Prairie land in glow of thriving farm report
Northwestern Illinois sketches show lush prairie land after severe winter and late spring with promising crops. Farmers note robust livestock, growing corn area, Shorthorn cattle sales at Dexter Park, and plans for Farmers Institute in Stephenson County.
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Colorado
Atlantic Sea
West
Dexter Park
Chicago
Iowa
Illinois
Missouri
Entucky
Ohio
Kansas
Michigan
Canada
Indiana
New York
Connecticut
J. R. Shelly
Shannon
Ill
Stephenson Co
Common Council
Freeport
Farmers’ Institute For Mental Improvement
Grange
Granger
IM. B. Derrick
Baileyville
Germantown
Musical Fishes and the Song of Fishes in the Sea
A.Author discusses that real fishes and mollusks produce sounds, not mermaids. John C. Galton notes fifty two of over 3,000 species make sound. Sir J Emerson Tennant described his observations near Batticaloa on the island of Ceylon.
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Corie Cooleero Crado
E. Tennant
Bombay
Europe
Fort Macon
North Carolina
John C. Galton
Aishes
J. Emerson Tennant
Ceylon
Batticaloa
Moody and Sankey invited to Eton visit denied
The piece reports Moody and Sankey exciting England with religious preaching and a proposal they visit Eton College near Windsor. Parliament debates arose, and Governors of Eton forbade the visit, backing a liberal American view that they could benefit the students. The author argues the two evangelists would cause no harm and could help the youths.
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Moody and Sankey
England
Eton
Eton College
Moody
Sankey
Chicago
Thurlow Weed and Tweed Report Blackwell’s Island Relief
Thurlow Weed, a powerful New York political figure, aided William M. Tweed at Blackwell’s Island. Tweed, grateful, sought Weed’s help to escape confinement, but Weed warned the governor’s limited power to intervene in Tweed’s case.
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Burleigh
New York
Boston
Thurlow Weed
Tweed
Mr. Weed
Blackwell's Island
Rebels and a Texas college offer on the rails
Two Southern men aboard a train between Gilveston and Houston discuss Governor Coke offering Jefferson Davis the presidency of the Texas Mechanical and Agricultural College at Bryan with a four thousand dollar salary. A Michigan cavalry private interrupts predicting Davis’s broader mission to free the South. The exchange ends with a boastful gambler-like stance on Davis. In a second tale, Cooley’s failed attempt to stop a setting hen leads to a dramatic explosion injuring Mrs. Cooley, leaving an uneasy aftermath and a lesson learned about future hen setting.
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Bettween
Gilveston
Houston
Texas
Coke
Jefferson
Texas Mechanical“and Agriculural College
Bryan
Pears
Tieans
Jefferson Davis
Cap'n
Mr. Davis
South
Cooley
Coolley
Mré
Codley
Danbury
Double Murder at Marrissa Illinois on Railroad
A double murder occurred near Marrissa Illinois along the Belleville and Southern Illinois Railroad. William Class's grocery bar room hosted laborers where disputes led to a fatal knife attack by Anselm Russell who killed John Grimes and mortally wounded John Kelsey before fleeing. Russell, from Mississippi County Missouri, was arrested by Constable Finney and a surrounding posse. Grimes died within hours. Kelsey survives with grave injuries.
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St. Louis
Marrissa
Ill
Belleville & Southern Illinois
William
Anselm Russell
John Grimes
Russell
John Kelsey
Finney
Yamod
Grimes
Kelsey
Mississippi County
Blandville
The Mys Willing Name Mix-Up Angers Editors
An editorial dispute questions Jennie F Willing’s marital status. The Jacksonville Journal mocks the mislabel while the Chicago Journal asserts she is married to Rey Willing, Joliet district presiding elder, with the surname Fowler incidentally tied to Dr. Fowler of Evanston.
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Jennie F. Willing
Jacksonville Journal
Jack
Journal
Willing
Rey
Joliet
Fowler
Evanston
Chicago Journal
Small-Fisted Farmer from Peoria Transcript
Michael Sullivant, a Ford county farmer, operates 22,000 acres of corn with 6,000 oats and flax across 18,000 own-channeled acres. He uses 400 teams and employs 800 people on his large farm, sharing 4,000 corn acres on shares.
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Peoria
Michael Sullivant
Ford County
Sullivant
A Chicago Boy's Whistling Run On State Street
A boy wheels a loaded barrow down State Street in Chicago, crosses Randolph, and collides with a plank. He flies over the barrow like a cannonball, hits his head on a pendant, and is scolded by an angry old gentleman who trips and falls. The boy taunts him, then vaults into a nearby shuttle-hole as the old man crashes after him. He escapes, whistling, down the street.
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State Street
Randolph Street
Beloit Water Case Tells Of The Magnesian Spring
A Beloit man drank Beloit sodo magnesian spring water found in a carriage seat near Coon Creek Menoo. He said the drink made him exhilarated and he returned for more as he sought more mineral water. Police traced the owner to the river bank where eel bobbing occurred and identified the man as Agersoll.
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Coon Creek Menoo
Agersoll
Beloit
Rockton Herald
Elephants in NY Circus Debt Dispute Turmoil
Three elephants from De Haven's Hip Podrome were moved from Albany to settle a debt and sent west by railroad. In Rochester Sheriff guards them after a night raid by men seeking to reclaim the animals. The herd remains kept as they reportedly "eating their own heads off" under detention, with ongoing trouble over housing and care.
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New York
de Haven
Albany
Rochester
Havven
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Annals of Farm Machinery
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