Indiana Inklings and Local Notices
Evansville reports about 200 telephones in use while Cambridge City enjoys successful dime concerts. Indiana natives estimated at five percent. Plymouth boasts health. Winchester banks announce no interest after January 1. An Evansville woman reportedly bears eight children in twenty-two months. Rowena Matheny, 19, dies by self‑inflicted starvation. Fishermen in Fountain County ice-fish. Petersburg weighs telephones to Vincennes. Jeffersonville gas prices rise. Multiple deaths, trials, and legal notices appear across the state with rail, railroads, and local politics shaping the period.
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Evansville
Cambridge City
Indiana
Plymouth
Winchester
Rowwena Matheny
Jove
Futton County
Joan Mantle
Deckertown
Innex County
Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginaw
City of
Fort Wayne
Wayne Township
Fear and unrest across continents in late 19th century notes
The bulletin lists events from 1879 to 1880 including smallpox in the US District of Columbia, large wheat imports to France, British Indian Army reinforcements to Afghanistan, Robers' travels, a major Boston fire, Meeker incident, Irish famine anxiety, and Nihilist activity in Russia with police inquiries and palace security measures.
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District of Columbia
France
India
Afghanistan
Gerhard Robers
Sahara
Romel
Boston
Cabul
Roberts
Meeker Agency
Douglass
United States
New York
Europe
Mussulman
Constantinople
Germany
St. Petersburg
Odds and Endes from a Dusty Era Inquiries
A miscellany notes retirements in business reducing a grocer’s weight before and after. Remarks on plants imparting bright green to grass and grain. Global births exceed deaths by 25 020 daily. A MicA mine in Richford Dakota sold for 5000 cash. Of 686 Balti more soldiers to Mexican war thirteen survive. A manufactory of soap powders in Logan Utah established. Soap mine near Eureka Nevada yields tons of sopanaceous quartz. Wake feet and cold body said better than warm body and cold feet. Mining regions of Wisconsin and Michigan report iron demand rising. Ten colleges existing before the American Revolution still flourish. New York Elevated Road carried 30 000 000 passengers in the year. True bank notes said to be invented about 800 A D in China called reytsien or flying money. An American petroleum well owner travels to Baku Russia to inspect naphtha fields near the peninsula of Aspheron. The new Dakota Salt Springs are
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Richford
Dakota
Baltimore
Logan
Utah
Eureka
Nev
Wisconsin
Michigan
America
New York
China
Baku
Russia
Aspheron
New Dakota
Immense Causeway Planned by Central Pacific at Oakland
The San Francisco Chronicle reports Charles Crocker and engineer Montague describe a massive Oakland Point causeway project. A 75 foot wide solid rock and fill structure will extend 5,400 feet into the bay widening to 280 feet at the head, with four tracks and a 600 foot ferry slip, plus four 1,000 by 100 foot wharves and 140 foot wide slips. Estimated cost at least 5 million dollars.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Oakland
Chronicle
Charles Crocker
Montague
Oakland Point
Alameda Canyon
Niles
Fruitvale
San Francisco
United States
Congress
Oakland Harbor
Harbor Ferry
Quips and quibbles from a bygone social scene
A mosaic of humorous complaints and social quirks. Anecdotes touch on class, patriotism, fashion, courtship, and morality with old fashioned wit. It recounts jokes about nobility, fashion flaws, two women meeting, a Georgia minister’s bacon theft, and legal thunder from a Pennsylvania judge.
The Coldest Town in the World
Jakutsk in Eastern Siberia is famed as the coldest town, with ground frozen to 300 feet most years and temperatures from 42 to 68 degrees below zero in winter. The 5,000 residents rely on candle works, fur trade, and a June fair, trading furs and mammoth tusks valued at about 400,000 roubles.
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Bucyrus Journal
Humboldt
Jakutsk
Yakootsk
Siberia
Lena
St. Petersburg
Okhotsk
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Indiana Inklings
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Fountain County
Chicago
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Madison County
Wm. Stanford
Charles Gray
Janes McCarty
Union Depot
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Templeton Junction
Isalb
Oxford
Abrailiam Ennis
Madison
Jas
Granger
Daniel McDonald
Marshall County
Richmond
Collett
State Museum
Smart
Albert Caffins
Blountsville
Hagerstown
J. B. Luther
Granville
Washington County
North Vernon
John Morgan
Tak United States Court
Hanover College
Pulaski County
Friends of
J. A. Beatty
Bedford College
Ed. Thornton
J. J. Jones
Beatty
Thornton
County Teachers’ Institute
Waterloo
Father Dovenhoffen
Versailles
Ripley County
Woollen
Peru
Indianapolis
Howard County
Malott Park
Eliis H. Steward
Anderson
George W. Hoel
Adams Township
Hyde
England
Deadwood
Deadwood Press
Romme
Archie B. Sawyer
Nez Perces
Joseph
Presbyterian Church
Carcado
Thedea
Old South Church
Norwich
Treasury of
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Galveston
Houston
Heaven
Wyoming
Key
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Miss Payne
St. Paul
New York Central Park
Garrard County
Mlinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Kansas
Moscow
Winter Palace
Henry Drummond Wolff
Philipopolis
Roumelia
Treasury Department
Washington
Atlantic
Yakoob Khan
Frederick Roberts
Moses Brooks Gould
Gould
Ireland
Tuk Pratt Eating and Power Company
Board of Alderman
Italy
Government of
Portland
Oregon
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Washington Territory
Dan Nice
Evangelist Moody
Urance
M. de Freycinet
Nova Scotia
Hart
WashiInaton
General Grant
General Beattie
Woolen
Cale
Ouray
U‘es
Meeker
Hatch
Odds and Ende
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Adavk
la Veta
Cal
Hell
Ike
Wiig
Somme
Maria
Georgia
Moses Bledso
Thad” Stevens
Pennsylvania
Stevens
Louise
Rwre
Washinton Gladden
Springfield
Massachusetts
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