Fashion changes in beards spark Paris New York debate
Paris fashion pivots from the pointed beard to a thinner style with the cut off apex. M Henri Poujol cites its popularity and easy care, while historians note a cycle linking Henry III and Duc de Guise. Busy men twist their beards in reflection as style shifts.
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Paris
New York Sun
M. Henri Poujol
Henry III
France
Duc de Guise
St. Bartholomew's Day
Mr. Poujol
M. Poujol
North Pole balloon voyage plan raises arctic hopes
A Paris college of aerial navigation proposes a dual French venture to reach the North Pole by a large hydrogen balloon. Two alumni will command the craft with dogs, a sleigh, an ice canoe, and meteorological and photographic work, aiming for a six month stay and May 1892 start.
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Paris
Laputa
Aerostation
London Telegraph
Lutetia
North Pole
B. C
Hong Ti
Nooah
College of Aerial Navigation
MM. Lesancon
Hermite
Arctic
Carpentras
Brives-la-Caillarde
Spitzbergen
England
France
Burlington House
Westminster Aquarium
Relics Unearthed Amid Rome Construction Findings
A correspondent notes arrests will not stop shoplifting in modern stores yet new relics surface. Workers uncover a Faustina bust in Carrara marble, a Capuchin vineyard statue of Fortune, a via Polia ancient road ten feet deep, and a well preserved Roman house remains thirty feet down, all amid urban digs.
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Rome
Empire
Republic
Carrara
Faustina
Via Polia
Flaminian Gate
Local Officials Named in Audit Document
Auditor John M. Lytle, Treasurer A. J. Dawson, and Recorder W. P. Moothart are listed among key officials in the audit record. The fragment notes roles of these figures in the fiscal oversight.
Solitary Fisherman Rules a Lake Michigan Island
A fragmentary narrative describes a lone fisherman on a small island between Marion Island and the mainland in Grand Traverse Bay. The text hints at isolation and a mysterious reign over the tiny landmass, with lingering questions about its solitude and control.
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Lake Michigan
Grand Traverse Bay
Marion Island
Trenton’s tragic launch joins Brooklyn yard’s disaster list
The Trenton, launched January 1 1876 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, now lies submerged at Apia after a hurricane. Witnesses recall the failed December 30 1875 start, Naval Constructor Samuel H. Pook overseeing. Other yard ships Sacrament o Monongahela Oneida and Ticonderoga share grim fates, with several damaged or lost.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Maine
New York Times
Trenton
Apia
Samuel H. Pook
Delaware and Susquehanna
Navy Yard
Nabine
Savannah
Brooklyn
Sacramento
Oneida
Ticonderoga
Lackawanna
Ireland
China
New York
Strange Case of Slugh Thompson the Wounded Soldier
A Chickamauga casualty known as Slugh Thompson vanished after his 1862 wounding and reappeared in 1870 on a Northern Illinois road with total amnesia. His memory gradually returned, aided by work with a coal mine and a sister’s Testament, though events from Chickamauga to 1870 remained forever lost.
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Pension Bureau
Philadelphia Record
van Wert, O
Fifteenth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Slugh Thompson
Chickamauga
Thompson
Illinois
Cleveland
Hugh Thompson
Baker
Heroic Deed of John T Shy Recalls Apache Rescue
A Deming New Mexico rancher named John T Shy, once prominent in national papers, reportedly saved his wife and child from massacre during a running clash with eight Apache warriors. The family home lay seventeen miles from the nearest settlement when the attack occurred.
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Shy
Mr. Shy
Mrs. Shy
Deming
New Mexico
John T. Shy
Excelsior Springs
Daily
Kansas City
New York Hotel Hermit Lives Silent Ten Years
In New York at the Grand Union Hotel a resident known only as Bailey has reportedly spoken to no one for a decade. The census found him uncommunicative aside from routine meals and stays, prompting assertions that officials failed to reach him.
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New York
New York Sun
Sing Sing
North Tarrytown
Sun
Bellevue
Grand Union Hotel
Bailey
Garrison
Detectives Guard Stores During Holiday Shopping Rush
Big dry goods houses employ permanent fly cops with four or five men per store to deter shoplifters and pickpockets. Inspector Byrnes influence guides selections while detectives act as floor walkers monitoring crowds and flashing warnings to would-be crooks. Toys and small items tempt thieves as staff attend to customers, keeping shoplifters from slipping past the door.
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New York Star
Byrnes
Ecputiny
Parisian bunco tale in a lavish wedding scam
Chicago Evening Post reports a Paris caper where a fake Reverend and a daughter impersonate a bride’s family to duel jewel purchases. A jeweler delivers ten to fifteen thousand dollars in gems before the impostors vanish, leaving rent unpaid and no trace of the con artists.
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Chicago Evening Post
Paris
M. W. Thompson
Ellen Barber
J. M. Barber
New Zealand
Mme. Prevost
Dr. Barber
Bassand Street
Thompson
Yosemite
Whipped at School and a Future Millionaire
A historical note from Atchison Globe recalls Miss Grant a country schoolteacher near Yellow Springs Ohio who whipped an orphan pupil. The action inspired reform leading to Francis Tiernan who became wealthy and built railroads from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles after meeting Mrs Crowell in Atchison.
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Atchison Globe
John M. Crowell
Grant
Mr. Crowell
Crowell
Post Office Department
Fort Scott
Wichita
Francis Tiernan
Tiernan
Atchison
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Blind-friendly watch patent in England aids touch
A patent in England describes a hunting watch with an enamel dial and no glass. Each numeral has a small raised stud, with extra stout hands and a screw on the minute hand to prevent catching the hour hand, enabling blind users to tell time by touch.
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England
Washington Gazette Subscription and Job Printing Rates
The Washington Gazette lists subscription terms One Copy One Year in Advance one dollar sixty cents or eight dollars after the year. Advertising and job printing offered with select material skilled workmen and fast presses. Facilities described as unsurpassed in Washington county.
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Washington County
Pay of New York Divines Reveals Salaries and Dwellings
The list shows clergy salaries across New York including Eisner Porter at 9000 with a 3000 house, Barnstone at 8000 plus rectory, Brown at 8000 with rectory, and others such as Tatmaog 10000 with editorial income, Dix 12000 plus house allowance, Paxton 19000 with no rent, and Hall 18000 plus a Fifth Avenue house. Also noted are rent allowances and life-insurance premiums for several pastors.
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Eisner Porter
Dr. Barnstone
St. George's Church
Dr. Brown
St. Thomas’ Church
Dr. Donald
Church of the Ascension
Krrrriper
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
Trompsom
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
T. DeWitt Tatmaog
D. D
Morenan Dix
Trinity Church
Paxton
Henxtrveron
Grace Church
Arthur Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Church of the Incarnation
Satterler
Calvary Church
Gramercy Park
Dr. Greer
St. Bartholomew's P. E. Church
Joan Hall
Fifth Avenue
W. M. Taynor
Broadway Tabernacle
Brooklyn
Lyman Abbott
Noted Americans and political curiosities of the era
The item lists prominent figures such as Jay Gootp investing in Kansas salt plants and J B Brown assisting Secretary Rusk, with remarks on Cyrus Field's wedding party, Senator Evarts and journalism, a Carlisle and Carlyle kinship, Rockefeller’s Hudson garden project, Blaine studying Napoleon, and other society notes from the period.
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Jay Gootp
Kansas
Robert Garrett
Baltimore
Cyrus Field
Senator Plume
J. 8. Brown
Garfield
Mollie Garfield
Rusk
Agricultural Department
Evarts
Carlisle
Kentucky
Thomas Carlyle
Alfred
Rockefeller
Hudson
Massachusetts
Mr. Blaine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Washington
Napoleon
Blaine
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Washington Gazeite
Pusuenco
Washington, Iowa
Washington National Bank
J. Wilson
Attorney AT Law
Iowa
J.J. Kellogg
Northeast Corner Square
H. & W. Scofield
Attorneys AT Law
Northwest Corner Square
T. H. Maxwell
Siakate
Robinson’ S Jewelry Store
East Side Square
Henry M. Eicher
Wash m County
Savings Bank
J. F. Henderson
S. E. Corner Square
C. C. Patterson
Wil
Europe
Blair & Co
Folger
McCall's
J.L. L. Terry
Justice OF the Peace
J. ©. Boice
Chilcote & Cook's Drug Store
S. W. Corner Square
T. G. Roberts
East Washington Street
S. N. McClean
West Washington Street
E. J. Meacham
Ofice
McConnaughey
Ream
J. Williams
Call Won Hall
Head of Stairs
A. A. Rodman
North Side
Sol. Rich
Everson
J. Albert Williams & CO
G. W. Black
O. K. Barber and
Harber
Reeves & Son
W. Crawford
Chilcote & Cook's Grug
Broxaw's
D. J. Dewey
Dewey
Golden Nagle
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Siue Square
First National Bank
Washington CO. Savings Bank
J.H. Youre
W.r.jeffrey
A. Anderson
Bank
Capira
A. W. Chilcore
W.w.weusa
J.alexyounc
R.R
Ing
New York Sunday Journal
Joel Gray
Penking
Bassett
West
Fifth Iowa Infantry
Peninsular Township
United States
India
Official
G. Gregory
WM. Rownd
Jos. Huston
W. Neal
John M. Lytle
A. J. Dawson
Recorder
W. P. Moothart
J. W. Teeter
C.J. Wilson
County Superintendent Schools
Mary A. Tate
WM. Ott, JR
Scott's Eran
Scott
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
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Allahabad
Maheswar
Rangpore
London Times
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Vishnu
Basudeb
Laksmi
Saraswati
Devanagiri
Stuart Bayley
Rungpore
Banco IN
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Alps
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Lake Nyassa
Africa
London
M. Bollee
le Mans
Brunswick
Germany
Jubbulpore
Rairoad
Washington Gazette
Pay
NEW York Divines
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