough
Holloway
Great Northern
Southgate
Tweedie
Ambler
Salamanca
Badajoz
Pombal
Busaco
John B. Gough
America
Odd notices from across the Atlantic and Europe
A roundup of curious items includes a Connecticut murderer inviting execution guests, London street milestone plans, Boston cemeteries marketed to visitors, a 108-year-old Bethnal Green inmate's death, and Harlem and New York flashes from Tammany frauds to organ grinders. It also reports a sea serpent sighting near Kilkee and social anecdotes about charity, etiquette lessons, and a Harewood-era collage of oddities.
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Connecticut
London
Boston
William Smith
Bethnal-green
New York
Metropolitan Board of Works
Hampstead Heath
North Devon
Westward Ho
Detroit
Memphis
Lochnagar
Dee
Lord Palmerston
Broadway
Chicago
Russia
Davydkovo
Moscow
Births Marriages And Deaths Notice
Births include Mrs J Morell Blackie of Leamington a daughter. Marriages list Ledger Bellamy Shaw Farwig Wood Kent with details of spouses and origins. Deaths note Sarah Jane Barnard from Nailsworth and Rev David F Longwill of Bromley Congregational Chapel aged 37. editor of Pulpit Analyst volumes.
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Blackie
J. Morell Blackie
Leamington
Ledger—Bellamy
Lower Clapton Congregational Church
Frank Soden
Henry
Henry Ledger
Canonbury
Mary
John Bellamy
Amhurst Road
Hackney
Millwall
Shaw—Farwig
Selhurst Congregational Church
Norwood
N. T. Langridge
Goodwin Moginie Shaw
Canonbury-park South
John Shaw
Northampton-park
Eliza
William Frederick “Arwig
Wood Kent
Queen’s-square Chapel
Brighton
B. P. Pratten
Haslemere
E. Paxton Hood
George Wood
Bristol
Rebecca
Benjamin Kent
Lower Norwood
John Hall
Chesham
Bucks
Barnard
Kestrels
Rodborough
Gloucestershire
Sarah Jane
Edward Barnard
High Beeches
Nailsworth
Longwill
Holmesdale-place
Gromley
Kent
David F. Longwill
Bromley Congregational Chapel
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W. Chambers
St. Anne’s
Seven Sisters Road
Reformed Funerals Company
England
Lady Huntingdon
Exeter
Plymouth
Church
North of England
Durham
Northumberland
Cumberland
Morpeth
Berwick
Wales
Cardiff
Merthyr Tydfil
Neath
Festiniog
All Wales
Pontificalibus
John Ramsay
Irish
Limerick
Kilkee
Ireland
Variqus
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