Odd Deaths And Odd Facts From The Era
A report from Ulster county, New York, states Kaurz Gabir was found dead by hanging in an outhouse but investigators suspect the rope entangled while adjusting a swing. Other notes include catfish in an underground pond in Kentucky, Hawthorne and Gladstone eye lore, Yale Class of 1883 demographics, and a Boston/Philadelphia society blurb about a surf-side wedding at Ocean City with a clergyman and a playful sea.
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Kaurz GaBir
Woodstock
Ulster County
N. Y
George W. Hart
Kentucky
Ohio River
Spain
Hea
Philadelphia Times
Miss Wiley
Mr. Barr
Ocean City
Loxera
St. Louis
Anc
Neptune
Dakota settlers take up vast government lands in 1883
The Land Commissioner reports Dakota settlers occupied between 25 000 and 35 000 farms on government lands in the fiscal year ending June 30 1883. Each holder could claim up to 320 acres under pre emption homestead or timber acts. millions of acres were taken up beyond railroad land grants.
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Dakota
Washington
Curious water tests and a trial on undue influence
An itinerant peddler on a street corner demonstrates lime water turning milky when exposed to incipient consumption, then adds acid to erase the cloudiness claiming proof of a cure. In a Pennsylvania murder trial six jurors attend church and hear a sermon that ends with Thou shalt not kill, prompting a request for a new trial over alleged undue influence. An old and rather takes Bento.
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Pennsylvania
Bent
Goats Drown After River Rush Floods Colorado Range
A goat herder on a Colorado stock ranch drove about 70 goats to a river for water when a sudden wall of water ten to fifteen feet high surged down the bend. About 200 of 700 goats drowned before the herder escaped to a tree and waited twenty four hours for the river to subside.
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Colorado
Baseball tales mix humor danger and schemes across leagues
The article idles through baseball lore from umpire risks to players salaries and a fishing reel of anecdotes. It notes Chicago’s swift eleventh man, Philadelphia’s president planning a $30 000 nine, and a boy struck by a foul ball in Minneapolis. It also jokes about umpires facing dangers and a Monkey Camel tale, closing with a comic ballad tribute to J Smith.
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Chilcago
Reeach
Philadelphia
Eppiz Carp
Apolis
Minn
Cincinnati
Eclipse
Cincinnatis
Carpenter
Cher Whiting
Louisville
Whiting
George Peck
Browntheer
Ali
Fire Department of
Troy
Horas Phillips
Buffalo
Darwin
Louisville Counrier-Journal
New York Stock Exchange
Col. Sellers
Ordéta
Treasuries
Yankee Doodle at Ghent and theatrical notes roll on
The tale recalls John Quincy Adams chauffeuring a whistler to supply the score for Yankee Doodle at Ghent after the peace treaty. It reflects on theater news with actors, impresarios, and impresarios failures, noting Karl Langtry and other stage business, plus a big printing job for Western Union blanks and Wall Street memoranda.
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Robert C. Winthrop
John Quincy Adams
Europe
Great Britain
Ghent
United States
Adams
Bayard
Clay
Jonathan Russell
Gallatin
Mr. Adams
America
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
New York
Col
Chicago Journal
Western Union
Wall Street
Russell Sage
Ever Provident
Picking Up Cables by Grapnel and Dynamometer
The article explains cable recovery gear used by the Minis ship to lift broken telegraphic lines. A hemp rope with embedded steel wires carries a blunt iron grapnel weighing 100 pounds to snag cable ends, with a dynamometer measuring rope strain to ensure a catch. It cites feats like recovering a line two and a quarter miles deep and rapid splicing by Capt. Trbtt near St Pierre.
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Minis
Anglo- American
Atlantic
Trbtt
St- Pierre
Patent medicine testimonial from 1879 in Battle Creek
In Battle Creek Michigan on January 31 1879 Thomas G Knox testifies that after years of indigestion and debility he used Hop Bitters by doctor's advice and received almost instant relief expressing hearty endorsement of the remedy for others suffering similar ailments.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Thos, G. Knox
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