Diverse 19th Century World News Items Mixed In One Note
Reports range from Kivne Kalakata in New York owing for baths baggage and medicine to a British parliamentary prospect linked to John Mitchel’s son. Strikes surge among coal miners across Ohio Indiana and Pennsylvania with fatalities and mobbed towns. Queen Elizabeth’s mother faces Spain backlash while Alfonso prepares for throne. Mexican dispatches say Hidalgo Tlascala gangs dissolved and federal troops chase Indians. A Cohoes dying woman sees a wall cross caused by roof leak and rain, a reporter exposing the illusion.
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Kivne@ KALAKATA
New York
Board of Aldermen
Cohoes
Government reforms mutilated currency rules set to take effect May
The Treasury will amend regulations on currency mutilation. Deductions will be proportionate to missing portions for legal tender notes and fractional currency. Notes under one tenth missing face no deduction. more than one tenth triggers fractional deductions by tenths. May 1 start date. safeguards for totally destroyed missing parts.
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United States
Richardson
Martin
Supreme Court
Douglass
Internal Revenue
Public Service
Internal Revenue and Customs
Department of State
Texas
United States Treasury
The Great Schoolhouse for Girls and the Mouse House Mystery
A rich man builds a girls school inviting only girls. Mice invade and claim the luxury of the hat lining, turning the room into a mouse house. The tale ends with a note on orthodoxy and a fashion forecast for Whitee, a color to be popular next summer.
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Mother Mouse
Civil Rights Bill Declared Law Sparks Public Skepticism
The Southern Methodist Advocate notes the Civil Rights bill is law and in force, yet daily life remains unchanged. It mocks political papers for agitation, then calls on Atlanta grog shops to refuse liquor to colored youths and remove white customers to aid the colored community.
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Southern Methodist
Atlanta
English Tories Favor Democrats Amid Civil War Ideals
An English observer argues against the portrayal of Republican policy as sinister. He notes fear of Southern caste restoration without federal restraint, warns that party creed persists, and that Republicans remain a powerful force in a divided nation facing race and labor tensions.
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England
Union
Republican Party
South
Governor Hendricks Opens Washington Rooms for Session
Pittsburg Commercial notes Indiana Governor Hendricks has taken rooms in Washington for the full next Congress session and may pursue the Democratic nomination. It would be the first time a presidential hopeful openly recruits for himself in such fashion, a sight the paper deems unseemly.
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Gilbert C. Walker
Virginia
Uncle Sam
Tue
Democratic General Assembly of
Ohio
Pittsburg
Hendricks
Indiana
Washington
Congress
Spencer questions marriage longevity link in Study of Sociology
In his Study of Sociology Herbert Spencer argues that longer life among the married may not be caused by marriage. He says natural selection and personal qualities drive both marriage and longevity, and that marriage and longevity may be concomitant results of the same underlying factors.
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London
Herbert Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Spencer
Final hours of Vasquez gaze at ornate coffin
The San Francisco Chronicle recounts Vasquez asking to see his coffin at 8:30. A profusely ornamented casket is brought, he surveys it with calm interest, notes silver screws, then removes the lid and inspects the cushions. He says he can sleep forever and, when praised for his nerve, questions what good it would do if he were the other way.
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Benicia
Cal
Tinnerty
Shea
A. C. Hanson
San Francisco
Arsenal
Hanson
New York City
Fairburg
Illinois
Masonic and
Odd Fellows
Ticonderoga
New York
Payne & Gilligan
Pekin
O. K
Overlook Mountain
Catskill Mountains
Vasquez
San Francisco Chronicle
Adams
Remarkable Trout Refuses Hand of Sneering Clerk
A Boston clergyman attests a tale from San Francisco water works where a trout in a large vat fed by visitors with bread and meat stopped taking food from a specific clerk after he hooked it and released it. The fish then fed only from others' hands whenever the clerk stood nearby. The writer treats the account as factual.
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Boston
San Francisco Water-Works
Advertising Rates For Legal And Transient Notices
The Clermont Gourier advertises legal and transient notices at 1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 0.50 for each subsequent insertion. A general annual reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
Ice Jewels in Winter Forest Dream
A fairy northern transformation illuminates a forest scene where a tree awakens and drops crystal gems from its icy crown. The beauteous ice spirit paints a fleeting, iridescent display as sunshine briefly gilds the frozen diadem before the pageant dissolves.
Fragments of Humorous News Clips and Notes
A collection of quirky items and anecdotes from a bygone era. Includes gibes about college titles, a Delaware flag anecdote, a Georgia accident, a trope about whisky, comments on price and value, mischief with an alligator sighting, a Rochester mesmerize tale, a Boston critic note on an actress, a moral tale of a stranger and a well, and Colorado election participation data.
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Johnny
Frank
Idaho
Indiana
Talleyrand
Delaware
Dawson
Georgia
Peter McNamara
Rochester
Boston
Colorado
When Was the Declaration Adopted and by Whom
The record shows Congress began July 1 1775 in committee of the whole to consider independency and the draft Declaration. Benjamin Harrison chaired. Debates continued July 2 3 4 and in the evening of July 4 the committee rose and reported the final amended Declaration.
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Congress
Benjamin Harrison
Virginia
Harrison
Ben Harrison
Indiana
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John Mitchel
Pennsylvania
Upper Lehigh
Penn
Alfonso
Elizabeth
Spain
Mazatlan
Hidalgo
Tlascala
Jalasco
Mechoacan
Chihuahua
Sonora
Yutacan
Hess County
Kansas
Hays
Geo. R. Cannon
Utah
Salt Lake
Rio Grande
Mexico
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Bond
Rathbone
U. S. Secret Service
Joseph Lawnsberry
Liberty
Tioga County
Col. Butler
Clearfield County
D. A. Butterfield
Hot Springs
Ark
Frankfort
Kentucky
Courier-Journal
Ku Klux
Todd County
Louisville
Todd
Frank Bristow
Secretary of the Treasury
W. G. Mank
Mank
Gordon
Newcomb
Duckworth
Pete McCartney
George Rankin
Mike Rogers
Joe Rittenhouse
John Hall
St Louis
George Drury
Louisiana
Assumption
New Orleans
Jonathan L. Jones
Washington City
Laclede Hotel
St. Louis
Navy Department
Commodore Porter
J. W. Goslee
Hughes, Goslee & Co
Anchorage
F. W. Walker
Brooklyn
Chicago Express
Omaha
Pacific Express
Albea
Tyronne
Iowa
Burlington and Quincy
H. L. Miller
Gardner
American Express
B. Pickle
Pugh and Streeter
McDonald
Miler
Pottsville
Shamokin
Mauch Chunk
Audenreich
Schuylkill
Columbia
Northumberland
J.T. Hartranft
Lowell
Mass
Massachusetts
Prescott
Lawrence
National Association
Collinwood
Ontario
Boucher
Rufer
Egner
Schilling
Cincinnati
Key West
Wilbur F. Storey
Chicago Times
Williams
Cook County Criminal Court
Grand Jury
Chicago
Foreign News
Hyde Park
Kenealy
Messrs. Onslow
Whalley
de Montpensier
Isabella
Madrid
Conference of
Fulda
Prussia
Paris
Jovellar
Don Carlos
Navarre
Marquis de la Concha
Jovelar
Cuba
Renteria
Orizun
Calvesa
Manseisa
Berlin
Sarmatian
Portland
Canada
Newry
Schichkin
Russia
Cologne
Don Alfonso
Bismarck
Times
Breslau
Austria
China
Formosa
Hong Kong
Japan
Kido
Iligaki
Corea
Andy Johnson
Grant
Democratic
Cincinnati Enquirer
Carpenter
Milwaukee
Booneville Enquirer
New York Evening Post
Richmond
Ku Klux, White League
United States Supreme Court
Guadaloupe Hidalgo
N. P. Trist
New Mexico
Upper California
McConnellsville
Toledo
Parker
New Jersey
Tilden
Tennessee
Thurman
Bendleton
Hancock
Jane G. Swisshelm
Jane
The
London Spectator
Clermont Gourier
ICE Jewelry
Pencil
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