Howards Letter on Calciums and Personal Charm in NY Stage
In a July dispatch from New York the writer rails against stage nudity and the degradation of women tied to the rise of nude spectacles. He traces changes from Lola Montez to modern chorus girls, notes male gaze pressures, and warns of moral decline while detailing theater trends and notable figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorks
Lola Montez
Fanny Elssler
Hell
Boston Theatre
Bowery Theatre
Boston
Howard
Mexico
Essler
Montez
Maine
Georgia
Pauline Markham
Mitty Rigl
Betty
Balet
New York
A. T. Stewart
Whist Table Problems and Franklin’s Early Journalism
A whist table column discusses play strategies for Problem No 11 and the double dummy solution with emphasis on card leads and discards. The piece also recounts Benjamin Franklin’s early printing career, his roles as editor, and the founding of the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1730.
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Cook
C K
Ben Franklin Printer and Lightning Pioneer
Bill Nye narrates the life of Benjamin Franklin from Boston, describing a large family, early printing apprenticeship with his brother James, and his quest for freedom. The piece evokes Franklin as a restless innovator who shaped life at sea, publishing, and public thought while mocking sensational fears about danger and tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Benjamin
Franklin
James
Veritas
Franklin in Colonial Times and His Bold Ventures
A compact sketch of Benjamin Franklin's life from 1746 onward noting his lightning study and newspaper editing, his role as postmaster general, and his bold presence in England. It covers his stance toward royalty, his comment on kings, his aims to avert war, and his Paris visits. It also mentions Poor Richard's Almanac and his only son William, the lifelong illegitimate son who faced stigma.
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Nivlo's
Booth
New York
Palladino
Tostee
Aimee
Theo
Franklin
The
New England Courant
James
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin
Orra
Gazette
Express
Colonies
Ben Franklin
England
Patrick Henry
Ealso
Paris
America
Richard
William
Birt Nye
Barbour
Digby Johns
Dublin
Arch
Johns
Courage Medal for Cape Elizabeth Keeper Hanna at Two Lights
Commander Crowninshield led a party from the Iris to honor Marcus A. Hanna keeper of Cape Elizabeth light with a Congress gold medal for bravery. In January, amid a freezing snow storm, Hanna risked his life to rescue three aboard the schooner Australia, saving two seamen after the captain drowned. The ceremony occurred at Two Lights with a formal presentation and remarks.
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Port Lane
Crowningshield
Iris
Marcus A. Hanna
Cape Elizabeth
Congress
Australia
Dow
Moulten and Smith
Barker
Palmer
Blunt
Thom
Pullen
James Carter
A. W. H. Clapp
Horace Anderson
Crowninshield
Hanna
Southern Industries Growth in Six Months Across South
Baltimore reports a surge in new manufacturing and mining ventures in fourteen Southern states during the last six months. Total capital tied to these enterprises and plant rebuilds reaches 36.634 million dollars, with Kentucky and West Virginia the largest state totals amid broad sector diversification and rising crops prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record
South
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
North Carolina
Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Tragedy In Charlestown Daisy-Pickers Drowned
Florence and Bessie Partridge, aged seven and four, wandered into a Charlestown meadow to pick daisies and were found dead in a shallow brook hours later. Their mother discovered them. the younger had struggled on the bank before falling in, then the elder followed in a failed rescue attempt.
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Charlestown
N. H
Florence
Bessie Partridge
Lumber Shortage Figures Across Maine and St John
Bancor July 16 reports a spruce log supply shortfall for the current year compared with 1884. Androscoggin 10,000,000 Kennebec 33,000,000 to 40,000,000 Penobscot 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 St Croix 10,000,000 St John 80,000,000 total shortage 115,000,000.
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Bancor
Androscoggin
Kennebec
Penobscot
St. Croix
St. John
Elopement ends in murder suicide at Allman House
Adele Erwin and her gambler husband August Erwin married after her friend Victoria Morosini’s elopement. In New York on Broadway and Tenth street Adele is wounded then Erwin shoots himself. He dies. she survives, while the pair’s families react with anger and tragedy.
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New York
Adele Erwin
Allman House
Broadway
Tenth Street
8. C. Brown
Bellevue Hospital
Patrick O'Thayne
Grove Street
O’thayne
Blanche
Margaret
Adele
Sisters of Charity
Mount St. Vincent
Morosin
Adelie
August
Arthur Erwin
Peesman
Victoria Orosini
Schelling
Erwin
St Vic
Miss Otayne
Easar
Allman
Perhelitt
Mrs. Erwin
Europe
ae _ tang
Mou
Edward
Eddie
Sam
Taylor
St. Louis
Martin
Poem of Earth speech in Whitman Outing passage
In an August Outing Whitman recalls a rain voice answering the poet. The rain declares itself the Poem of Earth, rising from land and sea to descend and save droughts, returning life to its origin and making soil pure and beautiful. The passage frames poetry as a cycle of creation and renewal.
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Walt Whitman
Earth
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Montes and
Billie Barlow
Betty Big
New York City
Soong
Xitis
Deppe
Amos Cummings
Press Club
John McCullough Yestersey
Connor
St. James Hotel
Pennsylvania
John
John T. Raymond
Vernor Hill
Ed Cooper
Flower
Hill
Lowe
Joe Polk
Sadie Martinez
Sadie
Meee
Myra Goodwin
Bartley Campbell
Nanon
Billee Barlow
Liebig Co
Ben
Ms Brother
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Gazette
Bill Nye
Boston Man
Southern Industries
Adele O'Thayne
Victoria Morosini
Ayer
Rachel C. Deckerton
Germantown
Thos. Gerrish
Webster, N. H
Jacob Little
Tampico
Ayer’s
J. Ayer & CO
Lowell, Mass
U.S
M. C. Lawson
Greenville
Tenn
J. M. Hodgdon
Stillwater
Minn
Ayers
Antoine Albertz
Los Angeles
Cal
Anglo-Swiss
Son St. N.Y
P.O
Fellows
Voice OF the
Medee
J.h.reeves
Chatham St
Marston Bolus
Marston Remedy CO
H. Treskow
West
4Th Street
T. A. Slocum
Ward & Cos
F. C. Fowler
Dr. Scott
Tarel Cory Gras
Broadway St
N.Y
Baldwinville
Levi Greenwood
Willian P. Penney
G. A. Brooks
Coeper
Isix
New England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Mass
ATR Team
TaFwytt
Winchester
Winchester & CO
White House
Kindtlever
McElroy
Miss Cleveland
Arthur
Washington
Cleveland
Broadley & Company
Fourth Street
Penn
Cowét
H. G. Boot
Pearl 6T
East Hampton
Conn
Olton
L. L. May & CO
Rochester
N. Y
San Luis Park
Col
Colorado Loan and Trust Co
Denver
Charles Dyer, JR
P. O
Providence
R. I
Lowell
Jase. Whitney
Nurseryman
Slocum’s Stenographic School
United States
Buffalo
GLOBE
Grover Cleveland
Reform
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