Tragic Deaths Reported Across States In Various Accidents
A flood of gruesome incidents fills the notice, including deaths from burns in Wisconsin and Iowa, a child fatally scalded by hot gravy, workers killed by a falling scaffold in Cincinnati, and multiple suffocating or shooting deaths in Illinois and Indiana. Numerous accidents involve horses, gun misfires, and fires in homes or industrial sites, with names and locales scattered across the Midwest and Northeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East River Bridge
New York
A. Whipple
Portland
Wis
Mich
Brooklyn
N.C
Joseph Watson
Cleveland
Ignatius Hulburt
Bellevue
Aurelia
Iowa
James Hammer, Jr
Indianapolis
Alfred Elliot
Nooseport
Indiana
Jones
Franklin County
All This Comes From Rum by Wendell Phillips
A narrator recalls a convict’s fall and his wife’s plea for mercy amid a life wrecked by drinking. He contrasts a wealthy waterfront home funded by rum with a prison cell and a failed family, ending with Phillips’s warning that vice poisons both creator and community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Phillips
Senate Committees List From the Sixth Congress
The document lists standing committees with chairmen and members for the sixth Congress. It includes Privileges and Elections chaired by Morton, Foreign Relations chaired by Cameron, Finance chaired by Sherman, Appropriations chaired by Cole, Commerce chaired by Chandler, Manufactures chaired by Robertson, Agriculture chaired by Frelinghuysen, Military Affairs chaired by Wilton, Naval Affairs chaired by Cragin, Post Offices and Post Roads chaired by Ramsey, Public Lands chaired by Pomeroy, Private Land Claims chaired by Thurman, Indiana Affairs chaired by Flarlan, Pensions chaired by Pratt, Revolutionary Claims chaired by Pool, District of Columbia chaired by Patterson, Patents chaired by Ferry, Public Buildings and Grounds chaired by Morrill, with various other members listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Morton
Q Carpenter
Logan
Alcorn
Hill
Anthony
Trumbull
Cameron
Maree Orton
Patterson
Hamlin
Howe
Churt
Sherman
Aferrill
Vermont
Scott
Ames
Wright
Ferry
Michigan
Bayard
Cole
Sprague
Bawyer
Morrill
Ming
Windom
West and
Stoveson
Commerce
Chandler
Corbett
Kelore
Spencer
Edmunda
Conkling
Carpenter
Frelinghuysen
Pool
Thormat
Post-Officea
Post Roads
Ramsey
Pomeroy, Cole, Hamlin
Flanagan and Kelley
Pomeroy
Osborne, Sprague, Windom
Stewart
Casserly
Tipton
Thurman
Cofindctcut
Caldwell, Bayard and
Norwood
Indiana
Lewis, Spencer, Sawyer, Hitchcock
Connecticut
Carpenter, Windomton
Iaryland
Ransom
Gilbert, Cameron, Stockton
Hamilton
Maryland
United States Senate Committee Membership and Reorganization
A rough OCR list shows multiple named committees and chairmen including Nye Cragin Stewart Ramsay Harlan Kellogg Uitchcock Ferry Cragin Cooper Rice Goldthwaite Windom Lewis Hollsey Sawyer Morris Flanagan Patterson Johnston Buckingham Pratt Hotve Harlan Stewart Bayard Immons Carpenter Morrill Saulsbury Pomeroy Edmunds Stevenson Roremae Anta Clayton Lewin Vickers Ran Rom Tripton Kellogg Alcorn Clayton Bighr Rice Kellogg Powell Clareer Morrill Norwood Chandler Bayard Pratt Spencer Blaine Wilson Massachusetts excused from Military Affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perritories- Nye
Cragin
Boreman
Titchcock
Clayton, Cooper
Fenton
Paciit Railroad
Stewart
Ramsay, Harlan, Scott, Kellogg
Uitchcock,Ferry
Michigan
Cragin, Cooper, ‘Rice and Casserly
Ining and Minine
Hamlin
Chandor
Firmasad
Caldwell, Alcorn
Kelley and
Goldwaite
United States
Conkling
Carpenter
Edmundson Goldthwaite
Windom
Lewis and Elsey
Education
Sawyer
Morris
Vermont
Flanagan
Patterson
An Johnston
Buckingham
Pratt, Hotve
Harlan
Stewart, Bayard
Immons
Senate
Morrill and
Saulsbury
Anthony
Howe and Cas“library
Morrill
Maine
Howe and
Sherman
Cagserly
Clayton and
Cooper
Pomeroy
Edmunds
Stevenson
Roremae
Anta
Clayton
Lewin
Vickers
Trripton
Misalss River
Kellogg
Alcorn
Bighr
Rice
Powell Clareer
Norwood
Scott
Chandler
Bayard
Pool
Pratt
Spencer and
Blaise
Harvard Honors Grant With Doctor of Laws Diploma
Harvard President Charles W. Eliot sends Grant a Doctor of Laws diploma in recognition of his wartime and peacetime public services. Grant replies from Washington thanking Harvard for the endorsement and pledges to continue earning the confidence and esteem of the university and nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliot
Harvard College
Grant
Hanvanp Micherry
Camminpoli
Mass
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
Lima
Great Britain
Washington, D. C
Charles W. Eliot, Kay
Harvard University
Sun
Harvard
U. 8
Winter conservatories make flowers possible in heated rooms
Appleton's Journal notes that furnace heated rooms can sustain a small south-facing conservatory. With water in the air-chamber and proper setup a twelve by twelve foot space can support roses, hyacinths, and other plants at 70 F by day and 40–50 F at night.
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Appleton's
Home Cookery and Household Tips Roundup
A column offers recipes like Warm Cake and Doughnuts with directions for basics and substitutions. It also includes methods for keeping jellies mold-free, how to wash flannel and blankets, and simple seafood and fried potato techniques. Additional notes cover hominy cooking, rice uses, and general household care for horses and health, plus a market chatter on population estimates and holiday gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina Oske
Georgia
How to Make Apple Butter From Cider and Apples
A historical recipe explains making apple butter by boiling cider from sweet apples, skimming scum, and adding tart apples in stages. The mixture cooks to a thick pulp, then is jarred or stored cool. Spices like cinnamon and cloves are suggested for flavor. One and a half bushels of apples make enough for one barrel of cider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Sarah Peters
Pennsylvania Railroad
Keokuk
Iowa
Wemen
Dixon
Brady
The Horse Malady Remedies for a Cold Sore Throat and Cough
A historical note compares handling a human cold with treating a horse showing similar symptoms. It argues horses tolerate simpler remedies than people and suggests straightforward, non-heat therapies may suffice for equine colds without warm baths or vapor treatments.
Dr Trasks Magnetic Ointment Promises Quick Healing Powers
An aged inventor claims a magnetic ointment blends vegetable extracts with electricity to cure internal and external diseases. He asserts rapid relief for nervous headaches and numerous ailments from rheumatism to diphtheria, with widespread recovery claims cited by D. Ransom, Son & Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trask
D. Ransom, Son & Co
Propr's
Buffalo, N.Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jacob Rider
Lowe
Denede
Cincinnati Water Works
Cook
Paw Paw
Charles Gates
Charles Winogardner
Lahorer
Wyming
Brookville
Ind
New Ross
Lockwood
Edward Mills
Pikeville
Ohio
York
St. Joseph
G.W. Reno
F. H. Jones
Hannah Brandella
John Biminge
Susan Molkly
Providence
R. I
Jacob H. Greybill
Petersburg
Luxo
Wilson
Massachusetts
President Grant
Charles W. Elsot
Hippocrates
Gotha
DR. A. Trask
Garg
Lockport
John Hodge
V A
Eera Schenck
Schenck
Philadelphia
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