Beecher Urges Restoring Faults With Compassion, Not Preaching
Rev Henry Ward Beecher delivers a May sermon urging mercy for those fallen from grace. He warns against harsh judgment, advocates bearing one another's burdens, and emphasizes the Good Samaritan spirit over public rebukes in moral failings.
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New York
Henry Ward Beecher
General Grant
Mr. Beecher
Meekae
Good Samaritan
Jerusalem
Jericho
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Shaw
Snow Shoes On Horses Across Deep Summitville Snow
In a historic West feat, two Brockman horses wearing 18 inch wooden snow shoes with wires and straps traversed fifty to one hundred feet of fresh snow from Summitville toward Del Norte. One horse carried a rider, the other pulled a provision sled, after days of Summitville practice.
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Florida’s New Cocoa Nut Grove Venture on Southern Coast
A New Jersey capitalist starts a large cocoa nut plantation in Dade county on about 1000 acres. One hundred thousand plants cost nearly 40000, with six years to start returns and an expected ten year yield of about 10 percent on a 2000000 valuation. Cocoa palms grow 60 to 100 feet, with a crown of leaves. in Ceylon the palm population is about 20000000.
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India
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New Jersey
Dade County
A Cheap Home Made Refrigerator
A guide from Scientific American to build a two box refrigerator using a smaller inner box lined with zinc, with a zinc or lead drain pipe and a charcoal filled outer box. The design uses a siphon to stop air flow and let melted ice water escape, with careful fit and covers to trap cooling.
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Scientific American
A Mad Leap of Seventy Feet Into a River
Three Scottish men on Reichs bridge in Vienna watched Dr. Watson leap 70 feet into the Danube. He swam to shore despite a strong current and was taken to the police station for clothing alteration. He faces a fine.
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London Daily News
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John McLaren
Robert Mackenzie
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Dr. Watson
Watson
Beaumur
The Smelling Bottle Craze Among Washington Girls
The fashion of smelling bottles has swept Washington with costly displays. A belle received a second bottle in three months, each valued at 60 dollars. The first shattered under a carriage wheel, its gold top and initials surviving. Another young woman carries a bottle at least a foot long, made of thick cut glass and notably heavy, with prices around 40 dollars.
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Harper's Bazar
Washington
Notes of the Day highlights and oddities
The column notes senators mostly wear spectacles and officials at Castle Garden are examined in six languages. It mentions 20000 barrels of whiskey leaving Kentucky before June 1 and a 140000 pound Alabama coal lump on display in Birmingham. It cites a Glen Falls doctor using rattlesnake venom to treat lockjaw and a London West End bank restricting facial hair during office hours. It also notes Good Friday as a modern revival and briefly references Mother Swan's Worm Syrup for feverishness restlessness worms constipation and tastelessness.
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Castle Garden
Kentucky
Alabama
Birmingham
Glen Falls
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N. Y
West End
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Haif
George III
Survivor reads his own obituary after shipwreck memory
A man recounts June 1851 aboard the steamer G. P. Griffith from Ohio to Buffalo. Fire, panic, and drowning claim most of 400 aboard as he clings to the ship and survives. After days of pain he reaches Lloyd's tavern near Cleveland, learns his own obituary ran in print, and returns home with features of the ordeal and the rescue.
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G. P. Griffith
Toledo
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Lloyd’s Tavern
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The Woollen Industry Tariff Debate at Cambridge
Rowland G. Hazard of Providence spoke at Harvard Finance Club on woollen tariffs. He argued tariffs are burdens on some producers to aid others, noting labor is a fraction of wool value and that high duties raise costs for American workers while limiting raw material access. He urged cheaper materials and cooperative labor relations to reduce discontent and protect workers.
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Cambridge
Providence
Harvard Finance Club
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Wiper
Charles O Conor Dead
Charles O Conor died here on Monday afternoon. His remains were taken to New York Tuesday by the Shore Line, accompanied by his cousin Mr. O Conor of Dublin, Mrs Sloan sister of the deceased, Mrs Julia Melaney adopted daughter of Mr O Conor, his nieces Misses Chalfin and Connelly and Miss Elma Volger his amanuensis.
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New York
Shore Line
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Sloan
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O'Conor
Chalfin and Connelly
Elma Volger
Bees kill a team and injure a driver in Sterling
In Sterling Illinois yesterday a swarm of bees attacked a team owned by a man named Wetzell, stinging the animals to death within moments while the driver suffered injuries requiring a physician.
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Sterling
Ill
Wetzell
Long-Distance Champion Captain Andrews Heads for Boston
Captain Andrews, aged 93, travels on foot from Sumter South Carolina to Boston via the Old Federal road with a small dog for company. His son Oregon recounts a life of racing, long walks, and Civil War service, noting the pension bid and a hoped audience with President Arthur.
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D. C
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Statesburg
Robert Wilson Andrews
Tam
Camden
N. C
Charlotte
Greensboro
Petersburg
Washington
Arthur
Courtship of a Scotch Laird and an American Bride
London Letter notes a Pittsfield Mass social wedding in Rome then Paris. A wealthy young Scot courted Miss Joslin after meeting her in Rome. Her mother blessed the match, and three weeks after paternal approval the couple wed quietly in a civil ceremony and then at an American chapel.
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London
Chicago Tribune
Justin
Lttte
Marie
The Big Head in America At Chicago Hatters
Ad D Noeleck, a Chicago brewery employee, wore a hat made by hatter Martin Lesby believed to be the largest in the United States. The hat required a special block and unique shaping. Lesby note Noebeek’s head had grown, with two prior hats of 7 3 8 and 8 5 8 inches. A journeyman remarked the head is the largest he has seen in 35 years.
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Senate
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Chicago Brewing Company
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United States
Losby
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Finance and Commerce May 17 1884 Bank Rates and Market Movements
Financial notes report unsettled money markets with nominal goods paper rates at 6.5 percent, call loans around 6 percent, and substantial bank excess reserves. Clearing house exchanges reach over 14 million dollars in a day, weekly totals near 76 million, with general dull foreign exchange, and ongoing government bond activity including sizable redemptions and prices improving for registered and coupon bonds.
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New York
London
AyDeen
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Sub-Treasury
Boston Markets Report May 17 1884 Butter Eggs and More
Boston markets show quiet butter with lower prices expected. Prices for New York and Vermont butter, Western creamery and imitation creamery varieties cited. eggs in fair demand with regional price ranges, and dried apples and dyes wood notes. Steel and copper quotations included along with flour, fresh meat, and freight rates to Liverpool and London.
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Grain and Oil Markets Slide Then Steady Across Commodities
Wheat futures slipped from opening steady to closing firm as sales reached 1.64 million bush. Corn and oats declined but recovered to steady. Cotton and provisions moved on varied demand with lard futures easing and pork, bacon, and cheese showing limited activity. Coffee and raw sugars remained weak but stable, while petroleum closed with refined export quiet and crude certificates fluctuating.
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Llo Fordanuary
Live Stock Arrivals Brighton and Watertown Week Ended May 16 1884
Weekly live stock arrivals for Brighton and Watertown reported for the week ending Friday May 16 1884. Numbers listed include Northern Western and Eastern sheep and lambs totaling around four thousand two hundred, with separate tallies for oxen cattle hides and tallow prices per hundred pounds and per pound for various grades.
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Brighton and
Brihton
Callakins
Dull Gloucester Fish Market Prices and Receipts
Special Correspondent reports the Gloucester fish market remains slow with low prices across species. Week’s receipts total codfish, several hundred thousand pounds of pollock and halibut, mackerel, and various shore fish. prices for old stock and white codfish are particularly weak, buyers inactive and bids limited.
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