Training Horses and Grapevines Highlight Older Wonders
The article discusses gentler horse training focusing on early handling to avoid cruelty by breakers. It cites a seven year old cavalry horse turned wagon draft and shows humane outcomes when colt education precedes professional breaking. It also describes a massive grape vine over thirty six inches wide at five feet and weighing several tons with a rival 11 year old vine covering a dancing hall roof, both praised as world scale curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
How to Keep Butter Sweet
Advice from Correspondence Rural World on preserving butter by storing in clean jars with strong brine or in oak casks headed tight. Warns against poor butter and explains careful churning to maintain grain and avoid grease, noting best results in winter and summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ajar
A Strange Hanging Affair Near Pond City
Sheridan dispatch reports John Langford, about twenty two and half Indian, taken by Vigilance Committee at Pond City to hang for crimes. He refused death by them, hanged himself using a rope after boots removed, admitting six murders and threatening further killings. He said his Maker was poor and vowed to meet them in hell with hemp ropes. Langford had led a desperate border life across frontier regions.
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Strance Hanngiina
Leavenworth Times
Sheridan
Kansas
Pond City
John Langford
Vigilance Committee
Hell
Langford
Tie
Diabolical plot to destroy a U S frigate revealed
A plot to destroy the U S frigate Sabine at Cherbourg involved 60 midshipmen from the Naval Academy. Twenty two crewmen attempted to burn the powder magazine. seven conspirators were condemned to death and hanged. The Sabine carried 3878 seamen and 42 marines with 123 musicians and 19 officers.
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United States
Sabine
Cherbourg
France
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Baltimore
Mmarines
Conductor Tricks Man With Wife Meet on Train
A man ask a conductor about a striking woman with a book. The conductor introduces his wife from New York, joking that the man must meet her. The admirer stumbles, then offers the conductor a basket of champagne to keep quiet, with a playful promise of more drink at the next stop.
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Tsay
tYes
Jove
Chicago
Rochester
New York
Detroit
The changing image of doctors through time
A reflection on how the term doctor has evolved from a revered, educated healer to a common title spanning varied professions. The piece contrasts old dignified physicians with modern figures whose true expertise is unclear, noting shifts in social perception and authority.
Fireplace pits and curfew bells in medieval housing
In medieval Europe fires were built in central floor cavities with roof openings to vent smoke. When extinguished families retired and a cover closed the pit. A common law required fires to be out and all at home by a specific evening hour, signaled by a bell later known in England as the Curlew.
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England
Boston drug store whisky ruse ends with tongue roots tale
An errant customer at a Boston drug store buys whisky claiming it is for roots of the tongue and drinks it. A clerk warns him, noting the ruse. Governor Senter plans to summon Tennessee’s Legislature before term ends to adopt the Fifteenth Amendment. A boarding school returnee mocks slang words like hillious and Williamous.
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Boston
Senter
Tennessee
Hillious
German-Themed Marriage Tale Through Comic Courtroom Ordeal
A fragmentary historical tale depicts Katrina’s courtship misadventures with Gotlib and a courtship scramble. Attempts to marry alternative suitors fail as Katrina selects Fritz, securing a lawful union amid comic dialogue and the judge’s cheerful catharsis.
miscellany of quotes, quips and anecdotes from Michigan paper
A Michigan paper recounts a humorous traveler on a Jackson express who questions every station to Adrian, Tecumseh, and Manchester, insisting “That’s not I tho’t.” An offended woman contemplates funeral invitation snubs. Other bits include Uncle Van Heyde, Sir Walter Scott with Tom Purdie, and remarks from Horace Greeley and Theodore Parker on society, editors, and women.
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Michigan
Jackson
Poleno
Manch’ter
Manchester
Tecumseh
Adrian
Uncle van Heyde
Walter Scott
Wallka
Om Purdie
Tom
Walter
Alexander I. Stephens
Horace Greeley
Augusta
Stephen Girard
Theodore Parker
Saratoga
New Orleans
Prentice
General Butler
Brick Pomeroy
National Labor Union
A Mixed Bag of 19th Century Nonsense and Tips
A fragmentary column mocks dramatic prose and printing vanity, praises cheerful living, and quotes Jennie June on the modern wife. It notes a humor piece about Robert Dexter King and the St. Louis Ledger, and mentions agri reports hinting at a corn crop decline from 1868 data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnor
Tligke
St. Louis
Eucbiti
Robert Dexter
New York Ledger
Turf
Dale
Ledger
Central Park
Benoys
Jennie June
Bureau of Agriculture
Chicago Timetable Arrivals and Departures Scene
Chicago timetable lists arrivals and departures for the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad. It notes Day Express and Night Express services with times around 4:46 pm to 10:08 pm and mentions passengers for the Jacksonville Division transferring at Bloomington to connect with Bloomington trains on that division.
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Chicago, Alton & ST. Louis Railroad
Joliet
Bloomington
Jacksonville
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
BR. Rh
Dever—Connor van Burgn
Sherman Sts
Ccs
Penn
Burlin IN
Milwaukee
Nietee
Grand Haven
Chicago & Northwestan Railroad
Clark and
Lake Street
Council Bluffs
Omaha
North Wells Street
Cave
Clinton
Pacific Mast
Pacine
Dixon
Beferee
Kenosha Passeveer
Wankoguo
Millwaukee
Wisconsin Vision
Janesville
Woudastoclk
Gko
L.dun Lap
BF. Patrick
Illinois Central Railroad Union
Scaseree Reeef
Keokuk
Kankakee
Hyde Park & Oak. Woods
W. P. Jornson
Joseph. Tucker
Michigan Central Railroad
Union Devor
Licketreet
Mall
ViNce
Pactule
UX Pyoba
Kalamazoo
Cincinnati
Louisville
Day TX Press
Wintworth
Columbus
Chicago & India
Ocorner Canal
Kinzie Streets
Micket
Randolph
Dearborn Streets
Cincinnati Air Link
Cincinnati Express
Cincinnnati
General Northwestern
Mlinira
Wuarringburg
Philadelphia
South
Owego
Ithaca
Binghaumton
Syracuse
Lackawaxen
Honesdale
Middletown
Unionville
Goshen
Montgomery
Greycourt
Newburgh
Warwick
Jersey City
Ixpress
New Jersey Railroad
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Freeport Journal
James S. McCalis
Hpstor
Propiu Rto
Young Men’s Christian Association of
Rock Island
Jane Reed
Lasalle, TL
Ezchuen
China
Tracist
N. I
Gotlib
Katrina
Mit Hans
Hans
Mit Shoseph
Shoseph
Fritz
Pritz
Pittsburg
Fast Express
Night Express
Bt. Joseph, A
Green Bay
Sci
Michigan Southern Railroad
van Buren and
South Clark Street
Ascommunioaallon Osterever Bam
Vepner
Pacific Xpress
Wayans & Chicagq
Erie
Railwanx
Anglandoitirg
Dunkirk
Miter
Buffalo
dVew
York
Cleveland
Neiled
Erieallway Depot
Leavittaburg
Meadville
Hornellsville
Connietts
Youngstown
City
Himirea
Northern Central Railway
Harrisburg
New Jersey
Miladelphia
Washington
Leavittaburgh
Susquehanna
Tub Hornallsville
Hornedisville
Avon
Ted. A
Dully
Ava
Bal- Bhsutassul
Michigan Sts
Avon and
Hornealsville
Elmira
Philladelphia
New England
Erie Railway
Bhemung Susquehanna
Delaware
Hamapo
Thea
RRIE
H. Riddle
Wm.r. Barr
INVEY
AM Bay
Atént
Theo
Ste
Stephenson
Srerzinea
N. Dee
Serred
Simon Gents
John Ss. Mil
Terrell & Sherma
Scilool
Howard House
Stephenson Street
Freeport
Illinois
L. G. Joran
M. O'Keefe
M. O'Keefe, Son & CO
Enwanger & Barry's
J., Rocha
Stephenson St
Freepot
Messrs. B
Ne Roche
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