Coffee Plant Culture In India Described By Planter
Detroit readers receive a detailed 1870s view from George Anderson on Indian coffee cultivation. Trees are set five feet apart with tops pruned to spread, shade from fig trees or other varieties is essential, and labor is heavy. Beans mature in May to February harvest, yielding about one pound per bush. The article also digresses into botanical name origins and anecdotes.
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Detroit Free Press
George Anderson
Detroit
India
Derres
Degins
France
Fuchsia
Leonard Fuchs
Dahl
Bair
Punt
Northamptonshire
Yorkshire
Torquay
Gentleman's Magazine
Hlingraham
Tarda
Drugeutr
W. L. Douglas
Douglas
Brookton
Maus
Thia Sloc
Extira Valde Cale
Olkingsmans
Congress
Brockton
Mass
Colle
Eee Rk CO
Bethtlehen
Necker
Noel
Isaac Hoog
Isaac Bioses & Bro
Brooklyn
New York
Laston
Fes
Joseph H. Hunter
Santee Cwitheit Delax
Mail trains adopt postal cars to speed up delivery
The article notes railroads attach postal cars to mail trains to sort en route, cutting distribution time. It mentions foreign steamships may employ on board clerks to sort mails during voyage, shortening post distribution when in the Postal Union. It then tells of Utica Minnesota resident Ives Herman Harms who sleeps deeply for years, with doctors baffled by his sleep.
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Gree
New York Mail
Express
Utica
Minn
Ives Herman Harms
Ylarms
Harris
Ft.r
Harms
Desperate Lynch Threats After Child Disappearance
A Kansas farmer Dudley near El Dorado hires Edwards to help harvest. The Bloomer couple, along with their three year old, join. The child vanishes and Mrs Edwards is accused of murder amid a tense search and coerced confessions. The husband eventually confesses to disposing of the body with no direct involvement. A lynching threat looms if her story proves true.
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Dudley
el Dorado
Kan
Edward
Numerous Disasters and Global Tensions Reported Across Nations
The page details fires destroying stores and homes in Seaford Delaware and Shadyarde New Jersey, a bridge collapse in Danbury Connecticut, a fatal shooting in Wareham Massachusetts, and miner deaths in Mount Carmel Pennsylvania. It lists political events from the World’s Fair site selection in New York to Spanish and Irish tensions, plus naval movements and Indian affairs in Idaho and North Carolina.
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Middle States
Masonic and Odd Fellows Anl
Seaford
Del
United States
Kearsaga
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hayti
Hennica Lares
Wareham
Mass
Joseph Lobarron
Deavy
Danbury
Conn
Aber
Leonann & Hume
Shadyarde
N. J
Tur
Alaska
Mount Carmel
Penn
Hugh Roberts
Anthony Marchetty
Maccie Toni
Philadelphia
Elton
Sithin
Patrick PaAnacus
Jermyn
Japan Flood Disaster in Kii Province Kills Thousands
The western Kii region suffers Japan's worst disaster in centuries as floods and a collapsing mountain wipe out towns. Up to 15,000 deaths are feared with 40,000 people dependent on relief. debris stretches for miles and many areas face starvation.
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Kii
Japan
Kinogawa
Wakayama
Conemaugh
Johnstown
Hidakagawa
Beles
Lyme
Hetei
Patent Office annual report summary for year ending 1880
Commissioner Mitchell reports 42 017 total patent and trademark filings including 36 740 patent applications 608 design patents 1231 registrations 71 reissues and 1111 trade marks. Patents granted 31 018 with 2855 withheld and 11 910 expired. Receipts 1 180 557 expenditures 960 607 surplus 180 060 total patent fund 1 524 520. Fiscal year 1889 90 shows higher receipts by 63 503 and higher expenditures by 45 007.
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C. E Mitchell
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Patent Fund
Patent Office
Miracle escape from Milwaukee landslide near park event
A disaster was narrowly averted at Milwaukee where a landslide threat loomed over the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. A stone retaining wall and rail support at the foot of the Juneau Park bluff prevented the slope from toppling into the lake, saving about 1000 spectators seated for a sham naval battle. Engineers warned of unstable ground before seating was completed.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Milwaukee
Juneau Park
Youthful Accused In Fatal Wound At Home
A youth from New Bedford Massachusetts, ten years old, is accused in a serious case after attacking his sister Mary during play with a clock at their father’s residence. The girl suffered a severe leg injury from a jagged oil knife blade and was found unconscious and dying. The boy was arrested and attempted to jump from a moving vehicle to drown himself while en route to the station.
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Wilkie Collis
William Wilkie Collins
London
William Collins
R. A
Carpenter
Mr. Wray
Armadale
Wilkie Collins
Whale Frank
Holywood
New Bedford
Mass
Mary
Frank
Labor World Glimpses From United States And Europe
Reports from Alabama laborers paid five cents daily and unions such as Excuayxo's Engineers' and Amalgamated Machinists' unions show rising membership and spending since mid-century. News covers strikes, wage comparisons, textile unions, Boston school training, and factory labor in Saxony with child labor figures and rail growth impacts.
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Turontep
Alabama
Excuayxo
Engineers’ Union
Sinc
Lewis’ Amalgamated Machinists’ Union of
New York City
International Cigarmakers’ Union of America
New
England
Newark
London
Mane
Penobscot
Philadepl
National Textiles Workers’ Union
American Federation of Labor
National Brewers’ Union
Cincinnat
New York
Naronal Union
Pateitk
Qleyarm
Jonnty Anitrim
Trelain
United States
Les Thins
Germany
Spa
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belin
Agassiza Higy
Boston
Perrhen
Nile
Church Association For
Tabor
Aro
Tuy
Multitude of Fatalities Reported in Early 1900s Events
Reports list a string of incidents from a locomotive wreck near Ithaca killing engineer Orlando Seeley to deaths in Watkins and Lockport. Also notes drownings in Boston Harbor, mine explosions in Dayton Tennessee, and a child killed by lightning in Winona Minnesota.
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Ithaca
Orlando Seeley
G. Hartwell
Waltham
Arthur Taft
Dedham
Mass
Vermont
New York
Mount Washington
Gesin & Coal
Dayton
Tenn
Five Die In Chicago Freight Train Collision At Englewood
A Rock Island passenger train was struck at the Take Shore and Pan Handle crossing near Eighty-seventh Street Englewood by a freight train. Five people were killed and four seriously injured. The standing passenger coach was rammed and wrecked instantly, the accident blamed on the freight crew’s carelessness.
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Spaulding
Winona
Minn
Northwestern
Blackberry
Culpeper
James Fitzgerald
Richard P. Rothwell
New York
Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Eighty-seventh Street
Englewood
Burnt the Bandits in Servia Fire Kills Leaders
Gendarmes in Servia set fire to a Losowska house sheltering bandits. The band leader and another man died in the flames after a failed escape attempt. Remaining bandits were captured. One gendarme was killed.
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Losowska
Re‘cently
Ronan
Bani
Notable Octogenarians and Notable Figures Mentioned
A garbled survey references Octogenarians and public figures including Cardinal Newman and Poet Hiuxury once linked to Robert Louis Stevenson. It notes Moltke’s honorary colonelcy for the Austrian regiment, and mentions Sir Andrew Clarke praised as a famed English physician amid health struggles and career years.
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Cardinal Newman
Flo
Armericans
Willaw FE
Hiuxury
Robert Louis Stevenson
Cent von Moltke
Austria
Andrew Chiko
Andrew Clarks
England
Baseball ties and whitewashes prompt league look
The report lists eight tied games to date with Boston tied twice with New York and once with Chicago. Cleveland tied once with Indianapolis Pittsburgh and Washington Chicago tied Pittsburgh Philadelphia tied Washington. Whitewashes total 33 with Washington tailenders best lone club aside from Chicago. Philadelphia leads with eight. A Toledo Detroit game featured Gushman broken arm Shafer ejected for arguing umpire Brennan. Bement refused police protection. League and American Association records given for teams including New York Boston Philadelphia Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Indianapolis Washington Baltimore Cincinnati Columbus Kansas City Louisville.
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Eraar
Columbus
Sxcrerany
AmHur Inwin
Washington
Chicagos
New York
Focaury
Philadelphia
Brown
Boston
Kelly
Ward
New Haven
Hartford
Waterbury
Providence
Fall Surver
Worcester
Lowell
Manchester
New England
Umpmes McQuade
Crary
Bostons
Ryan
Chicago
Hegarty
Hanlon
Pittsburga
Hoy
Washingtons
Cleveland
Clevelands
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
Shafer
Brennan
Bement
Toledo
Apaon
Wons Lott
Philadelphs
Ag Clevelance
Pittsburgh
American Association
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Louisville
Quebec Rock Slide Crashes Dufferin Terrace in 19th Century Disaster
A massive rock slide from the cliff near Cap Diamant at the Citadel in Quebec City dumps debris across Dufferin Terrace, crushes houses, traps residents, and disrupts river traffic. Police, military, and doctors rally. roughly fifty killed or injured, with ongoing rescue efforts as corpses and debris are removed.
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Quebec
Cape Diamond
Citadel
Dufferin Terrace
Clogsby
Champlain Market
Wohl
Wilson
Stimure
Royal School of Cavalry
Redemptorist
Hints on building materials and quantities from old notes
A compilation of practical rules for construction materials. It lists volumes and weights for walling mortar shingles nails lath lime and soil measures. Includes calculations for savings investments and crop sowing.
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Anderson
Ind
Henry Loffoer
Don Shelton
Courier-Journal
Emma
Marie
Fred
Heny
Williem K. Vanderbilt
Newport
R. L
William HT
Vanderblt
Mr. Vanderbilt
Ando Uched
Cinderella Hike
Primrose
Johnuigi
Minnesota
WN. B.D Education
Cbi
Sion
Delaware
Willliam J. Pay
Ming
Allegheny
Mexico
Pacific
Porfirio Diaz
Ajats
Vera Cruz
Chicinateper
Mexican Central Railroad
Lagos
Brandt
Garcia
Bolina
Martinez
St. Paul
Augut Boorfried
Boorfriede
East
George S. Kimball
Glass “Trust
Streator
Ottawa
Rock Is
United Glass Company of
Trust” Company
Sgnth
Tobs Nawark
Hopkins
Seeley Hopkins
Phillipsburg
Avery Stable
Bellefonte
Erie
Dorr
von Nostrand
Mentone
Tuey Gwok Yina
San Francisco
Common Council
Spokane Falls
W. T
Town
Horreo Boies
Waterloo
L. Bestow
Lucas County
Leo
Lorain
Ohio
Lalo Erie
Balburg
Huaw Sxeur
Malad
Idaho
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Joston T. Raystown
Moorhead
Oklahoma City
United States Express Company
Hurley
Wis
Virginia
United States Treasury
Pierpont
Tracy
New York Navy Yard
Norfolk Navy Yard
Kingston
Jamaica
Navassa
Cour d'Alene
Secretary of War
Indian Rights Association
North Carolina
Geronimo
Mason Theopuilus Gaines
West Virginia
Third Auditor's Office
E. L. Jordan
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Kinnaut
Lifesaving Service
Atlantic
Woman's National Industrial League
Women of America
Pensacola
St. Paul de Loando
Gonaives
Hyppolite
Fermoy
Ireland
Father O'Dwyer
God Save
Smiinnr
Hungary
Kieff
Russia
Mayon Sixton
Dublin
Mr. Balfour
Catholic University
Tangiers
Morovcu
Spain
Sexton
Lady Sandhurst Stamfeld
Cartany Menao
Cabura
Kensing
Prines Edward's Island
the Patent Office
Mitchell
the Labor World
Acurice Wall Cmt
Leipsie
Miss Sanpu
L. Bull
Interior Department
Civil Service Commission
Miss Bull
Department
Maxwell Straun
Elmira
East India Docks
Wilkis Collins
Enterprise
Inverary
Scotland
Duke of Argyle
Boston Board of Aldermen
Grant
Sheridan
Farragut
Samirr Nicmovas C. Deswanesty
Bergen County
Expres
Rutherford
New York Daily Graphic
Henry G. Davis
Deer Park
Chester County
Montgomery
Berks
Sioux City
Towa
Marion
Tur Firm
Belford, Clarke & Co
New Yor
Lins
Walter Barr
West Point
Wissey
B. T. Barham
Srvenar
International Congress
CoLosel Swirzeen
Bureau of Satistics
Windom
St. Petersburg
Dall
Copenhagen
Tifton
Servia
Reeves
Howe
West
Dan
Creamery
Sheen
Watertow
Royal Canadian School of
Cassiny
Howard
Lessard
Champlain Street
River
McCann
Burke
James Bradley
Sam Martin Ready
Ebbs
Mr. Marvel
Honora Mercier
Joseph Shebyn
Owen Murphy
Fitzpatrick
Sisters of Charity
Bunarrest
A. P. Caron
Hector Langevin
Sulforera
Duiwn
Royal Military College
Dr. Pierce
B.F. Johnson & Co
Richmond
Isaac Thompson
Sicperborg
Hood
C. L Hood & CO
BLY
VLY Bros
Warren 81
N.Y
Jones
Neale
A. W. Gray's Sons
Pavexress
Middletown Springs,vt
Dol
J.C. Ho XreMerson
Wisconsin
P.S. Fountain Fen CO
Warren St
Theodore Hollands
Bemenus
Ain
DE Ga
Clarksburg
Ana Opiu
Cemais
Phens
Lebanon
E. 1208S & CO
Bate Recee Medical CO
Broadway, N.Y
Sfree
N.p.dover &Co
Costesville Ys
Holland Medical Holland
Bufato
Holland Medicine CO
Buffalo
Ana
Oxford
Democrat
Androscoggin
Utca
Fulton Co
Lassenest
Gered
Orions Sypiicauion
St. Jacobs
Esrier
Palmyra Mich
St. Jacobs Oil
Little Chuta
Arnold Vor Randal
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