05 Jun 1875
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Newspaper
Wilmington Daily Gazette
Location
Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1875
Page
1
A traveling salesman in Detroit enacts a bedbug exterminator routine aimed at women in homes. He uses a tin trunk to pitch Sunset Bedburg Exterminator, clashing with skeptical housewives and ending the day in frustration outside a commission house as dusk falls.
Minnesota Northfield June 1 1875 Letter describes St. Paul and Minnesota Railroad trip through prairie and big woods naming frost weather 46 below zero in January. Notes ice crops strawberries markets from Tennessee and Kansas wheat yield 19 bushels per acre soil black loam and hoppers. Mentions diversity of residents Germans Northmen Eastern and few from Delaware. Discusses Indian issues Sioux City three thousand waiting for Washington conference, Black Hills fever, and cheap living with eggs ten cents a dozen.
A passenger locomotive on the D and D Railway caught fire near Flowers Station about three miles from Seaford. Firemen fought blaze as flames burst from stacked wood under the tender. The engineer uncoupled to keep the car from catching, water drenched the tender at the depot, extinguishing the fire. Widowhood noted obliquely in Seaford Citizens' remark.
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