Southern youth finds fortune in a shark caught tale
Stanhope Randolph a South Carolina native deserts famine at home to fish on Port Royal Sound. He nets a 12 foot shark and uncovers a sealed Confederate dispatch box with cipher papers and eight hundred ninety six thousand francs in deposits. A web of wartime finance unfolds from Charleston to Bordeaux as Randolph pursues a risky windfall.
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Paris
Stanhope Randolph
South Carolina
Colleton
Pocotaligo
Barnwell
Machias
Boston
Beaufort
S. C
Havana
Jacob Euler
Port Royal
Colonel Euler
Port Royal Sound
Mr. Euler
Mrs. Euler
Randolph
Minnsion
Euler
Ambrose Gunter
X. Animas Freres
Bordeaux
John Brown
Mr. Thompson
Confederacy
Thompson
Gunter
Brown
Ricaud
Wilmington
Bermuda
Fannie
London
Gannet
Nassau
Rigwud
Johnson's Island
Animas Freres
Ileve
Mr. Brown
Nice
Bourdeaux
Mice and Men
Syndic
M. Animas
Brown, Gunter
Not a Moment to Call Off Family Plea
Mr Brown refuses help as M Animas pleads for mercy and wealth through payment. Animas dreads police arrival and, in despair, pays the money, allowing Stanhope Randolph to get rich, per a NY World report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Brown
M. Animas
Brown
Stanhope Randolph
Spencer
N. Y. World
Amateur Photography and New Equipment Rise in Popularity
A New York Times style report notes amateurs rapidly mastering photography with the recent relatine-bromide dry plate. It highlights affordable, versatile gear from $11 to $50, including cameras, developing outfits, and innovative devices like detective cameras and pneumatic shutters enabling candid shots without proximity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Mail and Express
Impromptu Orations and the Near Impeccable Speech
The Ramber reflects on the agony of preparing an impromptu speech. It jokes that speakers fake ease after burning midnight oil and fear exposure as unprepared. Readers will recognize the all too human dilemma of sounding natural while concealing effort and self-doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gath
California fortune hunter walks barefoot in New York
A forty-year-old Taner who built a California gold fortune spent it unwisely and was found barefoot in New York streets. He has no friends or home and has lived as a tramp since misfortune struck thirty years ago, according to the Tribune.
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California
New York
Tribune
Ferdinand Ward
Wall Street
T K
Chatticia
Lith Avenue
Milwaukee
Wis
Athlophoros
Hlophoros CO
Wall St
Household hints from various papers on food and farming
A collection of domestic tips and recipes from 19th century papers. Advice covers lamb feeding with oatmeal gruel and warmed milk, fruit cookies with raisins and spices, pasture grass criteria, a date dish mush, chicken bone safety with chopped bone disposal, and mutton cakes made from cold leftovers with oysters and herbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zroy
Chicago Journal
Boston Globe
Cleveland
Montreal
Home dress making hints for front corsage trims
Harper's Bazar outlines simple stylish methods for upgrading dresses with vests of sarah silk or Japanese crape, using bright colors and puff sleeves, plus beaded passementerie and net trims. It also covers basques, hair pads to shorten waists, kilt skirts, and tailoring tips favoring clean lines over overtrimmed styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Harper's Bazar
Stories of Animals and Oddities in Various States
Survey of animal tales from Byron Maine to California includes a hunter trapping thirty bears, a barroom cat hatching five chicks, a Benton woman killing a hen as a snake emerges, tame maned lions near Santa Maria, a Newfoundland dog in Saratoga escaping sale, foxes given to a dog whose puppies drown, a catamount killed in Berks County, a Calhoun Cal incident with a calf and a girl at a well, a buck run to death by Cavender, a dog nursing seven coyote pups, a boy trading marbles then losing prizes, barbering at home fashion, and assorted patent remedies and ads from the era.
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M. Locke
Byron, Me
Coney Island Road
Santa Maria
Cal
C.C. Oakley
Harry
Saratoga
Peter Ware
Washington
Cugistopurr Grimes
Berks County
Penn
Alabama
Dillie Welsh
Chares Cavender
Leadville
Col
Cavender
Fred Faul
Oroville
Mr. Faul
Flora
St Louis Land Grant Case Ties To Indiana Seamstress
Miss Eliza Abbott of Indianapolis is involved in Interior Department proceedings about a Spanish land grant once owned by Captain William Armstrong. The grant, lost in later surveys, has now been traced through heirs including Judge Armstrong, a Kentucky cousin, and Abbott in Indiana. The land lies in southeast St Louis and is valued in the millions with four heirs remaining.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Eliza Abbott
Interior Department
Washington
St Louis
Spain
France
William Armstrong
St. Louis
Prairie Des Noyes
Congress
Captain Armstrong
C. T. Armstrong
Kentucky
Miss Abbott
Armstrong
City of
Judge Armstrong
Abbott
Winchester
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Han Wert
Summersett & Wyandt
van Wert
Ohio
R. A. Langford
Norristown Herald
Springfield
Congressman Foray
St. Jacobs
Mutchler
Pennsylvania
Shakespeare
Pierce
Chicago Tribune
Hall
Ayer
G. W
National Weekly
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffale
N. Y
Bigelow
Jac(k Jester
C. T. Smith
Waukegan, Il
Boston’ Traveler
Capriang
Lige Brown
Pike
Glenn
Hood
Hoos Saraaparila
Mrs. Mooure Cctrteer
Eleventh St
Covington
C. L. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mags
C. I. Hood & CO
Mass
Webster
U.S. Supreme Court
Gov't Printing Office
Sup
G. & C. Merriam & CO
Tam
England
Nottingham Hospital
America
Roosevelt
Swift
New York City
Tus Swirt Sprotric Co
Atlanta
N.Y
W. 2d Street
Chicago Herald
Ely
C.J. Coxnin
Phila
F. D. Morss
Elizabeth
N.J
Catarre
Iss
Geo. E. Brown & C0
Aurora, Ill
Cleveland Bay
Mabel
United States
Fitzgerald & Powell
Clain Agency
van Dorenald
Central Music Hall
Chicago
Gladstone
Great Britain
Ireland
Lincoln
Grant
Wm Hall
WM. Hall
Joan Rull
Burt
T. H. Owens
Louisville
Jonn Burt
M. Pyles
M. D
Res
Jonn Butt
James Moore
Joann Rour
Sint
Pepeia
Joun
McGee
Howse Cave
Theough
Kitneys
Mailer
H. Bentley
Rossville
Bull
Smith
Joux Buer
B. B. Allen
Bradtorel
West Main Street
Heath
Mana
East
Mason Street
Jackson Mich
Howl
Emmense
Thad
Maud
Saranporilla
C. 1. Howd & CO
Deus
Hiendersons
C. M. Henderson & CO
Boots
Shoes
Chicagoe
San Cus
Armer's Paradise
Pa Rado Lanny & Loan Co
Opera Home
Denver
Colo Box
Wasi Oti
Lyon & Healy
State St. Curiaco
Lenos
Gerey
Bettis
H. G. Root
Pearl St
Saqiy
U.S
Prive-List
J.C. Ligutoves
Rochester
Wairk
Sale
Sure
A. W. McCormick & Son
Cincinnati
Newark
N. J
Warsted
E. F. Dieterich
Cleveland, UC
Pamphick
F.B. Golley
d-Stephens
Lebanon
F.L. Pond, M D
Aurora, Kane Co
Vanestine Bros
Janesville
Wit
A. N. KA
Liniment
Opttman
Usu
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