Post office closed for exclusive family use in Utah
Washington notes report a Utah post office discontinued not for poor service but because the community was a single family of four wives and seventeen daughters. Other items include customs revenue figures, staffing changes, disputes over Congress seating, a libel verdict, and local accidents and crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Stevenson
Commissioner of Customs
McConville
Treasury Department
Joseph J. Bartlett
New York City
Lewis C. Bartlett
William H. Morgan
Nashville
O’brien
War
Treasury Departments
Washington
Knott
Postal Service
House of Representatives
Campbell
Weaver
Kidd
Steele
Indiana
Page
Pierce
Rhode Island
Hurd
Romeis
Ohio
California
Hicks
Guiteau
Washington Evening Star Company
Medical Museum
Board of Commissioners of the National Soldiers? Home
Fire Damages Sea Breeze Hotel Near Lake Ontario
Fire at the Sea Breeze Hotel on Irondequoit Bay near Lake Ontario causes $12,000 in damage. The origin is unknown. The report also notes a mass of human remains found in a Brooklyn excavation, a revived case of Joseph Dyer thought dead, a coroner’s verdict against a railroad, a Pittsburgh furniture fire, lead-poisoned workers, a canal station fire, a jail suicide, and several local deaths and appointments.
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Sea Breeze
Irondequoit Bay
N. Y
Lake Ontario
North Eighth Street
Brooklyn
Joseph Dyer
Cape Elizabeth
Dyer
Pratt
West Shore
Little Falls
Duquesne Furniture Company
Pittsburgh
W. D. Woods? Iron Works
McKeesport
National Transit Line
Cogley Run
Butler County
George Cuffman
Oil Company
James Rice
Ithaca
Jones Brothers
Westfield
Hill
Alton B. Parker
Kingston
Ulster County
Supreme Court of New York
Westbrook
Stewart McKee
McKee Bros
Glass Manufacturers
Charles H. Baker
Newburyport
Mass
World’s smallest cow and largest steer featured at fair
At the Chicago Fat Stock and Dairy Show the world’s smallest cow from Scotland stood beside a 4,250 pound steer eighteen feet long. The cow, thirty four inches high and weighing 345 pounds, yields three gallons of milk daily. Other items include a Lincoln bones discovery linked to John Haines, railroad progress to Cajon Pass, royal pardons and suspensions, and various local tragedies and incidents across the country.
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Chicago
Scotland
Lincoln
John Haines
Haines
Bender
California Southern
Cajon Pass
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Pacific Coast
San Diego
Ford
Murphy
New Orleans
Captain Murphy
Louisiana
Tacoma
W. T
Vancouver
J.J. Purdy
Batavia
N. Y
New York Central Railway
Denver
Col
Denver & Rio Grande Railway
McCormick
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
Tennessee
Chattanooga
M. A. McGuire
Cincinnati
Algoma
Isle Royale
Lake Superior
Morris
Tenn
J. J. Hill
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio
Lebanon
James Young
Ilinois
Allen
Sandwich
William Thomas
Confederacy
Daniel Fridley
Bryan
C. W. Cutler
Joliet, DL
Mt. Dodge
Iowa
Stevenson
Louisville
Luther Evans
John Vaughter
Evans
Vaughter
Turner's Station
Harrowing letter from Point Aux Esquimaux reveals famine
Quebec dispatch reports sixty families in Point Aux Esquimaux Gulf of St Lawrence starving without food unless aid arrives. Massawah notes state Osman Digna’s death and Abyssinians taking the Arab chief’s head. The Times condemns anti-Chinese mob violence on the Pacific coast and suggests shifts in immigration patterns. A Manchester fire destroys two blocks on Portland Street with 500000 loss. Ottawa youths receive life imprisonment for assaults on women, provoking emotional scenes. Montreal health officers face rioters pestering a smallpox patient. Danpierre warrants issued as officers encounter abuse. Acadia’s Hemon Rogers learns an estate valued at millions passes to his heir.
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Quebec
Point Aux Esquimaux
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Massawah
Osman Digna
London Times
Pacific
United States
Manchester
Eng
Portland Street
Behren
Ottawa
Ont
Danpierre
Montreal
Hemon Rogers
Acadia
N. S
Ben
Court of Chancery
Explosions, executions, and thefts mark a day of calamities
A box powder exploded in Bull Domingo mine at Silver Cliff Colorado, trapping ten men who suffocated below six hundred feet. Horace R. Ciarain, NYC dry goods magnate, died in Brooklyn. Nettie Bergen eloped from Waltham with Colby. Italian trio executed in Chicago for the Italian trunk murder mystery. Missing silver and gold medals from John McCullough valued for civic aid. Dennis Scarborough fined fifty thousand dollars in New Orleans timber case. Philadelphia furniture factory fire cost twenty seven thousand dollars. Major Stanley’s embezzlement woes disclosed. Bank weekly update shows declines in loans and specie with reserves below required. Boiler blast at Hopkinton flour mill killed three men, wounded another. Postmaster William R. Jackson captured in California.
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Bull Domingo
Silver Cliff
Col
Horace R. Ciarain
New York City
Brooklyn
Waltham
Mass
Nettie Bergen
Colby
Gilarpo
Azzaro
Sylvestri
Filippo Caruso
Chicago
John McCullough
New York
Memphis
St. Louis
Mississippi
United States
New Orleans
Dennis Scarborough
Clarke County
J. B. Puncker & Co
Philadelphia
Major Stanley
Elizabeth
N. J.) Cordage Works
New York Associated Banks
Crescent
Hopkinton
John Burning
Servia declares war and crosses into Bulgaria at dawn
London reports Belgrade announces war on Bulgaria after Bulgarian attack on Servians at Viasina. King Milan takes command, proclaims open hostility, and Servian forces advance in three divisions toward Sofia with 170,000 troops and 264 guns. Bulgarian army totals 32,220 men with 104 guns. Snow slows movement as Sofia braces for defense.
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London
Belgrade
Viasina
Milan
Servia
Bulgaria
Balkans
Bregrove
Peko Pavelovich
Pashko
Skuptchina
Staribrod
Klissura
Bregova
Tru
Vilasina
Kustendi
Landwehr
Landstram
Mecovanovitch
Alexander
Rumelian
Rustehuk
Rasgrad
Sofia
Horvatovitch
Leshganea
Tsaribrod
Prince Alexander
Adlich-kula
Post
Paris
Standard
Daily Telegraph
Vienna
Kirdsetch
Bald Eagle Snatches Turkey After Attacking Boy
In New York County Pennsylvania fourteen year old Emory Strasbaugh, while gathering chestnuts near Mount Zion, was seized by a large bald eagle. The eagle tried to carry him off but was unable to move him. It released the boy and grabbed a turkey before flying away with it into the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York County
Emory Strasbaugh
Mount Zion
End the waiter wage fraud by proprietors paying servants
A Chicago Times quote argues every tip to a waiter is cash saved in wages and a penny earned for the worker. It contends the only remedy is proprietors taking on the duty of paying their servants directly to end the public fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times
Fermentation Reveals Flavor in Unripe Rice Heaps
Researchers note that heaps of unripe rice undergo fermentation soon after harvest, a process said to develop a delicious flavor and aroma in the grain.
Potomac River Width Near Capitol Noted at One Mile
A historical note records the Potomac River opposite the Capitol as one mile wide, highlighting the sizeable, clear geographic boundary between the two landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac River
The
Capitol
Temperance sermon condemns a drunkard’s home tragedy
A somber temperance piece paints a murdered wife, injured children, and a drunkard’s life as moral proof. The preacher’s voice contrasts violent death and societal alcohol harms, asking if any sermon rivals this stark warning about ruined homes and fallen virtue. Ledger,
The Vile Concoctions Behind Liquor's Rise
A New York Times study of Joseph Fleischman’s The Art of Blending and Compounding Liquors exposes how saloon supply chains use harsh chemicals to mimic brandy whisky and wine. It details dangerous ingredients like fusel oil, oxalic acid, and copper salts, warning of poison risks and moral collapse from alcohol.
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New York Times
Joseph Fleischman
London
The
Times
Fleischman
Holland
Jamaica
New England
The Industrial Side of the Liquor Question Debate
A letter argues the liquor trade supports many jobs and fuels farm incomes in New York and Ohio but questions whether that justifies encouraging production and sales. It compares liquor industry employment to war and other vices, challenging the notion that economic benefit justifies expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Oneida
Ohio
Evening Post
Law requiring physiology and hygiene in teacher exams
The Kansas Legislature enacted a law effective January requiring teaching certificates to include examination on physiology and hygiene with focus on alcohol and narcotics. It mandates schools to teach these topics, cites Temperance sentiment, and argues the measure will curb intemperance by showing alcohol’s effects in textbooks and charts. The piece quotes Pestalozzi and emphasizes moral sentiment in youth. A concluding note declares intoxication as the fault of the drinker, not the drink.
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Kansas
Pestalozzi
Commonwealth
N. Y
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