Broken Bow Wagon Train Indicates Growing Settlements
Over sixty teams passed through Broken Bow this past week and settled nearby, bringing farm implements, household goods, stock, and machinery to work the land. Nearby towns report rising settlements across the county as new homesteads form and cattle herds begin.
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Broken Bow
Omaha
Omaha National Bank
Hardy
Wm. Abbott
Bean Creek
Anther
Willow Springs
Plaindealer-Telegraph
Sidney
Loup City
Custer County
Sargent
Page
Georgetown
Gallop
Wiley
Lincoln
North Platte
Red Cloud
Slardy Herald
Levi Hayes
Noted Lydia Pinkham dies at 64 in Lynn Mass
The famous un titled woman, Lydia Pinkham, died in Lynn Massachusetts on Thursday at age 64. She created the renowned remedy and spent $180000 a year in advertising while earning a net income of $300000. A Louisiana bride reportedly became a mother at seventy nine in a striking seeming renewal of youth.
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Lydia Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Louisiana
Peaches Ship From Macon and Other News
The first crate of peaches of the season left Macon Georgia for New York. Fort Walsh mounted police and Gen Augur halted a northern Cree advance into Montana. A miner died in a 400 foot shaft fall at Butte. A major fire destroyed Harrodsburg’s business square including the Presbyterian church. A tornado near Butte injured six men. The Y M C A convention began in Milwaukee. The Chinese government planned a Chicago consulate. A Pennsylvania senate defeat and a Des Moines homestead decree are noted. Multiple other items include Mormon missions, railroad wage talks, a large pension list, a Kansas railroad expansion, quadruplets in Long Bottom, a Paulding shooting, a missing Lenoxville treasurer, and a suicide in New Hampshire.
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Macon
New York
Helena
Montana
Mounted Police
Fort Walsh
North West Territory
Augur
Wm. Miller
Butte
Mont
Harrodsburg
Tibbitt
New Presbyterian
International Convention of the
Milwaukee
Chicago
Ohio
Kentucky
Proctor Knott
Pennsylvania Senate
B. F. Allen
Des Moines
Allen
Tehouse
Maryland
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Dilworth, Porter & Co
Pittsburgh
West
Kansas
Trial of ex Rev Hoffman ends in hung jury
The trial of ex minister H O Hoffman of Bloomington Illinois against Zettie Robinson ended in a hung jury after fifty two hours of deliberation eight to four in favor of Robinson. Hoffman had been expelled from the M E church after a prior charge and later sued for defamation.
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H. O. Hoffman
Bloomington
Zettie Robinson
Miss Robinson
Hoffman
M. E. Church
Lincoln
Zettie
Quincy
Rushville
Hillsboro
Decatur
Ills
Illinois
Trial Brightens for Fitz Harris in Ireland Murder Case
Fitz Harris was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to the Cavendish and Burke murders and sentenced to life penal servitude. Judge O'Brien called the crime morally akin to murder. Ireland headlines follow political tensions with Parnell testimonials and papal circulars stirring unrest. Sefton, Carey, and informers feature in ongoing Dublin security developments.
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Fitz Harris
Cavendish
Burke
O'Brien
Smith
Dublin
Parnell
Sexton
Sligo
Ireland
Justin McCarthy
Longford
Irish National League
London
Dungarven
James Carey
Carey
Crown
Phoenix Park
James Fletcher Appointed Consul to Genoa
The president named James Fletcher of Iowa as consul to Genoa on Tuesday. A final 7 percent dividend, totaling 62 percent to creditors and depositors, was declared for the long-defunct Freedman’s Savings Bank. The Army of the Potomac reunion in Washington saw Gen. Grant and Gen. Newton vie for president with Newton winning 155 to 117 after Grant’s withdrawal. Major A N Nickerson’s wife, who remarried after a divorce, seeks to set aside the decree, with possible court martial for Nickerson anticipated.
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James Fletcher
Iowa
Genoa
Freedman’s Bureau Sivings Bank
Society of the Army of the Potomic
Washington
Grant
John Newton
Newton
A. N. Nickerson
Europe
Major Nickerson
Garfield Monument Committee selects designer
The Garfield monument project in Cincinnati selects J Q A Ward of New York as designer. Generals Barnett Deist and Mc Cook will visit Washington with Ward to choose a monument site, with Ward authorized to proceed at a cost not exceeding 50000.
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Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Cincinnati
James Barnett
Cleveland
J.Q. A. Ward
New York
Barnett
Deist
McCook
Washington
Ward
The Hangings of Joe Brady and Daniel Curley in Dublin
Brady was hanged at 8am in Dublin amid a 10,000-strong crowd. Priests offered sacraments as Brady and Curley faced death, with mass in the jail chapel and prayers by awaiting relatives and onlookers. The outcome: both executions completed, Curley’s last words and promise to take secrets to the grave.
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Joe Brady
Dublin
Brady
Canon Kennedy
St. James’ Church
Father O'Reilly
Joe
Liverpool
Daniel Curley
Cavendish
Burke
Nilmainham
Curley
Destructive Cyclone Rips Through Kansas City and Surrounding Towns
A Sunday evening cyclone tore through southern Kansas City, Missouri, demolishing or unroofing two miles of property, injuring and killing several, with extensive damage to homes and churches. The storm also struck Oronogo and other towns, causing multiple fatalities and widespread destruction before moving northwest toward Joplin and Carthage.
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Kansas City
Joseph Burns
Cole’s Circus
Scieber
Kump’s Brewery
New German Evangelical Church
New Methodist Church
East Main Street
Grand Avenue
McGee
Thirteenth
Twelfth
Oronogo
Carthage
Webb City
Joplin
Spring River Valley
Oronoge
Masonic Hall
Fraco
Cyclone Hits Racine Wisconsin Killing Four and Wrecking Town
A Friday evening cyclone in Racine killed four people and fatally injured eight others with about 160 houses and barns demolished. The storm’s path ran half a mile long and a quarter mile wide, destroying brick and frame structures and even lifting barns and shifting a Racine barn onto its gable. A Lake Michigan passage sent debris and water spouts high into the air, while survivors recounted a table bound couple unharmed and a barn carrying cows unscathed.
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Racine
Wis
Western Union Junction
Ben Fox
Matt Lairn
North Point
High Street
Remarkable Sisquoc Headwaters Expedition Report
R D Cook and companion reach near the Sisquoc headwaters observing a 600 to 700 foot waterfall. They describe a grand canyon view rivaling Yosemite and report a newly discovered redwood forest two to three miles long and three quarters to one mile wide. They claim the grove had been inaccessible until a recent forest fire cleared underbrush enabling access on foot. Fish and game abound with improvised methods to harvest meals.
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San Lula Republic
R. D. Cook
Sisquoc
Central America
Ile
Ano
Early Bargains With the Indians in Colonial Trade
Harper's Magazine recounts how English settlers often purchased land from Native peoples through formal bargains while Spanish invaders offered no such pretense. Notable purchases include Richmond, Manhattan, Rhode Island, and New Haven, with goods like cloth and beads valued by both sides.
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Harper's Magazine
Massachusetts Colony
Josias Plastowe
Josias
Josiah Winslow
Plymouth
Captain West
Richmond
Virginia
Minuit
Manhattan
Lord Baltimore
Christiana
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
New Haven
Ellis
Doctor Endorses Brown's Iron Biners In Iowa Remark
In Fairfield Iowa Dr J A Myers declares Brown's Iron Biners the best iron preparation he has seen in thirty years of practice. The remark underscores the product as a trusted remedy for iron deficiency.
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Fairfield
Iowa
J. A. Myers
Brown
Like the Ivy Poem Reflection on Devoted Love
The poem compares true love to ivy that clings through good and ill. It endures tempests and ruined walls, strengthening its hold as time passes. Ivy remembers sunny days and remains attached to the wall or tree, growing firmer and lending grace even when life is bare.
Grist Mills of Minneapolis and the Flour Industry Rise
Minneapolis grows into a milling hub with twenty one large mills driven by falls power. G A Pillsbury owns four mills and C C Washburn three, supporting a flour trade fed by Red River wheat. The article details the milling process from intake to fining and notes a dust explosion risk tied to old mill ventilation.
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Minneapolis
United States
Fall River
Lawrence
G. A. Pillsbury
C. C. Washburn
Buda-Pesth
Red River
Flour Mills Blaze Devastates Twin Cities Plant
A massive explosion tore through a flour mill causing entire structures to collapse and burn. The blast sent dust into receivers for safe collection, enabling later flour production, while three nearby mills and an elevator were damaged. Minneapolis ships about 1.65 million barrels of flour annually, enough to fill 495 million loaves.
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Minneapolis
Tribune
Thurlow Weed's First Shilling
A personal reminiscence recounts Thurlow Weed’s early poverty in Catskill and Coatskill, his first jobs from age eight, and the moment he earned his first shilling aboard the sloop Ranger, used to buy cakes and fruits for his siblings. The excerpt is from Weed’s forthcoming autobiography.
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Thurlow Weed
Cairo
Coatskill
Catskill
Reeves
Jefferson
Baker
Ranger
Grant
City of
New York
Counties
Broad Street
Houghton, Miffin & Co
Sherman and the Circus Visit at the Capital
General Sherman left Washington for Fortress Monroe shortly after a circus arrived. He declined plans to see the parade and performance, saying he would ride the Dispatch and would not hurry back unless the fishing is good.
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Gen. Sherman
Washington
Fortress Monroe
Capital
Sean
Portraits by Severn and Keats Engraved for Century Show
The Portrait of Keats drawn by Joseph Severn in his last illness is engraved by Cole for the June Century, with an engraving of Severn from the artist’s own drawing. The portraits, possibly unseen in America, are published by Severn’s family with autographs and a Edith Thomas sonnet. A later note remarks on bread cutting on a wooden plate from the Holy Land and Damascus knife, and a Maine man who plays many instruments.
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Keats
Joseph Severn
Cole
Severn
America
Holy Land
Damascus
Winthrop
Maine
New York
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Long Bottom
Wheeling
W. Va
Mississippi
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Paulding
M. Brame
Jasper County
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Byrd
C. E. Towle
Lenoxville
Quebec
Washington P. Hayes
New Hampshire
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Del
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Erie
CRIME
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Barnum
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Gasconade County
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