Baroness Bartlett-Coutts to wed secretary Ashmead Bartlett
Baroness Bartlett-Coutts will marry Ashmead Bartlett aged 29 who has served as her secretary for some time. The bride is in her late sixties. The piece notes advances in French elections, military movements toward Candahar, and a deadly torpedo incident in Callao bay. It also covers tales of Tacna and Arica, political appointments, floods in Austria, and a pair of impostors linked to the Bender crimes.
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Ashmead Bartlett
Candahar
Callao Bay
Eugenie
Chiselhurst
Lima
Tacna
Baquedano
Arica
Tacas
Digest of 19th century intelligence and crimes
Summary of various items: Dr Tanner’s fast shows minor changes by day thirty eight, with stable vitals. News notes include Reese Owens’s insolvency in Pittsburgh. Pietro Balbo hanged in New York. a New York jewelry salesman’s trunk theft in Utica. a Texas Army of Occupation forming with 5000 men. a fatal duel in South Carolina between Cash and Blair. a morphia poisoning case in Americus, Georgia. death of Gen William O Butler of Kentucky. heavy rain harming North Carolina crops. a monument to the Spencer family in Missouri. census recount in St Louis. damages sought by Maine disaster victims’ supporters against the Garden. Chicago death toll for July at 1327. Minnesota wheat yield projected at 50 million bushels. fire at East St. Louis warehouse. an insane woman’s death in Belleville Illinois.
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Tanner
Reese Owens
Pittsburgh
Pietro Balbo
New York City
John Bigler
Pennsylvania
United States
New York
Utica
N. Y
Army of Occupation
Texas
Mexico
South Carolina
Cash
Shannon
Blair
Camden Journal
Americus
Webster Gunnells
Gunnells
Spencer
Bill Young
Luray
Walker
St. Louis
Maine
Detroit
Garland
Chicago
Minnesota
East St. Louis
Belleville
Disturbances in Mexico and honors for Cushman mark mixed year
Miscellaneous notes report unrest following the recent U S presidential election in several Mexican states. A monument to Charlotte Cushman will rise at Mount Auburn Boston. Emigrant flows include 77 000 from Canada to the United States via Sarnia during the year to June.
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Mexico
Charlotte Cushman
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Boston
United States
Sarnia
Canada
Pittsburgh
Toronto
Hayes
Washington
Columbus
Ohio
Montreal
Manitoba
President appoints two new consuls
The President has appointed H. J. Crouch of Pennsylvania as Consul at St. Helena and G. W. Rosevelt of Pennsylvania as Consul at Matanzas.
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H. J. Crouch
Pennsylvania
St. Helena
G. W. Rosevelt
Matanzas
Alligator Attack Ends in Missing Man Near Suwannee River
In Benton on the Suwannee River a young man named Mixion was seized by an alligator while bathing. The creature submerged him twice more as companions fired in vain, then carried him to the riverbank and toward its lair, leaving no sign of the body after a thorough search._reporter: Lake City Fla Reporter.
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Mixion
Suwannee
Benton
Lake City
Fla
Water Moccasin Traps Minnows With Body as Sieve
A Plano correspondent explains how a water moccasin nets small fish. The serpent writhes in a shallow pool among minnows, twisting to trap fish between its body and the bank. Fish leap over the snake to escape, while the moccasin captures them midair in its jaws.
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Plano
Texas
Scientific American
First Tea Introduced in England Sold at $50 a Pound
A historical note recalls when tea first reached England and was valued at fifty dollars per pound, reflecting the era’s high luxury status and import costs.
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England
Tanner's Forty Day Fast Ends with Melon and Beefsteak
Dr. Tanner completes a forty day fast at noon on Saturday, weighing loss of 36 pounds. He promptly eats melon, beefsteak, and wine, amid an enormous crowd. Medical observers note altered blood cells and heightened white cells. An affidavit by 70 witnesses documents the feat.
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Tanner
Weglean
New York Papers
Dr. Tanner
Dr. Gunn
Gunn
A Woman's Five Minute Call Delivers Gossip
A five minute chat spurs a woman to recount Mrs Stuckup's new furniture and lace curtains, dress updates, a white dressed child, and various neighbors' news. The husband, overwhelmed or asleep, hears only trivial gossip about Brown's pretty wife and cigars.
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Steve Beaker
Lovewell
Stiggenses
Miss Smith
Brown
Household Tips and Recipes From a Historic Page
A collection of practical home craft and cooking guidance including jelly mold prep with cold butter, elderflower skin decoction, fire resistant starch with borax, and several century style recipes such as Camp Water Cake and Beer Stewed with Swap Beans. Also instructions for cucumber brine and yeast bread method.
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Troy
Dark Side of Things in Galveston News Parable
A Galveston neighbor recounts a gloomy man who predicts disaster for each family member as lively chatter rises around a candy-pulling party. The tale contrasts cheerfulness with fatal misfortune stories from Philadelphia and a New York heart attack.
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Galveston
Bob
Jemimy
Philadelphia
New York
Gambling Frenzy Reported at St. Petersburg Yacht Club
The article notes an unprecedented gambling spree at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club with £600,000 changing hands in a week. Prince Demidoff of San Donato reportedly lost more than half to his cousin Count Schouvaloff, an aide to the Czar, prompting imperial scrutiny.
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Loris Melikoff
Vladimir
Schouvaloff
Prince Demidoff
London Telegraph
St. Petersburg Yacht Club
Russia
San Donato
Count Schouvaloff
Man seeks officer post in army joke ends at Salvation Army
A man enters a cavalry recruiting office on Pine Street asking to enlist as an officer in a morally pure regiment. The sergeant jokes the only army with such a unit would be the Salvation Army and directs him to Washington for any vacancy, then the man departs.
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Cavalry
Pine Street
Washington
Salvation Army
St Louis
Globe-Democrat
Gambetta’s Oratorical Supremacy Praised in France
The piece asserts Gambetta stands far above other French speakers. It notes that his fiercest critics listen for the art, while hesitant allies yield to the force of his rhetoric as if watching a skilled actor.
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Gambetta
France
Opening Day and End of Season for the Lady Dandelion
The piece describes the young Lady Dandelion at opening day with a yellow bonnet and many followers, then contrasts the season's end as a snowy head Gravely completes her fashion arc. It laments Time and beauty fading as the Lady Dandelion departs.
Green Thunder and the scalping scare in the yard tale
A boy narrates playing Indian with a wooden scalping knife when Mr. Travers and Susan encourage him to scalp Mr. Martin on the piazza. The mock attack ends with the man’s scalp coming off and a sharp rebuke from the boy’s father. The piece then shifts to folk lore about Mother Goose and nursery rhyme meanings tied to day and night.
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Father
Green Thunder
Jimmy
Mr. Martin
Mr. Travers
Susan
Mother Goose
Boston
Elizabeth
Tom Fleet
Aurora
Old Tales and Their Origins Told for Young Readers
The article traces Cinderella and other well known stories to ancient or distant sources. It mentions a Egyptian slipper tale claimed by an eagle, Little Jack Horner tied to Henry VIII, Blue Beard possibly linked to Giles Delaval, Jack the Giant Killer from India, Jack and the Beanstalk, Babes in the Woods linked to a murder ballad, and Little Red Riding Hood in German form.
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Cinderella
France
Germany
Jack Horner
England
Henry VIII
Horner
Henry
Honer
John Horner
London
Blue Beard
Giles Delaval
Rais
Jack
India
Richard Mr
Little Red Riding- Hood
Spectators Spark Violence on Galveston Corner
Two rough men quarrelled near a Galveston street lamp just after midnight. A bystander claimed police were absent, taunting the claim as an officer waited nearby while the clash ended with one man knocked into the street and the other kicked. The victim later lamented lacking arrest authority.
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Galveston
Galveston Island
Jimmy
Galveston News
Pointed Shoes of Chaucer Era and Tudor Restraints
The article traces the pointed poulaines of William Rufus era through Richard II and Edward IV. It notes toes stuffed with tow, long lengths denoting rank, and eventual laws limiting points to ten inches for non Lords. Cobblers faced fines and clergy curses for violations.
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Rufus
Robert the Horned
Richard II
Chaucer
Paladin
Edward IV
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