The Moon Voyage of Barbicane and Ardan
A sweeping narrative recounts the launch of the great cannon at Stone's Hill Tampa to send the three lunar travelers Barbi cane Ardan and Nichol toward the Moon. A massive crowd witnesses the epic launch followed by a catastrophic shower of destruction and a globe spanning search for the fate of the projectile and its crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Moedster
Michel Ardan
Biges
Moon
Bin
Barbicane
Ardan
Nichol
Barbicany
Barebicane
Stone's Hill
United States
Old World
Dow
Manston
Murchison
Canton
Tampa
St. Mary's Church
Exchange
Childe’ Harald
Liverpool
England
Rocky Mountains
Gas Club
J.T. Benrase
Uravelers
J.P. Maston
Flo
Tle
Great Air Line to the Moon Cannon Construction Timeline
A narrative recounts the November start of a massive project to dig a 900 foot deep well and cast a nine hundred foot high cannon core. Twelve hundred furnaces and a Niagara of iron marked the process, with completion and cooling of the bore by early September after a dramatic noon casting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Reiser
Regnault
J. LP. Maston
J.T. Maston
Maston
University of Cambridge
Gun Club
Rocky Mountains
Greece
Barbiecane
Barbicane
Grea Well
Civil War Soldier's Pledge Amid Colored Guards' Sacrifice
Excerpt recalls General Ben Butler and Civil Rights era tension. A battlefield scene notes 543 colored soldiers slain defending their country with a heartfelt oath to defend their rights and race. A Dubuque Times note mentions a mysterious quotation attributed to Jesus and Shakespeare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben, Butler
Dubuque Times
Jesus
Reform Demands Shake The Rational Grange Structure
The article advocates major reforms within the Rational Grange, urging representation by membership, merit based delegate selection, state control over subordinates, abolition of aristocratic degrees, and ritual reform. It calls for national authority reduction, annual officer terms, and an American form of governance to replace current practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seouls
Congress of the
United States
Ut Litte
Jowe Farmen
Obituary of a disconsolate editor and embalmment of memory
A distressed editor mourns his wife with a grim tale of grief and an ironic epitaph. He recalls gifting a gravestone to honor Tabitha Skinner, wife of Mosey Skinner, while lamenting the undertaker and sexton’s debts as a macabre consolation amid loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ena
Tia
Skinner
Ming
Tabitha
Mosey Skinner
Hse
Trombone
Coleman's
Alvin
Rachel
Gold in Iowa mining claims spurred by Dr Adam’s finds near Newton
In Sherman township northwest of Newton, Dr Adam and partners say gold in quartz and wash specimens tests as pure gold by assayers in Town City and Davenport. A lead vein of 100 feet is hinted at, with location secrets kept. A local editor’s dream episode ends as he resigns after a frantic day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anya
Adam
Newton
Alice
Prossel
Sherman Township
Adium
Town City
Davenport
Heohae
Clinvis
Peddle
Nan
Thia
Danbury Netos
Pimpleville Post Faces Subscribers Decline After Warning
The Pimpleville Post published a warning about sheep stealing, provoking sixty subscribers to drop the paper. The editor predicts bankruptcy as a result of the outcry and loss of readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Pimpleville
Pimpleville Post
Banksupiey
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Monticello
Expresa
John Blanchard
Business Directory
H. W. Gill
Iowa
Monticello Bazaar
Grassmeyer’s
Hardware &Tore, Wal
Millin Dryt
Cail
Attorneys At Law
Alj. Monroe
M. H. Moulton, Duaties of the
Monroe & Moulton
Monticello, Jones CO
Dubuque
Delaware
Jonoa
Linn
A. J. Honroe
Ili
Federal Sud
Collectiona
Ts, Colice
Carpenter & Lovell
Lews
WY. Herrick
Monrexi O
Joses County
Owee
Rely & Iriley
Anahosa
J. Q. Weng
Law Notary Public
Miutual Aid Insurance Society
Offone
Coutmix
Vonticello
Jones Co
Tews
Ottesweer Carpenter & Lovells
Ypublic
Piest Street
Brick Manufactory
Fo Builders
Weber & Koup
Justice of the
First Street
Honticello
Notary Public & Conveyancer
Duer & Estey's
C. W. Gurney
Qouvaranche
Nat. Bank
J. B. Clark
Marvin
Frank Mellen
I. HH. Philipy
Onticello Express
National House
J.P. Sleeper
Nicolet Restaurant
D. L. Norcross
Newcomb
D. Gould
Insurance Agenda
C.laxeworthy
THE
S.C. Langworthy
W. A. Langworthy
Cyrus Langworthy
Farwell
M. M. Moulton
W. HH. Walworth
M. Hicks
John A. Duer
Ae H.D
Theo
Kerman
Alemannia Fire Ins. Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Beet and Assest Insurance Companion
America
Chicago
W. Gurney
S. Agency
New York
Boston
E. Pond
Franklin Fire Ins Co
D.e.pond
A.T. Lorine
Miscellaneocs
WM. Abul
Cor, First and
Cedar &Ts
G. Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
North Sixth St
St. Louis, Me
Ransows
Beta
Red-Cross
Templara
Epwaa
Belt
Valdric Gay
Colemnly
Chaylan
Atery
Ocean Cable
France
Paris
Itlenta
Barbiexne
Brbicane
L. Manston
Scribner's Magazine
Black Brigade
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