Monroe Railroad meeting urged for June 12 1869
The Monroe railroad group held a meeting amid weather fears with strong turnout from Freeport Monroe and Superior supporters. Some questioned a railroad act as constitutional and feared extra taxes, while officials urged public lawyers to opine in the JOURNAL. An adjourned meeting is set for June 12 in Orangeville at noon. all interested are invited.
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En. Journal
Freeport
Monroe
Supreme Court
Freeport, Monroe and Superior Railroad
Electric motor aids sewing machines in a self acting work force
French engineer M. H. Cazal has invented a compact electric motor that drives sewing machines, replacing foot pedals with electric action. The device uses zinc fuel, costs about sevenpence half-penny per day for full operation, and can run by electricity or by a person’s strength. It promises safer, labor saving help for mothers and domestic workers and could extend to other applications beyond sewing machines.
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Mons. H. Cazal
M. Cazal
Bunsen
Pennyworth of Zinc
Lesson of Self-Reliance From a Presidential Aide
A Judge gives his son a thousand dollars to graduate college. The son spends it all by freshman year, learns to fend for himself, enters college with nothing, and rises to become William H. Seward. His success after leaving home underscores the value of self effort.
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William
New York
United States
William FH. Sewardfall
Remarkable landscape photograph on surveyor lens
From Elliott in San Joaquin County comes a note describing a surveyor's instrument that bears a vivid landscape on its front lens. The owner claims the scene formed under unknown natural laws about fifteen years ago, when the instrument sat in direct sun facing a woodland and later photographed in its original colors. Tuolumne News reports the curious incident.
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Elliott
San Joaquin County
Tuolumne
Cal
Oldest Odd Fellow in Rhode Island Passes 87
The Newport Lodge Rhode Island honors Benjamin Downing the oldest Odd Fellow in the world at 87. He has been a member for 61 years and remains in good health. Downing witnessed the first Grand Lodge organization in New York in 1823 and is the only surviving member of that ceremony. He belongs to the Columbia Lodge of New York but lives in Newport and is cared for by Newport Lodge members.
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Newport Lodge
Rhode Island
Benjamin Downing
Downing
New York
Ife
Columbia Lodge
Newport
Breton peasant and barber tale from Rambaillet
A Breton peasant traveling to Paris stops at a Rambaillet barber shop. While the barber straps the razor the man notices a dog fixedly watching him. The barber explains the dog is always there to watch as the barber cuts water from a place, ending with a quirky miscue.
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Paris
Rambaillet
Panedemonium of Music Boxes in Geneva
A Green Bay editor describes Geneva music box manufactories with instruments playing up to sixty four tunes and others over forty. Displays include bell chimes, celestial voices, drums, and portable barrels for tune variety. Prices range from forty to one hundred fifty dollars.
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Green Bay
Wis
Geneva
President Compares Loyal Clerks To Veteran Officers
A Washington letter notes political pressure to remove a clerk with over twenty years of service. The president advised that faithful workers deserve protection, saying such clerks have lost political identity and should be spared from removals. He urged department heads to avoid targeting long-serving staff.
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Washington
Boston Post
Treasury Bureaus
Beaux Cathedral Clock Surpasses All Known Clocks
A Beauvais cathedral clock, described as the finest of its kind, contains about 90 000 wheels and indicators. It tracks days of the week month year zodiac time in various zones planets and moon phases with leap year adjustment. The main dial spans twelve feet and the cost exceeds $50 000.
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Beauvais
France
Chinese savings bank eyed for San Francisco
A Chinese savings bank is planned in San Francisco, expected to unlock at least five million dollars hoarded in old stockings by thrifty Celestials. The passage also references a horse associated with Phil Sheridan and a stable in Dubuque, noting origins near Winchester.
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Phil
Sheridan
Winchester
C. E
Merry
Dubuque
San Francisco
Coliseum Jubilee Work Nears Completion in Boston
Contractors push ahead on the Coliseum showing rapid progress with the exterior brackets caps and sills, pilasters and neutral paint. Fire safety measures planned include a steam engine full fire crew and hydrants while gas fixtures go in and a press telegraph room and four ticket offices are set to aid the Jubilee.
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Marhmoth
Coliseum
St. James Avenue
Dartmouth Street
Camrell
Boston
Boston Singers
Music Hall
New Telegraph Lines Seek Lower Rates in Midwest
A Detroit telegraph group calling itself the People’s Line plans to cover Western Union routes in Michigan and other neighbors. It promises twenty cents for ten words or less and aims to pressure Congress for further cuts to five cents below Hubbard’s rate. Similar efforts arise in Indiana and possibly this state, amid a push to end the monopoly and spark competitive, cheaper messaging nationwide.
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People’s Line
Michigan
Western Union Company
Hubbard
Indiana
Peoria Transcript
Public debt decrease and timely economy praised
The New York Tribune notes that the public debt has fallen due to honest administration. Last month cut by over two and a half million. this month nearly prepared for a further drop of over two million. About eighty million in Treasury gold remains idle, with some legally used for interest and bond purchases. The piece urges law obedience to leverage the money’s value and predicts a twenty five million reduction in the next monthly statement.
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New York
Hartford Hotel Bath Incident Ends in Misunderstanding
A hotel guest in Hartford disappeared for an hour prompting the proprietor to fear a fatal act. He found the stranger washing a shirt and waiting for it to dry, the man later stating he had merely stepped in to bathe and had not intended harm.
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Hartford
Photographs From A Vanished Circle Of Kin And Friends
A memoir voice reflects on a family photo album's portraits from Brown and Smift kin to New York Van Deckers. It tracks aged relatives, cavalry captains, Boston cousins, and a Montana congress hopeful amid a wistful sense of drift and separation. The piece laments fading ties and growing indifference, recalling Gail Hamilton and Christian Register sentiments.
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Brown
Jooard
James
Matis
New York
van Deckers
Smithville
Van_ Decker
Solomon
Iere
Boston
Fannie
Julia Juniper
Jim
Montana
Congress
Gail Hamilton
Illinois town assessors to mark school district numbers
State law requires town assessors to write the district number beside each assessment of personal property. County Clerks must copy these numbers into the collector’s book and apply the district rate. Officials must prepare assessment blanks with the new columns. The act takes effect after passage.
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Illinois
General Assembly
Tree of Liberty Prompted Ban in French Town
In a small French town resident M A B sought to quiet his dark damp home by removing a nearby tree owned by the commune. He advertised in Paris papers that a 1793 Tree of Liberty stood near his house. Three days later the Paris Prefecture ordered the Mayor to cut the tree, which was done.
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France
Paris Opers
Paris
Auctioned living falls short of reserve price in England
An English living valued at £708 per year failed to meet the reserve at auction. The auctioneer noted there was good society and hunting nearby and suggested offering £100 a year to a curate for duties such as tending the sick. He estimated a net profit of about £600 for the rector if the deal closed. The external bid for the parish’s spiritual care reached only £4,800.
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England
Chicago lamp post ad lease vs police and fireback placards
A proposal to lease Chicago lamp posts for advertising is countered by a bid to placard the backs of city police and firemen. The competing plans reflect debates over public space usage and revenue sources in the city.
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Chicago
Water proof paper patent advances milk bag use
A patent has been granted for making water proof paper. The innovation could lead to carrying a quart of milk home in a paper bag, a common sight in the future.
Wealthy farmer buys wife from servant in Illinois tale
The St Louis Evening Post recounts Jacob Strawn of Sackville Illinois, a rich hog and cattle dealer, choosing a servant girl as his wife after a businesslike courtship. He offers a week to decide, presents $1000 for wedding outfits, and they wed on Wednesday, becoming a notably happy couple in Illinois.
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St. Louis Evening Post
Jacob: Strawn
Jacob Strawn
Sacksbtville
Tilnsois
Tventy
Jacob
Eive
Owever
Mr. Strawn
Angel
Jacksonville
Democrac
Fihery
Fair Maid
Illinois
Knox County Board backs local record books buy
The Knox county Board of Supervisors passes a resolution urging county officers to purchase their record books and stationery from local Kane County printers instead of Culver Page Hoyne. The Aurora Beacon notes the move as simple justice to Kane County printers who tax themselves for county information.
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Knox County Board, of Supervisors
Culver, Page & Hoyne
Kane County
Knox County
Aurora Becon
Laughing-gas man Colton makes fortune after failure
The Colton mentioned is Walter Colton’s brother, famed for risking ventures like lithographs of Peale’s Court of Death. After years of misfortune, he pioneered nitrous oxide shows in New England cities before gas dentistry. The scheme now yields about forty thousand dollars annually.
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Colton
Walter Colton
Peale
New England
St. Paul
Topper Corn Sowing For Fodder In Agricultural Practice
Agricultural notes discuss sowing corn for fodder with regional timing. Northern varieties may be planted as late as August while Southern sorts require earlier sowing. Techniques include deep planting, harrowing, furrows three to four feet apart, stacking into large stacks or chimneys for fermentation, and storing as rough hay substitute at about $10 per ton.
CUCUMBERS AND SQUASHERS PRACTICE DESCRIBED
A description of a growing method using osier twigs and paper sheets to form umbrella like covers over melons squashes and cucumbers. It explains how the bows support the paper and how earth or stones stabilize the edge to prevent blowing away and retain warmth for earlier growth.
Carrinas Gra and the grow of currant oil in summer
A fragment from Wisconsin merg that discusses methods to preserve moisture and sustenance for crops. It mentions Maxks Carrinas Gra and the idea of boiling potatoes to aid growth, claiming experience with currant or gooseberry oil and potential applicability to grape cut.
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Maxks
Carrinas
Wisconsin
Mer
Apple borer extermination method described in journal
Instructions propose bending a three foot half inch lead pipe into a right angle fit to the borers hole. The pipe stands upright as a water tunnel is filled with boiling water to kill the insect without harming the plant.
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S. A
Journal of Horticulture
Agricultural land measures and conversions
An agricultural column lists various field dimensions in yards and feet, converting to area. Entries show widths and lengths such as 5 yds by 8 yds, 10 yds by 484 ft, 40 yds by 121 yds, and other combinations, indicating land area under cultivation through mixed unit measurements.
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Rarnm Journ
Internal Revenue Record Warns Grocers on Stamp Taxes
The notice informs grocers nationwide that many risk penalties for failing to stamp taxable goods. Sardines, anchovies, syrups, prepared mustard, jams and jellies, meat and fish and cosmetics require stamps based on weight, with one cent per two pounds and higher rates for excess. Penalties reach ten dollars per offense. Vendors are urged to post the Internal Revenue notices to save time and money.
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United
Peonies Thrive Despite Ant Troubles After Summer Work
A short garden note advises driving ants from plant beds by applying a weak solution of poison around root zones. The writer reports good peony performance this summer and describes successful pest control and healthy blooms.
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Pxon
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Monroe Railroad
Om & Borton
Boston ‘National
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