Alf Jacklin in Love Rivalry Ends in Murder
In a rural community Alf Jacklin confesses self defense in a fatal duel with Dan Stuart after a quarrel over Millie Lundsford. The narrator, Bill, delivers the tale to the General and to Alf’s parents as the town debates justice, bail, and the looming court case.
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Guinea
Chyd
Old Lim
Alf
John Bunyan
Bill
Stuart
Millie
Parker's
Doc Etheredge
Etheredge
Dan Stuart
Mr. Jacklin
Millie Lundsford
Susan
Dan
Spring House
Purdy
Almes
Mr. Hawes
Dr. Etheredge
Alf Jacklin
American Hero of the Ice River Rescue
In January a Hoboken ferry was disabled by ice and a crashing tug, the Reliance, captained by Scott, rescued all aboard. He crawled into the engine room amid frigid water and wreckage, saved crew and passengers, and returned to duty after severe injuries.
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Hudson River
Hoboken
Reliance
Offshore Wrecking Company
Captain Scott
Scott
The
Everybody's Magazine
Ohio river boatyards built war vessels for early conflicts
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes that gunboats ironclads war schooners and light draft monitors were assembled along Ohio river banks during the War of 1812 the Mexican War and the Civil War. Boatbuilding in Pittsburgh dates to colonial times with galley Adams launched May 19 1798 and the keel of Senator Ross laid soon after.
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Pittsburg
France
Napoleon
Mississippi
President Adams
Wilkinson
United States Army
Ohio
Senator Ross
Corn Breeding Plot Aims to Raise U S Corn Yields
An Illinois suit over a barren dairy cow prompts a broader discussion on farming gains. The article argues for breeding seed corn to increase U S yields from about 26 to potentially 150 bushels per acre, detailing methods to select and propagate productive ears, manage breeding plots, and create an increase field for higher output.
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Illinois
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
C. P. Hartley
Corn
Hall
Hartley
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Enquirer
OCS Feauere
Not Rich Early Vanderbilt Fortune Grows After Seventy
The Vanderbilt fortune nears 300 million with William Wissam Vanderbilt and heirs sharing about 200 million. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt built wealth after age 70, shifting from steamboats to railroads as he foresaw rail transportation’s rise. He began selling ships fifty years prior and concentrated on rail lines.
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Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Fortne
United States
McClure
William Wissam Vanderbilt
Commodore
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Hudson River
Value of immigrants and migration draws praise
Dr Wilbur L Omack of Boston tells a New York Telegram reporter that immigration strengthens countries like Canada Australia and South Africa and that Australia offers farmland finance to agricultural immigrants. He argues the United States should attract desirable immigrants to avoid wasting resources on a worthless mob of toil ers and to end immigration wrangling.
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Wilbur L. “Omack
Boston
New York Telegram
Canada
Australia
South Africa
United States
Vegetarian Experts Claim Acre Feeds Four on Veg Diet
Vegetarian experts assert that one acre of land will comfortably support four persons on a vegetable diet, highlighting efficient land use for sustenance and nutrition.
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Wm. H. Lee
Laird & Lee, Publishers
Hawes
South
Prisner
Jacklin
Ohio War Vessels
York County
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