English Rail Cars and Coal Fears Reported Across Europe
Railway World notes upcoming sixty seat passenger cars to replace six seat boxes and compares sleeper popularity. English observers face a coal shortage scare as experts warn Britain may rely on imports for millennia while prices and fuel use climb. In Frome, Major Wickham and Mr George Wood Sheppard sentence 66 year old Sarah Beachim to fourteen days hard labor for stealing coal from Trinity School yard, found with coal wrapped in paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway World
America
Frome
England
Major Wickham
George Wood Sheppard
Sarah Beachim
Trinity School
Grasshoppers spread across Kansas and Missouri in large swarms
Dispatches report grasshoppers swarming from Missouri toward the Rocky Mountains, smaller in size but just as destructive as last season. Nebraska and Minnesota may see relief, while a New York gathering marks the American Sunday School Union’s 51st anniversary and details extensive publishing and field work aided by the American Bible Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Missouri
Rocky Mountains
Nebraska
Minnesota
American Sunday School Union
New York City
Stuart Robinson
Louisville
American Bible Society
New England
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Texas
California
Ketchum
Merillon
Jackson County
Wis
Port Jervis
N. Y
Osceola
Pennsylvania
Shenandoah
Rife
Charles Hays
Middleport
Pottsville
Sloutzdale
Ellangowan Colliery
South Norwalk
Connecticut
Loundsbury Bros
Rockwells
Fairfield Fire Insurance Company
C. A. Lander
Loundsbury Bros. & Rockwell
Stoddardville
Walker Bros
D. R. Good
G. M. Brishen
L. Y. C. Lingle
Jos. H. Lipton
L. A. Crist
John Elliott & Co
J. C. Henderson
Emmett Sayers
Presbyterian Church
Osceola Mills
Moshannon Land and Lumber Company
Moshannon
Philadelphia
Stoneberger
Lexington
Karns City
Penn
Satterfield & Taylor
United Pipe Line
Tribune
McGregor
Iowa
Village Creek Woolen Mills
Lansing
Howell, Carroll & Ratcliff
John C. Breckinridge
Chandler, Hart & Co
Cadiz
Lisbon
Portugal
London
England
John Morse
Detroit
Abraham Lincoln
Batavia
Lll
Robert T. Lincoln
Chicago
Jno. C. Breckinridge
Leslie
Stevenson
McCreary
Knights Templar
Breckinridge
Henry Clay
Cincinnati
Nathaniel Wright
Little Miami Railroad
Erwin House
theWestern Christian Advocate
Isaac E. Jones
Society of Friends
Jones
House
Methodist Book Concern
The
Telegraph
Jesse D. Bright
United States
Indiana
Morley
Bertie Rockwell
Daniel O’leary
Chisago
West Side
Ile
Alexandra joins English navy as mighty armored ship
The Alexandra, a 9000 ton battleship with 25 ton guns and 12 inch armor, is completed and added to the English navy. Named for the Princess of Wales, the launch was a grand event with the Princess present, cutting the cord, christening wine broken, and a festive crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandra
Princess of Wales
Grasshoppers and fires sweep across many states
A Omaha dispatch debunks a false report about the Union Pacific bridge case and notes trains run from the Omaha side. Iowa dispatches deny grasshopper ravages and predict strong crops. Widespread fires hit mills, lumber yards, stores, and towns from Michigan to Pennsylvania and beyond, with heavy losses and evacuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Nebraska
Council Bluffs
Union Pacific Railroad Company
United States Circuit Court
Iowa
St. Louis
Kansas City
Babies and Baths in Health Journal
A physician recounts a case of a frail infant saved by careful care and natural feeding. The mother uses fresh cream, warm water baths, gentle massage, and cooling dips, with gradual cooling and dilution, to foster growth and health. The author urges cautious, reasoned care by nurses and doctors to allow innate vitality to flourish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Young
M. D
Madam Bonaparte Seeks Century Goal in Society Gossip
Harper's Bazaar notes Madame Bonaparte aims to reach one hundred, likening her wish to the late Madame Rothschild who at ninety seven wished for a hundred to avoid appearing under par. The piece also mentions children wearing color Ep stockings in public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Bonaparte
Harper
Madame Rothschild
Rothschild
Political Notes on Debt and 3rd Term Talk
Public debt for the year totals 11 778 809 with a month drop of 2 325 356. Remarks touch Republican candidates for Illinois governor and lieutenant governor and skepticism about Grant seeking a third term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Logan
Shelby L. Cullom
Illinois
New York
Jefferson Davis
the Graphic
Grant
St. Louis Globe
London Times
the Times
United States
Philadelphia Bulletin
Andrew Johnson
Johnson
Cui1caGo Tribune
General Grant
Cincinnati Gazette
Council
New Hampshire
Natt. Head
Senate
Nathaniel
Frank Jones
Congress
Jones
Franklin
The South and northern politics and a Georgia train car tale
An article argues the South's black vote fixes party power, cites Memphis Appeal on the Republican tilt, and notes Georgia figures on railcar segregation. It also retells a Georgia train car incident with Stephens Clisby and Peeples, affirming car rules and race-based seating. The piece ends with reflections on Sherman Grant praise and a humorous frontier duel tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Memphis
Georgia
Atlanta Herald
Macon and Western
Central Railroad
Griffin
A. H. Stephens
Clisby
Macon Telegraph
Cincinnatus Peeples
Stephens
Mr. Clisby
Colonel Peeples
Mr. Stephens
Peebles
Confederate States of America
Congress
Macon
Atlanta
Colonel Peebles
Clermont Gourier Advertising Rates
Legal and transient advertisements cost 100 per square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each additional insertion. Ten lines. A yearly liberal reduction applies to advertisements. Business cards up to six lines are 6.00 per year.
My Grandmother's Table in Distant Family Memory
An old circular three legged table figures as a center of family life in a fond reminiscence. The piece sits near a high backed settle and cradle a clock chairs and a kettle while describing bean porridge and doughnuts from forefathers days. Many loved ones have since passed away.
Milwaukee artists joke about a drier crack
A garbled patch of Victorian quips and verses mocks tradesmen, drinkers, and sayings. It satirizes Milwaukee tailors and policemen calling themselves artists while noting absurdities about weather, birds, and nursery items, ending with a playful exchange about a nursery tablecloth.
Baptismal Fashion Sparks Streetcar Banter
A group of young Louisville ladies discussed a baptism in church with reporters nearby. They gossiped about Mamie’s mauve dress and style, arguing white is traditional but baptism may occur only once, prompting a comment on fashionable zeal in modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloudsley Shovel
Scilly Islands
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mamie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Isv
Sperenburg
Berlin
Windsor
Wise & Loomis
Loomis
Center Street
Mahoney City
Russell & Young
T. F. Eckberg
A. Mott
Trappe
Whitby
George Lockwood
Dalmas
Uls
West St. Paul
Minn
Nashville
Florida
Madison Station
Hickory County
Daniel Nuffreiger
Rutherford
Rogers
Yokohama
Japan
Post Office Department
Yeddo
Pacific Mail
China
Low Chew Islands
Challenger
Pacific
Vancouver
Augustine, Ifeard & Co
Nil
Cape Idzzu
Antelli and Swaby
Comptier de Escompte
Deparis
Iris
Immy
Thalia
Yeddo Bay
Withers
Adds
Corean
Corea
Siam
Kido
Itagaki
Imperial Council
United Kingdom
Manchester
Neal Dow
Wilfred Lawson
Dow
Havana
Montserrat
M. Barbie
Rio Janeiro
Deutsche Brazilsche Bank
Hamburg
Fall Mall
Bismarck
Europe
Keogh
Moore
John Mitchell
Court of Common Pleas
London Telegraph
Brussels
Liege
Prince Bismarck
Duchesne
London Standard
Rome
Palermo
Southern Democracy
General Sherman
Sherman
Ulysses
Geneal Grant
New York Times
Yruka
Colt
Tim
Tucker
Friend
Tom O’shanter
Clermont Gourier
Pencil
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Bress de Lamb
Gwine
Frances Anne Kemble
Tommy
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!