Storm damages and notable events sweep Iowa towns
The excerpt lists extensive Iowa items including Dubuque storm damages around $20 000 and Muscatine county concerns. It notes Davenport estate value of 325 000 for Mrs Clarissa Cook and Grinnell celebrating its twenty first anniversary. It cites murders in Dakota and local incidents across multiple counties with numerous political, educational and rail developments.
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Dubuque
Muscatine County
Clarissa C. Cook
Davenport
International Dispatches Reveal Turmoil and War Updates
From England to Mexico and beyond, reports detail Canadian Pacific Railway talks, miner wage strikes in Birmingham, political shifts in Constantinople, coinage and abdication debates in Prussia, South Africa combat plans, French chamber clashes over Ferry’s bill, Mexican revolutionary activity, Paraguay’s upheaval, and diplomatic moves with Spain and Portugal.
English Skies and English Charm Across the Quiet Isles
Richard Grant White describes England’s climate mellowing sights and sounds and contrasts English bells with Broadway noises. He recalls autumn gardens in Sussex and Warwickshire, thrush and robin redbreast, and a two story cottage on the Stratford-on-Avon road, ending with a healthful, contented sense of belonging under English skies.
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Richard Grant White
England
London
Big Ben
Bolney
Sussex
Broadway
Warwickshire
Stratford
Prejudice Kills and a Patient’s Hop Bitters Cure
A grieving set of parents recount a decade of their daughter’s illness treated by many doctors with various labels before a simple Hop Bitters remedy restored her health. They urge others not to dismiss the tonic due to prejudice, hoping no one else endures similar suffering.
Forger’s Apparatus Captured and Bank Sufferer Named
Authorities recovered a complete forger's equipment including dies checks stamps ribbons and pens along with blank drafts. The culprit reportedly served two terms in the Auburn New York penitentiary and the First National Bank in Chicago is said to be the heaviest sufferer.
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Auburn
N. Y
First National Bank
Chicago
Kissing Laws and Courtroom Prices Across States
A column notes court cases over unwanted kisses with penalties varying by state. It cites Pennsylvania women reportedly receiving 300 to 500 dollars per kiss, New York smaller sums, and Michigan’s Erminda Young versus Richard Smith ending in 112 dollars before a Supreme Court appeal.
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Philadelphia
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Erminda Young
Richard Smith
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Lucretia Mott and Her Quaker Life in Brief
A fragmentary obituary profile recalls Lucretia Mott born 1793 on Nantucket, later a Philadelphia Quaker reformer. It notes her anti slavery work with Garrison, temperance and women’s rights advocacy, and her long marriage to James Mott, plus references to her family, education, and late life.
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York Turnpike
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Boston
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New York
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Science and Art Lecture Distinguishes Knowledge and Beauty
In Detroit Free Press style discourse, a judge extols science for building, feeding, and lighting modern life while contrasting it with art. He notes science explains sun and stars, trains, pumps, and daily conveniences, then shifts to art, praising beauty in everyday objects and human response. He lauds the club’s boat topics and foresees art flourishing with care.
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Detroit Free Press
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Venus
Ebery
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Sunset
Wisconsin
Sunrise
New Jersey
Cezar
Ebery Co
Jerilderie Bank Heist by Four Robbers Steals Loot
Four ruffians captured Jerilderie police and robbed the New South Wales bank in the adjoining building. They wore police uniforms, looted vaults for hours, forced town citizens to cut telegraph poles, and rode away with the loot after six hours of drunken town control. A reward of 15,000 dollars was offered for their bodies dead or alive.
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Jerilderie
New South Wales
Royal Hotel
New South Wales Bank
Ancient Canal Schemes in Ancient Empires
A NYT historical digest notes canals shaped military and political outcomes. Semira mis uses a canal to trap Ardesh. Nitocris blocks Nineveh by diverting the Euphrates. Cyrus builds 360 canals to drain the Gyndes. Xerxes crafts Athos canal to reach Greece. Persians drain Babylon’s river bed to seize the city. similar moves affect Egyptian rebel auxiliaries.
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New York Times
Semiramis
Ardesh
Nitocris
Nineveh
Euphrates
Cyrus
Persia
Xerxes
Greece
Mount Athos
Babylon
Soup Beef and String Beans Stew Recipe From Old Kitchen Tex
Take six pounds of beef preferably brisket or bolar or pin bone. Cut string beans into three pieces and simmer with half a peck of beans in a close stewpan. Add half a tumbler of water and season with salt and pepper, dredge with flour. When beef is half cooked add one third tumbler of brown sugar and stir. Cook slowly for three hours or more, covered. Do not boil fast. keep at a simmer.
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New York
Twain plans abroad to write in quiet retreat
The writer told a newspaper reporter he would travel abroad to find a quiet place to write and avoid daily interruptions. He did not consider staying home to secure a desk in a store that does not advertise.
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Twain
Pin swallowed by Miss Lehrberger ends in death
The New York Sun reports Miss Sophia Lehrberger died after swallowing a brass pin that lodged in the appendix and formed a fistulous tract to the groin. Dr J R Ranney describes the autopsy showing the pin’s path from the ileum to the cecum and out through the abdominal wall.
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New York Sun
Sophia Lehrberger
East Fifty-fifth St
Lehrberger
J. R. Ranney
East Forty-sixth Street
Cecum
Shakspeare’s Englishwomen in Elizabethan London
Charles Dudley Warner surveys depictions of London women in foreign travellers notes from 1585 to 1638. He highlights how visitors praised the beauty and charm of English women, the customs of kissing hosts, and the universal appeal of London ladies in street pageants and city life.
Spinners in Fall River Mass Go On Strike
Workers at a Fall River Massachusetts spinner plant walk out over work rules and pay. Union leadership says production halted as crews picket outside the mill.
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Fall River, Mass
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