Various 19th Century Economic Tidbits Across States and Industries
A roundup of figures and notes including Stephens age and weight, a California plantation yield, Astor’s gold dinner service, Folger’s acceptance of worn coins, a Georgia watermelons profit, melon planting forecasts in seven counties, U S metalworking capital and wages growth, annual coinage distribution, U S pig iron output, unsold factory stock, Mrs. Runkle on women’s education, milk sugar production in Ohio, and European imports for medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jacob Astor
New York
Folger
Treasury
Liquor law change feared as brewery monopoly push
The piece notes drink sellers in Canada fearing licensing shifts favoring brewers to control many groggeries. It also covers oyster cultivation in Connecticut, frozen milk in Irkutsk, a 96 year old Ulster County apple, and various brief items on Rev. Kalloch, Capitol ticket fraud, teaching advice, and international fish egg trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ulster County
Kalloch
San Francisco
Weekly Review of Notable 1880s U.S. and Global Events
Reports include discoveries, travel, and disasters: a Pegasus telescope note on a fourth comet. Susan B Anthony sailed for Liverpool on February 22. Sioux Falls as capital site explored. CPRR first through freight to Winnipeg on February 22. Boston boiler explosion kills one, injures three. Sheboygan factory fire causes losses. Dartmouth Sophomores suspended over class seating. New York Assembly reads a political assessments bill. Illinois State Fair slated for Chicago for two years. Parker Earle elected Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society president. large Diamond mine disaster in Braidwood. Fort Wayne rail crash kills two. a Texas house fire kills four children. cattle losses from Wabash rail accident and Cheyenne snow. various fraud, mining, and weather reports. sensational but non-graphic.
Notable Crimes Report From Detroit to Kentucky
Summary of diverse crimes: Francis Wardell, a Detroit pension agent, convicted of forging and sentenced to four years in the house of correction. Feb 22 near New Orleans Capt. Lanier shot dead on Shilling's plantation with facial burns. Albany & Susquehanna express messenger Wm. G. Smith shot twice Feb 20 but retained $40,000. Mrs Patrick Casey near Rosemount Minn. fatally cut her four-year-old child and herself, insanity cited. Santa Fe reports Captain Salazar breaking a cattle thief ring at Lamesa, three rustlers arrested, Eugenio Pedras killed. Louis F. Feilizish, Woodward county Ill. master in chancery, disappeared with about $5,000 cash and similar owed. Grayson Ky jury finds Craft murder guilty with death sentence set by hanging May 25. Chicago to Joliet thieves abscond with $3,50 in silk theft Feb 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Cedar County
McHenry
Bevington
Madison County
Linn County
Walker
David Brant
Iowa City
Coon Rapids
Creston
W. J. Stephens
Sioux City
Toledo, Oskaloosa & Western Railroad
Wm. Myers
Poweshiek County
Tucson
Arizona
Santa Rita
Alba Jana
Morgan
New York
Edwin D. Morgan
Braidwood
Townsend
C. L. Taylor
San Francisco
Cape Flattery
Bergman
Vancover Island
Francis Wardell
Detroit
House of Correction
Wm. G. Smith
Patrick Casey
Rosemount
Minn
Santa Fe
Salazar
Lamesa
Eugenio Pedras
Louis F. Feilizish
Woodward County
Ill
Craft
Grayson
Chicago
Joliet
Conspiracy News Across Europe and Ireland Shifts
Reports from Dublin and London detail arrests and investigations into the Phoenix Park murders and agrarian crimes. Frank Byrne fled to Paris, while authorities pursue funds and conspirators as high offices weigh responses and new measures.
Tragic New York School Fire Crushes Dozens In Five Story Building
A February New York blaze under the stairs of a five story school attached to the Most Holy Redeemer church caused a deadly crush. Six children died at the scene and ten were injured. the list of dead later swelled to sixteen as more succumbed to injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fourth Street
Avenue A
First Avenue
Appromia
Sisters of Notre Dame
Robinson
Lena Bindnager
Barbara Beschel
Alphonso Fisher
Rudolph Mandell
Phillipina
Malaga Cake and Hominy Merfins Recipe Notes
Beat butter and sugar, add milk flour and baking powder, fold in egg whites and lemon flavor for Malaga cake with a lemon filling. For Hominy Merfins, mix boiled hominy sour milk butter sugar eggs and flour with baking powder, bake in muffin rings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaga Caake
Death of Ex Governor Hempstead Proclaimed by Iowa
Proclamation by Governor Buren Sherman notes the death of Stephen B Hempstead ex Governor of Iowa at Dubuque on February 16 1853 aged seventy one. He served as Iowa’s second governor from 1850 to 1854 and helped develop the state. The message orders state government to close on February 19 and flags to half mast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen B. Hempstead
Iowa
Stephen B Hempstead
Dubuque
Gov. Hempstead
H.e
Des Moines
United States
State of Iowa
Buren R. Sherman
Contested Cook v Cutts and 1883 tariff debates in Congress
Report on Cook vs. Cutts in Iowa favoring contestant. bills introduced include Belford free duty entries for Denver Exposition 1883 Anderson 15 percent tariff cut after July. Belmont Hawaiian sugar correspondence. Cox on Russian Jewish treatment. Skinner distribution of treasury surplus. Ward Melville honor. ONeill bridge Kanawha. Beltzhoover War correspondence February 1883. Senate and House actions cover tariff passage, internal revenue cut attempts, army and fortifications appropriations, and Utah suffrage debates with votes and adjournments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Secretary of the Treasury
Sandwich Island
Cox
Russia
Skinner
Ward
Congress
George W. Melville
O'Neill
Great
Kanawha River
Beltzhoover
Secretary of War
W. B. Hazen
Kelly
Kasson
Elder's stern rebuke over Sunday marble play tale
An elder scolds two children for marble play on Sunday and sternly warns them that disobedience leads to hell. The boy answers with a grim description of where such children go. The exchange unfolds near a water by the brig as the sister pulls away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirk
Jeanie
West in 1819 letter disputes eighty seven claim
J Watson Webb writes to the New York Times to protest being called eighty seven and recounts his 1819 Detroit posting and later edits to the Courier and Enquirer. He contrasts then and now noting population growth in Detroit Chicago Buffalo and Wisconsin areas and recalls frontier experiences with Native Americans and early lakes shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Watson Webb
New York
Detroit
Peter Cooper
Charles H. Russell
Courier and Enquirer
the &H
Louis
Chicago
Buffalo
Lakes Erie
Huron
Michigan
Decatur
Jackson
Canada
Lakes
Vaneer
Ohio
Black Swamp
Fox River
Wisconsin
Winnebago Lake
Cooner
Levenworth
Che-o-ge-ma
Fox
Wisconsin River
West Bank
Mississippi
Monks of Gethsemane Abbey Near Louisville
A Louisville Courier Journal piece describes the Trappist monastery near Louisville, Kentucky in Nelson County. It details austere daily life, strict rules, and the abbey's graveyard with notable interments, plus monastic discipline and entry probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Kentucky
Louisville
Nelson County
Louisville and Nashville
Nancy Miles
Mary Bradford
Jefferson Davis
Selma
Ala
Philadelphia
Gethsemane Abbey
Celery Bundles with Bacon in Rich Stock
Trim and cut celery in uniform lengths, split, tie in bundles, parboil fifteen minutes. Arrange over bacon slices with bay leaves thyme minced onion pepper and salt. Simmer in stock until celery is tender, drain, top with buttered stock and serve on hot platter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevep Devery
The Match Debate Across South Sea Island Tribes
A traveler recounts a South Sea islander tribe debating the origin of matches. The discussion lasts months with many theories, none correct, mirroring the endless clerical debates and grand lectures about matches noted in more civilized societies.
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New York Graphic
Mint Sauce Preparation and Flavor Tips
The method describes washing and chopping fresh mint, mixing with sugar, and pouring six tablespoons of vinegar over it. Rest the sauce an hour or two before serving to let mint flavor infuse.Optional additions include three to four tablespoons of ramy liquor or broth from boiling ram and reast.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alexander H. Stephens
California
Sonoma County
Georgia
Europe
Switzerland
Germany
France
Connecicut
Irkutsk
Washington
Capitol Building
A. B. Miller
Warren, Penn
Paris
U. S
Northville
Sac City
Grundy County
Monticello
Jones County
W. K. Madden
Lyons
Cedar Rapids
Michael Nolan
Council Bluffs
Kellogg
Jasper County
Cramer
Albia
Webster City
Argus
Marshall County
John Shafer
Iowa County
A. J.reach
Mt. Ayr
Fleming B. Lewis
Emmetsburg
Palo Alto
J. S. Leeds
J. W. Watson
Sioux County
Dennis O’donnell
George Pfeifle
Perry
James Riley
Pfeifle
State Center
Jim Bailey
Virginia
Bailey
John O'Hagan
Chickasaw County
Marshalltown
A.C. Huston
Vinton Eagle
Benton County
Benton Township
Vinton
Farmers’ Loan End Trust Company
Weekly Review
Susan B. Anthony
Liverpool
Dakota
Sioux Falls
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Winnipeg
Joseph Gooker
Boston
Sheboygan Manufacturing Company
Dartmouth College
The
Assembly of New York
St. Paul
Ilinois State Board of Agriculture
Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society
Parker Earle
Ofllinois
Braidwood, Sr
Fort Wayne
Mansfield
L. Graham
J. Quinlan
Atlantic
Brackett
Texas
Michael McDonald
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Road
John Meehan
L. H. Turner
Flora, Ill
Wyoming
Cheyenne
North Platte
Neb
Alson
Julsburg
Evanston
Frank B. Hoff
Kansas City
Pinkerton
Hoff
West Chester
Jersey City
New York City
East Tawns
Mich
Missouri Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Jacob Strauss
van Horn
Snyder
John B. Johnson
Johnson
Strauss & Co
Crime and Criminals
Pierre Lanier
Shilling
New Orleans
Ireland
Frank Byrne
London ‘Standard
Parnell
House of Commons
Dublin
America
Cannes
Gladstone
Land League
League
Phenix Park Maders
John Oliver
Hodnut and
Gilhally
Freeman's Journal
Furtile
Thomas Fitzpatric
Phoenix Park
Phenix Park
James Carey
Brennan
Carey
Emperor William
Frederick William
Bundesrath
House of Burgesses
Hamburg
Bremen
Madagascar
Chamber of Deputies
Ferry
England
London
Times
Commons
Country Times
Daily News
Executive of Ireland
Hempstead
J.A. T. Huwt
Secretary of State
Porty
Senate
Awashington
House
Alabama
Plumb
Missouri River
Leavenworth
Tabor
Colorado
Farher
Alison
Logan
Davis
McDill
Lamar
Wasmincton
Garland
Mississippi River
Cairo
van Wyck
Great Britain
Italy
Lima
Peru
Chile
Newburg
N. Y
Committee of Conference
Elkhorn
Niobrzz
Nebraska
Edmunds
Utah
Hoar
Blsir
Caswell
Hiscock
Blackburp
WashteTon
Ryan
Burrows
Springer
Iroquois Club
Harrison
Lilinois and
Michigan Canal
Hennepin Canal
Nava
Committee On Public Lands
Dawes
Blair
Ingalls
Pendleton
Edmund
Williams
Wis
McCook
Secretary of the Interior
Yelowstone Park
Willets
Supreme Court
General Land Office
Civil Service Act
Sherman
Joint Committee On the Library
Rochambeau
Nator Carpenter
E.munds
Hammond
Judiciary Committee
Thomas J Majors
Majors
S. J. Alexander
Sherwin
Aisitor
Lousville
the Tribune
Atches
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