Keeping Cool in a Torrid Season This Summer
The piece urges calm, temperance, and practical living to endure heat. It advises moderate diets, avoiding excess alcohol, favoring warm tea, and eating in season. Emphasizes personal cleanliness, measured baths, and using shade, ventilation, and simple cooling devices over elaborate schemes.
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New York Times
Park Row
Sancho Panz3
Fenelon
Natal
Europe
A Hint to Young Men in Louisville 1835
A young man registers at Louisville's largest hotel in 1835 with modest wardrobe and a watch. After two weeks he inventories his effects and finds he is out of work. He borrows on his beard bill and his watch, kisses the landlady goodbye, and travels to Water Street to labor loading cotton. He rises from marker earning 40 dollars monthly to a 125 dollar monthly salary within nine months, later becoming a leading Bay Street business operator.
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United States
Treasury
Louisville
Water Street
Bay Street
Louisville Coarier-Journal
A German Beauty at Berlin Court Visage of Countess Seidlewitz
A Toledo Blad correspondent describes Countess Seidlewitz in imperial court fashion details. He notes her beauty, regular features, white silk dress with a long train, low basque waist, short sleeves, and white fringe. a wreath of white verbeanas adorns her hair. a diamond locket and flowers accent her neck.
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Toledo Blad
Berlin
Seidlewitz
Carl
Woman dishwasher admits theft from Quincy House
Mary Barnes, a young dishwasher at the Quincy House, confessed to stealing clothing, silverware, napkins, towels, and other items from the hotel. Investigations traced a wagon load of property to her and her mother’s home. She pled guilty and posted $500 bonds to await the next criminal term.
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Quincy House
Mary Barnes
Morris
Mrs. Miller
Hutton
Death by Self Defense Shocks Edina Area Farm Family
An old farmer named Lewis Gorman living between Edina and Hurd land near the Quincy Missouri Pacific line killed himself with a double barreled shotgun to avoid arrest on a warrant for a nameless crime involving his own child. Sheriff and deputy found him dead at his house, a man about fifty to sixty, with a grown family and money from interest. The tragedy caused real excitement in Hurtl and Edina vicinity.
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Lewis Gorman
Edina
Hurdland
Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad
Gorman
Hurtland
Adams County Republican Convention Elects Delegates
Camp Point January 9 Adams County Republican Convention met to elect eleven delegates and eleven alternates for the State Convention in Springfield June 17. Delegates from all wards and townships were present, with K. K. Jones favored for State Treasurer. The body adjourned at 2 PM after naming the slate and instructing county delegates to vote as a unit.
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Camp Point
Jone
Adams County
Springfield
K. K. Jones
Quincy
A. Rogers
R. L. Miller
M. Piggott
John Battell
Eli Engle
A. T. Stone
Geo. M. Jones
Henry Strouse
L. A. Condy
Samuel L. Pool
Mendon
H.bradley
G. W. ArcGibbons
W. T. Munroe
Wm. Denson
F. Eisele
F. O. Turner
Joseph Turner
R. B. Starr
Andrew Long
Benj. Gilmore
Moulton
Jerry Strickler
E. Carlin
H. M. Reynolds
Thompson Selby
Samuel McGill
Joseph Robertson
C. M. Kern
Wm. Brown
E. Smith
H. Downing
Camp
Point
O. Noble
O. Wash
Ben. Cummings
John Downing
L. Cuppen
Geo. C. Bartels
Geo
Samuael Lesem
George W. Wood
Wm. Schaffer
Isaac Lesem
Joseph Robbins
David Akers
M. L. Roe
T. M. Bee
G. W. Cyrus
F. C. Trouer
H. E
Central Committee
Chappell Named Superintendent of Transportation for MK&T
Charles H. Chappell, veteran CB&Q railroad official and former Union Pacific Lodge Pole Division superintendent, has accepted the post as Superintendent of Transportation for the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway. Following General Superintendent Bowen's retirement on June 1, operating duties shift to a Transportation Superintendent under the General Manager, with the division organization staying the same. Separately, reports say the Rockford Rock Island St Louis line has been shipping grain from Rock Island to St Louis at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Lodge Pole
Union Pacific
Hammorad
Chicago- Burlington & Quincy
Transeae
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway Gazette
Bowen
Missouri, Kaness & Terms Railway
Gamass
Rockford
Rock Island
Collision on K and D A K Narrowly Injures Three
A switch engine and a hand car collide near Patterson's park house in Keokuk between 7 and 8 am. Foreman Martin Hynes Patrick Leech John Mulqueen and another man were thrown from the bridge. Leech suffered a broken leg a head bruise Mulqueen a concussion and Hynes several head bruises. All were treated at home by Drs Hughes and Sanford. The crash blamed on criminal carelessness for speeding beyond six miles per hour in violation of city ordinance. The fourth man escaped unhurt.
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Keokuk Gate City
Martin Hynes
Patrick Leech
John Mulqueen
Patterson’s Park House
Alartin Hynes
J. C. Hughes, Jr
Jnc. F. Sanford
Brownville railroad hopes amid Quincy negotiations
A. P. Coggswell of Brownville Nebraska reports that consolidation of railroad interests aims to build a through line from Chicago via Quincy to Brownville with financial arrangements in progress. Agents have gone to Europe to negotiate while the M. & P. L. R. pushes to Irksville and the industry braces for relief in a stalled railroad market.
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Brownville
Nebraska
Quincy, Missouri, and Pacific Railroad
Brownyrille
Quincy
Chicago
QO. M. Gp.rr
Neb
Europe
Hannibal & St. Joseph
The
Irksville
Quinccy
New York
Phelpa
Tragic Naples Train Crash Kills Woman and Child
A mother and her two year old child were struck by train No 2 near Naples as the mother tried to rescue the child. The child died instantly. the mother was seriously injured and carried to a nearby home. The engineer acted quickly, reversing the engine and applying brakes.
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Jacksonville Journal of
Naples
Hannibal Bandh
Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad
Rob Roy Strikes a Snap and Sinks in Three Feet of Water
The Rob Roy steamer left the city Monday with freight and passengers. Near the Illinois river mouth at 4 am a snag tore a hole, she filled, was driven into shoal water, and settled in three feet of water. It was pumped out and raised the next day and proceeded to St Louis.
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Illinois River
St. Louis
Alton
Judgment Against Quincy in Federal Court
In Springfield the U S Circuit Court heard Chasa v City of Quincy. Judgment for the plaintiff on a claim to recover 10 800 in coupons due since 1861. The only contest was interest on coupons after payable. Plaintiff claimed ten percent. defendant urged the lawful state rate. A decision on interest remains pending.
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Quincy
United States Circuit Court
Springfield
Chasava
The
Register
Western patents issued for week ending May 19 1874
A summary of patents granted by the U S Patent Office listed by the Western Patent Office Agency. Notable items include combined pier and sewer by M Clexton ton and A King and a heating stove by Jno A Young. Others cover warming systems, drawing gates, ice cream freezers, wheel plows, car brakes, lifting jacks, windmills, and various farm and industrial devices across Illinois Iowa Missouri.
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Waa
Western Patent Office Agency
W. B. Richards
American and Foreign Pattents
Galesburg
Illinois
M. Clextonton
A. King
Chicago
H. Coleman
Thomas Coney
Elgin
L. Gasser
Christ Severin
Conrad Métzzer
Croger
Philo. F. Pettibone
A. Stempel
J.C. Hawkes
Pana
M. Hinman
Hallock
Jno
Collinsville
G. 8. Bailey
Churn Dasher
Danial Moore
Price True Flavoring Extracts Endorsement
Dr Price markets true flavor traits and aromatics extracted by his own method. The flavors are strong and perfect for ice cream jellies custards pastries and more. The advertisement endorses Dr Price s True Flavoring Extracts and his Cream Baking Powder for reliable results.
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