Pigeon winner and critics of the age in Florence
The item notes Frederick Sands of Rhode Island winning an international pigeon shooting match in Florence Italy. It also mentions various public figures and opinions from the era including Victor Hugo and President Hayes in satirical or anecdotal context.
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Frederick Sands
Rhode Island
Florence
Italy
Victor Hugo
Columbus
Edward Chapman
Chapman & Hall
Charles Dickens
Comtesse Lebon
Louis Philippe
Poniatowski
Gas light spreads joy in Seymour despite looming bills
The Seymour town scene brightens with gas while residents fear rising charges. Mrs Pilcher of Cicero, Hamilton county, is said to be fatally burned after clothing ignited at an open yard fire. Others report varied local happenings from Evansville to Danville and Greenfield.
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Seymour
Union City Eagle
Thiers
Tobacco cultivation across townships and counties in state
A report shows tobacco grown in seventy three townships across nineteen counties with minimums of fifty acres per county and five acres per township. A libel suit by Elder James E. Beattie against Edmund B. Thornton seeks 20000 dollars for alleged injury from an anonymous letter in Bedford Star. In Paoli, John Cornwall’s gun discharged as his wife attempted to remove it, injuring her hand arm and breast.
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James E. Beattie
Bedford College
Christian Church of
That Place
Edmund B. Thornton
Thornton
Bedford Star
John Cornwall
Paoli
The German Puzzle and Rail News From 1880s Rail Era
The item discusses a forward moving sliding puzzle with three coins and a rule set, followed by a detailed railroad brief. It covers ice shipments from Warsaw to Cincinnati area lines, a Kansas Pacific bridge fire repair, a workers strike on the Louisville line, earnings trends across multiple railroads, and a proposed Ohio River railroad project by Colonel Horace Scott connecting New Albany Aurora Greensburg Madison and beyond.
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Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Road
Bee Line
Warsaw
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad
St. Louis
Iron Mountain
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Erie
Missouri, Kansas
Texas
Gould
Union Pacific Railroad
Lake Shore Railroad Company
San Franscisco
Chicago
Northwestern
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Wisconsin
Kansas
Sioux City
Erie Railway
Buffalo
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago, St. Louis and
New Orleans
Chicago and Alton, Wabash
Missouri Pacific
Horace Scott
New Albany
Ind
Aurora
Scott
Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis
Greensburg
Indiana
North
Vernon
Madison
Jeffersonville
Rushville
Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton
Monkey Performs Tooth Extraction in Galt Anecdote
A Ontario town reports a singular tale of Dot the monkey belonging to James Wardlaw. Brought from India in 1878, Dot endured toothache and used a string tied to the tooth to wrench it free, then calmed and resumed its cheerful demeanor.
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Galt
Ontario
Darwin
James Wardlaw
Deccan
India
Wadlaw
Reiling
Hyderabad
Retribution to Communists Warned by Hour Reader
The Hour argues retribution for Communist deeds rarely harms top agitators and demagogues who ignite unrest. It cites a wartime anecdote of a city commander warned of rising violence unless orders are given, noting a barricade aimed at the fashionable quarter as the first to fire.
Brooklyn Lawyer’s Widow Wins Life Policy Payout
The widow of a Brooklyn lawyer recovered 4361 from a life insurance firm after it resisted payment on her husband’s policy claiming suicide. She proved he killed himself while temporarily insane, an action ruled in her favor with no defense.
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Brooklyn
Lfe
It Was Years Ago in Colorado and Indian Wars
A Burlington Hawkeye piece recalls a 1963 anecdote from a silver haired grandparent about an Indian in Colorado who scalped two soldiers. It notes Congress funded the army at $1.75 per year per soldier and $965,000 weekly for contractors, and references record passenger traffic on the Pennsylvania line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
A New Kind of Watch Case Marfish 1878 Patent
A jeweler notes a Boss Patent Case praised for ten more years of service. He claims the case is unique with two solid gold plates and a tenet warrant. The ad highlights superior electro gilding and claims long durability.
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Marshfi
Boss
LNEY
Jas
Bossa
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