Foreigners and gold bonds spark political debt notes
A critic argues against paying foreign bondholders in gold, condemns gold worshipers, and defends silver as money. The piece mocks political rhetoric and compares monetary obsession to imperial plunder, urging readers to resist coercive gold standards.
Editorial on saving corn husks for wages and mats
The piece urges farmers during corn husking to save inner husks for waitresses and mattrasses, noting 200 pounds per acre worth about $10 and proposing local husk mattrass production to supply distant towns. It champions husk saving as profitable rural industry and calls for organized husk collection.
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New England
Nevada's Wonderful Cave Tale of Algernon Grant
The Virginia City Enterprise reports Algernon B. Grant, born 1825 in Bourbon County Kentucky and Harvard graduate, living secretly in the Walker river range. He claims a two day trek led to a vast gold and silver cave with eerie light, alabaster pillars, and lakes, containing millions in treasure. Grant plans to return to Louisville with hundreds of pounds of gold to share with old friends.
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Algernon B. Grant
Grant
Bourbon County
Kentucky
Harvard College
Supreme Court of Kentucky
Plains
Walker River Mountains
Loro
Erebus
Alpha
Omega
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Virginia City Enterprise
Ington
United
Washington
Ancient Colorado Unearths Lost San Juan Civilizations
The author surveys the San Juan region detailing ancient ruins, rock carvings, and remnants of a once thriving agricultural society along the Rio San Juan and its tributaries. He notes extensive canals, mound villages, stone structures, and nascent towers, with evidence spanning Animas Park, Mancos Valley, Maneos canon, and Las Animas valley, concluding with Mä concluding remarks for next week.
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Rio Grande del Norte
Rocky Mountain Range
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Sicipation
Animas Park
Hermosa Creek
Tripp
Rio Mancos
Maneos
Eooe
Utah Line
Rio Dolores
Rio la Plata
Rio Lis Animas
Rio Las Animas
Times hard for newspapers hit by panic in Richmond Enquirer case
The Nashvillle Ameri can notes the Richmond Enquirer suspension amid wider newspaper distress. It reviews Handy’s failed Richmond venture and the wider pain among papers, ministers, and readers, detailing costs of print, circulation, and sustainable business amid repeated suspensions.
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