Numerous 1874 world items in brief New York World roundup
May 16 1874 New York World survey of political boldness and decline across states with anti administration majorities. Notes on British navy ironclads and naval readiness. Mentions Maine Governor Israel Washburn potential Senate candidate, Gen Butler illness, New Orleans vacancy, shipping decline, Neilson the actress earnings, Governor Moses bankruptcy, cremation poem, Milwaukee Sentinel on ashes, Chanfrau fund bid, Neosho Falls mayoral quip, Prussian musket range, Lake Superior copper mine report, Starvard University artifact, and St Louis Republican efforts to avert ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Torld
Maine
Israel Washburn
Hannibal Hamlin
United States Senate
Nova Scotia Vessel Manned by Family Crew
A vessel from Nova Scotia was manned by a father, his son and two daughters, under the command of Captain Bunsby. The family crew operated the ship in a notable display of seafaring togetherness.
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Nova Scotia
Call Bunsby
Senator Morton's Letter on Currency Bill and Veto Explained
A summary of Senator Morton's letter to the Indianapolis Journal defending the vetoed Currency Bill. It argues the veto was influenced by money interests, analyzes sections on United States notes and bank note circulation, and critiques Grant's Treasury actions and the push for specie payments. The piece also references Colonel John W. Forney's grief over the Centennial Appropriation defeat and moral concerns about Philadelphia municipal corruption.
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Senator Morton
Indianapolis Journal
Morton
United States
Grant
Treasury
Richardson
Secretary of the Treasury
Finance
Congress
Ile
New York
Wall Street
Cincinnati Enquirer
John W. Forney
Washington
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sky Color and Clouds Explain Light Scattering
The article explains how tiny airborne particles scatter blue light creating a blue sky while coarser particles scatter red and all rays to form white light. It cites Tyndall and notes experiments showing dust makes sunlight beams visible in a tube until the air is filtered or passed over a flame. Paris fortification costs are also mentioned with a 60 million franc estimate and a plan to extend defenses to Versailles and Montmorency.
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Tyndall
Scientific American
Incremation Process Details by Prof Brunette
A London Lancet excerpt outlines a furnace design for complete incremation. It describes an oblong brick fire box with ten intake holes, a coffin reception chamber, and a domed cover directing flames. The method involves three stages heating, carbonization, and calcination, using about 150 pounds of wood to reduce soft parts and bones in two hours.
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Brunette
London
Matrimonial Custom At Galway Fair Described By Eyewitness
An American traveler invited by a nobleman describes Galway fair girls as marriageable and well mannered. He notes a noon gathering of sixty to a hundred women in fine dress, not on sale, asserting the custom is simple and not improper. The account contrasts with gentler claims in refined society.
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Galway Fair
London
Posey County Agricultural Society
New Harmony
W. J. Thrall
Janke Maple
Court of
Posey County
Indiana
Arthur
State of
Circuit Court
Thomas P. Price
Lewis A. McDonald
William Detur
T. C. Jaquess
Mount Vernon
Alex. Crank
Edward Murphy
James Lewis
Kesiah Lewis
Thomas
Jaquess
William Defur
George K. Trainer
Towit
AL x. Crunk
Cross eyed man and seven strangers over tobacco remark
A Detroit scene shows a cross eyed man addressing seven strangers across a street. When asked for chewing tobacco, the seven men search their pockets, then empty hands return empty. The man retorts with a jab about generous roosters as he chews his own tobacco. An emigrant in Colorado dismisses a land agent's paradise claim with a curt reply about climate and society.
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Detroit
Colorado
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the Register
Slater
C.w
INI
The
New York [World
Ey Ben. Butler
Gen. Butler
New Orleans
Get Neilson
Moses
South Carolina
Las Clarence I. Butler
New York Times
Elijah
Tahoe
Milwaukee Sentinel
Sas Mir. Chanfrau
Chicago
Neosho Falls
Kansas
Manser
Lake Superior
Starvard University
Massachusetts
St. Louis
Paris
Versailles
Montmorency
Sgenerous Roosters
TarRick Court OF the
Forty-First District
Lin
Evansville
William Reavis
Main Street
Samuel Day
Pictures
Charts, &Co
W. M. Burrow
Bristol
Tenn
KF. W. Lichtenberger & Sons
Peru and
Humboldt
Mayby
F. W. Lichtenberger & Sons
East Main Street
New Harmony Theater
Augustin Daly
Bella Golden
Laura
Martin Goldin
Snorkey
Thespian Company
Augustin Daly, Esq
Laura Courtland
Bella Golden Pearl Courtland
Sallie Jackson Peachblossom
Knight
Whabe Thottold Judas
Fannie Echard
van Dam
Voices of Society
Pauline Arnoldy
Sue Karlie
Voice
Lou. Duclos
Windel
Justice Bowling of
Lizzie Liston
Fannie Itolten Big Trafford
Arthur Echard
Willie Golden
H.R. Snelling
M. Geo
Berlin
W. F. Gray
D. M. Schuce
Postofffice
Ind
Gray
James A. Cooper
Queripe
Quaeriff
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