Mormon Church Faces Sale Plan to Eastern Investors
The church leadership under the president and twelve apostles is pressed to sell principal holdings to a syndicate of eastern capitalists. John W. Young, Brigham Young's son, has pursued hearings with financiers for a potential migration to Mexico. Observers note limited common property, district apostle control, and ban on Mormon trade with Gentiles, shaping a possible monopoly through land sales.
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Imon Church
PeThe
Mexico
Utah
John W. Young
Brigham Young
Young
I Disobeyed Grandpa on Swimming Told by Mrs Dall
The excerpt records a boy named Thomas denying a grandfather’s command about swimming. His mother questions him while he explains his grandfather only advised against swimming, not giving explicit instruction to refrain.
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Thomas
Healthful tonics and remedies advertise widely
An advertisement column touts Stomach Bitters Dr John Bull s Sarsaparilla Brown s Iron Bitters and PA Kline s Great Nerve Restorer as cures for sea sickness malaria dyspepsia and general debility. It urges readers to seek tonics for energy health blood and digestion with testimonials and household product claims.
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Kline
Dar
Arch St. Philo
Farm and Home Poultry Breeding and Vermin Dipping Notes
This column covers broody hen management and best months to hatch chicks, advising two year old or older birds for reliable setting. It also discusses poultry lice and tick control on sheep using a kerosene emulsion dip, with detailed mixing guidance and timing for dips after shearing.
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Houdania
Uae
Joseph Harris
Roads and water shape a region’s progress and health
A rural essay laments mud roads hindering prosperity and schooling, arguing better winter travel, fresh water for poultry, and honest breeding advice boost growth. It cites Roman roads as example, urges enterprise, and warns against cheap, untested hybrids.
Clover failure in soils prompts new seed strategies
The article notes widespread clover failure across farms due to poor soil and disease-like conditions. It suggests elaborate sowing with other seeds may yield improvements, but persistent decline even after years of cultivation points to a new soil element causing the poor catch.
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England
The farmer’s risk and the fertilizer question
A discussion of fertilizer costs, risks, and profit limits for farmers. The piece notes that a ton of chewicals costing 50 dollars at the city depot must cover freight, land application, and other incidentals. It argues that if the increase only matches costs, there is no profit and asks who bears the risk, suggesting insurance for fertilizer and cautioning against farmers dosing their own crops.
Practical Household Health Tips From Daily Observations
A compact guide advises peppermint essence in hot water to ease infant colic, ensuring fresh air circulation while avoiding draughts, and using carbolic acid as a disinfectant. It also recommends hot water with lemon juice for biliousness, no sugar, taken twice daily, and emphasizes careful baby care, warm light clothing, and flannel as ideal year round.
Practical Farmhouse Tips From An Old Journal Gentlemen
Practical advice on cooking clarified butter bread storage and sauces. guidance on selecting salt mackerel, marrow use, and making soup from kitchen scraps. Horse care covers water, rest, flies and horseback riding rising in popularity with prices noted.
Mosquito Tales From Barnegat Bay And Beyond
The piece recalls historic Barnegat Bay marshes where massive mosquito swarms darkened skies, attacked people and even killed a child. It contrasts past vigilance with today’s more comfortable coastal life, noting mosquitoes torment both rural and urban dwellers in warm seasons and warn against underestimating their ferocity.
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Barnegat Bay
Barnagat Bay
New Jersey
New York
Custom House
New York Press
A Submarine Oceanic Railroad Idea
A St. Louis Republic note proposes a deep sea railway beneath 100 fathoms to Cape Clear Ireland and Cape Race Newfoundland. A continuous iron tube would carry trains, but smoke suffocation in a submarine tube is cited as the only major obstacle to this grand oceanic railroad.
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Atlantic
French Academy
Neptune
Cape Clear
Ireland
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Grand Oceanic Railroad
St. Louis Republic
Newborn Cherub Described in Effusive Fashion
In a cordial exchange Mrs Newman and Mrs Winkler compare infants with Mrs Newman declaring Winkler’s baby perfectly lovely a delicate cherub with heavenly blue eyes a sweet mouth and a tiny rosy nose. The other asks if it matches their own baby and is greeted with a playful mercy remark.
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Mrs. Newman
Thibet Jangym encyclopedia deposited in British Museum
The Asiatic Society of Bengal obtained a copy of the Jangym, a massive Tibetan Buddhist encyclopedia. It comprises 225 volumes, each two feet long and six inches thick. Only two copies are believed to exist outside Thibet.
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British Museum
Asiatic Society of Bengal
Thibet
Englishman Secures Madagascar Mining Concession
An Englishman wins a government concession in Madagascar granting rights to select up to 3,600 square miles across multiple districts for sixty years. He may mine gold or other minerals with no royalty, paying £60,000 in cash and £200,000 in shares, and all machinery will be admitted free of duty.
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Madagascar
Crowned bed of Po land king with Smyrna gold braid
Describes a royal bed from Po land’s last king, richly adorned with Smyrna gold braid and turquoise embroidery, verses from the Koran, and silver gilt supports with enameled jeweled medallions. It recalls being taken from the Turkish camp before Vienna where Mahomet’s standard stood.
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Poland
Smyrna
Vienna
Mahomet
Veteran horse Ivanhoe bears scar from Mexican War
A Louisville Kentucky owned horse named Ivanhoe is over forty seven years old and carries a gunshot wound scar on his right flank from Buena Vista during the Mexican War.
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Louisville
Ivanhoe
Buena Vista
Gulf of Mexico Rise Cited From 1851 and 1882 Surveys
A Times Democrat writer notes surveys from 1851 and 1882 show the Gulf of Mexico has risen over one foot since the tent-named period, presenting a coastal change claim with historical measurements and date anchors.
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New Orleans Times- Democrat
Gulf of Mexico
Specimen distrust a draft for 65000 marks for an annuity
A letter from a New York company describes insuring European elites including German nobles in Bonn Paris Warsaw and Isabella ex-Queen of Spain. It notes rewards from mails with insurance proceeds totaling large sums and mentions princes dukes counts and other aristocrats, plus a Danish baron and a Napoleon era connection.
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Frankfort-on the-Main
Europe
Bonn
Germany
Sergiuszew
Warsaw
Paris
Prince Orloff
Prince Philippe Marie d'‘Orleans
Spain
House of Orleans
Isabella
Blixen-Finecke
Princess of Wales
Russia
Greece
Maria Louisa
Napoleon
New York Sun
Short sword bayonets and their faults in Soudan battles
The London Telegraph discusses bayonet quality in the Soudan campaign. It notes the inferior English sword bayonet and its tendency to bend, corkscrew, or fail when a bone blocks thrusts. It cites Tamai and Abu Klea as tests, remarks on triangular bayonets going too far, and recalls soldiers bending or discarding weapons to fight on.
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el Teb
Tamai
Soudan
Black Watch
Tanai
Nile
Abu Klea
London Telegraph
Boyton Rescues Man in Breakers Then Refuses Reward
A Philadelphia News writer recalls Boyton saving a man overwhelmed by the undertow and carried from shore. The exhausted sufferer offered 50 cents for a drink, but Boyton declined the money and returned change, keeping 49 cents in coins as a reminder. The tale also touches on a tonic advertisement later in the passage.
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Pailadelphia News
Boyton
Paul
Mrs Logan and the Cranks Stir a Springfield Visit
Mrs Logan confronted a crank claiming to be Jesus Christ visiting the General in Springfield. A police officer escorted the man to the station as Mrs Logan recalled a New York letter about joint Texas land purchases suggesting they were millionaires. She dismissed the letter as another crankish tale and kept the General’s company.
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Strang
Springfield
New York
Beiser Heir in New York Estate Reported at $500000
Brooklyn resident George H. Beiser, an accountant, is named heir to a vast $500,000 estate in Baltimore. Legal actions by Bruce's Law and Inquiry Agency of Chicago prompted the claim, with ads urging descendants of French emigrants to send $1 for heirs lists.
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New York
Altimore
George H. Beiser
Brooklyn
France
Beiser
Fulton Street
Hruce
Chicago
Louisville Courier- Journal
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Mayer's Law Anxp
Avesey
Randolph St
Chicago, IL
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