Topics Of The Time In A 19th Century News Brief
The Warwickshire miners pursue schooling during a lengthy strike with arithmetic reading and writing lessons. Buckingham Palace unearthed gold and silver plate from George III era during renovations. Tennessee receives fish stock boosts with tens of thousands of shad deposited in the Cumberland and Holston rivers. Europe stocks vast military might with millions of soldiers and thousands of guns and ships costing hundreds of millions annually. The Boston Journal of Chemistry laments millers misusing fine wheat for low quality bread and urges securing nutrious whole flour. Count Von Arnim arrives in Carlsbad in fragile health after Berlin Paris documents case, appealing to higher court after nine months imprisonment.
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London
Count von Arnim
Carlsbad
Berlin
Paris
Supreme Court
von Arnim
Bohemia
Prince BisMARCKs Decorations Reach Forty-Two Marks
The article lists Prince BisMARCKs decorations totaling forty two from many nations including German, Belgian, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Austrian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Tunisian, Persian and Siamese orders plus the Danish Dannebrog Grand Cross the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor the Austrian Iron Crown the San Marino Grand Cross and a medal for saving a drowning man noted as the first in date. It notes difficulty in wearing them all at once and mentions some German orders were granted by potencies now retired from service.
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Prince Bismarck
Legion of Honor
San Marino
Mastodon Skeleton Unearthed Near Big Prairie Michigan
Workmen uncover a mastodon skeleton in Monroe County near Big Prairie. Tusks measure eleven feet long, teeth six inches in diameter, ribs near eight feet long, and the full skeleton estimated at twenty to thirty feet. Poor water conditions halted digging, but pumps enable a renewed attempt to recover more remains. A satirical remark questions robbery safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Prairie
Monroe County
Michigan
Monroe
Capital and West News Roundup Blends Unrest Fires and Gold
Protests against Columbia Typographical Union rules by Washington book printers. Dakota Territory Supreme Court upholds punishment for liquor selling to Indians off reservations. Government investigations expose state graft in Louisiana audits. Fires devastate Grand Rapids furniture works and Covington distillery with heavy losses. Various crimes, accidents, and sensational trials populate the national scene with reports from Memphis, Oshkosh, Fernandina, Boston, and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of
Dakota Territory
Congress
Sharon
United States District Court
Grand Rapids
Mich
Berkey & Gay Furniture Company
T. Jasper’s
Covington
Cincinnati
Bloch & Co
W. M
W. M. Donaldson
Joseph Trounstine
Dick Holcomb
Megrue
Bastrop
Louisiana
Jacques Levy
Wentworth
South Milton
N. H
Ingleside
South Holyoke
Mass
Cruiser the famed Nervy Horse dies at Groveport
The bay horse Cruiser, foaled 1852 in England and imported by John S Rarey, died alone in a grim gelded stall at Groveport near Columbus. Once a sensation in Rarey’s training era, Cruiser had lived in a pen since Rarey’s deathbed instruction to never sell him, enduring a neglected, muddy, starved life that contrasted with his early triumphs in London and America.
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Cruiser
England
Lord Dorchester
America
John S. Rarey
Venison
Little Red Rover
Eclat
Edmund
Squib
Soothsayer
Bernice
Alexander
Brunette
Aramanthus
Mayfly
Matchem
John Day
Rawcliffe
Day
London Post
Rarey
London
Three Kingdoms
Ohio
Dan Rice
Groveport
Columbus
Lucky Lady Entangled in a London Will Ruse
Two high born women shared an opera box and decades later a London solicitor visits Lady Bruce with news of a vast estate from the late Mr Wilson. The ruse uses the corpse of a coffin face to confirm identity and reveal the fortune was meant for the rival admirer.
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London
Lord A
Wilson
The Divided House in Ohio Politics
The piece accuses the Cincinnati Enquirer of Democratic corruption and slander aiding the whisky ring canal ring and private interests. It denounces Senator Thurman for opposing whisky taxes federal improvements inflation and other policies, portraying a pattern of bias and manipulation by allied journals.
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Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer
Thurman
Cincinnati
James River
Kanawha Canal
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Cary’s Advances Prompt Proclamations Stir Ohio Crowds
The Cincinnati Gazette notes General Cary’s speech at Niles was printed in advance and that the Cleveland Plain Dealer showed applause in that edition. Cary, quick with words, penned a resolution crediting General S. F. Cary for a supposed Pendleton victory, which Milton Sayler then offered to the crowd for adoption. The error surfaced next day. Cary remains a bold figure in Ohio politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Gazette
General Cary
Niles
Trumbull County
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pendleton
Hayes
Enquirer
Cary
S. F. Cary
Milton Sayler
Mexico Brigand Tales Versus A Quiet Promenade
A traveler dismisses sensational reports of Mexico’s brigandage after riding the railroad to Vera Cruz and visiting Alameda Park. He notes no robbers or danger on modern routes or in the park, contrasting authors’ fears with his own experience of safety and ordinary crowds.
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Mexico
New Orleans
Vera Cruz
Richard Turpin
Robin Hood
Alameda
Widow Adorns Lap Dog Crimson for Lover’s Nose
A Chicago widow commissions her lap dog to be dyed a vivid crimson as a playful tribute to her jovial paramour. The quirky gesture reflects the social atmosphere and intimate humor of the era.
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Chicago
Clermont Courier Advertising Rates
The Clermont Courier notes rates for legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional. A yearly reduction applies. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
DOROTHY AND EDWARDS REMEMBERED IN POEM OF LOVE AND WAR
A poem recalls a hundred years of devotion between Edwards and Dorothys family figures. The speaker reflects on a maiden’s yes and the enduring bond across time. The verses juxtapose distant memories with present life and the lasting impact of a single whispered pledge.
Quips and Characters Sketched in a Victorian Patchwork
A collection of humorous aphorisms and sketches from a 19th century page. It names Miss Charity Fuller of Hudson and various quips about reform, pleasure, jealousy, and rural manners. The tone satirical and moralistic with brief anecdotes and wry observations.
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Lucifers
Charity Fuller
Hudson
Charity
Margaret of Navarre
Express
New Hampshire
Beach
Plymouth
St. Louis
Detroit
English Lavender Fields Near London Feed Fragrance Trade
The article notes English lavender fields within thirty miles of London forming a sizable industry. It states annual English production yields enough lavender oil to make about thirty thousand gallons of spirits of lavender plus additional perfume uses. Plants reach three to seven years. harvest is the first week of August with distillation and bees aiding the process.
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France
Gul
London
England
Bean blower lesson leads to stray shot incident
A boy learns that the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence and uses a bean blower to fire through a church window at the gallery ceiling, repeatedly striking an unsuspecting worshiper.
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Warwickshire
Buckingham Palace
George III
Tennessee
Cumberland
Knoxville
Holston
Europe
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Yale
Cook
United States Circuit Court
New York
Philadelphia
New York City
Senate
House
Wuart
Washington City
Columbia Typographical Union
Gov. Kellogg
Attorney-General
Auditor’s Office
Field
Charles Clinton
Antoine Debuclet
P. G. Desmond
Charles W. Lowell
Waddy Thompson
Flippin
Memphis
Missouri
Thompson
Jackson
Louisville
Grand Jury
United States Court At
Oshkosh
Samuel Lewis
Jacob Rindskopf
Max Rindskopf
E. G. Johnson
Internal Revenue
Florida
Fernandina
Fla
Jacob I. Barber
Worcester
Wm. Young
Brooklyn
Newark
N. J
Carbondale
John Jordan
Minneola
Hamilton County
John Milton Bryson
Iowa City
Iowa
Close & Son
Chiha
Gilmore
Swaler
Turney
Walter Sinton
Herman Bechtal
Close
Pomeroy
Charles Street
Boston
Maryland
Baltimore
John Lee Carroll
Leven Woolford
Treasury
C. J. M. Gwynn
Joseph E. Johnston
Georgia
Arkansas Industrial University
St. Louis & Iron Mountain
Victory Station
Black Hills
Infantry
Calvary
Supreme Court of New York
Donohue
Tammany Hall
French Committee of Relief
Herzegovina
Porte
Mostar
Ragusa
Wimbledon
John Rigby
Major Fulton
Fulton
Sir Henry Halford
Col. Gildersleeve
Coleman
Gildersleeve
House of Lords
House of Commons
Commons
Lords
Canfield
Bruce
Ballard
William Collie
Newgate
London and Westminster Bank
Leicester
Greenfield
Forest of Dean
Godmanchester
Princess Louise
Duke of Cambridge
Earl Spencer
Marquis of
Lorne
Earl Kingston
Don Carlos
Alfonso
Guetaria
Madrid
Isaac M. Singer
Singer
Sam
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City
Colorado
Central
New Mexico
Las Vegas
Santa Fe
Los Cruises
el Paso
Old Mexico
Masilla
Tucson
Hog” Brown
Arizona
Hall
Sam. Hall
P.S
Earth
Frederick W. Seward
Connecticut
John G. Breslin
Breslin Party
Missouri Democrats
Indianapolis Journal
Hendricks
Charles W. Hall
Tilden
Bayard
Allen
Seymour
Christiancy
Kalamazoo
Senator Thurman
United States Senate
Northwest
New York World
Cary Man
Clermont Courier
Damsel Dorothy
Dorothy
Edwards
Dorothys
Pencil
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