Christmas Eve visions of wealth and poverty and souls
A narrator climbs with a Genii to view Christmas thoughts from above. He sees rich and poor alike preparing gifts and sharing kindness, then the heedless inebriated world, and finally a moral plea to seek salvation through Jesus Christ born 1869 years ago. The tale ends with a call to return to earth and mend one’s calling.
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Christ
Tsaw
Tie
Cireese
God
Jesus Christ
Gils
Earth
Perseverance leads to a mill yard boy’s rise and charity
An Eastern Sunday School anecdote tells of a boy who sought a mill job by hitting a nail with a stick. After several failures he explained he pursued the goal to support his mother and a younger brother. By perseverance he later became prosperous and donated a thousand dollars after the Pemberton Mills disaster.
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Bruce
Pemberton Mills
Colfax addresses temperance at Baltimore fair
Vice President Colfax urges temperance in a Baltimore fair speech. He calls alcohol a universal danger, praising restraint and recalling a friend’s death to illustrate the personal cost. He argues drink leads to ruin for rich and poor alike and extols abstinence as the only protection.
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Baltimore
Colfax
Lead Poisoning From Cider Warns Lancet Remarks
The London Lancet warns cider if not manufactured safely can contain lead. In Herefordshire Mr Linggen told commissioners lead poisoning from lead in cider affects workers and drinkers, traced to lead pots, lined casks, and lead pipes in pubs.
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London Lancet
Herefordshire
Linggen
Glasgow in Industry and Life as a Modern American Mirror
The writer sketches Glasgow as a bustling manufacturing hub rivaling Philadelphia and New York in commerce and surpassing Chicago in pace. He notes wide, clean streets, vast omnibuses, smoky chimney stacks, and a working population shaped by tobacco and linen trades, cotton lords, and iron and shipbuilding prowess.
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Great Britain
Philadelphia
New York
Chicago
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Broadway
Cincinnati
Glasgow
Argyle-street
Cilasvon
Europe
Tite
Clyde
Glimpses of Glasgow Wealth and Schools
The writer notes Scots pride in their city with New York Central comparisons. Charitable institutions are numerous and needed amid Glasgow’s mental strain from wealth. Life expectancy is low, monuments few but respectable, and public squares hold statues of William III Victoria Albert Watt Moore Knox. The University, four centuries old, enrolls about a thousand students, with a 5 000 volume library and a museum valued at 550 000 dollars.
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William III
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
James Watt
John Moore
Wall Scott
Robert Peel
John Knox
University
Glasgow’s 300 Year Past Links Cathedral to Wallace and Cromwell
The article walks through Glasgow’s historic landmarks and legends. It notes the cathedral over 700 years old and marks sites from Cromwell’s lodgings to Wallace’s 1356 street route. It recalls rooms where poets and figures like Campbell, Melville, Adam Smith, and others once stayed or studied.
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Cromwell
Wallace
Campbell Ludged
Colslee
Melville
Bailie
Simpson
Hatchinson
Adam Smith
Reid
Miller
Young
Desperate act ends life of Canterbury man at East Concord
Benjamin F. Sutcific, 30, son of the late James M. Hodge, of Canterbury, killed himself in East Concord, New Hampshire. He built a fire then hanged himself with a tree chain attached to a beam near a barrel in the barn. concern over wedding finances and decent attire appears to have driven the act, though no other motive is found. He had been employed at Col. J. T. Clough’s grist mill and showed a generally pleasing demeanor.
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James M. Hodge
Canterbury
East Concord
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J. T. Clough
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Two Meals a Day Suggestion for Longevity
Hal's Journal Health advocates a two meals a day plan for adults over forty five not engaged in hard manual labor. The article claims improved sleep waking ease appetite mood and energy if the second meal is after seven hours with only light drinks or fruit after. Ben Wade cited as example of long term adherence.
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Egypt
Ben. Wade
West
Hal
Labor Demand Expands Across Gulf States Plantations
The article notes rising labor demand in Virginia and Mississippi Louisiana cotton regions with recruitment across Gulf States. It cites C E Moore Alabama seeking 1050 families for Rome ton railroad at 1.25 dollars per free transport, and labor ads offering wages from 15 to 2 50 per month plus housing and pig raising privileges, targeting African laborers and excluding Chinese workers.
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Mississsppi
Louisiana
Gulf States
C. E. Moore
Alabama
Rometon Railroad
Gardiner Citizen Sees Slat House Like Umbrella Street
A Gardiner resident describes a house of slats as a wonder architecture viewed from one angle like an umbrella street. The faded lines mention a New York merchant from Pittafield Mass and a note about a game of baseball and customers unable to pay.
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