Victon Emanuel dies as Europe eyes armistice
The week’s notes report Victon Emanuel of Italy dead while Russia and Turkey seek a ceasefire. Brooklyns Presbyterian church shifts to Congregationalists amid a major reform, and global markets show anticipated wheat and salt price declines.
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Victon Emanuel
Italy
Brooklyn
Tm Mexican Congress
California
New Mexico
Texas
Graham County
Kan
Fortune
Liberia
Miles
Joseph
Sitting Bull
Montana
Washington
Tom San Francisco Call
Europe
Turkey
England
Disraeli
Colorado
Los Pinos
Tom
Tom Leavenworth
Kansas
Index
Cincinnati Gazette
Gazette
Republic
South America
Peru
Ture
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Crocker
Isabella B. Hooker
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Sara A. Spencer
Wheeler
Randall
Sargent
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On
Scavenging a Dog Tricks from Townsfolk and Teachers
The piece outlines several extreme methods to deter dogs, including sharp commands, a parasol strike, squeezing the jaw with a thumb under the tongue, and elbow strikes to the lower jaw. It notes a rise in impudent dogs used to drown neighborly noise.
A Patented Petroleum Cooking Apparatus
A Swiss journal describes Herr Boesinger of Heilbronn creating a patent petroleum cooking apparatus that lights and cooks at a set time. It features an indicator to set the appointed hour so breakfast is ready on rising, even with a sleepy servant, appealing to a deaf and dumb cook scenario.
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Herr Boesinger
Heilbronn
Petroleum Kochapparat
The Micrographia and Early Sound Experiments
The note recalls Robert Tooke and his Micrographia as the first English treatise on microscopy. It cites a preface noting glasses advancing perception and speculates on improving hearing through barriers, suggesting early ideas on acoustics and sensory extension.
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Robert Tooke
Royal Society
Walla
Distended Wire Propagates Sound Over Wide Distance
The fragment notes a distended wire carrying sound far and rapidly, faster than light in air, moving not only straight but bending at many angles. The text attributes the observation to Edward Viles.
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Edward Viles
Cement Gravel Beds of the Black Hills Described
The cement gravel beds of the Black Hills extend from Deadwood Gulch southward past Bear Butte and Rapid Creek with good pay found at Deadwood Whitewood Bear Butte Elk Box Elder Rapid Spring and Battle Creeks. Mills now running at Hayward Rapid and Rockerville, with Rockerville boasting over a million tons in sight yielding about twenty five dollars per ton.
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Black Hills
Colorado
New Mexico
Deadwood Gulch
Bear Butte
Rapid Creek
French Creek
Custer and
Cheyenne
Custer City
French, Spring
Castle
Rapid Creeks
Deadwood
Whitewood
Elk
Box Elder
Rapid
Spring
Battle Creeks
Hayward
Rockerville
Central
Lead
Rapid City Journal
Life Insurance and the People’s Interests
A critique arguing that life insurance, built on public need, benefits the common good. It asserts honest management drives prosperity and links insurer success to overall national welfare across all professions.
Diverse 19th century notices mix health, society and gossip
A collage of items mentions Samuel Bowles in delicate health, China’s national flower, London nicknames, Tweed politics, Spurgeon, Beautiful Snow, Simon Cameron, honest dollars, New York Central Park skating, Judge Dillon’s kin, James Gordon Bennett’s London Herald, Edwin Booth’s return, green growths after a mild spell, Queen Victoria’s daughter the Marchioness of Lorne, a New York Herald dove remark, Lord Rosebery marrying Hannah Rothschild’s daughter, Anna Dickinson in poor health, Professor Swing on saints and sinners, and York clergy founding a Funeral and Mourning Association to curb ostentation.
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James Gordon Bennett
London
T Herald
Edwin Booth
Booth
New York
Queen Victoria
Lorne
New York Herald
Noah
Norristown Herald
Lord Roseberry
England
Hannah
Baron Dé Rothschild
Anna Dickinson
Elizabeth
N. J
Swing
York
Enlarging the Territories and Its Political Prospects
A historical plan to reduce the number of U S territories by merging sparsely settled areas. Advocates argue lower costs and better governance, while opponents warn against shrinking future states and preserving western expansion. The piece notes strong regional support and questions the maps preventing westward growth.
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Congress
New England
Union
Utah
United States
West
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Vamont
Far West
Europe
Puritan laws stir Louisiana amid national tidbits
A sprawling digest notes varied items from across the nation. Highlights include reaction to a Sunday law in Louisiana, railway safety fears in Missouri, and a Tennessee historical policy tied to a 1825 steamship, with other items on politics, science, and crime.
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Wilmington
N. C
Archibald Goreon
Granville
Atlanta Constitution
The
Tennessee Historical Association
Andrew Jackson
Louisiana Insurance Company
Selma
Southern Argus
Franklin County
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Wyoming
Russia
Frank Flynn
Norwich
N. Y
Utica Observer
Tom Thumb
Commodore Nutt
Jis
Salt Lake
Samuel Bowles
China
Mrs. Hicks
Tweed
Mr. Spurgeon
Simon Cameron
Oliver
Central Park
Judge Dillon
Hiram Price
New Orleans
Hoosac
Milledgeville
Capitol
State University
Savannah
Louisiana
Spain
Pendleton
U. S
Ohio
Indian Bureau
Antivari
Humpernt
W. A. Telegraph Company
National Poultry Association
Chicago
East
Tue Porte
Mehemet Ali
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Russi
Lizzie R. Hunt
Northwestern University
Illinois
New York Assembly
Albany
Straits of
Belle Isle
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Canada
St. Charles Hotel
Sexton
Cyrille Dion
Harlan
Iowa
Allison
Senate
B. P. Runkle
Brien Ann Hayes
New York City
Chandler
Tom Washington Post
Thouse of Representatives
St. John’s College
Hamilton College
Syracuse University
Inter-Collegiate Literary Association
Yellowstone
James R. Keen
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Commissioner of Agriculture
North Carolina
Gettysburg
Evan O'Neil
Nag
House Committee On Commerce
National Board of Steam Navigation
Porte
United States Army
Seventh Cavalry
Missouri
J. Y. Brown
Ivansville
Ind
Montgomery Blair
Maryland
Brown
Texas Pacific Railroad
Axtell
Santa Fe
Moore
Milan
House of Representatives
Committee On Education and Labor
Senate Committee On Foreign
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