Lighthouse Board seeks 350000 for electric light test
The lighthouse board will recommend a 350000 appropriation to test electric illumination before general lighthouse use. The bureau requires 2500000 to carry on its work. Allen G. Campbell contests Mormon Cannon for Utah's Delegate seat on grounds of ineligibility as a polygamist, a challenge tried before without success.
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Cannon
Fire origin debated at St Peter asylum laundry blaze
The St Peter Minnesota asylum fire origin is in doubt between escaping gas and tobacco smoking in the laundry. No female patients are reported missing. male patients are being brought in from surrounding areas, with thirty six unaccounted for. Those who perished were inmates unable to be controlled and who continued to stage in the building.
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Wheat crop improves nationwide despite lower yield per acre
November returns show U S wheat up 31 000 000 bushels since 1879 though yield per acre falls. Minnesota and California report higher yields per acre. Oats decline slightly. Oversown area up 1 percent, but yield down. Northern Atlantic better than last year while southern states fall steeply. Kansas Nebraska poor. Iowa Minnesota strong. other western states near average.
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Nebraska
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Irish agitator Mr Joes Redpath is to be indicted abroad
Born in 1833 at Berwick on Tweed Redpath came to the United States with parents in 1848. He worked for the New York Tribune at 19, active in Kansas free soil days, helped organize colored schools in Charleston, and later engaged in Haitian independence efforts. He toured Ireland as a correspondent and aided agitation.
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Editorial Foresees Ireland Land Reform Crisis
A London editorial warns the Ministry may push peasant proprietorship in Ireland with state land purchase and long terms of payment. Radicals resist coercion, and dissensions threaten Cabinet unity as Irish agitation targets the entire landed class. The Land League's stance demands no landlords but peasants.
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Man misses ice boom due to newspaper illiteracy in New Hampshire
A New Hampshire farmer who never read papers sold his ice crop for six hundred dollars then faced offers rising to two thousand and five thousand six hundred dollars. He later vowed to subscribe to two papers to avoid repeating the mistake.
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Boston
Grate Found in Oyster Can Turns Into Fireplace Tool
A playful note describes a grate convert from an old oyster can punched with holes into a usable kitchen tool for grating. The quirky reuse highlights inventive resourcefulness.
Hop Bitters Promoted By Wunda News Ad
A Wunda News promotional note extols Hop Bitters as a widely used medicine. It claims it builds people up and is easier to take than whisky, likening it to traditional bone set tea and urging readers to try it if they feel unwell.
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Diverse Iowa news items from the era recount profits and accidents
The compilation notes cattle imports in Muscatine, teacher shortages in Sioux county townships, an Ottumwa brake invention, Cedar Rapids production figures, a Lisbon emigrants’ goods fire, a Sac City near-death attempt, possible escheat to the state in Delaware county, labor shortages in Clinton, timber price shifts at Dubuque, rail and postal incidents, postmaster changes, and a long timeline of Mississippi river closings and river-transport anecdotes.
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Refined Women Earn Silence Over Kidney Disease Cure
A short ad notes refined educated women may suffer years from kidney disease, constipation, and piles but can be cured by Kidney-Wort. Dragente offers both dry and liquid forms for home use.
Pr Bull’s Cough Syrup Promises Domestic Comfort
In a promotional line the ad asserts no household with any regard for safety can be without Pr Bull’s Cough Syrup, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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