Americans and European figures in early 19th century news mix
Fragmented notes cover a Maine native who became Oregon's first congressman and other political figures, a London cruelty to animals tally at the Gridball Court, a Columbus monument dedication in Philadelphia, a proposed telegraph across Africa, a massive bridge project in India, and Philadelphia excursion plans with an upcoming election deadline.
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Metropolitan Police
Gridball Court
London
Arctic Expedition Expected to Return by Autumn
Timw believes the British Arctic Expedition may have achieved its object and be returning home. If the Alert and Discovery arrive in autumn, a reef ship will rendezvous in Smith Sound during the summer of 1577.
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Timw
Smith Sound
Cats Decimate Rabbits Trigger Hunt War in New Jersey
Report describes New Jersey hunters tracking a surge of semi wild cats after cats began preying on rabbits. Fifty seven cats killed in a single day as rabbits vanished and foxes and other prey declined. The text notes rabbits were plentiful years ago and that the cats moved into woods, sparking an ongoing extermination campaign.
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Jerey
Women form mining stock bureau in San Francisco
Sas Frascino establishes a Woman's Mining Bureau where women named as directors are noted as successful stock operators. The group aims to buy sell and loan money on mining stocks as hundreds or thousands of women in San Francisco dabble in stock trading.
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Sas Frascino
San Francisco
Stokes to be released on October 28
Stokes will be set at liberty on the 28th of October. He looks careworn and thin and suffers from asthma. His divorced wife and daughter live together, the latter a very beautiful girl of about eighteen. He is expected to be well to do after release as his Hun ter's Point oil refinery works are cared for by his devoted mother.
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Stokes
Hunter’s Point
Attitudes Toward Agriculture in Greece Reported by Traveler
A French traveler notes Greece’s agricultural decline and claims Greeks disdain farming. He quotes Greeks saying they were not born for agriculture and that farmers are humiliated. He observes farmers are poor and lack ambition, content to merely survive.
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Greece
Treasury interest payout and union dispute ripple through New York
The week's news notes interest payments at the New York Treasury with a pending union dispute over pay rates and a potential strike, plus local items from Philadelphia including the Park Commissioners' decision on the Ma Building, and ceremony attendances for the Witherspoon statue unveiling.
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5 Treasury
New York
Nnion
Centennial Grounds
Philadelphia
Park Commissioners of
Philade
Zing Bi
Tzeng
Val 07
Taueerlib
Adu'ss
Uas
Witherspoon
Pally
Lupe
Ted
Gow
Tony Chestou
America
Lis
War News and Political Turmoil Across the Plains
Reports from the West describe General Crook capturing a judge near Shadrow Creek while Red Cloud is deposed and Spotted Tail rises as head chief at Fort Peck. Sitting Bull is demanded to surrender as a condition of peace. War Department notes Terry will pursue hostile forces. A stray note reports border politics and Irish questions affecting President Grant’s address, with delays and misstatements cited.
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Crook
Red Cloud
Shadrow Creek
Wyoting
Spotted Tan
United States
Fort Peck
Montana
Sitting Bull
Yellowstone
War Department
Terry
Abraham Lincoln
Hastie Savages
TyHor Kavan NaAton
St Paul
Bisck Hous
Babeucs
Deachwood Creech
Wheeler Brothers
Babcock
Claymu
Detroit
Washington News Roundup on Resignations and Expositions
The article reports Duene Elmer E Waspburn resigning as chef of the detective cocoa for the Treasury, notes a horse race at Bennitgs station with the Athenst Goldsmith Maid and Her, and mentions heavy crowds at the Centennial Exposition. It covers government appointments, monument foundation tests, civil rights court verdicts, and treasury and tax society notes.
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Duene Elmer E Waspburn
United States Treasury
Bennitgs Station
Ted
Treasury Department
Bristow
William T. Hughes
Grand Iver
Standing Rock Agency
Dakota
Age Commission of Army Engineers Adju
Washington Monument
Virginia
United States Circuit Court
Staunton
Doom
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
H. H.gurrriss
Iowa
Tax Society of the Army of the Tennessee
New York Ninth District GOP Nominee for Congress
Election returns show Republican nominee Gan Panter E Snaves rated for Congress by the Ninth District Republican Committee. Governor race totals indicate Wisham leading with 2.8497 percent? Majorities listed for Democratic and Republican candidates across statewide offices, including Secretary of State and Attorney General. Prohibition and other party lines appear with smaller margins in the late Indiana election context.
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Gan Panter E Snaves
Reptilcan Cooverton
New York
Indiana
Wisham v
Gray
Supreme Court
Niblock
Hawk
Perkins
Warden
Henderson
Shaw
Buskirk
Smart
Martin
Chimuck
Tollath
Secretary of State
Kin
Am Us Fu
Tragic River Crossing and Fire Disasters Reported
Through scattered dispatches it is reported that on the 24th near East Sag inaw a crossing accident claimed several lives as a freight train and a boy were swept away. a separate blaze in Louisville and Chicago caused extensive damage and heavy losses. Multiple drownings and violent incidents are noted across Wisconsin Illinois and nearby areas with various deaths including laborers and a man shot in Grantsburg.
Turkey Ready for Armistice Six Weeks Now
The Times dispatch from Vienna reports Turkey ready to accept a six weeks armistice if all powers recommend it. A Bucharest dispatch says Gen Ignatieff told foreign ambassadors in Constantinople an armistice must be conceded immediately and that other Russian demands would be settled by a powers conference with Turkey not represented.
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The
Times
Vienna
Turkey
Bucharest
Constantinople
Ignatieff
Deaths from Fright and Strange Deaths of Famous Figures
The Watertown Post recounts historic fright deaths. Frederick I of Prussia escaped a wounding escape attempt by Louisa, then died six weeks later. Painter Pentemann died after a sleep induced horror from bones and skulls, blamed on an earthquake. Marshal de Montreval fainted at a dinner over a salt cellar and died days later in 1716.
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Watertown
Prussia
Frederick T
Louisa
Mecklenburg
Bradenburgh Ife
Pentemaan
Moraty
Tam
Penteman
Marshal de Montreval
St Sunon
Three English ships reported missing after Calcutta departures
The Lammermuir of 1054 tons sailed February 5 from Calcutta with 800 coolies and 30 men and has been missing since February 23 near Ceylon. The Dalecarlia 1443 tons left Calcutta January 31 with 30 crew and has not been heard. The Grenada 684 tons left Java February 5 for Greenock with 17 men and $125000 insured. A Caicaco boy's quip about a man yelling in a field closes the brief.
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Lammermuir
Calcutta
Ceylon
Grenada
Java
Greenock
Loss of a Whaling Fleet Near Arctic Ice
An Arctic voyage from New Bedford ended in disaster as fourteen ships faced pack ice near Point Barrow. The Florence reached San Francisco with news of likely deaths and extensive losses, while scattered vessels struggled, some crushed by ice, others drifting. Survivors faced wintering at Point Barrow with limited supplies and failed rescue attempts.
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Inman
Florence
San Francisco
Arctic
Honolulu
Borrow
Benanese
Soo
Point Barrow
Seahorse Islands
Leeward
Clara Bell
Cape Smith
Josephine
St. George
Cornelius Howland
Cinla
James Allen
Oawart
Woody
Kerag
Marengo
Fullel
Pot Barrow
Rainbow
Bark
Acers Barns
Ofricer
Hackmott
Acera Barns
Hts
Owen
Tyree
West Head
Smuth’s Bay
C. Howard
Desmond
Point Sargent
Three Brothers
Prence
Vessels Lost in Icepack Near Point Barrow Reported
Old whalers and ships including Clara Bell Onward and Florence abandoned in a vast northeast ice pack. Vessels carried about 1000 barrels of oil and whale products. crews await aid with no hope of rescue. losses estimated around 200000 dollars largely insured in Boston and New York.
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Florence
Wainwright
Dakt
Three Brothers
Ramnbow
Point Barrow
St Lawrence Bay
San Francisco
Honolulu
Clara Bell
San Franesco
St George
Marengo
Cornelius Halland
James Ailen
Java
New Bedford
Camilla
Barkentine
Josephine
Boston
Acers Barnes
New London
Desmond
Arctic
New York
Skillful Chinese Thief Nabs Cigar Boxes by Trickery
In San Francisco a Chinese man named John is accused of stealing cigars. A storekeeper notices a box missing and a police search reveals two more boxes hidden under each arm as officers detain him. John protests his innocence, claiming to be an honest boy.
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Wal
Enat India
San Francisco
Chicago Tribune
John
C.yare
Quest
Chinamin
Pitching for Phillies? A Virginia style coin toss game ends in a twenty
In a rough Virginia style crowd game, Jim Orndorff and Joe Stewart begin by pitching half dollars to a peg, drawing in about a dozen players. The contest grows with bets moving from fifty cents to twenty dollars, culminating when Stewart bets a twenty and wins the crowd’s cheer.
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W.is
Jim Orndorff
Joe Stewart
James
Joseph
Joe
Coin Embedded in Rock Surfaces Near Rio Grande
A 1710 Mexican coin was found deep inside a rock from the Rio Grande bed. Jeoun Adriance of Galveston owns the coin, sent by a Laredo resident connected to the Historical Society seeking the rock specimen to study how the coin reached the riverbed. The finder reports the rock as very hard and nearly transparent. A separate note recalls a woman’s quick search turning up a pin in a chair.
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Galveston
Jeoun Adriance
Rio Grande
Laredo
Historical Society
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