Singular cattle disease in Minnesota lakes tied to water plant
Prof Stalker reports a three year enzoonotic cattle disease along Lake Sakatah and Lake Tetonka in Le Sueur county Minnesota. He links deaths to water from the lakes where the limnacus minutula plant appears, decomposes, and emits a strong odor, with cattle and hogs affected after drinking near shore. No positive cause yet established. planned further experiments.
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Stalker
Iowal Cultural College
Minnesota
Minnesota Agricultural College
Sakatah
Tetonka
le Sueur County
Waterville
Notoe
Arthur
Geneva
N. Y
Bullis
Kerrick
Lake
West Okoboji Lake
Dickinson County
Iowa
Clay's Farewell to the Senate
Henry Clay's farewell to the senate on March 31 1842 drew a large crowd with packed galleries. He spoke a moving address reflecting on Kentucky and his long public career then retired to his state and family leaving public life at peace with friends and foes praising him in Boston Budget notes by Ben Perlew Poore.
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Henry Clay
Senate
Clay
Niobe
Mr. Clay
Kentucky
Legion
Mr. Crittenden
Starving mother faces judge after vagrancy arrest
In a courtroom scene from Arkansaw Traveler a widow with a dead child confronts the judge. She pleads for mercy and food, recounting poverty, a cemetery grave, and a failed search for her husband. The judge offers sustenance but she rejects it, calling the judge a murderer for sentencing her.
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Arkansaw Traveler
Words and Things in Education and Science
Prof. E. L. Youmans argues that studying things directly yields far more knowledge than verbal study. He cites Bacon and inductive reasoning, contrasting it with traditional language focused education and urging early explicit mastery of scientific facts.
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E. L. Youmans
Popular Science Monthly
A Lesson in Politics from a Mountain Illustration
A quired Tommy Bushman asks what politics means and a father explains with a mountain metaphor where many vie for the top, but only one succeeds. The tale contrasts ambition and competition as a political lesson.
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Tommy Bushman
Jrocklyn
Whittier's Amesbury Home and Life Described
Harriet Prescott Spofford portrays poet John Greenleaf Whittier as a steadfast figure in Amesbury and nearby towns. The piece details his simple Ames bury dwelling, his Boston winters, Oak Knoll in Danvers, and his lifelong dedication to duty, art, and humanity, with vivid scenes of guests and surroundings.
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Mr. Whittier
Amesbury
Harry Fenn
Lucy Larcom
Celia Thaxter
Powow Hill
Garrison
Phillips
Higginson
Wasson
Emerson
Fields
Bayard Taylor
Alice
Prebe Cary
Gail Hamilton
Anna Dickinson
Heaven
Whittier
Boston
White Hills
Oak Knoll
Danvers
Essex
Prince of Wales as a Real Estate Speculator
The Prince of Wales plans to develop 100 acres of Roche building land in Cornwall into building plots facing the sea. Opposite Padstow, the site could boost Roche’s seaside appeal and attract wealthy buyers, aiding his finances with proceeds from sales.
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Prince of Wales
Duchy of Cornwall
Roche
Cornwall
Padstow
Wales
Jlusion
Advertiser
The Colonel’s Maxim
Bumgartner and a group discuss maxims in a humorous scene. Bumgartner proclaims his favorite rule never to put off till tomorrow what one can do today and then orders a drink, prompting immediate rounds.Georgia Cracker.
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Georgia Cracker
Presidential electors meet. results sent to Washington
The electoral colleges in New York Kansas Iowa Arkansas and New Jersey convened on the 31st. New York suspended for an hour due to absence. Erastus Corning named messenger. Kansas praised Blaine and Logan. Iowa and New Jersey urged cabinet picks. Arkansas urged Garland for attorney general.
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Eyfeet
Washington
New York State
John Delmar
Brooklyn
Alvin Deveraux
Twenty
Eugene Kelly
Cleveland
Mr. Hendricks
Erastus Corning
Albany
Kansas
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
Blaine
Logan
Republica
Iowa
John van Valkenburg
Arkansas
Garland
New Jersey
Stockton
United States Postmaster General Hatton Report Figures
Postmaster General Hatton reports on the fiscal year ended June 30 1884 detailing total expenditures 245 404 0005 revenues 2 170565 5 with net receipts from money orders 510 402 08 and ordinary postal revenue 2 518 655 00. He notes a 4 7 percent drop from prior year due to two cent letter postage and outlines deficits and outstanding liabilities including amounts credited to Pacific railroad companies.
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Pacific Railroad
General Treasury
Department
Investigation into Ohio deputy marshals employment
The Springer committee on expenditures of the justice department will start in Washington with witnesses to be examined before traveling to Cincinnati. Named in Washington are James W. Donnelly Moses B C Wright E C Ford John Wright George McElfresh Charles Hurley and William Kavanaugh all said to have acted as deputies in Cincinnati on election day Ex-Senator Powell Clayton and several St Louis residents including H L Rogers Henry Manestre and Barney Higgins are also summoned.
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Springer
Department of Justice
House
Cincinnati
Washington
James W. Donnelly
General Land Office
Moses B.C. Wright
Pension Office
E. C. Ford
John Wright
Post Ofice Department
George McElfresh
Charles Hurley
H. L. Rogers
Henry Manestre
Barney Higgins
Gordon and Mahdi clash near Khartoum amid Nile water dispute
Report from Khartoum state describes Mahdi summoning General Gordon to surrender while firing on the enemy. Gordon replies with contempt and bluff. Rebels hold Wadi Gamar as Wolseley offers a prize for swift whale-boat passage. Gordon cites need for Bayot to reclaim Nile course. Mahdist forces suffer shortages and illness. about 500 monk regulars are said to have joined Gordon’s army.
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Ard
Khartoum
Gordon
Nile
Wadi Gamar
Wolseley
Sarrus
Debbel
Bayot
Khetive
Philadelphia showman weds Tallman in curious union
Last Tuesday in Philadelphia Adam Forepaugh married Mary G Tallman aged 20. The groom is 54. The whimsical match adds another display to his museum of curiosities as observers note Mary now shares his public spectacle.
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Philadelphia
Adam Forepaugh
Mary G. Tallman
Adam
Mary
Adam Pheage Sina
Ullen Journal
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Stock Directory
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Nebraska
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Republican Valley
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