Mountain Mystery of Mason Family Disappearance Solved
An Arkansas tale from Witt Springs tells how Charles McKinley vanished after a feud with Lizzie Mason. John Mason was jailed on suspicions of murder, but years later a bear hunter found McKinley’s remains in a cave with a note. The find ended the mystery and implicated no one else.
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Interior Counties
Arkansas
Boston Mountains
Mason
John
David
Lizzie
Charles McKinley
Apollo
Rovers
Charley
John Mason
McKin- Toy
McKinley
Beneay
Robert
Emmet
Texas
Lone Star
Louisiana
New Orleans
Witt Springs
Ark
Cor
World
Compulsory Education in Brooklyn Gains Traction
The 1877 push to enforce New York State compulsory education faced strong opposition from both public and private school leaders and families. Attendance agents highlighted truancy issues, with 7000 cases handled last year, many returned to proper schools, and some sent to attendance or reform settings.
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New York
Trate
Board of Attendance
Prospect Park
Fragmentary notice hints at school dispatch and living mode
Fragments indicate a district agent accompanying people to their homes and informing Te Pao to send children to school. text cites Fryatt in Harper's Magazine January.
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Fryatt
Harper's Magazine
The Woman and the Shoes in Detroit
A Detroit Free Press tale follows a woman shopping for shoes. She weighs styles from French heels to laced fronts, tries on several pairs, and ends with tight fives bought for her feet and her plan to stay home, lamenting the wasted money.
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Morocco
Lees
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Anniversary of the thousandth sheep born in Japan celebrated
An American named Jones celebrated in Japan the natal day of his thousandth sheep with high dignitaries present. Jones introduced beer to Japan and owns a Mongolian breed flock. The article notes uncultivated land makes sheep farming lucrative despite climate difficulties. Harp times in Berlin led to dog stealing and dog eating by the hungry poor.
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Japan
Jones
Insular Empire
Berlin
Exiled laborers push Mississippi to Kansas exodus urge reform
The piece argues that Mississippi and Louisiana workers flee to Kansas and the Northwest seeking freedom and work. It contrasts Kansas and Mississippi political cultures, citing census trends, wealth, and social conditions, and urges Mississippi to reform laws, end oppression, and encourage immigration to aid national prosperity.
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Gulf States
Kansas
Northwest
South
Pousti
Beasta
Urden
Mapsteinpert
Soion
Jackson
Kansan
Kunans
Union
N. Y. Tintes
Sammy and Tommy The Rise and Fall of Two Democrats
The write up traces Sammy Tilden and Tommy Hendricks from promising youths to bold political figures. It notes how their early conduct gave way to ambitious actions, contrasting public adoration with growing notoriety as their careers unfold.
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Macaulay
Sammy
New York
Tammy
Shelbyville
Hendricks Club
Garcelon
Starekting
White House
Sammy Tilden
Tommy Hendricks
Hiner
Frank
Pomminy
Atatesman
Providence
Tommy
Indianapolis Journal
Maine Triumph Amid Far-Reaching Voter Fraud Debate
The article praises a historic Maine victory for popular rights, credits and questions the actors behind it, and condemns a Democratic Governor and Council for attempting to disfranchise towns and install unvoted officials amid Supreme Court opposition. It portrays the fraud as an unprecedented threat to democracy and a major political turning point.
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Union
Maine Supreme Court
Maine
Tilden
Garcelon
Hendricks
Blaiie
Morrill
Nmin
Hale
Davis
Supreme Court
Wax models and Pasteur notes in 19th century science
A London or Glasgow periodical records experiments showing wax flow mimicking ice, and Thompson experiments with wax to model buoyancy. It also cites Pasteur on anthrax burial, a sugar water test, and Favre on mountain formation plus Maclear’s claim of ancient Indian chemistry and the word etymology of chemistry.
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British Medical Journal
Academie de Medicine
Paris
M. Pasteur
Euro Et Loire
Mastour
Scientific American
Collinsby
Canada
John Filmer
James Maclear
Great Britain
Philanthropic Society of Glasgow
India
Phosphate Beds in Russia Hold Europe Supply Potential
Exploration findings indicate Russia may possess extensive beds of phosphate of lime capable of supplying Europe for an indefinite period.
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Gro.oarcar
Russia
Europe
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Miter
Brooklyn
Sammy and
Mechanical and Scientific
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