Vast fires destroy multiple buildings across towns
Fire swept J L Freeman's carriage factory and Gordon Opera House in Ranway New Jersey, with both structures reduced to ruins and losses pegged around 100000 dollars. Other blazes in Minneapolis Milwaukee and La Crosse damaged foundries hotels and mills, totaling tens of thousands in insured losses. A Canton waterway scene describes floating junks and flower boats, housing over 100000 people in a teeming river city.
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Gordon Opera House
Newark
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Opera House
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Minneapolis
Minn
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L. J. Menage
la Crosse
Wis
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Black River
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IsuveMing
Mich
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Michigamme
Niagara
Fire Insurance Association
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John Morris
Tnorr
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Stanley
Here
Axnistoy
Ala
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Cixctsxall
Johnson
Portsmouth
New York Home Journal
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Ark
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Grain Statistics Show Europe Grain Passage Totals
Grain on passage to Europe on the 25th ult. wheat 28,400,000 bus, corn 3,520,000 bus, versus 28,840,000 bus wheat and 8,040,000 bus corn prior week. Visible U S and Canada wheat 40,251,148 bus. Europe in sight and afloat 68,351,148 bus, down from 70,292,681. Receipts and shipments of flour grain and live stock compared with last year show varied totals for 1885 and 1884.
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Liverpool
London
Europe
Dakota
Buffalo
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Premature Burial and Eyeball Test Cited
A London Keho column discusses a single test to avert premature burial. It notes that the eye’s hard ball cannot be felt once dead as eyeballs soften after death. Prescott the historian reportedly feared burial alive and required measures to prevent awakening, including severing a principal vein to ensure silent death if life returned.
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London
Prescott
A Modern Fairy Story Read to Czar Officers in Russia
After World War II the United States sent a monitor to escort the Czar. Congress congratulated him on his era of assassination avoidance as American officers were feted in St. Petersburg. At a Winter Palace banquet a young princess tore diamonds from her neck and threw them to the officers shouting Viva America. Diamonds scattered, then picked up and kissed amid cheers of Vive la Russie and Vive les femmes Russes.
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Tex
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Manson
Wis
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St. Paul
Stoughton
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Utah
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Idaho
Ephriam T. Wilson
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
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Port Gibson
United States
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St. Petersburg
Winter Palace
Woman killed as wagon horses run away in TipiaxaPous
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Ells, wife of a Millersville area farmer, was thrown from a wagon when the horses bolted. The collision with a tree broke her neck and caused instant death at a farm near Millersville Indiana.
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TipiaxaPous
Ind
Public Debt Shows April Reduction of 5464.25
The May 1 year public debt statement from Was Nixon Crox, D C notes a April debt reduction of 5464.25. The item also touts medical ads and endorsements for Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier, with brief quotes from other publications.
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Wasnixcrox
D. C
Ayer
Flower girl at Milwaukee gathering triggers sober sermon
A Wisconsin reporter recalls a rainy Milwaukee gathering where a young flower girl sold roses to a crowd of prominent locals. A speaker at the event delivered a critical, sermon like remark about social inequality before the party resumed with bacchanalian song.
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