Indian Chief Yellow Bear's Gift of Gratitude to Campbel
A Kansas City Mail account tells how Yellow Bear, Arapaho leader, aided freighter John Campbell by averting a Kiowa attack in 1856. Campbell had previously assisted the tribe with supplies and rifles for twin infants, earning lasting gratitude. The narrative recalls a later tense moment when Yellow Bear intervened to balance a prior aid, saving the wagon train.
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Kansas City
Yellowstone Bear
John Campbell
Campbell Street
Campbell
Pacific
Lavoc
Westport
Beant’s Fort
Yellow Bear
Arapahoes
Raven
Little Twins
Bent’s Fort
St. Louis
Miller
Major Miller
Milter
States
Bent
Mr. Campbell
Healthy Women and a Stronger Nation Urged in Boston
A Boston Traveler essay argues for physical culture to elevate women’s health and beauty to Greek and Roman ideals. It urges dress and exercise for American women, warning of extendable illness in homes and promising a healthier future if vigor replaces fashion.
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Boston
Greece
Rome
Coud
Morning in Billingsgate London Standard
Billingsgate opens at five in the morning drawing crowds and porters with fish trunks into the docks. North Sea steamers, ice ships, and carriers bring Scots and Irish salmon, cod, skate, haddock, plaice, and oysters amid a bustling market scene. Lord Archibald Campbell reports a dramatic chase where a thresher fish battles a whale near Bedloe Island after leaving Quebec on the Peruvian.
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Billingsgate
London Standard
Lower
Thames Street
North Sea
Heligoland
Ireland
Norway
John Kelly Self Made Leader of Tammany and City Figure
John Kelly born in New York City's Fourteenth Ward on Hester Street rose from office boy at The New York Herald to a successful grate setter and soapstone cutter. He built a factory on Elizabeth Street and later established an office on Broome Street, supporting four siblings with his growing fortune.
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Joan Kelly
John Kelly
City of
New York
Tammany Democracy
Hester St
Mott
Hugh Kelly
Tyrone
Ireland
Sarah Donnelly
Fermanagh
John
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New- York Herald
Ann St
M. Bennett
Elizabeth St
Broome St
Maine French-Descent Settlers In Madawaska Valley
The Madawaska region in Maine along the St. John river hosts eleven towns with about 7 500 people, largely of French descent. Exiles from Acadia settled the valley, living simply with barter in a fertile, harsh climate. They are devout Catholics with distinctive church life and local elections, where candidates address congregants from church steps.
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Boston Herald
Maine
St. John River
Hamlin
Grand Falls
N. B
Acadia
Quebec
New England
St. John
New Brunswick
New Zngland
Witches Said To Haunt Mossy Cells In Town
Local lore links the town to nightly witch rites within moss covered cells. Residents fear mystic spells target simple minded folk as superstition deepens.
Execution at Daybreak in Paris Menesclon Is Executed
Dispatch reports Paris dawn execution of murderer Menesclon. After a long night with two sailors, he was awakened and informed his hour had come. Guards, priest, and executioners prepared him as a thunderstorm raged, and he was dragged to the guillotine where the final stroke ended his fear.
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Paris
Menesclon
Meneselon
German Patent Details Rapid Smoking Method for Meat
A German patent describes a rapid meat smoking process. Meat is placed in a chamber with a water tight cover and heated to about 30 degrees C before sealing the top outlet. Juniper berries totaling 170 grams per 200 kilograms of meat are added under the chamber. vapors feed into the chamber and can be vented to a chimney by valve. After forty five minutes, air is blown in to expel smoke, the cover is removed, and the smoked meat is taken out.
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Norway
Blackfriars Bridge
Baldwin at Vincennes The Campaign Speech at Court House
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports that on September 2 in Vincennes Judge D. P. Baldwin of Logansport Republican candidate for Attorney General gave a strong campaign speech before a full courtroom. He delivered a highly effective address to an appreciative audience.
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Baldwin
Vincennes
Indianapolis Journal
Court House
D. P. Baldwin
Logansport
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Lord Archibald Campbell
Smith
Liverpool
Bedleistesland
THE
Aroostook
Blarney Castle
Potter's Magazine
Cork
Cormack McCarthy
Trish
Blarney
Richard Alfred Milliker
Castile
Hydene Farmoy
Sweet Castle Hyde
Tyrone Power
Crofton Croker
Cormack
M’carthy
Castle of
Cork Harbor
Achilles
Sir Walker Scott
Miss Edgeworth
Lockhart
Walter
Mauvais Honte
Cromwell
Lord Broghill
McCarthy
Donjon
McCarthys
Lord Clancarty
Pirate
New York Times
Captain Kidd
Hudson
Long Island Sound
Peekskill
William Kidd
William Iit
Richard Livingston
Kidd
Plymouth
Eng
East Indies
Malabar
Madagascar
Gardiner’s
Mugland
Earl of Bellomont
Massachusetts
London
John Moore
Bellaston
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