Numerous Grim Accidents and Tragic Deaths Reported
A long, fragmentary list details several fatal or serious incidents from various locations. Notable items include a Jeffersonville youth killed by a blunt force to the head, a Long Island explosion injuring three workers, and a Wisconsin bridegroom swallowing a ring during a Cleveland wedding. Other entries cover fires, drownings, suicides, and a railroad accident in Batavia with a fireman heroically saving the engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appleton
Mass
Joseph Boyer
Rebbite
Peoria
Boyer
Michael Gavin
Cleveland
Poplar Street
Boston
Mecklenberg Y. A
Robert*Walker
Robert
Carrolton
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Dickey
Ingfield
Columbus
Milla
Galva
Ill
New York
Batavia
Hénry Backus
Heron
Siibaes
Tim Apts
Heen
Recent Railroad Horror Near Alton Junction
Details from St Louis papers describe a collision between freight No 7 led by conductor Baker and engineer Halpine and a northbound passenger train near Upper Alton. The freight, delayed yet proceeding at junction, met the passenger train on a sharp curve, near a sixteen foot cut, with both crews risking fatal impact.
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Alton Junction
St. Louis
Baker
Ihalpine
East St. Louis
Upper Alton Station
Upper Alton
Enougl
Ray
Canman
Louis
Alton
Joseph Fricesen
Reuben Rainee
Henry County
Iowa
Herman Nenb
An Nenberger
Barry
St. Louis Democrat
Reuben Raines
Ralhea
Terrible wreck follows immigrant family tragedy and collision
An Illinois to Iowa train collision kills and injures multiple passengers amid a blazing wreck. The report details a Burdette family’s perilous winter journey and the heroic rescue efforts at Omaha, with Dr Tennant and the Howard House hosting the rescued family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ette
Sma
Ilinois
Burdette
Shomestead
Mr. Burdette
Mr. B
Goward House
Omaha
Neb
Boe
Incomplete OCR Clip Sees Timed Error Delays Station Reset
A garbled OCR passage describes a timer bar belief that a operator could reset the next station before the pet thin. It notes a nineteen minute miss in calculation and mentions valves open with steam pressure, implying a delay or failure in a mechanical sequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dhaljicd
Evening at Home as Moral and Social Good
The article argues the home is the best school of virtue and happiness. It urges homemakers to organize inviting, joyful evenings that attract all family members, balancing private warmth with careful public entertainment ideas to reduce temptations to seek elsewhere.
Evening entertainments and home culture values
The text urges using evenings for reading music conversation drama and plays to cultivate culture. It argues small groups or families can create worthwhile amusements at home, reducing frivolous distractions and social vices, per a Golden Age reflection.
Sweet Sole Pudding and Rural Lessons on Food and Health
A mix of home recipes for Sweet Sole Pudding and Wheat dishes plus practical notes on farming soiling methods and food preparation. It also includes medical advice from Dr Stephen Ware on mad dog bites, outlining wound care and prognosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
American Dental Association
Committee On
Castile
Stephen Ware
Boston
Insects in Orchards Discussed by Minnesota Horticultural Society
At a late Minnesota Horticultural Society meeting, members discussed orchard pests inclining leaf lice curculios and moths. Remedies include tobacco decoctions soap washes careful carbolic acid use ash applications and trapping methods with moth bands and traps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota Horticultural Society
Gideon
Mendenhall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bluue
Weissenberg
Jeffersonville
Ind
Hunter's Point
L. 1
Philadelphia
Patrick Gormly
Otttod
McBee
Pear
Hamburg
cBee
Pehvarshare
Amelid Johnson
Southbury
Conn
Mt Dolla Ag
Cannas City - Aes Hotel
Pat Ok Bulger
Durant
Evansville
William Erving
Johnson
Bozrah
Misa Johnson
Irs. Johnson
Button, Vi
Adams County
Albany 5
Chicago
Teddy
Lowell
Mase
Olan
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