Ionia Volcano and Earthquakes Stir Nebraska Regions
A mild autumn signaled by three severe earthquakes centered near the Ionia volcano in Nebraska. Shocks felt across the Midwest on November 1 and 15 caused panics in Omaha and echoed through North Platte, Columbus, Plattsmouth, Blair, Fort Randall, Yankton, Lincoln, and other towns, with buildings damaged and residents fleeing as tremors rumbled along the Missouri frontier.
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Evening Journal
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United States Military Headquarters
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Yankton Agency
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Globe
State
Chitags
Earthquake Ripples Across Iowa and Nearby Cities
Reported quake waves rattled Sioux City causing downtown chaos and cracked walls while students fled schools. Other cities including Dubuque Des Moines Council Bluffs Topeka Atchison St Joseph and St Paul felt varying levels of tremor. Knoxville Tenn also reported a strong aftershock the following day.
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District Court
Dubuque
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Kansas
Topeka
Atchison
Santa Fe
St. Joseph
St. Paul
Minn
Knoxville
Tenn
Anecdote of Daniel Webster in Salisbury
During a college vacation Daniel Webster and his brother visited their father in Salisbury. The father, seeking repayment for education costs, gave them scythes and sent them to the mowing field. Daniel struggled to use the tool, the scythe kept failing, and his father urged him to fix it. Daniel calmly hung the scythe in a tree and walked away.
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Facher’s
Salisbury
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Longevity Statistics From The Cinaces 2 Child Ten
A New Haven Register summary on life expectancy uses modern insurance tables to estimate how many of 100000 ten year olds survive to ages 25, 50, 65, 70, 75, 80, and beyond. It outlines yearly deaths by age and concludes life divides into youth sixty-five and old age in roughly three twenty-five year parts.
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Cinaces
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New Haven
Aften
The Meek Customer’s Disappearing Suit Swap
A shy man visited Lisbon Street clothing shop and tried on pantaloons a vest a coat and an overcoat. When asked to try a larger garment he vanished, leaving his old clothes behind and slipping away in the swapped outfit.
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Lewiston
Lisbon Street
Fashionable hairdressing described in old style
A brief note describes hairdressing fashion with low neck lines and puffed rows over the bonnet front, likened to sawtooth patterns in their stiff regularity, reflecting dated Vogue trends.
Zip's Deathbed at Barnum's Park Monkeys Witness Death
Night watchman James Donohue recounts Zip the monkey falling deathly ill at the Central Park museum and dying at midnight. Zip's companions Jack Pete and others react with strange behavior as the weary troupe circles Zip and the staff speculates the animal will be stuffed.
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James Donohue
Central Park Museum
Zip
Jack
Pete
Mr. Donohue
Reilly
Barnum
Mr. Donchae
Muddy Hogs and a Pork Swindle Exposed in Indianapolis
A pork packer in Indianapolis accused a drover of mud coating hogs to prevent shrinkage. He refused to buy when seeing the mud and later learned the drover sold to another packer and boasted of saving shrinkage plus extra payment for the mud.
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Indianapolis
Monkey at New York Aquarium Causes Seal Skull Injury
After visitors left, a monkey named Sullivan explored tanks at the New York Aquarium. It climbed a pillar, hung head down, then leaped onto a Venus statue, toppling it into the seal tank. The statue fell onto Ned the seal, fracturing his skull and ending his career as a trained animal. Sullivan returned to his cage unharmed.
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