Frank James surrenders to Missouri governor
Frank James the outlaw turns himself in at Jefferson City on the 5th, seeks amnesty and asks to return to his family life in Missouri. He meets Governor Crittenden, hands over his pistols, and awaits court hearing in Independence while a public reception follows in Kansas City. Yellow fever updates and other items fill the rest.
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Frank James
Missouri
Crittenden
Jefferson City
Jackson County
Kansas City
Times
St. Louis
James
Jesse
Independence
A. W. Edwards
Sedalia
Frank
McCarthy
Pensacola
Fla
Brownsville
Texas
George Scoville
Chicago
Lycoming County
Warrington
Florida
Pensacola Navy Yard
Cincinnati
Money Order Department of the Post Office
Atlantic
New Orleans
Vera Cruz
Commodore Dupont
Mexico
Tampico Pueblo
Nuevo
Iowa
Department of the Interior
Lowe
Longfellow Memorial Association
Children of America
Ft. Brown
Matamoras
Cammargo
Robert E. Lee
Jack Owen
Mackett
Kardoff Swansen
Martha Webb
Dan
Searles
Ophelia Jones
Wm. Westerlake
John Brown
Scott Cox
Samuel Brown
Eva Allen
Washington
Mexican Southern Railroad Company
Romero
Lowell
Kansas
Rosecrans
New York
Georgia
Alex. H. Stephen
Gartrell
Arthur
Treasury Department
President Arthur
Jefferson Market Court
Wm. Martin
East Eighty-fourth Street
H. H. Hapary
Morey
Ohio
Cambridge
A. R. Ross
Glendale
BeEn J. F. Butter
Greenback
Massachusetts
Christian County
Illinois
John Leigh
James Rigley
E. T. Leigh
John
Rigley
Pensacolla
Mountain Store
Springfield and
Memphis
Grovce Huntington
Plum Island River
Amesbury
Mass
Telegraphic links unify US to South American cables
The article details a vast telegraph network from Galveston to Lima and Valparaiso, totaling 5,610 miles of submarine cable and 567 miles of land lines, with 20,000 miles of Mexican Central and South American wire linking to major Pacific routes. It describes the route via Vera Cruz Tampico Tehuantepec and land lines to Peru, then cable to Chile.
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Hono.vtu
Portugal
Japan
Czar
Nagornny
Arabi Pasna
Banpits
Frederic Hubbs
Tacubaya
Mexico
Hubbi
Professor Blackie
Highlands
Scotland
Arabi Pasha
Chili
Pert
Durban
Southampton
Cape of Good Hope
Professor Newcomb
United States
Tue Porte
Greece
Gouilza
London
Land League Fund
America
Land League
Ireland
Suez
North Arabia
Akaba
Red Sea
West Arabia
Mecca
Manilla
Cologne Gazette
Tel-el- Kebir
South America
Mexican Telegraph Company
Galvestron
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Central and South American Telegraph Company
Tehuantepec
Pacific
Lima
Peru
West Coast Telegraph Company
Valparaiso
Central
McCabe
Mansion House
New Labor League and Industrial Union
Parnell
Washington
New York
Grover Cleveland
Herder
Hamburg
Cape Race
James Hay Smith
Chicago
Ballina
J. D. Stevenson
Eighth Cavalry
Detroit
Ont
Folger
John C. New
Arthur
Bright
Wililliam A. Wueener
Mystery shell shop hides vast Pacific trade in LA
A quiet Aliso Street store in Los Angeles appears to sell shells yet operates a multi hundred thousand dollar business in mother of pearl and abalone shells. Trader Levy explains shells come from Tahiti Paris and Mexico with vast demand for buttons and inlaid work. The trade involves large blue green abalone, black California abalone and gray abalone with Europe as major market.
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Aliso Street
Los Angeles
Theuiet
Telegram
Aliso Steel
San Francisco
New York
Levy
Tahiti
California
Paris
la Paz
Mexican
Mexico
Wilmington
Europe
San Diego
San Pedro
Santa Barbara
Japan
China
South Sea Islands
Angeles
Cal
Winter Dress Innovations in Draped Skirts
A Chicago Times summary details the new winter fashion with skirts draped in soft folds from the belt downward. It notes two main skirt variants, velvet trims, plaid taffetas, and tailored redingotes Brummel for autumn and winter wear. It also mentions rosettes, tournures, and lavish trimmings in black green and Russian greens, plus a young lady’s imperial polonaise ensemble.
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India
Chicago Times
Philadelphia family of eight poisoned by bres pudding
A Philadelphia family of eight is poisoned after eating bres pudding. Many who tasted the dish sensed danger, and this incident confirms the risk, though details remain sparse.
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Philadelphia
Indianapolis Journal
A Home Thrust Between Father and Son
Colonel Fizzletop confronts his son Johnny after a fight on Austin avenue. Johnny admits he whipped smaller boys because his father had trained him to whip smaller foes, citing a private lesson with a strap as justification. A reader note mentions patents for car couplers issued daily in the New York Sun.
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Fizzletop
Johnny
Austin Avenue
Mixed Funny Snippets From 19th Century Papers
A collage of zany quotes and light humor from various papers. Jocular remarks on crime, schoolyard words, Thanksgiving timing, mustaches, poets, a New York flagstone rivalry, a tiny Austin family home, and a farmer’s boy debating a giraffe’s throat. Includes miscellaneous bedside gags, city notes, and comic lines.
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Thorus
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Boston
Detson & CO
Broadway
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Mason & Hamlin Organ and ’Co
Tremont St
York
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Ito
Bash Avenue
SENTS
U.S
Alexander H. Stephens
Wariowar Pus.isnine Co
Lela
Lise
Seder Ohnson & CO
Bangor
Nerelief
Insu
Sam Mp
Schiffman
St. Paul
Martines
Oney
Temtek Martinez
Mont
Bostany
Forte Vain Watch
Birch & C
Ickers
Cong
Vayvou
Merrill
W. Madison
Sentine Bros
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Tremont Oe
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Arsenal
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API
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BR. W. Dunham
Chicago Board of Trade
W. P. Black
Carter Harrison
Altimore
J. F. C. Talbott
Theodore F. Lang
Henry Stockbridge
Milwaukee
Wis
S. T. Wing
Kawaunee
Louisville
Louis F. Post
Truth
Whitehall
N. Y
F. A. Johnson
Worcester
M. W.ice
Norfolk
R. C. Marshall
Baltimore
Thaddeus c. Blair
Oneonta
George Ray
Buffalo
John ¥. Moulton
Falo River
R. T. Davis
Autoona
Alexander 4
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Ambrose A. Ranney
Albion
John van Voorbis
Somervilbe
N. J
Benj. F. Hovey
Danville
R. L. Ewell
Laural County
Republican Congressional Committee
W. O. Bradley
Napierville
H. H. Cody
Youngstown
Mahoning County
I. H. Evans
Beni. Gravill
David Baker
William Brannon
Baker
Evans
Brannon
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Devil's Glen
Avondale
Hamilton County
Rendigs
Ingalls
Zoological Gardens
Emma McAtef
Lawrence Furnace
Lawrence County
Will. Ridenour
George Albaugh
Antrim
Guernsey County
Ostrander
Delaware County
Charles Vento
France
Barnhill
New Philadelphia
John Watson
Thomas
Switzer
Marboro
Stark County
Mary Jane
Dickey
Louisville Courter- Journal
Withington Leonard
Newbury
London Academy
Charles W. Burt
Trenor W. Park
North Bennington
Boston Herald
West India Islands
le Name
Chicago Tribune
Nuremburg
F. Vogel
Anna W Williams
Morgan
New Haven Register
Nathaniel Adams
Roxbury
Hendley
Adams
Wolcott
Colby
Miss Colby
Mrs. Hendley
Best
N. Y. Sun
Boston Post
Norristown Herald
Free Press
Boston Transcript
Ella Wheeler
Ella
M. Y
Joey
WN. Y. Post
R. L. Stuart
New York City
New House of Vanderbilt
Johnny Fizzletop
Austin
Will
Willie
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