Inside the New York Stock Exchange Initiation and Panic
A vivid 19th century tour describes the Stock Exchange at Wall and Broad streets. It covers initiation rituals for new members, the bustling trading floor, and a historic panic with vast losses, noting brokers, telegraphage, and the famed Delmonico’s post session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union Telegraph
Union Pacifie
Pacific Mail
New York Central
Hudson River R
Erie Railway
A New View Of The First Settlers
Murat Halstead shares a humorous portrait of early settlers and a vivid scene of Virginia as a rich land. The piece contrasts lavish colonial abundance with a wartime tale of Captain Ricketts and his wife in Libby Prison, detailing her three months of nursing fourteen prisoners and the later public tribute in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricketts
Boston
Libby
Ealmly
Broadway and
Fifth Avenue
New York
General Ricketts
Washington
Cincinnati
American Ingenuity Shapes Global Farm Implements
The article praises US agricultural ingenuity driving global adoption of American plows edge tools and hardware from New England to Australia and the Cape. It notes Russian commissioners ordering 10 000 plows and a portable engine trial, while Kaffir farmers adopt a light plow, signaling strong export potential amid foreign competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
New World
Transatlantic
Atlantic
Kassia
United Kingdom
America
Russian Boards of Agriculture
New England
Australia
New Zealand
Cape
Fagland
London Colliery Guardians
Skeleton Factory Near Columbus Sparks Alarm
An enterprising farmer named Snyder operates a skeleton factory on his farm near Columbus. Reporters with persistent curiosity found a cauldron of skeletons in hot water and many bones piled in an upper room. A shipment of about twenty five skeletons was off to market and the maker predicted around 200 first class skeletons yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Columbus
Swith & Rogers Silver Plating
New Haven
Hartford Times
Meriden
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Sioux War Burns Toward Final Termination Amid Surrender Wave
The article reports rapid defections of Sioux fighters to the agencies, predicting Sitting Bull's dwindling forces as Crazy Horse leads about 2000 Cheyenne to Red Cloud Agency. It notes rifles and ponies as vital possessions and describes tribal dynamics, loyalty, and scattered alliances shaping the final phase of conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sitting Bull
Crook
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
Desert
South Africa
Asiatic
Russia
South
Red Cloud Agency
Tiffany Refrigerator Car Proves Beef Keeps in Transit
A Chicago & Alton depot report describes a Tiffany Summer and Winter Refrigerator Car from Pueblo loaded with beef for Thomas Armour Co. The car, eight days on the road amid 90 degree heat, arrived with meat still fresh. Earlier shipments from West Las Animas stayed pristine after two weeks in cold and heat. The patent-like car uses dead air spaces, an ice box roof, and ventilated air control to maintain low temperatures, promising safe transport of perishables including fruit and vegetables.
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Chicago & Alton
Tiffany
Pueblo
Col
Thomas Armour & Co
Kansas
West Las Animas
Colo
F A. Anderson & Co
San Francisco
Chicago Journal of Commerce
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
NEW York Stock Exchange
New York City
Wall and
Broad Streets
Stock Exchange
California
Nevara
Colorado
Lance
Fisk & Hatch
Henry Clews
Delmonico's
W. H. Bexserr
Murat Halstead
Leuwans
Carolinas
Europe
Paris
Virginia
Libby Prison
Milwaukee Boat Club
von Gouren
Relma
Calton
Greeley
Weld
L. Dunham
D. P. Witter
J. Leavy
Mme. Demorest
Smith
Main and
Sherman Streets
Holsinger & Wolf
Kraithood House
Eli Hall
Johnson
Buffalo
Hobbs
C.O. D
Hmereon & Weet
Flower Cameron & Kenedics
N.B
Pioneer Saddle and Harness Shop
E. Wart
OLD Colony
Main
Ureeles
Albert
Gipson
Aoms
Noaries i Public
Guuncer
Lora Po
H. Beanert
J. D. Beechey
Ley
Union Colony
Pyar Aert & Buckley
Masonic Block
Freeman & Shattuck
F L Childs
Wittmake Collections
Convey Property, Acknowledge Deeds, Inc
Main St
J Leavy
Grant and
Sherman Stes
Dover
GEO. W. Tappts & Sons
Selden
Blake
Roebling
Carr
B. C. Adams
Lawrence St
Bax
Denver, Col
Renne
J.N. Krenne
Colorado Springs
Hazen & Flower
London
Phillips
Barclay
Sergeant Robinson
Heer
Tunbedge Wells
Aversham Road
Luchelaim
Laurio
Abbsie
Tanbridge
Fortune
Horace
Pope
Homer
Moliere
Montaigne
Massachusetts
Moses Baker
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