Balloon ascent with Prof King ends in Marion City swamp
A float with the Cloud Nymph and Prof Samuel King rose from Quincy to a high southward drift. Ballast trips and drag rope maneuvers led to a 6000 foot rise before landings proved elusive, finally sending the balloon into the Marion City swamp where locals aided the return to Palmyra.
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Prof. King
P. T. Barnum
Buffalo
King
Twelfth and
Broadway
Lipprodrome
Ascension
Samuel A. King
Twelfth Street
Donaldson
Missouri
Marion City
Quincy
Maurion City
Crrca
John Moore
Jorden Ricks
Aurion City
Rock Bridge
Palmyra
Ricka
Moore
Doors
Ricks
Robert Bowles
Queen's show draws crowd as circus tale unspools
A Tuesday crowd including a blind woman and Ronse enjoyed a queen’s show while a granger sold two bushels of corn for 1.50. A Jersey girl used an opera glass, then discarded it as the elephant and monkeys drew interest, sparking a cheeky scene with a pocketed apple and amused onlookers.
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Ronse
Granger
Relief Board
Jersey
Elephant Gets Into Trouble After Pocket Fruit Heist
A circus elephant mimics human theft, pilfering fruit and gumdrops from a pocket. A bottle of ammonia spills, reviving the beast as crowds cheer. A young man shouts shoo, a clerk uses a prod to calm the animal, and the parties depart with a moral lesson on pocket picking and public decency.
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Earth
Kingdom of Heaven
Andrew Johnson dies after paralysis in 187? years ago
Dispatches report ex President Andrew Johnson died at 2:80 this morning after paralysis struck him Wednesday. Born 1808 in Raleigh North Carolina he rose from tailor apprentice to Mayor, Governor, U.S. Senator and Vice President before Lincoln’s death made him President.
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Nashville
Nashville Pipers
Greenville
Tenn
Johnson
Carter County
Doncan
Cuarranooga
Uly
Andrew Johnson
Thia
Raleigh
N. C
Laurens Court House
Sruin
Bio
Tenné
State Senate
Congress
Tennessee
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Johnson
White House
United State Senate
United States Senate
Mr Granger Makes Request In Quiet Hallway Encounter
A reader recounts a social vignette with a gentleman named Mr Granger, described as educated and respectable in clerical attire. He asks for financial help from a busy host, who suspects imposture and refuses, detailing the polite yet firm rebuff and the subtle cues of a possible fraud during a midday visit.
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Mr. Granger
Percy Courtenay Dobbs
Falstaff
Lites Club
Granger
Alt. Granger
New York Times
Percy
Courtenay Dubbs
Percy Courtenay Dubbs
Percys
Courtenays
Episcops
Normal Class Resolution Souvenirs At Camp Point
The Normal Class at Maplewood Camp Point closes its session with a lecture by Rev Edward Anderson of Quincy. Resolutions praise County Superintendent Julia H Black Prof Hall and the Maplewood staff, thank the Revs Pitcher and Anderson, and request publication in county papers and the Illinois School Messenger.
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Edward Anderson
Port
Bmplewood
Mr. Anderson
Quincy
Camp Point
Chemselvee
Adama County
Maplewood
Julia H. Black
Ladora
Hall
Adams County
Sretetnl Apn Oaldaemants
Pitcher
Anderson
Board of
Railroad rivalry stirs Missouri Pacific North Missouri plans
Kansas City rail leaders weigh round trip ticket cuts as Missouri Pacific and North Missouri eye east and west connections. Westward competition may rise after Santa Fe link to the west is completed, while through North Missouri service may end before that. Rain delays ease as trains return to schedule. New York Tribune notes Western Union Atlantic & Pacific consolidation rumors with no definite confirmation.
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State and
Twelfth Streets
Seventh Street Catholic Church
Congregational Church
Fair Grounds
Kansas City Journal of Commerce
Kansas’City, St. Joe & Council Blaffa
Hannibal & St. Joe
Missouri Pacific
North Missouri
West Streast
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Aissouri Pacific Railroad
Kansas Pacific
St. Louis
North Missouri Railroad
New York
the Tribune
Atlantic& Pacific
Western Union Telegraph Company
Jay Gould
Green
Western Union Company
Economy Delusion vs Real Wealth In U S Families
The piece argues against extreme thrift as a path to wealth. It critiques the claim that cutting living costs raises national prosperity and questions how saving $50 per family would actually boost the economy.
Economy in manufacture the only path to prosperity
The author argues that cutting consumption harms labor and broad trade, as less demand lowers output across industries. He warns that saving $400,000,000 via reduced tobacco, carriage use, or coffee raises widespread layoffs from growers to workers. Only manufacturing economy can lift the nation, while austerity worsens stagnation.
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Letus
Real Estate Transfers Sparse in City and County Listing
Real estate activity was light with fewer than twenty transfers this week. Major sales include land in Eliington Camp Point and nearby towns, with the largest single transfer at $8,000 by William Terfoot for a property at Eleventh and Broadway. Multiple parcels and parcels of land change hands in Camp Point and surrounding townships, with prices firm and market steady.
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Quincy
Eliington
Camp Point
William Terfoot
Eleventh
Broadway
Warren F. Pitney
Henry Brommelmeyer
Keenan
Arrow
Lock
John W. Ackerman
Accor
Washington St
Eva.m. Lock
Frank A. Wastnell
Washington
Jefferson St
Chas. Broner, Jr
F. J. Ricker
Hampshire St
James L. Thomas
Samuel Farlow
Jamee M. Clark
Julia M. Bronough
Bird
Bet
Ohio
Delaware
Ats
Geo. Phirman
Michael Fridrich
Coatsburg
Wm. F. Worley
Jacob W. Grimes
Ellington Ta
Worley
Thomas J. Renck
Lington
Susanne Wm
KB Worley
el Nage Ap
Sathia
Saosis Ap
Shorts
Consuzat
Wausar
Co.us
Timothy
Ian
Bovran
Aresdy
Quincy Fair Promises Grand Exposition in September
Warsaw Bullcen republishes Frank Dallam correspondence extolling Quincy plans for a September fair. Gen. Jas. W. Singleton restores grounds, pledging top features and high premiums, asserting it will eclipse prior Northwest fairs and spur regional excitement.
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Bullcen
Frank Dallam
Jas. W. Singleton
Mississippi Valley
West
Paina
Bayne
Warnaw
Hancock County
Gen
Singleton
Pilea
Cash
Trial of Rodolphus Turner Proceeds in Chicago Court
Prosecuting witness Patton testifies amid defense attempts to impeach, with a long day of cross examination detailing Turner’s letters and past conduct. The case centers on forging a tile deed to land owned by Geo W Hill of Hyde Park, with evidence focusing on Turner’s associations and alleged schemes.
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Rodolphus K. Turner
Quincy
Cook County
Geo. W. Hill
Hyde Park
Chicago
Henry T. Patton
M. Fassett
Mr. Bradley
United States Court
H. F. Kittridge
Clifton House
Turner
A. T. Price
Burke’s Hotel
Reed
Barnum
Swett
Storrs
Ketchum
Constantine
Ellen O'Hara Harrell
Abraham Lincoln
Perspiration
State
Hassell Eslate
Mississippi
Patton
Bansearre
Storra
St. Louis
Ary
Sweet
Ea 45
Evi
Hamlet at Royal Opera House Ends in Row and Silence
A Toronto Globe report from July details a disrupted Royal Opera House Hamlet starring Chas Fechter. Fechter faced delays, actor quarrels over pay, and a hostile audience that hissed Bangs and praised Fechter, delaying the play until partial scenes could proceed with substitutions.
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Hamlet
Toronto Globe
Royal Opera House
Chas. Fechter
Laertes
Horatio
Pulonius
Ophelia
Messia
F.C. Bangs
H. Langdon
Vining Bowers
Misa Lizzie Price
Mr. Fechter
Montreal
Mr. Bangs
Denmark
Miss Price
Fechter
Horufio
Lasrtes
Weather Warnings and Quoted Weather Eye Spectacle
The piece jokes about unusual weather across North America and abroad, blaming planetary positions and pressuring Gen Myers who handles weather forecasts. It notes past resistance to observers in Northern Florida and criticizes reliance on old probabilities amid storms and floods.
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New York World
North America
Europe
Long Branch
Cad Neas
Australia
South America
Gen. Myers
Florida
Boyer and the five dollar note saga from 1862
A Hartford Post item recounts Frederick Boyer finding five dollars in 1862 and leaving it with Chief Chamberlin. After years of deposits and interest, Boyer later claimed funds for boots, receiving five dollars and twenty eight cents. The tale ends noting benefit from the deposit system and the prudence of keeping money in trust.
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The
Hartford Post
Frederick Boyer
Chief Chamberlin
Pratt Bavings Bank
Young Boyer
Boyer
Chamberlin
Marcy
Ravings Bank
Fragmentary OCR Standout at Aurr rive Station
Fragmented text from a station brief shows garbled lines with digits and broken words. Readable elements hint at a transit update or notice but lack full context or identifiable entities to determine a clear event or outcome.
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Willis Haselwood
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