Fires, shipwrecks, and a million-dollar will tale
A mixed row of items describes public debt interest around 275 million. A July voyage from New York to Melbourne ended with storms and starvation before reaching Bra zil. they returned home by steamer. Temperanceville faces gin dens, while Jersey lightning sparks a town fire near Monongahela City. In Hoboken a rich bachelor left 1 million to the U S government, prompting a widow scam with conspirators who were later arrested and a confession that shocked Tren ton court.
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New York
Anil
Melbourne
Braazilian
Gud
Wisardy
Temperanceville
Monongahela City
Ohio River
America
Jersey
Chicago‘Times
Hoboken
N. J
Joseph J. Lewis
United States
Tims
Trenton
Senate and House actions on amendments and pensions
Senate and House proceedings over several days show amendments introduced to expand duty free clothing for colored emigrants, a pension bill, and federal road and railway measures. Debates cover military service postwar eligibility, Indian territory settlement, and financial policy, with memorials, reports, and local notices interwoven through the sessions.
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Senate
Bailey
Teen
Lars Rd
Tashington
Coffrot
Kelley
United States
Murrow
Miss
Bill
Ohio
Congress
Black‘burn
Gibson
Lefever
Warner
Anderson
Kansas
Secretary of the Navy
Alaska
Houston
Alabama
House
Star” Service
Washington Latter and Senate Amends Public Bill
The piece notes the Senate may amend the act after the house paid the deficiency bill in a diluted form. It remarks the increase is urged by Democrats who seek economy. The Postmaster General backs away from a stance on the matter. It mentions migrants moving toward Indiana and reports no homes, work, or food found for emigrants in the Indian country.
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North
South
House
Post Ofice Department
Senate
Louisiana Company
Bigeat
Oorhees
North Carolin
Indiana
Mysterious affair and canal project flurry in a partisan canvass
Fragmentary editorial commentary questions investigations into a murky affair and cross isthmian plans. It critiques claims about an engineer’s role in the canal scheme, cites European aims to secure U.S. coal, and weighs Blaine versus Grant as canvass momentum shifts. General Boynton’s slander charge against Sherman is noted.
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Voorhees
Lins
Senator Blaine
General Grant
Grant
New York
Indiana
General Boynton
General Sherman
Sherman
Boynton
James G Blaine for President The Republican Choice
An emphatic nomination speech extols James G Blaine as the ideal Republican leader for 1876. It lauds his intellect integrity and broad grasp of public affairs, urging unity in support of a pro labor, pro debt comprehension, and strict separation of church and state. The piece frames Blaine as the destined standard bearer amid wartime memory and national revival.
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United States
Confederate Congress
Republican Party
James G. Blaine
Sons of Fivedoat
Congress
Hyman Sing
Andersonville
Libby
Iivois—Hlinvix
Janet G. Blaine
Gratitude and Threats Rise From a Presidential Anecdote
President Hayes recounted an amusing cabinet room moment about giving a starving man work, then received a fierce letter vowing to expose his alleged fraud. The anecdote ends with a note on Brow falling in Portland and a sudden temperature drop.
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President Hayes
Naval
Mr. Hayes
Haelian
Meghenis
Washington Cor
Chicago Times
Woman Becomes Living Battery After Mysterious Illness
A Canadian newspaper details a strange case of Caroline Clare, a 17 year old who after months of illness developed electric discharges and magnetic attraction. She can shock multiple people by hand contact and even cause a knife blade to jump into her grip, with needles suspended from her finger. The report blends medical curiosity with sensational anecdote.
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Lowlon
Ricard Clare
Caroline
Rodney
Atato
Bolong
Wheat's arrival in the Americas and early spread
The article traces wheat from unknown roots in Amorica to its introduction in Mexico around 1530 by a Cortez servant who planted grains found in rice. It notes wheat thriving near Mexico City, spreading to Peru via Lima and Ecuador's Fray Jodosi Bixi, and its concurrent US entry with English and Dutch settlers.
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Amorica
Amorics
Mexico
Anh
Cortez
Ehead
Peru
Marie D'Excobal
Don Diego de Chaves
Lima
Quito
Ecuador
Order of St. Francis
Jodosi Bixi
United States
Maryland beet sugar project eyed for Baltimore factory
A Washington dispatch reports Maryland grown sugar beets showing high saccharine content after German seed trials. A German group plans to fund and build a Baltimore sugar plant with 2000 acres of beets, bringing in machinery and skilled labor to extract juice, under a contract to buy the entire crop at $5 per ton.
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Baltimon
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Maryland
Treasury
Germany
France
Frankfort
Baltimore
Bathing in the School Room at Philadelphia Mission
A Philadelphia mission school basement hosts a large bathing and swimming department for children. Bricked floors and walls allow supervised tubs where about two dozen kids bathe at a time under watch by a man with a whip. Girls swim on Monday Wednesday Friday, boys on other days, with a rule limiting entries to once daily.
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Kansas City
Lodian
Briday
Sling
Anginia
Texas
Russia
Amin New Castle
Austrian
Louisiana
Sen Jastowook
Seanard Sodata
Constanti
Anat
Creek
Put
New ‘York
Lother Atiaulanta
Bergen
Julia Benjamin
Mexico
Geveral Spornoby
Qowley
New
York
Secretary’ of the Treasury
Camns
Alabama
Memphis
Idaho
Oregon
Ion
Exico
Sheridan
Constantinople
Pascifio
Ismarck
Fargo
Iiresat
Chicago
Goodwillie
la Salle
Iily
Sawyer
Oshkosh
Wis
United States Senate
Angus’ ‘Cameron
States- O
Wnibg
St.Louis
Jay’ Gold
Vo ‘Dent
South Car
England
Liverpool
New York
Heldyac Setacien
Arly
Jon Law
Jolavor
Seu
Hull
Grand Rapids
John Riker
Kiddville
Michigan
R. A. Beals
John Waddle
Tonia County
Cleveland
Jackson County
Ireland
Marston
Supreme Court
Flint
Smith
Michins
Leslie
Datus Jones
Barry County
Rebecca Holding
Greenville
A. B. Vandermarker
Zansing
Common Council of
Dowagiac
Manistee
Lake Manistee
Lake Michigan
Gilbert Bates
Bailey
Farmer’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Pontiac
Bald Moyntela
Pou Fe
Orion
Oxford
Rochester
Bidets
Portiac City
Grovaland
Royal Oak
Lake St. Clair
Macomb
St. Clair
Oakland County
Philadelphia
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Omar
Gineineau Hnquirer
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General Nowe
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Torspat
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Indian Territory
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Committee On Finance
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Tenn
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Springer
Lil
Committee On Elections
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Ind
Reagan
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James Monroe Heickell
Garland
Ark
Edwards
United States Army
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Dmunds
Confederacy
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M. J
Tile
Logan
Togan
Cameron
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
U. S
State News
Jonesville
Thos. Cooley
Kalamazoo County
W. MelIntoth
Hillydale
Zenish Johnson
Geodle County
Washington Latter
Ingersoll
Blaine
Trath
Robert G. Tugersoll
Gladstone
Samuel Davies
Boston
Schouvaloff
Beaconsfield
Phillipa Brooks
Frank Davidson
George M. Beard
William J. Marshall
New York Sun
Portland
Paris Figaro
Avery
Zululand
Figaro
il-Iack
Canseur
Col. B
Dlinois
Maj
Boston Transcript
2 Needle
Butner
T. L. Montgomery
Rose City
Kentucky
Little Rock ( Ark
John Phenis
John Phenix
Derby
Oriental Hotel
Phoenix
Lieut
Croquet
Persia
Beckoss
Eastia
Europe
Wheeling Sunday Leader
Myron Labertewax
Frank C. Stuart
CD & General
Stuart. Stone Block
E. A
F. G. Stuart
Watch and Clock Repairing
Frank G. Stuart
Jon
A D. Schuylar
Gilmore, Smith & CO
Washington, D
Gen. Grant
Spee
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Chilton & CO
Jefferson Avedue
Business and
Muse
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Stalwarts
Inter Ocean
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Tote
INTEE
Politica
Nowsis
Dha
Saes
Caryti
Woman's Kingdom
Olitien
Ev Ren-Ocean
H. M. & P. Hempstead
Elavee
N. B
FU Lieto
R. Butler
Grocers
Central
State St
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