Fragments of 19th Century World News Rumors
An assortment of brief notes covers Edison light experiments at Menlo Park with mixed public excitement and skepticism, debates over Chinese immigration on the Pacific Coast, local crimes and disasters, railroad and mill news, temperance reform, and a string of national and international items from US politics to European and Asian affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Menie Park
Edison
Evarts
McCrary
Thompson
Devens
Key
Pacific
China
Senate and House actions in WashingtonJanuary agenda
Senate discusses Indian affairs inquiry into the Cheyenne escape and U S forces actions at Fort Robinson. House debates Mexican War extra pay and currency certificates. resolutions on pensions and debt refinancing move forward. multiple bills referred and sessions adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
WashingTon
Voorhees
Committee On Indian Affairs
Ft. Robinson
House
Edmunds
Ireland's Eye murder case ends with release after twenty eight years
In 1851 Dublin physician Dr. Kerwin was convicted of murdering his wife on Ireland's Eye after a circumstantial case. He was sentenced to death, commuted to life, and released after 28 years in prison on January 18. The case drew strong defense by Britain’s top lawyers and wealthy supporters.
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Ed Simmons
Cedar Rapids
West Nodaway
Milford
Montgomery County
Iowa State Millers’ Association
Des Moines
J. J. Snouffer
J. B. Jones
Algona
J. H. Reed
Boone
D. B. Envighi
J. R. Serrin
Ladora
D. Nichols
Panora
Mutual Insurance Company
G. H. Crosby
Iowa
C. A. Bryan
QJ. G. Sharp
H. Hammond
Railroad
Miles
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Dakota
Pathersonville
Burlington & Quincy
Creston
Fontanelle
Hastings
Sid- Hof
Chariton
Indi- Ni
Rock Island & Pacific
Atlantic
Audubon
Avoca
Harlan
Des Moines, Adel & Western
Waukee
Adel
Minneapolis
Story City
Lakin
Fort Dodge
Fort Ridgley
Frank Donahue
Martin Houston
Houston
Donahue
Bell’s
Cumberland River
Nashville
Tenn
John Whittemyer
Knox Martin
Whittemyer
Kerwin
Dublin
Ireland
Great Britain
John L. Jones
Welch
Mahaska County
Rachel
Buffington
Tha City
Weese
Lee County
Hendrickson
Shelby
William Boice
Bushick
Mills Courty
Iowa Condensed News Snapshots of 19th Century Life
A compilation of local Iowa items reports losses from a Leon fire exceed 22000 dollars, 140 postal clerks face 1 percent discharge, and various incidents across counties. Included are deaths from mining accidents, a murder verdict in Lee county, drownings near Shelby, and an arson-like whiskey case in Grinnell.
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Leon Foot
Iowa
Nick Reese
Ackley
Butterscotch Recipe Note
A fragment describes a cooking instruction to melt sugar with water over a slow fire then finish with butter. The text specifies one pound sugar three-quarters pint water and one and a half teaspoonfuls butter. No additional context or outcomes provided.
Dangerous tonics blamed for deaths by unknown medicines
The passage condemns children and women dying due to adulterated or unknown medicines. It cites ex actions and daily drug use as causes and advocates Hop Bitters as a harmless cure made from Buchu Mandrake and other herbs, urging informed choice and safety.
Local Printing Office Offers Budget Job Printing
The Job Printing and office provides type and material for affordable printing. Services include legal blanks bill heads letter books pamphlets and auction bills with prompt execution and competitive prices.
Chaplain Joe Little Remembered In Scribner's Portrait
Scribner's Magazine recalls Chaplain Joe Little a tough minded yet gentle recruiter of courage during the Civil War. He advised a West Virginia regiment sang cheerful tunes and kept spirits up even amid prison risk and battlefield hospital gloom.
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Mosby
Pope
Little
Sasa
Set Up Your Bar at Home From C T Campbell Lecture
Campbell urges homemakers to run a bar at home with the wife as barkeeper. He notes bartenders pay 2 per gallon for whisky and a gallon yields about sixty five drinks at 10 cents each, totaling 6 50 per gallon. The plan frames borrowing and repayment via the wife’s purchases and tips.
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C. T. Campbell
Maysville
Fame Like An Eel Hard To Catch And Hold
A compact reflection compares fame to an eel both elusive to seize and difficult to keep. The aphorism suggests fame slips away as one pursues it.
Sun Worship in Southwest Indians Highlights Variety of Beliefs
A historical account describes sun centered worship among Southwest tribes. It notes sun as life giver, moon and stars as lower deities, and details practices of Hualapai Pueblo Mojave and Devilions about dawn rituals, Montezuma worship, Great Father and Great Mother concepts, and fear of spirits at night.
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Mexico
Peru
Arizona
Montezuma
Matevil
Newathie
A Yankee Captains a Whaling Vessel and Mandarin Attache
Nicodemus Yocum, born in Alexandria Hunti County Penn, becomes captain of a whaling ship that rescues five Chinese mandarins off the China coast in 1841. He later schools his son Jeremiah in Canton, who, after study and teaching, translates geography and becomes a Mandarin and a Chinese embassy attache. He plans to visit Alexandria to complete his family genealogy.
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Cinciinunat
Enquirer
Alexandria
Hunti
Penn
Nicodemus Yocum
Nancy Brown
Cape Cod
Mass
North Pacific Ocean
China
Yungao
Quangtung
Yocum
Jeremiah
China Sea
Po-Kiang
Canton
Imperial College
Fashionable Poisons Rise In Utility Of Narcotics
The Troy Press notes a rise in narcotic use beyond liquor with potions such as chloral laudanum morphine and other stimulants causing deaths. It cites Chauncey K. Williams of Rutland Vermont as a recent victim and warns reformers to act against the spread of these narcotic poisons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Press
Chauncey K. Williams
Rutland
Vermont
Fall of Wright County Treasurer Joe A. Onset
In Wright County, the fall of Treasurer Joe A is noted as a public financial crisis. Authorities report a sudden disappearance of funds and appoint interim management pending investigation. Local officials urge transparency while a task force examines ledgers and transactions dating back years.
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Joe A On
Wright County
Humorous Fragments and Witty Quips From A Notebook
A collection of humorous vignettes and quotations ranging from Josh Billings style aphorisms to dinner table banter. The items poke fun at resolutions, manners, and social quirks with light satire and playful wordplay. It mentions playful exchanges about hair pins, apples, and a Berlin soldier's bartering.
Domestic Recipes and Cookery Tips from a 19th Century Kitchen
A scattered collection of cooking instructions for sausage humbler measures of salt pepper sage and sugar. Recipes include boiled ham preparation celery sauce with fresh leaves and cream, sheep head and trotters prep, escaloped potatoes and chicken salad with detailed dressing, and grilled steak with parsley butter and lemon.
Wandering Winds Move Across Scottish Sea and Forest
The prose contemplates sea air and wind as life changing, recalling a Florida Gulf excursion and Scotland, with vivid imagery of wind shaping trees, leaves, and rivers and the interplays of air and water across varied landscapes. It contrasts calm and storm and muses on nature's moving air.
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Teuch
Cai
Eaenland
Enick
Scotland
Renee
Gulf
Mexico
Florida
Alps
Honest Turkish Officials Show Integrity Despite Poverty
The article lauds Midhat Pasha and Ahmed Pasha as exemplary Turkish officials. Despite long service and grand public works from tramways to steam lines, they remained poor, earning respect for frugal living and untainted integrity.
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Midhat Pasha
Tigris
Dad
Constantinople
Toa “i
India
Jane
Midhat
Ahmed Ba
Cincinnatus
Fire at Second Baptist Church Sparks Interfaith Aid
After a blaze damaged the Second Baptist Church, leaders from Christian and Jewish communities responded with condolences and material aid. The President and Israelite Temple Share Emeth pledged use of their temple for worship until the Baptist church rebuilds.
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St. Louis
Esha
Emeth
Senator Allison Proposes War Bounty Bill Details
The bill introduced by Senator Allison proposes extra bounty payments to widows, minors, or parents of soldiers who died or were wounded in service. It would pay the additional bounty from enlistment to death or discharge, deducting prior 1886 and state bounties, and bars recipients of substitutes or other bounties from extra payments if it would exceed their pay.
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House
Gibson
M Pres
Ilinois
Misonas
Gulf of Mexico
Ellis
Mississippi
Cobb
Senate
Western Judicial District of
Missouri
Edmunds
Secretary of War
Sherman
Sheridan
Terry
F Bruce
Mary E
Davis
Tlinois
Yeas
Wright
Durham
Turner
Pullman Palace
Bright
Aldrich
United States
Burchard
Treasury
Oliver
Dunnell
Stuart
Nett
Judiciary Committee
Davenport and Blodgett
District of Columbia
Court of Claims
Springer
Allison
Pudding Recipe From An Old Cookbook
A historic kitchen instruction describes mixing flour with suet and rants, adding milk and spices to make a batter. The batter rises with baking powder, is poured into a buttered dish, baked for about one and a half hours, then finished with sifted sugar before serving.
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Ames
Story County
Lanai Enema
Ioux & Pembina
Portlandville
Reich
Menssacse
Reform Clubs
Waterloo
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Convention
Iowa State ‘Temperance Reform Club
L. A. Cobb
W. N. Jarvis
Davenport
K. O Holknes
West Liberty
Col. van Anda
Manchester
James P. Sherman
C. M. Hatton
Iowa City
E. B. Hoffman
Oskaloosa
H. Monroe
W. E. Webster
Page County
J. D. Hunter
Webster City
Mra
Florence Miller
Jas. Plumb
H. A. Perkins
Sioux City
O.c.cox
R. J. Wilson
Fairfield
W.W. Lucas
Mason City
Grenmer al
The
People’s Bank
Eufaula
Alabama
Henry Zelterer
Allensville
John Brown & Co
Philadelphia
Warren
Sparta
Wis
Traders’ National Bank
Bangor
Maine
Grand Central Bank
Tts
James M. Glenn
Newport
Portland
Mich
Emanuel Congregational Church
Boston Highlands
Calvert & Co
Boston
Paris & Danville
Danville
First Presbyterian Church
Newark
N. J
J. Kidder
Geneseo
Pine Bluff
Arkansas
Court House
Elizabeth
Clark
Feckford & Co
Simsbury, Conn
Gun Powder Water Works
Baltimore
Atchison, Kansas
Atchison and Nebraska Railroad
Taylor & Faulkner
Planing Mills
Cincinnati
Schurz
Sitting Bull
Indian Bureau
Lieut. Dodd
Pine Ridge Agency
Crow Ridge
Wessella
Spotted Tail Agency
Minots
John A. Logan
Roscoe Conkling
Joseph Shields
Col
George G. West
Wilkinson Call
North Carolina
George Z. B. Vance
Connecticut
O. H. Platt
Pennsylvania
J. Donald Cameron
Montana
Fort Robinson
Wegsells
Dodd
Third Cavalry
Red Cloud
Indiana
Barber
Company H
John Beck
Frenchburg, Ky
Kate Cobb
Norwich
Conn
Shooting Star
Lisbon
Angell
Pullman Palace Car Company
George Prince
Bath
Pension Office
John 8. Lacy
Kent County
Thomas Reed
First National Bank
Galveston
Texas
Re Jacoby
Frank Small
Small
Owentown
Robert Moore
Fied
Moore
Wiliam Sawyers
Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
Charles Demond
Demond
Fort Laramie
Fort McKinney Road
Martin Berger
Mollie Maguire
Pottsville
Patrick Burns
Tuscarora
Peter McManus
John O'Neill
Hesser
Shamokie
Afghanistan
Candahar
Herat
Mir Afgul
Ghwgnee
Cabul
France
Paris
MacMahon
Versailles
Chamber of Deputies
Jules Ferry
Belgrade
Col. Gola
Servian Boundary Commission
Plevna
Germany
Bismarck
Reichstag
Berlin Post
Switzerland
Council of State
the Orient
Podgoritza
Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Novi Bazar
Agence Russe
St. Petersburg
Commission For
Eastern Roumelia
Berlin
Vienna
Roumelia
Russia
Berlin National Zeitung
Asia
Rome
America
Vatican
Europe
Peter
Spain
Madrid
Constitutional
Marshal Serano
Proceedings of Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Kelley
Kellogg
Nave
Purchard
Hunten
B. B. Lass
Wood
Committee On
Ways and Means
United
Garfield
Mays
Wasn Xeton
Windom
Prof. Henry
Hosue
Saulebury
U. & Bonds
Matthews
Givin Security
Hoar
Aggeit
Protestantial Seminary and High School
Virginia
Nts
Friends of the
Wasurveton
Smith
Appropriations Committee
Cockrell
Isaac Sie
Washinpton
Bureau of Blic Health
Chaffee
Secretary of the Interior
Beck
Blaine
Stephens
Potter
Otter
Atkins
Waddell
Post Office Committee
Robbins
T. S.S. Stone
Buchanan County
Wheeler
Mechanicsville
Crosby
Harlar
M. Keables
Pella
Joseph Kocourik
Win ‘Neshiek County
Martin Mehan
Ethridge
Thomas Boon
Hawkeye House
Grinnell
Big Creek
Thomas Green
Centennial Mutual Life Association
Burlington
Ee Mens
Drudy Center
Stennytt
Serioner's
Tudorane Soda Springs
Yosemite Valley
Chaplain Little
Josh Billings
Mose
Moses
Bauma Abbott
Miss Abbott
Edinburgh
Jeter
Richmond
Mr. M
Senator Allison
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