Fragmented era miscellany from a late 19th century paper
A mosaic of brief items from Gallup New Mexico to Steubenville Ohio touches on pets, electric light in churches, costly boots in Boston, and a global spread of curiosities. It notes agricultural and industrial anecdotes, political speeches, and local developments, including a lottery franchise in Guthrie, Oklahoma and Edison honors in public discourse.
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Quren Victoria
India
Gallup
N. M
Strasburg Cathedral
Boston
Bath
Brooklyn
New York
Paris
San Diego
Cal
Northland
South Carolina
Gover
Rnob Lowny
Mississippi
Georgia
Tennessee
Steubenville
Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Jupee F. WeLinovse
Fremont, Ram
Ite
Warren County
Saratoga
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Darry Trall
Florida
Congo
Brussels
Tuomas Pelton
Washington
Iowa
Ument
Harriet’ Ketcham
Mt. Pleasant
Louisville Courier-Journal
Edison
Ronteriey
Thougané Islands
Fickes
Ema Althowse
Buffalo
M. Carnot
French Republic
Jules Verne
Vancouver
Joux H. Sam Mau
Farmer and tariff attacks in Democratic rhetoric debate
A speech denounces tariffs as harming farmers who face world price competition and foreign labor undercutting costs. It cites England’s shift to revenue taxes, pig iron protections, railway freight cuts, and urges trusts be made free to lift burdens on workers and consumers.
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Russia
India
China
France
Germany
America
Democratic Party
England
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh and Western
Blane
Congress
Shah and Phonograph Fascination Delights Shah in London
During the Shah of Persia’s visit to Earl Brownlow he explored Edison’s phonograph with Colonel Gouraud translating and Prince Malcom Khan relaying Persian verses. The Shah applauded, requested a similar machine for Teheran, and showed keen interest in having an operator accompany him.
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Earl Brownlow
Edison
Gouraud
America
Malcom Khan
Hafiz
Prince Albert Victor
Lady Browning
Duke of Abercorn
Colonel Gouraud
Europe
Teheran
London Telegraph
Two ladies overhear church choir its loud night talk
Two women seated by an open window listen to a neighboring church choir. They remark on the loud singing and giggle at the thought of evielets in the grass, reflecting on the scene with light humor.
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Ch Vipauien
Gogebic stage robber Holzhay turned over to sheriff
Marquette Mich Sept 2 Holzhay the Gogebic stage robber captured Saturday was yesterday turned over to Gogebic County sheriff who arrived with a strong posse for identification He was taken west on the Soth Shore train and faced a crowd at the station He admitted to raids on trains and stage coaches across Minnesota Wisconsin and the Northwest and said he would have fought to avoid capture His crime record includes stage robberies and other small robberies with a life term likely in State Prison Marquette unless he escapes or dies first
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M. D. Harter
Dayton
Harter
Grover Cleveland
Washington
Democratic Party
Fgood
Ohio
Harrison
United States
Republican Party
Nebraska
General Assembly
Inter
Marquette, Mich
Holzhay
Gogebic County
Fleischbein
Romeanir
Ellis Junction
Wisconsin Central
Wisconsin
Republic
State
Marquette
Bessemer
Freak of electricity at Reichart's iron wall incident
Richmond Indiana September 3 A curious spectacle formed at Reichart's butcher shop as an employee touched corrugated iron walls and tin roof. A ground current traveled along the wall and fired a board over a cellar window. Fire Chief and bystanders described glowing traces and a bucked water scare. The roof conductance failed until the rain increased the current, then the wire was removed and the event ended.
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Richmond
Ind
Reichart
John Dirk
Mr. Reichart
Fred Schwegeman
Adam Drifmeyer
Chief Parsons
Fire Department
Niagara daredevil survives perilous overfall feat
Carlisle D. Graham rode a Chinese locust wood barrel over Niagara Falls and survived the 200 foot descent. He surfaced after 1.5 minutes in the Lass Rock eddy near the Canadian shore, was hauled ashore by Almer Jones and Michael Cahill, and was badly bruised but alive, with recovery to take time.
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Carlisle D. Graham
Niagara Falls
Graham
Table Rock
Horseshoe
Lass Rock
Almer Jones
Michael Cahill
Accessions to the Strikers in London and Railways
Two thousand coal heavers and barge men employed by Parker Lambert have joined the strike. Five thousand railway men held a meeting at Darlington and vowed to strike unless shorter hours are granted. Cardinal Manning sent a messenger to Hyde Park to invite Mr Burns to visit him and praised the strikers’ order. Canon Lyddon subscribed to the relief fund and Canon Fleming voiced sympathy. Large sympathy meetings spread nationwide. Hyde Park crowds estimated from fifty thousand to two hundred thousand, the strike’s vast display being its main feature.
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London
Parker Lambert
Darlington
Cardinal Manning
Hyde Park
Mr. Burns
Burns
Canon Lyddon
St. Paul’s
York
Canon Fleming
I[yde Park
Behring Sea Poachers Indignant
An indignant meeting in Victoria B C gathered sealer interests to demand compensation for seized vessels protection against further seizures and a speedy Behring Sea dispute settlement workers pressed for remedy and security.
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Behring Sea
Victoria
B. C
France Seizes Telephone Stations Under New Law
Sept 2 proceeding under a recently enacted law, the government took formal possession of the telephone stations. The company protested the action but submitted to force, with Hiegel cited in the confrontation.
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France
Hiegel
London Dock Strike Tensions Rise as Owners Seek Negotiations
A deputation of eighty leading London ship owners urged dock managers to let vessel owners arrange loading and unloading during a pending settlement. Charles Morgan Norod, dock company chair, dismissed the demand as concessions to strikers. Steamship clerks push work at some docks while ten thousand angry strikers watch, fearing early trouble. Police keep crowds back, and arrivals swell the demonstrators.
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LonDon
Charles Morgan Norod
Dockompani
Cigar Union Label Counterfeit Ruling Sparks Impact
In St Louis on September 3 Judge Thayer ruled that counterfeiting the Union label on cigars cannot be prevented or punished. The decision reportedly undermines the value of the label for cigarmakers in the United States and Canada, affecting the organizing body significantly.
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J& Chiorlerf Land & Devel cc-President
Mobile
Ala
J. N. Eberle
St. Louis
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile R
C. R. RR
United States
Thayer
Canada
Unprecedented Blasting At Bethlehem Quarry
At Peter Callahan’s lime stone quarry in South Bethlehem this evening a record blast displaced twenty two thousand tons of rock. Dynamite totaling one ton was placed in holes drilled thirty feet into solid rock to achieve the huge eruption.
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Albany
N. Y
Peter Callahan
Bethlehem
Fire Engulfs Miners Camp Near Zeigler House
Great Falls Mont Sept 3 News arrives that Barker camp was nearly wiped out by a blaze yesterday starting three doors below Zeiglers house. The fire swept the eastern section of the camp. Ellis his wife and four children are believed dead. Three men are reported missing.
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Great Falls
Mont
Barker
Zeigler
Ellis
EighthHour Mass Meeting Supports London Striking Workers
In Cooper Union New York a mass meeting for the eight hour movement adopted resolutions praising the London strike and pledging financial aid. About 2500 attendees.
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New York
Cooper Union
London
Earthquake Horrors Strike Kant Zorik Village
London reports a severe earthquake shock felt across Erzeroum yesterday. The village of Kantzorik was engulfed by a landslide in Java, with 136 lives confirmed lost.
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London
Erzeroum
Kantzorik
Java
Labor Day Parade and Picnic Observed Across Cities
Cincinnati report notes a Labor Day parade in the afternoon followed by an evening picnic. The observance is described as general across United States cities with similar celebrations reported.
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Cincinnati
United States
Ohio State Fair Opens With Record Entries
Columbus Ohio September 3. The Ohio State Fair opened yesterday with the largest number of entries in livestock farm products machinery and fine arts ever made in its history.
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Columbus
Man Who Shot Niagara Letter Seeks Same Fall Act
A Chicago note reports D. Graham, famed for shooting Niagara in a barrel, received a letter from Miss May Marchand of Chicago expressing a wish to go over the falls in the same manner.
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Chicago
D. Graham
Niagara
May Marchand
Nihilists Seized Presses In Kharkoff Sweep
In Kharkoff police have seized printing presses used by Nihilists and thousands of copies of Nihilist proclamations, with several persons arrested in connection with the operation.
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St. Petersnura
Kharkoff
Georgia to Pension Confederate Widows in State
Georgia plans to pension widows of Confederate soldiers living within the state. The bill covers only widows who were married during service, died in battle or from wounds, and remained unmarried. A constitutional amendment will be needed to fix the pension amount, with about a thousand potential beneficiaries.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Gordon
Reward for arrests raised to $1000 in Armed Mail Attacks
Washington aug 31 postmaster general Wanamaker announces for year ending june 30 1890 a reward of 1000 for arrest and conviction in us court of anyone guilty of armed attacks on stage coaches or railway mail in transit. The 200 reward from 1889 is rescinded. Also state items noting appointments and local incidents across ohio.
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Washington
Wanamaker
Washington, D. C
U. S
Post Office Department
Joan Wanamaker
P. M. General
Seven Dozen Eggs Kill a South Carolina Man
Gus Witherspoon a Yorkville resident wagered he could eat seven dozen eggs in four hours. Beginning at 10 a m he consumed seventy two fried eggs and died the next evening in agony. A coroner's jury ruled death from eating too many eggs.
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Columbia
S. C
Gus Witherspoon
Yorkville
Manassas Unveils Confederate Memorial Monument
In Manassas Virginia a thirty five foot brownstone monument to Confederate dead was unveiled today with townspeople and adjoining county residents attending. State Senator E E Meredith presented the memorial to the Ladies Memorial Association of Manassas. Speakers included Senator Daniel and General W H F Lee, son of Robert E Lee.
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Manassas
E. E. Meredith
Ladies’ Memorial Association of
Daniel
W. H. F. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Young man dies in jail by self-inflicted pencil wound
Pittspurcu August 31. William J. Fry, jailed last Wednesday for drunkenness, killed himself in his cell last night. He stabbed his heart with a lead pencil, creating four or five holes just over the heart. A broken lead pencil, bloodied, was found in his pocket.
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Pittspurcu
Wm. J. Fry
Wife claims Fort McHenry flag buried with husband
Mrs. McPherson, widow of Captain McPherson, says the original flag that inspired the Star Spangled Banner is not with Eben Appleton but is wrapped around her husband and buried with him in Green Mount Cemetery.
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Baltimore
MecPherson
McPherson
Fort McHenry
Eben Appleton
Green Mount Cemetery
Longtime War of 1812 Survivors in Henry County Passes
Mt Pleasant Iowa August 31 three veterans of 1812 era lingered among Henry County residents Captain Peter Tisher Jacob Rodgers and J Chandler all participated at Lunday's Lane Rogers died here yesterday aged 113 born January 1 1777 near Pittsburgh marking the end of an era for local memory of the war.
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Mt. Pleasant
Henry
Peter Tisher
Jacob Rodgers
J. Chandler
Lunday’s Lane
Rogers
Pittsburgh
Man Falls Into Cistern and Drowns in Wheeling
Michael Donavin of High street Wheeling drowned after slipping through a rotten cistern cover. His wife tried to save him but he slipped from her grasp. Neighbor Michael McLenden pulled the body from the ditch and noted Donavin had warned of trouble days prior.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Michael Donavin
Michael McLenden
McKenden
Sara Renga
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Eunusis
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Ison & Co
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Fery County
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Iorse Claims Division
Jolleg Bor Law
Chicaz
H. Booth
Chicagos
Bryant’s College
Pete
Tess Valentine
Monfort & Co- Cincinnati
Jung Ladies
Wes
St. Martin's
Brown
Colley
St. Cincinnatiy
Usiness College
Sviill
Shah and Phonograph
His
Neale
James Lawrence
Melmore
Benjamin C. Ridgeway
Wellston
John C. Vandervort
Benton Ridge
Hancock County
J. H. Whistler
Euphemia
Preble County
J. C. Riter
West Point
Columbiana County
Henry J. Bough
Charles Collister
Fleventh
Springfield
E.E. Sparks
Martin’s Ferry
James A. Douglas
Waverly
Pike County Teachers’ Institute
Joan Shaffer
Ft. Wayne
Nevada
Thirteenth Congressional District
Lsurer
New Phil
John Dae
Crookenadelphia
Tiffin
Licking Creek
Newark
Burt Schraver
James Faragher
Lorain
Elyria
Faragher
Lake Shore
Geneva
Stephen Hillworth
Celina
Heidelberg College
Jesse .N. Oren
J. F
Herkle
Youngstown
Jones
Amidon
Fairfield County Teachers’ Institute
C. N. Turner
J. L. Graham
Sandusky County
Hamilton
J. J. Burns
Canton
Brass Green
State Board of Health
Board of Health
T. S. Waring
Farmers’ National Bank
Greenville
Columbus Grove
Henry P. Owels
Dr. Bayliss
Wa. Reese
Norwalk
Cleveland
Ilalliday
Mount Gilead Bank
James Collins
Celia Plate-Glass
Toledo
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus’ Chair Company
Columbus Bolt Works
Thos. F. Keane
George Sufyham
City Fire Department
Daniel J. Sheridan
Everettt Crozier
Robert Crozier
Boonesville
Moundsville
Onn Morague
Eggs
Lundy’s Lane
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