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Internal revenue for five months totals 47322 with prior year at 515176. Time-ball observatory work progresses linking Boston Baltimore Hampton Roads via telegraph. Senate committee favors amended public land fencing bill. Inaugural preparations continue with Gen Hancock invited as grand marshal. Monument dedication plans advance and Sheridan requests early notices from participating groups. Grant related property sale rumors stir Washington elites. Beale doubts details. Obituaries note long lives and unusual burials. Beecher comments on campaign course.
Bailore and River News from the Illinois railroads
Illinois railroads flock to Springfield to protest state board rate cuts. Oregon snow blockade persists as Northern Pacific crews work to break it within a day or two.
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Deaths and Devastations From Fires and Accidents
Reports detail several fatalities and large fire losses. A Tulare man dies frozen while driving home from Rockford. James Balfour dies at a Meadow Lea church service. Joseph Youlten, 23, dies after a fall near Lexington, leaving a wife and child. Boston factory Waterman Burns. $60,000 loss, third large Boston fire in a week. North Orrison Co store fire in Kansas City, with Wolf Brothers damaged, losses over $100,000. West Bend Wisconsin fires destroy Wittig Kearn’s livery stable and Wolf hotel barn, horses saved but equipment lost. Missouri house of Hon. W H Norris burns. Norris perishes re-entering for a relic.
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Charles Wolf
Three Trempealeau County fugitives held in jail
Sheriff Elstad of Trempealeau county delivered three men to jail after arrests for incendiary acts. Thomas McCaully Knute Oleson appeared before County Judge Mulligan, with a preliminary examination, and were bound over to the circuit court in the sum of $3,000 each.
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Oak
Brood
Smirke
Coutt
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Beech Nuts Story of a Soldier and a Woman
A Civil War era tale follows a Continental soldier who sketches Ruth Philips, a Connecticut girl, and later protects Martha Phillips and her family from raiders. The intertwined romance ends with sacrifice, a captured officer, and two preserved beechnuts as tokens of memory.
French Newspapers and the Paris Press Rituals
This piece surveys how French papers like Le Figaro balance brevity and culture, with signed editorials, feuillets, and cablegrams. It notes signature customs, government censorship, and the lively Paris newspaper culture, including the widely circulated Paris Petit Journal.
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le Figaro
Harper’s Weekly
Senate
Chamber
France
Gerant
Paris Petit Journal
The Brave Drummer Boy of Wilmington Hospital
A Union officer recalls tending Arthur Perry, a thirteen year old drummer boy from Ohio captured with an ammunition train, in a Wilmington hospital. The boy endures hunger and sickness yet remains cheerful, longs to return home to his mother, and shares a dream of marching with a grand drum corps before dying peacefully in the narrator’s arms.
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North Carolina
Andersonville
Cape Fear
Arthur Perry
Ohio
Mother
Johnny
A Love Match in Hampden Ends with Surprise Union
Mrs. Nedley arrives in Hampden to push a match for her nephew Philip Barrow. She discovers he has secretly married Silvia Gray, his chosen partner, and is moved to accept the union after Silvia reveals the romance. The aunt reconciles, spending the night at Hampden and praising Silvia’s hospitality and meals.
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Concord
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Phoshe
Mrs. Barrow
Phil. Barrow
Phoebe
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Nedley
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Ma’am
Denver
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Miscellaneous News Notes From An Early Issue
P and M Newburger of Chicago fail liabilities 20000. Beatrice Nevada reports a vuegro woman turning white in spots. Jose Gomez, attaché of Brazilian legation in Washington, marries Louise Hatcher of Lafayette Indiana. Bliss & Sons New York seeds firm makes assignment. Cambridge Massachusetts jury finds Mrs Valeria Stone sound, but undecided on undue influence by Rev Willcox. Sandager Bros Grafton arrange extension with Chicago creditors. John Hoberg Ledyard makes assignment for creditors to D J Brothers Kaukauna liabilities 13000 nominal 15000. Bear Ridge and nearby collieries shut down, over 2000 out of work. Waterloo Iowa saloonkeepers sentenced 75 plus costs. Cedar Falls sentences suspended. Wilmer Oak ballot box stuffing arrests. bonds set 1000. New York World considers ad valorem title tariff bid by Richelieu Robinson. Gov Sherman Iowa wrangles over extra legislative session amid freight and prohibition debates. Death of Capt L H Sanger prompts promotions in Seventh Infantry. Lindstreet’s St Paul reports failures and assignments including Dare & Kennedy Dawson Sandager Bros Knepper & Son Zimmerman McCallin Ames & Melones O’Garden Patvold and others. Great Eastern work proceeds for sea with unsettled departure date and seaworthiness questions. tower repairs and board inspections in progress.
The long-lost missing link appears in New Orleans platea
A tall slender figure with tight trousers a short close fitting jacket a bright necktie a curled waxed mustache a three inch high collar gaiters a glass eye middle parted hair cane tan kid gloves a diamond stud and a projecting rose bud. drinks Apollinaris enjoys ice cream skating dancing riding billiards and cue at lakesides theaters or skating rinks. described as the missing link per New Orleans platea.
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New Orleans
Platea
Summer Croquet Scene From Harper's Bazaar Verse
A lyrical fragment recalls a summer day in which a woman plays croquet beneath a tree while her mother irons a frilly gown in the kitchen. The piece conveys softened emotions and domestic imagery from a period tone.
Eben Rexford Praises The Little Man Helping His Mother
A New York Independent excerpt praises a brown faced boy named Eben Rexford who speaks of his poor mother who sews for bread. The child honors her with a vow to ease her burdens and earn his keep through effort and virtue.
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Eben . E. Rexford
New York
The German Sense of Duty in English Thought
In an English address Professor Tyndall credits duty as the motive force in Germany and notes German philosophers mold moral character. He recalls Prussian officers who said German soldiers emphasize doing their duty over conquering, forming a devotion that fuels heroism more than glory.
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Tyndall
Germany
Fontresina
Nelson
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