Diverse 1880s Notes Include Taxes and Travails Across Nations
A wealth China minister funds the poor in Hon Nan while being called heathen. A fruit grower uses tobacco stems to deter borers and robbits around peach trees. Denver and Grand Army of the Republic honorarium funds approved. An Atlanta company eyes 300000 for cypress timber products. Blaine charts 1861–81 political history. New Orleans coins found light. reassay underway. Arlington estate purchase bill moves forward. Imperial Dictionary revised under Whitney. Copenhagen acts to curb drunkenness. Denmark limits pubs and underage drinking. US land grants to railroads total 296 million acres. Iowa supreme court upholds director power limits on school damages. Delaware Senate leader labeled Mustard.
Iowa items reflect coal, finance and fires across counties
The column lists Iowa notes including West Union opening a $100,000 bank, 1882 coal output of $600,000 in Webster county, 400 Baptist churches with 23,528 members, and various fires, deaths, bonds, and civic developments across Des Moines, Dubuque, Keokuk, Sioux City, and other towns along with national mentions of elections and legislation.
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Richard Wagner
Venice
Dubuque
Mary E. Linehan
Linehan
Ebon Call
Adair County
Cropthead
Milestone
Scotland
Iowa Railroad
James Wilson
Traer
Tama County
Peter A. Tey
Iowa City
Sydney
Fremont County
Lorenz Huffman
Carroll
Murphy
Bradley Block
Council Bluffs
Keokuk Opera House
Henry Alcott
Sumner
Bremer County
Harrington
Hendrick
Iowa County
Adeline
Kansas
Henry McCune
Morning Sun
Des Moines
Abbie Perry
Mary Ahern
Relief Society
Tama City
College Township
Linn County
Parricide case in Story County shocks Nevada court
The testimony details a Georgia Porters family tale with Elizabeth Porter recounting years of alleged cruelty by her husband and a murder confession by son John Edward Porter. John describes killing his father to protect his mother and burying the body as the law imposed a twenty one year sentence. Witnesses describe a somber sentencing scene and a grim frontier tragedy in Story County.
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Nevada
Elizabeth Porter
John
Frazier
Funson
Reform School
John Edward Porter
George
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Story County
Glass industry in the United States grows beyond capacity
The United States has about 40 glass making factories with more work than capacity. In 1882 glass manufacturing totaled 2,500,000 dollars and 35,000,000 dollars, respectively. The first factory, built in 1621 near James Town Virginia, produced beads for Indians.
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United States
Jamestown
Night Stars Over Humble Campagna Souls
The passage paints celestial awe descending upon the plain, recalling the Campagna and the marble deserts of Egypt as the stars shed spiritual magnificence on the common ground.
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Egypt
Large fires, floods, and wrecks plague mid February era
Weekly review reports a village fire near Swartze Creek Michigan on Feb 15. Canadian collision near Dundas with two killed and several wounded. Multiple rail disasters and drownings across US and Canada. Floods in Ohio River area devastate Louisville Cincinnati and New Albany with thousands homeless. relief funds and provisions rushed. Scutari clash, Turkish guardhouse attacked. English and French political dispatches note Egypt, Ireland, and Kenya issues with parliamentary actions.
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H.M. Va‘le
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Ind
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Senate
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Flint
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Huldah Leaman
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Thomas Lindsay
Wm. Maynes
Waterloo
Chester Miller
St. Albans
John Miller
Mary McMurry
Towa
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Milwaukee
Violent Crime Reports Across States Prompt Alarm
Reports from Ennis Texas, and Rockford Illinois describe killings and threats as killers move toward targets. Ed Morley found guilty of murder in Emporia Kansas, while a German Alden in Wheel ing Virginia killed himself after threats. A Graham Texas dispatch notes a four man gun fight over a log house with one dead and one wounded. Madison Wisconsin fire kills two daughters of John Sheffield after family quarrel.
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Isabella Martin
Kerger
Emporia
Kansas
Alden
Wheeling
Graham
Texas
John Sheffield
Madison
Wis
Sheffield
Discontent Strikes Threaten as Limerick Police Walkout Near
News from abroad reports police unrest in Limerick with a renewed strike threat. Conspiracy defendants are to stand trial in April. Harrington of the Irish National Land League receives two months imprisonment for intimidating language. Dublin dispatch notes Patrick Cahill testifying about a car from Phoenix Park on May 6 and identifying a man named Caffery.
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Limerick
Harrington
Irish National Land League
Dublin
Patrick Cahill
Chapel Isodgate
Phoenix Park
Caffery
Hurley
The Happy Single Life For Women Of Independent Means
The article argues that unmarried women with means can lead a fulfilled life serving society. It praises a single woman's capacity to be a neighbor and citizen, host with generosity, and guardian to orphans, noting advantages and few drawbacks of not marrying.
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John Halifax
Giant jaw find links adult and child remains in Moravia dig
In Salzburg the Austrian archaeologists debated a jaw bone showing a giant's proportions linked to a child's teeth. The specimen was unearthed at Stamburg Moravia from a layer with reindeer snow bear and other Arctic animal remains.
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Salzburg
Stamburg
Moravia
The Coming Rage in Hair Red Like Ripe Tomato
A poetic line likens mature hair to a soft tender red, comparing its hue to a tomato aged past usefulness and suggesting a quiet, reflective take on aging color.
Ohio Flood Calamity at Cincinnati and Louisville
Telegraph dispatches describe a severe Ohio River flood with Cincinnati depot collapse at the water’s edge. Rescue efforts continue as thousands are homeless and factories close, with relief funds, militiamen, and city officials mobilizing across Cincinnati Louisville and Indianapolis.
Missing Link Exhibit Draws Fire Over Rich Man Wealth
The piece questions wealth and philanthropy as a western millionaire seeks rest and pleasure. It describes Krao the so called missing link, highlighting her appearance and the crowd’s reaction to the exhibit.
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Salt Lake Tribune
America
Europe
Krao
Indiana Man O'Donnell Eats Against Odds
A Madison Indiana man named O'Connell famed for feasts recounts a history of eating feats. He allegedly consumed thirty quails in thirty days and sixty in thirty days, twenty four goose eggs in fifteen minutes and twenty seconds, two mince pies in moments with croton oil, and an eleven pound cooked goose in twenty minutes. He reportedly drank castor oil, ate thirty two sugar oysters, and devoured five cans of sardines in ten minutes. The article notes O'Donnell is about forty, unmarried, Irish American, and jokingly warns about devouring his wife's corsets.
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Ind
O'Connell
Walcott
New York
O’donnell
Scientific American
O'Donnell
Mr. O'Donnell
Waterloo Saloon License Set to Rise to 300 Per Year
The license for the Waterloo saloon is scheduled to increase to 300 dollars annually, with officials outlining the new fee as part of a broader license update.
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Waterloo
Exhumation of John Howard Payne in Tunis Described
United States Consul at Malta John Worthington reports the Tunis exhumation of John Howard Payne. About twenty present including Tunisians and workers. The coffin decayed but remains were treated reverently with a button and a twig saved. Body to Marseille by boat after a church service and dirge.
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United States
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Tunis
John Howard Payne
Washington
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Reade
Payne
Monsieur Pissani
Marseilles
Marina
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Bridger
Who Struck Billy Patterson A Franklin County Tale
The Carnesville Register recounts William Patterson a wealthy Baltimore tradesman who built Franklin County land interests. At a district court gathering a melee broke out. Patterson urged peace but was struck from behind and sought the culprit with growing rewards. His will later offered $1,000 to whoever could name the assailant.
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Carnesville Register
William Patterson
Baltimore
Georgia
Franklin County
Billy Patterson
Billy
Carnesville
Death and Sleep in Angelic Fraternal Embrace
A Kansas City Journal piece presents a lyrical meditation where the Angel of Sleep and the Angel of Death share a quiet hilltop vigil. Sleep sprinkles slumber on villagers while Death laments public fear, and both virtues debate their hidden benevolence and duties as messenger brothers.
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Kansas City Journal
Angel of Death
Angel of Sleep
Otter Killed by Milkman at Maple River Bank
A milkman killed an otter found along the Maple river near Ida Grove. The incident, noted as remarkable, is linked to the milkman’s presence at the river to make the capture amid changing fortunes and uneasy forebodings.
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Maple River
Ida Grove
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