Curious 19th Century Clippings From Brainerd Dispatch
The Brainerd Dispatch lists a string of antiquated notes: the Duke of Bedford imports 2,000 American frogs to purge estate ponds. Roman censors punish unmarried men. long-lived geese records. names of officials and places. Copenhagen and Danish origins. Colorado College to hire Louis Ablers. Euphrates Esculapius Endymion Mc Jimsey in Marysville recorder's office. Pingree plan impact on potato farmers. Cuban women forming aid clubs. Vanderbilt builds his own sailing yacht. Russian imperial horse services. Cesare Cantú the Milan historian who died at 85 after prison writing Margherita Pusteria.
Genoa Mourns Baron Potesta Ex Mayor of Northern Italy
Thousands in Genoa mourn Baron Potesta longtime mayor and civic reformer credited with major city improvements. The piece notes his prominent role in developing Genoa and reflects on the era’s challenges. It mentions past Handel performances in London and global impressions of leadership.
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Genoa
Italy
Baron Potesta
Japan Finds Rich Mine on Liáo Tong Peninsula
Report says Japan has found a rich gold mine on the Liao Tong peninsula of China. It claims the mine has been worked for 500 years by Confucian priests and kept secret from the people, suggesting further discoveries if Japan advances into China.
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Liao Tong Peninsula
China
Strait politics scuffle over Formosa cession fears
Observers note England and France oppose ceding Formosa to Japan as a strategic naval hub near Canton and major Chinese ports. Japan, however, insists on the transfer, resisting European interference in Asian affairs.
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England
France
Formosa
Japan
Canton
Europe
Berlin Mourns Professor George von Gizycki
Professor George von Gizycki, ethics chair at the university since 1908, died of influenza. He's remembered for works on evolution ethics and moral philosophy. His widow is a leading figure in Germanys women’s rights movement.
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Berlin
George von Gizycki
Germany
April Fool Cocktail Sparks Hush Hush Barroom Blur
In a sharp exchange, a waiter offers an “April Fool Cock tail” as a popular drink. a patron samples it and collapses, leaving his watch with the bartender as security. A separate court scene reveals a defendant accused of resisting an officer and pleading guilty to insanity.
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Cholly
Barkeep
Pith of the News The Latest and Most Important News
The column presents a digest of global items drawn from the Telegraph and press associations. It highlights key political, economic and social developments shaping the day’s agenda.
William L. Wilson Sworn In as Postmaster General
William L. Wilson takes office as postmaster general while the General Land Office plans peaceful opening at Yankton Indian reservation. First Assistant Postmaster General Tones returns to Washington from Illinois. Nicaraguan canal commission heads for Nicaragua within two weeks. Col Lawton ordered to establish headquarters in Santa Fe May 1 reopening Fort Marcy. Librarian Spofford reports 2,762 copyright entries in the year, up from 1,586. 4,295 publications received.
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William L. Wilson
General Land Office
Yankton
Spofford
Congressional Library
INM
Notable Obituaries and Personal Notices From 19th Century Sources
A jumble of personal notices lists deaths and illnesses across cities from Frankfort to Boston. Items include Kirk Bailey dying in Kentucky at 61 leaving a $300000 estate, Camille Doucet as perpetual secretary of the French academy in Paris, Sir Bache Cunard and Miss Maud Burke engagement reports, and James Kemp the Salvation Army captain known as Ash Barrel Jimmy dying in Boston. Also notes W S Stratton ill in Colorado Springs and Fr. Nicholas Holtel found dead in Peoria.
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Kirk Bailey
Frankfort
Daniel Moriarity
Daniel Yconnell
Dubuque
Iowa
W. S. Stratton
Colorado Springs
Col
Nicholas Holtel
St. Boniface’s Church
Peoria
Camille Doucet
French Academy
Paris
Frank Dairy
St. Joe
Mich
Chicago
Charlotte Bean
Agnes Ffellen
Perry
Medford
Mass
Rank W. Cole
University of Michigan
Columbia College
New York
William D. Pollock
Hen Peck
Ind
Col. Pollock
James Kemp
Salvation Army
United States
Jimmy
Kemp
Boston
Multiple Fatalities and Disasters Reported Across States
A runaway killed Jefferson Calhoun in Peru Indiana and a man named McFarland died from dynamite blast injuries in Clinton Iowa. Several drownings and freezing deaths occur in Pennsylvania Missouri Michigan and Kentucky. A cyclone damages Boone County Kentucky and a roofless building collapse in St Louis. Wrecked schooner crew rescued except the mate. Accidental shooting kills Martin Kapsch in Globeville Colorado. Fire damages in Ohio and Illinois with multiple injuries and a big loss to Suburban Railway. An insane asylum fire saves inmates. an April fool joke explodes at a Cincinnati home after a family reunion.
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Jefferson Calhoun
Peru
Ind
Joseph West
Warrensburg
Tell McFarland
Clinton
Iowa
St. Charles
Monongahela
Pittsburg
Alfred Keene
Trinity Ledge, N. Ss
Martin Kapsch
Globeville
Denver
St. Louis
Toalay
Suburban Railway Company
Licking County
Ohio
Jennie Jacoby
Hillsboro
Til
Thomas Chatteller
Rabbi M. Wise
Cincinnati
Notable Executions and Crimes Stir National Tension
A rash of violent incidents and legal actions unsettles cities from Denver to Cedar Rapids. Executions loom for Henry Tyson and Dr. Buchanan, while Y M C A secretary Roy Culver is missing. Reports include murders, suicides, robberies, a bank heist indictment, a missing person, and trespass by detectives affecting Great Northern towns.
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Henry Tyson
Denver
W. Smith
Burlington
Elgin
Charles W. Crawford
Adel
Iowa
John Y. McKane
Sing Sing
Robert Buchanan
Ella Ruggles
J. H. Ruggles
Creston
Ohio
Mont Deskins
Kentucky
Saylorsville
John Fisher
St. Bernard
Barney Degnan
K. Moravik
Cedar Rapids
Great Northern
Burglars Drop Garments After Chase In Larose Theft
Coroner Morrow’s clothes were stolen in Larose Illinois. He pursued the thieves and they dropped the garments containing $200 and valuables. In Chadron Nebraska Birt Snyder, intoxicated, fired a shotgun on main street wounding one man in the leg and injuring several others.
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Larose
Morrow
Birt Snyder
Chadron
Neb
Berlin letter scandal revived by arrest
A revived anonymous letter scandal in Berlin follows an arrest. Other items note a settled Mexican Guatemalan quarrel and French charges against English efforts to sink a French transport.
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Berlin
Marquis of Queensberry
Oscar Wilde
London
Progresso
Yucatan
Cuba
Mexico
Prince Bismarck
Curiosities and calamities fill an active news day
The record lists numerous incidents from across the country including court actions, criminal cases, political moves, labor strife, and social issues. Notable items reference bribes in Carrollton Missouri, a Springfield Illinois stamp robbery, Michigan woman suffrage talks, a Libby prison escape plotter slain in Kentucky, and a broad mix of legal, economic, and transportation news.
Supreme Court Voids Tax on Rents and Bonds in Revenue Case
The Supreme Court held that the 1894 income tax law cannot tax rents from real estate and income from state, county, and municipal bonds. The decision sustains taxation only for other aspects and remands for further action, with dissents from Justice Field and others. The ruling applies to Moore vs. Internal Revenue and Pollock and Hyde actions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Bar
Circuit Court
Marshall
Springer
Illinois
Pollock
Justice Field
District of Columbia
John G. Moore
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Charles Pollock
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Lewis H. Hyde
Continental Trust Company
United States Court For
Southern District of New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Olney
James C. Carter
New York
Whitney
Messrs. Choate
Seward
Guthrie
Edmunds
Trust Companies
Moore
Messrs. Olney
Carter
Court decision on taxing powers sparks treasury alarm
The article notes Congress could not be convened by one rise from the dead and reports dissenting opinions from Justices White and Harlan. Treasury officials fear the ruling will cut income receipts by at least 50 percent, while President Cleveland signals no extra session unless conditions change.
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Congress
Justice White
Justice Harlan
Treasury
Cleveland
Erwin Brief Hopes for New Trial in Hayward Case
The brief by W. W. Erwin for a new trial in Hayward’s case urges district court review on numerous evidentiary rulings. It challenges admission of testimony about bribery, the fire loss, insanity, and rebuttal actions, and disputes exclusions of expert and witness statements as well as certain Bihar-like flashes of testimony.
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Hayward
Minneapolis
W. W. Erwin
District Court
Hall
Blixt
Ging
Harry
Adry Hayward
Vallely
Hazelton
Norred, Myers and Hance
Adry
Ernest Goodsell
Odell
Jenks
Transformation at Paradise Chapel Inspires Myrtle's Mission
Myrtle helps a despairing woman in a chapel setting learn true faith through charity and humility. A repentant speaker recounts temptations in Hades and awakens to divine mercy, guiding the vulnerable toward selfless service and spiritual renewal.
Electricity Kills By Arterial Constriction Findings
Ohio State University researcher Dr. Bleile reports that fatal electric shocks kill by causing artery constriction that floods the heart and drowns its function. Nitroglycerine before a shock raises the threshold, while after does not aid revival. He doubts resuscitation except for slight insensibility cases.
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A. Mc Bleise
Ohio State University
Columbus Dispatch
Bleile
Tleile
Tle
Ale
Soap Manufacturers Fair Milwaukee Receiver Named
Judge Ludwig grants motion to appoint a receiver for Gross Bros soap makers. Rosa and Laura Gross, proprietors, filed after Joseph Gross seized the plant as administrator of Leopold Cross.
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Soap Manufacturers Fair
Milwaukee
Ludwig
Gross Bros
Rosa
Laura Gross
Joseph Gross
Leopold Cross
Address Presented to Prince Bismarck by Professors
A delegation of professors visited Prince Bismarck in Berlin on April 10 and presented him with an address. The event highlighted scholarly support for his policies and drew attention from observers in attendance.
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Bismarck
Friedrichsrhne
Prince Bismarck
Oil Advances in Petroleum Market Boosts 671 Producers
In a wave of gains the oil market rose today by 12 cents per barrel, bringing jubilation to 671 producers who benefit from the higher prices.
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Oi City
Reverend Southworth Called to Unitarian Church
Janesville Wisconsin April 10 Reverend V E Southworth of Ware Massachusetts has received a call to All Soul's Unitarian church in this city.
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Janesville, Wis
E. Southworth
Ware
Mass
All Soul's Unitarian Church
Double Tragedy at Lincoln Street Church in Wichita
In Wichita on April 9 at the Lincoln Street Christian church a husband Walter Scott shot his wife dead as congregants left services. He then killed himself by shooting through his mouth, dying near his wife. The couple, married about two years, had separated. she 17 and he 19.
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Wichita
Kan
Lincoln Street Christian Church
Walter Scott
Scott
Hypnotism Factor in Kansas Murder Case Upheld
Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka recognizes hypnotism as a factor in murder. In the Sumner County case, Anderson Gray planned the murder of Thomas Patton and influenced Thomas McDonald to commit the shooting near his Sumner County home. McDonald is acquitted. Gray is convicted.
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Topeka
Kan
Supreme Court of Kansas
Sumner County
Anderson Gray
Thomas Patton
Thomas MacDonald
Mc Donald
Patton
Supreme Court
Gray
Silver Party Formed In Alabama Political Shift
In Athens Limestone county 400 Democrats silverites and Populists formed a central silver club backing free coinage. They pledged nonpartisan support for candidates who favor their views. H P Lane Democrat and state agriculture commissioner withdrew after his motion to jettison party lines failed.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Athens
Limestone County
H. P. Lane
Probable Fate of Three Wisconsin Hunters Near Desoto
Three Wisconsin youths John Haverly Earl Wakefield and Ole Everson vanished after a hunting trip near Desoto five miles north of Lansing Iowa. A gun matching their boat was found near Victory Sunday causing belief they were drowned. Rewards offered total ten dollars for each body.
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Wisconsin
Lansing
Iowa
John Haverly
Earl Wakefied
Ole, Everson
Desoto
Wis
Haverly
Life of a traveling auditor ends in suicide in Detroit
The dead body of a well dressed young man with a bullet hole in the heart was found on Concord avenue in Detroit. He had arrived the prior Wednesday and carried a note identifying him as a traveling auditor for the Buckeye Supply Company of Toledo and son of the company's president. The note to his father stated his life was a failure as he could not resist liquor.
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Myrtle
Shears
Mérfet
Myrtlé
T ‘Pathér
Jesus Christ
Christ
Paradise
Hades
Assalig
Hadés
Detroit
Mich
Concord Avenue
Buckeye,Supply Company
Toledo
Electric display lets fans follow distant baseball games
A new reporting system uses an electric, keyboard controlled display to show the ball ground, player positions, balls strikes fouls hits outs and scores in real time. A telegraph operator at the keyboard flashes progress to spectators within five seconds, reproducing the play.
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Seneath
Actin
Montrose Duchess’s Will Involves Studs And Jewels
The will of Caro line Agnes, Duchess of Montrose, leaves all her stud horses and mares to her son Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, the present duke. It directs sale of diamond jewelry with £2,000 for the London bishop to aid East End poor and the rest for debt clearance, all property in trust to her son. excludes her husband, Mr. Milner.
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Caroline Agnes
Duchess of Montrose
Manton
Douglas Beresford
Malise Ronald Graham
Duke of Montrose
London
East End
Euchanen Castle
Mr. Milner
New hair bleach sparks green tint craze among women
A new hair bleaching product allegedly turns hair a near green shade prompting interest among women. The claim draws attention from social circles and fashion observers as the color trend circulates.
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Recorder’s Office
Marysville, Mo
Pingree
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Hugela Noe
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Hattie Davidson
Lewis Anderson
Elkhart
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Honolulu
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Memphis
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Wyo
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Naylor Shoe Company
J. Linville
Tike County
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Anna Kahn
Mascoutah
Joliet
Frederick Kahn
John Coventry
Shelbyville
Lidie Opie
Salina
Suez
Upham Manufacturing Company
Marshffield
Alice Rubber Mills
United States Rubber Company
Woonsocket
R.I
N. L. Bailey
J. B. Brackett
San Diego
Cal
Yuma
Camp
Supreme Court of the Choctaw Nation
Johnson Jacobs
Pusimataha Court
National Bank of Commerce
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Rolling Mill Company
Findlay
Moreseby
Due
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G. I. Wickens
Lorain
Delta
Alger
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Stevens and Sons
Mickie Shaw
Elwood
Foust
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William Comforts
Wallace Young
Independence
Young
Comforts
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Jim Leighton
Vierre
Toronto
Ont
Bufffalo
N. C
Johnson
Hempstead County
Ark
U. S Supreme Court
Supreme
Chase
Erwin
Song & Friend
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Wight
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Roane
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