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July 16, 2025
Stories from the past
– The Empress of Austria wears a train 30-feet long, and two miserable small boys have to carry it.
– A New York photographer has sold over $40,000 likenesses of stage celebrities within a few years.
– In the Penitentiary at Auburn, N.Y., there are 27 clergymen, 42 lawyers, 13 doctors and three printers.
The President has nominated Gen. John C. Fremont, of NewYork, for Governor of Arizona, and Mr. John P. Hoyt, of Michigan, for Governor of Idaho.
Thomas Winans, the Baltimore millionaire and Russian Railroad contractor, is dead.
The Shah of Persia has arrived in Paris.
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