Aged Couple Reminisces on 1854 Moline and Family
An elderly couple Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Haverstick of Mechanicsburg Penn travel through Vernon County Missouri and near Indianapolis Indiana towards home. Married in 1924 the pair would mark a Diamond anniversary if they live to November 28. They raised ten children nine living and about thirty grandchildren with four great grandchildren. The reminiscence contrasts old Moline with today and notes family, health, and wealth through decades.
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Moline
Benjamin Haverstick
Mechanicsburg
Cumberland County
Penn
Vernon County
Missouri
Indianapolis
Indiana
Lancaster
Anna
Issy
Georut Ke
Pennssylvania
Keer
Mir Kotler
Census shows daily newspapers and state counts
The census reports 900 dailies in the country with 436 morning editions and square evening editions totaling a daily circulation of 3581.187. Illinois has 73 dailies, New York 115, Pennsylvania leads among states after those, with the national average price per copy at 0.64 cents, ranging from 0.75 in Delaware to 0.05 in Nevada.
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Flureau
Illinois
New York
Pennsylvani Ys
Minoan
Delaware
Nevada
Wheat Crop Report Shows Decline Across Spring Grain
The Department of Agriculture reports a nationwide decline in Spring wheat condition with an average around 76 percent. Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois report the worst damage from chinch bugs and the Hessian fly amid unfavorable weather. California also shows very low condition due to cold and drought.
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Department of Agriculture
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
California
Tornado Toll Rises Across Kansas Missouri Iowa
The Cyclones report describes great tornadoes across Northeastern Kansas Northwestern Missouri and Central Iowa with widespread destruction to homes orchards forests and crops. Many injured and several killed as families lose homes and property. The storms resemble earlier Western and Southern outbreaks.
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Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Indian request to see Great Father over Wisconsin reservation
A Chippewa band from Wisconsin appeared before Hiram Price in Washington seeking a reservation. Price advised the aborigines to return home and work to earn a livelihood like others, then left with his broad brimmed hat.
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Yineer
Wisconsin
Hiram Price
Washington
Hiram
Dispute Raises Risk of France England Trade Treaty Rift
The report outlines a likely suspension of relations as France and England clash over a proposed commercial treaty. England urges tariff reductions while France advocates protective tariffs to shield internal industry.
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France
England
Tari
Lincoln widow gravely ill at Springfield home
Mrs Tancoin widow of President Lincoln lies critically ill at her sister’s Springfield home. She fumbles in mind, barely recognizes close friends, and doctors have given up hope of recovery as her condition deteriorates.
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Tancoin
Lincoln
Springfield
Liv
Tragedy as Five Children Drown in West Virginia Flood
Five children and a mother were swept away and drowned in a swollen creek near Wheeling while asleep in their home. The father, who was also in the house, managed to save one child named Jodie.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Jodie
Mississippi Cabinet Member Om Joub Thompson Visits Washington
Om Joub Thompson of Mississippi, once in President Buchanan's Cabinet at the outbreak of the rebellion, is visiting Washington and says he feels kindly toward Mr. Garfield throughout the South after an interview.
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Om Joub Thompson
Mississippi
Ep land celebrates 100th birth anniversary of George Stephenson
The town observed the hundredth anniversary of George Stephenson birth, famed inventor of the railroad locomotive, with a commemorative event in Ep land on the gth.
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George Stephenson
Epland
The Treasury Swindle Exposes Broad Corruption in Washington
An investigation into the Custodian's branch of the Treasury Department in Washington reveals extensive corruption. Supplies were awarded outside contract terms to favored dealers, with carpets, furniture, and silver pitchers misused then sold to ring members at nominal prices and new outfits purchased. The public demands a thorough purge of corrupt officers under the new administration.
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Treasury
Treasury Department
Washington
Hayes
Grant
Crookedness Allegations Against Treasury Custodian Upheld
Investigation by Secretary Windom sustains charges of crookedness against Pit ney Custodian of the Treasury in Washington. The scene shifts to public officials facing scrutiny and potential prison or charity. In Quincy Illinois a libel suit against Mayor Webster and a street confrontation with a saloon keeper’s wife ends with her wandering the streets hunting for someone to chastise before returning home in good humor.
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Pitney
Treasury Department
Washington
Windom
Jung
Poot
James
Hhe Department
Quincy
Lil
Webster
Gus Reis
the Germania
Swimmer
Vast fire and natural disasters dominate global news
Reports recount a seven hundred plus building blaze in St John’s Quebec with losses over $2,000,000 while earthquakes devastate eight Armenian villages near Van Asa Minor and tremors threaten Haiti’s Island. Other items note modern rail progress in Mexico and a George Stephenson centennial procession in England with locomotives and a 100000 strong trades union march.
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St. John's
Quebec
Van
Asa Minor
Haiti
George Stephenson
England
United Kingdom
Mexico
City of
Tula
Secretary Waisbpow Visits Chicago on Return to Washington
Secretary Waisbpow arrived in Chicago from Minnesota and met with business leaders. He toured city sights, spoke at the Exchange, praised the Hennepin canal project, and warned against extravagant spending as a sign of turning trade. He departed for Washington Sunday evening.
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Waisbpow
Minnesota
Washington
Chicago
Tle
Crane and Watt Face Misconduct Charge in Court Case
The report outlines a court matter where Watt is charged as the initiator of events leading to a bungling attempt by the cadets. The article notes efforts to prevent confirenation and to shield the Huding, with emphasis on the internal dynamics among the cadets.
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Crane
Watt
Berg
Arrests in Cork City Prompt Short Sentences
Police arrested twenty three people for partaking in a riot in Cork City. Sentences ranged from two to four months and were suspended on recognizances for the twenty three. The remaining detainees were released on their recognizances and the city now rests quiet.
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Cork
Ottrom
Ohio Republicans denounce Conkling at Cleveland convention
The Cleveland convention resolutions are temperate and genuinely Republican. The United States, a coal producer next to Great Britain, exported 4,000 tons last year with much to Canada. Dr Lourive as new Agriculture Commissioner will assume duties. Mr Leduc ends his term, seemingly with little mourning.
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Tur Republans
Ohio
Senator Conkling
Cleveland
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Lourive
Leduc
Michigan Legislature Adjourns Sine Die After Five Month Session
After more than five months in session the Michigan Legislature adjourned sine die on Wednesday night marking the end of its annual business. The halt closes debate on pending measures and clears the way for review in the next session.
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Michigan
Ohio leads states with most colleges and big endowments
The piece notes Ohio has thirty colleges, nine regular institutions, spending nearly $200,000 on salaries last year and about $960,000 in tuition. It compares other states, argues for concentration of colleges, and suggests smaller institutions can rival elite universities in quality.
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Ohio
New York
Tlinois
Iowa
Indiana
Missouri
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Varied 19th Century News Fragments From North America
Reports from Canada to Illinois note hay crop fears near Quebec, a large Brooklyn fire, G A R encampment in Indianapolis, Ohio Greenback nominating John Lietz, and a railroad express accident at Council Bluffs. World events include a Melbourne steamer wreck, Cairo grain elevator, and New York imports and exports data with rising totals. Violent incidents: Chicago policeman murder reward. bribery rumors in Albany. turbine rail concerns. Ireland arrests under coercion act. Industrial notes cover anthracite coal output and New York bridge costs. public works projects in Brooklyn and Brussels carpet contracts. ore assays from Breckenridge Colorado. and lumber movements along Wisconsin rivers.
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Canada
Quebec
American Master Mechanics’ Railway Association
Providence
R. I
Brooklyn
N. Y
G.A.R
Indianapolis
Ohio Greenbackers
John Lietz
C . 1 & P. Express
John Phalin
Council Bluffs
Torava
Melbourne
Australia
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Cairo
Griscom
Chicago
Lu Jost
Ireland
New York
Grand Opera House
Albany
Rockford
Breckenridge
Col Dispatch
MecKensett
McGrath
Femans
Liverpool
Washington
Treasury Department
Policeman Mahones
John P Howard
Burlington
University of Vermont
Wis
Eau Clane
Corppewa
Enterprising Druggists Promote Dr Ring's New Discovery
Local druggists Meners Rachards A Sohrbeck advertise Dr Ring's New Discovery for consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever phthisie croup whooping cough and throat and lung ailments. Free trial bottles and dollar sizes offered to prove its claims with thousands already convinced.
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Sohrbeck
Ring
Miscellaneous Items From Town and Nation
The census notes 74 781 Methodists in town with ten year growth and 130 churches. Mr Lynch Pin may be replaced by Mr Darn You as Chinese Minister at Washington. Governor Shelby M Cullom is in New York. General Joseph E Johnston bought a Washington house. Maria Smith known as Great Eastern weighed 305 pounds in Rochester. The London World warns Ireland not pacified without crown colony or US annexation. Admiral Dahlgren’s widow to build a Catholic chapel at South Mountain Maryland. Detroit Free Press says big wholesale houses are shifting to advertising and see better returns.
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Cullom
State Board of Canal Commissioners
Joseph O. Glover
Chicago
Benjamin F. Shaw
Dixon
Martin Kingman
Peoria
Europe
Albany
New York State Treasury
Ludington
Michigan
Whittaker
John Bray
CUS
Washington
Ross
County Cork
Ireland
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Rosehill Cemetery
Western Union Telegraph Company
John T. Paddock
Illinois
Indianapolis
Indiana
Col Holloway
Times
Freedman’s Bureau Bank
McLean
Nayy
Jeffers
Col Emory
Pope County
Ark
Garfield
McM . Gillett
Wisconsin
Columbia
Gen Tillson
Interior Revenue
Gth
Hig
Quincy
Ilon
Richard Rowe
New York
Chiago
New Hampshire
Rollins
Hugo von Molapert
Chivcage
Povball
George Armour
Andrew
Robeson
Cresson
Sprague
Prustee Coatee
Ltis
Whittaner
John B Gough
Greensboro
John Laslor
France
Chicago Public Library
William Vanderbilt
Blaine
Maine
Lynch Pin
Darn-You
Asernor Shelby M Cullom
Joseph E Johnston
Maria Smith
Admiral Dahlgren
South Mountain
Maryland
Detroit Free Press
Rock Island and Peoria Railroad Directors Re elected
Stockholders at the annual meeting reelected H ll Porter D Dow WH Decker and P Q Cable as directors for two years. Officers co elected were President P I Cable Vice President RR Cable Secretary Lynde Treasurer Gaskill. Net earnings for 1880 were 49100 with two 1 2 cent dividends. Reconstruction used 1000 steel rails 21 ystres 262009 vent lunder and 9000 totato lug.
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Rock Island and Peoria Railroad
Rock Island & Peona R. R. Co
Messrs. H.ll. Porter
D Dows
WH Decker
P. Q. Cable
P I. Cable
R R Cable
C. Lynde
J. Gaskill
Marriage Licenses Issued Since June 14 181
The following marriage licenses have been issued since June 14 181. Joseph W. Grege Ella and Blackstock John McCaffrey Bridgie Flanagan Andrew Olson Ida C Hemberg Henry Mordhurst Anna Waidemann August Erickson Anna S Carlen John A Palmer Mary A Redinger.
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Joseph W. Grege
Ella
Blackstock
John McCaffrey
Bridgie Flanagan
Andrew Olson
Ida C. Hemberg
Henry Mordhurst
Anna Waidemann
August Erickson
Anna S. Carlen
John A. Palmer
Mary A. Redinger
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