The Fragrant Cigarette Origins and Manufacture
A historical survey on cigarette origins from Spain to America, detailing the shift from hand rolled Cuban cigarettes to machine made American brands. It explains tobacco varieties, paper quality, wrappers, and the rise of ready to smoke cigarettes, with notes on Cuban and Turkish imports and American labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Richmond
Havana
Dussell
France
America
Cuba
United States
Mechanical calculating machine by Ramon Verea in New York
A Spanish resident of New York, Ramon Verea, unveils a ten plate arithmetic machine that multiplies and divides with instant results. It displays a fifteen figure product and operates by turning a crank, integrating addition within the multiplication itself. Tests show 900,000 times 9,000 correctly computed. The device not for sale, but demonstration of possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Sylvester 11
Pascal
Leibnitz
Thomas de Colmar
Ramon Verea
New York
Verea
Herald
Walking for dear life as drug clerk warns of laudanum mix up
Four newspaper men and a guest drank a beverage labeled soda and cinchona bitters in a New York drug store. The clerk revealed he had given them laudanum by mistake. They were treated with an emetic, walked off the poisoning, and later recovered, though Becker suffered lingering effects. The party logged long, strenuous walks across Brooklyn and Manhattan, finishing safely but shaken by the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Star
Broadway
Ney
C. A. O Rourke
City Pras Association
Becker
New York Associated Press
George Ditmar
Journal 144
My. Ownton
Associated Pres
Amos Larned
Amos
Mr. Boynton
Boynton
Asman
Goptieman
Harlem
Twenty-third Street
Fifty-ninth Street
Highbridge
New York
Colorado River
Yuma
Mojave
Gila
Henry
Skeeters
Tom
Examiner
Birth of a Kangaroo at Barnum's New York Show
After Barnum announced his Florida return, J A Bailey rushed to the Madison Square Garden menagerie where a newborn kangaroo appeared from its mother's pouch. The infant, about two inches long, drew a small crowd as the parents, both tame, faced questions from the spectators. Bailey notes it is the only kangaroo born in the country aside from a Cincinnati case and hopes the pair will raise it as the show ends its triple-ring run.
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Jose
Havana
New York
Honradez
New York Sun
Mr. Barnum
Madison Square Garden
Florida
J. A. Bailey
Mr. Bailey
John
Bailey
Cincinnati
Australia
Ancient amphora relic unearthed in Treasury files
Workmen found a two gallon jug labeled The Hon. Howell Cobb with the compliments of Lewis Wigfall in a Treasury file room. Cork released a drop of Old Hermitage Bourbon whose scent evoked memories of Old Buck and the White House days and Southern ties in the capital.
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Washington Republican
Treasury Department
Howell Cobb
the Treasury
Lewis Wigfall
White House
Snow storm epic in a Bohemian couple’s drifted shack
A young Bohemian couple near Glencoe endured a peculiar venture when their hillside shanty was buried by the latest snow. The husband dug through a drift and walked to alert neighbors as another storm looms on the horizon.
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Fremont
Glencoe
Surviving Couples Found After Drifting Storm Night
A newlywed wife and her husband were trapped with their house buried for three days until a pole was used to sound and locate the dwelling. Gus Drahos and Herman Kloke of West Point had a similar drift episode, with a horse stepping into a chimney and a family living under it for a week.
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Hhe
Gus Drahos
Herman Kloke
West Point
Maye
Black Oil Find At Balltown On Blue Jay Peninsula
A Balltown area well near Foxburg yields a deeply black oil resembling coal tar and emitting tar-like odor. Its use remains undetermined pending chemical analysis, with potential for lamp black, dyes, or other applications. The strike is extraordinary, at about 270 feet in slate, unlike nearby wells. Further details promised in a future issue.
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Titusville
Hernin
Foxburg
Blue Jay
Balltown
Alhouc
Avalanche In Yechigo Destroys Homes Kills All but One Child
The Japan Mail reports February 25 1881 a deadly avalanche in Yechigo that destroyed six to seven houses at Mount Mikuni foot and killed all inhabitants except one child. The child survived imprisoned for hours under a cottage tie beam with no injuries while the father was carried 300 yards away. Snow depth reached ten feet in parts, routing routes and delaying travel on the Yechigo and Nakasendo. Stormy weather hits Yokohama and Tokyo with rain and gloom instead of spring.
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The
Japan Mail
Yechigo
Mount
Mikuni
Popemeny
Wada
Nakasendo
Yokohama
Ōtokio
Deacons in Whiskey Poker Scandal Rocks Local Church
In a comic tale, Deacon Sliderback and Deacon Magruder host a whiskey poker game using authors cards with James Lowers and James Bowers witnessing. The game ends in a brawl, molasses spill, and flour barrel mêlée, jeopardizing church reputation.
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Sliderback
Bat
James
Elmira
Deacon Sliderback
Deacon Magruder
Esquimaux
James Lowers
Bear
Magruder
Maroder
Venice
James Bowers
Umbrella theft at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre case
Richard Dorney charged George Neilson with larceny of an umbrella from the Daly's umbrella room after it reappeared in Neilson's possession. Neilson admitted taking it but denied stealing. Justice Patterson remanded him on $300 bail. Neilson is said to be well connected.
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New York Sun
Richard Dorney
Augustin Daly
Jefferson Market
George Neilson
West Sixteeth Street
Daly
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Edgar G. Murphy
Urphly
Murphy
Dorney
Neilson
Justice Patterson
Cheap Gas and Public Profit in Manchester
Manchester gas works long owned by inhabitants with a 30-member police commission board oversight. Debts reached £80,000 by 1855, profits funded town improvements, gas prices fell from 12s to 3s per 1000 cubic feet by 1870 and further. By 1879 profits equaled 94 yards per 1000 feet, aided by labor-saving gasmaking advances and sale of ammonia liquor tar and coke yielding £80,000 in 1579.
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Manchester
Commission of Police
Cas
Magnitude scale records high annual income and staff
The text notes a total income near £400,000 each year and a workforce of about 600 in summer and 1300 in winter. Interest on debt requires £25,000, sinking fund £30, light £24,000, rates rents and taxes £13,000, depreciation £27,000, totaling $119,000 annually, yet £52,000 profit is available to the improvement committee and rates saved to that amount.
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Improvement Committee
Arizona mosquitoes and a dockside hospital yarn
A San Francisco Examiner piece revives a quirky hospital interview about Arizona mosquitoes. Drifting from scalp wounds to tales of Colorado River skeeters, the talk spirals into frontier violence, prospectors, bitten boots, and an audacious hunter narrating battles with bloodsucking insects and Indian attacks before officers interrupt.
Tragic Naples duel ends in double death and madness
A Naples tragedy unfolds as Count del Cigno stabs his wife’s lover at the Palazzo del Cigno, then a pistol shot kills the count. The Austrian artist dies at the scene. The Countess, witness to the carnage, is restrained in a nearby lunatic asylum.
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London Telegraph
Countess del Cigno
Europe
America
Naples
Count del Cigno
Palazzo del Cigno
del Cigno
The Great Channel Tunnel Progress Report
The Channel tunnel plan advances with a predicted eight years to bore from shore to shore and lay a double rail line within the subway, costing just under six million. Citing Sir John Hawkshaw’s sea-adjacent 5.14 mile tunnel at Brighton, the piece argues the Channel tunnel would sit in firmer chalk with ample water protection, making water intrusion unlikely.
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Channel Tunnel
London
Brighton
John Hawkshaw
Channel
BRIC A BRAC Ode Lampooning a Book Agent and More
A collage of verse and prose items from a late 19th century paper, including a humorous rebuke to a ye booke agent, a moral anecdote about Bible revisions with a priest, slang satire on fashion, a quirky Russian court case on symbolic murder, a note on reform for chambermaids, an odd sawmill accident tale, a pig chasing yarn, goldfish on ice, a jokey water-system quip, and light city clerks’ misnamings.
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New York Times
Virginia
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Spain
Turkey
Paris
Ettes
Beecher
Talmage
Mr. Beecher
Washington Post
Brooklyn
Key
Ueury Ward Beecher
Washington
Fey
Ramsdell
Iis
Eacher
Eugene Geraint
Mme. Guyoy
Sam
School For
Science
McCloskey
Ceula
Grinder
Father Faustell
Hamadell
Iits
Abe
Lythe
Ehough
Boston
St. Charles Borromeo
the Heights
T. DeWitt Talmage
Oxford Street
Presbytery of
J. Ramsdenl
Presbytery
Flavel 5
Mines
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Fulton Ferry
Fulton Street
Flatbush Avenue
Coney Island Road
Blue Jay Peninsula
Deacons
Evangeline
Bowers
Deacon Moegruder
Dickens
Oe Magruder
Ames
Mr. Bowers
Thackary
George Eliot
Pendennis
Vanity Fair
Daniel Deronda
Romola
Hugo
Napoleon
Deucalion
Enice
Arizona
Mississippi
San Francisco Examiner
Jimmy Gaffney
Jimmy
Munkeeter
Colorado
Golden Gate Park
Lower
Smith
Ananias
Sapphira
George Washington
P. B. Corbett
Messer
South
San Francisco Post
Hiis
Central Station
Free Press
Sarah
Washington Capital
Imperial Court of Justice
Mme. Frieber
Wassilied
Twenty-second St. Petersburg
Mesdawes Frieber
Wassilieff
Mme. Wassilieff
Mme. Vassilieff
Derrick Dodd
Mark Twain
Warrenton
Major McGregor
Albany
N. Y
George L. Thomas
South Pearl Street
Thomas
Johnny McArdie
James Street
McArdle
Larned
Bub
Manchester Union
Camsel
John Blank
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