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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1876
Page
8
A broad survey of curios from social trends to science notes, detailing women’s wage practices, Central Asia crop exports, ancient pottery finds at a museum, a Kentucky brass hatchet linked to Noah, England’s printing history, and various industrial and cultural snippets.
President Grant proclaims a national day of Thanksgiving and rest on the next November, urging Americans to pause work and assemble in places of worship to thank Almighty God for blessings and for the young republic after two centuries. The document, dated October 26, 1861, is signed by Secretary Hamilton.
The Centennial Exposition's week ends with admissions totaling 5 7? hundred dollars in cash and a daily revenue summary. Attendance on the 29th exceeded four to five thousand visitors with most buildings open for inspection. Bank statements show loans and specie decreases while total cash admissions reach 5 7? 1. income from concessions supports ongoing operations.
A long telegraph column covers military moves in the Balkans with Gen. Miles and Gen. Hazen pursuing Sioux across the Missouri frontier. Reports detail armistice talks, treaty signs, and Turkish Russian tensions. Also noted are state debt figures, engineer deployments to the Mississippi, and a court martial committee at St. Louis barracks.
The document itemizes outstanding and past due bonds with totals. It lists war loan bonds of various denominations due after 1879, totaling 1 455 446 dollars not due, plus past due items including canal bonds and internal improvement stock totaling 23 221.74 dollars. Overall outstanding debt and not due reach 1 481 667.74 dollars. It also notes past cancellations and a small remaining amount of 35 dollars in a closing line.
Burglars entered Stern Brog jewelry store in New York on October 29 and broke the safe, stealing about 20 000 dollars of the most valuable stock. Other items report include hurricane damage in Cuba, a glycerine explosion near Port Colborne, and multiple deadly fires and murders across several states.
Report from Pottsville notes that Yellow Jack Donahue was convicted on the 21st for the Summit Hill murder of Morgan Powell in 1871, the tenth Mollie Maguire to be convicted in a Pennsylvania murder case. Arrests of Mollies continue as Patrick Hughes is jailed for burning the Philadelphia and Reading depot at Inscar dia in 1875.
The October postal card output reached 2 116 000 with an increase of 2 177 500 over last October, the largest monthly issue since cards began three years ago. The October operation report from the National Bank Redemption Agency shows liquidations, note exchanges, and a total October national bank activity of 44 455 800 dollars.
A humorous guide describes a young man at a dinner struggling to carve a turkey. He misreads joints, splashes gravy, and causes embarrassment with a maiden and a fair girl nearby. The scene ends with him considering lessons in carving and life after dinner.
Taxation and war cloud anxieties boost London newspapers as daily circulation ranges from 170000 to 200000, with telegraph bureaus reporting similar gains across the sector.
Report from Lonpoyx dated October 27 outlines Capt. Nares leadership of the British Arctic expedition. Vessels Alert and Discovery left Port Foulke July 29, 1875 reaching north of Lady Franklin Bay, with sledge parties reaching 83 20 latitude and 85 longitude west. Declares impossible to reach the pole. notes frostbite fatalities and severe ice conditions. logs coal findings and natural history work. confirms Polar Sea not navigable and Greenland furthest west 82 57.
The Boston Courier reports cigarettes flood the market, with 27,311,500 taxed at 1.51 and 13,986,383 taxed at 1.75 in 1875. Havana goods enter in vast quantities, priced 28 per thousand in Havana, rising after duties to about 165 to 170 currency. Smuggling thrives as bundles become taxed per cigarette, boosting illicit profits and draining duty paid sales. Notable Cuban brands include Hanradez Habana Astrea Chorito Garcia and Hanrodiquez.
The text compares French papers used for tobacco wrappers with Indian corn husk wrappers and palm leaf Native wrappers seen by Columbus. It notes how true cigarettes are inhaled into the lungs and gives a U S consumption figure totaling about three pounds per person annually with a New York firm producing millions of pounds in various forms.
A Wallace talk on color linked senses in animals and human evolution suggests white skin could hinder senses but brain power may offset. A heroic pilot Herbert dies battling fire aboard the Southern Belle as passengers flee and the ship nears the bank after the blaze.
London letter writer, Hon. Evelyn Ashley, cites a private source to debunk Mr. Baring's denial of forty Bulgarian girls burned. He says the phrase meant ruin not burn and that the girls were carried off and never heard from again. A consul relays a village massacre where captives danced before being shot.
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