House on Hamilton Hill Reveals Pioneer Sisters Life
The article recounts the life of two sisters, Alice Cary and Phoebe, who grew up on a homestead north of Cincinnati and rose to literary prominence in New York. It details their rustic Ohio roots, the creation of Clovernook, their NYC salon, and Phoebe’s and Alice’s deaths, with their Greenwood cemetery resting place noted.
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Hamilton
Nursary Sisters
Ohio Valley
China
Hamilton Christopher
Robson
Alice
Hio Valley
New York
Hagar
Alice Cary
America
England
Phoebe
New York City
East Twentieth Street
Lfe
W. D. Gallagher
W. H. Venable
Cary
George S.cottman
Chambersburg
Penn
John J. Smith
University of Pennsylvania
Berlin
Town
Pearson
Smith
Battle of Snakes in Missouri Ends With Blacky Victory
An eyewitness recounts a two hour and thirty minute duel between a black snake and a rattlesnake in a Missouri brush. The black snake seizes the rattler by the throat, endures thrashes, and finally swallows the defeated foe, then drags away to digest its meal.
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Missouri
Drackenake
Blacky
Morehan
Victor
Isy
Stoppling a Detective Story From Pickpocket Slang Night
Four or five pickpockets tell a yarn over beer recounting an encounter with a celebrated government detective. They claim he feigned blindness to trap them and even demanded a bribe, slipping money into his own mouth to avoid speaking, costing another forty dollars to avoid exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Rarest Bird in Cuba the Aratriclor Cuban Macaw
The rarest Cuba bird is the aratriclor or Cuban macaw. It inhabits swamps and displays a striking color pattern with red forehead fading to yellow, cinnamon edged green back, scarlet underparts with orange throat, bright blue upper wing surfaces, pale brown beneath, brown legs, and yellow eyes. dusk roosts on swamp fly pads, noted as one of the handsomest land birds. Truth quote from Emanuel Swedenborg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Soldier Hardy's romance and rise in Twentieth Kansas
Secret marriage to Miss Nettie Ober shaped a brave rise in the Philippines. Capt Hardy, from Salina, began as private in company M and became captain of company D after earning distinction at Manila. His rapid promotions fol lowed before and during the SpanishAmerican War. The Twentieth Kansas, largely composed of Kansas western university students, saw Hardy's notable river crossing feat and subsequent commendations by Funston and Gov. Stanley.
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Philippines
BJ. Mardy
Company M
Twentieth Kansas
Capt. Hardy
D. Hardy
Iron Mountain Road
Spain
Missouri Pacific
Salina
Kan
Nettie Ober
Topeka
Hardy
Punston
Little
San Francisco
Manila
Funston
Dodge
Leedy
Hary
Kansas
Manita
Malolos River
Pennsylvania
Stanley
McKinley
Migs Ober
Mey
Pacific
Metcalf
Col. Pristos
Thirty-sixth Volunteer Infantry
Licuts
Glasgow
Agnew
Seventh Cavalry
E. J. Hardy
Clad Hamilton
Remplar
Kansas Westeran University
A Misfit Fraught With Inopportune Genius
A New Orleans Times Democrat observer profiles a man marked by a genius for the inopportune. Despite honesty education and friendliness he remains jobless and shunned, stumbling into mishaps and embarrassing moments that ruin opportunities and provoke pity.
The Jewel Robbery Plot At A Paris Asylum
A young woman arrived at a Paris area lunatic asylum claiming to place her husband under care. She then visited a jeweler in Paris, bought jewels worth thousands, enlisted a shopman to fetch money, and returned to the asylum. She and the husband disappeared after locking the man away for several days, leaving the “lovely lady” vanished with the jewels.
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Paris
Uride in a Tub of Butter Sparks Wedding in Great Bend
A farmer’s daughter, Miss Belle Lafflin of near Great Bend, hid her name in a tub of butter sent to a Philadelphia commission house. The finder wrote, the Philadelphia hotel chef replied, and a wedding is planned in Great Bend township during the holidays with Miss Lafflin as the bride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Lafflin
Great Bend
Philadelphia
Miss Laffiin
Green diamonds shine in famed global gems list
The text notes emerald colored diamonds are rare but green tinged stones are common. It cites the Museum of Natural History in Paris as housing several green diamonds while Denra dena has the most famous piece. It calls it one of the five marvels of gems known to the world.
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la Para Grande
Montecito
Santa Barbara
Cal
Albert Magee
Pittsburg
California
Museum of Natural History
Paris
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THEIP
Ftl Landing Liveduring
Mteuy Vrinm
Alice and
Wests Ratiler
Struegie
Hitc
Kiscky
Emanuel Swedenborg
Gen. Fasston
Trigade
Pate Forse
Mac
Lowppertone
New Orleans Times Democrat
New Orleans
Col
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