Far West reports of cold deaths and livestock losses
Reports from the far West state detail many people frozen to death and four hundred sheep burned in the tule fog near the San Joaquin delta. Other items note a $39,000 defalcation loss at the U S Treasury, a New Hampshire Labor Reform convention nomination, and various political and international notes from Havana to Madrid.
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Far West
San Joaquin River
U.S. Treasury Department
Labor Reform State Convention
Concord
N. H
Samuel P. Cooper
Croyden
Camonzin
Wyoming
Vaimaseda
Congress
Achilles
Minas Basin
Prince Edward Island
Washington
Spain
Radical
Madrid
Ebenezer I
Levaka
Mason Arnam
Fort Scott
Kansas
War Department
House of Representatives
South Carolina
C. C. Bowen
Charleston
South Australia
International
France
England
London
Europe
Hawkinsville
Cal
Roger Tichburne
Osprey
M. H. Sharpings
Melbourne
Myra Cuare Gates
OxJerns
Goxupbusz
Vermont Morgan
Zibandi
Larxesten
DeLarge
Tilcott
Bainey
Turner
Alabama
Walls
Florida
Target Company Parade Through Muddy New York Streets
A damp New York City procession of a target company shows a disheveled mob marching through rain slick streets. Musicians plod with dull tunes as a hired flag bearer leads, while fatigue, mud, and roving whiskey blend with derisive glare from the crowd. Targets fail to hit the mark, amid drunken revelry and post parade thefts.
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New York City
Targeteera
Diogenes
Marine disasters on the Northern Lakes in 1871
The season 1871 on the Northern Lakes recorded 1,167 marine disasters. Of these 225 were caused by collisions, 200 vessels went ashore, 31 burned, 26 capsized, 19 foundered, 162 sprung leaks, 65 waterlogged, 60 dismasted, 110 lost deck-loads, and 10 exploded boilers. Additional minor disasters occurred.
Sidewalk Fire Sparks City Pride and Costs
The Superintendent of Sidewalks says the burned sidewalks would span from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, valued near 1,060,000 dollars. Chicago challenges other cities to match such a feat, praising brevity and charity as essential to virtue and authorship.
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Couno’st Brarr
A New Manure and Royal Visit Anecdote in Scots and Russian News
A Norwegian firm sells fish guano from Lofoten cod heads for about $45 a ton, dried and milled, praised as versatile manure and fish hour used in Scan dinavia cuisine. The piece also recalls Captain Robinson’s Sardinian royal visit to a Scottish island, including a Sunday church key episode, and notes on bridal dress styles with tulle gowns and floral adornments.
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Loffoden Islands
United States
Scandinavia
Russias
Scotland
Robinson
Constantine
Iowa
Hersel
Narrow Escape on Oregon and California Railroad Cut
An Oregon Paper reports a dramatic near disaster on the Oregon and California Railroad. A woman riding a horse rode along the track in a long cut as a fast down train approached. The rider urged the horse to speed while passengers and crew tried to stop the locomotive. Conductor Sam Winans leaped forward, restrained the animal, and the train halted just as danger passed.
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Oregon and California
Sam Winans
Winans
Oregon Paper
Emancipation in Russia Ten Years After Serf Freeing
A nineteenth century report notes the 1551 emancipation decree granting conditional freedom to Russian serfs. By ten years hence 6,474,913 peasants owned 60 million acres, with 22 million serfs still in bondage a decade later. landholdings remain mainly with landowners, yet prosperity rises and peasants grow more capable. The populace reveres the emperor and Russia gains internal strength.
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Russia
The Dress of Children and Winter Clothing Urgency
A 19th century warning on infant health links mortality to improper dress in cold weather. Mothers wearing scant outfits endanger infants by exposing limbs. blood retreat to vital organs causes congestion and sickness risk. The piece also notes high dress costs and a New York ball gown itemized price.
Escape and riot at Bareilly jail ends with recapture
A Calcutta Times report details the Bareilly jail uprising sparked by Dr Eades removing Brahminical threads from prisoners. Forty seven prisoners burst into the yard, attacking gates and warders. Police and Jemadars repelled the revolt. seven escaped, four recaptured, twenty one wounded by clubs, sixteen by bullets.
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Calcutta
London Times
Bareilly
Norman
Hades
Eades
Casie
India
Sowell
Nots
Execution in Paris Reveals Courage of Three Prisoners
An English report details the execution of Ressel Ferre and Bourgeois from the Camp of Sutory near Paris. The three died after a disciplined crowd watched, with Ferre defiantly refusing blindfolding. The event drew vast public attention as troops carried out the sentence at seven o clock. The piece also notes Governor Marey’s Thanksgiving proclamation while in New York.
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Ressel
Paris
Badlery
Ferre
Bourgeois
Sutory
Ferra
Rossel
William L. Marey
New York
Wiis L. Maror
Merny Ladies Suffer in Dress Discomfort
A brief remark notes that women in tight gowns high heels and hair pins endure more discomfort than any pleasure from fashion. The line emphasizes fashion pains over style during formal dress.
How he Set the Turkey
In a humorous tale from Mrs. Stowe a minister tries to force a Tom turkey to hatch eggs. Huldy hides laughter as the parson traps the bird with a nest, then lifts a basket and stone to pin him. The turkey defies them, smashing the eggs and escaping, prompting talk of removing such trouble from the farm.
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Huldy
Wal
Old Jim Scroggs
Scroggs
Hurdy
Hardy
Laaugh
Tom Terkey
Tom
Tom Wurkey
Isugh
Andy
Beto Marcel
Old Tom
Parsons
Honce
Red Sea
Where and Goon Newspaper Mar Do
An excerpt extols newspapers as intelligent tutors for families of boys and girls. It argues that accessible, wholesome reading at home fosters cheerful minds and deters vice, praising the moral and social benefits noted by the Long Islander.
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Waar & Goon
Mar Do
Sham Fight Drawn Battle Hurts Brisk Arena Fans
A scolding note from W. Papert condemns Mace and Co partners for staging multiple sham fights and drawn battles to deceive backers. The writer applauds such rascality as hastening the decline of brutal ring culture, urging readers to recognize the cruelty behind the sport and its promoters.
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Briisers
Mace
Co‘parm
Rascality
Cowandica
Tell It Again In A Childlike Rhyme Tale
Fragmented verse recalls “tell it again” chants from childhood, weaving images of fairies gardens months and a child reader. It blends dreamy scenes with names and playful phrases, ending on a reference to a sister and a book.
Brevities and Parables From A Global Patchwork
A compilation of miscellaneous quotes and anecdotes. Topics range from moral maxims and advice on friendship to humor about misdeeds and a Michigan county fire loss estimate. The notes include a Hartford mouse incident at a supper table and a court quip over a chicken theft with a lawyer’s defense.
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Michigan
Huron County
Toases
Hartford
Mace
Coburn
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Detectives and Thieves in Urban Society
A Cincinnati Gazelle critique argues detectives enable thieves by demanding cash from robbed citizens to fund investigations. It calls for abolition of the detective force and strict accountability, labeling independent detectives as suspicious and urging public scrutiny of any payments to pursue cases.
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Cincinnati
Fragmented prosaic notes on marriage and sea life
A mangled passage discusses a wife as a proto moral ideal and the virtues of a docile, reasonable mind. Nearby, a Cuban cable is described as crushed in deep sea locations where loggerhead turtles feed, suggesting the creatures played with the line.
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New York Target Company
Fashion Journal
Dotty Pringle
Santa Claus
Fairier Cardens
Arathine
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