Civil notes include Nevada flume and museum sale
A fifteen mile flume in Nevada cost a quarter million and opens twelve thousand acres of woodland at Truckee Meadows. George Cruikshanks works bought for five thousand pounds for Manchester Winter Garden, plan abandoned. Andrew Johnson becomes sixth congressman to die before session. Channel tunnel project moves as bills pass both houses and funds exist.
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Nevada
Truckee Meadows
George Cruikshanks
Winter Garden
Manchester
England
Mystery Still Clouds Nathan Murder Case in New York
Years ago Benjamin Nathan, a wealthy Jewish man, was found murdered in his Twenty second Street home. Police never named a suspect. An ex policeman now claims to be the killer but cannot be prosecuted, and a son of Nathan supports the allegation.
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Benjamin Nathan
Twenty-second Street
New York
Historic Cathedrals and Seats of Europe by Capacity
The OST site of the European Continent will hold. St. Peter's at Rome holds 54,000, Milan Cathedral 37,000, St. Paul's at Rome 25,000, St Sophia at Constantinople 23,000, Notre Dame Paris 21,000, Pisa Cathedral 13,000, and San Marco Venice 7,000.
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St. Peter’s
Rome
Milan
St. Paul’s
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Notres
Paris
Pisa
San Marco
Venice
Legacy In Will of James McQueston To Missionary Society
Plymouth New Hampshire resident James McQueston leaves a large sum to the Lome Missionary Society to be kept at interest until it reaches 150000 dollars. When 100000 dollars is accumulated it is invested in a Boston business block and the remaining 50000 is held until it reaches 150000 dollars, then 100 dollars is placed in a business block and the cycle repeats. The Society will receive the rents from the holdings.
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James McQueston
Plymouth
N.H
Lome Missionary Society
Boston
Miss Antoinette Blau Leads In Washington Regatta
A young rower Miss Antoinette Blau competed in a Washington regatta and earned bronze among four crews. A correspondent praised her grace and strength, noting her gold medal and tea-rose spray, with a black silk skirt and cutaway jacket.
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Antoinette Blau
Washington
Waily
Blau
Death of Hans Christian Andersen in Copenhagen
Danish author Hans Cogistian Andersen died on August 4 in Copenhagen. Born in Odense in April 1805, he rose from hardship to fame with works like The Improvisatore Journey to Amack O T Two Baronesses and Only a Fiddler. His Fairy Tales remain classics and his writings became widely read in the United States. A public subscription aided him when reports of poverty surfaced, though he held a royal annuity since 1845.
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Hans Cogistian Andersen
Copenhagen
Odense
Denmark
Amack
O. T
United States
Unreadable Persian hair-dye incident prompts sermon plea
A Cubcano lady, after breaking her last bottle of Persian hair-dye, faces a solemn man with tracts who asks if she is ready to meet her Maker. She replies she does not intend to leave the house for several weeks.
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Wisconsin
New Hampshire
House of Correction
Government Appeals in Major National Bank and Cotton Awards
The Government appeals to the Supreme Court from the Court of Claims ruling paying 480000 in gold to the State National Bank of Boston and from seventeen cotton awards totaling 300600. Immigration shows a yearly drop of 86000. other items note riots in Georgia, railway and factory accidents, and various political commentaries.
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Supreme Court
Court of Claims
State National Bank of Boston
Hot Springs
United States
Outlaws Raid Illinois Counties Prompt Armed Response
A Benton Illinois report describes a white robed Ku Klux group raiding Williamson and Franklin counties forcing citizens to obey orders. Sheriff Mason and twenty armed men confronted them at J. B. Maddox’s home. Fourteen attackers fled after a pistol shot wounded a man fatally, with five others injured. Gov Beveridge sent arms and a militia is forming as vigilance grows. Similar bands are active in Jackson county amid expected trouble.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Benton
Franklin County
Illinois
Williamson
Franklin
J. B. Maddox
Maddox
Mason
Ku-Klus
Beveridge
Jackson County
Tragic Reading Funeral Follows Canal Drowning
In Reading Pennsylvania a woman Mrs Bissinger and her three children drowned after a quarrel with her husband who had brought another woman into the home. She killed herself and the children by binding a stone filled basket to her body and entering the canal. Police guarded the home as thousands attended the funeral and jeered the husband. A shot fired near the cemetery drove him away in a carriage, with a second shot thought to have wounded him.
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Evening Post and Mail
St. Charles
Bellevue Asylum
Lincoln
Edwards
Springfield
Bellevue Place
Thurlow Weed
Weed
Manufacturer’s Hall
Fair Ground
Albany
N. Y
Reading
Bissinger
Letter of True Inwardness from Put-in-Bay Correspondent
A Cleveland Leader correspondent recounts overhearing a Put-in-Bay conversation between Senator Thurman and Mr. Cook of Cincinnati on Ohio politics and Sam Cary. Cook decries Cary as a dead weight for the party while Cary’s ally responds he likewise has no respect for Cary.
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Cary
Sam Cary
Columbus
West End
State House
Sam
Zanesville
Thurman
Cook
Mr. Thurman
Cleveland
Mr. Cook
Cincinnati
Ohio
Republicans Poised for Victory in State Elections
The New York Times notes Republicans are united to win in the fall elections. It dismisses New York strikers seeking an Anti Custom-house Party and defends Collector Arthur and General Sharpe as acting to their duties. It predicts the party will field good men and carry the State ticket.
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Iowa
Tilden
Philadelphia
Ohio
Maryland
The
New York Times
New York City
Arthur
Sharpe
Scientific American
Pacific Coast
California
Great American Lakes
Indiana
Kentucky
Great Lakes
Ontario
Lake Erie
Niagara River
Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Chicago River
New Jersey
Long Island
Texas
United States
Pacific Ocean
Pacific
Asia
Africa
Australia
Polynesia
Full Republican turnout urged for Ohio vote
The Republic argues a full Republican vote in Ohio is essential to Army Hayes victory by a wide margin. It warns that even a single vote missing can cost defeats and calls for thorough canvassing to mobilize every Republican voter before the October election.
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Ohio
Republic
Hayes
Allen
How the Ladies Fish on the Riverbank
A lively scene at Mosertown shows six women fishing from rafts with three poles each. They slip, splash, and bicker over hooks and bites, chase a sunfish, and end with lunch in the woods trading stories of beaux while the sunburned group recalls a chaotic day of fishing.
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Mosertown
New Church
College Hill
Chinese Time-keepers and U S Library Sizes
The article notes China lacking domestic watchmaking with native time measures like clepsydra and sun dial. It describes a southern water clock using six stacked pots and a mark index. It also lists library sizes led by Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, Harvard, and New York Mercantile Library. It adds navy commodores’ long service terms.
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Bridgman
China
United States
Library of Congress
Boston Public Library
Harvard University Library
New York Mercantile Library
Bathing Follies on the Quinebaug River in Connecticut
Two couples vacationing at Wauregan, Connecticut, rented a one horse chaise and visited a secluded river spot for a clothing optional bath. A mix up with the horse and clothing followed as they walked to town in odd attire while crowds cheered. Their borrowed team was later found drowned in the Quinebaug. The tale ends with a Russian bear stage anecdote and a proverb on envy and emulation.
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Wauregan
Connecticut
Quinebaug
Newport
Long Branch
Eden
St. Petersburg
To Touch a Broken Lute and Sing No More
A poem lamenting a child's lost talents and joys. The speaker contemplates failed singing, vanished pleasures, unfulfilled love, and empty hopes. Refrains of Alas! dear child echo throughout as the speaker mourns unrealized gifts.
Quotations and Jokes from an Early 20th Century Page
A miscellany of snippets and quips including proverbs on truth and duty, playful odds and ends about apples, bread, and hens, a California mutual aid joke, a mule crossing a creek, a New Hampshire tramp law note, verse on Time and monuments, and social riffs on women, schooling, and manners.
Concrete floors to deter rats under wood and tile
A Building News correspondent advises concreting ground floors with a three to four inch slab of Portland cement and gravel to keep moisture and pests out. He notes dry floors and vermin resistance when the mix is properly prepared and compacted.
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The
Building News
Meda Joie
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