Tre Suez canal profits and odd world notes
The Register cites the Suez Canal as a highly valuable asset with last year’s net profits above 5.006 million, up 28 percent from the prior year, with ships paying just over 20 cents per ton. It covers various social curiosities, including Scotland’s smallpox near-elimination, a Boston divorce case, and a lively exchange about ex President Tyler’s son. It reports New York City school attendance at 140,400 and 299 schools, plus a reform-minded look at pensions for a veteran Irish-American benefactor’s orphanage endowments and a Onondaga squaw, Dinah Dinan, receiving a pension at age about 108.
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Tre Suez
Dinah John
Census figures show rapid rise of farms nationwide
The Boston Traveller cites a census bulletin revealing farms increased from 2.66 million in 1870 to 4.0 million in 1880, a 41 percent gain, outpacing population growth. The South and West show especially large rises, with Alabama 102 percent and Dakota Territory 900 percent, arguing urban fears of city dominance are unfounded.
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United States
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Northwestern
Pacific States
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Texas
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Nebraska
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High Heels Spark Public Health Warning In Detroit
Detroit surgeons warn that high heel fashion causes severe foot deformities. Girls develop dislocations, toe misalignments, and lameness. mothers urged to intervene. The piece likens harsh footwear to childhood foot binding and calls for a crusade against alpine heels to avoid future surgeries.
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Detroit
China
Gdrwin Royce
Real Grandes Opera Sancho Panza Debates Lineage
A lyrical piece contemplates heritage and social rank, contrasting English caste with foreign nobility. It asserts a lineage stretching back through ages and claims the speaker as a true grande in opera style, referencing Sancho Panza and grandee status across time.
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Sancho Panza
The Convict's Child Seeks Father at Sing Sing
A hungry tired girl named Kate walks toward Sing Sing seeking her father Jim Loyd. Nell Maywood and Susan shelter her briefly before she vanishes to the prison, where she faces three inmates named Jim Bondy and Dick Loyd. The child’s plea to the man she calls father unsettles the room, revealing a haunting family link amid grim prison life.
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Katie
George
Susan
Paps
Nell Maywood
Susie
Secon
Nellie
Nell
Hera
Kate
Ody
Sing Sing Prison
New York
Mr. Loyd
Loyd
Loyds
Jim
Bondy
Little One
Pather
Katie the Child Guides Prison Father Homeward
A moving scene unfolds as Katie, a dying mother’s message in her heart, comforts a hardened inmate at Sing Sing. The child’s angelic guidance softens the father, who vows reform and hopes to join his daughter in heaven. Mr Maywood offers to take Katie home, while a cottage life near Sing Sing begins with the girl visiting.
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Jim
Katie
New York
Katia
Mr. Maywood
Sing Sing
Maine
Garibaldi Wounds Timeline From 1835 to 1866
Garibaldi sustained ten wounds across battles in Uruguay and the Rio Plata region in 1835 and 1836, including neck and throat injuries and arm wounds. He endured abdominal pain in 1849 during the French campaign, survived a May 1849 trampling, and was wounded again in Valletri. A 1862 thigh wound left a broken ankle with a bullet resembling a Liberty cap. another 1866 Tyrolean thigh wound occurred on his birthday.
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Garibaldi
Uruguay
Rio Plata
Janiculum
Valletri
Royal Bersaglieri
Tyrol
Remarkable Kentucky Cow Gifts Five Calves in Eleven Months
A cow on Erastus Ellsworth’s East Windsor Hill farm produced twins on April 16, 1877, triplets on March 16, 1878, twins again on July 9, 1879, and another triplet delivery on October 7, 1880, totaling ten calves in three years five months and twenty one days. Calves were healthy and well cared for on the farm. Suenman claims the white flag at Appomattox was a towel.
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Kentucky
Erastus Ellsworth
East Windsor Hill
The Family Doctor and Home Remedies
A miscellaneous page offers quackish tips and health anecdotes. It describes a fort Quitman surgeon enticing ear insects with light, elderflower eye washes and salt baths, plus warnings about cold hardening and sleep cures. It summarizes insomnia tips, rest and diet advice and cautions against habit-forming sedatives.
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de B. F. Exerasury
Fort Quitman
Texas
California
Hail
Aiden
L. H
Washington, D. C
The Porker Off The Sidewalk
A Iowa State Register critique laments sidewalk selfishness. It contrasts wide paths with individuals who claim the middle seat, especially fat men, urging future cities to reserve space and order for pedestrians. It labels such conduct as vice and calls for accountability.
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Couras
Iowa State Register
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