Petroleum Boom Turned Oil Wells Into Town Centers
The article notes booming oil production in Pennsylvania and Virginia with sixty six million gallons exported in ten months. It describes wells drawing crowds, rising land values, and rapid town growth around a successful strike, plus simple digging methods and safety lessons. It also reports on a new portable fire extinguisher that rapidly douses flames using a carbonic acid gas–water fluid.
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California
Pennsylvania
Virginia
United States
Varvas
Boston Journal
Watertown
Man
Girard Fund Aids Orphans and City Growth
The annual report shows Stephen Girard's fund began with 2 million dollars, now yielding about 330 thousand yearly from real estate value gains. The estate, not leaseable long term, allows rapid renewals and potential expansion to educate 1200 orphans as the city grows.
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Philadelphia
Stephen Girard
Girard
Farm and Fireside journal praised as handsome agricultural weekly
The first number of Farm and Fireside from S. B. Fons at Woonsocket arrives with strong content from experienced writers. It is described as a very handsome sheet and deserving of liberal support from readers.
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Woonsocket
Boston Almanac and Directory for 1867 publication details
The Boston Almanac and Directory for 1867 is published by George Coolidge at No 8 Milk Street Boston. It contains a business directory a map of Boston chronicle of events calendar memoranda pages national state and county registers city register and transportation register. It is sold at usual places and mailed postpaid for 50 cents.
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Boston
George Coolidge
Milk Street
National Register
Massachusetts State Register
Massachusetts County Register
City Register
Transportation Register
Preacher Pete Hya cinth Lectures at Notre Dame Paris
The celebrated preacher Pete Hya cinth is lecturing at Notre Dame in Paris. Described as about forty, tall with aquiline nose and sensual lips, he appears imposing in his order’s coarse brown habit, white caputa, bare feet and sandals, shaved head except fringe at the temples.
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Pete Hyacinth
Notre Dame
Paris
New York Roughs and Rising Crime Alarm Comment
A 1867 letter from New York describes violent youths armed with revolvers, a surge in murders, and police concerns amid urban corruption. The writer laments crime, cites 1866 statistics, and warns of a growing desperado class while urging reform through providential checks.
Miller Vengeance Halted by Government Hope for Release
A New York man Miller, exiled to South Carolina, aided Sherman with key intel, faced hanging there for aiding the Union cause. protests rise in hopes of clemency as government reviews his case. Also mentions a Christmas relief gift to Rev Steadman from the Forty Thieves and a Paris Expo country list including the United States and many nations.
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Ax Rannavatto
New York
Miller
New York State
South Carolina
Sherman
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Pithole
D. S. Steadman
Forty Thieves
Swordsman’s Club
Bishop Clark Lectures on The Laws of Human Progress
The sixth lecture in the Hocal Intelligence series was delivered by Bishop Clark of this state on Friday evening. A large audience and many young men attended. The bishop argued improvement as a divine law, cited the earth’s formation and progress, and illustrated how progress shapes both good and evil as he described past and present events.
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Clark
Wanted young men for church door gossip corps
An old time notice offers a satirical job drawing a crowd of young men to stand at church doors on Sundays and comment on female attendees. It mocks age and intellect, listing varied physiques and a donkey comparison, then invites entries at each church door. Also mentions mail complaints and a town hall festival with oysters and an old folks room.
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Town Hall
St. Michael's Church
Swiety
Fist Meeting of Christian Association Members
The first meeting of the Christian Association for the new year will be held at their rooms on Monday evening. Members are urged to attend despite any small obstacles as plans may be proposed to advance the Association’s aims and benefit the community. The organizers seek earnest, united effort to establish the institution on a firm basis.
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Union Meetixas
Evangelical Alliance
Church of Christ
Catholic Congregational Church
First Baptist Church
M. FE
South Christian Church
Osborne
Thomas and
Piper
B. ¥. M.C Association
Christian Association
Schenck
J. 11. Schenck
Philadelphia
Naxoven Street
Boston
QEO C. Aoonwin & CO
Manover Street
Tan
New Engraved States
James Clarke
J. Clarke
Auction sale offers chance to replenish libraries tonight
A sale at Mr T J Griffin Jr store invites patrons to bid on a fine lot of valuable books. Barton and Miss Clara Barton seek information on missing soldiers to aid their families. Names listed include George Dunlap Frank C Ervins Theodore Kunzel Joseph Mercier and John Williams with cavalry units.
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T. J. Griffin, Jr
Barton
Clara Barton
Washington, D. C
George Dunlap
5Th Artillery
Frank C. Ervins
Theodore Kunzel
Joseph Mercier
John Williams
Subscription Aims to Buy Paris House for American Minister
A new subscription in New York seeks to raise $200,000 to purchase a handsome Paris residence and grounds for presentation to the American Government. The property would serve as the residence of the American Minister thereafter.
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New York
Paris
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Athens
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Charles Crocker
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Agricultural College of Massachusetts
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John Clark
Lowell, Mass
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Salisbury
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Persia
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Hocal Intelligence
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DE Trey & CO
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