Brief Mentions From 19th Century Headlines
Tar sum of 121000000 spent in Europe since 1810 on church building and restoration. Massachusetts legislature repeals law enabling cities to subscribe to railroad stocks. Susan B Anthony lectured 120 times this season and paid off her 10000 debt from Revolution bankruptcy. Cincinnati debt increase of 6000000 to fund the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. A collided acrolite found in Collin County Texas weighs 150 pounds and is shown in McKinney. Gr eetey's old house at Chappaqua vacant. trees unpruned since 1872 and fences dilapidated. Nagasaki Rising Sun notes Buddhist religion in decline. 71 temples abandoned in Yamashima Ken since 1878 and 700 more converted in six years.
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Susan B. Anthony
Nagasaki
Yamashima Ken
Flags of Munich Archdiocese and City on Saint Days
Since German unification Munich’s archbishop hoists the yellow and white flag with St. Peter’s keys on saints days, while on political holidays the town displays the black red and yellow tricolor topped by the imperial eagle from its two towers.
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Germany
Munich
Peter
Massachusetts Society votes for prizes in tree planting
Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture vote 3000 in prizes for 1887 for plantations of at least 100 acres with varied trees planted in spring 1587. They also vote to reprint Agriculture of Massachusetts 1875 6 and distribute C Sargent's Tree Planting paper to farmers.
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Massachusetts Society For Promoting Agriculture
Post Office Deliveries and City Postage Figures
New York City's postal service mails 25 000 letters weighing 6000 pounds in a day. Mail matter totals 388 tons daily. Newspapers pay 40 percent of the nation’s postage, with New York leading among cities at $82 000 followed by Philadelphia 12000, Boston 16000, Chicago 15000.
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New York City
Great Republic
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Senate Postal Committee
Judiciary
Charles Hays
Alabama
West Point
Hays
Bromberg Vs. Haroldson
Haroldson
Finey Vs. Walls
Florida
AtronNey
Pierrepost
Judiciary Committee
Gen. Babcock
Pierrepont
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Richest Newspaper Proprietor In New York City
Mar Grorue Jaxes, chief owner of the Times, is described as the richest newspaper proprietor in New York City after Bennett. Leading journals are valued at the Herald two million, Times one million, Tribune one million, World three hundred thousand, Journal of Commerce eight hundred thousand, Evening Express two hundred fifty thousand, Evening Post with building seven hundred thousand, Commercial Advertiser one hundred fifty thousand, Evening Mail one hundred thousand, and The Sun two hundred thousand.
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Evening Post and Building
Commercial Activiiser
Evening Mail
the Sun
Catholic Diocese of Boston Demographics and Growth
The Catholic diocese of Boston established in 1810 now numbers 120 churches excluding 18 in erection, 26 chapels and stations, 189 priests, 52 philosophy and theology students, 1 college, 8 convents, 3 young women's academies, 16 parochial/free schools, 5 hospitals and 6 orphan asylums with 665 orphans. Baptisms in 1874 75 totaled 565 and the Catholic population is estimated at 310000.
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Boston
Centennial helpers in Italy cited by Anne Brewster
Anne Brewster from Rome describes Mrs Hemmenway as the leading force securing Italian materials for the women’s department of the Centennial. She has funded shipments, purchased items, and sent them to steamers. Brewster praises Mrs Gillespie and notes the great granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin aided the 1676 Centennial exhibition.
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Anne Brewster
Rome
Hemmenway
Italy
Washington items show investigations and bills across fronts
A Washington dispatch reports a summons to a National Park Bank cashier over post Civil War check activity tied to the Kentucky Railroad claim, and a denial by the Secretary of the Navy of forwarding money to Jay Cooke. It notes Judiciary and Foreign Relations actions, a postage bill, pensions, a railroad sale, a deadly Union Pacific boiler blast, and Mississippi political shifts.
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Washington
Tax Clymer Committee
National Park Bank
New York
Kentucky Railroad
Cincinnati
Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co
House Committee On Judiciary
Marsh
Montreal
Ottawa
National Home For
Milwaukee
Dayton
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Dana
Plymouth Church Probes Bowen Charges and Related Claims
The East Plymouth Church investigative committee examines the charges against Henry C. Bowen while declining to hear Andrew L Bradshaw evidence. Miners form strikes at Shenandoah City collieries. Manchester Massachusetts man disputes Belknap payoff reports as false. A Pacific railroad official disputes Thurman conspiracy claims. Counterfeit five dollar bills circulate in Philadelphia. Three men arrested for distributing the fakes. A Scranton fire destroys the opera house and a Boston store with $250000 loss. Reward of $5000 offered for incendiary arrest. two prior arson attempts noted.
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Plymouth Church
Henry C. Bowen
Andrew L Bradshaw
Bowen
Shenandoah City
Kohnimuora
Turkey
J. A. Lancest
Manchester
Mass
Belknap
W. H. Corris
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company
N.Y
Thurman
Congress
Merchant's National Bank
New Bedford
Opera House
Fire devastates block in New Orleans on 28th
A blaze originating in a dwelling at 31 Annette Street destroyed about fifteen buildings across a half block bounded by Annette Morales Urquhart and S J Anthony streets. Estimated damage runs around $20,000. Five convicts escaped Stillwater prison on the 28th via a sewer exit. four were recaptured, one remains at large.
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Annette Street
New Orleans
Annette, Morales, Urquhart
S J. Anthony
Memphis
Memphis Cotton Exchange
Wm. Taylor
Salo
Ark
Inptawa
Chicago
Nashville
John Jones
L. B. White
William Baker
J. W. E. Thomas
California
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Baltimore, 30; Baffalo
Various International and Domestic 1875 News Blooms
Reports from Brussels and Paris note legal and political moves including a murder verdict in absentia, a Turkish pacification stance, and a French aid grant. Serbia denies aggression while planning military reform. Germany posts a shortfall in revenue but has surplus savings. Italy and Austria discuss railway policy. The Queen's Empress title faces House of Lords opposition. Plague appears near the Euphrates and US officials address tax and political matters.
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Brussels
Carl Vogt
Servia
Porte
Chamber of Deputies
France
Czar
Ems
Switzerland
Czarowitch
Leicester
England
House of Commons
House of Lords
India
Turkey
Germany
Foster
United States
Pisratcu
Rome
Paul Dahlgren
Italy
Dahlgren
Victoria
Defalcation and murders dominate San Francisco court sessions
The naval court martial at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, probes a defalcation over 100000 linked to Pay Inspector Spaulding as John Young and James Young face hanging for Abel MacDonald’s death near Caledonia Ontario. New York boiler blast kills one, injures six at Sauerbier’s tool factory.
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Palace Hotel
San Francisco
Spaulding
Pinny
John
James Young
Cayuga
Abel MacDonald
Caledonia
Ont
MacDonald
Youngs
John Young
New York
Sauerbier
Titz
Elvira
Passages
San Sebastian
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Mossy Pond Dam
Mass
Clinton Tannery
Fullerville Company
Fullerville
Clinton
Norwich
Conn
Fattsville
Orricrn Wisney
Wayland
N. Y
Bryant
Spring Arbor
Gronox Freety
Fkinson
Wis
Thatcher
Hadden
New York Marine Bank
J. T. Babcock
International Exhibition to be Held in Paris
Mansain MacManon announces an upcoming international exhibition in Paris. Tao government forces in Mexico report two victories against insurgents. Thirty-two insurgents and about twenty government troops killed. Invoisinies 7.
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Mansain MacManon
Paris
Tao
Mexico
The Duties of a Country Parson
An essay in the London Saturday Review discusses parish clergymen teaching outdoors to spark curiosity and reduce cruelty to animals. It cites botany field trips improving schooling and notes debates on human origins, from biblical accounts to antiquity theories and long-term human evolution.
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London Saturday Review
Selborne
Waterton
Passa
Balaam
Ehshi
Sampson
Egypt
Debts of European Nations in 1815 and 1875 Compared
A Westminster Review note lists nominal debts for 1815 and 1875. Britain shows large increases from 36 million to 775 million pounds, with Europe and the Americas detailing vast totals for 1875. The fragment also mentions a July 1833 New York opera visit and a critic’s harsh note on Rossini’s Zampa.
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Westminster Review
England
Spain
Italian Republic
Great Britain
Europe
ALOR
Joux
Quixcy Apans
New York
Zampa
Senate and House notes March 23 28 1876 salary bills and temple items
The record covers Senate debates on the presidents salary bill and amendments, a post route bill, and executive session. House actions include timber cutting on Indian reservations, Fort Laramie land reductions, military service restrictions, and salary discussions for officers, envoys, and senators with holiday resolutions and consular appropriations. Continuous votes and committee referrals mark the week.
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Christiancy
Michigan
Maxter
Senate
House
Venezuela
United States
Sargent
Great Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Wennesday
Fragmented OCR Recipe Note Hits Language Trouble
A garbled OCR fragment hints at cooking steps for cabbage including chopping and boiling till tender. The text is incomplete and noisy but conveys a method likely describing a cabbage dish or preparation with strain and colander use.
Bedding and stable care for calves in poor condition
The farmer advises that calves failing to thrive suffer from cold and damp bedding. Standing on ice or wet manure impedes growth and causes circulatory and health problems. Clean out stables daily and bed calves well to prevent permanent injury. Vi. Farmer
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Faroters
Dinner in Philadelphia prompts vague Indiana editor quip
An Indiana editor asks what the other will have at the Philadelphia dinner. A Hoosier with a high forehead sits, wipes his brow with a napkin, and sternly mutters a garbled reply about a bill of fare. The scene resembles a hurried, fragmentary newspaper OCR passage with unclear dialogue.
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Indiana
Philadelphia
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Tayri
Saeed
Tux
Davenport
Davis
Misissippi
Cardozo
Bilek
Cou
New
Bristow
Courier-Journal
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Minnesota
Bombay
Euphrates
Sherman
Cosxain
Pennsylvania
Clymer
Man
Sone
Kent
Xlyth Congress
Houe
Morton
Edmunds
Vermont
Conkling
Howe
Wisconsin
Appropriation Committee
Hurlbut
Kasson
Randall
Baker
Chittenden
Monxpay
Payne
Townsend
L. J. Shelton
Mississippi
House Committee
District of Columbia
Hallett Kilbourne
Wenpyes Bay
Secretary of the Interior
Treasury
Indian Trust Fund
Thunder Bay
Alexander Walpole Rolland
Nipigon
Elizabeth Wall
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Ponson and
Bonnet
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