Weekly Seater Breakfast Table Tale of Saratoga Necklace
A Saratoga lady wears a gold coin necklace valued at 3500. Delegates to Congress include J W Meldrum M E Post J W Hoyt and Robert Horner. Mrs Langtry finishes a 12 week provincial tour with a net profit of 843 765. Machinery belts reach 48 inches wide and over 120 feet long. Buddhists in Japan translate Col Ingersoll lectures to counter missionary words. Proposals to erect a Pope Pius IX memorial seek 5 cent world subscriptions. Grain moisture on ships confirms some freight cost claims from California Agricultural College. At Mrs George C Leidy funeral in Philadelphia, six adult sons carry the coffin. youngest 23, eldest 39.
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George C. Leidy
Philadelphia
Mormon Fight Over Utah Election Law Cited Oath as Immorality
The Desert News labels the oath involved in Utah election law debates as a premium on lasciviousness and encouragement of debauchery, highlighting a moral objection in the coverage.
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The
Desert News
Utah
Nebraska race counts and buried locomotive mystery
In Nebraska three congressmen to elect and 982 applicants are listed along with one governor and 343 applicants one U S senator with 453 applicants and two hundred legislators and 10 000 applicants. A locomotive that fell into Kiowa Creek Kansas through a bridge remains unfound after repeated soundings and no quicksand reports exist there as of the time of the accident.
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Omaha Republican
Nebraska
U. S
Kiowa Creek
Kansas
President Arthur Gets Personal Flag Designed
The flag by C. J. Guiteau features a green field with an embedded jackass and is cited as the president’s on board use only. The piece notes ridicule from papers as snobbish while a Richmond paper mocks Northern Yankees and charity ploys in daily papers.
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Arthur
C. J. Guiteau
Denver Tribune
Arther
Washington
New York
Nude woman terrifies Missouri Marvel section residents
A nude colored woman, described as 48 and wild as a gorilla, has been sighted multiple times in Missouri’s Marvel section. In a recent episode she hurled a young horseback rider into hysteria, then bolted into the forest. She was seen feeding on crawfish by the roadside, claws and all, and she reportedly foams at the mouth when angered.
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Marvel
Missouri
Sioux Hostiles Threaten War in Black Hills Region
The Black Hills Times quotes Gen. Crook warning of unpredictable Indian outbreaks and urges strong military action to subdue the Sioux. The paper notes safety for settlers in the Hills but cautions farming communities near the states face potential trouble from warlike actions.
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Sitting Bull
Crook
Black Hills Times
Various 1890s notes mix crime, marriage, transit and fashion
The column surveys a North Carolina burglar escape, a Nebraska couple’s planned 1897 marriage, a new Athens to Pireus street railway, Sutra tunnel hot water heating for fruit houses, seaside fashion turban trends, and a Philadelphia strike miner lamenting four months’ pay versus regular wages.
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Philadelphia
Man to Ride Locomotives as Signal Watcher Pilot
A New York Sun suggestion may put a man on every fast locomotive to watch signals switches bridges and junctions. He will ride in front of the cab or on the boiler in front of the pilot and cow catcher while the engineer operates the engine.
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N. Y
Heat Drives Spanish Cattle to Madness in Weather
Observations note that Spanish herds in America are uniquely susceptible to heat and cold, becoming prostrated in an apoplectic form rather than showing violent symptoms. Native and grade cattle generally suffer hot weather but avoid such frenzy.
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America
California wine exports and self defense ruling in Kentucky
The article notes California's wine industry producing about 10 million gallons annually with 2 million gallons shipped east as imitation foreign goods. It discusses wine quality and consumer deception. It also cites a Kentucky Court of Appeals decision allowing self defense to kill only when facing imminent danger, not to hunt or pursue an attacker.
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California
Kentucky Court of Appeals
the Commonwealth
Sun Suggests Hoyt for Wyoming Delegate to Congress
The Sun advocates ex Governor J W Hoyt as the Republican choice for Wyoming Territory's next delegate to Congress. It lauds Hoyt's four years under the current administration and urges party support to secure his nomination, citing his valuable services to the territory.
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J. W. Hoyt
Congress
Wyoming
Sun
Wyoming Territory
Hoyt
Dressing beef trade shifts from cattle to dressed meat
The wholesale butchers discuss Chicago to eastern cities shipments of dressed meat in refrigerator cars. Western capitalists prepare large-scale operations as Cheyenne could become a major center for collecting, killing, and shipping dressed beef to the east, reducing live cattle weight loss and crew needs while cutting freight costs.
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Chicago
Times
West Washington Market
New York
West
Wyoming
Beeves
Cheyenne
Global Oddities And Local Notes From An Era
A compilation of assorted items notes the US wire trade value at ten million yearly, social hypocrisy, a large gold nugget found in the Ural district, a secret society in Washington opposing abductions in departments, a western drift in proverb, Newport fashion, Blondin’s Berlin return, a Yellowstone gold plating geyser claim, disappearing Japanese junks, Japan’s shipbuilding shift, Leadville and Utah lead output, Missouri gain, Arizona prospects, Guiteau era novelties, and a rising market for assassination souvenirs sold in Washington.
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Ural
Russia
Washington
Leadville
Utah
Nevada
Missouri
Arizona
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M. E. Post
Robert Horner
Japan
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Pius IX
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Ballardville
Neb
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Pireus
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Acropolis
United States
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Neue Welt
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Far East
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Clark
Johnson
Elvidere Mille, Goodhue Co
Minn
Clark Johnson
Clark Johnso
Wm. Stoops
Meadow Utah Co
U.S
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George Littlewood
M.smith
Waterville
LeSueur Co
Sore Hyes
W. Atherton
Laboratory
West 3Rd St
N. Y. City
Slid&w.lvr
Ayer
J. C. Ayer & CO
Lowell
Mass
Addons & Glover
Cole
Seltzer Spa
Europe
R. KE. Kendall & Co
la Salle St
Ill
Ken Rak
Copany
Piper & Brigam
Boston
Spruce
Louisville
General Assembly of
Kentucky
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Mericur Bank
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Boardman
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Postoffice
Geo. L. Holt
News - Depot
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Sweetland & CO
Louisiana
State Lottery
Corby
Orient Gate
New Orleas
G. T. Beauregard
Louisina
Jubala
Molallira Capital Prize
Joe
Uni
F. Schweickert
E. C. West
Georan W. Hoy
St. Cheyenne
Wyo
Ngdawly
E. E. Burlingame
Colorado
Larimer Street
Denver
Colo
Tel-el-Kebir
Wolseley
Babbitt
Louis Shaw
Hi Cox & Co
Simmond
Bob
Wanohse
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Puebl
Black Hills
Theturgis
Las Vega
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Marsh
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