ERA OF EQUAL RIGHTS IS AT HAND
Editorial by Joseph W. Folk arguing for government by the people through lawful representation. It contrasts wages and wealth of leaders with ordinary workers, condemns special privilege, and asserts occupation as a key to longevity and reform. The piece cites cities like Philadelphia Cincinnati and Pittsburgh and advocates respect for laws over new statutes.
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Joseph W. Folk
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Jos. W. Fole
Adam
Carnegie
Prince of
Olls
Man Should Live A Century
Sir Samuel Wilks argues humans may reach one hundred by aligning aging with maturity and notes that ancient patriarchs might have lived longer. He discusses animal aging references, Aristotle's doctrine on function and organ, and links muscle and brain use to preserved vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoological Society
Barnum
Ward
Hogland
Possible To Foretell The Future
H. G. Wells argues that rapid development may continue and asks whether inference can reveal future causes rather than fossils. He notes unprecedented changes in living conditions and questions if foresight can match geology’s past insights.
The Home Life Scale for New Wives and Husbands
Helen Oldfield argues couples should set a modest domestic budget in the first year of marriage and that wives should pay weekly bills. She warns against women earning for the family, calling home keeping a wife’s true duty and citing a physician’s praise of home pursuits for women to ease nervous disorders.
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Europe
Modern Haymaking Saves Labor with Machinery
The article explains haymaking is now largely automatic from cutting to storage, with machines handling each step except wagon loading. Side delivery rake forms windrows, enabling rapid handling and use of dry days, while curing timothy improves with rain avoidance and careful processing to keep leaves green.
Meerschaum pipes mined from Eskisechehir region
The Board of Trade Journal notes Eskisechehir Asta Minor supplies the world’s meerschaum used in pipes and employs about 4,000 mainly Kurds and Persians. It describes sun and wind cures, mining and sea sources, and the rough, cave-like home of Major I F Tomlinson beneath the Demarest estate where a cat shares the cistern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade Journal
Eskisechehir
Asta Minor
Prini
Judge Interrogates Witnesses Over False Accusation
A courtroom gag line features a prisoner responding to a judge’s request for an excuse. The respondent notes the witnesses were all good friends of the accused, implying complicity or bias. The exchange illustrates humorous legal farce and social commentary.
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Familie-Journal
The Beat Method Medical Professor Exchange
A medical professor advises a student on the best way to reestablish circulation, while the student begs to call a cop. The translated caption from Tales from Le Rire notes the ironic line that a man with an easy going disposition may be labeled no account.
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le Rire
Carl Schurz Dies After Long Illness in New York
Carl Schurz famed publicist editor and statesman died at his New York City home after more than a week of illness. Born in Liblar near Cologne in 1829 he rose from immigrant to national figure through politics journalism and diplomacy.
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Tomlinson
San Francisco Chronicle
Carl Schurz
New York City
Schurz
Liblar
Cologne
Prussia
Gymnasium of
University of
Bonn
Gottfried Kinkel
Kinkel
Rastadt
Baden
Switzerland
Paris
England
London
United States
New York
Pierce
Scott
Broadway
Jefferson
Wis
Republican Party
Northwest
Wisconsin
Illi
Dowager Empress May Leave Russia
The Dowager Empress of Russia plans to depart the country forever. She bought the palace of Hvidoere near Copenhagen and another estate in England. Her sister Queen Alexandra of England is said to influence the move, with summers in Denmark and winters in England alongside King Frederick.
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Russia
Hvi
Black sheep of the diocese in clerical circle remark
The tale centers on Fr. Ruehle and Fr. Ritchie, two black sheep in a diocese mockingly paired at a clergy gathering. Ritchie later visits the colored rector’s church, where his reception highlights church ritual differences and personal offense sparked by the jest.
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Frank Ritchie
St. Ignatius’ Church
New York
Church of the Ascension
Chicago
Ruehle
Father Ritehie
Everybody’s Magazine
Wedding Mishap At Church Social Ends In Delay
A Lewiston Journal anecdote tells of a church social where a young man invited the minister to join them and began reading a marriage ceremony from his Bible. The mix up caused a delay and the wedding did not occur that evening.
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Down East
Lewiston Journal
Young Stranger Faces Sixty Days For Intoxication
A intoxicated youth without funds to pay a fine faced county jail time of sixty days. An elderly captain sought a sailor for a westward voyage and arranged to take the prisoner, who, upon seeing a dilapidated schooner at the wharf, chose the jail term instead.
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Lewiston Journal
Lancaster tobacco growers hear best ever crop claim
At a Lancaster meeting, President Herr declared last year’s tobacco crop the county’s best yet and said prices yielded more than the land’s value. He forecast a largely increased acreage. The note ends with a wry aside on married women’s looks and photography.
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Lancaster
Herr
Indian Customs and Sun Worship in Oklahoma Tribes
A Kansas City Journal clipping recounts Matt Dubr’s article on Oklahoma Indians, noting sun worship among some tribes and beliefs about thunder, lightning, and spirits. It includes anecdotes from Iowa Amerinds, legends of ancestors in stars, and a lengthy account of mourners and funeral rites with moralizing tone.
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Shipers
Matt Dubr
Dubr
Billy Cole
Tohee
Bie
Iowa
Ike
Towa
Oklahoma
Sandy Cimarron
Kansas City Journal
Alphabet of Suevens
A compact moral exhortation listing virtues and cautions. It urges integrity, kindness, patience, and keeping away from vice while advising prudent social choices and paying debts promptly. The acrostic highlights values from avoiding intoxication to zealous right living.
Newfoundland Legislature Backs Old Age Pensions Plan
The colonial legislature unanimously adopts a resolution urging old age pensions. A commission will study the grant terms over the next year, preparing to introduce the measure to implement the project.
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Newfoundland
The Widower and The Funeral Bills Critique
A Washington Star columnist mocks a widower who delays paying his first wife’s funeral expenses. The piece portrays public expectations that he settle debts before engaging again with public life.
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Sir Samuel Wilks
Wells
Helen Oldfield
Montreal Star
Meerschaum
Porary
I. If. Tomlinson
Broadway and
Jones Street
Demarest
London Telegraph
Abraham Lincoln
Spain
Madrid
Eleventh Corps
Howard
Fremont
Sigel
Sherman
North Carolina
Missouri
Grant
Senate
Santo Domingo
Horace Greeley
Hayes
Dowager Empress OF
the Hicker
Washington Star
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