Numerous Fatal Accidents and a Civil War Era Debate
A wide range of injuries and deaths are reported from mines, construction sites, and a railway in the United States including several fatal falls and a severed limb. A Chicago transfusion operation is noted as successful for a pulmonary patient. A Missouri widow and child tragedy follows a rooftop accident. The piece also reports a dramatic rescue attempt during a factory fire and includes a long political column defending the Democratic Party and its postwar stance.
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Greta
California
Andrew Johnson
Chicago
Miss Dungan
Union
Batimore
Wilkesbarre
Edward Scandleberry
Thomas
Frethway
Andtayere
Scandleberry
Lamb
Bennett Kyle
Missouri
eThus
M. D. Wells & Co
Anderson
Paniond
Galt
Highouse
Revival of Democracy in the Nation’s Drift to Power
The article argues that New York Hampshire and Connecticut supporters of the old reactionary party push for a Democratic revival. It condemns slavery era policies and praises the Civil Rights bill while warning against ephemeral groups. It urges a straight Democratic course and emphasizes state rights in sustaining national governance.
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Democratic Party
Cig
Babiier
Atlf
Dom Scranvan
Manhattan
Democrat
Ellisis
Democratic
Polk
Pierce
Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
New York City
Tweed
Paglea
Stite
Democracy
Pmans
Inter
Ocean
KGH
Hampshire
New York
Connecticut
Bourbon Eaton
United States
Senate
Pessy
Pia
Iowa
Regie
Register
Manhattan Club
Old
Senate composition after March 4 1875 foretold in Detroit Tribune
The article notes twenty five Senators terms end March 4 with seven already elected. It details party shifts across states like Ohio Maryland California and Connecticut and forecasts the Senate balance next session as Republicans around 49 Democrats 22 Liberals 8 doubtful. It cites current stand 61 Republicans 19 Democrats 3 Liberals 1 vacancy.
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Thurman
Ohio
Missis
B. L. Bruce
H. R. Pedse
Maryland
William Pinckney White
William T. Hamilton
California
Newton Booth
John 8. Hager
Connecticut
Texas
Virginia
William W. Eaton
William A. Buckingham
B. Maxey
Joseph W. Flanagan
S. D. Withers
John F. Lewis
Gilbert
Florida
Pratt
Indiana
Hamlin
Maine
Washburn
Massachusetts
Chandler
Michigan
Ramsey
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Tennessee
West
New Jersey
Louisiana
Senate
Detroit Tribune
General Howard and the Freedman's Bureau in Nineteenth Century Debate
The piece recalls long standing accusations against General Oliver O. Howard aimed at blackening his name through rumors about the Freedman's Bureau. It notes a court martial ordered on charges to his character, reports a favorable verdict, and cites Harper's Weekly praising his conduct as Commissioner.
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Gen. Howrate
Freedman’s Bureau
GenGen
Fernando Wood
Cnt T
Wren
House of ‘Representatives
Rand
Gen. Howard
Howard
Edgar Ketchuin
Hamad
Harper's Weekly
Preservation and kitchen notes from a 19th century cookbook
Recipes and household tips including molasses pies with vinegar and lemon, plaster and arabic cement for repair, preserving milk with alcohol, a tar and lantern method for garden pests, buttermilk curing hogs of scurvy, homemade soap from grease and lye, soap making steps, and Strawberry Short-Cake using sour cream and fruit layers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Sace
Switzerland
Les Mondes
Colorado Agriculturist
Oor
New Yorker
Poultry on the Farm Management for highest returns
The article discusses poultry as a small yet powerful farming tool. It argues that common fowls yield the greatest profits if well fed and given varied nutritious substances. It notes that egg production depends on proper feeding and that even barnyard fowls can be made to lay abundantly with good care.
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Aaron
Fowls on Farms Turned into Mobile Pest Controllers
Farmers adopt movable hen houses to help control grubs and pests, with birds roosting in transportable coops as they follow fallow fields. The practice limits grain damage at harvest and enhances waste feeding while noting risks of injury if birds wander near ripening crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heeler and
Plymouth-Ging
A New Tool for Trapping Cutworms In Gardens
An American Agriculturist piece describes a contraption to encircle a plant with a ring of holes made by a split shovel handle inserted into a wooden hoop. When pressed into soil, worms drop into two inch deep holes for easy morning destruction, preventing crop damage.
Harvesting Root Crops With a Hoe Top Method
A New York Tribune note explains a hoe based method to harvest turnips efficiently. Starting at the outer row you top each turnip, the tops fall toward adjacent rows, then pull the roots with the hoe blade guiding and loosening. With practice two to three tops per stroke are possible, enabling hundreds of bushels in a day.
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Ae Hoe
Bfou Egin
N. Y. Tribune
Meteoric fireball sighted near Kingston Springs and Worcester arrow
A Nashville observer recalls a ball of fire seen at 2:10 a m rising northward then southwestward with a blazing tail about fifty yards long and a loud roaring concluded. Worcester, Mass., announces the boy's pocket arrow invention amid growing curiosity as one eyed people rise.
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Nashville Union
Kingston Springs
Worcester
Mass
Vecetine and Pine Tree Tar Cordial Ad Offer Remedies
An old advertisement extols Vecetine as a general cure and warns of neglected coughs leading to lung issues. It also promotes Wisard’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial as a trusted remedy and touts Silver Tipped Boots and Shoes famed for durability, urging purchase through local dealers.
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Wisiart
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Trox
H. R. Stevens
Boston
Prich
ATG
L. Q. C. Wisehart
Blatchley
Bintchley
Amerior Institute
A. W. Thomas, Patentea
White Street
Race Sr. Te Phila Delp
Manilla
the Bale
Malor Express
W. B. Simons & Son
Williamsburgh
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