Three Card Monte Drama and Whist Club Fallout
Kingston Freeman recounts a con job in New York where a mark, William M Rosa of Liberty, encounters a suave swindler with a fake factory tour and a staged sachel of samples, a side bet with a Missouri cattle dealer, and a gun-threated cash grab. Portland Oregonian notes a West End whist game dispute ending with Mr. Brooks fleeing.
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William M Rosa
Liberty
Gelvan County
Kingston
Grand Army of the Republic
Rosa
the Freeman
Bunco
New York
City Hall
Monticello
Sullivan County
Cear
Mott Street
Sullivan
Caunty
Missouri
West End
Brooks
Maggie
Mr. Brooks
Portland
Oregonian
Burial Towers and the Vultures A Grim Colonial Scene
A vivid account describes the Towers of Silence of the Parsis, detailing the 300 foot circular stone structure, three coralile receptacles for male female and child corpses, and the scavenging ritual. It explains the purification drains and the earth preserving tenet, with a graphic depiction of vultures feasting until bones dry and are cast into a central well, followed by a separate memoir of a man harmed by medical overreach and blindness.
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Darta
Zoroaster
Buffalo News
Counterfeit Ball Ticket Unearthed by City Society
The Arion society displays a counterfeit ball ticket forged to pass at the door. Created by a noted local designer as a wager, the nearly perfect imitation could fool crowds. The tale recalls a prior era when counterfeit opera tickets flooded the Academy of Music those years. Also notes a rattlesnake bite cure and a plan for portraits of society women in New York.
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Arion Society
P.ying
Academy of Music
Maretzek
Strakesch
Penman
Alfred Trumble
New York News
Irwin County
New York Sun
New York
Ireland's Vast Produce Yet Suffering Hunger in Grees Inn Struggle
A speaker cites 1880 Irish yields showing 110 million bushels of potatoes and 185 million of total fodder, with cattle and sheep numbers high, yet asking why poverty persists while exports surge. He warns of famine amid plenty, invoking Biblical injunctions on fair wages.
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Mains
Lord Macaulay
Ireland
United States
Sue
England
Maine
Cal
Goshen
America
Israei
Paul
Timothy
Grees Inn
Figuring to Fit Minds
A downtown tailor quips that fitting minds is harder than fitting bodies. Mind shapes shift with age and money influences mental form, causing apparent changes in character and temperament that complicate tailoring wisdom and insight.
Fashions in Manners Among New York Girls
A descriptive note on changing social fashions among New York women as quoted from The Argonaut. It contrasts rapid excitable speech and formal address era with a later shift to a more restrained, languid style, noting how once vivid gestures and bold speech faded into a subdued, chic manner.
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New York
Langer
Car Driver's Fate Exaggerated Street Car Exchange
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a streetcar confrontation where a passenger scolds a driver for splashing mud. The aggrieved rider vows to treat the driver coldly, claiming the incident ruined his dignity and a chance to bow to a girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Avenue
Sal
Detroit Free Press
Lowell Woman's Dream Of Lucky Number 272751
A Lowell lady invested in letters patent bearing the number 272,751 to aid an honored inventor who suffered ill health after the late war. Though she believed the number would prove lucky, she claims the purchase was to help the inventor rather than for her own gain. Judges in the state now affirm the number’s perceived luck as the patent goods emerge valuable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
Boston Journal
Underground telegraph cables link German and French centers
Germany has built a complete underground telegraph cable system across the country and France is adopting the same method. The network connects major military centers at a total cost of about 3 million dollars. Cables lie 8 or 4 feet below the surface, shielding communications from disruption.
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Germany
France
New Orleana Times-Democrat
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Ll.m. Gimesxer
Cash
W. F. Holcombe
M.D
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X.Y
Med. College
ULS
LR. White
Naskine
Bellevue Hospital
B. C
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Dann St. Joseph's Hospital
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Kaskine CO
Warren &T
Eet Soular
M.ehret, JR. & CO. Sole Manufacturers
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Minnesota
Dakota
CHICAGO /AnWORTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO
Charles E ‘Simmons
Chicago
Ill
Crear Bal
Catarre Ae
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Ely Bros
Carl Pudenz
Maintreet
North
Clarendon
Carl Piudenz
Catania
Carreeta
Catarrh Bau Co. Donarnn
Sir Grey
Saltie
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Revere
Hoopes
Brother & Thomas
West Chester
Pranaplvania Agricultural Works
York
Asoeral Haranara Standard Engines & Baw
Aya
Lilustraed
An. Fs
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A. S. Herenden Furniture Co
Bank St
Cleveland
Ohio
F. O. Pierce & Co
F.O Pierce & Co
H. A Jamieson & CO
Warren, Pa
N. K. Wendleboe, Liberty Street
Arene, Pa
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L. G. Noyes
Second St
Savings Bank
Warren
Flint’s
Boston Shoe Store
Diamond Block
Warren Pa
Math H.W. Johns Manufacturing GO
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Tlgabeston
Maiden Lane
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