Plymouth Meeting of Editorial Association Opens July 22
The Editorial Association of Northern Indiana meets in Plymouth starting July 22, with first-day sessions at Blo relock and an afternoon on business matters. Dr. Ellis of Goshen delivers an address at the Methodist church, inviting citizens. The group travels to Maxinkukee Lake for a day of fishing and boating, enjoying a profitable and enjoyable outing with newspaper men and their ladies.
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Northern Indiang Faitorial Association
Plymouth
Wall
Indiana
C. G. Powe.t
President Grant Receives New Title
President Ulysses S. Grant has earned and received a formal new title reflecting his rising status. The announcement marks a notable advancement in his public standing and influence within the nation.
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Grant
Fragmented note on communications and unidentified uses
An unclear fragment discusses communications and a lack of use for them. The text shows garbled spacing and missing context, leaving interpretation limited to general reference to communications and possible indifference to their utility.
Scientific American dismisses Keely motor as second-rate juggle
The Scientific American criticizes the Keely motor calling it a second-rate juggle and a mechanical Katie King arrangement not worthy of serious consideration.
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Scientific American
Katie King
Morton's Gift For Comfort At the Julian House
Goshen's Mr Morton of the Julian House is praised for making guests feel perfectly at home. The note urges readers to judge if the compliment is an exaggeration, highlighting his talent for hospitality.
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Mr. Morton
Julian House
Goshen
Insanity Allegations Tied to Road Trip Incident
A terse note in the Indianapolis Herald reports Hon. Robert Dale Olwen showing signs of insanity during a trip over the New Albany via Salem road. The paper cites the journey and road conditions as contributing factors without detailing further events.
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Robert Dale Olwen
New Albany
Salem
Indianapolis
Public scrutiny from Beecher trial expected to curb actions
The publicizing of the Beecher trial is praised as teaching people that actions are subject to scrutiny. It is believed this will lead to greater caution, especially among those in high places, and some good may emerge from the notoriety surrounding the case.
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Beecher
Emperial
Cottonwood
Arkansas
Dog fight sparks morning buzz on Main Street
Fragmentary note reports a dog fight causing excitement on Main Street on Monday morning. Mentions locals and a changed rail yard, with unclear references to a named person and place.
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Ion Main St
Tech Egyp
Lbs
Hart
Frank Blair Civil War Hero and Politician Remembered
Frank Blair, numbered among the fallen, was a politician and gallant soldier. He came from a family of politicians, served in the lower house and then the U S Senate, and was nominated for the Democratic ticket’s Vice Presidency in 1868. He is credited with saving Missouri to the Union in 1861.
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Frank Blair
Congress
U. S. Senate
Blair
Missouri
Union
The Fraternity Display Near Kernel Hill Sparks Debate
A Chicago Times commentary denounces a Bun ker Hill exhibit as a costly, useless spectacle amid a looming presidential election. It argues war is unnecessary to win key states and questions southern black voters turning toward the Republican ticket.
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Chicago Times
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
South
Largest mass meeting in the state on Indianapolis grounds
The Indianapolis Sentinel reports a major July gathering on the state house grounds with public patriotism rising and a pledge that Indiana will not lag behind sister states in the 1876 jubilee celebrations.
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Indianapolis - Sentinel
State House
Indianapolis
Indiana
States
Minister Raises Cash Amid Church Fair Critique
A contemporary notes a gospel minister raised about $20,000 from parishioners to build a new church roughly twice the amount hoped for, criticizing the so called church fair and its alleged evils.
Women Brawl Sparks Letters From Goshen and Elkhart
A loud street altercation between two women on Second and Jackson Streets prompts a bystander to intervene. The Goshen Democratic editor defends his paper against cries of hostility toward women and contrasts with local Os SERVER editorials urging temperance and virtuous behavior.
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Jackson Streets
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Goshen Democrats
Demagora
Goshen
Democrat
Questioning Ellen Mallory Temperance Address Claim
The Topeka Commonwealth suggests a temperance address by Mrs Ellen Mallory before the Indiana Editorial Association. Critics doubt her existence and note LaPorte Chronicle discussions, joking Indiana editors need no temperance lectures. The piece questions sources and hints the claim may be a myth or joke.
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Topeka
Ellen Mallory
Indiana Editorial Association
Emma Malloy
Elkhart ‘Ossigner
Indiana
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Last Will and Testament of Dean Swift
The will, dated January 26 1875, names Emaline Swift as widow and sole executrix with full property rights. Dean Swift of Elkhart Indiana declares his wishes, requests no bond, and directs settlement of his estate without court proceedings. The document is witnessed by M. F. Suury and C. E. Worsey.
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Dean Swift
Elkhart
Indiana
Hieloved
Emaline Swift
M. F. Suury
C. E. Worsey
Complaints Over Rowdy Behavior on South Main Street
A reader complains of numerous disturbances by rowdies on South Main Street making passage unsafe for ladies due to indecent remarks. The writer asks for action to stop such proceedings.
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Enrrors
Beech er Trial May Fill Ten Volumes Says Editor
In a quip about the Beech er trial the observer predicts the full verbatim record will reach ten volumes. The remark wonders who will publish the evidence as a pamphlet for easy reading, likening future readers to aged editors enjoying a private study.
Hon. John H. M. Baker to Enter House of Representatives
A personal note from the Laporte Chronicle praising John H. M. Baker of Goshen for his recent successful defense in the Griffith versus Mercer and Defrees case aided by Osborn and Calkins. The article predicts a brilliant public career as he begins duties in December.
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Laporte Chronicle
Travels Through Kansas in 1873 Exposition and Excursion Reflections
A traveler records warm June days in Topeka and Hutchinson while journeying via Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe to Granada Colorado. He notes editor excursions, railroad hospitality, farm expansion in cottonwood valley, tall corn in Kansas, soil alike to Indiana Michigan prairies, and improving crops amid heat and grasshoppers.
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Jyne
Emporia
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Ilinois
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Hopper
Will Carlton
Verbose regional impressions from H P Cc
A travelerauthor reflecting on a valley as a healthful country with a road extending to Colorado and New Mexico. He notes mixed local opinions about the county, sharing his own observations and inviting readers to judge for themselves.
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Colorado
New Mexico
H. P. Cc
Haying Troubles Highlight Late Summer Letter
Middlebury Correspondence from July 11 describes farmers finishing haying under extreme heat. Hired hands carried perspiration and worked with wet feet to avoid health risks. a hay fork accident injured a worker at J A Mather briefly, but he recovered after supper. Writer notes no other news as everyone is busy.
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Mather
Farm prices steady amid wheat harvest and public order notes
Bristol correspondence reports farmers busy with wheat harvest likely to secure most of their crop this week. It notes arrests and fines for disturbing religious services, a Presbyterian sermon by Rev Mr Barr, and a village corporation license fixed at fifty dollars with trustees divided over a higher amount.
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Barr
Elkhart
Presbyterian Church
Millburn
Aitkin
Cass
Voice of
Americus
The Party of Hate and Hypocrisy in Civil War Echoes
A column in the Madison Courier criticizes the Courier Journal for calling the Republican Party the party of hate while portraying its own stance as conciliatory. It contrasts praise for South Carolina’s Washington Light Infantry with disdain for a Pennsylvanian National Guard unit, labeling the latter as representing capital and debt. The piece labels the era’s political rhetoric as hypocritical and partisan.
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Courier
Courier-Journal
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C. Jd
Bunker Hill
C.J
Washington
Florida
Taylor
Charleston
Pennsylvania National Guard
Bunker and
Breed’s Hills
Sweden Upholds Trust in Public Office and Fiscal Health
In Sweden no man may hold public trust without honesty and even a penny stolen from the government incurs strict punishment. Salaries are low and office holding is a mark of honor. Sweden is debt free and has treasury funds to cover years of expenses.
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Sweden
Gardiner youth dies from gunshot wound after family tragedy
A Gardiner Missouri man named Hinkley who was accidentally shot a year ago has died from the wound. His mother and sister died of overwork while caring for him. The case closes with his death.
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Hinkley
Gardiner, Mo
Lovers Leap visit amid 1872 Clinton rally in Missouri
The narrator recalls a November Clinton Missouri rally during the 1872 campaign with a liberty pole raising and a noted speaker Moses Dixon of St Louis. He then describes Lover's Leap near a stone quarry and a legend of a Yankee lover and a farmer's daughter ending in tragedy.
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Globe
Clinton
James
Moses Dixon
St. Louis
Bha
Volantinia
Noteworthy Brooklyn Hydrophobia Death After Dog Bite
A robust man in Brooklyn died of hydrophobia eight weeks after a dog bite that caused no immediate symptoms. The patient feared the disease and endured sleepless nights and tests before the fatal onset. Similar cases have occurred, including a year earlier in New York City.
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Brooklyn
McCormick
New York City
Massachusetts seals State House cupola to protect gilded dome
The state spent a large sum to gild the State House dome and now must pay to hermetically seal the cupola windows to prevent tobacco spit from tarnishing the surface.
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Massachusetts
Storm Toll Raises Alarm Over Valparaiso Harbor Losses
The West Coast Mail reports a recent port storm in Valparaiso drowned at least forty boys from a training ship, twenty to thirty sailors, and twelve to fifteen boatmen, with eight others lost on the Egerie. Property damage includes over a hundred vessels and boats sunk or wrecked, baths destroyed, and lighters burned, signaling heavy financial losses.
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Panama
West Coast Mail
Valparaiso
Egerie
Portraits of Indiana Governors Drawn by Trackers
The Richmond Press praises Indiana governors describing Hendricks as the handsomest and most polished, Lane as the most eloquent, Willard for personal magnetism, Morton for ambition and resolve, and Wright as industrious yet cunning and plausible.
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Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Lane
Richmond Ree Press
Willard
Morton
Joseph A. Wright
Lyceum Bureau Adds Notables to Spring Engagement List
Charles Francis Adams Jr Gratz Brown J B Brown mind reader Moncure D Conway Phoebe A Couzins Lenigi Monti Rev M J Savage Trowbridge Francis H Underwood H Wilson Schroff and Wong Chin Foo appear as new candidates for spring lyceum engagements in the Redpath bureau list.
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J. B. Brown
Mind Reader
Moncure D. Conway
Phoebe A. Couzins
St. Louis
Lenigi Monti
Sicillian
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Trowbridge
Francis H. Underwood
H. Wilson
Our Henry
Schroff
Wong Chin Foo
Lyceum
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Cadetship at Naval Academy Awarded to Charles Winer
Charles Winer son of Samuel Fr. Winner of Huntington Democrat has been awarded a Cadetship to the Naval Academy. The Warsaw Indiana paper notes the appointment reflects well if he follows as a strong successor to the first.
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Charles
Winer
Samuel Fr. Winner
Huntington Democrat
Naval Academy
Greatest blood purifier marketed by Joseph Bradt
A claim asserts a blood purifier cleanses blood and heals digestive, pulmonary, liver and skin diseases. It promises to cure ulcers, dyspepsia, neuralgia, scrofula, sick headache and more with six or seven bottles if properly tested. Made from fresh roots and herbs at 198 Main Street Wilson Block Upstairs.
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Joseph Bradt
Main Street
Men and Idioms of Wall Street Promotes Stock Trading Book
An advertisement from John Hickling & Co. of New York promotes a 72 page book titled Men and Idioms of Wall Street. The publication explains stock market methods including Puts Calls and Double Privileges and offers free copies and information on railroad stocks to interested parties. The notice targets beginners with the promise of enabling operations on small sums of money.
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John Hickling & Co
Broadway
New York
Wall Street
Dr Cyrus Nutt questioned over University leadership
Delphi Journal criticizes the university's leadership after years under Dr Cyrus Nutt. The piece questions competence and timing in uncovering alleged deficiencies and hints the institution may have prospered under his tenure. Also notes Story's Liberty statue model completed for Philadelphia with a 21 foot figure and 48 states figures surrounding it.
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State University
Cyrus Nutt
Dr’s
Delphi Journal
Story
Philadelphia
Repose
Buckwheat Planted Among Potatoes Said to Deter Colorado Lugs
A historical note claims buckwheat sown with potatoes will repel Colorado Lugs pests. The claim presents folk wisdom about crop protection without citing experiments or sources.
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Colorado
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