Multiple 19th century incidents in brief news items
A collection of short notes reports and notices including contract awards for headstones graves at Samuel G Bridges Keokuk Iowa and a New York State firm. a destructive Parker's Landing oil fire destroying five tanks 85 000 barrels. Raber murder confession implicating several men sentenced to death. abolitionist Rev S S Joselyn dies aged eighty. a bridge collapse at Stockbridge Mass kills Somers Benjamin and injures others. arrests for murder in Boston. various naval, weather, and political dispatches. labor unrest in England and Ireland. riotous events in Quebec Norfolk and Petersburg crops and oil ships damaged. spellers reform essay notes. miscellaneous aphorisms and editorial quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker’s Landing
Housatonic River
Stockbridge
Mass
Somers Benjamin
Aggie Ronald
Fanny Millard
Antonia Ardito
Nicola Infantum
Boston
Joseph F. Frye
New England
Middle Atlantic
Newport
Norfolk
Petersburg
Atlantic House
Morehead City
N. C
Beaufort
United Pipe Line
Parker
Atlantic City
Clementon
Ennes
Cotton Convention Report Praises U S Cotton Growth
At the New York gathering on the 13th the Executive Committee said five years of cotton culture rose beyond expectations and free labor nearly solved. It warned the South will be the future base for American and European mills. only 31 percent of cotton is domestically manufactured. Prohibition State Convention of Massachusetts set for Boston September 24. Walter Paine of Fall River linen firm loses 100000 in cotton speculation. similar acts by George B. Durfee. In Hyde Park Pa a night assault by Dr Gulick on Dr Gibbs left Gibbs gravely wounded and Mrs Gibbs likely fatally stabbed. Gulick intoxicated. both physicians well known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spelling Reform Association
Philadelphia
S. N. D. North
Utica
N. Y
Speling Reform Association
Elbo
Speling Association
England
Pryon
Pres
Becaus
United Pres
United States
American Philological Association
Horace Greeley
Chlor
Peps
Mohawk
Whitesboro
Cantakeros
Josh Billings
Peple
Bisnis
Cetewayo
Lowell Courier
Holy Land
Dead Sea
Salem Sunbeam
H. Sudds
Gouverners Bank
Rome Sentinel
Puck
Boston Post
Herald
Lake George
Iee Press
WN. Y
Fulton Times
Sniffen
St. Louis
Solomon
Philadelphia Times
America
Free Press
Virginia
Norristown Herald
Boston Commercial Bulletin
The
Thames
James Gordon Bennet
Central Park
New York
Executive Committee
South
Europe
Great Britain
Massachusetts
Boston
Walter Paine
American Linen Company
Fall River
George B. Durfee
Mechanics’ Mill
Hyde Park
Gulick
Dr. Gibbs
Gibbs
Fever spread and deaths rise in Memphis during mid month
The Memphis area reports multiple fever outbreaks with thirteen to thirty-one new cases on various days. Deaths total rising with several dates noting four to ten fatalities. The Tennessee State Board of Health began isolating dwellings with fever cases and posted guards on the nineteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
White Haven
Tenn
Bailey Station
Tennessee State Board of Health
Indian driven stage line from Vinita to Las Vegas
The Buffalo Courier cornet reports Superintendent Parker describes a 900 mile stage line from Vinita Indian Territory to Las Vegas New Mexico with 108 drivers including 30 native Indians. The line carries U S mail daily and some passengers, the Indians eagerly accept the pay and prestige. The driver recounts incidents, beliefs about stars and a flood, and Indian reactions to locomotives. Some drivers claim to have witnessed Custer’s massacre but refuse to identify the whites who killed others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Vinita
Indian Territory
Las Vegas
New Mexico
United States Mail
Sam
Custer
Nooe
N. M. Cor
Buffalo Courier
Peculiar Lightning Strike Buries Tecumseh Sexton
From Tecumseh Michigan comes a strange lightning incident. John O Connell was digging a grave when a blinding flash struck the grave area. He fell to the bottom, minding the earth, boots torn and trousers ripped, yet remained unharmed aside from fatigue. After regaining sensation he rose and recovered quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh
Mich
John O'Connell
Mr. O'Connell
Cincinnati Enquirer
Man Lacks Mind Split For Jury Duty
Quote from Albany Argus suggests placing a man without independent judgment on a jury. Courtly wits reference a common civic duty critique. The remark reflects skepticism about juror discretion and collective decision making.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany Argus
Count de Chambord a Dreamer of French Royal Restoration
In 1873 the Count de Chambord seemed poised to crown France as Henry V but chickened out over a speech about the white flag. He failed to act, remaining an amiable dreamer and scholar in retirement at Frohsdorf, a relic of old royalty whose impractical charm amused contemporaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count de Chambord
France
Henry V
Roger
Henry IV
St. Louis
Frohsdorf
Also Mentioned on This Page
Defiance Co. Express
L.G. Thacker
Snider
Defiance,o
T. H. Ashton
M. D.ffice
J. P. Buffington & Co S
Clinton Street
Defiance, O
Lyl
J. N. Thacker
Ayersville
E.W. Downs
M. D
Eagle Block
Dittmer's
Defiance
Perry & First Streets
R. N. Sheldon
Omeopathic
Hoffman & Geiger
Opera House
Clinton and
Front Sts
D. P. Aldrich
Colby & Scott's
W.s.powell
Bechel’s Drug Store
Defiance, Ohio
Dele A. Rohn
Court and
Waynee Streets
Ohio
G. L. Myers
W.C. Travis Myers & Travis
LAW
Keystone Block
William Carter
Third Streets
Latty & Peaslee
Councellor
Colby & Scott's Drug Store
Henry Newbegin
Henry B. Harris
Notary Public
Newbegin & Harris
Jyl
Hardy & Johnson
Wolsifer’s Block
J. F. Deatrick
G. W. Killley
Snerap Heacock
Killey & Heacockttorneys
S. T. Sutphen
Wolsiffer’s
Court House
Milton E. Orcutt
Ralston’s Block
Charles E. Bronson
B. F. Enps
J.P. Cameron
Enos & Cameron
Burner’s Building
Robert Cary
Ustice-Of-The-Peace
Wolfram’s
Keystone
L.R. C. Association
Frank C. Culley
Defiance County Express
Second Streets
NELLS
United States and Territories
Canada
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Germany
U. S
Harper's
Leslie's
Scribner’s &E
Stronc
PIN
Defiance County
Rules OF the Board
Hicksville
B. W.slagle
H. Schoonover
F. M. Thompson
Adam Daub
Northwestern
Zephyrs and
Germantown Yarns
Boots & Shoes
Adam Minsel
San
H. W. Myers
Esident Pdentist
Knight
Buffington & Co
Patent Metalic
H. B. Hall
Undertaker
Crockery Store
Brown & Brown
Opera
St. and Wabash Railway
I. B. Hills &Son
Sueadouarterd
Florida
Pierce
Leadville
Sarah Ray
Ray
Harrison Avenue
State Street
Prescott
Arizona
Peters
Detroit Free Press
Sellers
Young
Tyson
Washington
Manchester
Uni
State Department
Wiliam W. Roach
Citizens’ National Bank of Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Samuel G. Bridges
Keokuk, Ia
New York State
Porter
Treasury Department
National Board of Health
Congress
National Bank
Ublic
Usea
Fortune Bay
Frye
Morgan Emanuel
Castle
B. F. Miller
Syracuse
Atlantic City Railway
J. 8. Veris
Locust Grove
Lewis County
Joseph W. Pierce
W. Schuchardt
Kate
Louise Cook
Kansas
Hayes
Neosha
Indianapolis
Art St. Louis
Thaddeus E. Baker
Schoulder
Miles
Fort Peck
Fifth Infantry
Rosebud
Sitting Bull
J. D. Trainor
H. W. Baldwin
Forest River
Chicago
Baldwin
Trainor
Ife
Keokuk & St. Louis
Louisiana
Nicholas Dubois
Illinois
State Board of Agriculture
James N. Stevens
Richmond
Fish Creek
Eureka
Ney
Champlain Street
Ship Laborers’ Society
Strocks
St. Petersburg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Russia
Austria
Ticonderoga
Africa
St. Helena
Quebec
Berlin
Vienna
Turkey
New York Associated Press
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Grant
E. T. Sartoris
Adelaide Kimble
Nellie Grant
Sartoris
Italy Bridge
Cheerif Pasha
Lurgan
Derbyshire
Trent
Dermont
Argentan & Granville
Kieff
Herr von Forckenbeck
Reichstag
Rivers Wilson
de Blignieres
Egypt
Chicago Tribune
Chio
St. Louis Times- Journal
Yonkers Gazette
W. Y. Hepress
Bill
McGregor
Fomer
Huntington
Ind
Democrat
Waterloo Observer
Reno
John
Reno ( Ney
Tremont Temple
Baptist Book Concern
Harry Locke
Buffalo
Lake Shore Road
Locke
Nnone
Foreign Intelligence
Denmark
Persia
Wieliczka
Galicia
Henry M. Stanley
Sierra Leone
Congo
Sarajevo
Lord Lurgan
Society of Strocks
Express
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!