De-materializing medium and historic steam lore in one column
A Lincoln wife reports her late mother returning as a feast-keeping spirit while her eldest son reveals himself as a de-materializing medium. Separate notes recall America’s first locomotive acts of 1828 on the Delaware and Hudson line, early steam cars, and Ross Winans Columbus eight-wheeled passenger car. Other items cover Maine suicide crisis reports, a Boston cooking school run by ladies, and a discussion of scalping among North American Indians and Bengal tribes with references to Herodotus and Naga practices.
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America
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Messrs. Kremble
West Street
New York
Charlestown
Hamburg Road
South Carolina
Ross Winans
Baltimore
Columbus
Herodotus
Bengal
Friend of
Hat Etiquette and Royal Resentment in Spain
From Madrid comes news that two Spanish deputies were taken to the frontier for donning hats in a theatre where the king attended. The custom of wearing hats during intervals persists in Spain and France, though in past times Spain required the sovereign to be unshaded. Alfonsists retaliate with hostility as Alfonso’s popularity wanes and his expulsion is foreshadowed. The Pittsburg Gazette reports a man at Allegheny Poor Farm develops a dog flesh craving, killing and eating dogs for years. Superintendent Grubbs confirms the practice after a missing Newfoundland is found butchered, with the culprit identified as a farmer named Exler.
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Spain
Amadeo
Alfonso
THE
Pittsburg
Grubbs
Exler
Dogs of noble birth prey on Virginia sheep
The Louisvie Courier-Journal ridicules the belief that shepherd dogs never kill sheep. It cites Virginia depredations and claims imports from England hunt and kill ewes, noting the irony that aristocratic dogs may dine on mutton.
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Louisvie Courier-Journal
Virginia
England
Hair Turns to Gray and a Love Transforms a Man
A March day mood, a fading youth, and a life redrawn by romance. Ronald Bayard, once wealthy, loses fortune then finds Ida Lawton, a poor girl with grace and tenacity. Their brief joy ends with tragedy as Bayard’s relatives murderously claim his wealth and Bayard dies leaving a strange will.
Andersonville in Civil War memory stirs Congress debate
The Detroit Tribune recalls the 1867 Congressional report on Andersonville. It describes 35 000 imprisoned soldiers enduring torture, disease, hunger, and filth as a monument to wartime barbarity. The New York Mail counters calls to reexamine blame, arguing death rates favor Union depots, urging fidelity to constitutional principles. E. D. Morgan and Wan. E. Chandler sign as Republican leaders.
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Andersonville
Detroit Tribune
Winder
Wirtz
Jeff. Davis
Earth
Hell
New York Mail
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Hill
Barnes
Mr. Hill
North
South
A W. Draper
United States
Jeff
Lincoln
Stanton
E. D. Morgan
Republican National Committee
Wan. E. Chandler
National Republican Convention Call for Cincinnati June 14 1876
The National Union Republican Convention will meet in Cincinnati on Wednesday June 14 1876 at noon. Delegates from each state equal to twice its Senators and Representatives, plus two from each territory and DC. Calls for electors and voters to join, oppose sectional issues, support constitutional rights, free suffrage, honest governance, fiscal faith, and nonsectarian public schools.
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Cincinnati
United States
Congress
District of Columbia
A Babe Among the Bears at the Philadelphia Zoo
A Times reporter witnessed a dramatic rescue at the Zoological Garden when a young man saved a baby from a bear pit after the infant fell in. The effort drew cheers and cautions from onlookers as keepers intervened. The story blends romance, danger, and a public admonition to treat animals with care.
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Philadelphia Times
Zoological Garden
Times
Adonis
Nash
Scattergood
Superintendent Thompson
Captain Thompson
Chas. Seeley
Green Street
Amnest y debate harms Democratic image, New York Graphic says
The New York Graphic argues the amnesty debate damages the Democratic party by exposing Southern Democrats as out of touch with modern times. It notes Hill taunted Republicans as if relics of the Confederacy, likening their stance to antebellum errors and predicting Republican leaders steadied by Blaine.
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New York Graphic
Democratic Party
Mr. Hill
Senate
Rip van Winkles
Blaine
South
New Jersey Farmer Sets Turkey Weight Record
A New Jersey farmer reared a thirty three pound turkey, another New Jersey resident raised one pound heavier, and a New Jersey policeman raised the raiser, creating a curious trio of weight claims in the state.
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New Jersey
Clermont Courier Ad Rates and Legal Notices Details
The Clermont Courier lists advertising rates: legal and transient ads cost 1.00 per square for the first insertion, 0.50 for each additional insertion. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
What are we wrap the baby in by Lucy Larcom
Poem contemplates how to clothe a baby with something finer than silk or linen. The speaker rejects earthly fabrics and declares that only love can wrap the baby, as loom of the heart weaves love anew. The verses envision delicate colors and heavenly comfort shaped by affection rather than material goods.
What Was He Doing A Rural Theater Deception Tale
A gay South End merchant tells his wife he needs to impress a country customer by his elaborate toilet. The office boy reveals the customer was merely fastening pullback strings, exposing the ruse as the husband is sent away by the wife’s rebuke and the street outside echoes with a shrill voice.
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South End
Very Much Afraid of Dogs
Among Andersons peculiarities was mortal fear of dogs. He wrote he would visit Geneva on a set day but did not come, claiming a big dog at the gate kept him away. He instead took a train to Italy. A village schoolmaster received a letter asking to inter his son in the skull.
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London
England
Philadelphia
Atlantic
United States
Bothwell
Hiram Woodruff
Great Republic
Islands
Teddington
Aphrodite
Breda
the Ban
Confessor
Leybourne Grange
Joseph Hawley
Tweed
Robert
Flying Dutchman
van Tromp
Touchstone
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Buffalo Express
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