May News From Amboy and Surrounding Areas
Local notes report May social visits with residents from Dixon Dixon Normal School students Jas Lannon and Shell Conahan visiting Amboy. Farmers report poor corn prospects after multiple plantings. Mentions of Leddy McGovern family friends and town business travel to Denver Chicago Kansas City and Denver for work and visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Lannon
Shell Conahan
Amboy
Frank Cullin
Jas
Buckley
Denver
Colorado
Philip Lenahan
Kansas City
Daniel
Chicago
M. J. Burns
May
Thos. Shehan
East Grove
Johnie Leddy
Dixon Normal School
Boss School
M. J. McGowan
Dixon
Local notes reveal weather, farming, and family updates
Dr Hewitt from Franklin Grove attends a village patient as rheumatism worries Mr Charles Herbert. Wet roads hinder travel while John Dysart ships two carloads of cattle. Rev Lipe of Dixon holds Bible meetings Fridays. J B Eicholtz enhances his home. McGuire and Dysart expand lumber trade with seven carloads ordered. Crops look average to good. Hiram Uhl builds a large barn. Brubaker adds to his barn. Peter Wilhelm visits his mother in Dakota. Robert C McGinsey near completion of assessment with review planned at the town house on the 27th. Captain Dysart builds a large barn. Isaih Brink builds a fine residence. North Nachusa boasts fine farm buildings. Owen Barns reports a young son. Rain and wet ground persist. Four grain merchants shell corn. John O Connell of Amboy visits town to see cousin Mrs D A Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hewitt
Franklin Grove
Charles Herbert
John Dysart
Lipe
Dixon
J. B. Eicholtz
Robert C. McGinsey
Hilles
Isaih Brink
North Nachusa
Owen Barns
John O'Connell
Amboy
D. A. Smith
O. B. Dutton
Nevada
Story County
Iowa
Evolution of Bread From Acorns to Fermented Loaves
The article traces bread’s origins from early acorn and grain eating through ancient gruels to flour grinding and milling. It notes the introduction of the windmill after the First Crusade, the shift to leavened bread using beer yeast, and legal bans on yeast in 1660 with relaxations in 1661, highlighting France’s long use of fermenting bread versus other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaul
Britain
China
Pliny
France
Paris
Atrocities by British Officers Reported in Mayall Killing
An account from the Sydney Mail describes a British police detachment confronting the Mayall tribe. After forcing hospitality and killing three men, the officer orders further killings including a young woman tied to a sapling. A stranger later learns of the tied woman and witnesses the officer shoot her to keep his handcuffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney Mail
Sydney
Australia
Setting Their Caps for Whittier in 1860
Mrs Lydia Maria Childs letters recount Whittier’s time and the nuisance of visitors. His sister recalls Greenleaf’s efforts to lose idle loiterers in the streets. Whittier jokes about avoiding crowds by living away from the railroad with a bulldog and a pitchfork. Women courted him, a wealthy widow among them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittier
Lydia Maria Child
Mr. Whittier
Greenleaf
Maria
Ripon La ana Plans Grand European Masked Ball
A famed Japanese lord Ripon La ana touring Europe charters a Vienna hotel and invites two hundred women to a masked ball where he is the sole man present. Each guest discovers a superb bracelet hidden in her napkin, promising similar feats to delight Parisians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Gautier
Fortunio
Vienna
Flower growers at New York Winter market thrive
The growers of the fine flowers stocking the New York Winter market are mostly well educated Scotchmen or Englishmen, many of whom have built financially successful businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
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W.M. Kennedy
Dixon, Illinois
Thos. Leddy
Bernard, McGovern
Mary
Eliza McFadden
Denison
Mary Dixon
Ella Timmons
Frank Mooney
Frank
John Dolan
John Todd
Canada
Swan
John T. Swan
C. K. Shelhamer
Geo. Egan
James Morris
Wm. Sutton
Frank Keith
Nebraska City
A. P. Porter
Miss Allen
Marshaltown
Miss
Emery Barren
Cleveland, Ohio
Chas. Bach
Nachusa
Harmon
State of
Story Co. Ia
Ess Cashmeres
Wheat & Gridley Bro’s
Illinois
Sarahs
C. Connerman
Illionis
Brazil
Stern Bros
Dixon, Inn
OUR
Rosenthal
the People’s Clothier
S. Rosenthal
Main Street
M. Cahill
Fred
F. Hegert
EOE
E. Emmert
Dixon, Il
Emmert
J F. Fish
E L, Dysart
W. W. Waters
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