Global dispatches report Irish home rule push among mourners
Forty thousand gathered at O Connell's Dublin burial site on the seventh to urge home rule and amnesty for Fenian prisoners. Turkish forces move against Herzegovina while European tensions rise. Gladstone topics spark debate in Britain.
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O'Connell
Dublin
France
Herzegovina
Trebigne
Bileridia
French Geographical Congress
Hayden
American Statistical Bureau
Washington
Notable 19th Century Obituaries and Political Tangles
Summary of late 1800s events includes the death of Hon. Charles Schaeffer by suicide in St Paul amid alleged insanity, broad pension roll figures, a printers strike ending in Washington, and fires and deaths in Victory New York. Also notes Treasury theft arrests, Mountain Meadows jury results, a creditors committee offer, a Philadelphia arsenal explosion, state conventions, and election results in several states.
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Charles Schaeffer
Minnesota
St. Paul
Washington, D.C
Victory
N. Y
J. B. Ford & Co
Government Arsenal
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Worcester
Illinois
Williamson County
United States Treasury
Alexandria
Ottman
Alabama
Tra P. Rankin
Congress
California
Commodity and market quotes from New York and Chicago
The report lists prices for flour wheat barley oats corn pork lard and cattle in New York Chicago and Philadelphia markets. It notes daily closes and cash prices for No 2 Spring wheat and various hog and sheep classes with ranges for beef and pork values.
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New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
Northwestern
East Lreertry
Paris Station Ghosts and a Hundred Odd Tales
A Paris station scene shows a pallbearer awaiting a coffin, with a mystery over its occupant and police inquiry. The piece notes a case at Tur Paris Foundling Hospital where custody and fortune clash between relatives and guardians. Also recaps a foreign embassy tale of a heiress’s marriage and fortune, a poisoning by tobacco leaves, a Algerian divorce court murder, and Darwin’s remarks on plant hybrids with Potsdam grafting experiments and related 1870s grafting trials.
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Paris
Brussels
Tur
Paris Foundling Hospital
the Echo
Conde
France
Constantine
Algeria
Bel-Kassem
Cadi
Royal Horticultural Society of England
Darwin
Reuter
Imperial Palace of
Potsdam
Max Hillmann
Stuttgardt
Neubert
The Exuberant Wife and the Housebound Husband
A Boston couple, Edward and Maria Lester, navigate money trouble and lavish tastes. He laments sixty cent strawberries while she prudently saves, ultimately revealing she has quietly amassed bank funds and plans to stabilize finances and buy or downsize to a home. The tale ends with renewed resolve and surprise at Maria’s hidden savings.
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Edward Lester
Boston
Maria
Edward
Richard
Bridget
Tam
Noth
Ife
Parker’s
Raymond
Raymond’s
Alligator Attack Rescued by Father Near Biloxi Bay
In Biloxi Bay four miles east of town, a seven year old and her infant sister were attacked by a large alligator while bathing. The father Elam R. Blackwell leaped in, grabbed the elder girl, and saved the child from the creature. The infant suffered only minor foot bruises. Handsboro Democrat reports the event.
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Biloxi Bay
Elam R. Blackwell
Biloxi
Handsboro
Miss
Democrat
Flood Night Survival Near Grand Falls In Missouri
A Missouri flood near Joplin drove Mr. and Mrs. Hartmann and a student to the roof as Shoal Creek rose rapidly. Their boat washed away, they clung to a log and tree limbs until rescue by a skiff party arrived, saving the Hartmanns after the log and house were swept away, with the professor sustaining multiple injuries. The body of Mr. Hartmann was later recovered.
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Mrs. Hartmann
Joplin
Grand Falls
Mr. Hartmann
Mr. Krauss
Messrs
Zane and
Lupton
Krauss
Zane
Tight-lacing and odd notes in forgotten tales
A packed collage of period remarks and quips ranging from a three month sentence for borrowing an umbrella to humorous asides about dogs taxes in Tennessee, mutual aid among California milk men, and a playful exchange about a bride and groom. The text weaves jokes, observations, and social foibles across several regions and eras. The piece reads as a newspaper column of witty snippets and social commentary.
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Buffalo Hwpress
Tennessee
Tur Beston Herald
Burdett- Coutts
California
San Francisco
White House
New York State
Diogenes
Joan
Arthur
Gertrude Jackson
Mississippi
Gore
Miss Jackson
Zelon
Fragmentary Local Notice From Joplin Mining Neirs
A damaged OCR fragment notes a location yards below a house at the base of a large sycamore tree almost buried in sand. No further details or names are legible.
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Joplin
Liquid parchment and early photography methods cited
The piece notes Dr. Hoffman’s liquid parchment coating for cleaning and preserving drawings, Fall River’s large textile industry with 43 mills and 15,000 workers, New Orleans rice profitability with per acre costs, and a paraffin benzole mounting method for transparent photographs, detailing materials and drying tips from the N Y Sun.
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New Orleans Times
Louisiana
N. Y
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A. Cooper
M. Jefferson
Drs. Cooper & Jefferson, Dentists
Cambridge, Ohio
West Market Street
Shaffner & Beymer's
A. J. Amstot
Main Street
Washington, Ohio
C. F. Hunter, M. D
Antrim
Ohio
Robert McKahan
Sucarn Tree
P. O
Guernsey
Wm. M. Sions
Cambridge
Kirk House
Grant Hrouse
W. &. S. M. Kirk, Proprietors
Lambert Thomas
Zanesville, Ohio
E. Harper Jeffri
Lambert Thomas & Co
North Water Street
Delaware Wharf
William A. Carr
Rainey’ S
Mill St
J. O. Grimes
Art Callery
Quaker City
T. O. Mann
Carpenter and Joiner
Cumberland, Ohio
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Mackey’s Art Gallery
India
Morton
Starr Hotel
Josefa Morton
West Side Public Square
J. C. Ferbrache
Times Building
Connor & Dyson
Point Pleasant, Ohio
J. Woodford
Prk Strreet
Guernsey County
H. C. Parker
Winfield and
Church Streets
J. W. Campbell
Scott & Brown's Drug Store
Postoffice
Sexoeing
McCollum & McKinney
South End Mill Street
Glasgow
Damascus
Bogardus
Rimell
Khanate
Kokhand
Central Asia
Alexander
William Cailie
London
London and Westminster Bank
Alaoa
Madrid
Turkey
Gladstone
Great Britain
Shaw & Thompson
Hans Christian Andersen
Copenhagen
Russia
Maine
Wm. F. Hersey
Sam Brannon
Minneapolis
Oregon
G. W. Whitney
Lulu
Buffalo
Goldsmith Maid
Rochester
Annie Sumner
Cincinnati
B. B. Halleck
Theo. W. Brown
Fitz John Porter
North Carolina
Pascagoula
Fort Barrancas
Fla
Lincoln
Logan County
Theodore Tilton
Brooklyn Eagle
Thomas Kinsella
Brooklyn
Chicago Evening Journal of the 12Th
Donaldson
Grimwood
Lake Michigan
Chicago 7Ies
Shawneetown
THE
NEW World
Benjamin B. Halleck
Treasury Department
W. S. Ottman
Brown
Halleck
John D. Lee
Mountain Meadows
Jefferson Davis
Nevada
Treasury
Raleigh
N. C
St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway
Hannibal & St. Joe
Kansas City
Saratoga
Plaisted
Bar
Wee Jack
Freddie
Chambers’ Journal
Dr. Smith
Lester
Missouri
Milan
Sicilienne
Harper’s Pazar
Multum Lin Paryo
Industrial
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