Jersey cows shipped to Osceola Iowa from Kentucky
A consignment of Jersey cows and heifers was sent from Kentucky to Osceola Iowa. A Benton county man’s horse died after colliding with a barb wire fence. A Benton county woman recovered 3000 from a saloonkeeper who sold her husband liquor. Raymond of Linn county will oversee a Bloomfield creamery. George Marshall’s Council Bluffs residence burned. Fox in Mitchell county builds a sugar mill with 1000 gallons daily capacity. Three Primrose youths head to Colorado. in Farmington a revolver discharged fatally striking Jacob Doeling.
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Benton County
George Marshall
Council Bluffs
Fox
Mitchell County
Primrose
Colorado
Farmington
Jacob Doeling
The Cold Torpor Experiment With A Bat In 1873
An 1873 account describes a silver haired bat found in Evanston Illinois during early December thawed beside a stove to revive. The writer notes torpidity as lowered body temperature and cites cases of heat reviving frozen animals, including references to swallows and fish in ice.
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Evanston
Ill
South
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Cairo
Illinois
Kentucky
Missouri
Discontent and the American Dream in Robert Collyer's View
The essay argues that discontent spurs progress yet should not erode appreciation for daily work and family life. Collyer compares lifelong aims to Thackeray's taffy anecdote, urges striving while valuing present duties, and warns against sacrificing the birthright for illusory future gains.
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Robert Collyer
Thackeray
America
Esau
Eagle Hop Bitters Remedy Promises Healing and Blessing
An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a simple pure remedy that cures every time and cleanses the blood, with claims of disease prevention and bodily balance. It asserts thousands are blessed and cured, and calls readers to try it, referring to another column for details.
Domestic Fire and Disasters Highlight Week in 1880
The weekly domestic review reports Baltimore's Union Window Glass factory burned on April 24 causing $25,000 loss. Other items note fires in Richmond Virginia and Hull Canada, a fatal shooting in San Francisco, a deadly cyclone in Adams County Illinois, and a deadly train crash near Ive's Station Virginia.
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Union Window Glass
Baltimore
Albany
N. Y
Nashville
Tennessee
Richmond
Catharine Hill
Philadelphia
Adams County
Illinois
Notable Apr 24 criminal actions and legal cases
S M Pillsbury Jr aged 30 dies by guillotine in Boston on April 19 cause temporary insanity. Frank Crill hanged at Newton N J on April 24 for murdering his daughter in June last. Dennis Kearney habeas corpus case before San Francisco Supreme Court on April 24. court rules no power to review its own action and Kearney sent to House of Correction. At Hanford California armed settlers warn railroad agent Parkhurst and demand departure. rail settlement breach persists. San Francisco reports a major criminal item late April 24.
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S. M. Pillsbury, Jr
Boston
Frank Crill
Newton
N. J
Dennis Kearney
Supreme Court of San Francisco
Kearney
House of Correction
Hanford
Tulare County
California
Parkhurst
Springfield
Spogfield
Lebanon
Marshfield
Conway
Cuba
Granby
Warrensburg
Missouri and Pacific
Kansas City
Post Dispatch
Greene
Webster Counties
James Rive
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Foutes
Frank’s Station
Court House
James River
Webster County
St. Louis
Ozark Mountains
Sechonon
Marsfield
Turbulent reports from multiple fronts and a Missouri cyclone
Telegrams report Mazaras capture Ghugar and Kohistan chiefs submitting to Cabul while Nord plots in Port au Prince and Solom on the move. In Jamaica water shortages and cattle epidemics amid cane fires. Vast Missouri cyclone devastates Marshfield with dozens dead and hundreds homeless. relief work under way as telegraph lines fail.
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Alexis Nord
Port Au Prince
Solomon
Jamaica
United States Treasury
England
Natalie Sumter A Daughter Of Aaron Burr Circle
The piece recalls a refined New Orleans home with a conservatory and a sunlit boudoir. It describes Natalie Sumter, daughter of Rear Admiral Delage, adopted sister of Mrs. Alston, and daughter in law of General Sumter, praised for intellect and grace.
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Aaron Burr
New Orleans
Natalie Sumter
Delage
Navy
Mrs. Alston
General Sumter
Washington
Marion
Green
Clerk Demands Hat Off As Court Oath Is Sworn
A Minnesota court clerk, noted for decorum, rebuked a boisterous rural witness who kept his hat on while taking the oath. The German clerk halted the oath, looked over his glasses, and instructed the young man to remove his hat before swearing.
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Harper's
Minesota
Five Cent Shoe Strings Visitor at Bellaire Store
A young girl entered a Bellaire Alabama shop early one morning and asked how many shoe strings five cents would buy. When asked how long she wanted them the girl replied they were for keeping, in a surprised tone.
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Bellaire
Iowa Acts Consolidate Health Board and Various Provisions
A compiled list of acts approved March 26 establishing a State Board of Health with nine members and duties for enforcement and vital records, plus numerous other chapters from Senate and House files covering insanity appeals, bank deposit protections, convict good time, fish commissioner, school district organization, township officer terms, real estate conveyances by foreign executors, asylum for feeble minded, support for the blind, and various appropriations and reorganizations across counties and institutions.
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Senate
Board of Health
Iowa
Executive Council
House
Compassioners
Circuit Court
Fourteenth General Assembly
Sixteenth General Assembly
Samuel Green
Iowa Reform School
Dickinson County
College For the Blind
Carpenter
Mitchell
Worth
Cheter
Frank Penney
Board of Supervisors
Mitchell County
Surprise
Red Oak
Hox
Coue
General Assembly
Congress
O. W. Archibald
Iowa Reform School For Girls
Sth General Assembly
Webster
Hamilton
Supreme Court of the United States
W. C. Metcalf
Anamosa
Metcalf
Wm. R. Craig
Council Bluffs
Josephine
Dorr
Emmetsburg
Palo Alto County
Legislative acts consolidated on state road laws and county finances
The document lists multiple Acts approved March 26 27 1830s general assembly. It covers road law compilation with forms and per diem tables for township officers, capitol dome construction allowances, legality of swamp land deeds, hotel keepers rights liens and safekeeping notices, protection of sepulchres penalties for disinterment, medical school body inventories, bonding of county indebtedness, and salaries for district circuit court clerks treasurers and auditors with graduated scales and fee structures. It also sets attorney fees limits on written contracts and requires proof of debtor locating notes.
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Secretary of State
House
Seventeenth General Assembly
Senate
the Enteenth General Assembly
Board of Supervisor
The Open Sky
Essay on the sky as a vast, daily teacher from Nature, praising its beauty and universal audience. The sky is described as dynamic, nearly human in its moods, and essential for all people, beckoning daily contemplation and reverence.
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Ruskin
Spring Fever The New Haven Way
We all have it now the New Haven Register notes spring fever as the sun warms the soil and the new grass invites rest outside walls feel dull birds begin nature's opera and people long to lean on a fence whittle and yawn all day the laziest nicest disease.
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New Haven Register
Heaver
Largest copper mass found in Lake Superior region reported
The Ontonagon Miner notes the Minnesota mine in Ontonagon County yielded the largest mass of pure copper, about 540 tons rough weight and 446 tons refined, with a seven foot thickest section and 23 months of labor by twenty men. Cliff mine and Minnesota mine produced 250 ton and 50 to 100 ton masses.
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Lake Superior
Ontonagon
Minnesota
Ontonagon County
Cliff
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