Iowa News Gathers Fatal Fires Fares and Rail Debates
A wide roll of Iowa events includes a Mt Ayr military company forming, a June 3 farmers reunion in Hamilton county, a large Eldora creamery under construction, and Muscatine peach prospects. Fires destroy residences near LeMars Davenport and Manchester, with losses up to 2800. Emigrants urge Iowa stay put. rail tariffs in flux. 19-year-old Knapp drowns near Oxford. Several fatal train incidents and a grave-robbing trial highlight a busy April across Iowa and neighboring states.
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Johnson Brown
Davenport
Illinois
Eastern
Bee Keepers Society
Hamilton
Hancock County
Knapp
Dutch Lake
Oxford
Sioux City
Manchester
James Edmunds
Revolutionary activity and tensions across Europe and abroad
A St. Petersburg correspondent reports clandestine circulation of demands to abolish the third section of the Imperial Chancellery and remove the Czar’s inner circle. A list of about two hundred names is published by revolutionaries vowing violence until demands are met. 19,000 fully initiated members are claimed, with millions in society assets. Reports cover arrests, trials, police reforms, military disciplinae changes, and international reactions from Berlin to London, including Garibaldi’s rifles fund and Ottoman, Balkan, and colonial developments.
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Chambersburg
Terrence Feghen
St. Paul
Wm. S. Golson
Chicago
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Thurston
Laird
Emma Ryder
Missouri River
Independence
Todd
Francis S. Oppenheim
Monsdorf
Heinmann
Berlin
Alex. Cohen
Milwaukee
Henry Smith
San Francisco
Yellow Bud
Chillicothe
Ohio
Murphy
Hart
Barlow
St. Petersburg
Cologne Gazette
Ukace
Secret
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Novgorod
Revolutionary Committee
Secre
Toprovo
Criminal Justice
Constantine
Solovieff
Li «Ral
Poland
Defeat for British in Cape St Vincent Dispatch
A Cape St Vincent report from April 22 describes Col Wood's column near Lune beg repulsed by Zulus with heavy losses. British casualties include seven officers and four privates. Lieut Johnson of the 99th and four privates were killed. Col Northey and others were wounded. Ekowe burned on April 5 after evacuation.
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Lunebeg
Dodecmacsi
Isandula
Lieut. Johnson
99Th
Col. Northey
60Th
Crealock
Msjor Bronson
Mysore
Ekowe
Mapoch
Clyde
War threats and Albanian front fights in Balkan dispatches
April 22 reports say Osman Pasha promises troops to confront Albanian incursions on the frontier while Skobiloff warns war could come if Turkey enters Roumelia. Belgrade notes Albanians occupy Somakoff heights and redoubts, repelling three Servian divisions amid three days of heavy fighting. Also includes news of Frankfurter Zeitung defamation case and Havana drought driven cane fires in Colon Matanzas Cardenas regions.
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Belgrade
Servia
Constantinople
Marcoff
Marcedonia
Osman Pasha
Skobiloff
Roumelia
Somakoff
Cream Cake Receipts and a Note on Culture
A recipe for two loaf Cream Cake with cream filling using sugar butter eggs milk cream tartar soda and flour plus a lemon vanilla or orange flavor. It also notes boiling water method and layers. The excerpt ends with a remark that a clamor for culture exists but discipline is needed.
Seamon's Dyes by Richardson Co. praised for all fabrics
Women who delight in talk can praise Seamon's Dyes made by Richardson & Co Burlin Vermont for their excellence. The dyes work as well on coarse fabrics as on delicate ones and are available at druggists.
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Racine
Wisconsin
Mitchell, Lewis & Co
United States
Seamon
Ells, Richardson & Co
Burlin, Vt
Butter Color by Wells Richardson Co. Promises Perfect Shade
Butter color touted as essential for selling butter. Wells Richardson & Co. of Burlington Vermont claim their color yields the desired shade better and more consistently than competitors. Sold by druggists.
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Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Joke Backfires as Patient Uses Hop Bitters
A Pittsburg physician advised a worried patient to try Hop Bitters as a joke. The woman took it seriously and gained lasting health, leaving the doctor rueful as he loses a valued patient.
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Pittsburg
Color Blindness and Other Curious Observations from Germany
Experiments with 2,560 schoolboys and 2,317 girls show color blindness is vastly rarer among girls. The article discusses early rising, subterranean telegraphs, a multi tool walking stick, ice in sick rooms, life saving devices, meteor composition, and the Boston ice trade with historical notes and inventor anecdotes.
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Germany
Herr Herb
Pulsnitz
Sidereal geology reshapes astronomers view of space
An astronomer expands from studying star motions to celestial geology, integrating celestial physics, chemistry, and mineralogy to understand distributions and structures in the heavens. The shift frames the discipline as a broader exploration of the cosmos.
Naples Women Described as Less Beautiful Than Other Italian Regions
A traveler notes Neapolitan women lack beauty compared with Florence Rome or Genoa due to diet, lifestyle, and climate. He praises their eyes and lips despite a harsher voice and pallor, while admitting climate and volcanic air dull personal charms yet maintain a native allure.
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Rhode Island Proposes Local Control Over Liquor Licenses
Governor Van Zandt urges reform of the liquor license system. He cites widespread license abuse and delinquent bonds, contending municipalities grant licenses for profit while failing to curb sales to minors and inebriates. He calls for prohibiting indiscriminate sale of ardent spirits.
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Rhode Island
van Zandt
A Wife's Power over Husband and Home
A moral exhortation on marriage arguing a wife’s firmness and economy can sustain a husband through life’s trials. It warns that bad temper, jealousy, and gloom at home erode a man’s spirit, while a peaceful, efficient home renews his strength for enterprise.
Leadville Gold Discovery Shines in Granite Claims
The Granite area eighteen miles from Leadville in Chaffee County yields a pay streak from a 130 foot abandoned tunnel named the Manie. Assays show 145 to 168 ounces of gold per sack, confirming an extensive payable region between Granite and Leadville despite challenges for small miners.
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Prof
Hayes
Tiercke & Co
Denver
Sea of Galilee Journey Through Antiquity and Desolation
The narrative travels from Egypt to Palestine along the Sea of Galilee, detailing the landscape, ancient towns and their fates, and the lingering ruins. It notes Tiberias as a small remnant of former glory, the region’s ancient military losses, and Magdala’s survival as the sole visible remnant of past strength. The piece ends with Tiberias’s gates, a squalid modern ruin, and a nod to the Jewish scholarly tradition centered there amid editor John J. Hamilton’s Bloomfield Republican duties.
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Nero
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