20 Aug 1875
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Pharos
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1875
Page
1
The Pharos critiques Indianapolis governance and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum inquiry, warns against real estate fever ruins, questions the Indiana political press, and urges strong policing. reports timber losses from Wisconsin fires and notes local civic finances and planning debates.
State Fair managers announce elimination of previous obstacles and anticipate a successful upcoming exhibition with features improved to reflect credit on the event.
A fragmented mixture recalls childhood homes and the old farm house as liveliness fades to memory. The column then lists assorted public notes: Grant’s beard shaved, Beecher trial pages, political shifts in Massachusetts, a Cincinnati fish purging society, Henry Blackwell’s age, Mrs. Johnson’s illness, Lincoln and Johnson legacies, a Dawes office anecdote, a Missouri doctor’s suicide, and cautionary remarks on reformers and politicians.
A hillside near William Wattam’s river road homestead near New Albany collapsed after 9 pm, pulling a party of locals toward a whirlpool like abyss. Miss Cora Cotton and Briggs were pulled into the hole while rescuers escaped. over an acre of cabbage ground vanished, the cave creating a 30 foot deep, 75 yard by 100 yard gap along the road.
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