Obituary Roll of Noted Americans and International Figures
A January to July roll of distinguished deaths lists Ernest Crosby in Baltimore at 6, the shah of Persia in Teheran at 1, Gen. Russell Alger in Washington at 71, Isabella Beecher Hooker in Hartford at 85, and many others across months. It compiles social reformers, politicians, artists, scientists, military leaders, actors, and writers with ages and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Howard Crosby
Baltimore
A. A. Shah of Persia
Teheran
Josiah Flynt Willard
Josiah Flynt
Chicago
Russell A. Alger
United States
Michigan
Washington
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Lyman Beecher
Hartford
Conn
Henry Martyn Field
New York Evangelist
Stockbridge
Mass
Thomas Ruger
Stamford
Julia Magruder
Richmond
John Tyler Morgan
Alabama
Bartolome Maso
Old Guard
Manzanillo
Cuba
Alexander Stewart Herschel
London
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
Radcliffe College
Boston
Francis Murphy
Los Angeles
Cal
Notable obituaries and memorials of prominent figures
A chronological list of notable deaths and ages including Francis Miles Finch in Ithaca aged 118, David Christie Murray in London aged 61, Augustus Saint Gaudens in Cornish aged 59, and others in September November and December. Entries mention professions from jurist to sculptor, actor, explorer, and scholars with locations like New York London Paris and Bergen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh C. Pentecost
New York City
Albert Kautz
Florence
Italy
Isabelle Urquhart
Rochester
N. Y
Prof
Mendeleef
Petersburg
Sir William Howard
Russell
London
Frank W. Higgins
New York
Olean
Princess Clementine of
Saxe-Coburg- Gotha
Louis Philippe
France
Vienna
A. O. Gunter
Francis Miles Finch
Ithaca
David Christie Murray
Augustus Saint Gaudens
Cornish
N. H
Joachim
Berlin
the Earl of Dunmore
England
Canterbury
Richard Mansfield
New London
Hingham
Mass
John Grimes Walker
High Pasture
Samuel Sloan
Garrison
Gen
Charlies E. Furlong
Portland
Don Diego Barros Arana
South America
Santiago
Lewis Morris
Moncure D. Conway
Paris
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock
Sir John Franklin
Asaph Hall
Annapolis
Richard Castro
Mexico
George F. Shrady
Gen. Grant
Massive global mine and rail disasters listed by year
A historical ledger records numerous fatal accidents and explosions across mines rail lines and ships. Entries name locations such as Wolland Kan Fowler Ind Sandford Ind Lievin France Primero Colo Lorentz West Virginia Colton Calif and London Ontario among others with death tolls and injuries and note occasions from powder and gas explosions to wrecks and collapses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rock Island
Pacific
Wolland
Kan
Fowler
Ind
Sandford
Primero
Colo
Lievin
France
Lorentz
W. Va
Johann-on-Saar
Prussia
Stewart
Fayette County
Thomas
Elkins
L’orient
New York Central
New York City
Coahuila
Mexico
Mi o na Stomach Tablets Advertised by Lemmon’s
An advertisement describes Mi o na stomach tablets as a reliable cure for indigestion and related stomach distress. Lemmon’s pharmacy guarantees the 50 cent box costs nothing unless it cures, promising quick relief for giddiness heartburn and sleeplessness linked to digestive issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon
Entertainer Mr. Ewatt Seeks Reaction At College Party
Lawrence Evart, starring in We Are King, aimed to impress classmates with a monologue at a house party. A guest, drawn as a prop, interrupted, prompting laughter and a sharper audience reaction as Evart continued to entertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Evart
Mr. Evart
Ewatt
Ewart
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills
Hall's Catarrh Cure is an internal remedy claimed to cure catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The advertisement asserts it is a regular prescription from a top physician and lists Toledo Ohio as the company base with 75 cent price. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F.j.cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Patent list and cough remedy advertised together in Iowa notices
A Iowa notices column lists patent issues dated the 24th for items including ventilators and rural mail carrier cabinets with inventors like Burr Adams and Mathison. The page also promotes Dr Shoop Cough Cure claiming a safe plant extract treatment for tickling coughs beyond opium or harsh agents.
Borrowed Smiles and Money in May Bohemian Verse
A Bohemian verse from May mocks romance and money, noting that a rich husband becomes a slave but a poor master and that love does not pay the bills. It jokes that Cupid ignores dollar signs and that family quarrels often hide gold lining, with a gilt edge capable of wounding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
New Typewriter Girl Draws Comparisons in Print
In Philadelphia Press remarks, Browne notes a new type writer girl who appears bright, likening her to a female Josh Billings. Towne comments on the impression, suggesting the device or its operator evokes the famed humorist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowne
Browne
Josh Billings
Philadelphia Press
Boy with Dirty Hands Teaches Polite Reply
A New York World item recounts a boy named Jamie who explains he would remain silent and polite if the teacher arrived at school with soiled hands. The anecdote highlights manners and social expectations in a classroom setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamie
New York
Automobile replaces horse drawn vehicle in Perrine Lambert tale
In Perrine Lambert's March Woman's Home Companion story a man recounts a scene where a vehicle waited without horses, and a witty listener asks for clarification. The reply identifies the vehicle as an automobile highlighting the transition from horse power to motorized transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perrine Lambert
Woman's Home Companion
Notable Exchange On Canned Meats Assurance
In a quotation from Lewis Jerome in Woman's Home Companion for March, Mr. Porkpacker asserts his canned meats will keep in any climate for years, while Mr. Taffeigh expresses approval of foresight and future provision.
Willie and Twickenham raise moral questions in Chesterton tale
In a Woman's Home Companion March piece Chesterton Todd asks Willie Papa if a liar goes to the bad place. Willie wonders how far they and mother will be apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Twickenham
Chesterton Todd
Woman's Home Companion
What a lovely morning said mother behind coffee cups
A quoted vignette from Marion A. Jackson in Woman's Home describes a mother and child discussing the weatherman's forecast and the unpredictability of weather, noting the gap between predictions and divine will. The scene captures domestic observation and gentle humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
Bobby
Marion A. Jackson
Woman's Home Companion
Buttonhook Question Highlights Classroom Joke
A young pupil misreads a line from Mary and the Lamb and asks if Mary loves the lamb, pointing to an interrogation mark. The scene showcases a humorous exchange between student and teacher amid a light classroom moment.
Say au revoir and not goodby
A Cleveland Leader reader laments the spread of casual farewells like so long and ta ta and recalls a scene where two girls part with a lip kiss and a quick pip pip as one friend says goodbye The piece questions why polite goodbyes are replaced by trivial phrases and ends with the author’s playful sigh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pippip
Cleveland
Foley's Kidney Cure Patient Testimonial
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut reports passing a life insurance exam after using Foley's Kidney Cure for kidney and bladder troubles. He notes improvement after the second bottle and full cure after five bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Donahue
New Britain, Conn
Foley
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Alger
Wendell Phillips Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
the Nation
John Alexander Dowie
Zion
Chi
M. Casimir-Perier
Maurice Grau
John O'Leary
Dublin
Featherstone Osler
William Osler
Toronto
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Theodore J. Wint
Department of Missouri
Philadelphia
Ernst von Bergmann
Wiesbaden
Jasha A. Grow
Try
Glenwood
William Henry Drummond
Cobalt
Ont
John Johnson
St. Philip's Church
Charleston
Wor
Fort Sumter
Daniel H. Chamberlain
South Carolina
Chartresville
Thomas 8. Noble
John Watts de Peyster
Henry Ronald Douglas McIver
Newark City
John Watson
Ian Maclaren
Mount Pleasant
Edmund G. Roas
Kansas
Albuquerque
N. M
Orlando B. Willcox
Coburg
Matthew M. Blunt
Brooklyn
Edwin H. Conger
Peking
Pasadena
Theodore Tilton
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher-Tilton
William McKinley
Canton
Francis B. Thurber
W. G. Jones
Angelo Heilprin
Mont Pelee
G. W. Mindil
Tector Henri Malot
Edmund W.W. Ron
Alabama At Hot Springs
Mary J. Holmes
Brockport
David Masson
Edinburgh
Maurice Loewy
Paris Observatory
J. H. Stoddart
Sewaren
N. J
Oscar II
Sweden
Stockholm
Louisa N. Taft
William H. Taft
Milbury
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Tarrytown
Toulon
Saarlouis
Rhenish
Forbach
Germany
Colton
Metropolitan Street Railway
Shipple
Scarboro
Honda
Minnesota
Norfolk
Pere Marquette Road
Salem
Frontenac
Cayuga Lake
Doemitz
Calogon
London and Northwestern
Shrewsbury
du Pont
Fontanet
Pittsburg
Fairmount Coal Co
Monongah
Patent Report
Washington, D. C
Iowa
F. H. Burr
Atlantic
Guy Adams
Til
C. W. Russell
Burlington
J. Hi. Akin
C. Anderson
Creston
C. M. Hoeregott
Jolley
Ralph Storm
J. F. Underwood
Robert Jackson
Waterloo
L. S. Straight
Fonda
J. J. Tokheim
Cedar Rapids
Swan Anderson
Ottumwa
W. R. Marshall
E. L. Mathison
Panora
Mary
March
Hays
Japan
Nickel
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Bartlett
D. A. Ghalmers
North Marion Avenue
Scudebaker
Ats
Marseilles
H. P. Kelly
P. Kelly
Lenox Gas En
Davis
H. P
Kelly Mills
Mason Transfer & Storage Company
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