04 Dec 1874
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Newspaper
Washington Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1874
Page
1
Jeremiah Horrox, a Liverpool area boy, predicted and witnessed the first transit of Venus across the sun. He studied Kepler, corrected tables, and waited years for the event in 1639 at age twenty, balancing science with devout worship.
The Springfield Republican notes joy in the Cabinet over an independent journal returning, while the Chicago Tribune loses a postmaster advertisement funded from the Inter Ocean. Senator Logan, furious at the act, expects trouble for Postmaster Jewell if he pursues Senate confirmation.
In Curiaco on November 23 the Directors of the Board of Trade fixed sixty five cents for corn and fifty cents for oats as current margins. Dealers accused of conspiring to corner the grains pressed for higher values, claiming a fictitious market manipulation.
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a wife’s tearful public plea at the central station after John Henry Polk deserted her for a woman named Sarah. The sergeant advises calm as authorities pursue Polk to bring him back.
Basil Harrison, aged nineteen, wed Martha Stillwell against her mother’s wishes in Greencastle Pennsylvania. Her father aided the elopement by secretly guiding a shoe to be made, and the couple married with his witness. The marriage lasted seventy years.
A New York correspondent notes the rise of small, steady merchants over 25 years including a rags-to-riches picker who built a vast warehouse by selling exact quality baskets and a cigar store that prospered by never stocking domestic cigars. He also recalls old caterers in cramped, timeless dens where top merchants once began, serving chops and beefsteaks to loyal crowds.
The Boston Herald recounts Edwin M. Stanton dying after a private shaving in his apartment. A colored valet startled by a razor stroke, officials arrived too late, and Stanton died at 3 am after a rapid burial and hush-hush funeral arrangements.
Warren County paper recalls a Civil War nurse and his comrade Billy the cabinet maker. Decades after nursing a fevered soldier near Warrenton, a will reveals the nurse left fifty thousand dollars in Government bonds to Billy as a testamentary remembrance. The letter invites Billy to claim the fortune and reflects on lasting gratitude.
A French tourist portrays Moltke in a Silesian chateau village. The marshal rises at five to coffee brewed overnight, surveys stables, granary, mills, and a distillery, tours the orchard, then lunches at ten, handles correspondence, walks or drives, and dines with tea at eight. Sundays he rests, reads with workers, and prays at his wife’s grave, a bond marked by her 1868 Christmas death.
Short dresses regain favor among young tailors and customers despite persistent sizing challenges. The trend highlights evolving styles and the demand for fit across varying body types, reflecting broader shifts in apparel markets.
A spring project by six Chicago centered lines the Chicago and Alton C B A C and Ft Wayne Chicago and Northwestern Milwaukee and St Paul and Michigan Central will build a joint passenger depot occupying most of the block between Van Buren and Madison streets the river and Gamal street. The project costs two million dollars and the agreement has been signed by all six lines.
The late General Thomas A. S. A. is humorously probed for leave by a backwoods soldier seeking to visit his wife after three months of marriage. The general replies he has not seen his own wife in three years, prompting the soldier to retort that he and his wife are not of the same kind.
The Florida Legislature's status hangs on the stance of three or four incoming members who are claimed by both sides. These lawmakers were elected as independents and now influence the ultimate political alignment before a United States Senatorship vote.
A collage of humorous notes and bizarre anecdotes. Observations about politics, fraudsters, and a deceased man named John Forde. Vignettes include a Chicago swindle in church, Worcester talent rewards, a barber shop opening in Boston, and odd medical tales from Montpelier France and a Missouri smoke house incident.
The Scottish biographical sketch notes James Smye, Edinburgh University clinical surgeon, discovered a process to dissolve india rubber for flexible tubes and waterproof fabrics. By 1818 he published details later patented by Mackintosh, yet Smye did not patent, staying true to his medical vocation.
Boston November 20 prominent Republicans form a Commonwealth Club for men from all parties and those disgusted by politics. Officers include I R Dear as President Henry L Pierce Richard Olney John Q Adams and W R Perkins as Vice Presidents.
The Daily Champion Atchison quotes official Board of Agriculture data showing 158000 acres of corn planted in 17 counties yielded no harvest. Five counties grew other cereals enough to relieve local need, while frontier counties with 24000 residents face extreme hardship from cold and lack of clothing and fuel, relying on charity.
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