Ancient island ruins reveal pumice builders in Archipelago
The Review des Deux Mondes reports discoveries on Santo ria and Théraria in the Greek Archipelago. Quarries high on cliffs yield pumice and pozzuolana used in early walls and roofs. Excavations uncover six rooms, walls of lava blocks, wooden supports, and a buried skeleton with vessels, grain, and olive wood clues.
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Pompeii
Review Des Deux Mondes
Santoria
Théraria
Tula
Pozzuolana
Suez Canal
Island
Greece
Lheva
Mona
Fouqne
Pyramid Lake Rocks and Rattlesnakes Describe Lakeside
Tufa formed pyramidal rock towers over Pyramid Lake with a 500 foot peak. The cliffs harbor rattlesnakes. visitors struggle to combat them as the serpents dominate the area. The lake offers clear salty water and abundant fish including large collier and trout, praised by campers and anglers.
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Pyramid Lake
Rockies
Largrat
Lake Superior
Truckee
T. R. Davis
Harper’s Magazine
Wine cheaper than milk in California counties
A brief note reports wine costs less than milk in several lower California counties. The item highlights price disparities across local markets and hints at consumer cost concerns in the region.
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California
Boston Post Interview With Grace the Medium
A Boston Post reporter questions Grace about her start as a medium. Grace recalls spirits possessed her twelve years ago when she was Lydia Smith and under the title Mrs. She says she has progressed through planes and now calls everyone brother and sister, envisioning a peaceful world.
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Boston Post
Grace
Lydia Smith
Death of Mr. Asa Miller in glanders case
Mr. Asa Miller of Troy Missouri died from glanders contracted while caring for two men afflicted with the disease.
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Asa Miller
Troy, Mo
Elope with a Married Woman in Gibson County
A Gibson county Washington township elopement ends with Hannah Naulton selling land for nearly $200 to cover a debt Swain owed. The couple boards a northbound train to Fort Scott Kansas after her husband aids in a clothes purchase. The incident is reported in Princeton.
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Princeton
Indiana
Clarion
Washington Township
Gibson County
David Swain
Hannah Naulton
Herman Naulton
Seeme
Swain
Humble Suitor Seeks Chance to See Her
A Lafayette Indiana young man, described as humble, asked a young lady for permission to go home with her and was politely refused. He then inquired if he might sit on the fence to watch her pass, expressing meekness in his approach.
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Bean
Last Chance
Mator
Dangler
Central
South America
Greece
Scientific American
Lafayette
Ind
Japanese poet warns of misery in courting flowers at night
Lieutenants B. F. Bell and Wmn. Johnson of Illinois have been discharged from the service for dealing and swindling. The poet counsels that people would avoid going out with young ladies to view flowers at night if they knew the misery such outings bring.
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B. F. Bell
Wmn. Johnson
Illinois
Bown
A Snake Story and Miscellaneous Snippets
A snake story from Ironton: Levi Henry killed a five foot snake that had swallowed a large china egg and cut it open to find the egg. The text shifts to notes on M Raspail, Jenny Lind, a Des Moines widow debating life insurance, Mrs. Stanton on wives, Mormon women lecturers, and a garbled Virginia temperance rhyme.
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Ironton Register
Levi Henry
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