Evening Observer News Digest 1885 Highlights
The Evening Observer reports telegraphic dispatches from Associated Press. It notes April 17, 1885 content including academic freedom essays by James Payn and T.F. Thisvilos Dyer, Babyhood features, and new Science for Aprilia maps by Gen. Gordon. It covers New York Nation’s fortieth volume, the expositions at Budapest, railroading news, grain stocks, and charitable funding plans in the era.
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Grain Extortion Exposed in Albany Elevator Debate
The American Miller argues that New York elevator overcharges on grain shipments to Buffalo and New York drain Western farmers. It claims one-eighth cent per bushel diverted to seaports, and 1.5 cents per bushel in canal charges, harming Western shippers and pricing at Liverpool. If New York cuts abuses, canals could carry hundreds of millions more bushels.
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Chewing Gum Ties Pittsburgh to National Market
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes nearly all US chewing gum, including that used by Vassar College, is produced from paraffin derived from petroleum tar in Pittsburgh. Residual refinery wax is refined and sold to Boston and New York firms, then scented and cut into pieces for retailers. Weekly, about 50 barrels of paraffin leave Pittsburgh, with portions used for telegraph insulation and candles, but most funneled into gum making.
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Poetic Echo in the North American Review Renewed
A survey notes Bryant s Thanatopsis first appeared in 1817 in the North American Review and, sixty six years later, Robert Buchanan contributes a similarly themed poem The New Buddha in the May issue. Critics once called Bryant s work un Christian. reaction to Buchanan remains to be seen. The issue also includes pieces by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Bishop J L Spalding J L Pickard on crime and women s roles and other essays by Andrew F West and David Dudley Pica.
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North American Review
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Buchanan
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Elizabeth Cady Stenton
J. L. Spalding
J.L. Pickard
David Dudley Pica
Andrew F. West
Prince
Bartlett N H peg manufacturing firm turns out Hitle wooden articles
The Bartlett New Hampshire firm is producing 1800 bushels daily of Hitle wooden articles and banning lead orders that will take months to fulfill. Other items note J N Allen departing Cambridge to become curator at the American Museum in New York, and various political and immigration updates.
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Gentle Spring Health Tonic Promises to Cleanse Blood
An early 20th century ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring health tonic that purges impurities from the blood to improve strength and bodily functions. It claims winter toxins cause skin and other ailments and asserts the medicine clears them, sold by all druggists.
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Sausages for Summer in Ancient English Cookery
An Englishwoman shares sausage making from mutton or beef with pork fat, including preparation steps, spices, and cooking times. Rabbit meat variants, ornamental veal sausages, and optional blood sausages are described, with guidance on stuffing, simmering, and serving for sandwiches or garnishes.
Bones for Fowls Pound for Laying Hens as Feed
Poultry authors assert finely crushed bones boost egg laying. Partially burned bones grind easily and supply lime, producing better eggshells than crater shells. Laying hens eagerly eat the crushed bones, unlike nonlayers.
Train schedule excerpt from Lake Erie & Western RR
Readable lines describe train numbers and timings for Dunkirk Salamanca Olean and Wellsville routes with stops at Sheridan Forest Great View Carrollton Vandalia Belvidere Scio Alfred Andover and rose at Rose ppps and Semmanea. Notices note daily or Sundays exceptions and certain trains not running Mondays.
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