Johnny Appleseed’s life of wonder in the western frontier
A Chicago Herald piece recounts Jonathan Chapman known as Johnny Appleseed as a pioneer, philosopher, and ardent planter of apple seeds across Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri. It notes his simple moral code, Swedenborgian faith, barefoot travels, clashes with bears and mosquitoes, and generous charity to settlers and children. He died in Allen County Indiana near Fort Wayne as a devout wanderer.
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Jonathan Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
West
Indiana
Ohio
Ilinois
Missouri
Old Johnny
Boston
Licking Creek
Isaac Stodden
Licking County
Massachusetts
Harper's Magazine
Johnny
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Illinois
Mississippi River
John
New World
Baptist Church of
Richmond County
Ohioan
Allen County
Fort Wayne
Chicago Herald
Traits of Turkeys in Domestic Life
A Boston Transcript passage describes turkeys as restless yet free spirited and cheerful. It notes their nocturnal hunting, tendency to roost in trees, and steady but foolish behavior compared with hens and geese while acknowledging their evolving domestication.
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Boston Transcript
Tributaries and navigation of the Mississippi river
The Mississippi total navigation is 2161 miles with small steamers able to ascend 76 miles more. Principal tributaries and navigable miles include Alleghany 325, Arkansas 444, Atchafalaya 218, Cumberland 600, Green 200, Illinois 350, Minnesota 295, Missouri unspecified, and other listed streams with varied miles.
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Alleghany
Arkansas
Atchafalaya
Bartholomew
Black
Ark
Clinch
Cumberland
Cypress
Green
Illinois
Iowa
Issaquena
Kanawha
Kentucky
Lafourche
Little White
Macon
Minnesota
Missouri
Bezoar Stone and its role in native medicine
The Bezoar stone, highly valued in Borneo markets, is believed to come from various monkey parts though sources differ. Hunters collect it near Batang Lupar in the Kayan region where salt springs and river deflection occur, and Hindus now favor a larger porcupine variant called Guligu Landate for medicinal use.
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Borneo
Hart Everett
Batang Lupar
Old Salt's Sagacity and the Sinking Wheat Vessel
A Maine boatswain recalls a captain who never lost a ship until the wheat laden voyage from San Francisco to Liverpool. Four months after landing in Bath the captain and boatswain confront the captain’s boast with the truth that the ship sank days before quitting service due to waterlogged wheat and underwriters’ fate.
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Maine
San Francisco
Liverpool
Bath
Smith
Davy Jones
New Orleans Times—Democrat
A Cheap Cement For Glass And China Repair
A craftsman advertises a simple homemade cement to join broken glass and china. The method mixes gum shellack and gum mastic with sulphuric ether and alcohol, then applies heat to the edges and holds until set, claiming the repair will break elsewhere.
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China
Importation of Sheep and Swine From Canada Without Quarantine
The New York World reports that sheep and swine may be imported from Canada into the United States without quarantine if they are disease free on inspection at ports of entry. For imports from Great Britain or continental Europe via Canada, a 15 day Canadian quarantine must be documented by a certificate from the Canadian quarantine officer.
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Canada
United States
Great Britaan
Europe
New York World
Aquariums at World's Columbian Exposition Display
The World’s Columbian Exposition will feature a circular 155 foot aquarium hall with a central 60 foot rotunda. It will house ten large tanks totaling 18 725 cubic feet of water and 140 000 gallons, plus smaller side tanks, all forming a grand aquatic panorama.
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Woods Hall
United States Fish Commission
Lobster molt at Brighton Zoo ends with male’s defense
At England's largest aquarium, a female lobster sheds her shell in a careful process. The male lobster defends her from predators while she regains strength, then preserves the old shell as a grave for the broken claw remains amid sand and stones.
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England
Brighton
Milk as a Fire Extinguisher at Eastford Hotel
Lightning struck the Eastford Hotel in Oxford Maryland turning the cupola to fire but rain and a brave owner saved the building. Believing water would fail against lightning the proprietor used milk from a nearby wagon to douse the flames and the last spark was smothered ending the blaze.
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Eastford
Oxford
Maryland Military and Naval Academy
Debates and Details in US Coin Design and History
The article surveys proposed changes in Uncle Sam’s coins, noting mint design decisions at Philadelphia, calls for more aesthetic silver pieces, and references the motto In God We Trust. It recounts early private mints, such as Bechtler in North Carolina and Templeton Reid in Georgia, and oddities from Utah and San Francisco, with concerns about weight and fineness.
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Rene Re
United States
Assis
Nurr
Philadelphia
Uncle Sam
Phia
Mint
Pennsylvania
Watkinson
Antiquerane
Treasury
S. PB. Chase
Geld
North Carolina
Bechtler
Templeton Reid
Georgia
California
Utah
San Francisco
Germany
Modern Da Amen Rasi Lectures on Men Women Slavery
A fragmentary report notes Da Amen Rasi a Syrian lecturer claiming men earn six cents a day women enslaved to work with oxen near Damascus Christians Hebrews and Mahometans are mentioned alongside a haunted room linked to John the Baptist a beheading site and bloodstains described in a gruesome detail.
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Monongahela
Muskingum
Osage
Ouachita
Red
Rock
St. Francis
Sunflower
Tallahatchie
Teche
Tennessee
Tensas
Wabash
White
Wisconsin
Yazoo
Mississippi
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