Blaines trip prompts party row and cathedral buildup tale
In Steubenville Senator Blaine is jeered for his speech as General Devens argues for a nonpartisan stance in campaign politics. The article recounts the 1248 Cologne Cathedral foundation and its ongoing tower caps. It then condemns Ute warfare as a result of failed Indian policy, urging abolition of trading posts and reforms by the War Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Steubenville
Ewing
Rice
Calico Charlie
Ohio
Cologne Cathedral
Great Minster
Colorado
War Department
Board of Trade urged to back old spinners wage plan
The article argues the board of trade, dominated by self interested members, should support the old spinners wage proposal from three months ago. It contends, to outsiders, that the board ought to accept the suggested adjustment and "leave it out" of current negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
Republican Claims Refuted by Carl Schurz on Slavery and Union
Carl Schurz argues in a recent interview that Republicans boast of abolishing slavery and preserving the Union, a claim he deems false. He says the abolition came as a war measure, the Union was saved by common effort, and party actions did not restore the Union or end the war. He also downplays Republican credit for financial recovery, citing Democratic Congress votes and economic factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Schurz
Republican Party
Congress
John Quincy
Adams
Lincoln
Douglass
New York
Massachusetts
Europe
Fall River Mills Strike Shows Costs of Imported Spinners
Three months into the dispute over arbitration for higher wages, Fall River mills rely on imported spinners with mixed results. Pay for newcomers exceeds old workers, production falters, and yarn costs rise. A Sagamore mill strike against lowering pay demonstrates deep tensions, while a few old hands face threats from new workers. The system remains unbalanced. arbitration is urged to set fair, sustainable wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Sagamore Mill
Vast and Varied World Notes From 19th Century Press
A sweeping compendium covers Ireland’s skirmishing fund at 80134 dollars, Arkansas reports of live snakes, Carrie the Texas assassin’s poetry, Scotland’s new Anderson barn, and English fortunes for Lydia Thompson. It notes White Mountain visitors’ estimated 1.5 million in spending, daily telegraph costs, and a plan to reform commercial travellers with a large Indianapolis bequest. Other items include tea crop world totals, a shooting at Boyd Station Kentucky, Rev Cooke’s lectures, Cetgwayo’s peace request, Rio Grande drought, Herbert Spencer’s health, Eugenie’s residence hunt, and Ute policy talk. Additional notes mention a Vienna gossip on Eugénie, a Paris serpent tamer Caroli killed by a python, a Chinese man’s queue tragedy in Paris, church-state separation debates in Switzerland, Germany’s electric honey harvesting, Ohio’s cooking contests, and various social snippets on temperance, marriages, and political figures. The Detroit Free Press story recalls a New Yorker amassing three million, then losing it to lawyers. A Philadelphia robbery yields small cash but a valuable ring, while Lord Kilmorey’s rent dispute echoes long-standing absenteeism in England and Ireland. India’s 1877 snake and animal toll closes the sampling poem.
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Arkansas
Carrie
Scotland
Anderson
Lydia Thompson
White Mountains
Indianapolis
Boyd Station
Joseph Cooke
Cetgwayo
Lord Chelmsford
Rio Grande
Herbert Spencer
Vienna
Eugenie
War Department
Republic
Richmond
Louise
England
Marquis of Lorne
Paris
Caroli
Switzerland
Germany
Hamilton County
Ohio
Faxon
Temperance Alliance of
Louisiana
Benjamin Abbott
Smyrna
Del
Williams
Traux
Lysaght Finnegan
Ennis
Patay
Justin McCarthy
Longford
Detroit Free Press
Philadelphia
Lord Kilmorey
Cheshire
London
India
Sat
Sankey
Minois
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Chicago
Texas
Bonham
Middletown
N. Y
Norristown Herald
Baltimore Gazette
Rogers
Soi-Disant
Atlantic Monthly
Grant
Hayes
New York World
Virgil James
Little Rock
Ark
James
Mars Virgil
Massive rewards paid for wild beasts and strange notes
The item reports vast sums for hunting wicked beasts and large charity expenditures in England. It mentions a $5,000,000 temperance capital and a foundation stone ritual with a foil sheet bearing Hold the Fort in Sankey’s voice. It also covers corn crop projections across several Midwestern states and a court room anecdote from Bonham, Texas.
Wide World Snippets Flurry From A Bustling Era
A parade of witty notices and quirky vignettes from New Orleans to New Jersey. Jests about bonnets, hay tedders, and cheese livery mingle with busking pedestrians and funeral notes. Scattered anecdotes touch on politics, clergy, and marriage amid a breezy, epigrammatic tone.
Notorious Feuds and Oddities From a Rural Roundup
A chaotic collection notes violence and crime from 19th century sources. A man hanged and another missing. quips about sheriffs and cannons. jokes about poets, bankers, and a famous grave. a stubborn hunter shot by a farmer’s wife. odd rural anecdotes from Newswires and papers.
Drunken Broadway Stranger Wrestles with Rules and Ridicules police
A belligerent drunk with a rambling slang and a hayseed manner harasses Officer Dean on Broadway. He asks for a place where “a neat little row” of trouble can be found, boasts of getting busted, and is later fined ten dollars at Jefferson Market police court after a chaotic night ending with a drunken refrain and a smile.
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Dean
Broadway
New York Herald
York
Waverly Place
Hwe
Seth Hines
Steuben
Jefferson Market
Dialect of Colorado and local expressions noted
An article notes Colorado dialect usage in editorial language with examples from cowpunchers to kitchen staff and travel phrases. It mentions regional phrases such as round-up way-up and bedrock, plus a plug for Carter's Little Liver Pills and lists H C Leet as agent at 22 Park Place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver Tribune
Colorado
Major B.’s
Jim D
Portherp
Carter
H.C. Leet
Park Place
Talmage’s Return Sermon Held Crowded New York Church
Brooklyn audience packed for the first sermon since the ocean voyage. Dr Bartel and others spoke on the Bible’s power and the world’s moral struggles. Talmage contrasted American democracy with European culture and urged reform and faith as he reflected on national and religious ideals.
Boston Inside Out lecture censures vice and law evasion
Rev Henry Morgan opened his new Boston Inside Out lectures at Music Hall to a packed house as he blasted Boston’s crime wave. He mocked police inaction, condemned church lotteries and unlicensed saloons, and urged officials to probe dark urban districts to end dissipation and save the city.
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Henry Morgan
Boston
Music Hall
Jerusalem
Goa
Houston
Ward 16
Boeton
Boston Post-Office
Kentucky
New Orleans
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GLOBE
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Weekly Globe
United States
Hal. F. Barker
W. W. Curran
Mass
the Weekly Globe Club List
Harper's Magazine
Bazar Weekly
Scribner's Monthly
St. Nicholas Appleton's Journal
Popular Science Monthly
New York Medical Journal
Godey’s
Lippincott’ S Magazine
Peterson's National
Demorest
Arthur's Home
Hall
Journal of Health
Ditson & Co
Journal of Music
Youth's Companion
Medical Times
the Christian Union
the Watchman
Poultry World
Journal of Chemistry
Frank Leslie
Fun Lady
Magazin
Tee
Mont'y
the Weekly Globe
Washington Forest
Boston, Mass
Poston Weekly Globe
B. OC. Bailey
Chas. H. Taylor
Devens
John Sherman
Beard
Jim
The
Picayune
California
McLin
Florida
Bourne
Indiana
Michigan
Virginia
Brooklyn Eagle
Ben Butler
New Jersey
Cincinnati
New Haven Register
Ole Bull
Orion
Ryan
Table Grove
Ill
Smith
Waterloo Observer
New York Mail
Willie White
Fulton
Willie
George
Niagara Falls
Hackman
McCurdy
New London
Conn
Weston
Carey
Lulu
George F. Hoar
Howard
New Orleans Picayune
Council Grove
Kan
Georgia
Mollie Brown
Jerry Haslap
Jasper Tison
Juliet
Romeo
N. Y. Com. Vv
Mayenne
Ivry
Navarre
Pinafore
Chattanooga
Nashville
Memphis
W. H. Goodrich
P. S
Throckmorton
Gainesville
Brigham Young
Mrs. Young
Belinda Jane Young
Belinda Jane
Widow Young
Sarah Jerusha Young
Nancy Jane Pratt
Iroquois County
Illinois
Butler and
Dr. Bartel
Murray
Talmage
Brookyn
Tabernacle
Arbuckie
Morgan
Arbuckle
America
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St. Petersburg
Madras
Rome
Ireland
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Prince Imperial
Exeter
Wales
Edinburgh
Constantinople
Harpers
Lippincotts
Petersons
Christ
Victoria
Gambetta
Bismarck
Geneva
Chamonaix
Rubens
Benjamin F. Buler
Jebu
Gaul
Jehu
Benjamino
Golden Gate
Continents
Orient
Ulysses
Bonors
World
Hhis
Nevks
Siberia
Ulysses S. Grant
la Republique
Secessia
Plymouth Rock
William H. H. Murray
Bartol
Old West
Daniel
Bartel
Rollin H. Neale
Charity
W. H. H. Murray
Apostle
Liberty
William Morris Hunt
God
Mr. Murray
Prool
Charles the Fifth
Napoleon
Buswon
Weill
Apostle of
Orate
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