Diverse 19th Century U.S. and Global Highlights
A mixed digest notes Garfield’s Minnesota majority, Mexico’s public debt, October immigrant arrivals, a Kings county grand jury case, and Sherman voting Habooks. It cites Illinois Greenback Streeter, Huauers in England, Berlin prince wedding, Johnston on debt, Hayes sailing, Springer anniversary, Bank of England withdrawals, Mt Vesuvius activity, and other varied items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Minnesota
Mexico
United States
Grand
Kings County
Motey
Sherman
Hancock
Streeter
Greenback
Illinois
Thomas Huauers
England
Prince Wilhelm
Berlin
Senator Johnston
Virginia
Chicago Inter Ocean
Hayes
Europe
Reuben Springer
Cincinnati
Bank of England
New York
Mt. Vesuvius
Naples
John Parker
Kalamazoo
Western Michigan
Clem Canada
Negro
Guilford
Henry N.atheron
Pernambuco
Silas W. Hoffman
Senator Davis
West Virginia
Potomac River
Bishop Dunlap
Episcopal Church
St. Louis
Santa Fe
Tomas Woops
Wall Copss
Worthsville
J. M. and I
General Miles
E. O. C. Ord
Chicago
D.C. Forney
Sunday Chronicle
House of Representatives
Escoffally Hipraua
Vandalia
W. IK Chester
Delaware
Lawnsfield
Randall
Morey
Hewitt
Dalas and
Wachita
H. van Buskirk
Marion
Ohio
Wiltz
Lousiana
T. C. Manning
State Supreme Art
Pofford
James B. McFerrin
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Through Death Valley theater troupe ends in collapse
The Through Death Valley theatrical combination collapsed at Lafayette. Editor Joel H Heatwole of the Middlebury Record plans to run for Secretary of the Senate. Caroline Bridgeland, wife of U.S. consul at Harve, died of consumption in Richmond. Seventeen divorce cases logged for the current term of the New Albany circuit court. eighteenth papers in progress. A stranger Ep Wooptock, killed after falling between train cars at North Vernon. A fire at Rolling Prairie destroyed the Masonic hall, library, regalia, and Dr Sharpleys drug stock. Alexander Dunihue aged citizen of Bedford fell on tracks, hip broken. Grayson Frakes and Charles Springer drowned near White Bend on the Cumberland river. McAsker, Robertson, Richardson killed when struck by train near Ewing after funeral. Mrs Gardner Hoover of Rochester burned by clothes fire. may recover. Scott Arnett missing after estate funds advance. formerly inmate of asylum. Goshen fire destroys factory and pump company buildings. several businesses damaged. five frame barns burned. Foster Iron Works incur minor loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Death Valley
Lafayette
Joel H. Heatwole
Middlebury Record
Senate
Caroline Bridgeland
John A. Bridgeland
United States
Harve
Richmond
Circuit Court of
New Albany
Ep. Wooptock
North Vernon
Rolling Prairie
Masonic Hall
Sharpleys
Alexander Dunihue
Bedford
Grayson Frakes
Perry County
Chas. Springer
Alton
Crawford County
White Bend
Cumberland River
John McAskeer
John L. Robertson
Freeman
Beverly Richardson
Ewing
O. and M
Gardner Hoover
Rochester
Scott Arnett
Arlington
Rushville
Insane Asylum
A Man of War and General Bem in Hungarian Polish Turmoil
A London Globe notice recalls General Bem as a bitter foe of Russia who shifted sides across the Carpathians. Born Polish, he joined Hungary’s army for strategic aims and waged campaigns against czarist forces, later aligning with Ottoman interests before command duties in Polish and Hungarian contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Globe
Bem
Leitha
Schwarzenburg
Russia
Carpathians
Hungary
Poland
Irkutek
Turkey
Bem and the Hussars in the Persian War Memory
A historical reminiscence recounts General Bem amid battle chaos with interpreters slain at his side. He kept guards for supplies, faced heavy hussar losses at Medgyes, and replied to orders with laconic quips. Bem died wounded in Aleppo, lamenting a lost cause as Russia prevailed and Poland lay in the dust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolmelch
Bem
Medgyes
Hussars
Aleppo
Poland
A Soldier of Fortune
A British boy raised from Edinburgh street life rises to become Ibrahim Aga in the Russo Turkish War. The former student, Tommy Keith of High Street, saves a captured English volunteer from Albanian brigands and greets him in broad Scotch before sending him back to the Russian camp with gifts and plunder restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
Turkey
Edinburgh
High Street
Air
Tonmmy Keith
Ibrahim Aga
Invention Converts Iron Into Steel and Gas in One Step
The London Echo reports a French patent by M. Paul Aude claiming a method that carbonizes iron to steel while producing illuminating gas. Iron is heated with charcoal or coke and fatty matter, then steam is introduced to decompose and reform gases, yielding fuel gas at nominal cost and profit from iron to steel conversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Echo
France
Eepore
M. Paul Aude
Talked Her Jaw Out of Joint
Louisville paper reports a Sunday alley confrontation where Malinda Holmes, described as a Black woman, moved with dramatic gestures to emphasize speech. A bystander contacted Dr Corrigan after Holmes dislocated her jaw while arguing with neighbors, who fled in fear of the scene. The doctor reset her jaw and Holmes resumed arguing insisting the Lord could quell her tongue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Market
Main
Preston
Jackson
Malinda Holmes
D. Corrigan
Malinda
Mineral wool proposed as hospital disinfectant carrier
Mr Wentworth Scott suggests using mineral wool saturated with carbolic acid or iodine and passed with air to trap dust and organic matter. He envisions hygienic devices for doors and windows in hospitals schools and private homes and a safety respirator for nurses based on the same principle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wentworth Scott
Scott
The French Girl in Paris Society and Education
The piece argues that French upper middle class girls lack formal education beyond social training. It notes scant Latin and science, limited politics, and a strong family and clerical constraint. Yet after marriage these women display confidence and independence, moving from timidity to sociable aplomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
France
Pensionnat
M. Jules Verne
Pensionnat de Demoiselles
John Manners
la Famille
Suce
Mamma
MM. le Cure
Manier
Mairie
M. le Prefet
Useful Family Hints for Home Remedies and Recipes
A collection of home tips and recipes including lemon storage in water, gentle hair washing for children, fritter batter, marble cleaning with lime paste, cake ingredients, soap suds use in gardens, lacy pudding, curing weak eyes with rose leaf infusion, and lemon syrup for lemonade. Contains several archaic measurements and terms.
PITH AND POINT Sights and quips from the era
A collage of missives and jokes from various papers. The item catalog notes playful quotes about census births, divorce, spring hens, summer bashfulness, and traveling books. It also mentions a misprint turning Saturn into Satan, decoratively art critiques, and household costs with a baking joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald
Algernon
An Engineer's Concealment of His Ignorance
A railroad officer recalls a case where a long time engineer could not read or write. The man memorized rules from time cards, risking heavy damages if an accident occurred. After failing to learn literacy, he left the company and returned to engine work not knowing to read.
Sunday Work on Daily Newspapers
A Detroit Evening News staffer recalls a Toronto Globe editor’s ban on Sunday editorial work. An ensuing clash led to a temporary halt on Sunday labor, briefly disrupting the newsroom before the policy was dropped and press freedom was heralded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Evening News
Toronto Globe
Farmer’s Bible
Brown
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The
Sullivan Union
Indiana
the News
Colchester
Birgmann
Philadelphia
Jonathan Swank
Te Court House
Zanesville
Payne
General Pope
Indian Territory
Oklahoma City
Stellarton
Henry Morrell
Saginaw
George F. Slosson
Maurice Vigraux
Lyons
Grand Hotel
Paris
Gosshen
Goshen Manufacturing
Goshen Pump Company
Harris & Company
Union City
C. Weller
C. E. Cowdery
Goshen Pump Comany
Brock
Hart
Henry Beufer
Josh Laferty
Foster Iron Works
Boston Courier
Carlyle
Edinburgh Grammar School
John
Walter
Baillie John
Hunter Square
Sir Walter Scott
John Stuart Mill
Milton
Simmons
George Eliot
Daniel Deronda
Bacon
Cowper
John Gilpin
Defoe
Darwin
Grote
Greece
Hallam
Thomas Hood
Longfellow
Holmes
Washington Irving
Alhambra
Mahonet
George Washington
Prescott
Peru
Motley
United Netherlands
John of
Ampere
Racine
Esther
Thalie
Thiers
Empire
Chateaubriand
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Galileo
Goethe
Kant
Hermann
Dorothea
Faust
Fraust
Helena
Washington
Social Science Congress
Duncan McLaren
Albany Law Journal
Saturn
Norristown Herald
Detroit Free Preas
Detroit Free Press
Annie
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