Survey to link Youngstown and Alliance for a Pittsburg line
The Pennsylvania company plans a survey along the Youngstown Alliance corridor to serve as a shortcut for the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago line. Multiple items cover crops, debt, notable deaths, crimes, and curiosities. the report notes winter wheat prospects in Indiana and Illinois, Mexico’s $55,000,000 debt, and the death of Mammoth Queen Mrs Ballou.
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Pennsylvania Company
Youngstown
Alliance
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Mexico
Charles Ballou
Saranac, Mich
Mammoth Queen
Bread Thief and Orphans Move Judge to Tears
In Virginia City a young girl Lena Dawson is caught stealing bread to feed her three siblings. The officer brings aid with bread coal and groceries, and amid public sympathy miners raise funds. Judge Moses learns Lena is Madeline Winters sister, and with Jim Dawson reuniting the family, tears flow as relief comes.
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San Francisco
Abe Denning
Mr. Denning
Willie
Lena
Molly
Childern
Eureka
Dawson
Jim Dawson
Lena Dawson
Virginia City
Moses
Hera Long Alec
Leeny
Joe
Long Alec
Sedge
Madaline Winters
Madeline Winters
Kansas City
Madeline Moses
Judge Moses
Uncle
Nelee
Democratic Mistakes Mentioned In New York Herald
The New York Herald comments on Senator Mahone defending Virginia debt policy and criticizes Northern Democrats and liberal Southerners for opposing him. It notes public figures like Voorhees and Lamar, and references a President Garfield visit and a Leadville Washington’s Birthday ball with 400 guests, liquor, and fatalities.
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New York Herald
Senator Mahone
Virginia
Mr. Voorhees
Villain Thwarted in Chicago Pliay at Grand Opera House
A chaotic stage incident unfolds during a Southern Seas performance in Chicago with Jimmie Grant and Miss Rachel Nowh. Burke the villain advances using a hatch to seize a youth, a Colorado man intervenes, a scuffle ensues, the man disrupts the scene then learns it was a staged prank and returns to his seat to cheers as Burke resumes.
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Abe
Eighth Wisconsin
Milwaukee Daily Republican
Dawes
Eight Regiment
Historical Society
Grand Opera House
Chicago
Jimmie Grant
Rachel Nowh
Burke
Mr. Jordan
Jimmie
Colorado
Rejected Suitor’s Mock Wedding In Buffalo
In Panama Chautauqua County a well known couple is tied to a jesting marriage. A rejected suitor arranged a rehearsal of the wedding with the bride and a minister. The mock ceremony led to a claimed legal marriage. The bride refuses to live with him.
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Buffalo Express
Panama
Chautauqua County
Ohio Prison Reform Bill Adds Civil Rights Restore Policy
The Ohio Senate passed a bill by Licey of Medina expanding prison reform. It provides clothes on discharge and after ten months of good conduct, restoration to civil rights via affidavits from twelve local citizens. It also removes permanent civil disability for those with past marks and fixes past injustices caused by faulty enforcement. President Garfield receives a cotton bale from Texas admirer with notes on politics and White House renovations.
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Ohio
Licey
Medina
Penny Press
Garfield
Thomas Shirgins
Fort Worth
Texas
Fragmented 19th Century Quotations and Local Banter
A collage of stray quotes and short anecdotes from various papers. It includes lines about vegetarianism, royal gossip, colonial anecdotes, and a coffee saloon episode, with a mix of humorous and pointed remarks attributed to several city papers.
Spring Mantles and Wraps in Black and Colorful Fabrics
The Philadelphia Times details spring mantles in black and bright colors, including sacques dolmans pelisses and visites in cloth cashmere camel hair brocades silks satins velvet plush chenille and fringes. Descriptions cover redingotes visites paletot visites capes and jackets with lavish passementerie embroidery and decorative sleeves.
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Directoire
Philadelphia Times
A Kentucky Bird Story Draws Crowds From Far Away
Somerset Special to Cincinnati Enquirer reports nightly bird roosts five miles south of race on Cedar Bluffs of the Comerland River attract crowds. Birds darken the sky at sundown as hawk and dove share branches and thousands are netted by locals, described with vivid colors and music.
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Comerland River
Cedars
Tropics
Somerset
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tooth Test Determines Fitness for Chinese Army Enlistment
A recruiting officer uses a dentist chair to extract a tooth to judge a man's fitness for China’s army. If the candidate screams or resists, he is disqualified. if he endures and remains calm, he earns a permanent place in the ranks.
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Army of
China
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