Love's Young Dream Inmates Seek Marriage In Poorhouse
Thomas Haggerty and Belle Bush, eighteen, residents of Bradford county poorhouse in Burlington, Pa, fled to Philadelphia to wed. A telegram from the poorhouse led to their arrest before a magistrate could tie the knot. They vow to marry, even if it takes twenty five years, while awaiting permission to proceed.
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Thomas Haggerty
Belle Bush
Philadelphia
Bradford County
Burlington
Bradford
Professor Morse
Miss Bush
Mr. Haggerty
Amin
Carter
Thasa
E Carter Medicine CO
New York
Indian albino baby born to copper-colored couple shocks observers
The San Francisco Chronicle reports Domingo, a pure albino infant of Frank and Juanita Dick, two Chucosanvee Indians, born July 17 near Quartz Mountain. The infant has white flesh and hair, shifting eye colors, a large head, and is rivaling adults in strength. His parents resisted tribal plans to kill him after birth.
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Academy of Sciences Museum
San Francisco Chronicle
Domingo
Frank
Juanita Dick
Father Williams
Picayune Ranch
Pear Quartz Mountain
Fresno County
Old Tahoe
San Francisco
Pac
Dr. Leach
Fresno
Sympathetic Wives Cause Quarrel at Detroit Club
Two Detroit men discuss wives at a club in a humorous exchange. One notes his neighbor’s wife is sympathetic, citing an incident where he slipped on stairs and heard crying from her. The other retorts the dog weighs two pounds and he weighs more. A gossiping aside hints at engagements and money through Miss Bullion and Miss Sterling.
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Detroit
Esaw
Pio
Nicolini
Ne’er
Anaie Nooney
Mike McFadden
A Romance of the Period Amid Sleep and Courtship
A dramatic scene unfolds as Mildred and Harold plead for love with vivid romantic rhetoric. Harold declares lifelong devotion while Mildred offers reassurance and a sales-pitch nod to Heavyside’s Nerve Squelcher. Chicago Tribune style spoof ends with a quip about cures and sleep.
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Mildred
Harold
Heavyside
Chicago Tribune
Boston Women’s Press Club Forms in Boston
A new Boston women’s club for newspaper workers is formed to distinguish from the men’s press association. Members are mainly from Boston daily and weekly papers and gain entry by invitation. March’s officers include Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland city editor and other editors across fields. Members contribute stories or tips at regular meetings followed by informal dinners.
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Boston Women's Clu
Boston
Boston Women's
N. B W. P. Ter
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Dorothy Lindt
Belle Grant Armstrong
Elizabeth Merritt Gosse
Helen M. Winslow
Katherine S. Parks
Alice Stone Blackwell
Boston Women’s Press Club
Boston Letter
New Club
The Office Boy’s Excuse and Extraordinary Duels
A clip from a Boston Herald tale details an office boy causing trouble for a club secretary as many members miss notifications. It then recounts an 1803 duel in the air between two Frenchmen over Mile. Threvet, where balloons were used and one fell to the earth, killing both occupants. Includes notes on elephants in ancient times and depictions on Assyrian artifacts.
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Boston Herald
Threvet
St. Louis Republic
Thothmes II
Mesopotamia
India
Arbela
Palestine
Pyrrhus
Italy
Henan
Shalmanezer II
Scottish Review
Lepersions of Peel's mordant O'Connell quip cited
The San Francisco Argonaut recalls O'Connell's biting line on bloodlessness likening a smile to the silver plate on a coffin and contrasts it with a sharper take on a similarly repellant woman who showed poker like restraint with rare warmth.
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Peel
O'Connell
San Francisco
Clock Strikes Twelve Cited in Jewelry Circuit Note
In a brief exchange between Gwendolin and Mr Verisoft the clock downstairs chimed twelve. The remark hints at a paused or muted reaction to the chimes during the Jewelers' Circular Trade discussion.
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Gwendolin
Mr. Verisoft
Two Cures for Toothache from New York Journal
A dust of bicarbonate of soda will relieve a burn and is said to soothe a toothache. Oil of cloves will surely do this according to the New York Journal.
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New York Journal
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WM. Ayres & Sons
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