Senate Debates Civil Service and Pensions Proposals
Senate floor action covers Hale charging civil service disregard, a 1878 circular on political contributions, petitions against liquor in DC, a delay in the Pacific railroad report, and bills to raise invalid pensions to eight dollars monthly. House actions include a fish and fisheries salary, a tax on tobacco repeal, and various appropriations and railway funding measures.
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Hale
Butler
Republican Congressional Committee
Sabin
Minnesota
District of Columbia
St. Paul
Manderson
Rallo
House
Senate
Platonic love and the woes of flirtation in a cautious age
A narrator recalls past romance and defines platonic love as a defensive, noncommittal bond between men and women. He contrasts freedom and friendship with emotional risk, arguing true love requires mutual exclusivity and responsibility. The piece critiques the notion that platonic ties satisfy emotional needs without commitment.
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The
San Francisco Chronicle
The Faults That Make Thee A Woman Through And Through
A poem praises a woman by declining praise of flawless beauty. The speaker asserts her radiant womanhood lies in her faults not perfection. He argues love requires human flaws, not an angelic ideal, and declares faults are her chief charm that reveal true humanity.
The Two Medals and a Heroic Soldier's Story
In Fran a village a pastor recalls Pierre Lavelle, a brave youth drafted for five years. Pierre earns a golden star and later the Iron Cross, dies in battle while defending his love Marguerite and his regiment. A veteran recalls how the Iron Cross was awarded by the imperial leader.
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Arcadia
France
Napoleon
Pierre Lavelle
Pierre
Marguerite
Marguerite and Pierre Hero of a French Village Tale
An elderly adviser recalls a tale of duty and love. Marguerite sacrifices personal happiness to marry Jules Dermot for her dying father, bears a daughter, and later confronts Pierre Lavelle, a hero thought dead, who returns to learn of his child. Pierre dies content beside his memory. The narrative then shifts to a vivid Ice Carnival description in St. Paul with the Ice King, Borealis, and the monumental Ice Palace.
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Marguerite
Jules Dermot
Thave
Pierre
Pierre Lavelle
France
St. Paul
Venice
Rome
St. Louis
New Orleans
Palace of
Ice Palace
Carnival Park
Borealis Rex
Evictions in New York versus Ireland raise concerns
The Boston Globe notes Ireland with 2,088 evicted families in a year affecting 8,817 people, while New York records 22,804 families or about 124,020 people. It argues many evictions stem from work loss and drink, driving families to alms or work houses and swelling taxpayer costs for child maintenance, hinting at a shift toward state upbringing of children.
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Howard
Boston Globe
New York
Ireland
Tate
Peril on the Norse Maelstrom and the Kidneys Cure
An 1886 Arctic tale links a grandmotherly voyage to a fatal whirlpool with a medical ad for Warner's safe cure. It depicts a boy and grandfather adrift near Moskenes, then shifts to blood flow cleansing via kidneys, warning of neglect and urging the remedy to stave off poisonous uric acid.
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Norway
Moskenes
Warner
Grain and dairy price snapshot from multiple markets
Wheat and corn quotes across Curiaco New York Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee regions with No. 1 hard and No. 2 Northerns listed. Oats, barley, flax and flaxseed rates shown alongside butter, eggs, pork and lard figures. Prices reflect creamery and dairy variants with weekly spreads and ranges.
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Curiaco
DutwTn
New York
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Timothy Oem
Milwaukee
The Time to Do Good Always Delays to Tomorrow
The passage argues that an 1880 habit of postponing virtue exists because the future self is treated as a different person. True renunciation must be felt in the present self, yet people defer action to future moments, often choosing the new year as the moment to begin.
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Dr. Pierce
Kinkel
E. Coe Ane
Ge Koo
M. C
Sanden
LA Salle ST
Chicago
Ill
Earthquake shocks felt across three states on the same day
A sharp quake rippled through South Carolina North Carolina and Georgia on the 12th. In Congress Chairman Townsend will present the unanimous report of the military committee backing Rep Boutelle's resolution on the disposition of captured flags. A Atlantic Pacific Railroad crash near Coolridge New Mexico left eight lightly hurt and three others likely fatally. Miss Florence Woodson of Woodstock Illinois suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries with possible death.
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Senate
Chandler
Jackson
Miss
Riddleberger
Lamar
Mississippi
Dawes
Indian Bureau
Bayard
Congress
Paris
United States
Secretary of State
Utah
Senate Committee On
Territories
Cullom
Palmetto
W. H. Bigelow
Maine
Post Office Department
Evarts
Des Moines
Raccoon Forks
Iowa
Bureau of Harbors and Waterways
War Department
Davis
Duluth
Same
Minnesota Point
Lake Superior
South Carolina
North Carolna
Georgia
Townsend
House
Military Committee
Boutelle
Atlantic & Pacific
Coolridge
N. M
Florence Woodson
Woodstock
Ill
Lynchers Kill Roane County Minister in Roane Home
Rev Thomas P Ryan a Methodist minister in Roane County West Virginia was murdered in October at his home after returning from Conference with about 400 dollars. Three young men Robert Duff George Duff and Chester Coon were lynched for the crime. It emerges the lynchers and murderers were the same party who killed innocent men to hide their own crime.
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Thomas P. Ryan
Roane County
West Va
Robert
George Duff
Chester Coon
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Big Returns on Small Outlay
Pitch extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a small investment with large returns. Claims the tonic purifies blood, cures headaches, aches, and sickness by restoring proper blood flow and vitality. Uses persuasive rhetoric typical of era health ads and urges purchase for renewed health.
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Ackache
Dr. Pierce
Wells, Richardson & CO
Proprietors
Burlington, VT
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