An Old Time Breakfast at Mount Vernon
The Ohio State Journal recounts Manasse Cutler's diary of a Mount Vernon breakfast two years after Washington's death. Mrs. Washington hosted a meals spread of cold ham cold corned beef cold fowl and cold mutton with parsley garnishes and tea and coffee. The piece contrasts early hospitality with modern breakfasts and notes generous provisions of the era.
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Washington
Manasse Cutler
Younder
Ohio
Mount Vernon
General Washington
Ohio State Journal
Fearless Drummer Flees Pittsburg After Night of Fury
Cincinnati drummer recalls a Pittsburg hotel altercation when a bump with a passerby led to a rapid knockdown. He faced a feared middleweight rival, fled across the river in a panic, and then stopped fighting for days, recounting a near legendary moment of nerve and danger.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Perause
Ink of
Ita Dry Goods
Marvelous machines and the powers they reveal
The Chicago Tribune extols human invention and its senses expanding tools. It notes a photographic plate with a telescope revealing unseen stars, a microphone rendering inaudible sounds, and a barometer far more sensitive than skin. It cites galvanometers and wireless telegraphy as surpassing human perception, concluding instruments vastly extend knowledge.
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Brawley
Paris
Chicago Tribune
Bulwer Lytton in Diaries Described as Clownish and Silent
Diary entry recounts Dr Edward Vaughan Kennealy describing Bulwer Lytton as a clownish guest who spoke little while dining with Lord Houghton and others. He criticizes Lytton’s appearance, writes that he doubts the famed authorial works, and notes perceived social awkwardness.
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Edward Vaughan Kenealy
Bulwer Lytton
Lord Houghton
Fitzball
Bardolph
Devereux
Bolingbroke
Cockburn
Little Mrs Malaprop Bessie Green Amuses Kin With Words
A seven year old girl known as Bessie Green amuses relatives with unusual phrasing. While recovering in hospital she sends a note from Auntie proclaiming convalescence. A brief reply arrives saying she is convulsive, signed BESSIE with playful infection.
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Bessie
Lippincott
Chicago Markets Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Chicago markets report August 3 shows hog receipts around 40 000 with steady to 10 cent lower tone. prices range for good heavy at 6.90 to 6.95, rough heavy 6.15 to 6.35, light 6.15 to 6.80, bulk 6.45 to 6.70, pigs 5.35. Cattle receipts 24 000 with softer tone. beeves 3.80 to 7.70, cows and heifers 1.50 to 5.65, stockers 2.40 to 4.40, westerns 3.70 to 5.90. sheep receipts 25 000 with weak tone. sheep 2.65 to 4.65, lambs 4.25 to 6.50. Futures estimates listed for tomorrow: hogs 14 000, cattle 5 000, sheep 11 000.
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Chicago
City Market Report
Stock Hogs five eighty to six ten, beeves six dollars to six fifty, cows and heifers two seventy five to three twenty five. Wheat seventy seven to eighty, corn sixty five to sixty seven, oats thirty seven, barley forty six, rye sixty, hay seven to nine, straw six. Hens eight, spring chick eng twelve forty four, old roosters three forty four, turkeys ten, ducks six, geese four, eggs fifteen, butter eighteen to twenty, potatoes fifty.
Omaha timetable shows daily trains with Sunday exceptions
Timetable No. 13 lists numerous Omaha routes including No 9 Local Passenger and No 6 California Express with arrival times from 6:25 a.m. to 9:13 p.m. Several trains do not run on Sundays, including Nos 63 and 64 on the local passenger service. Northbound Audubon Branch and Southbound Griswold Branch services operate mixed trains on Sundays. All trains run daily except Sunday.
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Omaha Flyer
Pasa
Cola & Calif
Mal and Brpress
A. M. Limited
BR. M. Edmited
Ifail and Express
Chicago Express
Chicago Flyer
Audubon Branch
Griswold
Train schedules for Kimballton and surrounding stations
Passenger and freight train times listed for No 1 Pa Leave Atlantic Smith Lake Gates at 7:00 to 8:50 a and No 2 South Bound from Kimballton to 10:20 a and 4:38 p with stops at Elkhorn Hansen Heights Gates Smith Lake Atlantic and Harrisdale, noting flag stop policy and various times.
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Atlantic Smith Lake Gates
Hansen Heiglelkhorn
Kimballton No
Atlantic Smith’ Lake Gates
Hansen Heig
Elkhorn
Aviva
Kimballton
Hansen Heights
Gates
Smith Lake
Atlantic
Kimbailton
Dae Pbalse
J Eikhorn
Peese
mpAtlantic
Harrisdale
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Musson
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Rock Island & Pacific
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Asenger and
Napeg Coy
A. Missenger and Freight
Atlanticziowa
News Publishing Co
Atlantic, Iowa
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