Liberal Republicans unite with Democrats for nationwide reform
Missouri Liberal Republicans unite with Democrats to form a coalition supporting Greeley and Brown, aiming to end proscriptive oaths and centralization. The Baltimore convention is praised for choosing a peace, liberty, and equal rights agenda while pledging constitutional limits on federal power and civil service reform.
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Missouri
Gratz Brown
Cincinnati
Republican Party
Pameeres
Horace Greeley
B. Grats Brown
Greeley
Grant
Hisses
Gen. Grant
Territories
Lecompton
Kansas
Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
South
States
Union
Congress
Baltimore
Squirrels Thwarted by Fire and Bellows Extermination
Mr. Dixie W. Thomson uses a large bellows and a yard of gutta percha hose to smoke out squirrels from a den in an outside lot. Shavings, cobs, and sulphur ignite to fill burrows with smoke, killing the colony in minutes. A single man can exterminate many squirrels in one day at a trifling cost. An oyster leads a placid life until he gets into a stew.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Dixie W. Thomson
Erib
California Mustang Described as Valuable Native Breed at Risk
A California newspaper warns that the native California horse faces extinction despite notable traits. The piece lauds its endurance, agility, and spirited temperament, noting its superiority in saddle work and light draft tasks, and argues for preserving the breed before it perishes.
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California
Brave Railroad Hero Stops Abandoned Locomotive
In Shamokin Pennsylvania a passenger wreck was narrowly averted when Miles Gray, a railroad employee, sprang onto a runaway locomotive moving 35 miles per hour and halted it just three minutes before a Sunbury passenger train arrived. His quick action prevented loss of life and property and deserves recognition by railroad authorities.
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Pennsylvania
Shamokin
Sunbury
Miles Gray
Tom Thumb Foretells Polygamy Debate in Utah Visit
A traveler recalls Tom Thumb visiting Utah where at a dinner he leaped from his chair and declared he cannot understand polygamy. The host, a man six feet tall, replied that he too could not grasp it when Tom was his size.
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Utah
Tom Thumb
Tom
Submarine dredging reveals deep sea life and heat depth
Investigations under the British Association of Science using a dredge show bottom sea conditions at depths over three miles with diverse marine life, including new species. The bottom temperature is about six degrees, with surface heat limited to twenty fathoms and gulf stream heating extending to five hundred to seven hundred fathoms.
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Tur
Texas Pacific Railroad
Quito
Ecuador
Georgetown
Col
Eichty Acres
Indianapolis
Newport
New York
New Zealand
Boston
Gerarda
John Dotton
England
Massachusetts
Great Britain
New York City
Brown University
Maine
British Association of Science
Gulf Stream
Grand Duke Alexis Faces Tepid Reception in Brazil
The Grand Duke Alexis finds less enthusiasm in Brazil than in North America. In the United States he received lavish attention, while Brazilians gave him little notice and the press circulated cool and even unflattering stories about his habits.
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Grand Duke
Alexis
Brazil
North America
United States
New French Minister to Rome Delivers Stark Warning
The new French minister to Rome has informed the Pope that Paris expects nothing from France. The message signals strained relations and a cautious stance toward Rome as negotiations continue.
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Tor
Rome
France
Trial of Marshal Bazaine Draws Paris Spotlight
Paris papers fetter Marshal Bazaine’s life in Versailles villa prison with daily details while speculation grows on the length of his forthcoming trial. Reports say preliminary instruction may take three to four months, prompting questions on the trial’s total duration.
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France
Marshal Bazaine
Paris
Tropmann
Viblanc
Versailles
Marshal Jazaine
Lost Treasure Frigate Leocadia Sunk Near Ecuador
A San Francisco wrecking company forms to recover the 36 million treasure from the 18th century Leocadia wreck off Ecuador. As an earnest, a box with 310 of the original brined dollars has already been sent home.
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Leocadia
Ecuador
San Francisco
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