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Excerpts discuss extreme heat and desert winds, United States population percent notes, European powers on the brink of war, and a Toronto to Chicago trip by a Black man who was a war cook, ill with smallpox.
20 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
1
Excerpts discuss extreme heat and desert winds, United States population percent notes, European powers on the brink of war, and a Toronto to Chicago trip by a Black man who was a war cook, ill with smallpox.
A Senate resolution seeks information on treaty rights with Nicaragua Honduras El Salvador and Costa Rica. Oklahoma occupation queries surface as the administration frames policy. Secretaries and bills are named while Central America and Oklahoma tensions unfold.
Satirical report from Rock Arkansas on March 15 notes the flight of Joseph Hudgins, Polk County legislator, as officers pursue him without success. Authorities suspect he fled the state or hid in a neighborhood past sent him to the legislature. Hudgins is charged with arson in Monroe County Georgia in 1873.
Ottawa dispatch reports the last Canadian Voyageurs are en route to Korti and will sail for England soon. The government rejected their offer of continuous service for double pay. An artists deputation from Rome, including two Americans, plans to travel to Washington to push tariff retention for the ign wake act.
Reports from Washington Philadelphia and Boston describe early daylight observations of the annular sun eclipse amid clouds and clear moments. Naval Observatory teams photographed stages, with about 100 exposures taken. gaps remained as clouds blocked the late contact.
A historical note recalls observing a Jamaican black scorpion and an experiment with blowing on it to stop its movement. The account details the scorpion’s reactions, a glass containment, a ring of burning sticks, and the creature’s eventual self-termination in a bottle of spirits, followed by a broader old newspaper mix of legislative items and science tidbits.
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