Life in the Rockies and Cyclone News In Reading
Features an interview with William H. Ralston about western life and showmanship, recounting rimfire rifle tricks, border fights, and a Mexico incident. Also reports a terrible cyclone in Reading Pa with many fatalities, plus other brief notes on local relics and a crime in Barnwell County involving a black arsonist.
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Richmond
William H. Ralston
William H. Greason
R. R. Ralston
Ralston
Opera House
Mr. Ralston
Cuba
United States
Worcester
Tornado
Perry
el Paso
Rockies
Paso
Rocky Mountains
Frank Frayne
Frayne
Hartman
Illinois
Richmond Theatre
Indias
Far West
Mexico
Peterburg
Ontario
Canada
Reading
Easton
Lima
Ohio
Pittsburg
Chicago
North-West
Wisconsin
Michigan
Falls
The
Niagara
The Key of Death: A Venitian Lover's Fatal Key
A discarded lover Tebaldo devises a deadly key weapon with a hidden needle. He wounds a betrothed bride at her church door, killing the groom and later the bride’s parents. The weapon is found in Tebaldo and he dies on the gallows. A similar tale is linked to Duke Francis of Padua.
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Tebaldo
Venice
Tebaldy
Francis of Padua
Bits of Science Highlights From The Era
Gas price in London averages 66 cents per thousand cubic feet. A proposed government telescope costs one million dollars in Congress. Glacier movement in summer four times winter. One ton of coal yields the force of six and two thirds men. Cobra eggshell tooth shed after use. Persia's area 29,086 square miles with 6 million population. In 1816 corn bought ten pounds of bail, versus one bushel equals one pound of bail then.
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London
Congress
Persia
Business Advice For Buyers In Indianapolis Market
A column urges readers to act independently in business and avoid reckless schemes. It emphasizes self reliance, punctuality, and maintaining order while advising to help others within one’s means and to say no firmly when needed.
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Sauit
Missing links and miscellaneous world items
A collage of brief notes covers global incidents and curiosities. Topics include massachusetts dentists, New York strawberry prices, Mozart manuscripts sold in Berlin, Chinese dwarf Cho Mah, weather and sea conditions, Pennsylvania judges in silk gowns, a new alum mine in Asan, Florida land entries, Mission spending in China, a calendar prank causing $30,000 loss, world coal supply outlook, American fruit exports, an Albany accident, Florida fish yields, and a Massachusetts court ruling on wills.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Asan
Florida
London Standard
China
Maxims For Housekeepers From an Old Proverb
A collection of antiquated housekeeper maxims stressing thrift readiness and order. Witty aphorisms advise avoiding fuss at meals, using every item, and savoring simple, well-run domestic life. The verses mix food, management, and prudence.
Four Daughters Eloped. Father Kills Two Men in Missouri
In Bolar Missouri Mercer county Henry Thomas an elderly farmer pursued his four daughters Hattie Margaret Nancy and Jane after they eloped with two brothers Samuel and Charles Hasburn and Ned Gleason and Thomas Allison. He shot and killed the Hasburn brothers and wounded Margaret who died the following night. A mob hanged the father as he returned home.
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Bolar
Mercer County
Missouri
Henry Thomas
Hattie
Margaret
Nancy
Jane
Samuel
Charles Hasburn
Maragaret
Nattie
Ned Gleason
Thomas Allison
Opinion fragments from Northern News papers and other sources
Public opinion excerpts from multiple papers including Philadelphia News Indiana Providence Journal New England fishing fleet described as a seafaring nursery while suggestions propose aiding broader American commerce. Other pieces critique U S navy contracts Mormonism Utah polygamy and political influence with reflections on Zion state governance and Lotta Crabtree.
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Providence Journal
Ind
New England
Senator Hoar
House of American Commerce
New York World
Dem
Utah
Zion
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ROYA
Nae Bakxa Press Co
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J. W. Graham
Tuos, Burrin
Graham & Ruffin
Attorney AT Law
Hillsboro, N. C
Alamance Caswell
Darham, Guilford
Rockingham Person
Orange
W J. Exum
Durham, N
Wright Building
Raleigh
N.C
Branch Yard
Lander
Fayetteville, N. C
Chas. A. Goodwin
Knabe
WM Knabe
Fifth Avenue
New York
Baltimore &T
Balti
Market
Washington, D. C
Clowe
Bate
C.a.snow & Co
Washington, D.C
F. BR. Mangum
Court House
Durham
Mangum
Roxboro Street
Christmas
Ramam, Rowe
Richmond's Boy's Advertune
FAR
Jensboro
John Schenck
Guilford
Webster
George Davis
Wilmington
Confederate States
Guilford Battle Ground Company
Jon Star
J. E Birt
Barnwell
Charlotte Chronicle
Sistrunk
Birt
Key OF Death
Business, Indianapolis News
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Berlin
Lessing
Cho Mah
Earth
Norway
England
Germany
France
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Spain
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Asia
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Albany
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Boston
Jon Tyler
Ile
Philadelphia News
Cleveland
New York Journal of Commerce
Lord Sackville
Lord Salisbury
Washington
Macon Telegraph
Lotta Crabtree
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