Fourth Attempt to kill the Czar of Russia details
A longreader summary reports the czar escaping four assassination attempts. It covers attacks in 1866 at St. Petersburg, a Paris grand review, a gala Easter event, and a Moscow train bombing. Explosives were placed under rails. a baggage train exploded after the czar’s arrival, injuring railway workers but not the emperor. Police found hidden wiring and a dug passageway in a house later linked to the plot.
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Russia
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Karakasoff
Kommissaroff
Paris
Prussia
Winter Palace
Samura
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Hunting Wild Geese With Oxen In Early California
Early California goose hunting was a profitable market-based industry. Hunters used docile oxen to herd geese on open plains, approaching indirectly for unawareness. A successful shoot yielded 30 to 60 geese per engagement, using heavy four-bore to six bore guns and high shot volumes.
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California
Excellent Glycerine Ointment Recipe Advised
A detailed glycerine ointment formula from American Agriculturist describes mixing sweet almond oil, spermaceti, white wax, and glycerine, scented with rose oil. It recommends storage in small jars, corked in heat, and notes uses for dry and rough skin, chapped hands, feet, and hemorrhoids.
Bureau of epgravin stock misses ten dollar bills
A terse note claims the bureau of epgravin holds no ten dollar notes in reserve, described as a singular coincidence. The remark adds that neither a land courier is present.
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Bureau of Epgravin
Miners Wages Advance as Coal Interests Move Forward
The Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley coal companies raise miners wages as labor talks progress. Washington E Hall of New York is sentenced to eighteen months for ballot tampering from the 1878 election matter. News from New Haven shows Democratic gains in town offices. Prominent Boston Holmes birthday banquet honors Oliver Holmes with readings by Whittier Stedman and others. Andrew Tracey, young lawyer, hanged at Smethport Pa for murder. details of trial and execution given. Tragedies include Brookton Mass mill accident with 3,000 bushels of corn, and a train wreck near Little Rock with fatalities. Ute uprising subsiding, Major General Jefferson C Davis dies in Chicago at 61. Louisiana election yields Democratic ticket. new constitution adoption noted. Baltimore water tunnel completed, large aqueduct project costing about 5 million. Medford colored youth Waters hanged in Maryland for 1874 murder.
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Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Washington E. Hall
New York City
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Conn
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Boston
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J. T. Trowbridge
C. P. Cranch
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Eliot
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Dennis Lynch
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Dennis Reardon
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Brookton
Maas
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Chicago
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Mexico
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Nelson
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Bud” Wood
William Currie
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Bud' Wood
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Curie
Wood
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Spofford
United States Senate
New Orleans
Washington
Baltimore
Medford Waters
Inkton
Jenkins Whaley
Washington Dispatch Reports Greenback Caucus Pushes Currency Policy
A Washington dispatch notes the Greenbackers caucusing to oppose money power encroachments and backing treasury notes to replace bank notes. They seek to fund soldiers with 500 million in greenbacks and resist silver or retirement of greenbacks.
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Washington Dispatch
Weaver
Washington
North Carolina
Indiana
Forty sixth Congress opens with Senate in session
The first regular session of the Forty sixth Congress began as Vice President Wheeler called the Senate to order at noon. Senators Bayard and Anthony were appointed to join a House committee to notify the President that both chambers were in session and ready to receive any communication. At 1 45 p m the committee reported they had waited on the President who would send a written message.
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de Mosso
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Iowa
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New York
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Supreme Court
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Findley
Indian Bureau
War Department
Aiken
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Gillette
Wheeler
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Anthony
Words of Wisdom: Lessons on virtue and prudence
A collection of maxims on honesty credulity and self control. Warnings about hope industry patience and self restraint with reflections on virtue nobility and personal conduct. The sayings emphasize inner strength and moral character guiding a noble life.
Will and probate of Augustus Sensiite Brey
The surrogate handles a probate for Augustus Sensiite Brey of Rye New York and Conford New Hampshire with Brooklyn property. The will requests a post mortem examination to study the heart left lung and stomach to guard children against disease and urges simple funeral and careful education for his heirs with musical instruction and practical occupations.
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Fie Couahas
Augustus
Brey Tn
Julian George Schults
Conford
N. H
Rye
N. Y
Germany
Brooklyn
Humorous Doctor Suggests Stealing Horse as Cure
A patient asks Dr Brown for an eye remedy and seeks a prescription. The doctor soberly replies that stealing a horse would land the patient in state prison for five years where no whiskey would be available and the eyes would heal. The patient declines the unconventional cure.
Carrying Forward in Life’s Line Ahead of the Mass
A New York Express aphorism urges staying in front in life’s procession to avoid being trampled by the crowd. The saying cautions that those who lag behind, likened to elephants, risk being stepped on.
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New York Express
Indications for Bitters and Boots in Health Quackery
A fragmented ad column touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and nerves, praises indestructible rubber boots, and promotes bronchial remedies. It mentions Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, Magga & Hamlin organs, Brown's Bronchial Traches, and Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffener, with speculative product claims and agent recruitment in Marshall, Michigan.
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Z S.erman & Co
Marshall, Mich
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Heath & Co
Broadway
N. Y
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