Odds and Ends From a Bygone Era in News Clippings
A miscellany notes a storm lifting a hand organ in Kansas City while an Italian played Home Sweet Home, family ties among European royals, a Brussels perpetual clock wound by sun heat, a farmer struck by hail in Indiana, a Warrenton Virginia trance that ended in revival, and a New Zealand funeral famed for its elaborate mourning attire. It mentions Allen G. Thurman in Columbus, Ohio, Iowa spiritualist conventions with Col. Ingersoll named, actinium’s discovery, Art Amateur notes, historic bank failures, Washington monument work, and the Lee quarries marble cargo for the monument with foundation pressure and shaft progress.
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Kansas City
Sweet Home
Washington Monument
Lee
Massachusetts
Boston Girl Responds to Bouquet with Poetic Flair
A Boston girl, presented with a bouquet, lifts her eyes to heaven and declares the aroma an exuberant gift of nature that inflates her afflatus and kindles a passion time cannot obliterate.
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Boston
Iowa items reveal varied local news from Le Mars to Dubuque
Reports note Le Mars to build a 12000 dollar schoolhouse, Mapleton water works agitation, a 91 year old death in West Liberty, and 6791 miles of railway valued at 28332739.70. Other items include a planned narrow gauge railroad in Oskaloosa, a Dubuque fair mortgage sale, coal miners strike near Cleveland, and a Crocker’s Iowa brigade reunion in Cedar Rapids.
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Mapleton
Nehemiah Clare
West Liberty
Oskaloosa
Griswold
Dubuque Fair Grounds
Crocker
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
H. A. Pipe
Bremer County
Clinton ‘Herald
Northwestern Railroad
Boone
Sergeant's Bluffs
Sioux City
The
Alton Review
Roan
Des Moines
J. A. Baine
Amer
Baine
Ames
Carroll County
S. L. Watson
Vinton
Waterloo
Watson
Observer
Eagle
Cincinnati
Union Pacific
Council Bluff
Ben Ward
San Francisco
Coronation of Russian Emperor and Empress at Moscow
Details of the May 27 coronation ceremony in St. Andrew’s Cathedral with the crownings of Emperor Alexander III and Empress, the prayers and benedictions, the imperial mantle, and the distribution of honors. Crowds cheer, then a grand banquet at Granovitila Palace followed by state toasts and illuminations.
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Russia
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Kieffe
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Czar
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Poland
Siberia
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Prince Dolgorouke
Alexander Nevsky
Popiendensteff
Woronzoff Dochkoff
Monsignor von Nutelle
St. Andrew’s Hall
May records and disasters swell weekly news tally
The May public debt fell by 4 899 478 dollars while May 31 saw a boiler explosion at a New Orleans area saw mill killing two and wounding four. Cuba drought harms harvests and coal finds at Cabbage Bay New Zealand.
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Palestine
Texas
New Orleans
Foreign Menace and Empire Notes Across Europe
News from abroad reports Lord Derby resisting New Guinea annexation while allowing English stations on its coast. Ireland bill on laborer housing passes second reading. A London dispatch details Fenian treason indictments and Lynch’s testimony. Czars’ coronation manifesto sparks Petersburg riot with Jewish firms attacked. Rostoff violence ends. Rome sees papal appeals for Holy See funds as Vatican-France ties shift. Madagascar hostilities escalate as France bombards ports. In Ireland Treland, a commutation telegram pleads for mercy for Caffrey and Kelly ahead of executions.
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New Guinea
Queensland
House of Commons
Ireland
London Daily News
Duke of Albany
Canada
India
London
Central Criminal Court
The
Recorder
Grand Jury
Gallagher
Bernard Gallagher
Whitehead
Carlin
Ansburg
Wilson
Hem
Lynch
Norman
America
Child Argues With Nurse Over Quiet Wordplay
In Galveston a young boy named Charlie quips with his nurse during a household scene. His father threatens a switch but Charlie retorts he can manage the nurse without help, showcasing a playful domestic moment.
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Galveston
Charlie
Matt Lewis granted stay of execution to end of June
Matt Lewis of St Louis, a four time convicted murderer of his wife, has been granted a further stay of execution from June 8 to June 29. The report comes via a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania special.”
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George P. Buell
Nashville
Tenn
Buell
Don Carlos Buell
Fifteenth United States Infantry
Fart Stanton
N. M
Wilcox
Arizona
San Carlos
Leco
Mexico
Crook
Matt Lewis
St. Louis
A Woman's Invention and the Cotton Gin Credit
Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage credits Cath arine Littlefield Greene widow of General Greene with the cotton gin idea. Greene in Georgia helped Eli Whitney adapt wire teeth to separate seeds, enabling a laborer to clean 300 pounds daily and boost cotton as the South’s staple.
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Catharine Littlefield Greene
General Greene
Georgia
Eli Whitney
Connecticut
Greene
Whitney
Weather Complaints Across Seasons Through History
A historical dialogue notes repeated dryness with long stretches without rain. One speaker recalls three months without rain, another claims eighteen months with none in 1846, illustrating persistent drought concerns and memory of long-term weather patterns.
National Free Trade Conference Opens in Detroit
The National Free Trade Conference met in Detroit on May 31 with temporary officers led by J Sterling Morton and C E Russell. David A Wells of Connecticut was elected president as the group outlined aims for free trade, tax reform, and stronger organization through the American Free Trade League.
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Detroit
J. Sterling Morton
Nebraska
James A. McDonald
Michigan
C. E. Russell
Iowa
Thompson
Committee On Permanent Organization
David A Wells
Connecticut
Wm. H. Springer
Ilinois
Wm. H. Smith
Austin H. Brown
Indiana
Chas. Francis Adams, Jr
Massachusetts
Ulysses Tanner
Minnesota
Willard Parker
E. G. Taylor
Missouri
Edwin Shephard
New York
Frank H. Hurd
Ohio
James N. Bethune
Virginia
N.C. Frederickson
Wisconsin
Chas. E. Russell
James H. McDonald
Wellson
Charles Francis Adams
Perry Belmont
Adams
Belmont
Congress
H. J. Philpott
Fastern
American Free Trade League
Philpott
J. Philpott
Geo. F. Peabody
W. J. Brownlee
A. Ava
Brooklyn
C. E. Ferguson
Con Motion
U.S
Thomas G. Shearman
A. H. Fishback
Ind
A. R. Eddy
W. R Smith
E. A. Shepherd
C. L. Taylor
R. R. Bowker
Opera House
Vic
Springer
David A. Wells
Committee On Organization
League
National Committee
Republican Party
Edward Campbell
Committee On Address
Norwich
Thos. Holland
Chas. Francis Adams
Boston
Anson Phelps Stokes
Wm. P. Wells
W. P. Fishback
Jnc
Phelns
Misouri
B. F. Gue
Des Moines
B. R. Forman
New Orleans
Chas. P. Smith
Philadelphia
Joseph H. Canfield
Kansas
A.R. Bowker
Western
Henry J. Philpott
T. G. Sherman
W. J.brownlee
A. L. Arie
H. R. B. Stapler
E. C. Clayton
Kansas City
E. M. Thusland
National Free Trade Committee
Free Trade League
Tornado Toll Reports Across States From May Storms
Telegraphic dispatches describe a May 28 storm sweep from Arkansas to Massachusetts. Indiana Edinburg saw a cyclone kill a farm hand and a son, with church spire toppled. Clay City area in Indiana near Neal's mill saw six killed and many injured. Suiza Arkansas reported unroofed hotels and damaged trees. Ohio near Lebanon and Cincinnati noted leveled buildings and injuries. Boston recorded a fatal omnibus accident from a high wind.
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Freeport
Stubbs
Shelby
Decatur
Bartholomew
Butler County
Westchester
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Owen County
W. R. Williams
Craft Brothers
Vancus
Indianapolis
Edinburg
Uuh
George Cubinger
B. J. Deming
Deming
Frank
Terre Havre
Ind
Clay City
Neal’s Mill
Suiza
Ark
Cincinnati
Lebanon
Boston
Washington Street
Storm and Flood Devastate Council Bluffs
A severe rainstorm from early evening floods Indian Creek, sweeping away seven iron bridges two culverts and several dwellings. Main and Broadway areas flood. life and property losses feared as waters rise and residents evacuate by boat. Estimated city damage runs to hundreds of thousands with ongoing rainfall.
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Main
Broadway
Indian Creek
Council Bluffs
Bluffs
Contested Detroit Public Building Site Sparks Protest
Detroit citizens including George H. Parker and Hermann Keifer accuse Supervising Architect Hill of shady procedures in selecting a site for a new federal building. They demand fair notice, orderly process, and a direct inspection visit, citing foregone conclusions and haste. In Illinois, miners clash with armed locals as women and strikers seize mines, prompting militia deployment and a deadly confrontation near Belleville.
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Illinois
Decatur
St. Clair County
Belleville Board of Trade
St. Louis Furnis
Charles Nesbit
Miners’ Union
Nesbit
George H. Parker
Hermann Keifer
Detroit
Mich
Folger
Hill
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Central Pacific Co
United States Supreme Court
Schulenbur
The Habit of Being Always Employed
A reflection on employment as a safeguard through life and essential to the culture of every virtue. It stresses steady work as a moral and practical foundation.
General Browne and the two and a half pence cigar
In a London club the late General Andrew Browne of Dublin recalled a boastful nobleman who claimed no cigar under two shillings sixpence was fit to smoke. Browne countered that he paid only two and a half pence for such a cigar, challenging the boast.
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Andrew Browne
Dublin
London
Browne
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