Thankful Joy and Other Odd Notes From The Gazette
The Gazette lists a mix of curiosities and trivia: Thankful Joy, a Hampshire cricketer, is described as the most happily named man in England. It also mentions a Oklahoma girl who had three marriages by the same judge in six months, heat expanding the Eiffel tower by eight inches, and a London man who smoked eighty six cigars in twelve hours. It notes Lincoln's coffin coach at North Platte and plans for the world’s fair, plus counts of Christian denominations and Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian varieties in the United States.
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Pentars
England
Thankful Joy
Hampshire
Massachusetts Leads States in 25k+ Cities Count
Massachusetts has fifteen cities over 25 000 population, more than any other state. New York follows with thirteen such cities.
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Massachousetts
State
Union
Massachusetts
New York
England Fixes New Year In 1751 As March Opens Spring
The article notes January 1 was not declared New Year in England until 1751. It states March as the proper year start, aligning with spring when nature awakens, mentioning the Bowers and trees as signs of renewal.
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England
Indian pilot dies at home in Caughnawaga village
Reports note sarriste the Indian pilot, famed for guiding boats through the St Lawrence rapids, died at his home in the Indian village of Caughnawaga aged two. The item also touches on donations to Dwight Moody’s Northfield school, a Port Jefferson eye ailment, Dr. Pierson succeeding Spurgeon, Vienna’s Maximilian observance, a German case of prolonged sleep, Col Amos A Parker’s long life, and plans for a naval college on Newport Island with post graduate instruction and near-shore war vessel practice.
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Sarriste
St. Lawrence
Coughnawaga
Col
Amos A. Parker
Fitzwilliam
N. H
University of Vermont
Col. Parker
New Hampshire
Newport Harbor
Naval College
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Buckwheat cake trust forming in New Jersey
Reported buckwheat cake trust aims to corner buckwheat in the United States and Canada and adulterate mixes for sale to housekeepers. Junvearen connects with Joppa by rail, promising daily trains and a shift from desert journeys to modern meals, though some fear loss of sacred city charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
United States
Canada
Junvearen
Joppa
Judea
Cholera fears delay steerage to United States officials report
Weekly summaries note steamer companies delaying arrivals until Congress meets or cholera ceases. The week’s clearings total 1 1,818,295, against 1 126,298,885 prior week, up 7.4 percent from 1891. Charted are business failures, immigrant counts by state, political nominations, and notable court and crime updates.
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Tih Steamship Companies
PresidentHarriken
Congress
Tus
United States
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nationwide Disasters and Political Nominations Reported
A series of fires cause heavy losses across cities including St Louis and Indianapolis. Floods wash crops along the Rio Grande, and livestock are drowned near Eagle Pass and Laredo. Congressional nominations are listed for Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin with multiple party picks. Daltons captured in Deming amid a wave of robberies. Spiegel & Co. and Union Transfer losses noted.
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St. Louis
Thomas H. Allison
Dobson
N. C
W. H. Brown
Texas
Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Laredo
Michigan
Byron Devendorf
Ohio
R. P. Bowler
C. T. Graves
Missouri
Webster Davis
Tekoa
Wash
Joan Sontac
Chris Evans
Fresno
Cal
Montana
Great Falls
Timothy E. Collins
W. W. Dixon
Congress
Pueblo
John A. Monpin
N. D
PF. C. Collins
Laramie
Edward Ivenson
C. D. Clark
United States
Deming
N. M
Spiegel & Co
Chicago
Union Transfer and Storage Company
Indianapolis
Wisconsin
Pivet
Political Race Notes and Local Violence Summary
The report lists multiple congressional nominations in Indiana Wisconsin Iowa Ohio and Alabama along with party affiliations. It covers mob action in Arkansas lynching a Black man and street violence aftermath at a Columbus Ohio state fair causing injuries. Also notes a naval veterans reunion election and a brutal assault in Kansas.
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C. Babbitt
J. L. Mitchell
H. A. Prambach
Michigan
D. Stranger
Colorado
M. W. Reed
Nevada
J. C. Hageman
Ohio
M. Turner
Indiana
Milton Bell
Wisconsin
G. H. Brickner
Iowa
J. T. Hamilton
L. P. Chliger
Texas
C. C. Drake
A. J. Rosenthal
A. G. Malloy
Alabama
Tt. E.turpin
South Dakota
A. LB. Callington
Kinn
J. H. Menge & Co
New Orleans
Arkansas
Fishback
S : Whipple
Carnahan
Nelson
Northwestern
Marshalltown
Tom Howes
William Linebaugh
Jack Ashton
Clinton
W. E. Carlen
Powell
Mich
Au Bonita
Warrensburg
Baltimore
National Association of Naval Veterans
R. S. Osborn
New York
John J. van Metre
Idaho
Montezumala
J. HW. Mullen
Moquerre
Richmond
Ind
Tur
Thomas H. Watts
Montgomery
Ala
John Leimon
Little Rock
Ark
People's Party
W. R. Mason
Frank Baltzell
J. F. Tate
A. P. Longshore
W. ©. Whatley
John M. Davis
W. M. Wood
Rev
R. T. Blackwell
J. E. Parsons
World distress and local disasters sweep the headlines
Reports reach from Avr Cape St. Mary's to Formosa with drownings from a swamped boat and a massive typhoon destroying 200 houses. Fires kill families in Missouri Valley and Ashbourne, while a boiler explosion in Ontario leaves seven dead and twenty wounded. Immigrant totals rise and baseball standings show rankings.
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Cape St. Mary's
N. F
Formosa
China
Turovenour
Russia
Bulletin on Mrs. Harrison’s Condition at Loon Lake
Doctors from Washington New York and Sarauac issued a bulletin on Mrs. Harrison’s serious case of pulmonary tuberculosis with subacute pleurisy and rapid chest fluid accumulation. The president’s family and staff remain at her side. prognosis uncertain with possible fatal outcome and extended stay.
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Mra. Harrison
Loon Lake
N. Y
F. &. Gardner
Washington
K. Doughty
New York
ET. Trudeau
Sarauac
Harrison
Russell Harrison
McKee
Halford
Parker
Cape May
Jackson Woman Awakens After Year of Sleep
May White, a Jackson county school maam, spent the past year in a deep stupor and subsisted on liquor. After weeks of diminishing stupor she opened her eyes, recognized her parents, and sat up to eat solid food for the first time in twelve months. Her physician says she is on the road to recovery, though memory is poor and weight has dropped from 148 to 58 pounds.
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Jackson, Mich
May White
Jackson County
Frosts Hit Northwest Corn Regions
Frosts swept the northwest and southeast of the state causing general crop concerns. In Lixcouy Nebraska frost damaged lowland corn while Des Moines reports show statewide frost Tuesday night with Missouri slope hardest hit and river bottom corn lightly affected.
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Lixcouy
Neb
Des Moines
Lowa Weather Service
Missouri
Iron Hall Reorganized in Indianapolis Conference
The Iron Hall representatives centralizes reorganization electing Samuel T. Town of Philadelphia as Supreme Justice H L Jones of Boston as Supreme Justice and W P Landes of Indianapolis as Supreme Accountant A F Koch of Meridian National Bank Indianapolis as Supreme Cashier The old order constitution was amended in only a few particulars.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Order of the Iron Hall
Samuel T. Town
Philadelphia
Yhe
H. L. Jones
Boston
W, PF
Landes
A. F. Koch
Meridian National Bank
Cholera Threat Delays Immigration Proclamation
The Bohemia from Hamburg arrives at quarantine with 82 immigrants and eleven child deaths during the voyage from diarrhea. In New York a 19 year old Irish immigrant, Mary Connerty, is diagnosed with cholera. Friesland passengers linked to Antwerp may have spread the disease, prompting a temporary suspension of steerage travel while the president awaits steamboat company guarantees.
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New York Supreme Court
Kunmisey
Monroe County
Carl Nowy
Henry Uauer
Pittsburgh
Grand Jury
Frick
Carnegie Steel Company
Alexander Dergmann
Tur
Normannia
Fire Island
Loon Lake
N.Y
Harrison
David Bruce
New York
Massachusetts
Boston
William H. Haile
Springfield
Ture Democrats
New
New York City
National League of Republican Clubs
Buffalo
Gov
McKinley
Ohio
Vermont
Fuller
Smalley
Allen
Newton
Moraee G. Broadhurst
Mass
George Taylor
Clarkson
Louisville
Jonson's Corner
Samuel A. Moody
Fannie
Nichols
Bohemia
Mamburg
Hamburg
Ier
Germany
Russia
Mary Connerty
Ireland
Second Avenue
Health Department
C. J. Kane
Dillingham
Board of Health
Friesland
Minnie Levinger
Antwerp
Europe
East Sixteenth Street
Minnie
Secretary of the Treasury
Foster
Congress
Four Die in Northwestern Road Collision Near Marshalltown
A noon crash eight miles west of Marshalltown on a Northwestern line killed four men, two engineers Thomas Howes of Clinton and Jack Ashton of Clinton, fireman Linebaugh and stockman W. E. Carlen of Powell Michigan. The wreck destroyed engines and numerous cars with grain stock and merchandise, injuring others. Dispatcher Titus fled after the report.
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Marshalltown
Here
Thomas Howes
Clinton
John Ashton
Sireman Linebaugh
W. E. Carlen
Powell
Mich
John Desark
Titus
Delle Plaine
Streight No. 21
Lamoille
Tom Howes
Jack Ashton
Linebaugh
W. B. Carlen
Conrad
Trowes
Five Injured In Bridge Accident Near Mason City
A wagon crossed a Lime creek bridge eight inches low after the embankment settled. The evener broke and the wagon went over a 20 foot drop. Husband wife mother and two children were seriously hurt. mother and one child fatally. In a separate note, a pupil shot and killed Prof Glowacki at a gymnasium in Larnapol Galicia and then killed himself.
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Mason Crry
B. A. Fellows
Lime Creek
Vienna
Larnapol
Galicia
Johann Schwed
Felix Glowacki
Schwed
Cholera scare widens as health boards tighten controls
In New York City health authorities confront undetermined cholera sources as quarantine tightens. Three steerage girls from Friesland are kept under surveillance at Willard Parker Hospital. Additional inspectors and police detail boosts are planned while East Sixteenth Street access opens briefly for hospital entry.
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New York City
New York
Board of Health
Friesland
Minnie Levinger
East Forty-sixth Street
Willard Parker Hospital
Levinger
Health Board
Police Board
East Sixteenth Street
Health Department
Chamber of Scommerce
Fire Island
E. N. Godkin
Senator McPherson
A. M. Palmer
Lottie Collins
Babylon
Cepheus
Indianavolis
Ind
State Board of Health
Indianapolis
Boards of Health
Camp Low
Sanpy Hoox
N. J
Hoffman Island
Hamilton
Middletown
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Wasiacros
State Boards of Health
J. M. McCormack
Kentucky
Halifax
New Orleans
Charleston
Jenkins
McCormack
Maprio
Frontier
Narnis
Capri
Quotation Fragments Spark Lighthearted Notes
The clipping cites scattered witticisms about customers and weather from old papers. It mentions a line about liking to see customers in forbidding attire and jokes about the world being an oyster, plus a morning wit remark.
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