Destructive Eldon fire and Iowa rail notes across region
July reports record a major fire at Eldon on the 4th, and track laying begins on the Wall Lake to Sac City road. Drownings occur in Jackson county and near Monroe, while salt and butter industries grow. Rail infrastructure expands with new stockyards in Council Bluffs and a proposed Cherokee to Primghar line.
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Eldon
Wall Lake
Sac City
J. Sullivan
Jackson County
Corning
Parker
Guthrie County
Council Bluffs
Daniel Fulton
C., B. and Q
Burlington
D. Gardner & Co
Champaign
Ill
Cleveland
Ohio
Josie Dunbar
Frank Glisson
Ft.Wayne
Ind
Pawnee
Marcus Lang
Frankfort
Fortress Monroe
D. Wilkerson
New Orleans
Amherst
Mass
Amherst House
Amherst Savings Bank
Sioux Falls
E. Lee
Baby
That City
Thompson
Red Wing
Mion
Lee
Hop Bitters Maker Extends Reach Across Households
A Great Enterprise. Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company operates vigorously. Its products have reached widespread consumer use, becoming common in households nationwide.
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Hop Bitters
Op Eenaccy
Sabiness
Raphic
Senate Adjourns Without Day After Five O Clock
Washington July 1 The Senate passed an adjournment resolution setting five o clock p m as the hour and adjourned without day after concurrent action with the House. The body approved amendments to extend clerks and homestead rights within railroad limits in Missouri and Arkansas.
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Washmerton
Eaton
Senate
Funda
Mississippi
Hudson's Bay
Missouri
Arkansas
Hindanees
Pay of Magazine Writers Reflects Shifting American Rates
An historical overview traces how monthly magazines paid authors in past decades with North American Review at a dollar per page and pencils by N P Willis earning plots. It notes British rates at four to seven fifty a page and stresses that current American terms have fallen from their peak as six dollars a day becomes unusual.
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Lake Quinsigamond
Worcester
Mass
Isaac Davis
Italy
Sardinia
Odessa
Russia
Caucascus
Besarabia
Kherson
Paltavia
Ekaterinoslav
Tiffies
Terek
Baku
Stavrople
Kutats
American Progress
North American Review
Edward Everett
New York Mirror
N. P. Willis
Graham
Gode
London
The
Atlantic
Blackwood
London Society
Quarterly
Edinburgh
Lassoing a Grizzly in the Rocky Mountains
A hunter describes a close encounter with a grizzly on a rocky shelf near a canyon. He lassoes the bear, is dragged toward a chasm, escapes by shooting the rope, loses his horse Butcher, and retakes the trail with a bear skin and provisions. He camps near the Great South Pass, reflecting on hunger, danger, and independence in the wilderness.
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Rocky Mountains
America
Great West
Sweetwater
Dust to Dust in Victorian Funeral Planning
A dust contractor under George IV planned a grand public procession with twelve boys, twelve men, a horse in plumage, and a dust cart, all in white. A few years earlier Mr Woodford of Fetter Lane, a Lumber Troop member, ordered a troop-led march with minute guns, a military salute at St Bride's, and a crooked guinea spent on punch and tobacco for the troopers.
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Chambers’ Journal
George IV
Woodford
Fetterlane
London
St. Bride’s
Anxiety and Worry Friction in the Soul
Anxiety and worry disrupt the soul and irritate the mind. They dull happiness, repel sympathy, and strain friendships, causing ongoing harm to self and others through persistent inner turmoil.
A Hundred Years Hence
A reflective piece imagining future progress from the past view. It ponders rapid travel advances, steam and gas powered vessels, and potential daily balloon trips to London, forecasting transformative technologies a century ahead. The tone is speculative, stressing how intellect and invention reshape global movement.
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New York
Ilinois Wilds
Lumbernh
His
Eng
Atlantic
Poe
London
Florida
Estimate of a Wife and the Life of Laboring Families
A fragment reflecting on marital mood and social class, contrasting a laboring couple’s daily strains with wealthier life. The speaker praises genuine affection shown in daily duties over showy sentiment, noting parents’ pride in children and shared care amid poverty.
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Oth
Nocturnal lights and conduct in society notes
A moral essay warns against women pursuing men with persistent notes and invitations. It extols modest reserve and proper distance to earn respect. The piece shifts to street lighting noting Providence R I having 220 lamps on nine miles with one man lighting in fifteen minutes at 10 dollars per lamp yearly.
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Providence
R. J
Notable Ohio Heiress Fraudster Eludes Capture
A woman posing as Grace St John Clemence, claimed daughter of ex Governor Tod, swindled the Spring family in Grass Valley and Brownfield. She deposited funds, showed a forged note, fled Portland after arrest, escaped from a station by sawing bars, with jewelry and a Senator Sharon note in disguise and vanished.
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Ocean
Grace St. John Clemence
William H. Clemence
Toledo
Ohio
Tod
Grass Valley
California
James S. Spring
Brownfield
Clemence
Sharon
Nevada
Cleveland
Eveland
Chicago
Obstacles in Studying Lab Poetry and Its Language
The article discusses how lab poetry demands careful study due to local form and archaic diction. It notes sentence structures differ from prose, the use of elevated or unfamiliar terms, and the need to balance clear meaning with refined esthetic form. It argues poetry blends precise thought with artful expression.
Cornwallis Parole From Yorktown Surrenders October 1781
Parole text of Lord Cornwallis after surrender at Yorktown on October 19 1781 shows he agrees to remain a prisoner of war until exchange and to report as required by American commanders Washington and the prisoner commissary. The original copy now sits in Massachusetts State Library.
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Lima
Callao
Peru
Pisaqua
Iquique
Arica
Pacua
Panama
Lord Chelmsford
Chelmsford
Isandula
Cetgwayo
England
Sir Bartle Frere
Cety- Wayo
Ulundi
Capetown
Lord Cornwallis
Massa
Washington
Yorktown
Massachusetts
New York
State Library
Charles Earl Cornwallis
United of
Europe
United States
Parrot and Spider Battle Captured in Java Island
A French correspondent recalls a bizarre duel on Java between a giant spider and a parrot. The spider stalks a nest and feeds on blood until the mother returns, fights with a beak strike, and the hunter finally shoots the spider and frees the parrot.
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Isle of Java
Rance
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Skunk River
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5. M. Frazier
Great South Pass
Union Pacific Railroad
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Zring
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