Love and Laughter and a Bank Robbery Tale
A fragmented verse opens with Love and Laughter then shifts to a lengthy account of a Carbondale bank robbery as told by the Scranton Republican. It details two robbery plots, the midnight and daylight schemes, and the elaborate signals, alibis, and hideouts used by ten plotters and accomplices. The narrative traces money moves from bank to ash pile to pillow case to lath pile to store, a mine, and finally a cracker barrel, with rat damage and multiple arrests as investigators close in.
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Nm Bank
Carbondale
Scranton Republican
Mr. Stott
Duggan
Ank
Stott
Alemdy
Shepherd's Corner
Main Street
Boyd
Uncle Sam
Teraine
Binghamton
Grecian Brigandage and the Arabian Ransom Dilemma
The Cincinnati Gazette discusses brigandage in Greece as primarily a money racket. Robbers seize travelers, take valuables, then hold captives for large ransoms, with wealthier victims prompting higher demands. Foreign residents face frequent demands, provoking public complaints about involuntary payments for countrymen in danger.
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Greece
Cincinnati Gazette
Athens
Naples
Stick to Your Farms and Build a Beautiful Homestead
A call to improve rural life urges people to settle and fix their farms. It stresses planting orchards, adding shade trees, fencing pastures, and building outbuildings to bond families to home. Emphasizes beauty, comfort, and cheer to foster contentment, love of home, and stability for wives, children, and sons.
Wick and kerosene lamps lawrs
The unsatisfactory light from kerosene lamps often comes from the wick. Filtering several quarts of oil through a wick which stops dust gradually clogs its pores. As a result the wick’s conducting power may be impaired and a good light cannot be obtained.
The Salem Witch Trials Circle at Salen Parma 1601 2
A circle formed in Salen Parma during winter 1601 2 practiced palmistry fortune telling necromancy and magic led by ten girls including Elizabeth Varris Abingeail Williams Ann Putnam Mary Walcutt Mercy Lewis Elizabeth Haby Ward Elizabeth Booth Susannah Sheldon Mary Warren and Sarah Clarehill with slaves John Indian and Tituba and others. They displayed spasms postures and cries, Dr Griggs declared them bewitched sparking the infamous events later called the afflicted children.
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Salen Parma
Parris
Elizabeth Varris
Abingeail Williams
Ann Putnam
Mary Walcutt
Jonathan Walcutt
Elizabeth Booth
Susannah Sheldon
Mary Warren
John Proctor
Sarah Clarehill
George Jacobs
Jolu Indian
Tituba
Mr. Parris
Barbadoes
Griggs
The Irish Marketday in Danbury Market Square
A Danbury man in Ireland reports a rainy market day with farmers arriving in carts, hauling potatoes and hay. Women in blue cloaks and caps trek to the square as buyers inspect produce and offer prices about five percent below the market rate amid lively bargaining.
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Danbury
Ireland
Blarriey
Dig for gold by industry and thrift not gambling
An exchange cites Emerson to warn readers about mining stock speculation. It urges digging for gold through steady effort, industry, thrift, economy, patience, and good humor, not buying on margins or chasing quick riches amid booms and collapses. The piece ends with a humorous aside about a thirsty old toper.
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West
Emerson
Pease
Three O'Brien Boys Die In Freezing Exe ter Exe ter
From Exeter New York comes a tragic report of three brothers Patrick eight Martin ten and Michal eleven who perished in freezing weather while selling baskets. Authorities condemn the parents as negligent and anticipate legal action.
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Exeter
N. Y
Tutti Patrick
Martin
Michal O'Brien
Westville
Lilly
Fixeter
Settle Strikes Through Arbitration, Says Times Opinion
The New York Times argues the present strikes in Massachusetts and wider Britain teach employers and workers a need for moderation. It notes South Wales, New England, and Belfast cases show little gains from obstinacy and suggests arbitration as a universal, peaceful remedy to resolve large scale labor disputes.
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Massachusetts
Great Britain
New York Times
South Wales
New England
Social Science Congress
Belfast
Ireland
Decline in British farm laborers linked to urban demand
The article notes a drop in farm laborers from 958,000 in 1861 to 798,000 in 1871 in Great Britain, about seventeen percent, and a twelve percent fall in Scotland. It argues urban employment, rather than farming efficiency, drives the decline, as towns attract rural workers offering better pay and steady work.
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Great Britain
How Ice Freezes
A West Point officer conducted an ice thickness test by boring a hole, bolting a board to the ice underside, and checking days later. The bolt head remained on top while a four inch layer of new ice formed beneath, proving ice thickens on the underside rather than the top.
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West Point
Thoughts on Saturday Night and Moral Reflections
A fragmented, archaic extract contemplates truth, virtue, love, and ambition. It muses on sincerity, the mind's colors, the dangers of prosperity, and humanity's reach toward heaven. The garbled prose suggests a catalog of maxims about character, fate, and endurance across life.
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Dad al
Frank
Hin
Boura
Heaven
Scipio
Predicting War and 1876 Election Turmoil in Congress
Washington reporter interviews Congressman B F Butler of Massachusetts. He warns war may come in 1876 over electoral vote counting. He cites Southern influence by Ku Klux and White Raiders and fears strong election force over peaceful ballots. He endorses Sheridan and urges firmness in leadership.
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Washington
B. F. Butler
Massachusetts
Burr
Jefferson
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Sheridan
Swill Milk Plague Reported in Chicago Cattle
A Chicago correspondent warns that most city cows are fed on distillery swill and are producing poisonous milk sold to customers. The milk dealers union president alerted health authorities, but actions to curb the issue have not yet occurred. City ordinances restrict cow numbers and prohibit selling milk from swill-fed cows. About 200 dealers are said to operate, supplying 12,000 gallons daily.
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Chicago
Board of Health
Milk Dealers’ Union
Child Prays to God and Detaches Seed From Windpipe
An eight year old girl in Danville Kentucky faced a lodged watermelon seed in the windpipe. Her mother urged prayer and God answered. the child coughed up the seed during a brief spell of prayer. The tale is paired with a statistics note on the Fulton Beecher trial, detailing questions asked of Moulton and Tilton on direct and cross examinations.
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Danville
Professor C
Oiger
Tulton-Beecher
Triat
Moulton
Tilton
Various Oddities and Local Notes From a Century Ago
A mosaic of brief items spans nature, crime, travel, and social quirks. Badgers killing lambs in California, a toddler’s tragedy in Allway, and a boy’s odd taxonomy. Shipping dried fruit from Cortlandt to Germany, compass flowers in Texas, and January cold in Sweden and Norway. Col. Forney on American workers and white bread. Roofs benefit from whitewash. a Danbury youth loves the state prison joke. Hazlitt quotes and humorous scenes of twins and dining, hospital noses, and spelling bees in Ohio. Paris surgeons flock to a remarkable nose growth, and Anna Dickinson notes Washington society. A San Francisco ammonia mishap, a grateful husband, and Lena Mitchell’s prison correspondence reflect daily life and sentiment.
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Mont Cenis
Hoosne
Cortlandt
New York
Germany
Plains of
Texas
Sweden
Norway
Europe
Col. Forney
America
Danbury
Anna Dickinson
New Society
Washington
Luly
San Francisco
Ohio State Journal
Lena Mitchell
Cleveland
Innis
Funeral Expenses for Senator Francis Malbone 1809
A Senate audit details funeral expenses for Rhode Island Senator Francis Malbone who died in Washington in June 1809 and was buried at Congressional burial ground. The committee allowed crackers and wine vouchers but rejected cheese. Additional items include almonds and raisins, with limits on wine and brandy and a separate pound cake purchase from Monsieur Julien.
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Francis Malbone
Rhode Island
Washington
Congressional Burial Ground
Senate
Monsieur Julien
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Hotel Dieu
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