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An Old Cannibal Story

· Winnipeg Daily Sun

BUFFALO, Sept. 1. A morning paper here prints the following despatch from Cincinnati about an interview with John D. Caldwell, an old and respected citizen,...

He Was Eaten

· Cincinnati Evening Post

On reading the dispatch from Washington denying the truth of John D. Caldwell's statement to a POST reporter that an officer of the Franklin expedition...

McClintock Was Not Eaten

· National Republican

I notice with surprise and pain that in your paper of the 1st instant appears a copy of a reported interview between some one and a Mr. Caldwell, of Cincinnati,...

An Absurd Arctic Story

· Washington Post

A morning paper published yesterday under a New York date an alleged interview with a Mr. Coldwell, of Cincinnati, in which the latter states that Capt....

Dark Arctic Secrets

· The Evening Critic

The Cincinnati Evening Post quotes John D. Caldwell, of that city, as saying that Captain Hall was authority for a report of cannibalism among the Sir...

An Explorer's Fate

· Cincinnati Evening Post

"Many years ago," said Uncle John D. Caldwell, ex-member of the Board of Public Works, to THE POST this morning, "Lady Franklin, in her voyage around the...

The Undiscovered Country

· Brooklyn Eagle

Last evening, before the Long Island Historical Society, at the chapel of the Packer Institute, Captain C. F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, lectured to a...

Said Lady Franklin to Mrs. Grant

· Cincinnati Daily Enquirer

"Sir John is older than I, and I am near my end. He could not have lived in those frigid regions until now. The mystic North-west Passage will be his monument."

Lady Franklin in Cincinnati

· Glasgow Daily Mail

On Saturday, says the Cincinnati Enquirer of the 25th, after a weary journey from the Pacific slope, there came to Cincinnati one whose very presence does...

Lady Jane Franklin

· New York Daily Herald

Throughout America, from the heart of its most populous cities to the humblest cabin in the Western solitudes, there are few persons to be found who have...

Lady Franklin in the City

· Richmond Dispatch

A lady whose renown for devotion to the memory of a husband, nearly a quarter of a century deceased is worldwide, reached our city yesterday morning, and...

Lady Franklin in Cincinnati

· New-York Daily Tribune

The Cincinnati papers of Monday say: Lady Jane Franklin arrived in the city Saturday morning, and is a guest of the Burnet House. She seems to take great...

Lady Franklin

· New York Herald

On Saturday, after a weary journey from the Pacific slope, there came to Cincinnati one whose very presence does the city honor, for she is one of the...

Lady Franklin

· Cincinnati Daily Enquirer

Lady Franklin remained in the city yesterday, and in the afternoon, as announced, received her friends and the public in the main parlor of the Burnet House.

Our Honored Guest

· Cincinnati Daily Enquirer

Yesterday, after church, Lady Franklin and Miss Cracroft, under the escort of Captain C. F. Hall and Mr. J. W. Caldwell, were driven to Spring Grove, which...