Newspaper Directory Ad And Court News From Lake Charles
The Echo reports on Geo P Rowell Co directory ad promising long standing reliability and universal satisfaction. It covers court activity, dismissals, and docket items including manlaughter indictment ignored, greed of freedmen cases, and praise for court officers. A San Francisco man seeks land grant claims and a skeleton discovery related to an ancient harness linked to Italian royalty. A London telegram notes the duc de Montpensier’s Madrid arrival and Bourbon ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Directiry
Dierner
James M. Porter
Dist
Geo. W. Hudspeth
Kay
Moses Hochwold
San Francisco
New York
Hei
Mexico
Atlantic
Min
Repens
London
Ois de Orleans
Duc de Montpensier
Madrid
Duc Db Amar
Louis Phili
France
Bride Mistaken Bath Intruder Sparks Escalating Panic
In a crowded house an unfamiliar man enters a private bath room as guests arrive. The bride screams witnesses alarmed as the man is interrupted by the husband who bursts in, learns of the intrusion, and pleads for release. The stranger flees, leaving the bride with her husband.
Through freighting from Boston to Chicago via shifting wheels
A cheap simple invention allows through freight with no break of bulk. A twelve car train loaded with merchandise for Chicago and St. Louis started from Boston using the Grand Trunk and connecting lines. The wheels shift on the axle to the carriage, enabling through movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tia
Atlantic Seaboard
Chicago
St. Louis, &c
Boston
Grand Trunk
Youth Reflects on Fathers Sacrifice and Opportunity
A fragmentary quote shows a youth acknowledging his father’s influence and restraint. The speaker notes he did not take advantage, while his father guided him toward better options, hinting at a moral lesson within a family context.
Newspaper Snippets and Historic Notes From Early Press
A Meriden doctor cycles to patients on a velocipede. A Chicago reporter kept love-talk notes and threatened publication to prevent jilting. Joseph E. Johnston acts as agent for Georgia, Alabama, and insurers. A French writer weighs life in eighty years with a quirky split. A copper zinc tin ball found embedded in a live oak at Main Street weighs about ten pounds. The Temple of Jerusalem site beneath the Mosque of Omar reveals a subterranean arcade about 35 feet wide and 520 feet long, outlining underground temple sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred. Heroman
Main Street
Baton Rouge
Omar
Obituary of the Man Who Owns This Sidewalk
A Connecticut editor slipped on a sidewalk and, despite bruises, offered a genial remark about the obituary of the man who owns the sidewalk. He did not use unparliamentary language, choosing restraint and humor instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Fire in Central dirt train engine injures man
A Houston Times report from Navasota recounts a dramatic accident on a Central dirt train. The engineer stoked the engine with wood and oil, then left, returning to find a freedman who had crawled into the fire box to rest and was rescued after smoke exposure. The incident occurred Sunday night into Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Houston Times
Navasota
Central
Fashionable Leg Rules Dictate Suitors Based on Limbs
The text offers prejudiced dating advice linking limb shape to personality and future happiness. It claims various leg traits predict outcomes for men and women, stating fashion dictates these ideas as natural laws for choosing a mate.
When is a cane-bottomed chair like a bill
A witty remark in a brief quip noting that a cane-bottomed chair resembles a bill because you reseat it.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lake Cearles, LA
Pronent Almor
Faenza
Eudoric
Odoacer
Ravenna
Italy
Meriden
Con
Pixis Advie
Lacs
Joseph E. Johnston
Georgia
Alabama
New York Life’Insurence
Liverpool
Globe
Calcasieu Petroleum Company
A. D
Ws. H. Kirkman
Louis Leveque
James B. Kirkman
H. Kirkman
Joum BK
Louis Fisher
Lorner Kirby and
Ryan Streets
Lake Charles, In
Calcasieu
Lake Charles
David J. Read
Paroisse Calcasien
Lac Charles
Lundi
Lundi de Janvier
Lea Caus
Lundide
Janvier
D. J. Read
Nathan Hirsh
Pujo
Scott’s Monthly Magazine
Ren Yusn
Taamm Corps
Walla
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