Reminiscence of a Railroad Engine and a Narrow Escape
A veteran engineer recalls twenty five years on the line and a perilous night on a river bridge. A new signalman, alcohol, and a drunken error nearly caused a disaster. a Bible on the cab kept him calm as the train halted just in time. He resigned after the incident, ending with reflections on memory and fate.
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Port Jarvis
New York
Monticello
Jefferson Branch
Erie Road
Scranton
Tom Burke
Christian Secretary
Gold Leaf Express
Northern Mail
Cleveland
Jupiter
Rogers
Danforth
Hickley
Beck
Jim
America
Boccachio hose ignites Vienna fashion trend
The London World notes a novelty called Boccachio, a white silk stocking on the left leg and a pink one on the right. It spreads through both demi and grand society, aided by Parisian opera influence, with critics joking about the precision of left and right.
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Vienna
London
Fraulein Link
Suppe
The Colorado Desert Described As A Miserable Wastescape
The San Francisco Argonaut laments the Colorado desert as utterly barren and desolate with blazing sun and winds. It notes a lone strip of Whitewater waterway and imagines primeval forests, meadows, and abundant life as a contrast to the harsh, treeless plains.
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San Francisco Argonaut
Colorado Desert
San Bernardino
Yuma
Colorado
Self-taught girl completes algebra after home schooling
Fannie Allen, fourteen, from Taunton, never attended school but learned at home. She advanced from arithmetic to algebra and then to geometry, finishing Greenleaf's Elementary Algebra and Treatises on Algebra by March 29, with two large volumes of solved problems as evidence.
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Lizzie Doyle
Papa
Mr. Stanley
Laura
Lizzie
Laura Stanley
General Wayne
Erie
Pennsylvania
Ft. Presque Isle
John C. Wallace
Chester County
Wallace
Wayne
Dr. Wallace
Young Wayne
Ft. Presque Isie
A. W
Boston Journal
Tauton
Fannie Allen
Greenleaf
Irish Emigration to Canada Declines in 1878
The Montreal Post notes Irish immigration to Canada fell in 1878 with only 606 leaving for Canada while total emigration from Ireland reached 41,000. Most went to England, Scotland, the United States, New Zealand, and Austria. Government agencies spent $180,000 on immigration with unclear returns.
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Canada
Montreal Post
Ireland
England
Scotland
United States
New Zealand
Austria
Dominion
United
When our ancestor traded the tail for flight
In a whimsical note the Boston Transcript reflects on flight during a fly’s interference with the narrator. The piece muses on primeval history and the idea that our ancestor might have erred by discarding the tail in the pursuit of flight.
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Boston Transcript
Controversy Between Confederacy and United States Persists
Maj Butterworth in Cincinnati denounces the Southern Confederacy elements in the Federal Congress. He accuses Confederate Senators and Cabinet members of influencing the House, praises Northern mercy after 1862, and warns of attempts to starve the government via amendments to appropriation bills. He cites violence in the South and the Union army as protection for voters.
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Butterworth
Cincinnnati
United States
Confederate Congress
Richmond
House of Representatives
Appomattox
Congress
Blackburn
Kentucky
Chalmers
Mississippi
South
Abraham Lincoln
North
Army of the Union
Plain Talk for Cincinnati and Political Rants
A historical transcription notes inflammatory claims about Cincinnati politics and Radical forces with references to suppression at polls. The passage contrasts a Cincinnati issue with a remark about radicals and marshals, calling the city the Berlin of America and urging resistance to perceived sectarian pressure. The item also mentions an unrelated quip about a Western man’s hair color changing due to illness.
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Cincinnati
Kentucky News
Cincinnati Rads
Berlin
America
Jacob
Humorous Quote About Neighbors by Josh Billings
A quip notes that a man who asks what his neighbors think of him can learn what they really think in return. The line plays on social insight and mutual observation with a comic twist.
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Miss Stanley
Judge Agate
Laura
Aggie Doyle
Alice
Lizzie
Mr. Doyle
Papa
Doyle & Co
Rutger
Laura Stanley
Josh Billings
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Lan Abertalletin
Foster
PHICE
Thursdey Oon
Georgiana C. Glemn
van Wert
First Street
Washington
Jeferson
J.K. Woods
M. D. Dee
Washington Street
Bridge
W. W. Depuy
ofPuy House
William Smith
van Wert,co
Union Block
Pennell’s
Main
Jackson Sta
Attorneys AT Law
H.C. Glenn
Emerson Priddy
Gleen & Priddy
McCurdy
G. M. Saltzgaber
A’ Ge
L*w
Jacobs
H. Kemper
Ohio
G.B. Wells
Helist’s
Courts of Ohio
I. D. Clark
John Dabnell
Clark & Dabnell, Actes AT Law
van Wert, O
McCurdys
Particwar
James M. Barr
West Main Street
L. Phice
Ira P. Bhissler
Price & Shissloer, Ttorney AB AT Law
Iron Block
J.S. Boumback
W.d. Beers
Jas. Clark & Son
Jwisher & Galleher, Brice and
Hair Dressers
J.W Evans
D. Newcomers
J. W. Penn
Spring Bed Bottoms, &Co
Poisbear Coure Housh
BT. van Whrt
Swineford & Sons
Arcdae
von Wert
Obio
Swineford
Sonb. Wert, Ohio
Heistand & Bro
General Blacksmiths
Practical Horse-Shoer’s
Brown & Billman’s Livery Stable
Jefferson Street
Bismarck
Kansas
Narbonne
France
California
Oregon
Swift County
North Pacific
Minnesota
National Board of Colonization
New York City
San Francisco
Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Eldorado
Leadville
Vincennes
Ind
Rentz
Mabel Santley
David W. Peters
Rhode Island State
Providence
Rhode Island
Jeff Davis
Georgia
Wilks County
Fletcher Webster
Department of State
Daniel Webster
Lord Ashburton
Marshfield
W. W. Corcoran
Madison
Indiana
St. Louis
Battery B
The
National Tribune
South Mountain
Little Jane
Ned
Yanks
Yankee
Mad Anthony
Ferguson
Market Street
Thomas
Anda
Mr. Ferguson
Thomas Cat
T. J. Cole
M. D
West
Cole
T.j.cole
M.D.V.S
L. F. Gackenheimer
Holman Liver Pad Co
Shiloh
Gidas
Ohio Drug Store
East Main Street
Dr.j.glenn
Winefords’ Grocery
South Washington Street
D. Spangler
Hunter
Mary E. Lowry
Caroline Street
Desert
Chronicle Herald
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