Iowa Notes Big Flour Mill Farm and Yellow Fever
Iowa items report a new $25,000 flouring mill planned in Sheldon and large egg sales by state farmers in 1878. Others mention Keota glass works, a Monticello creamery shipping butter to Brazil, crop yields, river drownings, fires, and assorted accidents across multiple counties.
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Towa
Sheldon
Monticello
Brazil
South America
Keota
BR. B. Arendsgnew- Ackley
Wapello
Louisia
Iowa
Indian empire debate and royal sword handover
John Bright warned that spending over half India’s revenue on the army could signal the empire’s failure and questioned the rulers from England. The Prince Imperial’s sword reached the British commander via a messenger from Cetswayo. Louisiana bondholders protested repudiation moves by the convention. Ex Empress Eugenie asked the Queen to spare Lieut. Carey who was with the Prince Imperial when he died.
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India
John Bright
Asia
England
Prince Imperial
Cetsuwayo
London
Louisiana
Eugenie
Lieut
Carey
The Valedictorian. What She Said and What She Really Thought
Beside the valedictory the Boston Transcript notes the line by line contrast between the courteous speech of graduates and the valedictorian’s cynical inner thoughts about teachers and classmates. The piece ends with the speaker planning to enter society and leave school behind.
Baby Shows Popular With Parents Nationwide
Baby shows draw many families as the market for comforting remedies grows. Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup is promoted as a non opiate remedy claimed to soothe infants without danger, with price information noted.
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Dr. Bull
Dark Clouds Over Ireland Warn of Famine Tone
A Dublin dispatch to the New York Herald reports Ireland sinking toward distress. Bad seasons, high rents, rising prices, and bank reluctance threaten farming and industry, with Mayo and Sligo on the edge of workhouse poverty. Ejections surge, rents climb, while landlords demand strict terms as misery spreads beyond Ulster.
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New York Herald
Dublin
Toto
Ulster
Leinster
Munster
Connaught
Mayo
Sligo
Ireland
Geraldines
Castlebar
America
Spain
Vanilla Ice Cream Making Method from 19th Century Guide
The extract describes a vanilla ice cream method using two quarts of cream and one quart of good milk heated with vanilla bean, then enriched with three egg yolks and whites heated in milk, strained and combined with sugar, cooled, and churned with stirring every freezing step for a smooth final texture.
The Hopes and Fame of the Healing Hop Bitters
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a new medicine from combining known remedies. They claimed it cures a wide range of diseases reducing the need for other remedies. Skepticism faded as trials proved its merit and the discoverers are honored by supporters.
Nan the Newsboy Hero of New York Docks
William J. O Neil known as Nan leads a small band of rescued boys at the East River docks. They live in a blue station near the Brooklyn bridge and patrol three areas to save drowning victims. Nan has saved eight people, earned a silver medal, and recounts dramatic near drownings and rescues by the trio and five volunteers.
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Church of Rome
Iowa
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Dubuque
C., B. & Q Railroad
Creston
Red Oak
Botan
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Ottumwa
St. Nicholas
New York
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Dover Dock
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Edward Kelly
Gilbert
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Kelly
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Peck
Brooklyn
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Roosevelt Street
Seaman's Friend Society
Coll
Keily
United States Saving Association
Harlem
Eleventh Street
Webb
Bay Ridge
Brother Jones and the church sales pitch in Nebraska
A farmer is urged to join a church with a bold guarantee. The preacher promises the church will be “the best in the market” and claims a straight path to faith without an inventory. If unsatisfied, the buyer may return the religion and get a refund.
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Nebraska
Jones
Early English pin trade shifts to Birmingham
The first pins in England were produced at Gloucester in 1626 before the industry moved to Birmingham, which now serves as the headquarters of Britain’s pin trade.
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Enland
Gloucester
Birmingham
Pin Trade of
Great Britain
Whittier and his narrative poems praised by critic
The critic extols Whittier as a rare American poet who shines in narrative and legendary verse. He highlights Maud Muller Barclay of Ury Cassandra Southwick and Telling the Bees as key works, noting Whittier’s sincerity simplicity and broad public and literary respect. He contrasts Whittier with Bryant while praising lasting emotional impact of Whittier’s pieces.
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Ren
Ion
Mr. Whittier
Cassandra Southwick
Barclay
Ury
Maud Muller
Skipper Ireson
Men of Letters
Barbara Freichie
Bryant
Marriage as a Test of New Social Schemes
The piece denounces religious and philosophical movements like Shakerism and Mormonism for challenging marriage. It argues that tampering with marriage destroys family life and purity, warning that socialism and other schemes struggle to replace the family unit. It claims celibacy as a flawed ideal and asserts marriage as essential to societal order.
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Marri
Philosphy
Italian Girls and Forney's Progreso Exhibit Doffed
The Italian brides of the era are described as making their own outfits and trousseaus Six dozen items meant to last twenty five years must be embroidered and frilled The piece notes Italian women wear shawls and do not learn music see and play the piano is left to those who earn their living by them They are taught to sew cook and iron
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Philadelphia
Amazon
Forney
Progreso
Italy
Aste Trosseau
Cook
Ron
Decedent Leaves $1000 to Old Flame Runner in Will
A St Louis man who recently died left he one thousand dollars to the partner who ten years ago eloped with his wife. The will notes he never forgot a favor.
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Schuylkill County
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Dover
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Land
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Frank Hobbs
Ferguson
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Wm. Woodard
Hop Lee
Boston
Hubbard
Woodard
Ee Ae Eapee Ak Eru Or & Tarnaes
St. Louis
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