Baltimorean’s Pardon Plea Tied to Wild Calvert Marriage Case
A sensational advance on Governor Hamilton for a pardon of Thomas Bowen of Calvert county who is in state custody for six years in a case involving an unnatural marriage. The article details Bowen’s rise, the secret union between his son Enoch and Bowen’s daughter Ella, ensuing investigations, and community outrage with a note on Bowen’s health-based pardon request. It also touches on fashion items and trends of the period.
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Hamilton
Thomas Bowen
Cavet County
Owen
Calvert County
Enoch Bowen
Kia Bowen
Bowen
Prince Frederick
Enoch
Ella
Joseph FP. Wilson
Miss Bowen
Naoeh
House of Correction
Ladies Fashion Trends From Back Combs To Duchesse Races
The article surveys current women’s style including back combs, Lance pins, Saturday feasts, decorative bracelets, flower necklaces, dark plush fans, and chenille embroidery on corsages and cuffs. It notes pure white painted fans, the Duchesse trend, Spanish lace with specific tints, and social dinners among fashionable circles. It mentions a Russian silver wedding gift costing 40,000 francs and describes a Parisian influenced brown dress with brocaded satin and plush details. It also highlights colors like Aube rose, Taligo pink, and purple with a pearly shimmer on royal dusk background.
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Duchesse
Pialiene
London
Health Hints From A Questionable French Cure
A Frenchman proposes neuralgia relief from direct streams of water. Other tips include lobelia for felons, using diluted sulfuric acid for diphtheria, egg lemon cough remedy, roast lemon syrup for cough, turpentine wraps for soft corns, cold charcoal on burns, and counting breaths to induce sleep.
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Australia
Gazette Medicale of France
Adventures With a Catamount
William Boyd was stalked by a catamount near the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. His dog drove off the catamount after a confrontation with a wild cat and Boyd rescued three kittens. He later lured the mother back and killed her before she could reach them.
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New York Times
Boyd
Pennsylvania
Delaware
A Vast and Beneficent Work Statistics of Union
The American Sunday-school Union reports 56 years of activity with 68 431 schools and 441 058 teachers serving 1 915 599 scholars. It circulated $7 000 000 worth of books and papers and spent $2 000 000 on missionary operations.
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American Sunday-school Union
Governor's Message Encourages Prudent State Legislation
The governor urges careful consideration of forthcoming measures, stressing prudence to protect progress and warning against imprudence. He notes the end of a constitutional term and the start of new duties, thanking citizens and signaling continued state service to guide two-year legislation. Isaac P. Gray delivers the message from January 6, 1881.
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Experiece
Isaac P. Gray
Royal alliances blend British and Austrian lines in Europe
The London Standard reports forthcoming royal weddings as Crown Prince of Austria marries Princess Stephanie-Clotilde, linking the Habsburg and British sequences. Archduke Rudolph, a gifted linguist and scholar, is noted for promise while his bride is described as amiable and accomplished.
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Rudolph
Ais
London Standard
Hof-Marshalls
Austria
Germany
Augusta Victoria Frederica Louise Feodora Jenny
Schleswig- Holstein - Sonderburg - Agustenburg
Archduke Rudolph
Europe
Buda-Pesth
Stephanie- Clotilde
Leopold
Louise
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Hungary
Bohemia
Dalmatia
Jerusalem
Rudolph Vomu Hapsburg
Louis Philippe
Victoria
Joseph
Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Great Britain
Fragments of humorous notices and quips from various papers
A collage of lighthearted jests and clipped anecdotes. Items reference a Nevada harp critic, Niagara music, the Andes, a clerical quip, a masked man as a lighted cigar, and a Western town architect fleeing after a failed City Hall project. Also mentions Mike McGowan’s Christmas dinner in Carson.
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Nyctm
Philadelphia News
Nevada
Niagara
New Haven Register
Somersville Journal
the New Butler
Church of England
Punch
Syracuse Herald
Canada
Territories
Mike McGowan
Carson
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Fieadquarters
Elole
South Side
Sullivan
Indiana
Oliver
Richmond, Hamilton
Pittsburg
Brown Cultivators
Champion
Reaper & Mower
Studebaker Farm Wagon
Gilpin Suley Plows
SULEY
J.F. Hoke
Ind
New Denison Hotel
Indianapolis
West
B” Howe
Howe Machine Company
McEneney
Sullivan,nd
Commercial Row
Sullivan Or
Terre Haute
J. P. Stratton
Franzz Liszt
Theo
Thomason
Mason & Halin
Mason & Hamlin Organ’ Co
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
George F. Hughes
Tee
Ton Works and Foundry
Cor. Lst and
Walnut Sis
Terre Haute, Ind
Castings
J. A. Parker & Bros, Proprietora
DAVIS
Were
John, Davis
Sons
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