War and Society Highlights Across the Nation
A mix of headlines notes War era topics and domestic items. B Astor buys Gaines cottage in Hot Springs. Dickinson county renamed Stonewall with Jackson as county seat. medals for Arctic expedition members. college presidents and business profits quoted. royal and British reports on debt and wheat crop. varied U.S. state news and local incidents across Indiana, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Astor
New York
Hot Springs
Little Rock
Oscar
Chapin
Belvit College
Wisconsin
Anderson
Rochester University
Andrews
Marietta College
Ohio
Bartley Camps
Tom
Treasury buys silver as storms hit Elbe region
Treasury department purchases 161000 ounces of silver on Thursday while Elbe floods devastate Esalana and Hamburg. Other items note Empress Eugenie visiting Windsor, and multiple political and economic developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Empress Eugenie
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
Elbe
Esalana
Hamburg
Theodore Thomas
Cinnati College of Music
Statiistics of
Cincinnati Pork Packing
New York Republican State Committee
Chester A. Arthur
North Carolina
Grant
Chicago
Cincinnati
CalcurtTa
Manipur
Paris
Nordenskjold
Horace MayNarp
United States
Constantinople
Smyrna
Syria
Egypt
Washburne
Illinois
Virginia Senate
Thomas Aquino
Elyah Mason
Cairo
Ilinois
Arthur Tichborne
Benjamin
Coll
W. 8
Oliver
Federal
Little Rock
Santiago
Chili
London
Calcutta
Hong Kong
Bismarck
Count von Stolberg Wernigerode
Council of Ministers
San Domingo
Antonio Castillo
St. Petersburg
Brown's Park
Davin Roberts
Cutter
H. B. Claflin & Co
New York
O Gensch Brothers
East Kinzie, Street
Condition Changes Revoke Gen Ord From June 1877
The text notes that conditions in that section no longer require the instruction given in the General Order of June 1 1877. It references a formal update removing the need for prior directives and signals administrative change affecting the section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Ord
Mexico
Terstile
Telegraph War Between Atlantic and Pacific and B O Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad moves to seize control of telegraph lines once run by the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company along routes from Washington to Chicago and Columbus. An injunction followed as lines were taken, and a decade long contract shifts telegraph work to the American Union Telegraph Company across 6000 miles and 400 offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois Street
Virginia
Postal Union
Delaware
Ohio
George Beil
Daisy Price
Daisy
Chandler
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
Union
Pacific Railway
United States
Western Union Telegraph Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Washington, D. C
Marietta
Cincinnati
Washington, Pa
Columbus
Newark
Chicago
Atlantic and Pacific Company
Garrett
Windsor Motel
General Eckert
D. H. Bates
Western Union
American Union Telegraph Company
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
Cleveland
Frederick
Pittsburg
Wheeling
Sandusky
Chilicothe
Tiffin
Defiance
St. Louis
Vincennes
Louisville
A Strange Case From Salem District Court
Huston, a youth, attacked merchant McClelland of New Philadelphia with a brick, fracturing the skull and injuring the brain near Broca's area. McClelland, recovering but speechless, cannot fully recall or describe events as trial approaches. The affray began over Huston being ordered from the store and escalated to weapon use with a hatchet and brick. McClelland, about 40, awaited examination before Equire Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Gazette
Salem
Ind
Huston
McClelland
New Philadelphia
Broca
MccClelland
Whimsical snippets mix wit gossip and morals
A fragmented column of quips about literature, theatre, and social foibles. Jokes on Fagin and Oliver Twist, gossip on Captain idol, and observations on marriage, manners, and everyday oddities. Brief vignettes touch on women’s capabilities, Goats, and wedding rites.
Omnibus Boss Revealed In Washington Republic
A narrator identifies a Fifth Avenue bus operator named Andrews as the head of a vast transport network. He controls seventy buses and nets three to four hundred dollars daily in clean money. Andrews reportedly refused a $200,000 cash offer for the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Bleecker Street
Delaware County
Washington Republic
Jaffer
Jehu
Old Andrews
The Human Ear and the Ear as a Tuning Harmonic
The article compares two harps and the ear as matching resonators with strings or chords tuned to tones. Touching one harp string or stimulating a ear chord produces a corresponding tone, with the ear yielding a nerve signal and brain sensation, though weaker in amplitude.
Coffee in Typhoid Fever Reported by Dr Guillasse
A French navy doctor reports coffee as a potential specific against typhoid fever. He notes rapid improvement after several spoonfuls, with relief from stupor and somnolence, and says patients regain normal functions and convalesce. He prescribes two to three tablespoons every two hours, with wine, lemonade, magnesia, and later quinine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Tennyson
Juliet
Mary Anderson
Romeo
Harvard
Pittsburg
Mary
Guillasse
Coftee
Cgiuillasse
The Ideal Editor and Its Public Duty
The Ideal Editor is a teacher who educates the community with clear, thoughtful reporting. He acts from conviction, speaks honestly, and wields influence for truth and humanity, shaping public opinion daily rather than echoing readers’ instant desires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Freeman
Afghanistan
James Lowell
Joseph Tinker Buckingham
Horace Greeley
Highest Structures in the World List Confusing Heights
A compiled ranking of tall buildings and structures with heights given for many European cathedrals towers domes and spires including Cologne Cathedral Rome St Nicholas Hamburg St Peter's Strausburg Vienna Freiburg Antwerp Florence London Cologne Medgeburn and Venice landmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne Cathedral
Rome
St. Nicholas
Hamburg
St. Peter’s
Strausburg
Cheops
St. Stephen’s
Vienna
Venice
Viennie
Rathhavikt
Berlin
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Sullivan Union
J. A. Hays
Van
Indiana
Odds and
Westminister Review
Theodore. Tilton
Livingston Street
Duke of
Brabant
Prince Baudouin
Philip
Count of
Flanders
Prince George
England
Prince of Wales
Prince Edward
Eddy
George
London Times
United Kingdom
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Minnesota
Iowa
California
State News
Parker Culpertson
Granville
James Kerr
New Burlington
Muncie
John KX
Bennett
Switz City
Columbus Starch Works
Gro. Frybarger
Connersville
Isaac H. MiLner
Scottsburg
Scott
Enos H. McClellan
Garnet
Auburn
Tur
Richmond Street Railroad
John F. Miller
Gro. Keller
George Leonard
Germantown
Wayne County
Kepler
Leonard
Christ. Schreiber
Laughery Bridge
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette
Batesville
J. P. Early
Laporte
J.T. Harney
Ladoga
R. D. Brown
Wilmington
Home For Feeble Minded
Knightstown
New Albany Woolen Mills
George Woods
O Millie Hobbs
Woods
Parker Culbertson
Albany
Madison County
Daggett
A. J. Hickman
Spring Station
Rockport
Fred Selzer
Selzer
Hickman
William M. Ruston
Oscar H. Knox
Evansville
Lewman
Putnam County
Campbell
Indianapolis
George Lewis
Buena Vista
Winchester
Filmore
Lewis
Randolph County
George Slack
Unionport
Jr Essh Beasley
Bryantaville
Lawrence County
John
John Beasley
William Fulton
Francis Murphy
Dr. Beard
Sumner
Mount Auburn
Boston
Charles Sumner
Fagin
Lowell
Lenny
Hoy
China
Captain Idol
Popular Sciences
Boston Advertiser
St. Gothard
Mont Cenis
Kaiser Wilhelm
Liverpool
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