Personal and Literary News From Troy and Beyond
The Troy Herald reports on Mrs Halle Ware Howe’s lecturing in New York, Ernest Longfellow’s painting in Maine, editor stenography trends, and a run of society and cultural items. It notes engagement rumors for Grant and Kitty Cooke, death notices, Michigan women voting, and various 1870s U.S. political and literary mentions with local names and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halle Ware Howe
New York
Chiapel
Marlon
Ernest. Longfellow
Boston
Maine
Simmer Hae
Siel Js
Whitelaw Meld
Charl
A. Dana
Manton Marble
D. G. Croly
Sami Bowles
John W. Forney
Mount Halstead
Home White
Terry Watterson
Multiple Fatalities and Incidents Across States
A roundup of accidents and deaths from Washington GA to Missouri and beyond reports accidental pistol discharge killings, stove and gas explosions, a building move mishap, and various violent incidents. Notable items include Ilonny Melzer of Bolton MO killed by accidental pistol discharge, Susan Gielucke buried alive while cooking for an invalid, a young man Hawley dying after a fall at a threshing scene in Iowa, and Henry Buisman struck by a falling object in Wisconsin. Also noted are manhunts, a bank employee nearly suffocated by foul air, a child fatally bitten by a rattling snake in Kansas, a powder explosion near Republic MI, arson-related house fires in Indiana, and other violent or accidental deaths across several states. The report also mentions a notoriety-related attack on editor O. S. Long and a string of sensational curiosities including a German immigrant’s wife’s death from a dental instrument accident, and a series of macabre, sometimes humorous, anecdotes about names and historical notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilonny Melzer
Bolton
Chis, Hultz
Washington
Susan Gielucke
Hawley
Dotinson County
Iowa
Viroqua
Wis
Henry Buisman
Adelbert Dawes
Sen
Stubs Reform School
J. W. Alexander
Marshall
Cowley County
Kans
Republic
Mich
Albert Andrew
Ile
Foreign Notes on Italian and European Affairs
The column reports Americans studying in Milan, women in retail pharmacy in Bagel, and Count de Paris as a wartime ally favored by ladies. It notes Italy’s cross awarded to New York’s Italian Consul General for anti child trade efforts, migration from the South to Maine, Milton’s London recluse, a South American potentate visiting England, and a French legal scholar’s travel to Araucania. It closes with royal household red tape described in Victoria era terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Seevle
Amherst College
Tidin
Phiesbury
Massachusetts
David Preston
Detroit
Hias
Albion College
Sere Yin
Diocese of
New York
Potter
Porcini
Chiat Winount Ordenad
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
M'Closkey
Asurrbagee
Tvarsaes
Coeh
Milan
Bagel
Paris
France
Tien
McClellan
Order of
Italy
Maine
Louisiana
Virginia
John Miltons
London
St. Giles
Cripple Gate
Burkett
South America
England
Aniicania
M. de 'Tourens
Araucanls Sone
Orcile Ane
Ile Gous
Tiron Stockwar
Ques Victoria
Fragmented Readings and Humble Musings from an Old Issue
A collection of scattered, archaic fragments touches on weather, birthday celebrations, schooling, and family scenes. It recalls a grandmotherly tone as stories wander from a mother questioning a child’s memory to a neighbor’s strange name exchanges and a German veteran’s land grant.
Hoop-skirt mishap prompts cautionary tale visit
A visitor recounts waking in the night with a distressing stomach upset and a hoop skirt entangling his legs. He describes the hoop-skirt mishap as causing a heavy spill and a wild tumble that rattled the house, urging women to heed safety when leaving hoopskirts on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Troy Herald
Troy
Missouri
Troy Times
Dowell Renner
Motley
Thle City
Harpers
Ani
Broadway
Morton
Conway
Pred
Grant
Kitty Cooke
Cooke
Lily
Chicago
Chicago, To Who Liewt. Girut Cotiteal
Johny Broek Dries Watt
NPL
Banks
Lenny Wilson
Johan
Frogs HO
Simon Cameron
Portion Seymour
U2 Alex
Stephens
Caleb Cushing
Charles Sinner
Han
Manis G. Blake
Osver P. Morton
Roscoe Conkling
Win
Kel- Tey
Saint
Manta
Leonard Meyers
Chas
Oneill
George W. Willams
United States
Maniton Fish
Creswell
Columbus Dehno
Interior
Reverdy Jolson
NPE
Constitutional Commission of Michigan
Hamilton College
Mias Alby Woodleigh
T. A. Wooo
East Have
Nington
Pennsylvania Female College
Pittsburg
Lyman Beecher
East Hampton
Long Island
Dumnes Parton
C. B. Frothinghan
T. W. Higginson
Evangelical Alliance
Cooper Union
New Hampshire
Eighit
Virginia City
Elihi
Vancoborough
St. Ceaix
Whiel
Mediterranean
Belehoran
Crown Point
San Francisco Chronicle
California
Usth
Quebec
Drummond County
Canada
Hups
Long
Wheeling W.wa. Register
M. Sweeney
House of Delegates
Register
Sweeney
Peter Ivan
Pointer's Creek
Henry Wills
Thompson's Landing
Misa
Ife
Ryan
South Bend
Ind
Lena Riel
le Leonard
Oplnton
Col
C. Brown
Water Valley
Mias
Ben
Morgan
John Wilson
Kronenbarger
Peter Setinik
Barut Biehner
Coline Tots
Selimalek
Howe
Larcaster
Steel
Worvester
Mass
Wilkie Beckele Hindo
Jin
Oakland
Termessee
Don Carlos
Spain
Marie de-la-Conception- Therese
Francosee
Il’ Assloe
Marguerite Jeanne-Beatrice
Henry
Neluton
Freeh Sur
Garthaldi
Aspranonte
Enghaned
Nelaton
Pir Nelston
Jadis
Anki
Lynn
Mos
Herrother
Hilin Ated Nile
Alnee
St. Lous
Collins
Iself
Mirael
Ende
Bocas
Stchusetts
Ortwell Waal
Eggleston
Thas
Dhe
Baron Steuben
Onelia County
Peoria Review
Trayther
Drayther
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