Iowa’s varied fortunes and perils rain scarce crops and hopes
Iowa crops face mixed prospects with oats and corn outlooks. crop reports note large yields in some counties while spring wheat and grain pests threaten others. The piece records crop results, livestock totals, and notable deaths and accidents across counties, plus railway and institutional developments and yellow fever notes.
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Davenport
Davenport and
Dubuque
Iowa
U. S. Home and Dower Association
Washington, D. C
Des Moines
Buren K. Sherman
Linn County
Fremont County
Mahaska
Benton
Banner Counties
Sleepy Tom
Chicago
Mattie Hunter
Illinois State Board of Agriculture
Central Pacific Railway
Sacramento
J. M. Keyes
Memphis
Beauty of English scenery contrasts with savage landscape
The author extols rural England as the supreme humanized landscape blending castle and cottage with forest and field. He cites Wordsworth and notes England’s climate invites outdoor life and that native humanity has refined its scenery without artificial artifice.
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Atlantic
England
Sheba
Hen Wordsworth
Wordsworth
Turcoman Campaign and Global Fronts Update
Gen Lizareff advances toward Merv amid broader Central Asia strategy as Russia aims to expel mountaineers to Laghalien. June fires reported at 3,501 with 12.0 million rouble damages. 508 incendiaries. Nijini Novgard fire yields fourteen explosions killing and injuring forty in July. Theatre in Kremlin burned by Nihilists. placard threats at Liegue. Osman Bazar clash leaves Bulgarian militia with higher losses.
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St. Petersburg
Lizareff
Merv
Caucasus
Central Asia
Russia
Laghalien
Nijini Novgard
Basaar
Kremlin
Moscow
Boy’s Barn Fire Ends in Tragic Burns
The Springfield Union reports a boy ignited his father’s barn while playing with crackers. Cracker bursts set his clothing and hat ablaze, spreading sparks that scorched nearby shed areas. The boy perished as flames consumed the barn and scattered debris.
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Springfield Union
The Rise of Invention Shapes Modern Life
The article argues inventions surge in number and influence, with patents guiding capital, land values, and industry. It notes two hundred thousand patents issued, patents driving fortunes, state manufacturing surpassing agriculture, and imagined turmoil if the patent system vanished.
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Atlantic
Northwest
Hio
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Amesbury
Building Statistics From The Northwest Lumber Yard
The article lists quantities for building work. It notes 1 000 laths cover 70 yards with 11 pounds of nails. Mortar uses 8 bushels lime, 15 sand, 1 hair per 100 sq yards. A cord wood, 3 bushels lime and sand to plaster 100 cubic feet. Shingles 1 000 cover 100 sq ft with 5 pounds nails. Siding and flooring require 5 percent extra than surface area. Brickwork: five courses raise 1 foot, six bricks per course form a 4 inch by 12 long flue, eight bricks per course form an 8 inch by 16 long flue.
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Northwestern
Train Conductor Encounters Flirtatious Moment On Local Transit
A conductor notices a young woman on his car and chats briefly as a backseat passenger, described vividly as a near sighted old maid with corkscrew curls. The front seat occupant shouts that the flirt must speak louder, adding a humorous clash on the ride.
Discoverers of Hop Bitters Honored as Benefactors
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a new medicine Hop Bitters claiming to cure a wide range of diseases. Initial skepticism gave way to proof after trials, and the discoverers are widely honored for their contribution.
Siwash Doctors and Their Alaska Healing Traditions
A Pittsburgh Dispatch letter portrays a Northwest coast Siwash doctor as a mysterious healer. It details ritual practices, training from infancy, nonwashing habits, and dramatic exorcism passes followed by torture of alleged witches to ensure recovery or prove witchcraft.
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Alaska
Pittsburgh
Northwest Coast
Siwash
Lydia Thompson
P. R
New England
Tomatoes First Eaten in America Tradition
Newport correspondent investigates the claim that Americans first ate tomatoes in 1823 at a house on Corne and Mill streets linked to Michele Felice Corne. The article cites earlier plantings in 1819, lingering poison myths, and Corne’s role in popularizing tomatoes in Newport and possibly Salem and Boston.
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America
Newport
Boston Transcript
Corne and
Mill Streets
Michele Felice Corne
South Carolina
Corne
Connecticut
Salem
Boston
Air-Line Dispatch and Pneumatic Tubes Reach London
A description of pneumatic tubes used for messages in New York and London. Bits of paper sealed in round felt covered boxes travel through air tubes to relay messages, with bells signaling arrival and return. London reportedly has tubes nearly two miles long, with many other long lines.
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Miles
Sitting Bull
Board of Health
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Little Rock Board of Health
Louis
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Hyde Park
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Trowbridge
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Paducah
Secretary of War
New Orleans
North American Review
Richard Wagner
America
Germany
Paris
Wendell Phillips
Garrison
John L. Stephens
The
Mohammed Ali
South Africa
Ulundi
Ceteywayo
Cham
Zululand
Cetewayo
St. Nicholas
New York
London
England
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