Northwest Territory centennial celebration sets Marietta as start
A historic dispatch extols the central west’s growth from settlement to statehood. It highlights Marietta’s April 7 centennial demonstration and July 15 events, notes Ohio’s early lines of progress, and lauds pioneers, soldiers, writers, and leaders from the Northwest Territory into the new republic.
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Ohio
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Hayes
Garfield
Ewings
McCooks
Alice
Phoebe Cary
Miami Valley
Coates Kinney
Whitelaw Reid
Murat Halstead
Northwest Territory
Wabash
Miami
Lakes
Northwest
J. B. Hanson
The Missouri Crematory Opens in St Louis
A new symmetry themed crematory in St Louis is described as America’s first western facility. Built by a stock company at $20 000, it features a chapel area, a Greek cross plan, cathedral glass, and a basement cremation chamber with a 2 000 degree furnace using wood gas. Ashes 4 to 8 pounds per adult will be preserved or placed in a columbarium niche with inscriptions.
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St. Louis
Missouri Crematory
West
United States
Italy
Venini
The
Globe-Democrat
Europe
Smithy
Cat Oninetails
Paris
Bunker Hill Monument
Egypt
Quincy
Park Museum
Cyprus
Second Avenue
East Side
Germany
Boston
Square Yard
Rialto
Union Square
Washington
Lafayette Ditto
Washner Broadway
Alon
New York Afternoon Soiree Among City Folk
A crowd gathers on Lower Broadway for an afternoon reception, many strangers mingle amid fashion, chatter, and polite phrases. Obvious social waters, jokes about weather, and light gossip mix with portraits of pedestrians and nearby sights along the Battery.
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New York City
Peddlera
Kentucky's Defaulting Treasurer Defaulter in Canada
James W. Tate, Kentucky treasurer elected in 1867, is abroad in Canada with about 250000 of the state's funds missing. The public record deems him a defaulter though he once held a respected reputation. He is a Kentucky native with a wife and one child.
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Kentucky
James W. Tate
Canada
Tate
British Passenger Insults American Woman in Streetcar
A delicate British man insulted an American woman in a horse car, alleging Americans have consumption. An American passenger then slammed the window shut with a punch and declared himself an American, restoring order and prompting amused smiles.
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San Francisco
Tallyman hawker drains the poor through debt traps
George R. Sims describes the tallies and tally shop as tools that trap poor households. The tallyman’s weekly installments tempt wives to hide debt from husbands, leading to pawned items and inevitable financial decline.
Smallest flowering plant Wolffia microscopica described
The piece notes Wolffia microscopica, native to India, as the smallest flowering plant. It explains the plant’s duckweed family traits, fused frond organs, and a rhizoids prolongation for floating upright. It mentions asexual frond multiplication and two simple flower types, with two U.S. species Wolffia Columbiana and Wolffia Brasiliensis found near Philadelphia.
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India
United States
Philadelphia
Boston
Fat Poodle Healed by Blacksmith After Three Week Diet
A tale from Rev. William Quekett recounts Lady Chatham’s fat poodle driven by bellows and walked by the smith’s boy for three weeks. The dog, kept under care, slimmed with exercise and bread and milk, and returned healthy with a handsome reward.
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William Quekett
Hidden Lakes and Fish in the Algerian Sahara
The Algerian Sahara houses many subterranean lakes where small fish and mollusks thrive. Artesian wells in the Bs region emit fish up to two inches long. In 1849 the governor of Thebes and Garbes in Egypt claimed he drew 440 feet deep from an artesian well near his home, enough fish to feed his table.
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Algerian Sahara
Thebes
Garbes
Egypt
Boston
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Marietta, Ohio
Marietta
Blue Grass
Retecky
Pennsylvagda
Mississippi
Midoeast
Little Miame River
Western Europe
Atlantic States
Columbus
Cincinnati
Gallipolis
Simon Kenton
Perry County
Ind
Breckinridge County
Indiana
Simon Girty
Col. Crawford
Alice and
Terre Haute
Girty
Anthony” Wayne
Big Miami
Chillicothe
Zanesville
ST. Louis Crematory
Salem
Gimcrack
City Hall
Court House
William M. Evarts
Nebraska
Washington Market
Herald
Chauncey Depew
Maine
Prentice Mulford
Newark Star
Mr. Cahokia
Coure
Restau
Howjames
Chicago Tribune
Locke
Walnut &Treet
Foat
Madison Avenue
Greeley
H. A. French
Greenlee & C9
Denver, Colorado
E. Brooks
Lawrence
London
Tailler
Ydim
Tallyman
George R. Sims
Philadelphia Times
Alaska
New Orleans
A. Ico
Weld County Abstract Office
Weld County
Hunter and West’s Bank
James K. Phillips
ORADO
Miteria Medica
Draggicts
Wells, Richardson & CO
Prop
Burlington, VT
Sahara
H. A. Arcuer
M.D
Oxford
Brooklyn
N. Y
Tus Cenracrn Company
Fulton Street
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