Landing of 1000 Chinamen at Pacific Mail wharf chaos
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes 1000 Chinese steerage passengers disembarking through a freight porthole into an improvised pen on the Pacific Mail wharf. Officers search baggage, confiscating few items while some inspectors pilfer goods. The scene, aided by Six Companies agents, resembles a chaotic receiving yard as crowds and inspectors hustle the passengers and their belongings into wagons toward Chinatown.
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San Francisco Exchange
Pacific Mail
Tokia
Corps
Custom House
Chronicle
Chinatown
Steamship Company
Tts
English the World’s Language Ruling the World
Cyrus W. Field, just back from a voyage around the world, declares the English speaking peoples will eventually govern global affairs. He attributes the spread to trade, culture, and education, predicting English will become the dominant medium in science, diplomacy, and commerce.
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Cyrus W. Field
Necessary Delay for Decoration Day Holiday Issue
Monday is Decoration Day and a legal holiday in Massachusetts, so this issue of the Grope is delayed twenty four hours.
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Massachusetts
Kentuckian Murder Suspect Captured After Seventeen Years
A man bound in irons was taken from a Cincinnati to Chattanooga train to face trial in Somerset Kentucky for the 1864 murder of Coleman Stigall. Owen Love, born in Pulaski County Kentucky, denies involvement while William Stigall, his accuser and a special agent, led the case from Cullen County Texas. Love claims innocence as witnesses prepare for his trial.
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Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Somerset
Owen Love
Pulaski County
Woolford
Cullen County
Tex
William Sticall
Blackburn
Coleman Stigall
Stigall
Crab Orchard
Willam Stigall
Gazette
Love
Pas Phar
Texas
William Stigall
John Morgan
Sedalia
First Steamboat Ride Down the Hudson Retold by Dr. William Perry
Dr. William Perry, now 94 and a long-time Exeter physician, recounts his 1808 trip as a Fulton test passenger on the Catherine of Clermont. He describes the anxious wait, a last‑minute passage, grounding near Albany, playful engine tests, and the vessel being towed to Kingston before progress resumed.
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Robert Fulton
Hudson
William Perry
Exeter
N. H
Cincinnati Gazette
William G. Perry
Schenectady
Harvard College
Trumbull
Norton
Fulton
Albany
New York
Value of New York newspapers in mid 1800s growth
The piece surveys press wealth and circulation, recalling 1845 when the Herald was offered at 125000. It notes the Times at 1250000, the Tribune and World at 500000 each, and the Journal of Commerce at about double that. It mentions Commercial Advertiser at 500000 and overall daily capital in New York at around 8070000 with reference to early Benue days.
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China
India
England
East
America
Asia
New York
Bennett
Herald
The
Times
Tribune
the World
Journal of Commerce
Hugh Hastings
Commercial
Benue
Courier and
Emirer
Sun
Evening Post
Advertiser
Troy Times
Charity Kiss Scheme Ends in Scandal at Hyde Park
A Chicago Inter Ocean report describes a charity fundraiser where ladies auctioned kisses with a strict price schedule. The event, held in Hyde Park, drew a row when a jealous husband confronted an accused “black‑eyed” widow, causing a chaotic scene but netting $3,750 including fines.
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Chicago
Arizona to Clifton mail route monument concept preview
The piece recounts J W Dorsey’s Arizona mail service, weekly 84 hour trips at about two miles per hour, later expedited to forty hours at five mph. It notes pay rises to 14112 dollars annually and that Tres Alamos and Clifton would receive mail weekly. It also mentions a monumental brass tribute proposal for Dorsey, amid other topics like a Greek cypress fire and early cable tram ideas.
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Arizona
Tres Alamos
Clifton
Stephen W. Dorsey
J. W. Dorsey
Dorsey
Brady
Checkers notes from editor and players in 1881
In this issue of Checkers editorials from Boston dated June 1 1881 record moves from play between G D Bugbee and John Busby with Black to move and win. A second entry notes a position involving Charles F Barker and a Detroit player.
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G. D. Bugbee
John Busby
Whith
Black
Charles F. Barker
Detroit
Theo
W. Kimley
Greenford
Andrew Anderson
Kimley
Bristol
A. J. Heffner
Boston
Mr. Roberts
Bowen
Mr. Grant
Mr. Bowdish
Powell
Mr. Kear
Wyllie
New England Chess and Checker Rooms
Pemberton Square
G. Bugbee
Bugbee
Osv
Busby
O. H. Richmond
Barker of Detroit Tours Cambridgeport in Draughts Exposition
Charles F Barker arrives from Detroit and visits Cambridgeport after a Detroit draughts club tour. He played six games with Labadie of Chatham and others, winning three and drawing three, amid praise of his skill and a 170 page draughts book he authored. Barker plans to depart for Boston with wide local good will.
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Charles F. Barker
Detroit
Cambridgeport
Barker
Cook
J. J. McGreevy
J. Labadie
Chatham
Ont
Walker
Detroit Post and Tribune
Checker Ey Id
America
Michigan
The
Dominion
James Labadie
J. Ashley
H.W. Taylor
W. B. Jackson
Le,guidbeault
Lyvc
O D
McGreevy
Barkers
Ossis
J. K. Finehart
Barker KE. Austin
A, Gooldman
Barker W. Miller
H.F. Hatch
E.l.kkimball
Barker Wi
J. Giddey
D, Davis
Captain Cary
G.W. Halford
Barker Colonel Beard
W. H. Lilly
Barker J. Labadie
D. Schamadam
Sol Woods
Steward
W. Sholes
Messrs
Lyman
Wardell
Price
EW England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Boss
Mass
J. H. Reeves
Chatham St
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn
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Houghton Street
White
Laird and Lady
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Comosers
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Charles Barker
Checker News
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Joy
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University of Michigan
Wagner & CO
Ill
Star Novelty Co
New Haven
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Jel Ingersoll
Philip V. King
Rideout « CO
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Sizer
In & Ucase
Luc
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Fairhaven
Mhié
Star Card Co
Clintonville
Wylst
Hicganum
Rylst
G. W. Bocemsaes
West Haven
F. W. Austin
Branford Printing Co
Branford
Address & Co
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Star Printing Co
Northford
U.s.card Factory Co
Uagt
Big Outfit
Globe Card Co
Eowsly
J.minkler & Co
Nassau, N.Y
Cowyst
Pottier & Co
Montonnese, Co
Wydtkeowlt
Bocemides
Hallett & Go
Portland
RON Bitters
Brown Chestcat Co
Prown Chemical Company
Baltimore
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Sree, J, Estey & CO
Mrattleboro
Peck’s
Stinson
Broadway
N. J
Dougusts
Tess” Stevens Bros
Otadi—ly
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Young & CO
Fultonville
N.Y
Lafieu
T. W. Saxe
Wansen
Jere
Keelfy
M.D
Dwight
Linsly & Co
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
Card Mills
Nor Northford Ct
Outfit J Free
G. M. Hanson
Janos Eart
rt _Daniels
Beatty
Washington
Rand
Outfit
P. O. Vickery
Augusta
L. Clark
Wiscoy
Hern ‘Tinson & Co
Portland Me
Mount Mansfield Hotel
Stowe, Vermont
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Stowe
Vermont
Mount Mansfield
Summit House
Lowell
Concord
Waterbury
Washington St
U.S.A
Arkansas
Louisiana
Southwestern Immgration CO
Southwest
William W. Lang
Texas State Grange
B. G. Duval
Austin
J.N. Victor
Kelsey & CO
Meriden
Arthur's Home Magazine
American Dairyman
American Poultry Journal
Appleton'’s Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Naturalist
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Army & Navy Journal
American
Brainerd
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Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of
New
Boston Pilot
Boston Medical and Surgica Country Gentleman
Chicago Advance
Courier-Journal Weekly
Donahoe's
Demorests
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Detroit Free Press Weekly
Forney
Frank Leslie
Germantown Telegraph
Gardener's Monthly
Godey
Peo
Harpers
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Indiana
Mit
Regula Price
Independent
International Review
Iowa Homestead Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Chemistry
Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
Manufacturer and Builder Methodiat
Wees
American History Mining Record
North American Revie
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Ohio Farmer
Poultry World
Puck
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Wil Prairie Farmer
Peterson
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New Yorker
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Sunny South
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Dati
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Youths’ Companion
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