Indiana Exposition Admis sion Prices Set At Forty Cents
Report of the Indiana Exposition board notes September nine to October two dates, stock show in last week, and an admission price decision at forty cents. Children six to twelve pay twenty cents, younger students admitted free for one day with officers. Exhibitor tickets discussed, proposal for ten admissions per dollar discussed but not acted on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
Indianapolis Sentinel
Mitchell
Claypool
Indianapolis
Afr
Lockhart
Seward
Rival Books and Bounty Heads in Royal Scandal Job
A London dealer and a New York publisher clash in a story of a private life volume about the Georges. A £1000 bounty and a simultaneous push by John Banvard to issue a sensational edition spark a curious chase across Broadway offices and continent-wide handbills as the World reports.
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John Banvard
Banvard
L. Goulbourne
London
Brown
Broadway
Goulbourne
Mr. Brown
Mr. Banvard
Bauvard
New York World
Interview With A Burglar About A Lethal Defense Incident
Mr Rush Burgess recalls nightly thefts on his Henrico county property and a fatal shooting when a burglar entered his home just after 3 am. He describes confronting the intruder, a man later identified as Cornelius Robinson, and firing, killing him near the doorway. Burgess says a second intruder fled as bullets were fired.
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Rush Burgess
Henrico County
Miny
Ikecessary
Mrs. Burgess
Cornelius Robinson
Mechanicaville
Thermometer Talk from Freezing to Frigid Mnemonics
A playful note on temperatures in extreme cold, describing readings from 22 below zero at 4 p.m. Sunday to 93 below on a piazza thermometer, with a city observer exaggerating the cold as he walks Monroe Street. The piece contrasts steady thermometers with adventurous readings and ends with exasperated humor.
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Monroe Street
Dr. Kane
Fragmentary 1875 Arkansas political note appears incomplete
A garbled OCR fragment references a Grants Message to the lawful governor and Congress about Arkansas, dated February 9, 1875. It mentions rights of minorities and a proposed action, but the text is severely incomplete and difficult to interpret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Dawes
Tony
Baxter
Congress
Arkansas
Pinion
Antelligent thermometer seeks truthful tale from caller
A Grand Rapids Democrat letter asks for a rational, credible thermometer called Callator. The writer desires a device that tells a believable story about warmth without deceiving or straining the reader's senses, appealing to cool calculation and practicality. References requested.
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Wawren
Grand Rapids Democrat
Copying by colored paper and oiled sheets method
The New York Tribune describes a Hansen devised process where 100 to 200 manuscript copies can be produced in ten minutes. By layering alternating colored and oiled papers and writing with a pencil, a reverse impression forms on the oiled sheets, yielding about twenty good copies per run with a rolling press and careful pressure adjustments.
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Hansen
New York Tribune
New Wisconsin Senator's Platform Emphasizes Public Credit and Sound Currency
The platform pledges preservation of public credit and honest debt payment, rigid economy, broader transportation access, river improvements, a sound currency, and a revenue tariff. It defends state sovereignty over corporations, condemns Credit Mobilier corruption, supports federal power limits, civil liberty, religious freedom, labor elevation, and protection of capital within principle-centered governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Wisconsin
Fox
Wisconsin Rivers
Credit Mobilier
Congress
Day of the Week Quirk Tied to Global Longitudes
A Chicago Times note cites two exception cases in the West Coast chronicle of days. Manila remains Sunday while nearby East Indies mark Monday, due to Spanish colonization from the east. Alaska, settled by Russians from the west, keeps Sunday as the rest of the Pacific coast has Saturday.
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Chicago Times
Greenwich
Globe
New York Evening Post
Manilla
Phillippine Islands
East Indies
Alaska
British Columbia
Philippine Islands
Pacific
Islands
Mavilla
Canadian village revives Kilkenny clash in Donnybrook
In Ontario a small town staged a lively drawn battle between O Dwyers and O Briens with seventeen O Dwyers and fifteen O Briens. Skulls cracked the clash ended with many knocked out and a peacemaker injured, leaving a rematch to settle the scores.
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Ontario
Gory Donnybrook
O'Dwyers
O'Briens
O’dwyers
O Briena
St. Louis Republican
Ben Hutler's Better Side in New York World
The piece portrays Ben Hutler as charitable and perceptive, noting his memory, cross examining skill, and wide literary knowledge. It describes his courteous manners, domestic charm, and the inviting home left by a daughter, while abruptly shifting to a product note on ozodont as a facial disinfectant.
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Ben Hutler
New York World
Jerusalem
New
Milwaukee News
Milwaukee
Anna Dickinson
Joan of Arc
Joan
United States Cavalry
Brooklyn Argus
Sioux City
Tts
Lord Winchilsea
Greville
Bluffton seen through Ohio traveler’s eyes in Delphos Herald
An Ohio traveler praises Bluffton in the Delphos Herald noting rapid growth and new business blocks including Steiner house. He commends George Wikle's hospitality, Judge Eaton’s real estate ties to town expansion, and John Dray’s sale to Lugabill. Bluffton is described as a promising northwest town.
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Ohio
Bluffton
Delphos Herald
Steiner Boys
George Wikle
Judge Eaton
John Dray
Lugabill
Northwest
Progress of county institute improves teachers and trustees
The Sentinel letter notes the county superintendent organized the institute last September with Prof Kenworthy guiding aims to avoid wasted talk. Teachers and trustees worked hard, improving with each session and especially the February meeting 6th. Attendee Zolinger, Adams township trustee, witnesses strong support for compulsory education.
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Kenworthy
United States
Zollinger
Adams Township
Fish Hook Journey Across Boy’s Body in Strange Healing
A Portsmouth boy eight years ago pricked his right forefinger with a fish hook. A doctor removed the barb by twisting the hook free, causing pain and indignation. The boy later suffered fainting fits and spasmodic illnesses, then gradually recovered. In 1874 a pimple on his left shoulder revealed the hook’s point, seven years after it imbeded in his finger, now removed from the body.
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Dover
N. H
Enquirer
Charles E. Myers
Portsmouth
Fractional Currency Vignettes in The St Louis Republican
The article notes the Count de Grammont memoirs and Charles H. selections in Britannia portraits on fractional currency. It criticizes Washington treasury decisions as bad management for featuring a notorious woman’s image. It questions decency among treasury officials and suggests reform via the social evil law.
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St. Louis
Atgea
Treasury Department
Demi Monde
Gen Bitlet probes living portraits on currency
The piece praises Gen Bitlet for seeking Treasury information on whether living persons portraits have been used on currency and calls for a law amendment to require moral credentials for applicants for pictorial fame. It urges dismissal of the offending official and warns against a surge of illustrations on money.
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Caesar
Butler
Womanly Audiences At A theatrical Today
A Chicago Tribune style write up describes a ballet performance with seven new ladies in attendance. Mrs Tilton and Mrs Field anchor the scene as others in elegant attire observe reporters and the court press, while several younger women pose amid propriety and salacious atmosphere.
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Chicago Tribune
Tilton
Investigation of the Potato Disease under De Bary
The New York Tribune reports the English Royal Agricultural Society has appointed Prof. De Bary Stras burg to study the potato fungus life history. He finds infection can occur without defective tubers and seeks oospore resting places, hoping to curb the disease by warning farmers where planting may doom subsequent crops.
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de Bary Strasburg
Royal Agricultural Society of England
New York Tribune
Newspapers must serve whole community not party aims
The Evansville Herald cites the Indianapolis Sentinel on serving all classes, arguing future papers must be independent of party. It praises The New York Herald and Tribune and others, while praising the Cincinnati Enquirer for prioritizing public wants over party leaders, asserting organship erodes reliability.
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Evansville Herald
Indianapolis Sentinel
Sentinel
New York Herald and Tribune
Springfield Republican
Cincinnti Commercial
Domestic Badinage in Texas At Phoenix Hotel
At a Dallas Phoenix hotel last night a husband and wife interacted with two pistols. The wife jokingly aimed an empty pistol while the husband, unaware, handled a loaded cylinder. She fired, the blast barely missed his heart, and the ball glanced off his vest.
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Texas
Dallas
Phoenix Hotel
Singular Swelling and Horse in Country Gentleman
The writer describes a horse’s four mile forenoon ride followed by a long ride back with water drinking. The animal becomes stiff the next day, worsens to internal swelling across multiple body regions, is bled and drenched, and after two weeks gradually improves with lingering soreness in the withers and neck areas.
Senator Carpenter's Defeat Echoed By Milwaukee Sentinel
The New York Tribune quotes Milwaukee's Sentinel lamenting Senator Carpenter's loss. The organ praises him as popular in Washington and beloved for his kindness, while blaming a jealous minority in the legislature for the defeat. The piece rhapsodizes over his broad cross party appeal and the supposed outrage of his downfall.
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New York Tribune
Senator Carpenter
Milwaukee
The
Sentinel
Washington
Old man Bender and headlines of the day
A collage of light gossip and satirical notes from the era. It mentions an old man named Bender last heard from near Cow Springs New Mexico, a lecture by Sunset Cox in Baltimore, and various social curiosities, political quips, and humorous asides about public figures and events.
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Cow Springs
N. Mex
Sunset Cox
New York
Baltimore
Alfonso
Indiana
George Washington
Leonidas
Governor Tilden Seen Riding Albany's Finest Saddle Horse
A vivid portrait portrays Governor Tilden riding daily through Albany, praised as the best horseman to hold the executive chair and noted for his vigor and youthfulness when in the stirrups. A local observer marvels at how such riding prowess coexists with a bachelor life and hints at political maneuvering among lobbyists.
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Tilden
Albany
White man and black bride wed in odd ceremony
In Glen's Falls, late at night under subzero conditions, Mr. Nichols and Miss Fitch urged a reluctant justice to marry them. The justice hesitated due to their mixed-race pairing but finally united the couple, a rare reversal of the usual racial marriage narrative.
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Mr. Nichols
Miss Fitch
Glen’s Falls
Nichola
Justice Hotchkiss
Soldier's harsh view of Grant described by Gen Stedman
Gen J B Stedman, who knew Grant "in the war," says Grant could become a danger to the country if he persists in appetite for power. He notes Grant’s despotic traits, intolerance of rivals, and unmanageability, warning such traits could alarm Washington and provoke further bloodshed.
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Grant
J. B. Stedman
Washington
Do We Need a War in Arkansas
The message of Mr Grant about Arkansas is among his most amazing and ridiculous acts. In Louisiana he had a flimsy pretext due to Congress inaction. In Arkansas he had no pretext at all, and Arkansas, no thanks to him, remains in a state of peace.
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Henry Wattergon
Louisville Courier-Journal
Indiana State University
Helen
Chicago Times
Helen Blazes
Theodore
Nashville Union
Werther
Constantinople
Horace White
Chicago Tribune
Joseph Medili
New York Tribune
Miss Berdon
Berlin
Chicago
San Francisco
New Palace
Shepherd
Frederick the Great
Buffalo Bill
Texas Jack
M’ile Morlacchi
Benecia
Boston
Wild Bill
Cheyenne
W. T. Gen. Kilpatrick
Altoona
Boston Globe
Pomeroy
Kansas
Yorke
Page
Jefferson Avenue
Firat
Beecher
Detroit Free Press
S. W. Bradstreet
Monticello
A. E. Wallace
Waterloo
Ind
Squills
China
Mr. Grant
Arkansas
Louisiana
Congress
Misa Kelldgg Promotes Opera Venture at $2500 Weekly
Misa Kelldgg earns about $2500 each week from her English opera venture. A larger orchestra and better chorus could boost her success further. The enterprise is praised as commendable and signals strong public support for quality entertainment. Johnson's Anodyne liniment marketed for horses claims to cure lameness, sprains, and colic.
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Misa Kelldgg
Johnson
Beechers Add Recruits From Investigating Committee
The Beechers were joined by two members of the investigating panel, H W Sage and H L Cleveland, as they pressed Beecher’s defense. Sage, a stern Puritan financier, could seek a receiver if Beecher is found guilty, while Cleveland displayed nervousness and offered frequent suggestions that Beecher listened to with indifference. Mrs Beecher endured illness with a fixed smile as the proceedings continued.
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Beechers
H. W. Sage
Evarts
H. L. Cleveland
Church
Fisk
Sage
Plymouth
Beecher
Bowen
Supreme Court
Christ
Cleveland
Tilton
Mrs. Beecher
Another Brooklyn Scandal Reveals School Ring Ties
The Chicago Times reports Thomas Kinsella, Eagle editor and Brooklyn school board member, faces a $15,000 damages suit for seducing the wife of Thomas Field. Miss Rachael Maguire, once a compositor, was dismissed after a public altercation with Mrs. Kinsella, later backed by Kinsella who helped Maguire gain a public school teaching post amid a widening ring of alleged misconduct.
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Thomas Kinsella
The
Eagle
Board of Education of
Brooklyn
Thomas Field
Kinsella
Rachael Maguire
Miss Maguire
Mrs. Kinsella
Mr. Kinsella
London letter on servants and noble scandal
M D Conway notes British aristocracy employ servants with chance for rogues. A duke advertised a footman exactly five feet eleven and a half inches tall to stand behind another footman. A youth heard of the ad, had his character unqueried, and was dismissed for missing half an inch.
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M. D. Conway
London
Conway
Substituting eggs for meat in daily diet
In Poultry Review the author argues for replacing meat with eggs, noting eggs provide 60 percent white and 30 percent yolk with an average weight of about two ounces. Eggs are edible without butchery, suit vegetarians, and can aid brain work due to phosphorous. Cooking tips favor four minute boil and caution against overcooking and excessive seasoning.
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Poultry Review
England
Transplanting Large Peach Trees
A reader asks if two to five year old peach trees can be relocated. Country Gentleman advises that two year trees transplant well with careful lifting and pruning. three and four year trees can succeed if roots are preserved, soil allows, and last year’s growth is cut back. Success hinges on expert handling and aftercare.
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T. W. mM
Why a Senator Did Not Take His Wife to Washington
Washington correspondence recalls a senator who joked his wife is homely, noting his reaction at a reception where he admired a passing beauty. The anecdote pivots on his remark that he thanks God daily for owning such a beauty, highlighting his aesthetic tastes.
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Washington
Boston Globe
The Art of Social Grace in Washington Letter
Newly elected Members of Congress and their wives learn the refined bow and gaze etiquette described as the social norm. A seasoned observer notes it takes four man months to master these tricks, while a Nebraska or North Carolina woman will quickly pick up the airs in one winter and teach the next newcomer.
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M. C
Nebraska
North Carolina
Washington
Senator Carpenter’s Frank Talk at Wisconsin Capital
Senator Carpenter criticized his defeat for the U S senatorship and endorsed his rival as a true and tried Republican while warning Republicans of Democratic schemes to win Wisconsin next fall. The second item notes London’s Mercantile Directory of the World, listing global agents, banks, manufacturers, and ships with a commercial glossary and multilingual indexing.
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Carpenter
Wisconsin
United States
Jas. R. Doolittle
London
Civilized World
Africa
America
Asia
Europe
Oceanica
Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Indian Chief Kills Doctor Over Ill Wife’s Belief
In a Washington territory tale a wife sick and trusting an Indian doctor persuades her chief husband to kill him. The chief, following her plan, lures the physician and fatally wounds him with a tomahawk, then reports the outcome to his wife who quickly recovers. The piece notes the sensational nature of the event and laments the idea as a possible salvation in civilized areas.
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John Chinaman
Washington Territory
Lord of the Forest
No Cure No Pay Indian Doctor in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne resident Dr. T. H. Purdy, a 40 year practitioner, advertises private medical services for chronic diseases. He claims experience with three Indian tribes, offers free consultations, and locates permanently in Fort Wayne at East Lewis Street with weekly seven day availability each month.
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Rocter
T. H. Purdy
Fort Wayne
Indiana
East Lewis Street
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint Warned By Ad Claims
An 1870s style advertisement claims 75 percent of Americans suffer from dyspepsia and liver issues with symptoms like sour stomach head pain and heartburn. It urges purchase of a 75 cent bottle or a 10 cent sample to try the remedy.
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United States
Four Evils and Dr Walker's Vinegar Bitters
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Walker's California Vinegar Bitters as a teetotal restorative that cures four evils from overfull stomach to dyspepsia and purifies the blood. It claims digestive aid, liver and bowel regulation, and broad health restoration without palate irritation.
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Walker
California
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Marion Township Institute
the Sentinel
Count de Grammont
Charless H
Frances Stewart
Britannia
Tribune
Illinois
House
White House
Courier-Journal
Sheridan
Pennsylvania
Louisiana Standard
Senator Brownlow
Knoxville
Tony Pastor
the Bowery
Man of the
Ned Vose
Colorado
Ned
Treasury
Banfield
Richardson
Mississippi
Indian Territory
Major Armstrong
Edward Everett
Senate
Sebastian
Interior Department
West End
Albany Evening Post
Civil Rights
Schenectady
Clara Louise
New York Star
Egge
Society
New York Times
Urs
Se. Louis
Thos. P. Cordrey
W. S. Buck
Buck
Cordrey
Connecticut Mutual
Life Ins. CO
East Main Street
Henry W. Aiken
Water St
Cleveland, O
Hattersley
Main Street
Clinton
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