Year of Pestilence 1819 Yellow Fever Attack
The 1819 year saw widespread yellow fever with hot dry weather. It struck Boston and New Orleans simultaneously and spread along southern rivers. Mobile and New Orleans suffered heavy deaths while Savannah, Natchez, and Charleston faced severe outbreaks. New York and Philadelphia responded with evacuations and public health measures. A Smiths wharf outbreak and Point district crises caused many fatalities and city depopulation. Three hundred fifty died overall with 242 in September.
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Boston
New Orleans
Mobile
Charleston
Savanna
Natchez
New York
Board of Health
Staten Island
Hell Gate
Board of Itealth
Philadelphia
Market Street Wharf
Southwark
Baltimore
Smith's Wharf
West India Islands
Spain
Cadiz
Cincinnati
Denver Drives: A Tour of City Boulevards and Homes
Special correspondence extols Denver drives as joyful investments for families. It highlights 15th Street, South 15th, Broadway, Champa, 13th Street and the Boulevards offering views of mansions, Brinker’s Collegiate Institute, Col Archer’s mansion, Argo works, Central Park and Grand View hotel grounds for visitors seeking beauty and inspiration.
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Denver
Colorado
15Th Street
15Th
Broadway
South 15Th
White House
16Th
Brinker's Collegiate Institute
Champa Street
Ltdh
13Th Street
Col. Archer
West
Larimer Street
Grand View Hotel
Argo
Hill
Central Park
Denver Park
America as World Storehouse and Grain Power
A 19th century discussion argues the United States will become the world’s chief producer, capable of supplying Britain and other nations with cereals and beef. It cites West and Northwest grain capacity, Texas and Colorado cattle, and global shifts in land and labor, urging expansion of production. It also briefly describes ancient burial vault discoveries nearby.
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Philadelphia
United States
Great Britain
England
Texas
Colorado
Montana
Northwest
Cyprus
Africa
Bosphorous
France
Spain
Athilea
Earth
Wooden sabotiers in a forest encampment working beech for shoes
A family of sabotiers camps by a stream making wooden shoes from beech. The work spans from tree felling to shaping, hollowing, and finishing with decorative borders. Shoes are allocated by user, worn across the home, fields, and shepherd life, while workers sing and rest by a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chambers’ Journal
Cornish Antiquities From St Just Penzance Uncovered Cairn
A Bristol Times and Mirror report describes a major antiquity find at St Just near Penzance. A large circular stone structure with nested walls rises from Berthnel cliffs, with excavations revealing deep graves and a chalky earth fill.
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Bristol Times and Mirror
St Just
Penzance
Berthnel Cliffs
St. Just
Land’s End
Cape Cornwall
W. C. Borlase
Walt
Advertising everywhere driven by the printing press
A motivational riff argues that advertising is essential in business, noting coats in windows, business cards, signs, and notices as forms of promotion. It extols newspapers and railroads as powerful, cost effective advertising engines, contrasting them with old time silence.
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Merino
The Khyberrees and Frontier Life in British India
A correspondent describes the Khyberrees as brutal, fiercely independent tribes near the Jumrood Fort. They raid each other and resist law, while the British aim to restrain them through expeditions and blockades, keeping watch over cantonments and frontier camps.
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London
British India
Jumrood
Shere Ali
Kaisar-i-Hind
Hakkiarri
Khyber
India
Peshawar
Scotland
Even Distribution Provokes Saloon Row and Mock Communist Quip
In a saloon a man called for an even distribution of property and tobacco. When asked if he was a communist he replied with bravado about fighting for equality. A patron took a tobacco box, the man claimed it, and the exchange ended with a joke about Hamilton Fish and a cold reply.
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Ife
the Inquirer
Wheat crop outlook for United Kingdom and France in 1878
The article analyzes 1878 wheat acreage in Great Britain and Ireland totaling 3,278,579 plus 8,373,390 acres in Ireland, with estimated yields from 28 to 30 bushels per acre. It projects UK and France import needs, stocks, and potential competition in global grain markets, noting France’s large import requirements and possible underestimation of its wheat crop. It discusses seed usage, domestic consumption, and potential overseas supplies from North America, Russia, Australia, and Chile.
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United Kingdom
France
Great and
Ireland
IOS
Caird
London Times
Palmer
Chambers Agricultural Journal
Mark Lane Express
Algernon Clarke
Royal Society
North America
Russia
Australia
Turkey
England
Banone
Switzerland
Great Britain
West grows rich on sound currency says Gov Semod interview
New York Herald conducted interview with Gov Semod arguing currency contraction boosts Western wealth. He cites grain shipments from Chicago to New York at seven cents a bushel, cheaper transport, and exports rising while prices for imports fall. He predicts Europe and Great Britain markets will be won with a sound currency and laments intuition that could ruin the West. Eckelberger dedicates motto Mind your row in business to the Keokuk beat club.
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N. Y. Herald
Gov. Semod
West
Union
Europe
East
Chicago
New York
Great Britain
Eckelberger
Keokuk
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Main Street
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Joseph Moore
W. H. Bennett
Freeman & Buckley
E. Marsh, M.D
L. Homeopathic
Kalsowiner
P. O
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ttorney-at-Law
J. D. Buckley
Union Colony
Denver Pacific Railway
Union Bank
Masonic Block
Creeley
R. Bennett
Greeley House
Greeley, Weld County
D. L. Dawley
F. L. Childs
K. N. Rogerson
the Tribune
America
World
Cornish Antiquities
Hood
THE
Khyberees
Hamilton Fish
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