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Ulysses

aimlessly over the respective captions which came under
his special province the allembracing give us this day our
daily press. First he got a bit of a start but it turned out to
be only something about somebody named H. du Boyes,

agent for typewriters or something like that. Great battle,
Tokio. Lovemaking in Irish, 200 pounds damages.
Gordon Bennett. Emigration Swindle. Letter from His
Grace. William . Ascot meeting, the Gold Cup. Victory of
outsider Throwaway recalls Derby of ‘92 when Capt.
Marshall’s dark horse Sir Hugo captured the blue ribband at
long odds. New York disaster. Thousand lives lost. Foot
and Mouth. Funeral of the late Mr Patrick Dignam.
So to change the subject he read about Dignam R. I. P.
which, he reflected, was anything but a gay sendoff. Or a
change of address anyway.
—This morning (Hynes put it in of course) the remains of
the late Mr Patrick Dignam were removed from his residence, no
9 Newbridge Avenue, Sandymount, for interment in Glasnevin.
The deceased gentleman was a most popular and genial
personality in city life and his demise after a brief illness came as a
great shock to citizens of all classes by whom he is deeply
regretted. The obsequies, at which many friends of the deceased
were present, were carried out (certainly Hynes wrote it with a
nudge from Corny) by Messrs H. J. O’Neill and Son, 164

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