Tales of Oriental Justice From Peru Court
In Peru I visit a bustling courthouse where Judge Hilmi Effendi, a Turk, presides. The narrator shares tales of Hungarian and Egyptian justice, with a Greek chorus of witnesses, a Shylock twist, and a dramatic Arab storyteller weaving Shakespearean echoes into courtroom turns.
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Mirfists
Cox
New York Sun
Peru
Grand Rue
Hilmi Effendi
Bulgaria
Greece
Stamboul
Overworked Youth and an Odd Dream of Edgar Allan Poe
A Baltimore Herald piece cites Gladstone Holmes and Bismark as examples of lifelong labor. A reader recounts a midnight dream in which he hallucinates a violent chase through streets, dogs, a dwarf, and a knife, culminating in a return to his bedroom and a foggy memory of the ordeal.
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Baltimore Herald
Gladstone
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bismark
Crullesh Hank
Holmes
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia News
Edgar Allen Poe
M. Valdemar
4Th
Bainbridge
Fourth Street
4Th Street
Theottom
Devaiis
Promi
Pia
Four Murderers On Broadway Promise Yet Proved
A Broadway street scene shows four men described as murderers by a visitor. The quartet includes Jeremiah Dunn and John Scannell, both linked to killings, seeking a license for a Sullivan Mitchell boxing match. Police and city leaders oppose, leaving their hopes slim as General Sickles offers only a brief remark.
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New York
Madison Square
Jeremiah Dunn
Chicago
Jimmy Elliott
John Scannell
John Donnelly
Murray
Ned Stokes
Jim Fisk
Stokes
Daniel E. Sickles
Sickles
Dunn
Remarkable Case of Abstinence From Food
A 12 year old girl Julia Harris daughter of Rev Harris of Bosque county near Fowler Station Texas has not eaten for forty days. She has survived on occasional lemon water and water has been refused. Doctors fear mental distress as her health declines while her family reports her appetite returns only when hungry.
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Sabit Effendi
Cairo
Old Town
Cavass
Hassan-Hapan
Hassan
Waco
Tex
St. Louis
Globe Democrat
Julia Harris
Mamie Defers Essay as Hall of Fame Gown Talk Haunts School
A Norristown Herald piece features Mamie in a grammar school scene where a classmate teases about her essay and a fashionable gown. Mamie confesses she has started the essay but wishes it were in Halifax and jokes about delaying the assignment.
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Norristown Herald
Mamie
Sarah
Halifax
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Paiental Justice
Bagdad
Kadi
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