Famine and Relief Debates From Indian Crises
A discussion on the Great Famine in India cites harrowing scenes of starvation in a vast region. It notes scarce bread and cheese, government relief efforts, canal and railway needs, rainfall failures, and official counts of relief recipients and deaths as of May.
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America
Ameria
Carlos
Iidia
Orbey
Ellie
India
Sirty Temple
Iadia
Himalaya
Benegal
Asiac
Erain
Government of
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Charles Barnard
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London
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West Door
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R. Timple
Zemindars
Famine Death Toll in India Reaches Thousands
Describes ongoing famine in India causing nearly 3,000 ryots to perish despite government efforts and London charities. Notes ill communications, irrigation schemes proposed by England, and extensive aid while millions remain dependent on government relief and charity. cites a London-delivered statement with eight hundred thousand dead? and a half million subsisting on aid.
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London
England
Amd Whiel
Deen
Ain Endia
Les Charity
Watt
European Armies Swelled as Conflicts Grow Across Europe
A Continental dispatch notes rising military strength in Prussia Russia and France with Britain Denmark and Italy boosting forces. It highlights increases in troops and equipment, citing Austrian, Russian, Italian and French totals, and remarks on the shift in armed balance across Europe amid ongoing hostilities. It also recounts a cultural aside on the fan as a feminine accessory origin story from Chinese tradition.
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Louis Napoleon
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Europe
Asia
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Cost of Crops and Miscellaneous Notes From Rural New Yorker
A Delaware county Ohio cor respondent estimates crop costs on land valued at sixty dollars per acre. Corn yields and prices vary by per acre, with multiple figures for bushels and cents per bushel. Wheat costs about one dollar per bushel, oats at least thirty cents, potatoes about twenty cents per bushel for 100 bushels per acre. Includes manure plowing harvesting and related costs plus five dollars per acre for land taxes. Scribner’s Monthly asks about which arm a gentleman should offer a lady in walking and leans left, while a Mississippi jury values Mrs Montgomery at $22,000 after a railroad death. Also a note on woodchucks and a quip about widows and courting artifices.
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Delaware County
Ohio
New Yorker
Scribner's Monthly
Love on the Bridge Ends With Wedding on the River
A dramatic Kentucky Indiana romance unfolds as lovers flee pursuers along the Hew Husbands bridge. With a boatload of watchers and a magistrate on the far shore, a quick ceremony across the water unites them. The brisk act ends with news of a later reveal and a vow to wed.
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