Death of Capt Cook On Friday June 6 1888
Crowds gathered at the landing as boats approached the floating island. A confrontation erupted over sacred objects and tribute, and Captain Cook was fatally stabbed by a native assailant. Amid the confusion the crowd cried that the great Lono is not immortal as he fell. Marines moved in to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Lono
Capt
Navigator
Suse
Ile
Webster Trent
Treat
Davisville
Daviwalle
Points of Humor From a Free Press Snippets
A trimmed collage of humorous snippets and quips from various papers including Puck Detroit Times and Yonkers Statesman. It parodies exams morals and everyday irony with references to dairy frauds and a boy asking for more string beans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeromte News
Bud Egg
Yonkers Statesman
Buffalo
Sti Og
Frea Drea
Nebuchadnezzar
Franenes Alta Alberto
Claribel
Detroit
Mocking Bird
Ean
Tam
Troy Times
Bobby
Hobby
Kingdom of Heaven
Konak
Oldest Living Mason Col Edward Sumner Revisits Daughter
Col Edward Sumner of San Francisco is the oldest Free Mason known to be living. Born in 1796, he has been a Mason for seventy one years and fought in the War of 1812. He served in a New York transportation company and moved between Wisconsin and California, later serving in the Wisconsin Legislature.
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Col
Edward Sumner
San Francisco
Mra
Alan .Taylor
Locust Street
Col. Sumner
New York
California
Wisconsin
Sumner
Sumners
Avverion
Santa Cluz
Cal
Pig dispute to a world judge in the San Juan Islands
A pig trespass on San Juan Island sparked rival claims between British and American interests. A Manitoba like border dispute grew until Emperor of Germany resolved the quarrel, awarding the San Juan gateway to the United States. The tale ties to 1860s border politics and local passions on the far northwest coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Washington Territory
Canal de Haro
Rosario Strait
San Juan Islands
Great Britain
Hubbs
Island of
San Juan
Griffiths
Hudson Bay Company
Victoria
Vancouver Island
Hubby
Mubbs
Hulbe
Townsend
Washington
United States
Nicholas
Foreign gossip and literary notices mix with clipped anecdotes
A sprawling jumble of names and snippets from a late 19th or early 20th century paper mentions Poot Stoddard, Von Moltke, Boulanger, Sir Charlee Dilke, Captain Mayne Keld's widow, Marion Crawford, Mrs Daniel Bandinas, Louvat, Andrew Lang, Grace Hawthorne, W. W. Kelly, and many others. The item weaves personalities, travels, poems, theater, and political hints into a mosaic of society chatter and curiosities without a single coherent narrative.
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America
Greene Halteck
Marco Bosdaria
Turkey
Rose Coghlan
Gladstone
Cardinal Manning
Darwin
Bulhebys
Helta Lockwood
Louvat
Sumer
W. Deloss Love
Hartford
Lowe
W. W. Kelly
Molise Garfield
Helen
Robtie
Slater
Horace Davis
California State University
Denver
Crete
Joseph
W. O. Stoddard
Andrew Jackson
Marytin van Bares
Ant
Eaid
Johnny Mink
Daniel Manting
Ile Wiiow
Los Angeles
Cal
Dion Wan
Dion Wan Tolme
Algernon
Charles
Charlie
Dean Bhoy
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Ofriday
Darlington Free Press
Jack
Detroi Mreeress
Indianapolis Journal
Bascom
Jim Simpkine
Egypt
Joruel
Ont
Clinton Seeland
Lin
Munich
Christ Church
Georgetown
Francia Scott Ker
Cluarets
Perperor Willam
Tomrance
Medan
Mwany
Renty
Frtrenational Range Association
Stephen W. Dorsey
Ben Merion
Werster Appleton Ediear
Napoleon Bonaparte
Daniel Worever
Benjamin Franklin
Tades
Tuertir Jenterai
Voter's Gate
Albion
Cortland Corset Co
Cortland
N.Y
Alma
Wriglit, Schneider & Stutty
Pray & Cos
Fink
Yee
Gillet
C.M. Scott
Baines Bini Winty Colle
Yoething Paina
Acker
Taby Rother
Ja Gaffe
I S. Webs
Bos. Webb
Ball
Ronk & Baughman
W. ‘Tinker
Alina, Mich
J. 11
Lancasiere, Savinaw, Mich
Tinker & Lancashire
Alma, Mich
Milwaukee
Jackson
Miller Bros
Ven
Brass, Lead & Iron Goods
J. S. McDonald
State Street
McFee
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