Wormy celery and lettuce rumors and rare fossils gift
Beadwork of odd health claims warns of nineteen million parasites per inch in celery stalks and lettuce leaves while a Chicago marriage features a telegraph manuscript of a birth notice to a grandmother. Congressman Dawes donates rare minerals and fossils to Westfield normal school, highlighting ancient life forms.
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Chicago
Baltimore
Washington
Congressman Dawes
Massachusetts
Westfield Normal School
Buck Fanshaw’s dramatic funeral in Virginia
Mark Twain writes of Buck Fanshaw’s death in a sensational inquest revealing a typhoid fever induced suicide. The eccentric miner, saloon keeper, and civic figure inspires a vast, elaborate funeral with banners, hearse, and a large crowd. Local characters provide comic relief while lamenting the loss of a man who shaped town life and politics.
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Nevada
Buck Fanshaw
Eastern Theological Seminary
Scotty” Briges
Scotty
Poe
Doxology
Yam
Pard
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Ike
America
Tie
Nice
Virginia
Mark Twain
Increase of Rain and Civil War of the Skin
A collection of scattered observations and curiosities. It notes rising rainfall as settlements spread beyond the Mississippi with streams filling year round, cities like Denver and Salt Lake gaining water and potential for growth. It also includes eccentric notes on skin color changes, sun mass and gravity, old newspaper ads, clover feeding for swine, weather forecasting lore, a grim accident anecdote, and a final unresolved query about rest.
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Mississippi
Laramie Plains
Denver
Salt Lake
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Royal Insurance CO
New Harmony
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Baxtoin G. Young
Mount Vernon
Dolly Varden
Mumpford
Sertain
Mann & Dunn
Main Street
Mt. Vernon
New York
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Fisher
Lichtenberger, Owen & Co
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Lichtenberger
Owen & CO
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Root & Shoe
New Mwarmony
John R. Hugo
J. McHenney
Rockport, Indiana
Thrall & Mumford
New Harmony and Vicinity
the Register
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