Mysterious Railroad Survey and Fatal Argentine Track Crash
Readable items report a skeleton found near town and a railroad surveying party near Oskaloosa expected to reach Lawrence. A fatal express collision near Argentine killed Ira Cole. details describe the crash as a walking-on-track incident with a passenger train striking him.
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Lawrence Atchison & Southern Railroad
Oskaloosa
Lawrence
Steinberg
N. P. Demings
Irry Cole
Phiales
County Teachers Form Committee and Meeting Schedule
County teachers formed a committee led by Mesore Irving Stanlay and J. A Campbell to arrange and plan upcoming member meetings. Regular meetings are set for the fourth Saturday each month with smaller gatherings in Baldwin Clinton and Lecompton on the first, second, and third Saturdays respectively.
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Areelie
Mesore
Irving Stanlay
J. E Peske
J. A Campbell
Jobo Lavell
He Fisk
Moses Aum E. Turpin
Alice King
Mary Wildame
Lillian Scott
Reece
Baldwin
Clinton
Lecompton
October Record Shows Cold and Wet Weather Effects
October ranked among the coldest on record with rainfall above average reducing the seasonal deficit. Sunshine was abundant, frost dates arrived late, and mean temperatures hovered around 52 degrees. Ten months of 1847 total rainfall stood slightly below yearly norms, while cloudiness and wind details highlighted a notably brisk month. Local tax levies and civic funds were outlined, alongside club meetings and a train incident involving an elderly woman who fell from a moving coach but survived with minor injuries.
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Windon Wei
Wai
Timie
Educational notes on compulsory attendance and early health ideals
The column critiques compulsory attendance enforcement amid growing western city school populations, arguing district size affects enforcement and suggesting a broader district would ease duties. It cites Catholic Indian schools funding and notes on physical training programs for girls at a New York college in development, with measurements used for future standards.
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Satan
Mary Taylor Bissell
Vassar
New York City
A Curio of Rothschilds and an American Visitor in London
An American tourist misidentifies a polite Rothschild contractor in a London building, learns of the family’s business lore, and discovers the man is Baron Rothschild after a humorous mix up. A second anecdote notes rising American travel and spendings in Europe, with a ship agent estimating a fifty million dollar annual outflow.
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London
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Rothe
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Americas
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Bear
Baren Rothschild
S Rothschild
Mike
Frehange
New Haven News
Ghia
Ita
Bark gathering in the Andes and cinchona trade details
Describes bark gatherers in Peru and the Andean camp life. Men locate suitable trees, cut and peel bark, dry it in sun, load mules, and transport bark to market. Notes on rates, quality, and seasonal return trips, with scattered quotes from periodical items.
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Cascaralero
Cleay
Woollman
Andes
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