General Grant on Mexico and frontier policies in 19th century view
Compiled items cover Grant arguing we hold all territory we want and do not seek Mexico. Notes include freight car capacity growth to 40 000 pounds since 1879, Wyoming cattle estimates near 1 000 900 head valued around 80 million dollars, and wheat prospects in Dakota Minnesota Manitoba. Also reports on time syncing in New Haven, arts notes, and anecdotes on Bell and Queen Victoria ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Mexico
Iowa items report several drownings and incidents
Pinkeye sweeps horses in Dubuque county while drownings overwhelm Iowa towns. Robberies, postmaster reappointments, and rail project contracts appear amid oil fire losses and new water company plans. A555: Cedar Rapids postmaster William J. Smith named. Fisherman drownings at Osceola and Ringgold county. New elevat or planned at Manning. Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance organized in Des Moines with officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hutchinson & Danford
Lake City
William J. Smith
Cedar Rapids
le Mars “Sentinel
Plymouth County
Estherville Mercury
Manning
Philip Alexander
Osceola
McMullen
Davenport
Freddie Langenberg
Iowa City
Des Moines
3D Iowa Cavalry
19Th Infantry
Keokuk
Marshalltown
Henry & Balch
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Geo. Schnellbacher
Indiana
Davis City
Decatur County
Frank Thompson
Arney Tucker
Thompson
Tucker
Albia
Butterfield & Hinton
Iowa Water Company
Muscatine
G. B. Denison
John B. Dougherty
T. Cowell
A. R. Brown
W. 8. Robertson
Peter M. Musser
W. F. Brannan
Ed. Labor
Rockwell City
Ed. Tabor
Dubuque
Sioux City
Iowa Mail Service
Frank Tabor
Estherville
Sons of Temperance For
Iowa
C. F Clarkton
W.C. Grant
Maquoketa
I. N. Hartzell
S. D. Butters
Prairie City
L. W. Archer
Grand Junction
L. A. Findlay
Grand Sentinel
J.G. Redman Newson
M. D. McHenry
Ocean Grove
N. J
Milwaukee Dispatch
Ozaukee County
Nevedah
Fon da Lac
Belgium
Fredonia
Larmertine
Princeton
Vdort Washington
Dartford
Ripon
New Cassel
Mayville
Brownsville
Cewaskum
Oakfield
Fon du Lac
King and
Ermuir
Port Washington
Hallender
Saule
French
Gongle
Necedah
Wisconsin River
Death on the Rails Tragedy Reports Thirteen Die
A Rochester and Pittsburg railroad wreck near Bradford Pennsylvania on July 2nd killed thirteen people and injured several more. Conductor Tolles and brakeman Downs were among the dead as a relief train arrived with surgeons. The coroner held an inquest amid conflicting blame, with several more injured listed by name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester & Pittsburg
Bradford
N. Tolles
Bradford House
David Ford
M. Downs
George Quinn
Angelo Odon
W. T. Davis
Olean
L. D. McKee
Robert Clemons
James O'Connell
Alton
James Ravella
W. H. McCurdy
John Collins
Limestone
N. Y
J. Bosway
J. Cosmillo
R. Cosmillo
Pap” Downs
Rochester
McCurdy
Colorado tragedy shocks Grand County in deadly feud
Denver reports a masked attack on July 4 1880 left two Grand County Commissioners dead and another and the County Clerk mortally wounded after a longstanding feud over the county seat. Suspects Mills Redman and Coffin linked. armed pursuit toward Grand Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Grand County
Grand Lake
District Court
Barney Day
R. G. Mills
E. P. Webber
Day
Mills
Ofce
Webber
Dean
Bill Redman
Len Coffin
First Cotton Bale Sold in Albany Georgia at 25 Cents
Weekly review notes a series of events from July including the first bale of new cotton sold at Albany at 25 cents per pound. It also records deaths, fires, strikes, and various railroad, banking, and weather incidents across multiple states and cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Georgia
Archbishop Purcell
Cincinnati
Enoch Pratt
Baltimore
Missouri Valley
James McPherson
Fires and disasters span cities across nations and seas
A run of calamities includes Boston and Maine shops burning with eight locomotives lost, a fatal suffocation in a Lackawanna well, and a large Dallas cracker factory fire with adjoining boarding house losses. Also noted are drownings on the Ohio River, a Brazil Indiana murder sentence, a Kansas town fire, a Jersey City bank ex president's prison term, a steamer collision on the Mississippi, and dueling near New Hope Virginia. International updates report Egypt cholera deaths, strikes in Staffordshire, and political moves in Germany and Britain with cholera fears and port inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Maine Railroad
Charleston
Tyoss
John Wolcott
David MccCowen
Wm. Barnes
Lackawanna
Goldsmith & Winter
Dallas
Texas
Jersey City
John Helliard
Mechanics and Laborers Bank
Bright Light
St. Louis
Kansas City
Mississippi River
Booneville
D. H. Silver
Bierne and
Elam
Richmond
New Hope
Bierne
England
Dawietta
Mansourah
Damietta
Nile
Egypt
Staffordshire
Dudley
Port Tipton
Moxley
Calamity at Glasgow Daphne launch sinks steamer
Intelligence from Glasgow reports the coast trading steamship Daphne capsized during launch on the Clyde. Six to over one hundred feared dead, with fifty-two named missing. efforts continue as divers search the water and bodies are recovered.
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Loxpon
Daphne
Glasgow
Lexpos
Clyde
Glascow
Renfrew
Lonnox
Gen Steinmetz Testifies on New York Post Office Costs and More
Gen Steinmetz testified before the Hill Investigating Committee that $400 would have been fair for ornamental staircase work on the New York post office, with $800 charged. Damon of Boston denied offering to withdraw a bid, stating a firm representative asked for terms. The piece includes public debt figures for July 1 and several appointments and government notes on contracts, railroads, pensions, and tariff decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinmetz
Hill Investigating Committee
Bartlett, Robbins & Co
New York Post Office
Damon
Boston
Manley, Cooper & Co
Treasury
Col
Halabaird
Gen. Ingalls
Wm. J. Galbraith
Montana
Supreme Court
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Iowa
Silas D. Dutcher
N. Y
Anthony Gilkeson
New York
Oregon & California Railroad Co
Rosebury
Oregon
John Roach
Chicago
Atlanta
Delphia Disputcd Boat
Pension Office
Hill
March
Denver
Evening prayer meeting ends with bell hint fire remark
At a neighboring town's service the 9 o'clock bell ceased. The presiding clergyman urged making the most of time. An elderly female then exclaimed in a shrill voice that it must be fire, shocking the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emale
Fourth's Fatalities From Across The Nation
A July Fourth roundup reports multiple fatalities and injuries across cities including Oakdale Tennessee where a train disturbance led to a stabbing and a fatal shooting, Erie Pennsylvania where a streetcar shooting killed a woman and prompted a suicide, and Calumet Michigan where a lakefront fire destroyed a block including the Odd Fellows temple with substantial losses. Additional incidents involve fires, drownings, lightning strikes, and violent assaults in towns from Joliet Illinois to Scranton Pennsylvania.
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Oakpale
Tenn
Jesse Hacker
Tom Lysle
Lysle
Erie
Albert Kuhn
Mary Steinen
Frank Kuhn
Albert
Astos
Ind
W. P. Hornbrook
Sam Hemninger
Hemninger
Jolliet
Ill
James Mulhain
Kansas
Kerster
Cutcaco
Derrort
Calumet
Lake Superior
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Troy N. Y
John Whelan
Malleable Iron Works
Ira T. Cummings
Derrott
Mich
New York
Staten Island
Levisville
Deposit Station
Wm. Middleton
Levi Miller
Louisville
Russellville
James Hawkins
Chas. Smiltzfeller
Burlingame
Page
Catrie
John Kane
Wabash Railroad
Mound City
Nelson Howard
Kane
Scranton
George Cooper Queen
Old Fashioned Roses Remembered by a Generation Past
The Philadelphia Times recalls heirloom roses now rare or extinct. Cabbage and Baltimore Belle roses fade from porches to gardens while Champney and hundred leaf roses vanish or degenerate. The piece notes moss, dog, and blush varieties once prized for fragrance and color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Jacqueminots
Marechal Niels
Baltimore
They Met by Chance The Drummer
A young western town drummer meets a distant eastern hometown acquaintance on the street. She greets him warmly and expresses homesickness while admitting past coolness. He answers gratefully and asks about everyone back home.
Cooking Recipe Fragment
A short pantry list for a batter or cake mix with flour sugar butter cream eggs soda and seasoning to taste.
Idealized Womanhood and Florence Nightingale
The essay contrasts religious ideals of Mary and virtuous motherhood with real heroines. It highlights Jewish matriarchs, Florence Nightingale’s Crimea work, and countless unnamed women who aided soldiers. Nightingale’s leadership elevates nursing to a symbol of gentleness, patience, and sacrifice that history preserves.
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Mary
Joseph
Jesus
Gallery of Arts
Florence Nightingale
Crimea
Scntari
Selfishness Refined Yet Fails in Doing Good
A concise editorial argues that even refined selfishness remains self-serving and should not hinder acts of goodness in the world, urging practical善 outside theory.
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Wyoming
United States
Plains
Mary Alice Livingstone
Henry Fleming
Northern Pacific
Chicago, St. Paul
Omaha
Dakota
Department of Agriculture and Statistics of
Manitoba
Standard Time Company
New Haven
London
Atlantic
Yale Observatory
Paris
Montague Marks
Union Square
Albert Day
Queen Victoria
Germany
Netherlands
Denmark
Wurtemburg
Brazil
Saxony
Sweden
Norway
Emperor
Austria
Portugal
Roumania
Turkey
Italy
Russia
Bavaria
Servia
Spain
Mary Queen of Scots
Linlithgow
Sandy Kerr
Pinkeye
Dubuque County
Little Rock Island
Clinton
White Breast
Con Lynch
Oskaloosa
D.D. W. Parks
Illinois Central Railroad
San Jose
California
John Hatter
Mutual Marriage and Endowment Association
Cerro Gordo
James Price
James Lamb
Ringgold County
Liberty Township
Eugene Griffith
Williams Creek
Adams County
Missouri
Murray
Clark County
E. P. Ware
Leroy Townsend
Ware
Townsend
Ail
Colorado
Weekly Review
Tennessee State
Tennessee Railroad, Coal and Iron Company
Star Flouring
Hunter & Wilcox
Ohio
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Central
Reading
Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad
Marvin
Internal Revenue
Peoria
Henry Geister
Elgin
Board of Health
Pensacola
Ship Island
Brattleboro, Vt
Pittsburg
Southern
Hempfield
Thomas M. King
Baltimore & Ohio
Connellsville
Fort Assiniboine
Little Pine
Col. Iges
Springfield
O. W. Archibald
Glenwood
Jamestown
Archibald
Mt Pleasant
Glenwood Asylum
Ft. A. Lincoln
Ft. Keogh
War Department
Ellis P. Phipps
Auburn
Abram Coppernoll
Town of
Victory
Lew French
Coppernoll
Chris Schmitt
Schmitt
Bowina Green
Bill McDowell
Kate Dwyer
Charles Murray
Louisiana
McDowell
Avery
Conyngham
Wilkesbarre
Delaware and Hudson
Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Shirbit
Samanoud
Lonxpox
Berlin
Alexandria
Cairo
Ras-el-Tin
Oruse
Hungary
Essher Salymosi
Nyireghhaza
Bary
Ireland
Belfast
Mr. Rylett
Carey
Central America
Panama
Ometpe
Gulf of Araba
Bujies
Nicurio
Leona
Mampros
Magdalena
Bolivar
San Salvador
Guayaquil
Crime and Criminal
Ohio River
Madison
Sanders
Cottonwood Falls
Chase County
Bismarck
Augusta
Silesia
Gossler
Puttkamer
Interior
Sid
Mansurah
Samanand
Port Said
Syria
Juddah
India
Mecca
Algiers
Lord Hartington
Red Sea
Damiette
Alexanorth
Monsevera
Shuben
Dunny
Samonana
Pate
Cable
Washington Matters
Internal Revenue Bureau
Internal Revenue Act
Treasury Department
the Tribune
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