A Tramp's Harsh Winter Odyssey For Work In New England
A man recounts months of freezing dormancy and brutal treatment while seeking employment from Boston to Albany. He endures police lockups, cold cells, hunger, rheumatism, and exposure, aided occasionally by kind locals in Newburyport Haverhill Lowell Andover Medford Natick Worcester Springfield Hartford Albany and beyond as he travels toward work in Connecticut New York and upstate towns. He notes Massachusetts harshness versus Connecticut generosity and ends with finding work in Herkimer County New York after a long struggle.
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Boston
Eastern Railroad
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Lire
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Lawrence
Lawrences
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Newbaryport
Haver
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Medford
Spot
Spy Pond
Meadfourd
Boston & Albany
Natick
Wemovers
Steam Tire Engine Company
Key
Westboro
West
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Po Mere
Springfield
Chariton
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Palmer
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Warren
East Brookfield
City Hall
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Lally
Atention
New York State
Connecticut
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Thompsonville
Winsted
Wabk
Pelice
Norfolk
Cannan
Selectman
Canaan
Housatonic
New York and
New York Daily
East Chatham
Suhodac
Casteton
Castletown
Albany
Hackman
Herkimer County
Sluice Mining Origin Credited to Colonel Eddy Claim
Colonel Eddy of this city recalls introducing the sluice box for mining in spring 1840 after an accidental discovery near the Catholic church. He describes building a trough with cleats and a rocker, noting gold collected behind cleats, and cites heavy demand for timber as sluice popularity rose. He laments not patenting the invention for fame and fortune.
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Cnevada Transcript
Eddy
Jong Tow
Rocker
California
A Sporting Parson Fumbles a Wedding Day
An old country vicar, famed for hunting, forgets his wedding as he shoots while on the way to the church. At the ceremony a partridge burst from his surplice, the groomed bird surviving the surprise. The parish clerk reassures that the bird cannot escape and life goes on.
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Artridge
Ben
Ceor
Aquite
Monogamic Mormons at Plano Conference Expose Leader
A Chicago News reporter covers the Plano Illinois annual conference of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints. Joseph Smith III, about 50, leads a church of 14,000 worldwide with 40 Illinois churches and 1,600 North American members. He discusses polygamy, revelations, and church structure, noting Zion in North America and plans some emigration to Lamoni Iowa.
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Chicago News
Plano
Joseph Smith
Hancock County
Carthage
Nauvoo
Plano Joseph
Mormon Church of the World
William B. Smith
Iowa
Catherine
Lucy
Alexander Sith
Latter- Day Saints
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Elgin
Spalding
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
Young
Tyler
France
Orson Pratt
Trenton
Utah
North America
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Cape of Good Hope
Society Islands
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Lam Volug
Herald
Zion
Missouri
Mints' Herald
Reorganized Saints
Smith
Mormon Church
John Hansen
Council Biuils
Donkey Messenger Pleases Master with Honest Rounds
The donkey began delivering milk cans to panniers and later returned with empty cans. The master learned the trusty messenger had visited all doors, sometimes pulling bells with his teeth when kept waiting. From that day the donkey continued his rounds alone.
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Siasion
Captain Smoke the Marine Hermit of San Francisco
A Golden Gate correspondent details Captain Elisha Thayer known as Captain Smoke, a 22 year resident of a ship’s caboose turned hermitage on Spear and Harrison streets. Once a whaling captain from Lyne Massachusetts, his life fell to ruin after a Peru voyage and shipwreck, ending in solitary faith and a grim, stove-ridden dwelling.
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Golden Gate
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Spear and
Harrison Streets
Smoke
Captain Smoke
Lyne
Maschusetts
Lrust
Thayer
Elisha Thayer
Peru
Lima
China
Rastess
Goonday
Liquor and the Lash Henry Bergh's Proposals
Henry Bergh urges harsh penalties to curb rum and distilleries. He suggests whipping the drinkers and sellers to cut alcohol usage, argues total abstinence is unlikely, and promotes a public health reform tying liquor to crime and domestic hardship. He cites wives and children suffering and claims punishment would reduce drunkenness and violence.
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Henry Bergh
Lotten
Curious Aftereffect of Bucharest Earthquake at Grand Hotel
A recent Bucharest earthquake caused soil vibrations affecting nearby brick buildings differently. The Grand Hotel on the main street showed no prior cracks, but after the quake, passing traffic now sways the building with a sawing motion, moving pictures and fixtures. Experts suspect subterranean changes under the hotel.
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Buchrest
Bucharest
Grand Hotel
Venices
Reent
Forgetful Dover Youth Seeks Marriage License
A Dover township man entered the Probate office asking Judge Brown for a license for himself and a bride he could not name. After failed recall he asked the judge to make the name "the same as his'n." The judge refused, the man returned later with the name on paper, and obtained the license.
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New Philadelphia News
Dover Township
Ohio
Brown
Jim Slathe
Lord Conkling
Judge Lavis
James Garfield
Ken Hill
Listhe Udiau
Schurz
Tomames
Kellogg
Jonas
Louisiana
Mahone
Mortans
Judge Robertson
Garfield
Windom
Conkling
Reindeer Skin Garments An Arctic Dress Chronicle
A New York Herald piece outlines how Esquimaux craft winter wear from reindeer and seal skins, detailing inner and outer suits, boots, and mitts. It explains skin preparation, drying, and tailoring by family patriarchs, with women shaping and sewing while men scrape and dress hides, highlighting the labor, materials, and social roles behind the fur wardrobe.
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New York Herald
New York
Esquimaux
Wales
Eixteen
London Street Shows and Free Street Attractions
A San Francisco Chronicle read describes London street shows with puppeteers, blind Bible readers, bagpipe Highland dancers, trained animals, and street bands. It notes perpetual crowds, bustling gas-lit theaters, and curious spectators peering through opera glasses at the lively, sometimes odd, urban pageant.
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San Francisco Chronicle
London
Corkney
Tone
Punch
Judy
Dog
Toby
Punch and Judy
Bric a Brac and silly verse from London Punch and more
A collage of humorous verse and cartoons from London Punch and Brooklyn Eagle items. It includes playful mockery of advertising clergy schemes, political caricatures, a Detroit Free Press chant, and assorted short comic exchanges from urban life, ending with a noted Austrian twins exhibit.
A Dissolute Dog An Arizona Pup With Beer Taste
A full-blood Scotch shepherd pup presented to the Gazette editor becomes a drunkard after visiting Luke’s brewery. The beer loving canine swills from dripping pans, grows heady, staggers, and repeats the pattern, prompting the editors to contemplate an appropriate course of action.
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Phoenix
A. T.) Gazette
Gazette
Myneer Luke's
A Lamb Like Rebuke in Carlyle and Lamb Tale
Carlyle’s harsh Reminiscences about Charles Lamb are countered by a story of a moralizing remark at a gathering with fine game birds. Lamb interrupts with a stammering aside about “perhaps you’re poultry,” illustrating a playful rebuke to moralizing tones.
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Carlyle
Charles Lamb
Caryle
Lamb
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