The Cottage and the Valley of Contentment
Minnie and Flavia visit a cottage valley where Flavia dreams of city luxuries and Minnie clings to homely comforts. A fairy guides Minnie to a fantasy that she prefers Brunette the cow and the cozy cottage over wealth, leading Minnie to a sunset return home and a lesson on happiness.
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Harold
Minnie
Thig
Flavia
Harry
Big L
Plavia
Abe
Bowne
Breen
Raita
Woniafi
France
Kata Led
Tory
Sue France
Alice
Brunette
You
Misfortunes accumulate for Jeff Davis in Virginia
The piece laments Jeff Davis facing multiple harms from slavery legacy to Richmond mansion used as a schoolhouse. It notes a former slave owning his plantation now a camp, a Democratic muzzle on his voice, and a dawning era of literacy seen as torment to him, framing the treason balance against peace.
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Jeff Davis
Vicksburg
Massa
Richmond
Democratic Committee
Stephenson Street
Illinois
Stephenson County
Adna
Freeport
Violent Syracuse Storm Causes Severe Damage and Fatality
A severe storm swept Syracuse at 2 PM, with a second blast an hour later. High winds felled large trees and unrooted a High School and barns. Lightning struck multiple locations including residences of Senator Kennedy and Alderman Howlett, and the Binghamton Railroad engine house. A dwelling was set ablaze six miles west, carpenter Eugene Harris was killed, and walnut-sized hail damaged crops across surrounding towns.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Geddes
Barnes
Senator Kennedy
Alderman
Howlett
Binghamton
Eugene Harris
Guardian angel of Sumner to oversee hash project
A female, lacking stamps, walked from Maine to Washington to tell Senator Sumner she was his guardian angel and would supervise his hash. She mailed letters along the way describing progress as Sumner hurried to the capitol. Police briefly arrested her and arranged a purse to send her home.
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Maine
Washington
Sumner
Capitol
Mr. S
Wet money sticks to conductors in rain soaked joke
A New Haven paper recalls a popular conductor in a heavy rainstorm trying to make change. His wet bills stuck to his fingers, provoking a quip from a sleeping lady who notes money sticks to conductors when wet but slips out of them quickly when dry.
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New Haven
Public debt shows June reduction of 7.1 million dollars
The Wasmaoron monthly debt statement reports a $7,108,849.61 decline for June. Coin balance stands at $866,839.00 with currency balance $95,838.63 and coin certificates $19,886,800.
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Wasmaoron
Republican prospects in the 1873 campaign
The article argues the Republican party will face strong opposition from the Democrats as it seeks victory in 1873. It warns that Southern Democratic leaders and pro Confederacy symbols threaten national credit and Union preservation, urging Northern unity against perceived Southern danger.
State Convention Move Urged for Chicago
The Peoria Democrat argues the state convention should be held in Chicago for better hotels and healthier atmosphere. It accuses Peoria area politics of corruption and recalls past GOP convention impressions to urge a Chicago venue.
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Peoria Democrat
Central Committee
Chicago
Illinois
Peorians
Bloomington
Josh Billings Note on Work and Pleasure
The humorist Josh Billings argues that a boy dragging a heavy sled for fleeting fun is wiser than a man who works all week and spends his wages on Saturday night. He frames labor and leisure as a contrast highlighting practical wisdom.
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Josh Billings
Fireworks Display Follows Lighted Cigar Incident
A man on Montgomery street Jersey City dropped a lit cigar stump onto a firecracker stand causing a fireworks display as a crowd gathered and two fire engines responded. Separately, Atkine and wife plunged 659 feet from a Blue Ridge peak with Mrs Atkins mangled but Mr Atkins surviving.
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Montgomery Street
Jersey City
Atkine
Blue Ridge Mountains
Evansville man injured in ice-cellar plunge
An ebony Evansville resident fell fifteen feet into an ice-cellar and crushed a two hundred pound iceberg. He then turned himself upright and lamented in dialect, Fo de Lord, boss, I'se sorry I broke that ice, I is, sartin.
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Evansville
Pleasanton Resigns as Internal Revenue Commissioner
General Pleasanton steps down from the Internal Revenue Bureau amid Treasury Department scrutiny. The paper urges appointing a practical-sense leader to head the agency.
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Treasury Department
General Pleasanton
Internal Revenue Bureau
Tragedy in Patoka: Downey Daughters Die in Oil Fire
On the 26th ultime two Downey children, ages nine and eleven of Patoka Wisconsin, started a kitchen fire by pouring coal oil on the stove. The oil ignited, burning them severely and they died within hours.
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William A. Downey
Patoka
Wis
Remedy for Ear Ailment in Children
There is scarcely any ache to which children are subject as the ear ache with a remedy that never fails. Take a bit of cotton batting with a pinch of black pepper, dip in sweet oil, insert in the ear, and cover with a warm flannel headband for immediate relief.
Grandmother Tries Morality Lesson on Minced Oaths
A five year old learns about oaths from his grandmother who explains that phrases like by golly or by thunder are minced oaths. The boy responds with a quip about a big oath in the newspaper by telegraph, leaving the lesson unsettled.
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Golly
Telegraph
Murderer John Reed Captured Near Shabbona
John Reed, the man accused of killing Miss Johan a McCormick, was captured near Shabbona one mile from the crime scene on Saturday. Representative Pritchard seized him as he emerged from under a barn. Despite intense excitement, influential men stopped a lynching, and Reed had recently traveled to Aurora and back while prowling the area.
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John Reed
Johanna McCormick
Shabbona
Pritchard
Reed
Aurora
Editor Seeks Personal Security Amid Democratic Discord
The Montgomery Alabama State Journal editor discusses threats to personal safety amid intense Democratic division. He condemns hostility toward the Union and warns that Northern Democrats should heed the pro-secession rhetoric of Jeff Davis and Bob Toombs and their followers in the former Confederate states.
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Montgomery
State Journal
Union
North
Jeff Davis
Bob Toombs
Confederate States
Brave boy saves sentry by pleading to go first
A Paris correspondent recalls a 13 year old boy found fighting who begged to take a friend’s silver watch home before being shot. The officer spared him, the boy returned to face the wall and offered to be fired at. The captain, amused, scolded him and barred him from the post.
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Paris
William Polk Hegat Sullcitur Clerk Notice
A terse public notice lists William Polk Hegat as clerk and references I C Lawyer with a compliant notation Sullcitur 16-12-4w. The readable fragment suggests an official filing or legal record involves these names and a date code.
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William Polk
I. C
Erie Railway Extension Promises 1400 Miles of Travel
The Erie Railway spans 1400 miles in one system with 860 miles run without changing coaches. It highlights principal routes through New York and New England and the oil regions of Pennsylvania.
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New England
Pennsylvania
Rochester
Buffalo
Unkirk
Cleveland
Newark
Cincinnati
Clevelan
Hornellsville
Boston
Erie Railway Company
Jersey City
Erie Railway
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