Grasshopper Plague Devastates Southern Siberia and Change of Leadership
The narrative recalls a creeping grasshopper invasion in Southern Siberia causing bare fields trees and water contamination. Civil authorities mobilize a universal pest control effort while famine follows. A Sunday scene in Memphis contrasts with the plague era church absence and altered city life. In New York politics Tilden and Tammany clash over the 1880 Democratic nomination with Niagara meetings and Syracuse convention set. A humorous Rhode Island dialect piece closes with a warning on private remedies and a moral about honest work.
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Tin Miestwik
Tool
Siberia
Springer
Ilinois
Tilden
Tlemmant
Ohio
Washington
New York Herald
Charles Nordoff
Boris
New York
Cen Ewing
Senator Davis
Wisconsin
Mene Orllinois
Davis
Saratoga
Tammany
Syracuse
Candi
Charlotte Observer
Nighttime footsteps stir a weary traveler in a lonely court
A Memphis Avalanche passage notes how quiet Court Square becomes at night with only squirrels and moody, sorrowful locals remaining. The scene mirrors a traveler wandering Pompe like loneliness. The piece compares urban epidemic loneliness to fever’s toll on spirit.
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Court Square
Pompe
Memphis
Gatefight at Union depot over port|pass ticket rights
An elderly woman battled depot guards to reach a train to Port Huron. She insisted she had a charter to send word to her daughter with a four‑week‑old baby. After a scuffle with a gatekeeper, she proclaimed she had more tickets and boarded a suitable passenger, humming The Three Blind Mice.
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Union
Port Huron
Port Aluron
Jree Press
Leap years and fodder crops for dairy farming explained
The article outlines the solar and civil year alignment via leap years, noting 400-year cycles and tiny long-term errors. It also recommends diverse green fodder for cows, praising peas and oats mixed 1 to 2, with green fodder corn, and stresses variety to improve milk quality and feed efficiency on good soils.
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North Carolina
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Aucre
Propmont
Norfleet & Vaughn
Z. L. Vagghn
Drucé Store
Winston
N. C
DR. Squibb
Smith’s Drug Store
Geo. W. Hinshaw
W. M. Hinshaw
Hinshaw Brothers
Ford ST
Piedmont
Winchester
Allison & Addison
Brand
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Sanford
M.D
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Germany
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Erman
Jessez
Rhode
Georgy
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Tutt
Tute Fosten
J. F. Haywood
Fico
Murray Street
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J. C. Ayer & CO
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Mass
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