Frontier tragedy in Custer sparks swift justice
A barroom shooting in Custer leads to a drunken Salt Lake party conflict. Tom Milligan shoots Aleck Shaw by accident. Milligan is arrested, tried, and acquitted but re-arrested for shooting within city limits and fined. The episode illustrates frontier justice amid harsh Black Hills winter conditions.
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Black Hills
Custer
Nation
Cheyenne
Alexander Shaw
Tom Milligan
Salt Lake
Milligan
Tom
Aleck Shaw
Aleck
Pete McKay
Sige
Milligan Lake
Lynch
Marsh
Burroughs
Kansas City Times
A Costly Alms-Dish At St Pauls Church
A ten pound alms-basin of solid gold and silver, inlaid with stones, was used in morning service at St Pauls Church after two years of stolen contribution plates. Rev I res proposed forming the basin from the parishioners’ gold and silver to replace the missing items. On St Pauls day in 1874 offerings included watches chains and rings.
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New York
Bethelem
Baltimore_Sun
St. Paul’s Church
Ires
St. Paul's Day
How He Got Fooled in a Vicksburg Barroom
A green looking darkey at a Vicksburg barroom about 2 AM accepts a bet to pick up a pin from the floor. The bartender hides a board to strike him. The board misses as the man deftly dodges, the bartender falls, is treated, and learns the joke was a setup about a retired roustabout and the Lee race.
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Vicksburg
Hogarth
Greenhorn
Lee
Vicksburg Herald
Snow Covered Mount Hamilton Road Promises Winter Sleigh Rides
The last three miles to Mount Hamilton summit gather heavy snow several winters and could yield prime sleighing after a storm. The pine covered upper stretch evokes New England scenes near San Jose, offering a quick land shift from cold winds to mild valley breezes. The urgency is to complete the road for annual winter recreation. The fall of snow is a near constant on this route through the season. Conservationists and locals imagine a genuine sleigh ride experience with eastern ambiance. The piece notes a San Jose Mercury item praising winter travel in a mild climate.
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Mount Hamilton
New England
San Jose
Cal
Mercy
Miscellaneous currents of 19th century news and anecdotes
A collage of brief items reports eccentric behavior in France and England, a lone elderly woman in Massachusetts managing a home at 83, Chinese uprisings in two provinces, a signature authenticity case in San Francisco, sleep science from Dr Terrier, and a romantic tale of Madame Gay-Lussac and her chemist husband.
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Krupp
Trouville
France
Bon Secours
Westminster
Mass
England
Wales
Church
Leon Say
Hat
Journal of Health
Blumerberg
San Francisco
China
Quang-tong
Shan-see
Kansu
Yangtse
Terrier
King’s College, London
Old Man Garner Pleads for Mercy in Larceny Case
In Elkton Kentucky a gray headed man named Jon Garner pleads guilty to grand larceny of a horse. He delivers a moving address about hardship, work struggles, and his starving family. The jury sentences him to two years in the penitentiary and petitions the governor for pardon.
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Elkton
Jon Garner
Sam
Yrm
Frankfort
Clarksville
Fairview
North
Logan
Louisville
Home Interests Recipes and Household Dainties
A collection of kitchen notes detailing mutton hash with potatoes, baked bread cakes, chocolate custard, cream cookies, ginger snaps, fireproof rug-making, and poached eggs with cream. Includes stepwise methods, ingredients, and tips for mixing, baking, boiling, and serving.
Shaker Extract Promises Cure for Stomach Ailments
An advertisement touts Shaker Extract as a radical remedy for digestive ills including stomach discomfort, sour after eating, and nervous symptoms. It claims permanent relief where others fail and seeks agents in New York. In Britain, astrologer Methralton is jailed after a decade of fortunes and love talismans. 70,000 letters found at his house from rank people.
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A. J. Kite
Pearl Street
New York
Ford
The Power of Ignorance in George Eliot’s Vision
Excerpt reflects on knowledge as power versus ignorance as destructive force. It contrasts centuries of discovery with swift harm from ignorance, urging scrupulous use of knowledge to sustain human progress while warning of blind ego and false certainties. Sourced from Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.
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Babylon
George Eliot
Daniel Deronda
Window gardening cures fly problem in Ireland study
The London Gardener reports Reverend George Meares Drought finding a fly free room after moving, attributing the pest decline to geraniums and calceolarias kept in open windows. He notes neighbors still suffer from flies until the change in window garden setup.
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George Meares
Ireland
London
Enterprising Reporter Sneaks Listening Device in Philadelphia
A reporter bored through plaster in a hotel ceiling above a committee room to eavesdrop on witness testimony during an examination by a site committee investigating Navy yard frauds. He recorded the proceedings in shorthand but was stopped by the committee and sworn to secrecy before leaving.
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Philadelphia
Tives
Navy
House of Refesenta
Ceil
F Whitthorne
Nation
Murre Eggs and Marineland Mystery at Farallon Islands
The article explains murres lay a single egg and will lay another if nests are robbed. Eggs vary widely in color and pattern, yet hatchlings share a common development. Visit the Farallon Islands off the Pacific to see murres. climb the first cliff and turn right.
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Murre
Farallone Islands
Pacific Ocean
St. Nicholas
Dr Schenck remedies for lung diseases and catarrh
The advertisement promotes Schenck remedies including Pulmonic Syrup Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills as cures for lung diseases. It urges early use to prevent lung damage and claims universal availability through druggists. It also prescribes Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy with Nasal Douche for catarrh and linked lung conditions with emphasis on cleansing blood and glands.
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Schenck
Schence
J. H. Schenck
Philadelphia
Benenck
Enck
Pierce
Sage
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