Watch pledged by Guiteau to Fort Howard man claimed
Mr D G Smith of Fort Howard holds a plain silver hunting case watch said to be pledged by Charles J Guiteau to borrow $5 in 1880. An engraving shows the watch was a gift from Guiteau’s father, L. W. Guiteau, to Charles when he was a boy. The redemption limit expires tomorrow and he will claim it.
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Green Bay
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Fort Howard
Charles J. Guiteau
Garfield
Charles J Guiteau
L. W. Guiteau
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Great gas eruption spurs town alarm in Litchfield oil region
At about three o'clock Sunday evening residents of Litchfield rushed to the McWilliams Oil Company well after a roaring gas plume and ignited flame shot from the well, rising forty feet. By 2 40 pm the oil reached 674 feet below the surface and oil flow climbed seven feet, heralding what experts deem the richest oil find yet in the Pennsylvania oil regions.
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Litchfield
Conshiatt
Plataty
Niles
McWilliams Oil Company
Crest Bios Det
Pennsylvan
Elephants Run Rampage Through Troy NY Before Capture
Emperor a Barnum elephant and three companions caused chaos Thursday night in Troy. They trampled crowds, damaged works and buildings, swam the river, and fled toward Green Island before keepers recaptured them and moved them to safety.
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Troy
Rome
Renssalaer
Emperor
Michael Casey
Madison Street
Burden
Renssalaer Tron
Alene
Uop
Capera
Green Island
Happiness From a Limo Kiln Club Lecture
A rollicking deformed lecture fragment mocks happiness in daily life. It contrasts brief thrills with ongoing needs and debt, noting happiness does not feed the grocer or the butcher and that many great men are deeply unhappy. The speaker derides easy joy and calls for money over happiness.
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Dan Qilderoy
Multiple Dead From Disasters Across Cities and Rail Lines
A string of tragic incidents reported include a boating accident at South Park Chicago with four drowned. a Cranberry coal railroad collision near Oil City Pennsylvania killing six and wounding fifteen. a Green Creek bridge collapse near Frew Ohio with no injuries. derailments and washouts affecting Lake Erie and Western line near Mt. Waukdee and Beloit. a Union Pacific crash at Grant Creek injuring crew. a Rock Island and Peoria baggageman killed in Peoria by a falling coal chute. Muskegum River dam breach at Marietta Ohio flooding barges and elevating losses as river rises.
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Cranberry Coal
Oil City
Green Creek
Frewout
Ohio
Caboose
Lake Erie & Western A
Fractured OCR Text Reveals Sparse Local Note
Fragmentary OCR reads as a community notice with scattered letters and incomplete phrases. Reading is hampered by garbled segments, preventing clear identification of names, places, or actions.
Private letter book disappearance tied to Brady aide testimony
Testimony in a Brady era case details a missing private official letter book months after Brady left office. Proceedings highlight disputes over letter admissibility, route trip increases, and efforts by Berry and Totten to restore six trips weekly while officials clash over evidence.
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Lyman
Berry
Hugh T Taggart
Assis United States
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Wilson
Walsh
Col Totten
Totten
Gen. Brady
Turner
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Reredello
Mae Veagh
McSpeeney
McGrew
California
Redding-Alturuffe
Sweeney
Good Table Manners and Elegant Eating Teachings
A discussion on proper dining conduct highlights the deselecting of noisy eating and urges guests to use silverware correctly, avoid scraping plates, and choose agreeable topics. It encourages mutual forbearance, neat dress, and controlled portions, noting polite requests for a second cut but restraint at soup and fish.
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Johnson
Oriole of Baltimore Plans September Festivities
The Oriole of Baltimore holds an upcoming Wednesday meeting to unveil plans for September pageant in Baltimore. Officials review the 1881 display, outline floats and processions, and seek Parisian style Mardi Gras inspiration while celebrating Baltimore’s defense history and the Star Spangled Banner.
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Beltissore Sun
Order of the Oriole of
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New Orleans
Order of the Oriole
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St Leuis
Chicago
Cincinnati
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Creek Nation unrest over Capt Scott murder and landmen stand
United States Marshal Beck reports rising tension as 550 to 600 armed landsmen camp on Pecan creek near Muscogee awaiting the arrest of twelve men linked to Capt Sam Scott’s murder. Chief Checot of the Creek Nation and David Glass lead factions with warnings of possible bloodshed if demands are not met.
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United States
Marshal Beck
Fort Smith
Pecan Creek
Muscogee
David Glass
Checot
Scott
Tufts
Glass’ Gang
Amusing Bits and Moralizing Misreadings from Local Gossip
A collage of old quips. Sam laments a goat uproar after licking a boy, a lady and her poodle swap a pun, a Sambo joke about corn and manure, and a Cincinnati Sunday school misanswer about a fatted calf. The piece spoofs childish misunderstandings with regional humor.
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Jones
Cincinnati
Capital hints at river and harbor project delay
The capital reports that the incident could block the rive and harbor appropriation from moving forward on the prospects, and questions the integrity of the process by which it was laid out, amid a veto.
Yellow Fever Rumors Sweep Texas Border Areas
The Republic finds a late Laredo dispatch reporting rising yellow fever in Matamoras with seven deaths. Cases total unclear but estimated 3800 to 400, affecting all classes. Brownsville sees about twenty cases, with one American druggist and a garrison soldier among the dead. several others ill. Authorities push strict quarantines, rail lines halt if fever reaches Corpus Christi, and local towns from Laredo to Rio Grande enforce isolation measures amid conflicting reports.
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Laredo
Texas
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Masrion Florens
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Fort Brown
United States Infantry
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King’s Ranch
Colorado
Corpus Christi
Neuve
Hnappersett
Gov Roberts
New Orleans
Washington
Orange
Board of Health
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Santiago
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Louisiana
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Matamoros
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Scarcity Blamed For Sudden Price Jumps In Old Times
In an antebellum tale a New York grocer raises the price of a ride of tau from three shillings to forty five cents and a farmer selling cider vinegar notes gold tea up several cents per pound. The grocer asks why cider rises and learns of scarce bung hole plugs. Prices reel back after the exchange. A Georgia tale mentions a woman in Rome making sugar from watermelons, with Georgia papers noting a fortune for such a venture.
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