Lehi of Korea Sees King Li Hi in Seoul Palace Tour
Reporter describes an audience with King Li Hi of Korea in Seoul. The visit includes processions, palace gates, court dress, rank belts, eunuchs, and a detailed tour of royal halls. The king is portrayed as progressive yet constrained by feudal nobility and family factions, with notes on his health, inquiries about America, and relations with China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sour
Korea
Columbus
America
Shakespeare
Luther
Germany
England
Li-Hi
Pinsele
Ma Yo
Thad
Royal Palace
Hugh A. Dinsmore
Seoul
Dinsmore
Yang Ban
Koorea
Gol
China
Phronso
Maesty
Mr. Ho
Han
Holdi
Ory
Bae
Chosen
Fonsier
Cleveland
Pak Chung Yang
I. Dinsmore
Theg
Li Yung Chang
Bismarck
Christendom
Carpenter
Slavery Days and Abolitionist Pioneers Featured
A long reminiscence on abolitionists like Weld Phillips Garrison and Brown. The piece recalls antebellum mobs, anti slavery lectures, Weld’s life from childhood to Lane Seminary rebellion, and his ongoing crusade for emancipation and equal rights amid harsh public scorn.
Revered abolitionist Weld recalls life and wedding with Grimke
The article recounts Robert Weld's anti slavery activism and public persona, his marriage to Angelina Grimke in Philadelphia in 1888, and their joint stance for equality. It notes friends like William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier, Weld's early housing in Newark and Brooklyn, and his later life in Hyde Park with social reform ties. It also mentions his health, a 1870 suffrage reception, and the couple's legacy in the abolitionist movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free
United States
South
Jefferson
New Orleans
John Brown
Wendell Phillips
Charles Sumner
Theodore D. Weld
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Dwight Weld
Mr. Weld
Hampton
Conn
Jerry
Theodore Weld
Niger
Weld
Starice
Hagar
Hamilton College
Lane Seminary
New Jersey
Jersey
Roy
Miss Grimke
Philadelphia
Sarah
Society of Friends
Judge Grimke
Anna R. Frost
Pennsylvania
Pageine
Abby Baily
John Greenleaf
Whittier
Friends
Angelina
Newark
New York
Mr. Cornish
Uate
Belleville
J. Cornish
Eaglewood
Erenne
Titan Bay
Sam Cullen Bryant
Horace Greeley
Andure D. Conway
James Freeman Clarke
Oenete
R. Weld
Elizur Wright
Lucy Stone
Nin Hyde Park
Garrison
Ger
Ald Massey
Gort John Hutchinson
Hutchinson
dJol Greenleaf Whittier
Onry Grew
Joseph F. Tutte
Wabash College
Parker Pillsbury
Boston
Aps
Whittier Tribute and Weld’s Escape Highlight Jan Letter
A visitor recalls Whittier at Oak Knoll sending a tribute to Weld. The letter lauds Weld, mentions his marriage to Angelina Grimké and his anti slavery work, temperance lectures, and the influence of his Jane Seminary. The writer, ill and aging, signs as Joanna Warrior from Danvers on January 2.
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New York
Mr. Whittier
Oak Knoll
Mr. Weld
Hat Inn
Satan
Weld
Angelne Grimke
Jane Seminary
Diogenes
Joanna
Warrier
Danvers
Box Brown and Ellen Crafts Exerciic Acts Story
The piece recounts the escape of Henry Brown known as Box Brown and Ellen Crafts. It recalls Brown’s air holes in his packed box ride and Crafts disguising as a planter to flee Georgia to safety with her husband. The narrative notes their later life in Crafts house before the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Henry Brown
Henry Box Brown
Brown
Seminor
Ellen Crafts
Corgia
Crafts
Boston
Old Bay State
Nnland
Comical Almanach Excerpt Shows Grateful Suspect
An odd archival fragment shows a speaker addressing judges with gratitude for a lenient sentence and a reflective note about shared fate, implying a courtroom scene and themes of mercy and mutual accountability. Strong entities include Almanach pour Rire and unnamed honors.
Boston Drummer Impersonation Goes Comic Night
A Boston cigar drummer, living in a laundry, visited Hartford and joined a masquerade ball. Lacking a costume he donned porter’s overalls and staged African English persona, only to unmask as crowds revealed a sea of darkface revelers. He fled to the hotel in panic. The Globe recounts early writing methods from bricks to parchment and the shift from styluses to metal pens.
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Boston
Brockton Enterprise
Launton
Hartford
Duca Globe
Ndla Benxi
Holyoke Shopper Carries Curios From Springfick Visit
A Holyoke woman visiting Springfick on Thursday returned home with a shopping haul that included a large roll of flannel goods five pounds of sugar a large lamp shade a dozen eggs a box of honey a quart of peanuts a bag of small archae 28 and a package of soap.
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Holyoke
World of oddities and marvels from a restless era
A long list of curious items spreads across continents and eras. Prisoners freed in Pensacola, a meteoric stone found in Ellsworth, a Paris library of women authors, and a carved assortment of superstitions, feats, and inventions. From a Vancouver to Ontario crow teaching colors to a dynamo in Vermont, each note sketches public imagination and small wonders.
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Pensacola
Fla
Ellsworth
Paris
Victoria
B. C
Faroe Islands
Ajap
Ohio
Hanna
Ind
Vermont
Heaven
London
Montreal
Canada
Languet
Sedalia
Ulysses
Ellijay
Abe
Albany Times
New Fork
Nova Scotia
Coronado Islands
San Diego
Hart County
New York
Talmage
Mr. Ryan
Mr. Boyarts
Ridgeway
Ont
London City
Maine
Enland
Erastus Wiman
Eastport
Daniel Boone
Virginia
Fulton County
Dwivrdt
Pale College
Erec
Newport
France
Bhia
Ureau
Booth
D. Thompson
Vienna
Malta
E.qneen
Ermontae
Cieatresia
Aioe
Alpine County
Nia
Washington
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Lehi
Ajto
Phillips
Giddings
Slade
Boston Post
Calhoun
Buckingham
Frank
Pendleton
Haverhill
Fass
John Quincy Adams
Adams
J. B. Marshall
Kentucky
Alow
King
New York American
Henry “Box” Brown
Ingidoey
Lord Morpeth
Duke of Carlyle
Georges County
State House
Painesville
Deacon Peppont
Elzur Wright
Elazur Wright
Mnister
A. C. Phelps
A. Bronson Alcott
Thoreau
Welds
Hyde Park, Mass
Fairmount
Whittier's
Box Brown and
Court OF Assizes
Texas
Baltimore
Eorana
West Virginia
Rapid Oly
Impori
Marty
Walea
Wereme
W.E. Earie
South Carolina
Confederate States of America
Confederate’ States of America
Dee Vindice
Dick” Roche
St. Louis
Good Inc
Roco
Arthur Whittaker
Smyrna
Pamseco K
Ohio Court House
Austria
Vatican
David Someler
Palatka
Eleaxer Warren
Emanuel County
Dimity
Oroville
Cal
George Lincoln
Coatesville
Pann
Lincoln
Europe
Union
Nuremberg
Jay Gould
Gould
Liverpool
Eng
Wales
Lianwredi
Chicago
Milwaukee
Plorwerien
Nicolaysen
Norway
Pepreren
London Embankment
Moana
Pyramids
Kward
Pritchett
Lmerville
Bruch
Ieee Grandont
Tin Ladue
Burma
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