Scientific wonders and a rising telegraphic world
Fleuss's diving apparatus recycles air for four hours underwater using caustic alkali purification and an onboard oxygen reservoir. Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope creates life-like animal motion from sequential photos. Hydrogenized iron absorbs hydrogen, yet its tensile strength remains. cold winters do not curb insects as once believed. Ancient meteorology linked to lunar observations. phosphorescent oceans may aid night travel. electric melting of steel by Siemens. Two Dubuque women fined for cemetery flowers. Johnston’s Sarsaparilla touted as health tonic.
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Fleuss
England
E. J. Muybridge
San Francisco
Zoo
D. Ei. Hughes
France
Puy-de-Dame
Clermont
Moseley
London
C. W. Siemens
Hermit of Leham Town Ships Dreams of Marriage
Longtime Pike County recluse Sheldon Austin, born 1806 in Bradford Connecticut, living in a cave near a girl’s home, seeks matrimony after years of isolation. He is deaf, resourceful, and has survived fires and falls, with a Bible-filled life and a lonely path.
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Austin Sheldon
Leham Township
Pike County
Sheldon
Bradford
Man
Times
Austins
A Bather's Long Voyage and a Sudden Return
A Galveston bathing party on October 22 ends in mystery as Mrs. B H Davis vanishes during a sea bath. After a week a reward fuels a long search. seven months later she reappears, having survived adrift in a merchant vessel and reached New York.
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Galveston
Gulf
B. H. Davis
Major Davis
Bryan
Davis
N. B. Davis
M. W. McGraw
Cincinnati thief Lawrence House on trial and marriage pact
Lawrence House, a Cincinnati thief, was tried with Dora Belle Thorpe as a witness. He was convicted and sentenced to three years in State prison. Dora married him after rapid courtship through a jail grating.
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Lawrence House
Cincinnati
Dora Belle Thorpe
Dora
Funeral Dog Bulger and Everyday Goods in 19th Century Rochester
A fragment from a Rochester era notices a dog named Bulger, famed as the Funeral Dog in Lexington, Ky., said to haunt graves until the coffin lid is opened. The snippet also touts products including Sellers' Celebrated Liver Wills and Thermaline malaria cure with prices and local drugstore sales.
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Allen’s Drug Store
Exciting Watersnake Versus Rat Encounter at Lindsay Point
A workman reports a fight between a water snake and a brown rat along the shore at Lindsay Point. The snake struck the rat’s shoulders and jaw, but the rat bit the snake’s throat. After a violent struggle the snake dragged its body into the mud and both perished in the struggle.
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Lindsay Point
Mail
Wester
Runaway Boy Impersonates Woman In Boston Area Case
A fourteen year old fled toward Boston with his aunt's clothes and adopted female attire to hide. He vanished with a cash haul from a household before being arrested. He confessed the ruse and his mother and family face disbelief until his father arrived with proper garments to retrieve him.
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Baltimore
Boston
Eva
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Pune
Ane Conrad Cook
West Side Public Square
Lueteke & Haspel
Menis
Bianca Vrais
J. Burton
Baru
Church & CO
Fhammer
Dk. Clay
Primsgreep
Jawua
Fellows
Tom
Howe, M.D
Norg
W. W. Jones
Togray Medicine CO
Mechanics’ Block
Detroit
Mich
Greencastle
Lys
C. Lueteke
James Gillespy
New York
Public Square
Ind
JAM Gstavlor
West Side Square
St. Louis
Renick, Curtis & Co
Greencastle, Ind
Charles Goodale
ITV# STAR
Wysong's
Wysong’s
Northwest Corner Public Square
Castle Mills
Gage
Dr. Bull
Dubuque
Iowa
Heron ‘Vue
Johnston
Sheldon, the
Hermit
New York Times
Catarril
Terre Haute
County Medical Society
Lindsey
J. 8
Furnis
Philadelphia Times
Hell
Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company
Rochester
Bulger
Lexington
Watersnake
Stockton Mail
Ndianapolis
Louis Ra
Goll
N.Y. Express
John W
Louis Vanpanta
Dianapolis
Sam’licatherwo
New
Annany
Ramnoap
Eee
Freigh
Hunt
E.G. Taylor
D. D
Pa Baptist Church
Providence
R.J
E. Crarwke
Dawley
WM. E, Clarke
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