Tragic Collapse at Gallery Destroys Homes and Art
A grand hall during a reception at a Vanderbilt owned gallery collapsed after a wall gave way. Panic flooded the streets as fire teams and surgeons arrived to rescue the wounded. Victims include Mrs William A Ogden and several unidentified guests. losses run into hundreds of thousands with art insured for 1150000 though building insured separately.
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Tilley
Bellevue
New York
Gorman and
Ning
William A Ogden Hevertang
West Shorteenth Street
Te Police Department
Bethesa@e Hospital
Wm HE Vanderbilt
Disaster at Madison Square Garden kills and injures dozens
An April 2 accident at Madison Square Garden in New York caused collapses in a dance hall and art gallery during the fair. At least three dead and ten injured were reported, with substantial property loss including $150,000 in art and $23,000 to $40,000 in building damage.
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New York
Aladison Square
Wits
Geoning
Fire Department
Flushing
Idavol
Hahnemane Hospital
Albert ‘McKay
Acrostic attack on Gladstone stirs Liberal room
New York World reports Mr Grant Duff describing an acrostic poem written to attack Gladstone's administration. A Liberal daughter swiftly answered with a rebuttal, praising education and liberty as listeners cheered loudly in the drawing room.
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Grant Dutt
Mr Gladstone
Gladstone
Dryco
England
Jey
Suick
Grant Duffs
Hop Bitters Cure At Last
Statement from Sulen Post recounts a patient named George cured after doctors gave up. The claim credits Hop Bitters as the sole remedy and notes the patient was deemed dying ten days earlier by physicians. The anecdote reflects 19th century patent medicine promotion and public hope in herbal remedies.
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Godfrey
George
Sulen Post
Scots Irish Wit and a Lynx Hunt on Storey Farm
Patrick quotes Dr Peters asteroid claim while joking about preferring a horse to ride. Joshno Burkholder shoots a lynx on Mr Storey s Tor onto farm, tallied at five feet six inches long, girth one foot eight inches, sixty pounds. A Watsonville family begging for weeks is found to have $65,000 in San Francisco, four sons in business, and $000 in gold.
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Joshno Burkholder
Mr. Storey
Toronto
Watsonville
Cal
San Francisco
A Story of Southern Military Prisons by Anderson LLE
A Toledo publication claims the book achieves unprecedented sales for a Civil War prison narrative. It details Andersonville Belle Isle Savannah Millen Blackshear Florence and Cahawba camps with 154 illustrations and 636 pages, based on articles that ran in the Toledo Blade.
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Andersonville
Savannah
Milton
Blackshear
Charleston
Florence
Toledo
Locke
United States
Toledo Blade
Belle Isle
Danville
SeHsbury
Columbia
Grant
Wilder Hiss
James River
Rapidan
Petersburg
Georgia
Sherman
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Millen
D C
Confederacy
Wheat Market Tugs as New York Syndicate Pressures Prices
Chicago grain experts report New York interests control wheat pricing with European demand and US crop prospects. Milwaukee prices sink to draw bears and loosen small operators while a rally may come as England and Europe need American wheat.
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Cincimnati Commercial
Chicago
New York Syndicate
Unis
England
Continent
America
Cora
Milwaukee
Vesper Bells and a City Romance in a Distant Town
A poetic scene describes vesper bells and a dry goods clerk with an idol on the boulevard. A man on roans and a driver with a blue necktie drive past cedar pavement. The narrator notes city life’s sadness and a romance in every block as an overcoat is put in hock.
Local Snippets and Quotations From a Pottsville Page
A Pottsville lad died after jumping rope 384 times. A country editor jokes about hogs paying for papers. Poor children, warned against hypocrisy, are tested by a benevolent patroness who asks about the Pharisees. The clever reply: "Aiting camus, my lady."
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Pottsville
Josh Billings
Camus
Best Salve for Skin Eruptions and Sores
An 19th century advertisement touts a salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. Guaranteed satisfaction or money refund. Priced at 25 cents per box. Sold by RoJler & Wilson 2ill.
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RoJler & Wilson
The True Teacher Must Be Born Not Made
A reflective critique on teaching readiness and pupil engagement. It argues the true teacher is born with innate endowments, warns against unprepared guidance of minds, and urges careful preparation, discipline, and moral guidance to foster knowledge and virtue in students.
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Punil
Notable Authors and Their Conversation Styles
The passage surveys many writers and their talkativeness. Tassy Dante Hogarth South Milton Kirwan La Fontaine Dryden Corneille Ben Jonson Southey Addison Fox Goldsmith Burke Curran Leigh Hunt Carlyle and others are described as either taciturn dull witty or convivial.
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Dante
Sanial
Gray
Butler
Hogarth
South
Milton
la Fontaine
Chaucer
Dryden
Corneille
Ben Jonson
Southey
Addison
Fox
Bis Animation
Variety
Goldsmith
Poll” Burke
Curran
Leigh Hunt
Carlyle
Transformation Through Classical Study
The author argues that arithmetic can be mastered with little conscious reasoning while classics demand endless mental work. A boy gains many insights through Greek and Latin, shaping life skills and disciplined thinking. Grammar and syntax compel thought, training perception and judgment at all levels from pupil to professor.
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Zonomy Price
Oxford, Oo
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