The Old Tower of Tewkesbury in England's Wars
A Victorian essay recounts the medieval tower at Tewkesbury as a symbol of durability. It describes the 132 foot structure, its carved upper stages, and the mighty fourteen cylindrical columns inside the nave. The piece recalls the 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury, the Lancastrian fall, and the Bloody Meadow on the Avon, with historical details and reflections by A. T. Quiller-Couch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Avon
Tower of Tewkesbury
Westminster Abbey
Tewkesbury
Gloucester
Cheltenham
Queen Margaret
Prince Edward
Duke of Somerset
Exeter
Earl of Pembroke
Wales
Edward IV
Windsor
Craokhack
Tewkesbury Cr
High Street
Burton Street
Church Str
Edouard
Prince of Wales
Clarence
Alta Een
Severn
A. T. Quiller Couch
Uwarper’s
Decline of Once Famous Singers Hits Low Venues
The New York Herald notes the plight of aging opera stars whose voices fail, forcing them from grand stages to ten cent museums and beer gardens. Managers describe it as brutal, a personal public disgrace, with performers slipping “by inches” as public esteem fades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Beer Garden
Bowery
New York Herald
Fish as the Staff of Life and Strychnine Discovery
Personal experience recounts a forty day period surviving on fish with bread and no potatoes. The writer notes no mental clarity or energy gains and a craving for unknown desires. The piece references Mme Weiss and the 1818 discovery of strychnine by Pelletier and Caventon, naming Vauquelin as opposed to linking his name with the poison. Roumanian and Estonian mothers are described tying ankle ribbons or attaching asa fetida to children for protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Weiss
Pelletier and Caventon
Vauquelin
Pall Mall Gazette
More white sheep than black in a wistful tale of hope
A reflective lyric tale opens with a lone wanderer musing on sorrow then finds solace in a boy’s remark that there are more white sheep than black, symbolizing more good than bad. The piece shifts to a remembered emigrant journey framed by family history and pioneer peril, recounting the Donner party and stories of Indian fears, through Grandma Keyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Felton
California
Springfield
Ills
Donner
James F. Reed
George
Jacob
Plains
Grandma Keyes
Indiana
Virginia
Kentucky
Grandmines Room
Svarriar
Swias
How Cotton Cargoes Catch Fire In Coastal Ports
The piece explains fire risks from handling cotton in port. Coasters unload cotton onto piers or lighters, later shipped to Europe by steamers. Sparks from tug engines or unburnished tarps ignite loose cotton on piers and flames smolder until ships depart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
New Orleans
Savannah
Norfolk
Richmond
Europe
New York Sun
Electric Charge Strips Chickens By Tornadoes Claim
Fort Worth Gazette notes that wind cannot strip a chicken, but electricity can. It describes using an insulated stool to pass a heavy electrical charge through the body, causing hair to stand up like iron spikes and suggesting higher charge could strip feathers, linking the effect to tornadoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Fashionable dress demands costly linen and six shirts
The piece notes a young woman’s stylish attire requires immaculate linen and at least six shirts, four laundered, one worn, another ready tomorrow, while critiquing the expense of manly couture and praising early celluloid improvements in photos. It also mentions aluminum bicycle wheels, a Siberian reindeer transport plan for Alaska, and a new conductor joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colume
Ladies’ Home Journal
Garland TroF) Foy POLIPe MAP train schedule fragment
Fragmentary OCR from a train timetable or depot notices shows partial times and routes. Names like Junction Jewsbury and Youngs vs Pittsfeld appear, with scattered numbers and notes about trains, depots, and schedules, but details are incomplete and unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junction
Jewsbury
Youngs
Pittsfeld
Garland Trof
Foy Polipe
Wtrains
Anu Xeepi
Depot Corne Ch
Time Table May 11 1891 Rail Schedule
The timetable lists outbound and return departures and arrivals for trains serving Garfiel Sheffield Barnes Brookston Wolf Run and Sheffield Junction with connections to P RR and P W at Sheffield and Sheffield Junction. Key northbound and southbound trains include Nos 2 4 6 and 1 5 7 9 with times between 6:45 a m and 8:50 p m. Jerry Craby Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
mTrain
Warren
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
Sheffield
Chas.e. Pugh
J.R. Wood
Man
Garfiel
Barnes
Sheffield Junction
Brookston
Wolf Run
Tiona
Garfield
Shefield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Concert Hall Singers
Sweet
Blac
Iaf
Nee Glass
Verity Phetographe
Alaska
Siberia
Scott
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
Bradford
Castoria
Parker
Nashville
Dr. Theel
Ropean
Germany
Bergiare
Erriehill
Kuntledge
Tvernsias
India
Lars Oyant
Wadder
E. F. Burrerfield
Syracuse
Swayne
Nait
Son
F. K. Scott’s
A. A. Davis & Co
Neen
Boston
Chicago
ST. Paul
Cincinnati
ST. Louis
F. H. Garfield
Jamestown
H. Wallace
Oil City
Aceh
Pennsylvania
Kinzue
Salamanca
Olean
Olean Expres
Olean Express
Irvinton
Tidioute
Tionesta
Pittsburon
Buffalo Express
W. S. Leffard
J. A
Offi
al M
R. Bell
Exchange St
Buffalo
Farnswo
Ilroad Gaage Railroad
T Dd
van Jurnham’s Mills
Clarendon A. Wood's Mill
P.G& E.R. Rome
Ridgway
Cranut
Gard
Dunham's Mill
Fratfield
A. D. Wood
Pennsylvania Railroad
P. & B. Division
Shetheb
Dail Parrisburg
Intermendince
Harrisburg
Sunbury Harris Pure
Lancaster
Washigton
Baltimore Am
Pullman
Williamsport
Kane
Struthers
Walron Works
Warren, Pa
Warren Book Bindery
Shiador & T
John R
Yortsale
Maine
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh Railr
N.y. c & Brr
Eastern Star
AOA
Sinclairgill Gerry
Ross
Mil Ralenner
Foundaly
Inday
Idard Time
Reins North
P.M
Imstaod
O Aedob van Smn
Super Utendent EE
Batcueller
Ticket Agt
Tionesta Valley Railroad
N. Greenlund S
Berckey & Gay Furniture
Grand Rapids
Nelson Greenland Undertaker and
Exchange Block
Diamond Block
Penn’a
Oea
the Diamond Furniture CO
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