Ames City Describes Rail Junction and State College
Ames lies on the Chicago and North Western Railroad at its junction with the Moines and Minneapolis Road, thirty miles north of Des Moines. It hosts the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with hundreds of students, a well kept public school, and surrounding farming lands that yield abundant fruit and crops.
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Gar Ames
Chicago and
Moines
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Towa State, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Dark Mountain Mystery of Murder and Death in Broad Valley
A solo narrator recalls Broad Mountain s solitary vale and a dilapidated log cabin linked to a brutal love murder. Ben Warner forces Edith Brennan to marry him, Brennan kills him, a body count follows as Edward rescues the family but three are slain and buried under an apple tree amid haunting lore and whispers of ghosts.
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Broad Mountain
Breed Mountain
United States
Brennan
Mr. Irennan
Mr. Brennan
Balck
Edith Brennan
Ben Warner
Edith
Edward Brennan
Local paper retracts harsh portrait of Judge Toots
The Dakota Beil reports strong criticism of Judge Toots after a prior tribute. The paper now dismisses him as a liar and fraud while noting he returned north and comments on farm yields.
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Mie
Dakota
Toots
Dakota Beil
Wisconsin Man Dies After Wife Trims Shade Trees
A Wisconsin man refused to sleep indoors after returning home to find his wife's trimming of front shade trees ruined their beauty. He spent the night in the barn, caught a cold, and died. A French poet praised woman as God's sweetest gift, noting she is sweetest when present.
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Wisconsin
Texas
Maid and Matron and Both Are Indispensable
A column compiles anecdotes about courtship, schooling, and a rising respect for women in mining. A Philadelphia prankish scene at a hearing leads into stories of female fortitude, including a Colorado mining investor who built wealth and support for women in rugged trades.
Chair design to support wearers with bustle backs
The Roches ter Union questions why entering furniture builders do not make chairs with a back opening for the bustle. They argue a chair tailored to fit the bump would provide back support for women in good clothes and relieve fatigue for both sitters and observers.
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Rochester Union
Enchanted by charm and propinquity in romance
A Harper's Bazar piece muses on why young men fall for certain women beyond beauty intellect or money. It argues charm can be voice, gaze, or touch and that proximity often shapes preference, while outsiders misread the idol. The passage ends with a humorous English spoken sign anecdote from Leipsic and a German landlady.
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Mme. Recamier
Pean
Harper's Bazar
Leipsic
Berlin
Court of Justice
Church Magazine
Woman recounts mining riches in Colorado to reporter
Mrs. Fannie A. Kerr recalls liking mine stories in Kentucky and dreams of visiting Western mines after being reputed to have earned about $100,000 in Colorado mining operations. She spoke during an interview with a New York reporter.
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Kentucky
Fannie A. Kerr
Colorado
New York
Man of the Musket Is Mine in Civil War Tribute
A Chicago Ledger excerpt rhapsodizes a Union soldier, praising the plain man over famed heroes and honoring the musketeer’s sacrifice. It closes with a local account of Pen Lock’s murder by a Confederate woman, lauded by neighbors for rebel resolve.
The Divine Art Of Gowning By Mrs Langtry
A New York State reader praises Langtry for her mastery of dress and makeup. The writer lauds her natural beauty and the art of gowns, arguing true elegance comes from grace beyond mere training or modiste instruction.
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Dolly
Pauline
Miss Langtry
Gounod Advises Minimal Piano Practice for Nonprofessionals
The French composer M Gounod told a mother asking how long girls should practice piano daily that only those not pursuing a professional path should devote as little time as possible. His remark urged focusing effort on serious musical careers.
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M. Gounod
Oder
After Lee Surrender The South Rebuilds And Reconciles
A retrospective recalls the Civil War end, emancipation, and hardship turning to recovery. It notes homes ruined, slaves freed, fields rebuilt, factories rising, and renewed national unity as Father and son of the North and South shake hands across the chasm.
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Lee
Chicago Ledger
Veteran nurse recalls hospital horrors and fallen doses
The writer, an old veteran, describes hospital comfort as poor for soldiers. He condemns physicians who blindly dole out medicines, recounting saves and near-deaths. He recalls John Allen who survived despite orders and Tommy Clark who returned to duty after careful care.
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John Allen
Reco
Tommy Clark
Mountaineer Alexander Brown Faces Unionist Fate in War-Torn Tennessee
In East Tennessee amid fierce hostilities, Unionist Alexander Brown fled with his family to avoid Confederate danger.Captor Ben Lock’s gang hunted him. Brown killed a pursuer and was roasted alive at the stake. Mrs Brown vowed revenge, learning of the massacre six months later as the assailants dispersed to Virginia.
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Pen Lock
Benock
Lock
East Tennessee
Alexander Brown
Brown
Union
Ben Lock
Sedgwick Mortally Wounded Near Front Lines
Tribune correspondent reports Comrade H F Andrews of Sixteenth Maine recounts General Sedgwick being struck while on foot near the left of the Fourteenth New Jersey. Sedgwick uttered no further words after the fatal shot as he fell about twenty five feet from the line amid earthworks and batteries.
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H. F. Andrews
Maine
Tribune
Sedgwick
Fourteenth New Jersey
Sixth Corps
Massachusetts
Cavalry Reunion Announcements From Illinois Regiments
Survivors from the Eighth Michigan Cavalry plan a Sherman House Chicago reunion. Illinois units from the Hundredth Illinois and Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry schedule gatherings in Lockport and Chicago on September 2 and September 16 respectively. Seventh Minors Cavalry to meet in St Louis during the National Encampment with an open invitation to all regiment members.
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Eighth Mindrs Cavalry
Sherman House
Chicago
Lockport
George Sperry
Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry
Seventh Minors Cavalry
St. Louis
Origin and spread of banking through ancient to medieval times
The text traces banking origins from 260 years before Christ with a Sicyon banker exchanging money and Judean money changers noted in the Temple. It links to Luke and Matthew parables, notes Lombards in Europe, Venice’s Bank founded around 1171, English adoption after the conquest, and Lombard Jews in Italy beginning banking in 808.
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Sicyon
Peloponnesus
Plutarch
Judea
Temple
Christ
St. Matthew
St. Luke
Europe
Italy
Bank of Venice
England
France
Henry III
Drapera
Barcelona
Spain
Goldsmiths
London
Napoleon's Mistake and the French Republics
Scribner's Magazine argues Napoleon risked stability by ignoring the reforms of the Convention Terror and Directory, noting those regimes delivered benefits that shaped empire era constitutions and unity despite excesses. It suggests monarchies opposed to France could have strengthened Napoleon’s hold if he had preserved gains rather than overreaching.
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Napoleon
Russia
Austria
Prussia
French
John Cope
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