Woman in White Haunts Bellevue Dissecting Room Tale
Ned Adams recalls sleeping in the Bellevue Hospital College building from 1864 to 1870 and guarding the dissecting room with over 150 cadavers nearby. He describes a white woman apparition, eerie sounds, and the dogs reacting, leading him to resign the next day and vow never to return to the dissecting room.
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Herald
Fanny
Ned Adams
South Street
Bellevue Hospital College
Austin Flint, Jr
Eneed
Malion Grieve Attacked by Householder During Canvass
A book agent faced a violent reception when a grocer’s husband assaulted him while he was pitching books to a woman. A cabbage struck his head, his moustache was torn off, and he was driven into the street. The incident warns canvassers to avoid houses where the head of the household is present.
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Tribune
Grookian
Bey
Barber misreads victim in Chicago star tale
In a Chicago Herald piece a barber, failing to recognize his client, proclaims he can tell a man’s business by his face and scalp. He tests the actor and, after a brief examination, declares with certainty that the man is in the shoe store trade.
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iChicago Herald
Lawrence Barrett
Western Adventure on a Bear and Vulture Night Ride
A northbound express from Redding endures a fierce Sacramento storm. Conductor and brakeman walk the rails to prevent slides, fear a bear, and encounter a frightening, winged vulture blocking the trestle. They retreat to safety, then continue with a wary, comic relief escort awaiting dawn.
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Bear
Salt Lake City Tribune
Redding
Sacramento
Edmund Russell as Yankee Apostle of Beauty in Washington
The Cleveland Leader notes Edmund Russell a young New Yorker likened to an American Oscar Wilde. He lectures in Washington on Delsarte influenced reform of social manners and art tastes, with plans on house decoration dress and table settings. Russell sees himself as a reformer, though the public need remains debated.
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Carp
Cleveland
Washington
Oscar Wilde
New York
Delsarte
Amerca
Edmund Russell
Russell
Kindness Rewarded A Beggar Woman’s Gift The Coyle Trust
A letter carrier found a damaged letter addressed to Patrick Coyle at 116 Ave d and delivered it to his East 125th Street station. It told of a deceased woman on Ward's Island who left 1400 in a belt to Coyle for sheltering her. The Coyles sheltered a sick ragged woman during a storm, bought her shoes, and learned nothing else until the letter arrived.
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Webb
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Patrick Coyle
One Hundred and Sixteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Coyle
Ward’s Island
Coyles
First Thanksgiving Dinner in Iowa Reported by Early Explorers
Muscatine Journal recounts a tale of Marquette and Joliet visiting a Cedar River site near Squire Holmes, leaving their boat and discovering an ancient wigwam village. The Iowas hosted a four course dinner including gruel soup with oil, boned fish, roast dog, and buffalo meat, with a Thanksgiving following the feast.
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Iowa
Muscatine
Freemasons Craft Not an Order Say Freemasons
A historical note urges Freemasons to use the term craft rather than order when referring to Masonry. It emphasizes that Freemasonry is a craft, not an order, and asks brethren to avoid the degrading mislabel.
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Freemasons
Mlinois Freemason
Freemasonry
Saltpeter Cave Adventure Near Princeton
A Louisville Courier-Journal correspondent recounts a day trip into Saltpeter Cave in Caldwell County near Princeton. The party encounters humid chambers, bats, a hollow pumpkin-like formation, stalactites, stalagmites, and a six to eight foot stream, noting refugee slave rendezvous history and the cave's vast, ill explored passages.
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Princeton
B. Tatcliff
Kentucky
Caldwell County
True Without Doubt and the Possum Dog Witch of Brazos County
A Brazos County tale recounts Steve Wilkins and his possum hound Witch battling a cold trail then vanishing. The next morning a dog headed serpent monster with Witch’s head crawled the street, swallowed Witch, died after he forced his leg free, and Witch miraculously survived by night’s end.
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Texas
Rosions
Lex
Memphis
Steve Wilkins
Hind Nicfol
Brazos County
Witeh
Weill
Steve
Dim Webster
Witch
Brazos
Webster
Austin
Houston Sterets
Woners
Nick Holt
Holt
Turkey
Bae
Oss Ins
Ania
Snowball Ride Down Mountain Endangers Boy in Lassen County
In Lassen County between Taylorville and Susanville a boy named Peter Miller, eight, vanished while making a snowman. A large snowball rolled down a steep slope, entombing him under snow until his parents freed him. He survived with minor injuries after the ball stopped at a fallen tree, preventing a deadly plunge into the canyon.
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Peter Miller
Maryville
Cal
Tuiamma
Carly
Nobles of Verney Family Serve at Chatelet Theater
An Illustrated London News item notes the Verney family at the Chatelet Theater. Marquis Ludovic de Verney, heir to a fame dresser, earns thirty sous a night. His wife works as dresser, his daughter Alphonsine de Verney dances in the ballet, and three younger children, aged nine to twelve, appear as figurants in Petit Poucet. The Marquisate has no land or goods.
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Chatelet
Ludovic de Verney
Comtesse Alphonsine de Verney
Astonished Doctor Meets Senator Butler at Fargo
An old Fargo episode recalls Senator Butler of South Carolina meeting a country doctor who asks if he is General Butler. The doctor notes he does not look like someone who would kill blacks, and Butler retorts that he hasn’t killed as many as the doctor. The crowd laughs once the point sinks in.
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iSan Francisco Argonaut
Senator Butler
South Carolina
Fargo
C.C
General Butler
Dr. Shaw
Archaic Patent Remedies and Local Advertising
Fragmented advertisement notes patent medicines and tonics including spepsia and laxatives claimed to cure chronic constipation and stomach disorders. It promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve for cuts and skin eruptions, claims guarantees, and lists local distributors in Philadelphia and related medical notices.
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Saltpeter Cave
Nature
Mans
Rae Parnas
Louisville Courier-Journal
Illustrated London News
Castoris
Castoria
Noves
Bucklen
A. W. Morck
Lvel
JO Bune
AL Morek
Thaciord
King
Ainge
A. Morek
Kabensack
Second Street
Hace
Philadelphia
Herow SG
Soertie Clarenson
Jovery
E. C. Cleveland
Hop
Pyamia
Ayer
J. C. Ayer
Leticis
Gaute Et Vivier
Jane Tiantum
Columbus
Wintten County
Wade Neds
ANNAL
Trantum
Warren
Edward
Lovell
Secretary of Internal Affairs
coMmon Wealth of
Pennsylvania
Allegheny River
Flaggs Island
Ghule
Rwnalip. Wroren
Worth & No
Sowneni
Warren County
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