Mysterious Centenarian Captain Latrbush Dies in New York
Captain Frederick Latrbush, claimed to be born in 1766, died at 618 Third Avenue after a life packed with memories of the Napoleonic era. The New York Sun records his long, sometimes questioned, age and his association with Thurlow Weed and figures like Col. Maxwell, as well as anecdotes from his past in India and at St Helena.
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New York Sun
Frederick Latrbush
New York
Third Avenue
Capt. Lahrbush
London
Lahrbush
Thurlow Weed
Lale Syed Queet
Mr. Weed
Hugh
Maxwell
Quees Lon
India
Col. Maxwell
C Aptain
Cape of Good Slope
Cape
England
Lahr-bush
Tuicher
Thirteenth Street
Bt. Helene
Napoleon Bonaparte
Kelly
St. Nelona
Kelly Geved
Conversation at Lady Franklin's house in Kensington
At Lady Franklin's in Kensington, Tennyson lectures Buchanan Read as Mr Heal protests. Read counters that the United States would keep England from ruin, while Tennyson insists Britain must follow prudent policy if America joins a drift toward desolation.
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Lady Franklin
Kennington
Tennyson
Buchanan Read
Mr. Heal
Kugland
Read
England
Fragmentary School Dialogue From Old Ledger
A damaged OCR excerpt shows a male voice addressing a child with phrases about a teacher and a whipping last Friday. The text is garbled and lacks clear names, dates, or places, offering only partial phrases on punishment and instruction.
Porter-house steak and eggs trigger street shootout tale
A man in a restaurant orders steak with eggs and ale as two patrons quarrel over a past feud. A shootout ensues outside after one man draws a revolver, then both depart toward a drink across the street. The restaurant owner later notes a $2.50 meal charge.
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Billy
White Pine
Blue Glass Maniac Ilo Seeks Blue Illusions And Doom
A curious tale follows Ilo the blue glass man who buys blue panes and goggles, orders blue glass in a top vent, dines on blue fish, travels by blue streetcar, and ends in a bleak act as he writes in his will that his coffin and monument be blue. The bizarre sequence ends with a tragic gunshot as he kills himself.
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Ilo
Diuey
Optician
Ile
Connecticut
Female architect opens office in Duston with ornate house
A female architect has opened an office in Duston. The described house features nineteen bay windows, forty seven close to no space for men to smoke, and enclosed balconies on each side allowing views into neighbors’ living rooms. The design is regarded by all ladies as “really quite too far more than awfully delicious.”
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Tts
Duston
Amuke
Entiene
Denuixote
Don Quixote
Duauty
Ann
Youlus
Simmons
L. G. Wunpen
Telegraph and Messenger
Macon
FT ET SP
All Drug State
Mundy Warns Against Marrying Unbelievers
Toledo Blade notes that Mundy faces criticism for urging Boston youth against interfaith marriage while seventy thousand women in Blare ni lack husbands, highlighting social strain and marriage market concerns.
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Toledo Blade
Mundy
Boston
Fragmented prayer text prompts concise expression
The reader presents a garbled prayer asking for clarity and concision. It seems to request a more precise rendering of a communal prayer to better express individual intent and devotion.
Moury Clay and the Goat Prank on a Sunlit Street
A humorous scene features Moury Clay orchestrating a playful mock with a goat in a sunny street. Onlookers and boys react as Clay commands, horns grab, and the animal’s liberty humorously tested, with the crowd urging retreat and a quick exit.
Don Quixote and Wit Across Diverse Tales
A fragmentary mosaic of phrases and maxims from Don Quixote and unrelated vignettes. The text weaves reflections on women, virtue, wit, humor, and conduct, interspersed with jagged lines about speech, pride, mischief, and a mocked scene with a piano organ. It reads like a collage from miscellaneous sources in archaic style.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver and Lane's Liver Pits
Symptoms describe right side rib edge pain and left side pain, shoulder blade and top shoulder referral, loss of appetite and sickness, constipation with alternating diarrhea, dull head pain, memory loss, fatigue, chills, cold feet, skin itching, and low spirits. Claims liver derangement found at autopsy. promotes Dr C M Lane's Liver Pits with quinine as effective for bilious disorders and fever, urges genuine product with wax seal and signatures, sold by Fleming Bros and druggists.
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Stallone Wiin
C. MP Lane
C. MY Lane
MY Lane
C. M. Lane
Fleming Bros
Pittsburgh
Molana
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Frederick Lanre
Lehebueh
Bt. Helens
Napoleon
Kellys
de Lahrbush
George III
Thee
C. Chalmers
Weat Seventeenth Street
Alatera
Revolvera
Virginia (Nee ) Chronicle
Moury Clay
Sobteon Crusoe
Mr. Clay
Aml
Badceastol
Italy
Milwaukee
THE
Troy Herald
C. Mslane
GP Rowflt & CO
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