News items from across the nation of 19th century notes
The column enumerates varied tidbits: San Francisco favors roller skating over dancing, Harrisburg fights wife beating, Germany faces scarce help for crops, Scranton records twelve funerals in one Sunday, Newport boastfully cites six white oxen drag team, a major land suit in St. Louis traces to 1765, Croton reservoir holds 4 billion gallons, a Newark doctor’s chloroform death, a New Brunswick girl on trial for multiple child murders, Barnum and South nears, and the King of Saxony praised as Europe’s most learned monarch.
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San Francisco
Harrisburg
Germany
Scranton
Newport
Drag Express
St. Louis
New Croton
New York
Newark
N. J
New Brunswick
Barnum
Saxony
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Richard Howth
Travetiler Building
J. Collis Browne
London
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J. J. Davenport
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
J. Aspinwall
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America
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France
Depaul
Paris
Jenner
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KC Wey
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Esstul Peale
ORM Tees
Boston Lyceum
Nas IY
KR. Locke, Esq
Music Mall
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Lowell Institute
Prof. Cooke
Will
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England
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