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Accidents and Notes From National Celebrations
A receiver is appointed for the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati amid public unrest. Reports note 818 women employed as prison officials in England with salaries from £45 to £600 plus living costs. Postmaster Barney in St Joe cites 185 registered packages in the July quarter, signaling business growth. Bijou the elephant dies of old age and disease after sixty years of public life. Sailor hats gain popularity for outdoor games. Crop reports promise an unusually bountiful harvest in Minnesota Texas and Illinois. An elderly Illinois man recalls riding a pony through the Civil War era and surviving with corn bread. Irish famine statistics reveal large-scale starvation eviction and emigration under Queen Victoria. The Fourth of July passed largely uneventfully in Corunna while many opt for cheap rail travel. A Quaker convention in Amboy Indiana is noted and editorials debate party loyalty and market manipulation in coffee and wheat corners in New York Chicago and elsewhere.