Various 19th Century Topics Highlight Politics and Inventions
James Gordon Bennett values the Herald at 10 000 with 6 percent annual interest. Colored editors in the US plan a St. Louis convention in July. Treasury Department brides total over 100 in four months. Ohio Democrats pick 624 delegates with Cleveland Columbus Dayton Toledo Cincinnati splitting votes. Virginia leads in years of service at 26. Tennessee 16. San Joaquin Valley irrigation aims to convert 250000 acres to wheat land. Kansas and Gov. Glick hire Judge Black to challenge Union Pacific Kansas Pacific rail consolidation. Prussia apprentices princes to trades including watchmaking. Oldest living ex senator is John P King born 1799 in Kentucky. served Georgia 1828 1834 1837.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P. King
Augusta
Judge King
Barren County
Kentucky
Georgia
Supreme Court
Woletein
Ida County
Mary Ann Jordan
Anita
Wisconsin
Dubuque
Dun- Meth
Chi'dike
Jacob Duncan
Owens Township
Cerro Gordo
Cunty
Malvern
Council Bluffs
Jesse
Sugart
Bufflington
Wm. M. Wic Ker
Selma
Esq
Lewis
George Holland
Eldon
Wm. Hamilton
Holland
Bond
State Board of Health
James R. Wasson
U. S. Army
Ester
Texas
Hartford
Warren County
Iowa
John A. Bingham
Ohio
Japan
Binhham
A. H. Dashiel
Lewis Todhunter
Edward Hall
Joel Jacoby
Indianola
J.T Brown
Williams
Webster City
Illinois Central
Post Office Department
Brown
Clinton ‘‘Herald
Calamus
Mitchell
Dakota
Cossip
Avoca
Chariton
N. W. Sears
C. B. & Q Road
Melrose
Russell Station
Sears
Russell
Columbia
Knoxville
R. R
Lolger
E. A. Condon
Supervising Architect of
the Treasury
Fnd
Washington
Eaton
Gregory
Chicago
Milwaukee
Buffalo
Detroit
Torledo
Thoman
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Kansas City
New Orleans
Department
George Gifford
Maine
United States
Cognac
France
John W. Burdette
Owa
Pot Office
Florida Ship Canal Company
John C. Brown
Tennessee
William Windom
George AC. Gorham
S. V. Meyer
Charles P.stone
Gov. Butler
Malone
Wm. E. Cameron
John P. Jones
Gen. Stone
St. Johns River
Jacksonville
Suwanee River
Gulf of Mexico
Ocean
Gulf
Montana
Missouri River
General Land Office
Nebraska
Interior Department
United States Supreme Court
Chas. Lyman
Civil Service Commission
Keim
Charles Lyman
U. S. Treasurer’s Office
Teller
Attorney General
Union Pacific Rarway Company
Thurman
Signal Service
Lady Franklin Bay
Lady Franklin Bay, Under Command of Lieut
Garlington
Gen. Hazen
Johns, N. F
Why Farmers Stay Poor Says Philadelphia News
The Philadelphia News argues farmers remain poor for two reasons. They struggle to compete with margarine producers and they hold crops waiting for higher prices, only to be undercut by rising costs and spoiled stock.
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Philadelphia ‘News
Yorkshire high sheriff named as Walter Morrison
The high sheriff of Yorkshire England this year is Walter Morrison son of a famed dry goods dealer who left substantial fortunes Morrison is described as old and nearly pauper with a weekly wage. Details on government postal notes outline engraving dimensions and steel plate work. A Florida alligator attack in Bronson injures a child and is halted by the father. Theodore Thomas coauthors on child voice training with William Tomlins in June Century.
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Yorkshire
England
Walter Morrison
Diad
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Bronson
Fla
Theodore Thomas
Wm. L. Tomlins
Thomas
Tomlins
Last Request Against Dead Adornments in Quiet City Trade
A sensible young woman asks friends to bury her away from brooks and cemeteries. She prefers a final sleep beneath the shop counter of a merchant who rarely advertises, seeking a peace beyond understanding where youth’s steps and old age’s drag do not intrude.
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Davenport
Annie Winters
Charles Whitaker
Who Shall Carry the Baby
A New York Sun piece humorously recounts Esmond and his wife debating who should carry a baby on a Sunday outing. Even a big man drawing a cloak wrapped infant drew quips as onlookers noted the apparent size difference between father and child. The question lingers: who should carry the baby?
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Esmond
New York Sun
Iowa items show varied state news across towns
Payroll for April in the New State Capitol totals 10986.14 dollars while Iowa towns report cyclones, new hotels, church bells, saloon licenses, and fatal or mysterious deaths. News includes Emmetsburg infant with teeth, Dubuque hotel plans, Cedar Rapids fire damage, and Avon Avoca fires.
Trial outcome of George Scheller and the Newhall house fire
The Sun reports on George Scheller, indicted for setting the Newhall house fire that killed over seventy. He was tried and acquitted on circumstantial evidence. the piece urges him to quit drinking, warns of his past, and hopes he returns to respectable life with his family.
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Peck
the Sun
Milwaukee
George Scheller
Newhall House
George Scheiler
Gorge Scheller
Pap
Drive Well Patent Case Voids Green Invention
In Des Moines May 9 Judge Shiras and Judge Love hold that Nelson W Green's reissued patents for driving wells are invalid due to public use and abandonment. The court finds Green's 1861 public use for supplying his regiment with water forfeits patent rights, dismissing the bill with costs. Love concurs in substance, while Nelson dissents.
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Des Moines
Shiras
Love
Wm. D. Andrews
George Hovey
Minnesota
Nelson W. Green
Cate
Green
Spiras
Shawne Cooper
Uder
Cortland
New York
77Th Regiment of
New York Infantry
Col. Green
Graham
Gesham
Fair Grounds
Mudge
Robinson
Albany
Quatermaster General
Col Green
Cutler
Jude Love
Nelson
Wortland
Destructive Standard Oil Fire Near Jersey City
A May 10 fire at Standard Oil Works in Communipaw Jersey City spreads rapidly after a lightning strike destroying seven tanks and threatening Eagle Refinery. Losses estimated up to 1.59 million dollars with 500,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil destroyed and several workers missing amid exploding tanks and burning structures.
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State Register
Avoca
Seiffert & Weise
John Coakes
Atlantic Rescue Company
New York
Jersey City
Standard Oil Works
Standard 1
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey Central
Halliday Street
Scne
Eagle
Ferrier
John Herbert
Joseph Jenkins
Cooper
George Davis
Henry Reigter
Dick Conkeen
Wm. Curry
Pennsylvania Railroad
Black Tom's Island
Boarding House
Eagle Works
Aleo
Standard Oil Company
Supreme Court rules against by law fixing rates in granger case
The Supreme Court of Illinois affirms the state’s power over railroad fare laws, ruling that Central Military Tract Railroad directors cannot set rates by by law in conflict with state statutes. Also noted are civil service reforms, appointments, and federal administrative actions affecting exams, offices, and substantial public works plans.
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Supreme Court
Granger
Neal Luggles
State of
Illinois
Central Military Tract Railroad Company
Chica¢, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Supreme Court of [Inois
Anecdotes of Salmon P Chase from Boyhood Times
A Cleveland Leader reminiscence recounts Salmon Portland Chase’s awkward youth at Cincinnati College and Worthington Ohio. It chronicles his poor health, early farming life, intense gym training, pig hair incident with the Bishop, brief schooling episodes, and eventual rise to Dartmouth College and the Treasury path advised by Dudley Chase.
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Cleveland
Salmon Portland Chase
Old Cincinnati College
Chase
Bishop Chase
Ohio
March
New Hampshire
Worthington
Salmon
Cincinnati College
Europe
Dartmouth College
Casco
Salmon Chase
Dartmonti
Washington
Dudley Chase
Treasury Department
High Things To The Mind of Beasts and Men
A reflective proverb about perception and rank contrasts. It notes Letoach reaching toward his peers and ponders how abstraction shifts what is considered high. The maze of perspective is illustrated with a camel and a beetle looking through windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letoach
Jean Ingelow
Wars Between England and France Durations Across Centuries
A calculated survey lists numerous England France conflicts with dates and lengths. Entries include 1141 one year, 1161 twenty five years, 1211 fifteen years, 1627 two years, 1744 four years, 1883 eleven years, and other spans such as 1492 one month and 1868 fifty two years. The compilation covers about seven centuries and 266 years of desolating wars.
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England
France
Beauty Draws All Eyes Regardless of the Viewer
Clarendon notes that beauty tempts every observer and excites delight in all, arguing no one can resist the appeal of a beautiful object. The line suggests beauty’s universal pull on the human gaze and pleasure.
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Clarendon
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James Gordon Bennett
New York ‘‘Herald
Columbus
Dayton
Toledo
Virginia
San Joaquin Valley
California
Kansas
Gov. Glick
Judge Black
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Roya
State
Griswold
Emmetsburg
Burlington
Geo. Fpperson
Sibley
Wm. Larrabee
Clermont
E. L. Stumm
Harlan
Des Moiines
Huston
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Mitchellville
Peter Miller
Indiana
Colorado
The
State Medical Society
Schofield
Mapleton (Monona Co
Northwestern Road
Spencer Harrington
DeWitt
Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
Tama County
Centerville
Gay
McGregor
Union
Bishop Perry
Town
Sarah Burr
Henry Harris
G. Harris
Mason City
Ben Hershey
Walnut Street
Rufus B. Ewing
What Creek
Keokuk County
A. N. Sassel
St Mary’s
St. Frances Seminary
Fort Dodge
John Robinneen
Strayer
Crawford County
Miksell
Hawkeye
Mississippi
Fairfield
Hunt
Donnellson
Les County
Parson’s College
William Sykes
Skyes
Morris Bachman
Black Hawk County
Naval Academy
Waterloo
Pred Dougherty
West
Aveca
John Woods
John Burns
Woolf
Washington Matters
Guilo Drges
16Th Infantry
War Department
Lincoln
Plummer Vas Jackman
Bismarck
Oak
Secretary of the Interior
Jackman
S. P. Chase
the Tribune
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