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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1885
Page
1
The Treasury bought 200,000 ounces of silver for Philadelphia Mint coinage amid rising silver dollar circulation, with weekly issue exceeding last year and above the usual monthly coinage. Also noted are census figures for Hawaii, gold transfers resumed, and various federal actions across departments.
Experiments at Newport R I with a 15000 candle power electric search light showed perfect operation enabling minute objects to be seen at long range. The eighth annual American Bar Association meeting opened at Saratoga N Y with many prominent legal figures present. Coroner's jury in Mrs McAuliffe case found four workers who removed furniture responsible for death. three men in custody. Near Philadelphia mint, about fifty workers dismissed. further removals expected. Debris from the steamer Felton explosion yielded a cabba clasp and other items supporting witness claims. Massachusetts Democratic State Convention set for Worcester on October 7. A Willimantic lightning strike killed two children. mother injured. Ex-President of the American Iron and Steel Association D J Morrell died in Johnstown Pa. A carriage accident in Morgantown Pa injured a family. New England Homestead reports fruit crop near 75 percent of average. National Association of Ex-Union Prisoners of War closed in Philadelphia. Buffalo to host next meeting. Peoria whisky detained in Philadelphia released. U.S. and Canada business failures total 177. Southern states show declines. Miners at Walton & Co resumed work at 2 cents per bushel. fourth pool pits at 1 1/2 cents. American Bar Association concluded at Saratoga with officers elected.
Reports from time of 18th to 21st cover cattle fever in Indiana and Arizona Indian skirmishes including Geronimo wounded and Nana killed, convicts fleeing in North Carolina, wrecks and fatalities in West Virginia and California, political conventions in Iowa and Kentucky, a fatal fall in Cleveland typhoid patient, a lighthouse shipwreck off San Francisco, and various local accidents, floods, and fires across multiple states.
Reports from the period detail Chief Poundmaker’s conviction for complicity, calls for harsher sentences, and his defiant remark about preferring hanging. The British embassy in Paris faced threats from anarchists, a French emissary’s execution alleged to provoke tensions with Britain, and a series of tragedies and discoveries across North America and Europe including drownings, mineral claims, a treasury clerk’s capture, a cyclone wreck, and a steam threshers boiler explosion.
In Springfield NL on 284 Leonid Gardner released on bail after wife beating opens fire on arresting officers W J Camp and Fred Goli, killing Camp and wounding Goli while Gardner dies from three bullets.
The Ohio Democratic State Convention at Columbus renominated Governor Hoadly and John G. Warwick by acclamation. George Hoadly stressed loyalty to Cleveland, while Supreme Court nominations went to Martin (long term) and Atherton (short term) after a partisan contest. The platform praised Democratic national leadership, called for liquor reform, property licensing, and various reforms.
A San Francisco Call report recounts miners in Australia and Victoria who, facing repeated misfortune, persist until lucky discoveries yield huge nuggets. The Dutch tunnel digger clears a cave-in to unearth a fourteen-ounce nugget, while another family taps a slender pillar under a stump to uncover one of the era’s largest gold lumps.
A jocular guide mocks clandestine watermelon theft from neighbor patches, praising a rustic method posed as a tradition. It endorses taking multiple melons with casual indifference to the fruit’s earthward spot and suggests serving them outdoors with an axe, framing the act as a rural rite with regional support.
General R Brinkerhoff warns that crime rates rise steadily based on national state and county statistics. He asserts the trend is undeniable and would prefer to doubt it if possible, but the data remain pitiless in showing an upward flood of crime.
A compilation of 1880s observations reports on Presbyterian minister deaths, Yale adopting a revised Bible for chapels, Salvation Army plans an auxiliary Salvation Navy, U S medical school counts and doctor population, sparse school-age children in parts of New Hampshire, examples of small districts in Warren, a Mitch ell teacher sheltering pupils during a storm, Pis a Bluffs Assembly in Illinois, gender ratios in Russian school attendance, Formosa peace and missions, Bowdoin College presidency, and Southern church attendance patterns with emphasis on colored churches and social morality.
A compilation of wry quips and humorous notes from multiple papers including Detroit Street Press Burlington Free Press Chicago Ledger Zoledo Blade Boston Gazette and the New York Sun. The excerpts poke fun at falls fear of aging and art market quirks with brief ironic anecdotes.
A father disciplines Johnny after disrespectful remarks, asking if his opinion of his father has changed. Johnny admits the change, calling the father a coward for fighting someone smaller. He escapes with a quip that he will run for the Legislature this summer.
A fragmented local scene shows a spirtual Evansville figure questioned about trouble by a Belle. The exchange hints at a mood of sadness or concern with quirky dialogue and incomplete phrases.
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