Alanian league disappears as world news loom
The report lists varied items from 1881 era: Gen D S Stanley taking command in San Antonio, Crete ceded to Germany, and a Paris dispatch on the Porte. It notes Barnum seriously ill in New York, Crete, the Wimbledon plan, a Rome cremation site, and other political and crime items across Europe and America.
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London
D. S. Stanley
San Antonio
Commeroff
Frankfort-on-the-Main
P. T. Barnum
New York
Paris
Crete
Germany
Dublin
Stanhope
Wimbledon
Sharon
Massachusetts
Witman Webster
San Francisco
William Stuart
Drummonnd
Chicago
Rome
Dennett
Massachusetts Dental Society
Saloon Prop Noted as Stirring Paoli Public Opinion
Hiram Quigley of Madison died of heart disease Friday. Duke and Wooley's saw mill at Williamsburg burned at 1 am Sunday, value 1500 with no insurance. Joel Bros of Crawfordsville buy Old Center church corner to build an opera house. A wedding party crossing Conn's creek on the ice fell through. bride and groom soaked. Orange county farmers suffer heavy losses from frost harming apples and potatoes. A new paper Hawkeye to be issued at Bloomington by A J Highet.
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Paoli
Hiram Quigley
Madison
Duke & Wooley
Williamsburg
Joel Bros
Crawfordsville
Old Center Church
Hawkeye
Bloomington
A. J. Highet
Ellettsville Graphic
Conn’s Creek
Waldron
Orange County
Capital Punishment in France Seventy Years of Executions
In fifty years France saw 2 40 persons sentenced to death with 1 461 executed and 939 pardoned or commuted. From 1830 to 1875 Assize Courts tried tens of thousands, with capital sentences and executions varying by period. Significant counts include 554 deaths 360 executed in 1830 1835 and 327 death sentences with 154 executions in 1831 1835.
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France
St. James Gazette
Assize Court
Assize Courts
The Philosophy of Dress in Beaconsfield’s Beacons field
Vigo the Tailor counsels proper dress for social advancement in Edymion. He warns against ill fitting style and “shabby genteel” looks, advising attire to suit age pursuits and political aims, noting ministers and poets require distinct presentation. He dresses two brothers of status, one a pleasure seeker, one a future minister.
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Vigo
Beaconsfield
Edymion
Lord Bglantine
Lord Byron
Canning
Pitt
The Folk Lore of Shoes and Their Superstitions
A survey of shoe lore from ancient omens to wedding luck. It traces throwing old shoes for good fortune at brides and sailors, marriage divination customs, and regional beliefs across England, Germany, Wales, and beyond with historical citations.
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London
John Heywood
Ben Johnson
Grose
Kemp
Thorpe
Dorsetshire
England
Seaside sighs and bald parsons in comic vignettes
A collage of humorous clippings recalls seaside strolling misunderstandings and social foibles. A fussy woman balks at riding backward on a train while a conductor contemplates rotation. A bald parson, a drunken elephant joke, Nasby’s nose, and a baby among ladies frame playful city scraps and a bank dive tale.
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Puck
New York
Boston Post
Nasby
Petroleum World
Huckleberryville
Boston Transcript
Frank Grice
Cash Brenneaman
Cash
Galveston
Bank Street
Sacramento
Madrid
San Francisco Post
Solid ice at high temperatures under low pressure
A Nature correspondent reports experiments showing solid ice can exist at temperatures well above the normal melting point when pressure is kept below 46 mm of mercury. He notes similar behavior in mercurial chloride, which liquifies as pressure is increased.
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Nature
A Grave in the Door-yard in Royal Center
A Royal Center family endures the sorrow of a daughter's death from consumption. After eleven months of illness Louisa Rea died, and a grave was placed beneath the window where she watched the world, as her mother laments the depth of love that death cannot sever.
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Logansport
Royal Center
Louisa
Rea
Miss Rea
Earth
An Inconsistent Missouri River Nightmare
A vivid description labels the Missouri River as a nightmare for railroad men, endlessly shifting and unpredictable. The text portrays the river as clever, changing channels to test engineers, then abruptly turning toward a new, curious target like an entomological bug roaming the prairie.
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Missouri
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