Conductor Keller Assaulted By Traveling Man On Erie Train
James H. Link of Erie faced City Recorder Denworth on assault and battery charges after an Erie mail train incident near Montandon. Link, who demanded a sleeper berth, clashed with Conductor Samuel F. Keller when refused service led to an exchange of blows at speed. Link posted bond and was held for court.
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Amstornt
James H. Link
Erie
City
Denworth
Samuel F. Keller
Harrisburg
Sunbury
Williamsport
Philadelphia and Erie
Kink
Erie Mail
Montandon
Link
Samuel Keller
Keller
Charles Bartles, Jr
Lang Henry C. Parsons
The
Commonwealth
Tragic excursion train crash near Chatsworth kills 118
A Toledo Peoria and Western excursion train plunged from a burning bridge three miles east of Chatsworth Illinois. 960 passengers mostly from central Illinois were aboard. 118 dead and many injured as wreckage burned for hours. Victims laid out in Chatsworth while nearby towns aided rescue and morgue setup.
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Cornfeld
ChicaGeo
Chicago Times
Forest Ill
Chatsworth
Toledo, Peoria and Western Road
Niagara Falls
Toledo, Peoria and
Illinois
Peoria
Canton
Elpaso
Washington
Burlington
Keokuk
Iowa
Piper City
World markets stabilize prices through global rail system
The era of shared global production and transport via railways and steamships reduces reliance on local harvests. Since 1870, Europe’s poor crops rarely cause high grain prices, as universal supply and demand set prices. Local market divergences fade as cross border exchange spreads risk.
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Europe
Tooke
Davenant
King
Popular Science Monthly
Local Claim Of A New Sweet Substance Attracts Buzz
A Norristown Herald item reports a sensational claim of a new substance described as 300 times sweeter than sugar. The feature notes the “substance” is about 18 years old and wearing a bustle in the joke of a rumor.
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Norristown Herald
Wells City wreck raises at Hoboken on river tide
Report details the Wells City sunken off Hoboken near New York with masts and a smokestack visible. Divers, pontoons, and heavy chains prepare a lift but a broken chain halts progress as crews coordinate tug support and cofferdam planning amid strong tidal conditions and dirty river water.
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Foboken
New York
Hoboken
Wells City
Lounty
Governor’s Island
Weils
Meritt
Merit
M. Y. Sun
Astor and Vanderbilt Lifestyles in Arkansas Gossip
A rural tale from the Boston Courier relays two Arkansas women discussing the wealth of the Astors and Vanderbilts. They mock upper class luxury, claiming gold carriages, diamond fittings, and servants, while imagining modest rural lives for themselves.
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Astors
Arkansas
Peterby
Joy
Turkey
Beeru
Vanderbilt’s
New York
Miss Weterley
Zimri Perkins
Zim
Nevvy
Mrs Vanderbilt
Mrs Astor
Vanderbilt
Boston Courier
Reading taste guides young women in a circulating library
In a horse car two girls discuss reading habits and how last chapters influence their choices. The exchange notes that popular authors should craft appealing finales to win over young female readers, who decide a book’s fate from the ending rather than the entire text.
Trees as Sanitary Pointers in Climate and Health
The piece explains how tree species indicate soil and climate types and thus potential health outcomes. Pines and birches signal dry conditions, elms and limes damp soils, and oaks and ashes heavy clay. diverse stands reflect moisture levels and air quality affecting bronchitis and rheumatism.
Presence of Mind in a Marriage Offer
A rich father tests a suitor by presenting his daughter’s bills and the youth’s own debts. The man accepts marriage, ready to settle both sides in a lump sum, displaying composure and humor under pressure.
Fast Railroading Tale Ends With Unlikely Kiss
An engineer recalls a white mail train leaving Chicago at three every morning. A mail clerk kisses his wife at the platform and, to the surprise of onlookers, kisses a cow instead near Riverside. The anecdote lauds the train as exceptionally fast.
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Chicago
Riverside
Sendous
North
Phila
F. A North & CO
Cuusiser St
Purtapen Rita
Little Willies Innings
A mother notes Bertha good manners at table as Willie reflects on why her upbringing seems better. He jokes his traveling on the road keeps him from accidents, attribute to providence or not riding wrecked trains.
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Willie K
Bertha
Willie
Moth
Troy
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World One Market
Astor and Vanderbilt
Little Willie
Keystone Hotel
Selinsgrove
Penna
Trug & Co
Augusta
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H. HaLeraé Co
Portland
F. A. Nort
Chestnut Street
Alphia
Musling
Keysting
J. B. Mayr
Arch
St. Phila
Ead
Owly
Veatehea
America
Ganuine &Ubies
Philadelphia
National Dani
City Trust Safe Deposit Dory Ca
Baltimore
Levis
Wilmingtos
Del
Jacob Fjisenhuth
D. I. Brown
Millheim, PA
Mr. Brown
Eisenhuth’ss
U.S
U. S. Patent Office
C.A. Snow & CO
Patent Office
Washington, D. C
Harwood
Realitiware
Police Gazette
United States
Richard K. Fox
Franklin Square
Domestic Mfg CO
Marion
Pat
D. Cushman
Three Rivers, Mich
Balile Creek Machinery Co
Sattle Creek
ST. Loui. Ma
W.T. Mauck
Duplex Mfg Co
Springfield
Ohio
Enterprise
BOSE
Enterprise Vapor Medicator CO
Union Square
Suley
Eto
E'S
Daniels &Co
Havana
Emai
Reading Organ CO
F. J. Kantner
Reading, F
Tye Qatesiss
Dr. Ward & CO
Louisiana, Nio
Jamaica
Joseph Burnett & CO
Boston
George Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Stam Aker
Ons
B. Buffalo
Tan
A. J. Weidener
Sele
Second Street
Up Chan
Palmer
H. H. Palmer & CO
Rockford, Ill
Ates Son & and Leundsles
Palmer & CO
Rockford, Til
I. B. Farquhar
York, Pa
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