The Dakota Indians and a World of Troubled Notices
A wide array of topics from the Dakota Indians' apocalyptic outlook to critiques of modern literature and public education. The piece discusses a machine claimed to plant 15 272 trees per man in nine hours, evolving fashion in hair dye, anti-lottery laws impacting New York mail and Louisiana liquor trade, and European innovations in horseshoes. It also laments sensational trash in books, notes education as essential, and comments on Central American depopulation and railways in a developing republic.
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Woll
Texas Empire Notes A Mixed Harvest Of Town News
The itemized bulletin reports Grayson county apple crops and Bosque County cotton yields up. new churches planned in multiple counties. schools and factories under construction including a soap factory at Corsicana and a broom plant at Henrietta. Immigration, rail and street railway talks proceed, while violence and crime are noted with fatal assaults and a murder trial outcome.
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Waco
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Rusk County
Jane
Whitesboro
Hunt County
Domestic and foreign items of 1890s concerns
Norfolk oyster shortage reports a local famine while What Cheer Iowa rebuilds after fire. Nebraska church builds for 5000 dollars. New Orleans jail contract set at 1489.80. Various notices include elections, fairs, water works, population figures, mines, murders, and disasters across states.
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What Cheer
Malmo
Neb
New Orleans
Lonely vigil on Pike's Peak ends in mistaken danger tale
A winter telegraph keeper recounts isolation on a high Colorado peak. After his companion Harry Sands falls ill and dies, the narrator endures weeks of communication failures and a coyotes fever myth. Rescue arrives to reveal the delirium misled him about threats and names.
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Harry Sands
Harry
Pike's Peak
Smoken
Telegraph Instrument
New York Sun
Foreign and domestic notes from the era
The report covers varied items including Argentina passing a conversion law, Montevideo duties up 5 percent while exports are restored, the Cuban Conservative leader Count More dying in Savannah, a cholera hospital in Barcelona, a strike resolution in London with Allen Steamship workers, and rumors about Grenadier Guards in Bermuda. It also notes the Siberian railway project, Befilim chief Eigehera escaping Osman Digna’s camp, and German-Russian diplomacy over Bulgaria. An explosion in Seignolles, France injures twenty-seven. Sanell’s health limits public appearances. and a pair of Ontario girls aged 14 and 12 were found after being abducted and murdered.
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Eliza McGonigle
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Cumberland
Ont
Narcisse Lorve
Resting the Brain to Preserve Mental Power
The article urges complete mental rest after prolonged brain work to prevent decline. It describes memory lapses, reduced vocabulary, incoherent conversation, and halted writing, underscoring that sustained effort weakens the brain and rest is imperative.
Let Us Live and Laugh While Joys Endure
A reflective verse urges living in the moment and savoring happiness. It celebrates present cheer, love, and laughter while warning that tomorrow may bring sorrow. The couplet extols seizing fleeting joys under bright sun.
What a hanthem joke from two old British sailors
Two sailors recall a shore visit to a cathedral and a divine anthem. One explains a hanthem as a wordplay on and spike and ahmen while the other pretends ignorance, turning the tale into a comic take on hymn words.
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Bill
Bil
Inquest Probes Drowned Woman as Husband Testifies
The coroner's inquest heard the husband recount the drowning of a woman in a well. He described seeing her lean over the curb and fall in before he attempted a rescue, then claimed a cow in the cabbages diverted him.
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Worthen
Washington
J. Thomas ‘Tanton
The Christian Woman Gambling Hell in Morocco Scandal
An Anglo American group built a resort in a winter health area in Morocco with a saloon and a gambling room. They offered revenue shares to the sultan for mosques but faced protest when women joined the games. A compromise allowed Christian women to gamble while native women were barred. The episode highlights perceived Christian influence amid religious tensions.
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Great Britain
United States
Louisiana Lottery Company
Morocco
Reform on the Robert E Lee steamer ends mistreatment
A New York Sun writer recalls an incident aboard the Robert E Lee where a mate brutalized Black workers until a captain intervened. After a warning, the mate tried gentler discipline, but a test relapse provoked shouted hostility and fear as the ship loaded 200 bags of cotton seed.
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New York Sun
Robert E. Lee
Vicksburg
Gwine
Cap'n
Reuben
Jealousy as the Opposite of Alchemy in Ingersoll’s View
A quotation contrasts jealousy with alchemical aims noting jealousy corrupts noble love into shame and crime. Robert G. Ingersoll presents jealousy as the worst passion that corrupts both heart and mind, unlike the chemist’s pursuit of turning base metals into gold.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Rev Plink Plunk Speaks Again
A satirical jab on honesty and newspapers. The New York Herald mocks readers who expect fines for trivial errors like a lost postage stamp, predicting disappointment if honest notices appear in future ads.
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Rev. Plink Plunk
Breddomn
New York Herald
New York Chemist Endorses 8-Cent Beef Nutrition
A New York chemist reports that beef at eight cents a pound is just as nutritious as pricier beef. He notes cheaper beef is harder to chew and riskier to choke on, but once swallowed it provides nourishment and aids digestion.
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