California Steamer Central America Sinks With Massive Losses
The California mail steamer Central America foundered after a gale off Cape Hatteras, killing about 600 of 750 aboard. The disaster follows a week of storms that also sank other ships and ships’ crews report the catastrophe and the loss of specie valued at about one million six hundred thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Journal
Freeport
California
Cental America
Aspinwall
New York
Charleston
Swan
Cape Hatteras
Central America
Colin McRae
John W. Blodgett
Emily Ward
Abdel Kader
North Carolina
Wheat yields crown Winnebago as top county in state
The Rockford Register hails Winnebago as the banner wheat county with Buckeye township alone producing about 160,000 bushels. The county reportedly planted around 66,000 acres and yields likely exceed one million six hundred thousand bushels, asserting Stephenson is a close contender among northern counties.
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Warat
Rockford Register
Winnebago
Noble
Stephenson
Buckeye
Tllingis
Remarkable Cabbage Leaves Reported in Nearby Counties
A Sabula correspondence notes J. Whitson showing a radish formed into a car, measuring twenty three inches. The Louisville Courier reports Harwin McGehee left a cabbage leaf from a stalk in Trimble county, with a leaf over ten yards in circumference and more than three yards diameter.
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J. Whitson
Forinsham
Louisville Cuerier
Harwin McGehee
Trimble County
National Fair at Louisville Viewed as a Partial Effort
The St. Louis Intelligencer criticizes the Louisville National Fair as lacking a national character. It notes minimal representation from the West and few eastern items, with Kentucky not participating fully, leaving the exhibition uneven and insufficiently representative.
Mome Viade Chips and a Multitude of Domestic Duties
A fragmented 19th century style piece blends comic prose and domestic sketches. It opens with a quip on costs and virtue of counsel, wanders through moral musings on wealth and death, then shifts to humorous vignettes about household chores, a mother’s plight, and the many hats a wife must wear, ending with reflections on labor and support demands.
The Beauty of Holiness and Gunny Bapa’s Crisis
An extended, dense passage contrasts the natural and divine beauty with a tale of Gunny Bapa facing financial distress due to extravagant spending. The narrative sketches a domestic crisis as Gunny confronts his wife about impractical bills, urging retrenchment to avert ruin.
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Tiffany's
Gunny
Genny Baca
Wrrnes Wier
Gunny Bapa
Mrs. Guany
Ixet
Mrs. Caunny
Iiuing
Fardas
EOD
Guony Bass
Danust
SPECIAL NOTICES FROM A 19TH CENTURY NEWSPAPER
Special notices advertise Covent's Ague Eradicator a cure for fever and ague by druggists, plus a window glass offer from Redwood Glass Co. Clayton urges savings by buying direct. Other items promote Stainard Bitters, pianos and music by Hardee Waters, ornamental painting and female health pills. Also COSTARS insect remedies and Lacour essential oils for liquors.
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BW. Taylor
Tilledeel
Boud
Charity
Kvave
Mrs .Rames D. Cag
Jett Olur
Cross
Freddy
Tiinking
Ainnlog
Jawidresa
Bubbles
Wien
Taos
Seine
Genbeduil
Ates Dee
Mand Lown
Paul
Gunter
Woulin
Pepe
Timaera
Hedley
Vasile Nauen
Gusar
Bari
Covent
Poteren
Uho
Proprietora, Moore & Dakin
Agents
My2idachy
Redwood Glass Manufacturing Company
New-York
United States
Pittsbury
GM Clayton
Stephenson Street
Brewster House
Cig
Altea
Ge M. Clayton
Brewater
Phengon Street
Emmert & Burrell
Moore & Dakin
Freeport I
Waters
Broadway
N. T
Ated Seliesis
Wang
Adene
Poe
Lee
Clayton
Sture Oyporite Brewater Sr
Heewetranta
Charles J. Rise
Browiway
Chlichener & Co, Su
Bareliy Street
N.Y
Bismert & Burreil
Dre Corneling L. Qheesenan
Breadway
Nee-Park, Marlsdawly
Bat
Roach, &Co
Auty
Chealare
Noy
Chemical Laboratory
Pierre Laveur
Lacour
OFCO
Oturd
Laverne
Mayet
Uae
Jamey Clarke
Ared Fron
One Debhor
Goto Y
le Valuwin 40
Rochogte
Tuytle & Mores
Aubin
General Age Soll Whelesate
Telnemyts
Dawin Emmert & Berrell
Engle CO Sension
Carpenters
Jain At
Coopers
Ang Wegen
Tunis
Miost
Maved Elle
Dickot
Ry Cuulery
Coit
Log Chang
Capa Heston
Prussia
Let Pipe
Ove
Trobe
Pat Poe
Cush
Fresport
Ill
Platt
Oly
Ted Vanpiet
Estiek Muilders
York
Newsyork
Pat Storh
Ivesser Probearl i
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