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Newspaper

Scranton Tribune

Location

Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Sep 11, 1894

Page

6

Wife of a Bonaparte and the American connection

The article tells how Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon’s youngest brother, married Elizabeth Betsy Patterson of Baltimore and how their son Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Bo, navigated royal ties across Europe. Betsy’s defiant letters to power, her American pride, and Bo’s complex status within the Bonaparte family are chronicled, with details of dowries, pensions, and the couple’s contested legacy.

Prince Napoleon Jerome Napoleon the Great Waterloo Hatey Patterson Baltimore Napoleon Italy Page Af Bina Nelson Elizabeth William Patterson Betsy Alroady New York Lucien Lisbon France Mme. Bonaparte England Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte Paris America Lonsparte Tiarry Catharine Wurtemburg Westphalia Bonaparte Beardes Europe Mathilde Madame Betsy Napoleon II Franke Catharine Hetey Betsy Patterson Florence Charles Charles J Misa Nellie Day Boston Amea C. Donn Philadelphia Press

Ventri loquist Jokes On Elevated Train Misleading Passengers

A ventriloquist aboard an elevated train used loud calls to misdirect riders toward wrong stations. Passengers grew frustrated at Fifty-ninth Street being announced at Terenty-sighth before laughs erupted as the prank continued and the culprit was revealed.

Fifty-ninth Street Twenty-third Street Fiftyninth Street Terenty-sighth Rolce

Prosaic City Life Lifts a Moment of Mystery

A fragment describes a quiet urban incident as a man rides to Fiftyninth Street and remains undetected. The scene captures urban life’s small, unnoticed events, with Epock lending a wry, observational tone to the moment.

Fiftyninth Street Epock

Travel tales of gesturing and misread signals abroad

Mrs. David Ker recalls miscommunications with foreign servants in India and Africa, where gestures or mistaken identities led to humorous and awkward moments. She recounts a hotel mix up in Jubbulpore, wrong assumptions in Allahabad, sketches of port workers, and a washerwoman in Old Calabar keeping her clothes as curiosities.

India Jubbulpore Dinud Garram Warim Allahabad Tam Mr. Ker Fant West Africa Old Calabar England David Ker

Ray Middleton’s House Joke Ends With Split Coat

In an anecdote from the New York World, Ray Middleton, famed in England for mischief, confronts a guest who wears a dress coat in the smoking room. Middleton seizes the coat tails, tears the coat up to the collar, and the guest offers no resistance. The prank cascades as the guest reveals he wore Middleton’s own evening coat on the way down.

Ray Middleton England Tay Middleton Bay Middleton Bay New York World

First Metal Stove Ever Made by Old Germans

The Chicago Herald notes that early Germans built a outside mounted metal stove, warming the exterior of the house. One end projected into the room, making morning fires awkward, with ashes carried from the bed and heat lost to the room.

Chicago Herald

Giants of the Guards and a poison found in dairy

The article notes Captain Plaskow of the First Guards as one of the tallest men, with a Rhinelander volunteer reaching over eleven feet. It also mentions a toxin in stale milk found in oysters with milk and old cheese, traced to improper cooling and handling of dairy products.

Plaskow Regiment of Guards Regiment of Foot Guards

Castoria Advertisement Through Generations

An old promotional verse emphasizes Castoria as a trusted remedy from infancy to motherhood. The rhyme traces a mother’s care as she uses Castoria for Toby’s illness, a child’s cries, a girl's growth into Miss, and then passes it to her own children.

Castoria Miss

Girl Fights Panther in Mountain Cliff Rescue

Nora, daughter of a leading settler and an amateur ornithologist, climbs a crag to descend a ridge with an eaglet on her shoulder when a young panther and its mother attack. She fights with a knife and pistol, stuns the mother, and the panther falls to its death as Nora clings to a branch and survives the perilous ordeal.

Pueblo Col Nora Quarry Peak the Cyrie Irl Cor St. Louis Globe-Democrat

Bible Critics and Misquotes In Preaching Spark Debate

A Maine Yankee story teller cites a Cumberland County exhortation as an example of misinterpretation. He recalls a pious man who likened Jesus’s suffering to the persecution by Jews, describing the crowd’s mistreatment and crucifixion scene to illustrate his point.

Maine Christ Jemantem Lewiston Journal

The Earl Reforms the Artful Dodger in Whitechapel Tale

A lord seeking a lost watch triggers a dramatic night in Whitechapel. A gagged boy is found in a sack with the missing watch and a taunting card. The Earl declines corrupt advice, reforms the boy, and the pair inspire the London shoeblack brigade.

Shaftesbury Whitechapel Dodger London Shoeblack Brigade Exchange

Shrinking Crickets and Fashionable Cloth Trade Techniques

English Mechanic describes how crimped channels require extensive shrinking by London cloth workers in the west end. The process uses heavy wet sheets over twenty four hours, drying on hot pipe heated rooms, folding in glossy papers, and hydraulic or large hand presses. Chowp flannels avoid shrinking due to heat sensitivity.

London Alethy

Two Men From Sun to Sun and Their Fates

Two men walk side by side from sunrise to sunset and see the world differently. One seeks goodness in others and hopes, the other sorrows and questions, troubled by doubt and discontent.

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Beecham's pills advertised for biliousness and related symptoms

Beecham's pills claim relief for bilious headache dyspepsia heartburn torpid liver dizziness sick head ache bad taste in mouth coated tongue loss of appetite sallow skin when caused by constipation noting constipation as the common cause Book free pills 25c at drugstores or write B F Allen Co 365 Canal St New York

Beecham B.F. Allen Co Canal St New York

Free Wrestling Match With Four Bears In Central Park

Spectators watched a playful bout as four black bears fought in a narrow Central Park cage. The smallest bear pressed the big one, a makeshift referee in a flat cap called time and foul in a loud tone. The bears roared and rolled, one striking hard enough to topple a crate.

Central Park Miles Panech Bears Bowery

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