Washington Belefs and Berlin Aid in Flood Relief
General Diaz and party arrive in Washington with possible return visit to resume postponed festivities tied to Postmaster General Howe’s death. Brasch & Robbenstein in Berlin remit 4500 marks for flood sufferers, redirected to the Red Cross Central Committee. Treasury moves to five million dollar bond installments and confirms no Britain talks on international police.
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Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Treasury Department
Canada
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Naval Advisory Board
League Island
Congress
Joszis Tyssowski
Washington
General Land Office
Sickles
Brasch & Rothenstein
Berlin
Germany
American Association of the Red Cross
Tere
Great Britain
France shifts Madagascar policy amid calmer tribes
The French government says its new Madagascar policy will be milder, focusing sanctions on the Queen and her counselor while limiting hostilities to punitive actions. Also reported are Canadian law talks on bonded whiskies, the death of Queen Victoria’s attendant John Brown, American opposition to tariff duties on French pictures, and a London arrest for an explosive device. Legislative actions in Ohio include measures on bonds, turnpikes, and juror drawing procedures. A Mass. farmer keeps a resident dove among his flock.
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Madagascar
Ottawa
J. T. Pratt
Louisville
Spirit and Wine Association of
United States
John Brown
Queen Victoria
Brown
Paris
France
Congress
Messrs. Healy
Brigman
Sargent
Knight
Stewart
Pearce
Bellanbaugh
London
London Daily News
Varna
Train wreck near Mason City Kentucky injures many
Night express from Chattanooga on the Cincinnati Southern derailed one mile north of Mason City. Sixty two injured with two or more fatally. two cars burned or wrecked. Unclear if track jumped or rail broke. Survivors taken to Cincinnati, seriously hurt left at Williamstown. Also reports of floods, fraud, assaults, poisonings, and a forthcoming steel mill plan in Gunnison Colorado.
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Chattanooga
Cincinnati Southern Road
Mason City
Williamstown
Cincinnati
Gillis
Clifton Springs
New York
Monongahela
Pittsburg
Kanawha
Ohio
Licking River
Falmouth
New Haven and Northampton
Joshua Hill
Atlanta
Jonathan Monroe
Warren
Brookneal
Gunnison
Col
Colorado
Union
United States
Galle
Switzerland
Ohio River
New York Herald
Shawneetown
Ill
C. C. Merkle
Pittsburg Paperhouse
Remarkable fuchsia in Old Saybrook blooms year round
David W. Clark of Old Saybrook Connecticut reports a fuchsia that has bloomed in winter and summer for four years straight. It stands eight feet tall, spans six feet wide, and displays 140 open blossoms with many buds yet to come. The note appears in the New Haven Register. Also mentioned is Czar Alexander's crown valued at 3,000,000 rubies and adorned with diamonds pearls and rubies, first used at Catherine II's coronation.
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David W. Clark
Old Saybrook
Conn
New Haven
Alexander
Catherine II
Red Bluff Church Fair Sees Sensational Couple
A husband of seventeen and his newly married bride of fifteen caused a stir at a Red Bluff California church fair held recently.
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Red Bluff
Cal
Bodies of 22 Miners Recovered at Braidwood Mine
Crowds gathered as a two day search at the Diamond mine in Braidwood Illinois yielded twenty two identified corpses. Relatives pressed the morgue doors while mourners recalled in shocking detail the decay and odors. The funeral train carried eighteen coffins to local cemeteries as frantic scenes unfolded at the depot. The exploration party faced flooded shafts and piles of fallen rock delaying work toward July fourth clearance. Coroner Werner with his jury viewed the remains as an inquest date was to be announced.
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Braidwood
Ill
Patrick Wall
Joseph Smith
Joseph Carroll
Frank Kloss
Mike Bannon
John Johnson
Mathew Redmond
John Cullough
A. Dembrosky
John Dembrosky
George Bodukosky
August Palenis
Frank Marry
Daniel McBride
Herman
Diamond Shaft
VY Ws
Johnnie Skinner
Pitt
Gallagher
Werner
Will County
Local Youth Fires Card Sharpened Shell in Armory Incident
In La Crosse Wisconsin Louis May and Frank Maher and three others visited a gun-room to play cards. May, angry at suspected cheating, drew a shell and fired wounding Maher in the head. Maher died from the wound. May was not arrested. An unrelated estimate claims 32 million people die yearly.
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Maher
May
Max
Tell It With a Kiss Poem Turned Forgiving Moment
A poetic tale of regret and reconciliation where pride nearly keeps a couple apart. After tears and a silent quarrel, a kiss becomes the opening to forgiveness as sunshine returns. The speaker, Eben FE Rexford, cites the New York Ledger as the source.
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Eben FE
Rexford
N. Y. Ledger
Prima donna’s daughter shocks opera circle with debut doubt
In a backstage scene at the opera house, the aspiring Bertha Sohn arrives with her mother Madame Sohn, prompting comic glare from veterans and a heated debate over whether she will sing or only dance. The room teems with adjectives and gossip as the troupe contemplates her uncertain future and potential leadership of the orchestra.
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von Tromp
Signor Nott
Signor Notti
Monsieur Laflip
Madame Hilary
Signor Paulo
Signorina Morine
von Tronp
Beels
Donna Anna
Elvira
Grazia
Madame Gandervoort
Ieel
von Daughter
von Koompany
Conservatoire of
Botzen
von Heins
Conservatory
Conservatoire
Signor
Paulo
M. Laflip
Signorina Marine
Amanda Hastings
Hilary
Mr. Sylvester
Leporello
Zusammenschlag
Madame Sohn
Koompany
Bertha Sohn
Travurer
Fraulein Sohn
Laflip
Vienna
Nm Lycerine
Sylvester
Anspach
Greenroom
Kosciusko
Noe
Cremona
Zis
Heinrich Jackson
Mit
Frank R. Stockton
Harper's Bazar
Advertising rates and business card details in 19th century notice
The ad notice lists rates for legal and transient advertisements at one per square for first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. It notes a yearly liberal reduction and defines business cards as up to six lines for six dollars per year.
Warm Foot Blankets And Wart Treatment For Cows
Advice on keeping feet warm for children and the feeble, suggesting making foot-blankets from an ordinary woolen blanket cut and hemmed, warming them at bedtime, and teaching straight sleeping to aid circulation. Also notes rubbing feet is better than fires, and hot shoes for sick persons as a quicker remedy. Then instructions for wart removal on cows teats by daily application of nitric acid with a sharpened point, repeated over weeks if needed.
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Mary Wager Fisher
New Yorker
Diverse early science and industry notes from 19th century papers
Clifton sends shirtings to China and a Kingston Ontario mine yields nearly 300 tons. Ketchum Idaho grows from sage to town with fifty businesses. Florida cans oranges. Mohair industry grows in Connecticut Valley. An Indiana inventor suits the deaf with a body plate and ear instrument. Corset critique notes waistlines. Parisian fireworks rocket for rabbit burrows and a toxic vapour device for game. Instant steam in engines via thin liquid film.
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Kingston
Ont
Ketchum
Idaho
Florida
N. Y
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh
Apt Bio Nee
Detroit Post
Quips and Quirks From Texas Siftings
A collage of humorous anecdotes and quotes from periodical columns. Jests about honesty, reporters, mothers and children, a minuet revival in New Orleans, epitaphs, steam heating jokes, marital wisdom, and a tale of borrowing two dollars in a wry Texas Siftings collection.
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Frank Byexe
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Carey
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America
M. H. Marsden
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the Picayune
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Puck
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Fred Blanks
Bo Belt
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Bob
Texas Siftings
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