Queen Victoria shot at at Windsor Station in London
A man named Roderick MacLean fired a pistol at Queen Victoria as she entered a carriage at Windsor Station. The Queen was unhurt. MacLean was seized by police and later questioned. The incident caused a large crowd and nationwide sensational coverage.
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London
the Press Association
Victoria
Windsor
Roderick MacLean
Buckingham Palace
MacLean
Beatrice
John Brown
Portsmouth
Reynolds
England
the Times
Chilteau
Garfield
Lefroy
Iole
Jocosities and Snappy Snippets From A City Page
A collection of light anecdotes and quips about pets, families, courtships, and daily life. Jokes range from a canary’s singing to a child’s grasp of history and a waiter’s timing, with prankish remarks about earnings, rent, and offers.
Township assessors to serve four-year terms in April election
Township assessors chosen at the pending April election will be elected to serve four years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. They can qualify and enter upon the discharge of their duties within ten days after their election, and they are limited to sixty days of paid service in each year.
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Spiffkins
Annie
Marel
Birdie
Mary
Austin
Egypt
Seed 2A
Tam
What is the origin of the word wife in Ruskin's view
Ruskin states wife derives from a Saxon term meaning weaver. He argues women shape fortunes and home, insisting true wives create and sustain home everywhere they are. He contrasts Western language evolution with French terms and praises a noble woman's role and power.
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Ruskin
True Blue Arkansas Story of a Perimmon Tree Pork Raisin
JT recalls traveling in the old North State when he sees a man with a long gun pointed at a persimmon tree. The man shifts the firearm without sighting, offers no firing, and explains he is raising pork for market. A shoat is tied to a pole to eat persimmons.
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Old North
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Bo Ten
Charles A. Sweet & Co
Massachusetts Central Railroad
Sweet & Co
C. A. Sweet & Co
Boston
Massachusetts Central
Harriet Bell
Kirkland Street
Mrs. Bell
Detroit
Thomas Gillem
Baker’s Corner
Armada
Charles B
Marquette, Mich
Lake Superior Powder Company
Peter Doyle
Charles Hatch
Herman Eckstrom
Cincinnati
Charles Murray
Hamden
Ohio
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Murray
Sands
Memphis
Henry Craig
Ed Postal
Hard Cash
Mississippi River
White River
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Ark
John Small
Glendale
Chicago and Northwestern
Terre Haute
Ind
New York Dispatch
Conkling
Supreme Court
David Davis
McCabe
Dublin
Salem
John Murphy
True Blue
Arkansas
Hardware Headquarters
South Side
Sullivan Aindiana
Asaday
Oliver
Richmond, Hamilton
Pittsburg
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Studebaker Farm Wagon
Gilpin Suley Plows
SULEY
Climax Corn Planter
D.f. Hore
Sullivan
Lydia E. Pinkhar
Evan, Hass
Lydia E. Pinkhan
Lydia FE
Lydia E. Pineham
J.P. Watson
Christian Church
Troy
Bevers
Bs Parte Orth
ST. Lous
Singer Manufacturing CO
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Naty
Newae
Marhieg
the Singer Manufacturing Co
Union Square
New York
St. Charles Street
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St.Louis
Benin
Charlie
Pacis
Jacques
Chesnut St
Iren
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Yaterit
Kilwazkee
Wis
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Oho
B. A. Wilson
Penn St
Williamsburgh Yn
Youte
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Terra Haute, Ind
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HOTTA
Ste Louie
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