I only read one news paper, The Sacramento Daily Gazette from 1880. There were many stories in this newspaper, such as a railroad crash. There were a few people killed and many injured in the crash, which happened to be very common. The crash was from the engine breaking the track causing the train to be taken five feet off the track. Another story I read about was a man who committed suicide. The newspaper was very blunt, saying that they wouldn't be able to find his body in the lake that he had drowned himself, after being on a steam boat. Another article I read about was about the wine intake of France and the US. France wasn't producing enough wine for their own people, therefore the US didn't have much for themselves. America was finally starting to produce their own wine, except there seemed to be some hardships with the infecting insects. I also read an article about the census, and how the population of men was majorly increasing in Boston. The last article I read about was about a bottle with a note about a shipwreck was found on the southern shore.
Railroad crashes were very common in the 1880's
People arriving in Boston in 1880
Americans making wine in Napa Valley
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