Tragic Death of J R McClintock at Boston Harbor
The narrative recalls J R McClintock of New Orleans a wartime diver and torpedo inventor. He led the submarine vessel that destroyed the Housatonic and Milwaukee and Tecumseh in Southern waters and died in Boston Harbor during a torpedo experiment.
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W’clintock
J.r.mcclintock
Boston
McClintock
New Orleans
United States Navy
Milwaukee
Tecumseh
Housatonic
Savanah
Vesael
Professor Robinson
Robinson
Halifax
Philadelphia
Brass Pin Fatality Reveals Hidden Dangers
Miss Lula Steele died after a long illness at her mother's home on the Yountsville road. A post mortem disclosed a brass pin lodged in the lower intestines, encrusted with verdigris, slowly poisoning her. Doctors warn against holding pins in the mouth to prevent similar deaths. A separate item recalls a Pulaski water spaniel caught in a machine shaft at a shop, escaping with minor injuries and no serious harm.
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Lula Steele
Jos. Smith
Yountsville Road
Miss Steele
Crawfordsville Star
Pulaski
N. Y
Kidney Wort Promises Relief for Back Pain and Kidney Trouble
Advertises Kidney Wort as a remedy that targets kidneys and their secretions to purify and restore health. Claims the product also regulates bowels, urging immediate purchase with a 17d cure offer.
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Hunt
E.G. Taylor
D. D
First Baptist Church
Providence
R.J
Scott
Provinence
R.I
Wx. E. Cranky
E. R. Dawnay
Dyer St. Hunt's
Cow Invades East Portland Home in Rural Mayhem
A loose gate let a neighbor's cow wander into Stevens Addition. It browsed the cabbage patch then toppled furniture as residents chased it with broom, club, and rope, ending in the street after a chaotic half day. The episode sets a record for havoc in the area.
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Stevens
East Portland
Jin
Portland
Portland Bee
Remarkable Pacific Coast mine accident saves miner
G H Kirchbacker fell fifty feet in a shaft at Bueiow's quartz mine five miles from the city after a rope failure. He was stunned with a dislocated ankle and other injuries yet survived by pulling the burning fuse from the powder and awaiting rescue. A doctor was summoned and he is expected to recover. Nevada Transcript reports the event.
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Pacific Coast
Dr. Bueiow
Tthis City
G.H. Kirchbacker
Kirchbacker
Nevada
Property Transfers Report From Local Townships
A compilation of land and lot conveyances listing buyers sellers and prices across Cloverdale Monroe Clinton Russell and Greencastle townships including Cloverdale and Greencastle plats and multiple acreages with values ranging from 25 to 9 810 dollars and several donations noted as love or unspecified consideration. Highlighted parties include John Brisco AnnaCall William Cummings Hester Cummings Mary Arkins Jacob DeMott Margaret Morgan David Rambo Wm Jenkins A Bryan and others.
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QO. P. Badger
John Brisco
AnnaCall
Melissa Watson
Macres
Monroe
William Cummings
William R. Larking
Cloverdale
William Ti. Larkins
Hester A. Cummings
William B. Larkins
John Arkins
Mary Arkins
Greencastle
Win. Cummings
W. B. Larkins
John Hargrave
A. French
Portland Mills
W. H. Guilliams
H. L. Crochan
Russell
Julia A. Spencer
Harbison
Samuel BE. Kercheval
S. W. Leonard
G. H. Voss
O. P. Greencastle
Caroline Payne
Erastus Henkle
Clinton
Jacob N. DeMott
Margaret J. Morigan
Wm. H.cunningham
Cloverdale Tp
Robt
Lockridge
L. £. Boyd
Franklin
D. H. Rambo
Henry Rambo
J.C. Albin
Jesse W. Weik
Voss
Marion
J. F. Cline
W.S. Mulhorn
J. G. Dunbar
Madison
Bryan
Wm. Bridges
Lacre
A. L
Health Notes Cites Consumption Deaths and Cure
The article claims twenty five percent of urban deaths are from consumption and argues early disease yields to Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup costing 25 cents, urging pity for sufferers rather than blame for negligence.
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Dr. Bull
Absent Minded Hartford Millionaires in Odd Tales
A lively account recalls Hartford wealth holders careless with money and bonds. Tales include a barber finding a $10,000 tin box of bonds, a shoemaker recovering a lost box, a conductor keeping a counterfeit or mistaken bill, and Col Sam Colt using gold to oust a bank president.
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Hartford
Connecticut
Baron Rothschild
United States
New York
Lightning Express
Springfield & Hartford Railroad
Tie
Wartford
Sam Colt
Solomon Porter
Colt
Porter
Artunon Porter
Enduring Families of Vermont and Local Anecdotes
A Vermont tale recalls a doctor visiting an elderly patient believed near death, only to learn her daughter and descendants were present. The article also notes Ward Lemon’s Lincoln anecdote, a Paris Kentucky hog theft turn of fate, and a Troy case where a complainant’s gun failed to fire at a discharged defendant.
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Ward Lemon
Lincoln
Lemon
Lamon
Ward
Paris
Wilson
Louisa Funk
Troy
James Riley
Riley
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Millinery
E. C. Rowland
East Washington Street
W. J. Hazelett
Greencastle, Ind
James Gillespy
Zeorner Public
Greencastle, Nd
Landes’ Drug Store
G. W. Bence
Mulhorn
Isa Greensury Wriest
Wright & Reed
Williamson Lock
Donnahue & Lewis
Landes Drug Store
Washington
Mnd
Thomas Hanna
Sinas A. Hays
Brown & Hanna
Hanna & Hays
Auler'’A Buock
H. H. Mathias
Ind
Ofice
Eastside Square
J.B. Miller
T.T. Mourf
Miller & Moore
Rbayne’s
Janes J. Swiney
Willis G. Neg
Smiley & Neff
Albin’s Black
South Side Public Square
Justi
Robert J. Culver
Well
M. D
Culverwell Medical CO
Ann St
Gray
Dariegis
Mott
A. H. Hewitson
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Hospital Gazette
Laken
Bellaire City
Ralph
Parish
Atewina Hitchen
Star
Lewis & Newgent
Hartford Milionaires
Vermont
Grandmother
Windsor
Argus
Claspell
Miss
Creane
Mel Trea
General Grant
Grant
Sildress National Pub. Co
Chicago
St. Louis
Voltaic Belt
Marshall, Mich
Aillen’s
Cook’s Drug Store
Greencastle Ind
Catarre
Detchon
Jerome Allen
Conrad Cook
Druegists
Bright
M. E. Clark
Soli
Ei Draruis
Providence, R. i Its
P. O
H. G. Root
Pearl St
Manevieto
Olney
Jeweler
Jas
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