Broadway farm and rich oddities in New York society
Our New York letter surveys Peter Goelet a wealthy bachelor who keeps a corner lot cow and chickens on Broadway and Nineteenth Street, Helmbold the fallen patent medicine king, and Ayer famed for real estate now losing mind. It laments charity shortages in winter with St Johns Guild and other groups strained while a heavy snow season disrupts freight and work.
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New York
Broadway Farm
Stewart
Astor
Vanderbilt
Peter Goelet
Broadway
Nineteenth Street
Goelet
Peter
Ife
Helmbold
Europe
Theimbold
Ayer
Gold Fields Of The Hills At Black Hills Prove Rich
A Montenegr o correspondent reports that Deadwood gulch and Whitewood gulch yield rich placer deposits with claims like No 2 above discovery producing large sums. The Wheeler party mined up to 500000 in five months, while others hold productive properties. Gold from June to November 1876 may total three to four million dollars, with deep diggings on French Creek and Spring Creek promising further gains. The Cheyenne stage runs regularly to Custer and Deadwood through the winter.
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Custer
Jenney
Tom OnvyYyenna
Black Hills
California
Montana
Deadwood Gulch
Dorado
Deadwood
Whitewood Gulch
Whitewood
French Creek
Battle Creek
Golden City
Spring Creek
Merrill & Johnson
Coals & Co
Black Hillers
Railroad Proposition in Deer Lodge Minnesota Northwest
The Deer Lodge Northwest argues the Utah Northern railway extension into Montana demands an excessive subsidy and interest rate for bonds. They note no bond term limit no builder’s default reserve no requirement for the most direct route nor a class standard. The company would still take too long to finish proposing about 100 miles yearly as a slow pace for a narrow gauge prairie route.
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Deer Lodge
M.I
Northwest
Utah Northern Railroad
Montana
Snowbound readers crave fresh fruit and lively scenes
The San Jose Argus quips about winter hardship by imagining green peas and fresh strawberries from Santa Clara county, alongside oysters, Michigan apples, mince pie, Scotch, and merry laughter. The vivid, humorous riff pairs regional bounty with inebriated mirth and a flirtatious tone.
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San Jose
Cal
Argus
Santa Clara County
Conductor Henn Returns to Duty After Bridge Tragedy
A passenger recounts Conductor Henn’s return to duty after piloting the train over the disaster bridge. The man observed Henn appear agitated as the train approached the span, sweating and clutching the seat, yet declaring relief and fearlessness once safely beyond the structure.
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Ashtabula
Henn
Toledo Commercial
Terra Firma
Moody the Evangelist Expands Reach into Wall Street
Moody the Evangelist lives on presents sent anonymously and has bought a furnished ten thousand dollar house. He claims contentment with current wealth as his business of evangelism grows popular. Street meetings draw crowds as missionaries preach and sing while some attend for curiosity and leave in disgust.
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Moody
Jesus
Russia’s Horse Wealth Drives Vast Royal and Private Breeding
Russia holds about 20 million horses about 27 per 100 people, with Siberia near one horse per male. The crown runs twenty establishments with 1,000 stallions and 3,600 mares, while private estates hold large stocks. Annually about 150,000 animals sell at 400 horse fairs from 200,000 offered, averaging 350.
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Russia
England
France
Prussia
Austria
Siberia
Crown
Iron rail car built by St. Louis inventor
A St. Louis man has engineered an iron platform rail car as an experimental flat car. It is thirty feet long nine feet wide and built entirely of wrought iron except for the one and one quarter inch floor planks. The curved sides and rounded corners offer a neat shape, with truck frames of iron. Weight without brakes is about 14 850 pounds and about 15 000 pounds with brakes.
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St. Louis
Black Cat Island Stocking Planned on Mansfield Island
A man buys Mansfield Island in Lake Erie to stock it with black cats and kill their progeny for fur. He plans initial feeding with shorecaught fish by workers living on the island, then use slaughtered cat meat to feed living cats. The piece also notes a Georgian expanding a dog breeding and tanning business for leather goods.
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Mansfield Island
Lake Erie
Judge resigns honor post for six year Senate term
Judge Davis cites leaving a life position of honor and a $10 000 annually salary to take a Senate seat for six years with half pay, saying he wants to return to active politics. The note hints at ongoing presidential influence in his decision.
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Davis
Senate
Governor General Sees U S as Great Convenience
Earl Dufferin in an after dinner speech remarked that the United States would, at this critical juncture, regard a Governor General as a great convenience in the affairs of this country.
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Earl Dufferin
Canada
United States
New Three Cent Stamp Aims to Foil Stamp Swindles
Postal officials say government losses rise from stamp washing and reuse. A new three cent stamp will be issued that shows any attempt to erase the canceling mark, helping deter fraud.
Electoral commission hears Florida case arguments
The electoral commission opened sessions on February 2 and February 8 with Field Tucker and other speakers detailing objections to Florida certificates. They debated whether the face of returns could be challenged, the quo warranto route, and admissibility of evidence, then scheduled further hearings through Monday with Merrick Evarts O Conor and others to close the arguments.
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Washington
Electoral Commission
Field
Justice Clifford
Florida
Tucker
Senator Sargent
William E. Chandler
Alabama Returning Board
Gov. Stearns
House Committee
Jonsville
Darlenville
Tilden and Hendricks
Congress
Wield
Barstow
Wisconsin
Morton
Iield
Thlayes
Ixassen
Clifford
O’conor
Tilden
Hayes
Stearns
Humphreys
United States
Black
Evarts
Commission
Justice Miller
Thurman
Miller
Svarts
Judge Black
Merrick
Jeremiah
Stanley Mathews
BH. W. St
Romance in Nevada in Truckee on Wedding Tour
A Virginia City couple married in Virginia City toured Truckee on a wedding trip. The husband, a tall white man, and his Japanese wife drew curiosity as he claimed a legal love marriage. She wore Western dress and the pair appeared happy as they continued toward Virginia City.
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Truckee
Virginia City
Front Street
Remedy for Small-Pox Receipe Warns Against Pest-Houses
A pasted extract from the Stock ton Herald promotes a medical receipt claimed to prevent or cure small pox and scarlet fever. The formula uses sulphate of zinc and fox-glove with water, taken hourly, and is praised as universally effective. The note urges physicians to adopt it to avoid pest-houses.
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Stockton
Cal
Jenner
England
World of
Science
Paris
Smile-Provoke Roster and Oddities Across Nations
A string of snapshots: Tschikowsky praised as a sad sweet pianist, Emma Abbott refuses tights, jokes about singers in tights, a note on Senate representation, Winds sending heavy men, Grand Duke's changed status, a French invention driving horses by electricity, a remark on saving labor, Dr Joseph J Chinn and Mrs Catherine Dawson wed in Lexington, Kentucky, and a closing line on looming deaths.
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Tschikowsky
Emma Abbott
Senate
Winds
Grand Duke
Joseph J. Chinn
Catherine Dawson
Lexington
Judge Baggs Appears In Letter from Iriseo
A letter from I'riseo describes Judge Baggs as large as life and as important as if settling a presidential question, though it notes he has no peculiarly weighty matters on his shoulders.
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I'riseo
Dead Grasshoppers Swarm Dooms Man and Horse in Kansas
An account recalls a Kansas incident where a swarm of grasshoppers attacked two riders near Lindsey on the Solomon River. Dan Kavanagh was eaten alive after his green calico shirt attracted the insects while Keiser fought them off. The horse died, and the gruesome scene left Keiser sworn to secrecy as ranchers plan an English colony sale.
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London
Missouri
Kansas
Lindsey
Solomon River
Dan Kavanagh
Red Keiser
Dan
Kavanagh
Keiser
Red Cloud Agency Supply Run Reported
R. Golden loaded at this place on January 17 for Red Cloud Agency with supplies for the Indians. He completed the journey in fifteen days and arrived back here on February 1.
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R. Golden
Red Cloud Agency
Resurrection Morn and State Salaries Agenda
The poem laments mourning and hope for a dawn after loss, celebrating eternal life and comfort in faith. The Colorado Legislature sets salaries for executive and judicial offices including Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and judges with fixed fees and clerks.
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Colorado
Supreme
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Cheyenne
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van Alerbilt
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