Victor Emanuel Dead and World Events Weigh
Victor Emanuel king of Italy is dead. Reports from Europe say Russia Turkey seek armistice. Brooklyn church shifts base from Presbyterian to Congregationalist in a row over religion. California wheat flour and meat prices may decline.
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Victor Emanuel
Italy
Brooklyn
Tue
Mexican Congress
California
New Mexico
Texas
Graham County
Kan
Fortune
Liberia
Nez Perces
Miles
Joseph
Sitting Bull
Montana
Washington
San Francisco Call
Europe
Turkey
England
Disraeli
Colorado
Los Pinos
Leavenworth
Kansas
Cincinnati Gazette
Gazette
South America
Peru
Tur
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Crocker
Isabella B. Hooker
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Sara A. Spencer
Wheeler
Randall
Sargent
Representative Kelley
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On
How to Scare a Dog in Self Defense
A 19th century style guide offers methods to scare or restrain dogs during daytime encounters. Tactics include sharp eye contact and orders, using a steel parasol to deter a hound, seizing the dog by the under jaw, and jarring the jaws if a dog bites, warning that many impudent dogs flood the area to drown neighbors’ pups.
A Convenient Cooking Apparatus From Heilbronn Invented
A Swiss journal describes Herr Boesinger of Heilbronn with a patent petroleum cooking apparatus that lights itself at a set hour. It features a timing indicator to start fire boil water and roast meat automatically for an unattended breakfast, ideal for a deaf and dumb cook.
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Herr Boesinger
Heilbronn
Kochapparat
Micrographia and the promise of amplified hearing
The 210 year old work by Robert Tooke, a Royal Society fellow, titled Micrographia surveys early magnification methods and speculates on extending senses. It notes claims of hearing through walls and walls thick Muscovy glass, hinting at future machine aided perception.
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Robert Tooke
Royal Society
Walla
Distended Wire Propagates Sound Swiftly Across Angles
A passage describes how a distended wire carried sound over a large distance instantly and, like light, appeared incomparably faster than air. The phenomenon traveled not only in a straight line but along paths bent at numerous angles, as attributed to Howard Viles.
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Frank Flynn
Norwich
N. Y
Utica Observer
Tom Thumb
Commodore Nutt
Howard Viles
House Committee On Commerce
National Board of Steam Navigation
Russia
Turkey
Porte
United States Army
Seventh Cavalry
Missouri
Europe
Chicago
England
Cheyenne
J. Y. Brown
Evansville
Ind
Montgomery Blair
Maryland
Brown
Cement Beds of the Black Hills Described as Rich Placers
The cement gravel beds of the Black Hills attract attention and are likened to conglomerate in Colorado and New Mexico. The deposits formed from ancient river channels with gold remaining after repeated eruptions. Prospects pay well at Deadwood, Whitewood, Bear Butte, Elk, Box Elder, Rapid, Spring and Battle Creeks and may yield across French Creek near Custer City. Mills operate at Hayward and Rapid, with Rockerville having over a million tons in sight.
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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
Castle
Hayward
Rockerville
Central
Rapid City Journal
Life Insurance Proponents Defend Industry Against Criticism
The Insurance Critic argues against claims that life insurers harm the public. It emphasizes that life insurance serves public needs and that prosperity depends on honest management, benefiting all commercial interests and individual well being.
Various Notices on Public Figures and The Times
A miscellany notes health of Samuel Bowles. Chinese flower symbolism. debates over belief and duty. London figures Hicks and Spurgeon. reflections on Beautiful Snow authors. Simon Cameron and marriage rumors. demand for honest dollars. New York skating rink as free venue. Judge Dillon’s family ties. James Gordon Bennett’s London Herald plans. Edwin Booth’s NY return. green growth after mild spell. Queen Victoria’s daughter the Marchioness of Lorne childless. Herald dove tale. Norristown Herald on unloaded guns. Roseberry and Rothschild marriage. Anna Dickinson health. Swing on heaven and hell. York clergy form Funeral and Mourning Association to curb funerals ostentation and promote simple mourning customs.
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James Gordon Bennett
London 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 Debate Reaches Congress
A long running plan to reduce the number of territories gains traction as lawmakers weigh apportioning sparsely settled areas among neighbors. Proponents cite lower costs and better governance, while critics warn against dividing future state boundaries and shrinking western expansion space.
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Congress
New England
Union
Utah
United States
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Vamont
Far West
Europe
New Orleans police admonished to stay on beat
A sprawling Chicago to New Orleans era column covers police conduct in New Orleans and political and social notes across the country. It references Massachusetts rail work, Hoosac Tunnel, and the Milledgeville military school plan as part of state university changes, plus various political and industrial items from multiple states.
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New Orleans
Massachusetts
Hoosac
Milledgeville
Capitol
State University
Savannah
Louisiana
Chandler
Washington Post
Paan
Chouse of
St. John’s College
Hamilton College
Syracuse University
Inter-Collegiate Literary Association
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Weekly Leader
Leader Printing Company
Wyoming
Salt Lake Herald
Samuel Bowles
China
London
Mrs. Hicks
Tweed
Mr. Spurgeon
Simon Cameron
Oliver
Central Park
Judge Dillon
Hiram Price
Spain
Wilmington
N. C
Archibald Gordon
Granville
Atlanta Constitution
The
Tennessee Historical Association
Andrew Jackson
Louisiana Insurance Company
Selma
Southern Argus
Franklin County
Pendleton
U. S
Ohio
Antivari
Humpent
W. A. Telegraph Company
National Poultry Association
East
Tux Porte
Mehemet Ali
Grand Duke
Nicholas
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
Warnan
Iowa
Harlan
Allison
Senate
B. P. Runkle
Bricellano Hayes
New York City
Yellowstone
James R. Keene
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Commissioner of Agriculture
North Carolina
Gettysburg
Evan O'Neil
Nag
Axtell
Santa Fe
Moore
Milan
Chouse of Representatives
Committee On Education and Labor
Senate Committee On Foreign
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