A Review of the Year From Troy to New York
A condensed year in review notes peace outside Spain and the Spanishto American states amid looming conflicts. It highlights Congress battles over currency, investigations into Republican corruption, cabinet resignations, and a 1879 political shift toward Democrat dominance. Civil strife in Arkansas and Louisiana, pivotal state elections, and a nationwide drift from Radicalism mark the year alongside notable disasters, deaths, and cultural events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nowa
Spain
United States
Democratic Party
Congress
Senate
Sanborn
Jayne
Doss Shepherd
Richardson
Treasury Department
Drnstow
Cresswell
Jewell
Hunslin
Fundament
Louisiana
Baxter
Thin
Aimler & New Constitution
Smith
Clayton Dorsey
Jack’ McClure
Washington
Rone
New Wampshire
Ohio
Indiana
House of Representatives
Dodge
Williams
Tompking Square
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Chicago
Europe
Amerique
Mississippi
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Fall River
Massachusetts
Charleston
South Carolina
Central Baptist Church
Syracuse
Ashfeld
Mill River
New Remedy Aqua puncture for Neuralgia in France
A new treatment named aqua puncture is described in France for neuralgia. A small water pump delivers a jet to the palatal spot, causing vesicles that fade after hours, with a red and pale mark left. The operation is painful but reportedly highly relieves pain, prompting repeat sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Norkal
Emigrant Train Passenger Dies in Sleep at San Leandro
A aged emigrant woman from Alfred Maine, Crediford, traveling with her family on a westward train, fell asleep on her son's shoulder near San Leandro and died quietly. Her son and daughters, awaiting in San Jose, learned of her death as the journey resumed, the body later brought to the city for the bereaved family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dent
San Leandro
Acentleman
Ion
Doly
David Ligne Weds Rebecca Scott In Edgar County
In a Lincoln County style notice from Edgar County, Mr. David Ligne married Mrs. Rebecca Scott, widow of the late Scott, at the bride’s residence in tess township. Rev. Me. Pullay officiated as guests observed modest festivities. The bride reportedly has sixty living grandchildren and twenty five great grandchildren amid inclement weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Edgar County Cll Cigette
Tess
Me. Pullay
David Ligne
Rebecca Scout
Tel Scott
Festiva
The Plasterer’s Life Through Contradictions and Care
The life of a plasterer is treated as a paradox marked by misrepresentation and abuse yet welcomed into families with affection. The text traces the emotional toll, the tears of joy, and constant surveillance of health and fate. It argues plasterers endure hardship, starving when unwell, while fighting illness and opposing personal interests to pursue a higher integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thors
Night Patrol Encounters Ghostly Object On City Street
Detroit Free Press reports a night patrol in Michigan where a policeman on Second Street encountered a ghostly object that appeared to loom over him. The officer noted the strange figure, while a resident replied calmly that the overnight visitor walked with him, sparking astonishment and a quiet exchange as the old woman nearby slept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agate
Cromelig
Detroit
Lesa
Train platform baby swap ends in scramble on Sacramento rail
Three men including John D. Winters and J M Walker intervene when a German man on a Sacramento to San Francisco run snatches a baby from a woman and tries to leap from the moving rear car. Walker restrains him as the Dutchman clings to the infant amid danger, while witnesses search for the mother who placed the child with the stranger. The scene ends with the baby returned to the train crowd and no woman found accountable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Winters
J. M. Walker
Walker
Virginia
Judge Garber
White Pine
Nevada
Oakland
California
Sacramento
San Francisco
Walker Anes
Tenton
Winters
Salen
Valker
Lin
Tie
Tin
Garber
Kinwid
Colle
Hiv
Lis
Hier
Ile
Teuton
Lili
Jug
Mr. Walker
Trigall
Walkers
Katrina
Oakland Baby Story Echoes in Dutchman’s Walk
A distressed scene in Oakland follows a Dutch man tied to a troubling custody dispute involving a baby and Katrina. The man, in shirt sleeves, carries the infant and fears returning home, while gossip and fear swirl around the situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etrina
Katrina
Oakland
Lila Arma
Tila
Fragmented essay on hash culture and historic figures
A garbled,WS-era style monologue surveys hash through quotes attributed to figures from Wellington to Twain. It weaves misquoted lines about hash as sustenance, a social force, and a metaphoric substance, ending with buoyant praise of hash as a unifying social artifact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh Millingson Bush
Anny
Duke of Wellington
Hash
Tash
Orashuns
Sokraton
Mark Twain
Nashby
Thomas Nast
Vienna
Thomas Kenton
Tiurgo
Washington
Ani
Royalty and oddities spark offbeat Chronicle reads
A Western city gentleman recalls seeing a king in a visit to a depot while a reporter quips of past royal encounters. Jokes and moral quips ripple through readings from Capitol to Stone Sentinel as tales of clergy, a Pear incident, Spurgeon quotes, and a proposed convention surface in a miscellany column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle
Hin
Tarves Linge
Chee Kimga
Puise
Acespol
Ain
Ilia
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Troy Herald
Iulvot
Fillmore
Sumner
Marahal Concha
Marshal von Gablentz
Cospedea
Cuba
Ciewerala Foster
Iartsull
United States Army
Adual Shitrick
Strauss
Michelet
Danin
Dobell
Tom Tood
Miss Strickland
Hugo
Dristed
Cesaylat
Shirley Brooks
Arta
Foley
Rhineheart
Koulbach
Poalutery
Parepa Trosa
Aguthn States
Mark Silih
Prederleck Conway
Deke
Slansen
Jbury Grinnell
Lave Diat
Benjamin BR. Curtis
John W. Edmonda
James W. Gerard
John Ganson
Baron Myer de Rothechild
John Susten Stevens
J. Edgar Thomp
Sson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lunalilo
Iawall
Chang
Eng
Slamere
Professor Diot
John Harper
Rider Knapp
Pofessor Anderson
John Hooker
Tloward Stanton
Henry Smith
Lluvemeyer
Darkey Conference
Corhaan
Braddoey Junes
Capitol
Spurgeon
Liberty Street
Stone Sentinel
Iasrox
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