Indiana News Briefs Highlight Accidents and Trials
Lafayette reports a ten year old boy, Willie Gedgecomb, fell two stories sliding a banister and may die. In Wispram, J D Conk lin fleeced two orphans of wood pay. Hart sued for a $1000 hay note with a hung jury. Reed, a railroad Conductor, died after a chair strike in a restaurant. A Derby parlor quarrel ended in a skull fracture. Mamie Flynn saved a boy near a railroad. A Lafayette restaurant scam involved counterfeit and misdirection with a two dollar note swap.
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Lafayette
Willie Gedgecomb
Ford School
Strikin
Salmon
Reed
Bel
Wm. McDougall
Bee Lin
McDougall
McDonald
Thackeray’s fame as a novelist and critic of his era
The piece argues Thackeray remains the era’s dominant novelist, blending half-hearted pessimism with genuine optimism, surpassing rivals in vitality of works like Vanity Fair and The Newcomer. It notes his cultural influence, the restored status of Esmond, and Thackeray as a painter of early nineteenth century English society. A second item describes a Vernon House fresco discovery related to early American history and a bank of England practice with notes and coin handling, illustrated by a tale of a £10 note lost to a child and later recovered via recordkeeping.
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Thackeray
Shams
Waterloo
Bank of England
London
Hints to Butter Makers Pamphlet Promoted by Butter Improvement Co
A free pamphlet titled Hints to Butter-Makers promises to teach how to increase butter yield from cream, improve quality by two percent, and produce golden butter year round. The pamphlet, mailed for one stamp to Butter Improvement Co in New York, aims to reach farmers and dairymen.
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Butter Improvement Co
N. Y
The Silent System Criticized in Prison Reform Note
The piece surveys the silent system in prisons, noting harsh health effects and limited use for long-term inmates in England. It cites chaplains and officers describing convicts' chapel responses as noise for recreation, while sanitary concerns spur only short-term practice. It questions talking as essential to health and highlights the curious dynamic.
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England
Why did the doctor resign his preaching work
Dr Collyer recounted a story from a sermon about Garrison urging Dr Putnam to quit preaching because of age. The doctor feared quitting would force him to abandon ministry and he resigned, continuing to preach as long as he could drag himself along with difficulty.
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Laina
Greencastle Township
Putnam County
Indiana
Thomas Murphy
Board of Commissioners
Range Fours
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad
Crawfordsville State Road
Too Much School Says Press and Star
The Philadelphia Press argues school hours should end at dismissal and home hours remain free from school tasks The Cincinnati Star supports that active school days are long enough for learning and recreation is essential for childhood The extracts from City and Country urge posting in every schoolhouse nationwide to avoid overtaxing young minds and excess homework until morning.
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Philadelphia
The
Cincinnati Star
Tales of Overwork and the Toll on Busy Men
A London Society narrative recalls a traveler devenu prisoner in a chair after rail-induced nervous collapse. It warns that constant work and refusal to delegate erode health and end careers. A lawyer, a wealthy trustee, and a famed author illustrate how momentum can ruin rest and fulfillment.
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Ile
Lewiston Journal Reports City Horse Stays With Fire Team
A Lewiston Maine note recalls Old Tiger, a city fire-horse who, after the bell and whistle alarms, rode with his mate and helped rejoin the team at the stable. The piece also mocks murder for love, citing a Globe-Democrat lecture on Cupid’s folly and urging wiser paths over fatal betrayals.
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Bates Street
Lisbon-street
Tige
Nighttime Quirk: The Kitten's Quiet Call
A Peoria Call verse humorously recalls a husband winding the clock and putting the kitten out before sleep. The speaker, weary after a long day, hears his wife’s dreamland reminders as he lies in bed awaiting rest. The poem ends with the trundle bed cry for a drink.
Sellers Cough Syrup Ad Offers Cure All Ailments
Advertisement touts Sellers Cough Syrup as an efficacious remedy for coughs colds croup hoarseness tickling throat whooping cough and stomach liver diseases. Claims over a million bottles sold include relief for constipation sick headaches fever and ague and urges purchase from Druggists at 25 cents per box by KR KE Sellers & Co Pittsburgh.
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KR. KE. Sellers & CO
Pittsburgh
G. A. Mariner
Chicago
Gray
Mark
Lisa Kennedy
Uray Medicine CO
Mechanica Block
Detroit
Mich
Greencastle
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