Little Things Power Big Outcomes in City Reflections
The piece argues small factors shape grand results from a storm delay to a fatal accident in a city ring. It links a clerk’s arrest to a graft scandal, then muses on cigarette odor and social etiquette in theaters, ending with a Philadelphia fire and the distant echo of Dr Parkman’s murder.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Catherine McDonald
Parkman
Webster
Harvard College
Lombard Street
Republican Favorites Labor and Prohibition Tariff Debate
A Times canvass across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota gauges Republican and familiar views on Blaine’s withdrawal, tariff policy, labor and prohibition impacts, and the November election’s real contest. It finds Minnesota leaning free trade though most Republicans favor moderate tariff reform, with Indiana solid for Harrison and Pennsylvania unsettled yet skeptical of labor and prohibition shifts.
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Philaadelenta
the Times
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Minnesota
Blaine
Times
Northwest
Pennsylvania
United States
Lincoln
Gresham
Peking
Harrison
Sherman
Brain
Foraker
Chicago
Cameron
Hawley
Depew
New York City
Lehigh
Hocking
Knights of Labor
Wesern
Hiscock
Foster
Fred Grant
Indiana Harrison
Wilam Walter Phelps
Ohio Blaine
Foraker Peopile
Positive remedy offer to cure consumption shared with editor
A reader claims a positive remedy can permanently cure thousands of hopeless consumption cases with timely use. The letter offers two free bottles to readers who send their express address to AOL EA 03 Beaslot, 2%.
Death in Dynamite Claims Chicopee Foreman's Life
William A. Hall aged 45 foreman at Dwight Manufacturing Company paint shop Chicopee was instantly killed Saturday afternoon by a dynamite cartridge explosion. He allegedly lit a match near ice or picked up a lit cartridge and placed it in his pocket. The accident left his body mangled. he leaves two sons and a daughter.
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Eve
Columbus
G. W
George Washington
Charlie Lank
Charlie
Asf
Atient
Fr.m
What No Kentuckian Will Ever Know
A fragment from the Clonieville Courier Journal contemplates a Boston girl and a leap year question. The piece muses whether she removes her glasses and speaks in the diction of the longest words, addressing her beloved with remarkable phrasing.
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Cloniéville Courier-Journal
Boston
A Mean Man on a Detroit Streetcar
A Detroit Free Press report describes the meanest man on record boarding a Woodward avenue streetcar and provoking passengers by whispering about a dog fight. The crowd stood, searched for Brown, and found the seat concealed by the mean man’s presence.
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Detroit Free Press
Woodward Avenue
Brown Ad
Beauty's Worth or a Siren's Deceit in Cranberry Hatch
Israel Trent falls for city milliner Eudora Holt and bears the brunt of village gossip. A clock reveal exposes Eudora's past, souring the romance, but Israel reconciles with Hetty Brown, vowing marriage as his mother approves, praising Hetty's true nature over the city lure.
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New York Morning Journal
Israel Trent
Eudora Holt
Eudora
Hetty Brown
Paris
Hetty
Israel
Miss Hot
Mrs. Trent
Widow Brown
Teestrick
Agal
Miss Holt
Cranberry Hatch
Betty
Endora
Siple
Whaling a Dog for an Earthquake
A Norway Advertiser tale recalls Judge Enoch Foster waking to a kitchen crash and discovering his dog at fault. He beat the dog in fear, then learned the quake coincided with the punishment, leaving him to apologize to his pet.
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Norway Advertiser
Enoch Foster
Mr. Foster
Foster
Native Kentucky Man Proves General’s Claim by Birth
Hudson Register recounts a club anecdote about General Watkins from Southern Illinois. In court a lawyer asks if he served in wars or held commands. The witness replies he became a general simply because he was born that way.
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Kentucky
Hudson Register
John Oberly
Civil Service Commissioner
General Watkins
Illinois
Bite
Owen
Simple five cent market basket incubator hatches eggs
A Danbury man, an enthusiastic poultry raiser, improvised a tiny incubator from a five cent market basket lined with cotton. He hung it over a stovepipe in his sitting room, adjusting height with the fire. In a night experiment, he hatched four of six eggs.
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Startford Post
Danbury
He'll Never be Late to Dinner in Minnesota
A punctual Minnesota maiden recently married a casual acquaintance who waited a quarter hour beyond a fixed dinner time, causing a minor delay in the scene. The odd anecdote reflects small town habits and timing quirks in a New York Star feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
Fle
News in Brief A volatile snapshot of late 19th century chaos
Crowded Florida and tourist gush, a delegation to the Republican convention, trains to New York, a German barkeeper hotspot shooting, and state budget shifts. Mines reopen after Lehigh strike ends, rail passes flagged, and a Boston church marks a half century. Fires devastate blocks in multiple cities, accidents injure and kill, and river and sea peril abounds along with legal and political maneuvering across states.
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Florida
United Allison
New York
Sunrey
Washington
John Stanz
Providence
Leary
Port Joggins
N. S
Lehigh
House Claims Committee
Laban,eath Co
Boston
Senate
Erie Railway
Scio
N. Y
Lemuel H. Howe
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Mississippi
Fairville
N. B
Uglass Clark
John Smith
Andrew Hamm
Sharon
Engles
Charles Doyle
Roscoe Conkling
Conkling Club of
Buffalo
Harry Hill
East Houston Street
Richard Barber
Richard Mason
Trumansburg
St. Patrick’s Church
Highland District
New England
Williams
Cardinal Gibbons
W. K. Meade
United States
A. Shibell
Pima County
Will Smith
Janos
Mex
D. Carll
New London
Vestiay
Nantucket
Peterson
Angelo de Flora
Jose Valvano
San Saba
Texas
Severa
Vérmont
New Hampshire
Broadway
Crescent
Astoria
St. Michael’s Cemetery
Aubrey Crocker
Border Street
Scituate
Mass
Arb
Louisiana
Randall Gibson
James B. Eustis
Gibson
State House
Eustis
McEnery
Blanchard
E. White
Congressional Committee
H. O. Havemeyer
Sugar Trust
Trust
Phenix
RK. J
Mumford’s
Pawtuxet
R. J
C. G. Bloomer & Ons
Amherst
Camden
Knight's
Odd Fellows
Holyoke
Chemical Paper Company
Dixon, LL
Grand Detour
Columbus
Buckeye Busey Company
Milwaukee
Wis
Atkins, Ogden & Co
New York City
Coogan Brothers’ Furniture Establishment
Philadelphia
Copeland & Bacon
Machinery Establishment
Hitt
Canada
Lacefield Victorious Then Fatally Shot
In a dramatic incident Lacefield won a contest before being fatally shot by Scarlett who fired into Lacefield’s head as he rested on a cot. The report also notes a temporary placement of General Logan’s marble bust, California mushrooms of eight inches, Miss Jeannette Auerbach’s emigration, explorer Joseph Thompson’s Morocco expedition, a San Francisco library dialect work, Buckeye Buggy Company fire in Columbus, and rail labor actions with Chicago painters striking over wages.
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Lacefield
Scarlett
General Logan
Cannstadt
Stuttgart
Joseph Thompson
Morocco
Atlas Mountains
Public Library of
San Francisco
A. Amer
Vienna
Buckeye Buggy Company
Columbus
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Chicago, Burlingon & Quincy
Chicago
Reese
Boston's Gay School Marm Shows a Modern Twist
Poem-lilt portrait of a strict, proper teacher who defies stereotype. A Boston era hub school marm is described as erudite yet chic, able to joke in Greek, court Cupid, and balance teaching with a hint of playful charm.
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Boston
Massachusetts
St Barbara Day and Other New Vocal Pieces
Oliver Ditson & Co advertise new vocal music with German and English texts. Selections include St Barbara's Day 30c, The Night Hath a Thousand Eyes 30c, In the Twi list Gray 6c, Wise Peter 85c, Unless 30c, Night and Morning 50c, American Bells Polka 36c, Their Country is Calling 40c, Shepherd's Daughter 40c, The Ship wrecked Sailor's Return 85c, Ave Maria 40c. Instrumental pieces by Hirtmann 26c each, La Norvegene 60c, Iris Waltz 75c, The Valley Lay Broiling Beigre Me and the Girl I Left Behind Me 75c, The Prettest of All Schettische 40c, Album Leaves for the Young 75c, banjo arrangement The Folio Schottische 25c, Gou nod's Messe Solennelle 8c.
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Oliver Ditson & Co
E. Meyer
Peter
Roeder
Coverley
White, Smith & Co
C. A. White
R. Shefton
H. Bailey
Moses Carpenter
Josef Hirtmann
Eugene Keiterer
E. Bucalossi
Willie Pope
L. A. Klein
Curlitt
George C. Dobson
Gounod
It Was a Solemn Occasion Browning Meeting
A Buffalo woman, seeking a friend’s ill relative, entered a Delaware Avenue home after spotting a bell card that read Come in please do not ring. In the hallway the mistress whispered shushingly that a Browning meeting was underway, leaving the visitor mystified by the sign and secrecy.
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Buffalo Commercial
Buffalo
Delaware Avenue
Sawmill Boiler Blast Kills Two Men in Indiana
In Locansport Indiana a boiler explosion at Deere’s sawmill near Burlington killed Frank Whitsell Moses Whitsell and Edward Everman injuring three others one expected to die. Bodies mangled fragments blew half a mile. In Cananpataua New York gas strike caused a drill explosion with a jet of flame after lighting paper in a 180 foot gas bearing water column.
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Barling Pond
Santa Clara
N. Y
Washigton
D. C
Ohio
Steubenville
Readies Company
Cattle Trust of
Denver
Col
French Povlsement
Atchison, Toneka & Santa Fe
Milwaukee
Ellen Tupper
el Paso
Cal
Mexican National Railway
Saltillo
Union Pacific
Burlington & Quincy
Burlington
Deere
Ind
Frank
Moses Whitsell
Edward Kerman
McClure & Co
Coke Operatoes
Scottdale
Penn
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Binghamton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Canton
Dak
New York
New England
Dakota
Hewette
Lavina Carter
Schaghticoke
Kent
Litchfield County
Eunice Manehew
John Williams
Connecticut
Protestant Episcopal Church
Boston
Winchester
Farmer S
Brier Ridge
Ohio River
Fairchild
Senate Finance Committee
Shermigs
National Bank
Senate
Hale
Manderson
Chace
Spooner
Blackburn
Daniel
Blodgett
Philadelphia
Capay Valley
Frank Hambleton
Alice Knight
Lowell, Conn
Alexander Bennett
John Lee
Singer Company
Elizabethport
Staten Island
Staten Island Sound
T. A. Chase
Jay
Newton Chase
Rhode Island Republican State Convention
Royal C
Taft
Provdence
Enos Lapham
Warwick
Samuel H. Cross
Westerly
Horato Rogers
Providence
Samuel Clark
Lincoln
Sapphire
Petit
Victoria
Bb. C
Behring Sea
Shirma
Alaka
Key
Sheldon
Cunningham
Sheldon Jackson
Alaska
Boston & Maine
Charles M. Joslyn
Hartford Conn
Stafford National Bank
Stafford Springs
Far
Northwest Territories
Herald
Riel
Charles Dalton
Fort Worth
Tex
St. Louis
Thomas Furlong
Missouri Secret Service
Texas
Dalton
Distris
Bonham
James Nae
Andy Sela
Scarlet
Locansport
Edward Everman
Cananpataua
Jonathan Champlin
Consumption Cured and Free Remedy Recipe Offered
Retired East India missionary tale and physician claim a simple vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. The notice offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with full instructions to any reader who writes and stamps the paper to W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY.
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East India
W. A. Noyes
Power's
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Ring Tong
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William A. Hall
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Peter Henderson & CO
Cyclopedia of Natural History
Charles ¢. Abbott
M. DD
Globe
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New Boston Music
Epps
Enns
Ciril Service Gazette
James Epps & CO
Hommopathic Chemists
London
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H. G, Koot
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Agents’ Journal
Broinfi Street
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Common Sense
Lessure Cure CO
Lakeside
Ill
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Park Place
Standard Silver Wane Co
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American Authors’ Bureau
Ludwick Bridgs
Walnut St
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John H. McAlvin
Lowell
Leslie E, Kerley Company
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