Sketcher. Stolen Pictures
A strange story of the adventures of four paintings reaches us from Boston. Nine years ago the pictures were stolen from the house of a private collector. One of them…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1896
31 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
An Electric Ball
In South Devon, shortly before 10 o'clock on December 18, two brilliant flashes of lightning were followed by peals of thunder. In a field near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at a Ball Room. Loss of Life Through a Stampede
The Artists Society of Sautarem, Portugal, was holding a ball when the building took fire. The flames spread with great rapidity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Forging Pictures
The French Ministry has determined to make an effort to reach a form of swindling which is known to be extremely common, and which hitherto has managed to escape…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shooting in a Theatre. Revolver Fight Between Artists and Audience
A DESPATCH received at Denver from the little mining town of Victor, in the State of Colorado, gives a graphic account of a desperate affray which took place recently at what is known as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Annual Hospital Ball
The annual Hospital Ball will take place on Tuesday next, and the Juvenile Ball on the following night. St. Patrick's night has always been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Indecent Pictures. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Monday Night
THE police, to-day, made a raid on the premises of Greene and Co., Art Photo Agency, Pitt-street, and seized 250 indecent pictures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cricket. [By "No-ball."]
PLAYING for Glebe on Saturday Coberoft made 137 and Poidevin (not out) 120. MESSRS. Iredale and Donnan are the only members of the Australian Eleven who have taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vice-Regal Ball, Government House. a Brilliant Assembly
The second autumn ball took place on Tuesday evening at Government House, when his Excellency the Governor and Viscountess [?]ampden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at a Ball
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred one night in Febrnary at Santarem, a city on the Tagus, about 50 miles north of Lisbon. The close of the carnival was being celebrated by a masked ball at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Matabele Rebellion. Australians at the Band Offer Assistance. Action of the Boers
The Johannesburg correspondent of the Times telegraphs that the English settlers there fear that the action of Sir Hercules Robinson in not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stonehenge Band of Hope
THE usual monthly meeting of the Stonehenge Band of Hope was field on Friday evening, 24th inst. It was a most successful one, numerically and qualitatively, The little Mission Church was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fire at a Ball
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred one night in February at Santarem, a city on the Tagus, about 50 miles north of Lisbon. The close of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Obscene Pictures. Sydney, Thursday Night
FRANCIS Hy. GREENE, a man well known about town, who was prosecuted for selling obscene pictures, was on trial at Darlinghurst Sessions this morning. Accused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theatre Accident
Mr. Neauder, who was seriously injured by one of the spectators falling upon him from the gallery at the Tivoli Theatre, is still in the same condition, with no hope of recovery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Minister's Smoke Concert. a Successful Innovation
In accordance with his previously announced intention, the Rev. H. Bryant, vicar of St. Paul's, Burwood, held his first smoke concert, organised…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glen Innes Band
ON Friday evening a meeting was held in the drill-shed, for the purpose of re forming the band, when there was a fair attendance. Ald J. Priest occupied the chair, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pictures in Dead Eyes
"WITH a view to testing what amount of truth there was in the theory that dead eyes retain complete images," says a well-known physician, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Hospital Ball
The usual formal meeting of ladies to inaugurate proceedings in connection with the annual Hospital Ball was held in the Town Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What a Cannon Ball Can Do
IN dwelling upon the wonderful power of the guns of the Indiana, Albert Franklin Matthews, in an article on "The Evolution of a Battleship" in…
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