Kalorama Houses and the Sinking Echoes of Jefferson Era
Special correspondence from Washington recalls Kalorama and other historic D C houses once linked to Adams Clay and Calhoun. It notes the 1875 sale of Kalorama Heiguis for 875 dollars, the decay of antebellum sites, and legends around Decatur Bowring and Barlow. The piece links battles, diplomacy, and seward mansion to ongoing urban development and a looming government building.
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Kalorama
Joel Barlow
Jefferson
Seward
Niskles
Key
Washington
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
F Street
John C. Calhoun
National Library
Balorama Heiguis
Bartow
Congress
Robert Fulton
Philadelbia
Massachusetts Avenue
Columbus
Watts
Europe
America
George Washington
Barrow
Aaron Burr
Ben Franklin
Paris
Monroe
Madison
Clay
Torraine
Connecticut
Yale College
Baptist Church of Connecticut
Oliver Arnold
Benedict Arnold
Barlow
Arnold
Clergyman Honored Bishop Whipple Invited to Cambridge
Milwackee May 16 A noted American bishop, H B Whipple of Minnesota, is invited to deliver Cambridge University's annual sermon and will sail from New York in early June for England. Whipple, famed for Indian rights advocacy, built Faribault’s educational system and leads regional missions. He is a compelling speaker and has inspired memorials by Mrs. J G Shumway and Miss Cla vine Shumway, with Shumway Hall nearing completion.
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Commodore Pecator
Admiral Rodgers
Taney
Jackson
Key
Sickles
Lafayette Square
Washington McLean
Lafayette
Gen. Sickles
Bishop Whipple
Minnesota
Cambridge
England
Milwackee
H. B. Whipple
Episcopal
University
Cambridge University
New York
Anglican Church
America
Whipple
Faribault
St. Paul
Congress
J. G. Shumway
Chicago
Spain
New Shumway Hall
Shattuck School
Institute
Shumway
Clavine Shumway
Hank
Boston
Shumway Hall
Johnson Hal
Gro. H Yenowinm
No Quicksilver Mines in Siberia Declared False
Henry Lausdell, D. D., in Barper's Monthly recounts a traveler’s myth about deadly quicksilver mines in Siberia. He cites no proof of such mines, notes silver mines exist, shares a Petersburg editor’s correction, and reports exiles’ rumors about a tiny quicksilver site near Nertchinsk as unfounded.
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Siberia
Thad
Russia
Petersburg
Bolyvan
Nertchinsk
Henry “Lausdell
Barper's Monthly
History of a horseshoe in Houston club home
The Lefthanded club of Houston kept a muleshoe hanging over a door with a tale. A mule at Pass Cavallo briefly disappeared as a shark took its hind leg, later recovered from the shark's belly by a quarantine schooner crew. The shoe now guards against witches in the club’s house.
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Houston
Tex
Pass Cavallo
New York
San
Improved Burglary and New Safe Breaking Tools
Special correspondence from New York describes evolving bank burglary methods and tools. An older expert explains transitions from heavy jimmies to explosives and advanced devices like the Little Giant, air pumps, and diamond drills, noting safes are increasingly hard to breach and mastery now requires science and chemistry.
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New York
Sixth Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Great Britain
Hope
Shang Draper
Sectional Jrnry
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wai
Willam E
Journey to Zermatt Through Narrow Rhone Valley
From Leuk to Visp then Stalden and St Niklas the traveler describes steep climbs and repeated up and down segments as a path along the Rhone valley winds toward Zermatt. The party notes heavy loads and wagons, growing scenery with cascades and the Weisshorn looming ahead as views brighten before a sudden change in scene.
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Italy
Leuk
Dala
Simplon
Rhone
Visp
Zermatt
Stalden
Germatt
St. Niklas
Wisp
Fred
Weisshormm
The Matterhorn Scene Looms Over a Sighting
The narrator describes turning onto a road toward a forbidding pyramid shaped peak identified as the Matterhorn. The famed mountain looms as a deadly lure for climbers, associated with significant loss of life, then reveals a valley village and a welcoming hotel stay.
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Matterhorn
Pecheeva
Old Wallack Stock Company Disbands After Thirty Six Years
New York notes report Mr. Lester Wallack’s stock company has disbanded after a final season ending with School for Scandal in Brooklyn. The company, the oldest stock troupe in the city, launched at Wallack’s Lyceum on Broadway. Many era stars appeared, including J. W. Wallack, Dion Boucicault, Edward A. Sothern, and John Gilbert.
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New York
Lester Wallack
Brooklyn
Wallack’s
Wallack
John Gilbert
J W. Wallack
America
England
Wallack Stoc
Lio
Lester
J. W. Wallack
Broadway
Broome Street
Brougham
Lyceum
Kate Horn
Cmpany
W. R. Blake
Tiassa
Walcot
Laura Keene
John Hoey
J. H. Stoddard
Dion Boucicault
Edward A. Sothern
Sara Stevens
John C. Heenan
John Wood
Matilda Heron
Sothern
Julia Ward Howe
Leonore
Edwin Booth
Thirteenth Street
Robert Stoepel
Bijou Heron
Charles, Fisher
Fanny Morant
Madeline Henriques
Sir Peter Teagle
Elliott Gray
Thirtieth Street
Lotus Club of
Climate cures phthisis through nutrition and tonic climate
A London Lancet writer argues climate is not a cure but a condition of care for consumption. He says recovery hinges on nutrition, exercise, and stimulants like cod liver oil and hypophosphites. Climatic resorts should be tonic, chosen only with regulated food, habits, and life to aid benefit, per Chicago News.
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London Lancet
Chicago News
The Compositor's Third Arm Prediction
A Portland Oregonian piece muses on printers evolving a third arm from the chest to hold the stick while typing with both hands. It notes the risk of stick bottom friction melting type unless a water helper is present, and jokingly suggests testing the idea by propping sticks and using both hands.
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Portland Orogonian
No. 351 House Notice in New York Sun Quirk
A tired citizen in a New York Sun fragment searches for house number 351 five doors above, noting a woman in the second story window. The hiccuping speaker confirms the address while describing the scene and location.
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Opshur
Housh
New York Sun
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John Hoard Payne
Corcoran
Sweet Home
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Georgia
Commoodore Decatur
Sarrou
Bladensburg
Decatur
DB Street
Lafayette Place
Gen. Bexil
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Col Bomford
Barron
Marcia Burns
Rogers
Dolly Madison
White House
Bickles
Tetton
Barton Key
Gen
Pennsylvania Avenue
Gen. Sis
Gen Sickles
Hoe
Thomas J. Topp
Lofty Alps
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