Abandoned patents and global events noted in terse 19th century update
A shredded chronicle reports patent law quirks denying abandoned applications as public property, then catalogs a string of wartime mobilizations, finance shifts, emigration trends, and legal actions. It mentions General McNulta, France, Austria Hungary, windfalls and shortages, and a Sing Sing sentence, ending with fires and a widow’s probate.
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Aurreey
Jobe McNulta
Greshan
Chicago
Personal and political notes mix in weekly news
Tracy seeks a protectorate over Abyssola while Interior debates voting rights for LOK Indiana. Republicans nominate Grieeat L Laws for Nebraska’s Second District, with a pile of other political, diplomatic, and local items including Frank Pettigrew and Moody for U.S. Senate, Gladstone’s Manchester address, and various incidents abroad and at home.
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Tracy
Abyessola
Interior Department
LOK
Catholic University
Brooks Station
Sim Daxter
Goorr
London
Pierre, & D
Frank Pettigrew
Sioux Falls
G. C. Moody
Deadwood
United States
Conanessman Newton A. Nerrivo
Oswego
N. Y
Goveron E A Pennny
Florida
Texas
Loyal Legion
Philadelphia
Hayes
Monk
Zimbeni
Evpent & Kiana
Kansans City
John F. Hartrantt
Indian Territory
Genwaxy Haw
Mataafa
Hamor
Universc Bosnysmenth
Moody and Pettigrew
South Dakota
Amos J. Cummings
New York Sun
Mmmany
Nonth
Pennsylvania
Norristown
Kean Apmilnal Walken
Lisbon
Fayal
Prince Fxuprsayn
Bulgaria
Parla Exposition
Jilted Bride Tragedy and a Hanging Threat Across Times
A dramatic early 20th century wire reports a high society jilting in Wheeling West Virginia as groom Henry Carlton alias Handsome Harry faces a death sentence in New York for murder. Separate items note a Prairie Fire near Brevante North Dakota devastating Merckia and threatening Bismarck, with towns swept and residents fearing widespread damage.
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New Yoas
Martin
Henry Carlton
Handsome Harry
Carlton
Polleyman
James Brennan
Sparks
Misused Miners at Mendota Coal Mines Exposed
Labor Commissioner Meriwether returns from Putnam County to inspect Mendota coal mines and charges illegal wage practices. Checks paid in cash only when due, store credits deducted, and rents taken from miners’ wages. Public meetings reveal coercive pay and storefront debt tied to employment, with potential violations of state law.
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Mendota
Meriwether
Putnam County
Mendota Coal Company
Labor Bureau
Mendota Coal & Mining Company
Ones
Meriweth
Ths
Gilea
McKinley
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Temperance Note Warns Of Beer Rise Threats To Society
Joseph Cook argues the rising beer production and consumption, with figures from 1840 to 1898, worsen health and crime. He cites increased prison rates, hospital overcrowding, and political influence of brewers as proof that beer is a dangerous, pervasive evil needing renewed temperance education and abstinence.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
United States Bureau of Statistics
United States
Chicago
National Prison Association
Cincinnati
Friends of Temperance
Little Willie Hatch Sells Temperance Leaflets
A small boy named Willie Hatch, four years old, was honored at a state temperance convention and joined the white ribbon march. He distributed temperance literature at the Weirs soldiers reunion, charming men with his missionary zeal as he urged, I’m working for Auntie Knox and the Lord. The scene showed even grown men touched by a child’s earnest plea and one man chose sobriety over a drink after receiving his leaflet. Mrs. N. H. Knox recounts in Union Signal.
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Diehl
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New Haven
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Atlanta
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Grant
Washington
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Iowa
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Chicago
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White
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Mary
M. Singleton
Lincoln County
Ark
Vince Rogers
Singleton
Rogers
Greenville
Als
Cuantus Hanns
Lumber City
Harris
Yok
Harvard College
Clement Garrett Morgan
Morgan
Green B. Roum
Illinois
Coxenassaan
W.C. Warrrnorn
Tennessee
Naval Affairs
House of Representatives
Columbia
Meary County
Grenada
Miss
Grace Martin
Pine Spring
Rowan County
Washburn, Mou &Co
Worcester, Mass
Temperance Army
Willie Hatch
Hes
Temperance
Mamms
the Weirs
Willie
Vanevor
Auntie Knox
Brevities on temperance themes and reform
A digest of temperance notes cites that one in six U S divorces links to drink and notes the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union marks its 15th anniversary with a Chicago convention November 4 to 12. Reports from Berlin say drunkenness among children rises, and Ontario Ontario taps are closed nights and Sundays to aid workers. liquor dealers at a Rochester convention urged strict law observance and moral conduct in business.
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National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Supce Ins
Pontiac
Berlin
London Standard
Ontario
Can
Rochester
N. Y
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