Washington shows nine month export surplus at 78 million
The nine months ending September 30 report a merchandise export excess of 78,760,430 in specie values, versus 161,498,336 for the same period last year. Gold and bullion imports over the period totaled 20,520,705, down from 25,481,782 a year earlier.
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Washington
United States
General Land Office
Sitting Bull
War Department
Terry
Brooks
Government Secret Service
Doyle
Chicago
Brockway
KK. B. Hayes
William M. Evarts
C Risney & Co assigns after thirty years in coffee trade
C Risney & Co of New York, a veteran coffee firm, has made an assignment with liabilities around 800000. The collapse is blamed largely on shrinkage in asset value. The report also notes other business failures tied to local credit conditions and a series of international and domestic reports.
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Fred Reichenbach
Rendy
Coyle
Cedar Street
Poxstotlice
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Boston
Frances. E. Willard
Sandi Bennhardt
New York
Bay
United States
Lincoln
Clarendon House
New York City
France
Helenia
Bridgewater
Jesse B. Anthony
Troy
N. Y
J. R. Pettis & Co
City
Union National Bank of Troy
Troy Steam Heating Company
G. W. Hayward & Co
Buffalo
C. Hisley & Co
Burgettstown
James Cunningham
Charles Cunningham
Michael Cunningham
Thomas Langan
Thomas Anderson
Fromen
John Goudy
George Thompson
Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union
Grain receipts in Chicago reach over 183 million bushels in 1880
Between January 1 and October 27 1880 Chicago received 122 557 985 bushels of grain and 2 208 885 barrels of flour, converted to grain totaling 183 602 410 bushels. Bishop Daggett of Richmond Virginia died after a long illness. Doyle jailed in Chicago on forgery and counterfeiting charges with bail set at 20 000 dollars awaiting grand jury action. Two men were painting the exterior of the Pueblo Library Building at time of report.
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Chicago
Daggett
Methodist Church
Richmond
Doyle
United States
Publo Library
Public debt report and notable 1840s events in brief
The public debt statement shows total debt 32,112,085,614 with cash in Treasury 20,545,480. debt net of Treasury 1,008,490,428 and October decrease 7,108,754. Ulysses S. Grant and Miss Fannie Chaffee wed in New York. Hayes couple arrive in Fremont, Ohio. Garfield case hearings continue with handwriting analysis. anti-Chinese riots in Denver and the tragic fall of aviator August Navarre near Paris.
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Treasury
Aince
Ulysses
Guan
Fannied, Chaffee
Jerome B. Chaffee
Colorado
New York
Hayes
Fremont
Kenward Philp
New York Truth
James A. Garfield
Hart
Truth
Philp
Garfield
Hewitt
Morey
Denver
Col
August Navarre
Paris
The Hesten Ladies Deposit Swindle Details Revealed
Boston papers report on the Ladies Deposit swindle led by Mrs Sarah Howe. The scheme supposedly operated forty years in Alexandria and paid high returns to lure middle and lower class investors. Depositors faced heavy losses as property and valuables were used to prop up the bank and sustain the operation.
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Tuk Loston
Doston
Sarah KE. Howe
Zanes
Alexamiris
Vac
Neyer
Boston
Hoseton
Nao
Mra. Howe
Remarkable Case of Kate Dashfords at Bayview Asylum
A Baltimore Gazette report describes Kate Dashfords, a 48 year old woman admitted to the county almshouse in 1848 with her mother, then moved to Bayview Asylum. Her head grew abnormally while her limbs remained childlike, a condition linked to epilepsy. She lived in care 45 years, allegedly sustained by treatment, dying after an epileptic seizure.
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Tree
Bayview Asylum
Bayview
Kate Dashfords
Old County Almshouse
Counery
Kate
Eagh
Katie
Tny
County Alma House
Perhain
Baltimore Gazette
Anna Stiles
South Windsor
Conn
Brave Harlem youths honored for Seuwanhaka rescue
Three boys Fred Wightman Herbert Donn and Edward Lamb rowed to rescue fourteen people including the steamer captain as the Seuwanhaka burned near Ward's Island. The Irving Club of Harlem awarded Tiffany medal models with a dual inscription honoring their bravery.
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Scawanhakn
Fred H. Wightman
Herbert II
Donn
Edward J. Lamb
Kolekorbocker Yacht Club
Ward's Island
Irving Club
Harlem
Tiffany
New York City
J, Y
Utica Herald
Woman Runs Family Business After Father Is Injured
In Blooming ton Illinois Jim LAnison suffers a fall when a rope and dragone accident traps him in a building. His fourteen year old daughter Nancy takes over his extensive accounts, supervises orders and workers, and handles wills and affairs with success. Also noted is Miss Georgiana Trotter a leading coat and lumber merchant who runs money well. A separate note from Ocean Grove New York reports a camp meeting money mystery with a servant girl accused, a recovered lost sum, and a suggestion to award money to the girl and the finder.
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Jim Lanison
Dragone
Bloomington
Ill
Nar Rowly
Nancy
Jim
Georgian Trotter
Peoria Journa
Ocean Grove
N. Y
Arlegton
Ander
Brokes
Iowa state news column reports accidents crimes and trials
A roundup of Iowa incidents includes a worker killed by a train in Cornell Bluffa a murdered boy found in a box in East Davenport, burglaries and robberies in Keokuk, Des Moines court actions on the Parsons embezzlement case, gun accidents and drownings in multiple counties along with minor local crimes and social notes from Burlington Dubuque Keokuk Des Moines and Sioux City communities.
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Winciam Baker
Ann
Chicazo, Rock Island & Paddle Company
Cornell Bluffa
Bobo
East Davonports
Quant
Zadok Chiostor
Monroe Cotery Hunk
Winselt
Einmiipan Kinamas
Sioux City
Knogman
Parsons
Dow Moines
A. W. Parsons
Merchants’ National Bank of
Burlington
Supreme Court
Yound Gorman
Meyer
Eneh
Knup Younaperda
Ded Moines
Polaon
Grantins
Woo H. Young
Vinton
Ano
Keokuk
Lavoniaa
Monroe County
Wiliam Trog
Dunlap
Kent
Union County
Dune
Athar Aligertnge
Linsday
Victory
Bryan
Des Moines
Frente
Hinola
Dubuque
Dew Moines
Eva
Hospital For the
Independence
Eldora
C. Gilman
St. Louis
Religious and educational notes from early 1900s colleges
A collage of short items notes: a young couple at Wesleyan in Middleton saving “French men” is cited alongside women graduates at Padua and UC. Harvard seniors may skip chapel and prayers. Nationwide church funding issues surface with New Hampshire Congregationalism and Minnesota railroad bonds. The Episcopal convention urges endowment funds for diocesan growth.
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Wesleyan University
Middleton
Conn
Padua
Wales
Vassar Collie
New Hampshire
San Prangised
John Wanameker
Philadelphia
Tria Presbyterian
United States
Harvard College
Methodist Conference of
Minnesota
Minneeapolia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Seasion
New York
The Leaning Tower of Pisa Recalls Fame and Facts
In Pisa Tuscany the Leaning Tower of Pisa draws interest for its tilt and medieval design. The columned white marble belfry stands near the cathedral and bears debate on its stability and cause of lean. Galileo and gravity are linked in historic observations.
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Pisa
Tuscany
Italy
Arno
Porto
Europe
Kithratal
Gallileo
Gogarth
Atlanta watch manufactory begins with six watches daily
Miscellaneous notes report Atlanta launching a new watchmaking enterprise starting with production of six watches per day. Additional items cover ice shipments to Russian posts, vast land ownership by Georgia’s colored population, Bradford Pa pipeline expansion, and global commodity statistics including corn, meat, wool, and coal.
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Atlanta
Famitres
Central Asia
Georgia
United Pipelines
Bradford
Atlantic
Boston
England
San Francisco
Tahiti
Wit and Wisdom Bits From Aboilings Of Various News
A collection of quips and sayings from Galveston Tam’s humor to Rhode Island editorials. Vendors discuss tax pays, the Lord’s day, and a hurricane of jokes about fashion hats cyclopaedias and unity among monkeys.
The Best Man Tradition From Saxon Times
The article traces the best man custom to Saxon times when marriages occurred at the groom’s home. It describes the groom’s armed escort and the bride’s attendants led by a brideswoman, with the foremist a man as ancestor of the modern best man, and warns against fashion trends seen as folly.
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Evanston, Il
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