Baldwin’s Nevada Garden of Wealth and Wonders
E J Baldwin known as Lucky Baldwin built The Baldwin in San Francisco and later purchased a 60 600 acre Spanish grant in Los Angeles County. He irrigated vast fields with six mile irrigation systems, created lakes and rustic bridges, planted 15 000 citrus trees and many other fruit trees, sold 60 000 eucalyptus trees and 0 000 pepper trees, and planned a three mile long central avenue of eucalyptus trees with a grand mansion to follow.
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E. J. Baldwin
Lucky Ssldwin
Indiana
Bonants
Nevada
Baldwin
Market Street
San Francisco
Baldwin's
Los Angeles County
Look to the common schools for intelligent citizens
A critique urges prioritizing basic education over showy higher learning. It argues tests of memory do not measure intellect and that common schools should teach essential knowledge before expensive extras.
Herders Debate Religion After Neighbor's Burial
Two old Texas herders discuss religion after burying a neighbor. One fakes earnestness and the other ponders prousness and the idea of trading or swapping steers without lying, suggesting a move to the better land before a relapse.
Editor’s Ride Sparks Socialist Shield Myth
A quip notes an editor keeps safety in public rides. editors ride in barouche with four white horses, while a king faces pests of political enemies. The line wryly comments on perceived protections editors enjoy compared with kings amid Socialist critique.
Prince Imperial Eugene Napoleon Dies in Zulu Conflict
Reports confirm the murder of the Prince Imperial Eugene Lauds Jean Joseph Napoleon, son of Napoleon III and Eugenie, pierced seventeen times by Zulus in South Africa. He was twenty three, born March 16.
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Telegraph
Napoleon III
Eugenie
South Africa
No Side Show for General Grant Voyage
The Inter Ocean argues there is no chance General Grant will join a traveling circus on wheels or travel by mule, and expects he will stay in San Francisco. It contends excursion promoters will fail to bring Grant within reach and that participants will likely feel swindled and disappointed.
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General Grant
San Francisco
Inter Ocean
Crime gangs lure youth through cheap fiction
The piece condemns cheap sensational literature as a source of juvenile crime and urges action to curb it. It cites a Buffalo incident where eight youths confessed to forming a gang and committing over a hundred burglaries. The author argues punishment is useless without drying up the delinquency’s origin.
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Buffalo
New York
General Willich and the Hundred Thousand Dollars Dream
In Cincinnati at a Sunday night gathering of Louisville Courier Journal reporters the idea of how to use a hypothetical one hundred thousand dollars is discussed. General Willich says he would travel to Europe if such wealth appeared, dismissing newspaper gains.
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General Willich
Louisville Courier
Journal
Rhine
Cincinnati
Willich
Europe
Indictments in York County Grading Drugstore Sales
Nineteen indictments returned by the last grand jury in York county charge a druggist with selling liquor without a license. The cases allege sales for medical purposes in addition to beverage use.
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York County
Masonic Grand Lodge Meeting Opens in City
The Daily State Democrat notes the regular annual meeting of the Grand Lodge A F and A M will convene in the city tomorrow. Members arriving by trains include Jordan Chadduck Thimmel Norval Furnas Matthews Hayes Persinger Tullveye Carlin France Willard Crabbe Hazen Lingerr Russell Hume Bowen Wheler Dunham Hastings Oakley Megeath Neubauer Rider among others. Tonight Eastern Star lodge meets and committees prepare reports for tomorrow. The lodge opens at 2 p m with James A Tulleys of Red Cloud presiding in place of the grand master. Tomorrow night a memorial service for the late Frank Welch will be held.
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A. F
A. M
Alrcady
Brothera
Jordan
Chadduck
Thimmel
Norval
Furnas
Matthewson
Hayes
Persinger
Tullveye
Carlin
France
Willard
Crabbe
Hazen
Lininger
Rusell
Hume
Bowen
Wheler
Dunham
Hastings
Oakley
Megeath
Neubauer
Rider
Btar Lodge
Jmes A. Tulleys
Red Cloud
BE. R. Valentine
Frank ‘Welch
Nce
The Month for Marrying in June Folklore
The article notes ancient Greek and Roman esteem for June as a marriage month and describes a Petersburg custom where June Sundays see young marriageable girls paraded in public squares under escorted protection. A suitor inquires names addresses dowry and status, leading to betrothal and eventual wedding.
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Petersburg
Ols
Bishop questions boy at confirmation in Ireland
In a Salin Ireland confirmation, a Catholic bishop, hearing a boy answer about creation, misinterprets a response about Paddy Mollooney. The bishop asks what the creator made him for, and the boy answers humorously that it was to mind the cows.
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Salin
Ireland
Paddy Mollooney
Nivir
Arizona miners reveal hoax on gold hopefuls
Freeman and Still duped fifty six men and 112 animals by claiming vast gold deposits 400 miles north of Prescott. The expedition endured water scarcity and near deaths before Freeman and Hull confessed the stunt. They were executed in 100 seconds.
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Arizona
Freeman
Still
Prescott
Hull
Eccentric New Hampshire farmer hones cellar stairs device
In a remote New Hampshire town an aged farmer named Greeley, cousin of Horace, found cellar steps steep. He nailed two-inch planks to each step to “bring ’em nearer together” and claimed a small improvement was noticed.
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New Hampshire
Greeley
Horace
Humble Dakota Student Johnnie Robb Shines At Hampton
Johnnie Robb, a Sioux youth at Hampton Institute in Virginia, excels in his studies and becomes a skilled typewriter. In a clear letter to the Dakota Herald he says he is a junior aiming for a senior year and a diploma, with plans to teach his people the right path in Dakota.
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Johnnie Robb
Hampton
Dakota Herald
Dakota
Bigamists Sentence in Lincoln Court
Judge Pound sentences Rufus Pope to seven years in the state penitentiary and to pay court costs for his crimes in Lincoln. The judge rejected mitigating factors, calling Pope depraved for exploiting two young women and ruining their lives.
Mysterious cattle diseasehits Divide calving country
A strange fever is killing cattle on the Divide. Fat cattle die within days, leaving owners alarmed after 150 fatalities. Reports describe rapid flesh wasting, restlessness, vomiting and bleeding from mouth and nose. Officials suspect the bloody murrain linked to Mexican freighters hauling stock from mills to Denver, with stockmen warned to keep them away.
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Denver
Douglas County
Grasshoppers halt railroad near 1,000 mile tree in Weber Canyon
Throngs of young grasshoppers swarm Weber Canyon rail lines hindering train No. 12 for two hours last Wednesday night. They pile on rails several inches deep and airport rain workers clear them from in front of the engine. The insects, just starting to fly, seem to move toward the Salt Lake Valley.
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Weber Canyon
Salt Lake Valley
Destructive Storms Hit New Jersey and Georgia Turmoil
Reports describe a Bordentown New Jersey cyclone uprooting trees blowing roofs away and damaging homes on the twelfth. Sandersville Georgia cyclone levels a Catholic church and trees while crops suffer. The Burlington Hawkeye notes a man pays seventy five cents to see Billy Emerton and mocks school tax with teachers wearing breeches patches. The Leadville Chronicle cites a freak in a county with 16 Fifth Avenue lots and five Murphys owning adjacent plots who do not know each other.
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Nebraska
Bordentown
New Jersey
Sandersville
Georgia
Burlington Hawkeye
Billy Emerton
At. Joseph
Leadville Chronicle
Cnty
Fifth Avenue
Murphy
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