Portland Fire Devastates City and Loots Vast Losses
The Portland blaze destroys extensive property, with losses totaling millions. John B. Brown & Sons and Churchill Browns & Mason report major damage. Emery & Waterhouse spared, sewered by flames. 2000 buildings burned, half uninsured, city housing homeless as relief efforts mobilize. The fire cripples presses, post office, and city hall dome, but civic resolve drives rapid recovery plans and rebuilding contracts.
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Portland
New York World
Grand Trunk
Noble Harbor
Europe
Boston
New England
Free Street
Auguste
John Brown
State Street
Park Street
America
Boston, Maine and Eastern Railroad
Brown
Commercial Street
Exchange Street
Fessenden
Middle Street
United States Hotel
Portland Bar
New Custom House
Telegraph
Exchange and
Middle Streets
Custom House
Congress Street
Port- Ininct Natural History Society
Forest City
City
Yeserdey
Charles Staples & Son
S Soston
Ipham
J. W Mariger
NP. Richardson & Co
Prees
Gea
Lous
International
Protec ‘Gion
Brown Thurston
Dirigo
Maine -May
Upland Relief and Republic
New York
Clifford
United Rates Circuit Court
Fox
Abe Oled Berned
Beth Biewat
Svrinogee
Metropolitas
Emery & Waterhouse
Portland Society of Natural History
Lowell Baseball Club
John B. Brown & Sons
City Hall
West India
Incredible Old-Time Scientific Feats and Inventions
A collage of 19th century curiosities and tech claims. Silk could encircle the earth 52 500 times while Austrian cornethold paper is touted for school books. Large aneroid barometer, British locomotives converting water to steam, early rotating mining fans, Vienna suspension bridge steel chains, serpent derived Singer, Newton magnet ring, soap bubbles from sodium phosphate solution, and France’s rapid BStone disk saw. It notes China’s canal, silk production via bark, Brunet’s bark transformation, ridicule as visionary, Boston’s John A Heyl lighting all city lamps, and an electrogas light system using a central control with a platinum wire network. The text reflects wide-ranging industrial speculation and groundbreaking notions of the era.
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Austria
Great Britain
Vienna
Singer
Isaac Newton
France
M. Brunet
John A. Heyl
Boston
Heyl
Various Oddities and Incidents From Across the Nation
A miscellany of 19th century snippets notes tax burdens in Norfolk and regional dangers, a coffin lid with a mirror to aid funerals in Portland, lynching violence in Floyd County and Mississippi, charity and education grants, Stanton era legal missteps, a Monticello school will, a remarkable elder matriarch in Milwaukee, and curious tales from Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, and abroad including a Paris gambling loss, a fire rescue, and cannibal anecdotes.
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Norfolk
Portland
Mixed 19th Century Notices and Financial Figures
A collage of short items: incomes listed for Henny W Lenoreeson and Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Co executive pay, a postponement of Heap Centre Sternexs US tour, a Paris imperial printing interest, and railroad president Joserh E Jouxson moving to Selma. Royal visit notes Queen Eva at Napoleon’s party and Victoria’s public reception comments. Also mentions ex-governor Seymour probe, poet Tuomas Read legal trouble, and debates over an Art Gallery and forged letters, with London and royal observations.
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Joserh E. Jouxson
Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad
Selma
Eva
Sandwich Islands
Napoleon
J. C. Bascxixeron
Niagara
C. W
United States
Liaut
Nichozas
Navy
Bowdoinham
Philadelphia
Meade
Union League
Gettysburg
Hartrozp
Fli Walker
England
T. A. Seymour
Tuomas BucHanxan
Mr. Handy
Queen Victoria
London
Ster
Ged Puphess of
Sutherland
Oliefden
Cliefden
Gestation periods in farm animals surveys show variance
The article notes gestation ranges in mares from 287 to 419 days, cows from 220 to 314 days with most calves near 284 or 285 days, ewes about 161 days, and sows about 143 days. It cites experiments by M. Tessier and Lord Spencer and references the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society.
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M. Tessier
Paris
Lord Spencer
The
Royal Agricultural Society
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