Vast Pacific Wheat Lands and New Coast Developments
A telegraphic note outlines immense Pacific coast wheat potential with USDA style estimates by state, noting California leading acres and broader western totals. It mentions telegraph and cable disruptions, coal, iron, and oil activity, and a string of varied regional reports from Minnesota to Mexico, including labor and property losses and seismic observations.
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Pacific
United States
California
Oregon
Washington Territory
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Wyoming
Wisconsin Census Returns Show Higher State Population
Door county census returns filed with the secretary of state reveal a 3,911 rise from 1860. The 1985 totals place Wisconsin at 1,563,930, up 248.45 from 1480, with 257,050 persons in military duty and 29,784 veterans. Fond du Lac Grant Iowa Lafayette counties lost population. outside Milwaukee Claiborne county rose by 14,707 while Adams dipped by 175.
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Door County
Fond du Lac
Grant
Iowa
Lax Fayatte
Milwaukee
Claira County
Wasin
Adams County
Multiple Railway and Plant Fires Hit 19th Century Cities
A string of fires and explosions caused extensive damage across Carroll Cleveland Berkshire Titusville Washington Territory and Pottsville. Losses reach tens of thousands with deaths and injuries among workers and passengers. A Philadelphia and Reading coal mine accident left one dead and several injured. A Montreal Express derailment near Whithall killed the engineer and injured five others. Sunday school trains collided near Younge town Ohio, killing ten and wounding six. Financial losses total about 35 000 in railway damages.
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Philadelphia
Reading
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
Whithall
N. J
Youngetown
Ohio
Ohio City Raid in Ruins After Terrific Cyclone
The city of Washington Court House in Fayette County Ohio was devastated by a cyclone. It caused complete demolition of hotels banks churches and dwellings and destroyed gas works and street lamps. Streets were blocked by debris. several houses were lifted and hurled. Five people were killed and seventy five injured.
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Ohio
Washington Court House
Fayette County
English Girl Shot In Mexico Case Widens Inquiries
A London woman sought help at Lambeth police after her daughter, last seen two years ago with a troupe of performers, was thought dead. New reports claim the girl was shot in Mexico during a dinner incident, not in a hostile event, and the waiter is detained by the British consul. Further facts are awaited as Lord Salisbury and Scotland Yard pursue the evolving case.
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Wisconsin
Benny Warn
Chatam
Illinois
Itill
Correy-Mills
Utica
Segeravion
Sierra Valley
Santa Rosa
Coshuila
Mexico
Philadelphia
Tux
Boston
Page
Chicago
O'Connor
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Brainerd
Vermont
Winnipeg
Ngan
Adrian
Michigan
Dublin
Indiana
Lambetis
Lee
Why He Was So Inquisitive York Herald
An Essex Market court heard a man charged with acts of disorderly conduct. He questioned witnesses and demanded the right to defend himself, offering to delay proceedings for counsel. He pleaded guilty after a debate over his rights as he awaited exam, and was remanded for six months on Blackwell's Island. The Philadelphia sewer ventilation scheme is praised for reducing sewer gas via steam boiler furnaces, easing indoor air quality and house-pipe draughts.
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Yuu Guumueom Utktu
Essex Market Court
Philadelphia
Foreign Prince Appointed Commander in Ireland
A foreign prince of Sixe-Weintar is named commander of British troops in Ireland. Other items mention Afghan boundary talks, Zulficar pass claims, and Meruchak. a steamer from Gonos to Mituga is lost with likely drownings. Additional notes report Ireland’s population under five million and poor village overcrowding heard at Salisbury magistrates.
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Prince Epwarp
Sixe-Weintar
Ireland
Alain
Zulficar Pass Prover
Meruchak
Tronsier
Gonos
Mituga
Pace Benny
Battenburg
Queen Victoria
AL On Lesstrs
Sursaue
Passaii
Thut
Grivson Ha
Zee
Salisbury
London
Whaddon
Union League Club of
Newc
York
Prince of Wales to Tour Wales Amid Royal Arrangements
A royal itinerary outlines the Prince of Wales travel through northern Wales with special receptions planned in Cardiff Swansea Milford Haven and other towns after a German visit. The report notes a forthcoming royal marriage between Marie Duc de Chartres daughter and Prince Waldemar youngest son of King Christian amid scrutiny over exhibitors at the inventors exhibition.
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London
Christian
Denmark
Fredenburg
Czazina
Prince
Princess of Wales
George
Greece
Duc
Duchess de Courtres
Marie
Duc da Chartres
Waldemar
Wales
Prince of Wales
Germany
Cardiff
Swansea
Milford
Haven
Bread and cracker making at a Minneapolis bakery fac tory
A Minneapolis Tribune tour details a large bakery and cracker plant. Bakers emphasize strength and quick, precise handling, with men performing heavy kneading and shaping while women note varied roles. The cake department uses handwork and frosting tubes, while the cracker line runs mainly by mechanical processes, stamping, cutting, and oven racks, with minimal waste and byproducts sold for cattle feed.
Death of Emery A Storrs in Ottawa Illinois
Ottumwa residents faced consternation Saturday morning when news arrived that Emery A Storrs a leading Chicago lawyer and Mackin case counsel had died suddenly at the Clifton Hotel Ottawa. He had suffered brief indisposition but was never confined to bed. Paraly sis of the heart was given as the cause. Storrs leaves a wife and one son George Stores residing in New York. Born August 12 1835 in Hinsdale New York he studied law under his father and at Cuba and Buffalo later joining the firm Austin Storrs Austin. He moved to New York City then Chicago where he built a notable career and political oratory before his death while preparing briefs for Mackin in Ottawa.
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Yup
Caroline Islands
Spain
Landad
Bears
Lacy
Arma
Sosin
Germany
Fronzy Los
Ottuawa
Emery A. Storrs
Chicago
Joseph C. Mackin
Auit
Supreme
Clifton Hotel
Storrs
Ottawa
Mackin
George Stores
New York
Emery Alexander Sworrs
Hinsdale
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Alexander Storrs
Cattaravucus County
Marshall B. Champlin
Cuba
Buffalo
Law Grm
Austin & Scvoges
Frm
Austin, Storrs & Austin
Gem
B. Oh. Austin
Supreme Court
Honolulu
New York City
West
State Census Figures Show Wisconsin Population Rise
The state census reports population growth to about 1,545,000, with Door county pending and 930,000 increase since 1830. Including 2,990 veterans in Milwaukee and 28,677 in the state old home, figures are listed for counties and localities as the secretary of state revises totals.
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Door County
Secretary of State
National Home
Milwaukee
Out of The Bag. exan Sittings. A story of a butcher and a boy
A colord boy asks for meat at a butcher stall in a rustic exchange with a playful racial remark. Herman Peschel of Grant county Wisconsin sues the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway for 40000 damages claiming injuries to his body from an August 1882 accident while employed by the company.
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Herman Peschel
Grant County
Wisconsin
Chicago, Milwaukee
The Home of Mr Blaine Publicizes Red Star Cough Cure
The son of Senator Frye of Maine, Blaine Cox D G, had a severe cold that settled on his chest and was cured by a few doses of Red Star Cough Cure. It was praised as prompt, pleasant and safe with no opiates or poisons. The cholera epidemic in Avaini is abating somewhat.
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Mr. Blaine
Wasaing Cox
D. G
Frye
Maing
A Foolish Boy
Johnny is urged to avoid the rain as he plans to swim in a shower. He replies he will go in anyway, prompting admonition from a boy named Borten Harald and a warning about getting wet.
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Borten Harald
Johnny
Actors Contracts Reveal Harsh Stage Labor and Oppressive Clauses
A 19th century article exposes minstrel contract terms binding performers to initial employers and heirs, with extension options and power to cancel at will. It details harsh penalties for tardiness, absence, and reading parts, plus heavy fines and a broad waiver of legal rights, finishing with a satirical exchange about manager reciprocity.
Inventor's Trials: Judge rules on Pierson patent case in Trenton
In a Trenton federal court Judge Nixon ruled on the suit against E R Crofu over alleged infringement of William Hugh Pierson's improved plastic ormapound made from vegetable fibers. The decision holds Pierson's invention was practically complete years before the English Parkes patent and that abandonment by the patentee is not proven. Pierson, a Cincinnati physician turned Orange New Jersey resident, faced poverty and illness while pursuing his experiments, later suffering mental collapse but maintaining the invention's dating and legitimacy.
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Nixon
United States
Trenton
E. R Crofu
William Hugh Pierson
Pierson
Alexander Parker
Cincinnati
Grange N. J
Orange
Parkes
Regarded as sufficient delay in dining etiquette discussion
The article argues that promptness and regularity at the dinner table sustain family harmony. It stresses that meals are the daily social center, and that children must learn respect and consideration, avoiding late seating and neglect of others. It condemns mere ostentation in favor of warm, unobtrusive neighborly care.
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Offles
Saadey
Hopes and Debt in Jim Webster's Texas Tale
The fragment shows Jim Webster facing debt to a prominent Austin citizen. The dialogue hints at pressure to repay money and a possible election to a lodge treasury. Nearby items note August court liquor fines, German emigration, a new paper named Colorado Jack Rabbit, a German population roundup, and assorted unrelated anecdotes.
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Jim Webster
Texas
Austin &7
Jayz
Jim
Jess
Risin’ Sons
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