Boatload of Pleasure Party Drowns After Dam Break
Greenfield Massachusetts reports a pleasure party of six lost when a boat capsized over a dam on the Deerfield river. Five bodies recovered. Caroline Frink saved. Cause cited as high water and swift current. Also: Caspian Sea steamer rumored lost with 200 aboard. Montreal fires force hospitalizations.
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Greenfield
Mass
Coleraine
Deerfield
Joseph Egger
Lord
Eugeny
Caroline Frink
Caspian Sea
St. Peterssure
Bakua
Persia
Persian
Record Hreaking Hailstones in Missouri
Hailstones as large as tea cups fell at Nonuorne Mo on April 5 burying themselves in the ground. Damage was confined to skylights. Margaret Mather seeks divorce from Emil Haberkorn leader of a Pittsburg orchestra citing desertion.
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Missouri
Libau
Lisau
New York
Concordia
Crawford
Count Bobrinsky
Edgar
Bernhold
Nonuorne
Margaret Mather
Cucaco
Emil Haberkorn
Pittsburg
Farmers Dehorn Calves Promptly With Painless Tool
Advertisement claims a device safely dehorns calves three weeks old and younger with no pain and no blood, asserting ease of use even for a child. The notice markets the product to farmers seeking quick cattle safety.
No. 9 sewing machine claims Grand Prize at Paris Expo
The No. 9 Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine is praised as best at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris where judges awarded the Grand Prize to Wheeler & Wilson. Nathaniel Wheeler was decorated with the Legion of Honor. The ad touts No. 9 for home use and No. 12 for commercial use, urging dealers to stock them.
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Paris
France
America
Wheeler & Wilson
Nathaniel Wheeler
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. CO
Chicago, IL
Alliance Organ to Launch in Washington May First
Straight-Out Alliance members in Congress plan a Washington newspaper to serve as the party’s national political organ. Rep. Simpson says it will reflect Alliance tenets, with Jerry Simpson and Watson of Georgia guiding details. Editors likely include Simpson, with other renowned Alliance leaders. The paper debuts around May 1 and denounces Livingstone Hall and other half-hearted supporters.
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Washington
Alliance
Congress
Alliance Party
Simpson
Jerry Simpson
Watson
Georgia
Livingstone
Hall
Missouri
Farmers’ Party
Effects of a Strike Hit Durham and More
Reports from Durham describe decisive coal strike damage with fuel shortages in large factories. Ports on the Tyne are idle as strike actions disrupt European shipments and vital coal yards decline into inactivity.
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Durham
London
England
Tyne
Ibugge
Picnic tragedy at Cove Arkansas hits two dead
In an Alliance picnic near Cove Arkansas on April 5 a severe storm struck during a woods gathering. Trees toppled causing two deaths and multiple serious injuries among attendees. Two Black men allegedly involved in an assault on a postmaster’s daughter are reported “lost” after a search party returns from Limonia Georgia.
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Little Rock
Ark
Alliance
Cove
Limonia
Postmaster Brown
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