Liberty's League Convention Adopts Resolutions and Egan President
Delegates at the Iris National League's second annual convention in Boston approve changes to resolutions and elect Thomas Egan as president. Thomas Sexton delivers an inspiring address as William Redmond also speaks, praising Sullivan and pledging support for Irish tenants, land reform, and continued US backing.
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James Oliver
Martin G. Griffin
Kirwan
New York
Wilbere
Pennsylvania
Betts
St. Louis
Committee
Dr. Betts
Ireland
Irish National League of America
Philadelphia
Charlies Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish Parliamentary Party
United States
England
America
William O’brien
United Ireland
League
Alexander Sullivan
Charles O'Reilly
Thomas J. Conaty
Parnell Fund
Thomas Sexton
Mr. Sexton
Thare
Boston
New England
Adlause
Boston Press
Canada
Republic
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Reland
The
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Europe
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House of Commons
Irish Peet Party
Wis Watt
Parnell
Wexford
Monnahan
Timothy Healey
North
William E. Redmond
National Party
O'Brien
Patrick
Scotland
John Mitchell
Thomas
Davis
Wiliam O’brien
Castle Bestiality
Boland
Colorado
Chicago
Colonel Boland
Mr. Sullivan
Messrs. Sexton
Redmond
Conaty
Massachusetts
Gannon
Iowa
Pendergast
Illinois
Wilhere
Messrs
Second Annual Irish National League Session Opens at Faneuil Hall
The third session of the Irish National League’s second annual convention began at Faneuil Hall with Hon. M. V. Gannon presiding. Wisconsin proposed Mr. Corrigan as vice president. Finance secretary O'Neill Ryan reported receipts from Rev Charles O'Reilly and from branches, detailing funds and expenses through August 9, 1884, with a balance of 12,766.40.
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Alexander Sullivan
Chicago
League
John Boyle O'Reilly
Sullivan
Roger Walsh
National Committee
James Mooney
Buffalo
Committee On Constitution
Boston
Mass
Chatrman
National League
Nho Society
O'Neill Ryan
Missouri
Thomas F. Doherty
Thomas Wilhere
Pennsylvania
Prendergast
Betts
Father O'Reilly
Detroit
Father Cronin
O'Reilly
Irish National League
Obler
Boland
Colorado
Rooney
California
Judge Cooney
San Francisco
Connecticut
Peter W. Wren
Michael Boland
Georgia
J. H. Armstrong
Illinois
Daniel Cockeney
Iowa
M. V._ Gannon
Maryland
Timothy Moroney
Michigan
Patrick Martin
Massachusetts
Thomas Flatley
Thomas O'Reilly
New Hampshire
P. A. Devine
New Jersey
M. E. Holmes
New York
Joseph EF. Fox
Ohio
James W. Fitzgerald
Rhode Island
Hugh J. Fitzgerald
Hugh J. Carroll
Tennessee
R. A. Odlum
Vermont
J. J. Haurahan
M. D
Virginia
Richard F. Curran
Wisconsin
Joseph G. Donnell
District of Columbia
Thomas H. Walsh
Canada
Jeremiah Gallagher
Quebec
Mr. Sullivan
America
Curran
Tinos
Captain Hogan
Rochester
N. Y
M. V. Gannon
Ireland
St. Paul
Faneuil Hall
Corrigan
Finance Committee
Charles O’reill
Walsh
D. di
Svak
Bince Auguse
Sererseerescerenene
Trampan farmer Adrian Hitt risks 2000 wager from New York to San Francisco
Adrian Hitt, a Flora Illinois farmer, travels from Brooklyn Bridge to San Francisco on a 2000 wager. He averaged about forty one miles daily, dressed in a New York to San Francisco cap and knee breeches. He has faced robberies and food shortages, carrying pamphlets to buy meals, and plans Denver next to claim a second bet.
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New York
San Francisco
Kansas City
Perhons
Union Depot
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Adrian Hitt
Flora, Tih
Brooklyn Bridge
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Times
Hitt
Rocky Mountains
Labor
Colorado
Domestic Monthly Explains Home Made Lace Revival
The Domestic Monthly touts home made lace as a valued craft. It outlines methods using Horizon laces, crochet, and knit lace with details on patterns, threads, and tools, praising patient workers and offering practical guidance for beginners to imitate or create genuine like Maltese or Cluny laces.
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Europe
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China
Seine
Barbour
A New Sort of Breach of Promise in Philadelphia Times
A Philadelphia Times report notes a colored man asks if a bill of indictment exists for breach of promise. Clerk Jermon explains the charge is false pretence. Isaac Prosser, colored, is indicted for false pretence in a transaction involving 460 dollars.
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Philadelphia Times
Jermon
Glerk Jerinon
Isaac Prosser
They Say If You Put a Baby in the Water It Won’t Sink
Rochester Post-Express recites a humorous quarrel about taking a lake trip with a baby aboard. A couple debates safety and whether clinging to the baby would prevent disaster, highlighting wartime era caution about child safety at sea.
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Rochester Post-Express
William
Susan
Potato Biscuit Recipe From Globe Receipts
Eight medium potatoes mashed fine with four tablespoons melted butter two cups lukewarm milk one cup yeast flour white sugar and salt to taste form a thin sponge set four to five hours then mix in cooled butter roll to three quarters inch rise one hour and bake
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Nere
Gelatine Dessert with Lemon and Cinnamon Note
Instructions describe soaking gelatine in cold water, shaving lemon rind, steeping with cinnamon in boiling water, then dissolving in sugar and lemon juice. Strain after mixture dissolves to form a clear lemon flavored gel with spice notes.
At-home trick for removing white seams from black gloves
The article advises busy ladies on an old remedy to hide white streaks on black kid gloves. Mix a small amount of salad oil with genuine black ink and carefully dab onto every white spot with a feather. Allow to dry in the air for best results.
Tomato Base for Canned Tomatoes
Peel the tomatoes and chop them with peppers and onions. Boil the mixture one hour with salt sugar and vinegar. Add a little cinnamon. Canned tomatoes may be used if fresh ones are not convenient.
Beets Stewed with Butter and Parsley in Vinegar Pan
The recipe instructs to first roil the beets, then scrape and slice them, and cook in a stew pan with butter rolled in flour. Add boiled onion chopped fine, parsley, a splash of vinegar, salt and pepper. Stew over a hot fire for fifteen minutes.
Compound baking powder recipe for flour use
Mix one ounce tartaric acid two ounces carbonate of soda and two ounces corn flour thoroughly rub through a sieve and put away in well corked bottles. Use two teaspoonfuls of this powder to a pound of flour.
Hasty Cup Pudding and Wafer Recipe Fragments
Instructions describe making Hasty Cup Pudding batter with flour milk eggs nutmeg and sugar, buttered cups baked in a quarter hour. Also give wafer dough: flour lard or butter salt cold water rolled thin and cut with a doughnut cutter to be eaten with jelly.
Simple Rye Roll Biscuit Mix From Historic Recipe
A compact historic recipe fragment calls for two cups rye meal one half cup molasses a pinch of salt one and a half cups sweet milk and a teaspoon of saleratug mixed very soft and baked immediately in a roll pan or muffin tin as a quick roll.
No Egg Cookies From Simple Butter Milk Sugar Dough
A brief recipe describes making cookies without eggs using one cup butter one cup milk two cups sugar half teaspoon bicarbonate of soda half teaspoon cinnamon or nutmeg and enough flour to roll the dough.
Oatmeal Cakes Skeletons and Grape Pickles Recipe Fragments
A collection of kitchen notes detailing oatmeal cakes with cream sour muk sugar and soda, skeletons with eggs sugar and butter, flour for stiff dough rolled thin, and grape pickles layered with grapes sugar and cold vinegar for preservation.
Woman Milker in Men’s Clothes Arouses Farmer’s Admiration
A Rutherford County farmer hired a seemingly delicate lad to milk cows but discovered the worker was a woman. The farmer’s wife approved keeping her as long as she wore men’s clothes, noting the milker’s skill, independence, and strong physique. The piece blends satire with a vivid portrait of the hidden laborer and gender norms in rural life.
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Nashville
Georgie
Indiana
Middle Tennessee
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