Birth of a female elephant in Cooper & Bailey circus
A female Asiatic elephant named Hebe gave birth in the Cooper & Bailey stables in Philadelphia. The first known captive birth of a baby elephant prompts immediate scientific interest and is witnessed by keepers and other elephants. The calf, about 35 inches high and 214 pounds, is fed via a funnel and rubber tube, with the mother and crowd reacting with excitement.
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London Circus
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Cooper & Bailey
Twenty-third Street
Ridge Avenue
Europe
America
Elephant House
Hebe
Pisa
Mandiie
Leipy
How Animals Play and Enjoy Themselves in Nature
The piece surveys animal play from cranes and water birds to deer and big cats, noting odd stunts like the crane’s one leg and somersaults, ducks diving, and magpies burying pebbles. It quotes the Cleveland Leader on political discord in Ohio between Democratic factions and Greenback influences.
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Bouger
Tiny Conductor Solves Ticket Dilemma With Ladder
In a humorous incident on the Rock Island Railroad a five foot tall conductor named Bliss could not reach a passenger Henry's ticket lodged in his hat band. He fetched a step-ladder, climbed to retrieve the ticket, and continued as if nothing occurred, drawing laughs from the car.
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Bliss
Rock Island Railroad
Henry
Delirium Tremens Case Linked to Tobacco Use
A dispatch relates Hon. Charles Steele recounting his own illness twenty years ago from tobacco overuse that caused delirium tremens. He explains the attack led him to total abstinence and preceded a paralytic stroke in later life, noting a nervous temperament and teetotaler stance on alcohol.
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Charles Steele
Man in Ft Wayne Opposes Bank Bond Purchase
A Ft Wayne man attempted to buy 1.35 dollars in Government bonds at a national bank. When refused less than 1000 dollars, he insulted the institution as a Government shop and threatened to inform Dan Voorhees.
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Ft. Wayne
Government
Dan Voorhees
Dr D Auger's quill bark remedy for intemperance
Chicago Tribune reports Dr D Auger promotes quill bark a red Peruvian bark preparation. The method soaks bark in diluted alcohol then reduces to tea spoonful doses every three hours for days, claimed to cure 2800 intemperance cases within one to thirty days with no harm.
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The
Chicago Tribune
D’ Auger
D’auger
Reformation of a Drinker to a Farmer’s Success
At a Lancaster agricultural society meeting a speaker recalled hiring a man who had metaphorically eaten up “three hundred acres of land” by drink. The man quit drinking, started anew, and now owns a farm larger than his first. The speaker urged a broader reform mindset.
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Agricultural Society
Lancaster
Pennsyvania
Drainage method for clay soil fields
To drain a field with hard pan subsoil the land is unfavorable for normal drainage. Dig a deep well like hole through the impervious bottom, fill with refuse stones, replace earth to allow surface water to access the pit, and standing water will not harm grass or grain in that area.
From Boston Inscribed Mile-Stone Sparks Grief and Irony
Two Boston girls in the suburbs discover a weathered mile-stone with the inscription I am from Boston. One girl reads it aloud and imagines it marks a grave of a young girl who wished her tombstone to say I am from Boston, finding the notion striking and poignant.
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Boston
Hub
I. m
Mansfield
Boss
R. E. Olney
Jas
Pious Old Lady Compares Missionaries to Cannibals
A humorous exchange features a pious elder remark about five missionaries to 20 000 cannibals and her niece fretting that the cannibals will starve at that rate in a lighthearted dialogue.
Editor Aim to Beat Grant Predicted Judgment Day
A reader or commentator in Utica Herald predicts a judgment day in about three weeks. The exclaims "Hooray!" suggesting excitement to see Grant bested or challenged in the upcoming events.
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Utica Herald
Grant
Three Hour Prayer Prank Delays Virginia Assembly in 1860
In 1860 Richmond the Virginia Legislature endured a three hour and twenty five minute opening prayer after Sergeant at Arms Nat Thompson found a preacher to fill the slot during a missing presiding officer. Southall, the dyspeptic Albemarle member, refused to procure ministers himself.
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Richmond
Virginia
Charlottsville Chronicle
Southall
Albemarle
Nat Thompson
Hanover
Main Street
Hardshell
Capitol
Hartford Pew Auction Tale Prompts Sermon on Caution
In Hartford a church pew auction leads to a comic bidding duel between two friends each unaware the other is bidding for the same benefactor. After a flurry of bids reaching thirty eight, the winner is declared for Dr. unknown, highlighting how excessive caution can distort auction receipts.
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Hartford
Ess
No. 2
No. 1
Europe
Missing umbril and gingham bargain in Boston
A Boston Transcript tale recalls a flustered customer who insists a gingham umbril with iv ry handle vanished from the counter after a Monday purchase. A polite clerk questions the description as the shopper grows more excited and hurried, then leaves with excuses.
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Jemima Ann
Boston Transcript
Hayes remark on second term tests Rutherford and mandate
In Buffalo Courier prose Mrs Hayes teases Rutherford about promising not to seek a second term before securing the first. Rutherford replies he wished to meet the Father of his Country and set a future unwritten law for generations.
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The
Buffalo Courier
Ought a Woman Kiss a Tobacco Chewer
A witty editorial note asserts social norms about kissing a tobacco chewer, claiming a woman may kiss him if she herself chews tobacco, reflecting era attitudes toward manners and addiction.
Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters Offered Worldwide
Advertises Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters as the most successful medicines, established 1835 and used across North and South America. Claims cure for malarial diseases, liver issues, dyspepsia, and related ailments with certificates of cures. Lists prices and seller J. P. Mills at 585 Liberty Street New York.
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Moffat
North
South America
Page
J. P. Mills
Liberty Street
New York
Warner
Craig
Bright
Warner’s
H. Hl. Warner & Co
Rochester
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Dixie
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Ohio
Columbus
Nquirer
Plain Dealer
the Enquirer
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Thompson
Rutherford
John &, Farnam
Vana Wert
No. 15
Wall Street
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J. H. Zeilin & CO
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Beast
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van Wert
Benson
Seabury & Johnson, Pharmaceutical Chemists
Cooper & Conard
Ninth and Market Streets
Dr. C. Emerson
J. M.C. Marble
WM. H. Pennell
Emerson Marble & CO
van Wert, Ohio
Vings Department
van Wert B. & L. Stock
OL. Ostheimer
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Gi, Port, Sherry, &c
Grgans
Daniel F. Beaty
Washington, I. J
C. Lester
Dey Street
N. Y
Gents
National Publishing Co
Chicago
BOGK
A.gorton & CO
South 7Th St
Sherman & CO
Marshall, Michigan
Fener
Dr. Sykes
C. R. Sykes
E. Madison St
Chicago, al
Voltaic Belt CO
Marshall, Mich
T. 8
Gilliland
Board of Education
Henry Robinson
W.T. Exline
Webster & Wise
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A. P. McConahay
East Main Street
Constitution Water
Hill & Wilson
Morgan & Allen
John St
Jennings Road
John C. Smith
van Wert, O
Liberty Township
van Wert County
N. Brubaker
John Jones
Harrison L. Allen
Court of Common Pleas
Lima
Thurmmas G. Jones
Register of the Land Office
Thormmas G. Jones
Thomas G. Jones
Richitz & Hammer
C. H. Hill
Marchand Croninger
Samuel J. Rowland
Levi Rowland
Albert J. Roller
Alexander Williams
George A. Sienzle
Rosina Kienzle
William Foster
Joan A. Pstill
William Muntzinger
Charles Muntzinger
Simon Kiser
John Roebuck
Fredrick Lillick
Fredrick Reddig
W.H. Mozier
Isaac N. Alexander
Gaylord M.saltzgaber
John J .Darrell
William Swartz
Illiam Swartz
Adams County
Indiana
Gaylord M. Saltzgaber
John Darnell
Adams Circuit Court
Twenty-Eighth Judicial Circuit
Alexander & Halfhille
Joseph Custar
van Wert Common
Fiscus
Sidney Kesler
Laintiff
William Webber
Wils
Wils. Fiscus
S. Brumback
David Studabaker
Samuel Acker
John Bateman
Jane Bateman
Taylor McClure
Thomas McMahan
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Alenander & Halfhohill
Outlet
F. J. Bonewitz
D.d.swartout
Price & Shissler
Kate
John A. Estell
M. Foster
Pensions
H. F. Knowles
Ottawa
Putnam County
Emery Wheels
Tanite Company
Stroudsburg
Penn
James L. Price
S.T.W. Sanford
M.D
Pew
dagcdPes
Santorp
BYU
L. F. Gackenheimer, van Wert
Culverwell
Culverwell Medical CO
Ann St
N.Y
P. O. Box
Maria Moffett
Reichard
W. Hill
Middlepoint
O. Jacob Ackom
Harrison Township
C. Vance
8S. Brock
WillaSie
Snire
Shank & Lang
Delphos
H. H. Reichard
Willshire
Court of Coman Mon Pleas
Hancock County
Peter Hosler
Hanks P. Gage
Caroline Gage
State of
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J. A. Bork
Saltzgaber & Glenn
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