Vinegar as Sympathy in a Pontifical Sermon in Chicago
Rev T DeWitt Talmage preached in Chicago on "Sour Experiences" from John 19 30, pairing Jesus taking vinegar with universal compassion. He framed betrayal pain poverty bereavement and death as trials shared with Christ while urging audience to seek solace in divine mercy.
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Bloody Epithet Origins in English Speech
A British slang term long common in England carries no violent meaning domestically. It derives from a root meaning rather, as in a note about Dublin heat, and English lower classes use it as a mild intensifier rather than a violent term.
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War era torpedo steamers proposed by Sydney Herald
The Sydney Herald proposes converting a dozen fast steamers into large torpedo ships. Each vessel would carry gunpowder in watertight compartments and be steered from a stern turret protected by mock crew. The plan aims for cheap construction and many volunteers to steer during an invasion.
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Sydney Herald
Five Hunters Slain in Kinishi Mountains Mystery
Bodies of five men shot in the Kinishi mountains Choctaw nation fifty miles from Denver are believed hunters. A sixth body found nearby is thought to be part of the attacking party. No identities yet, but a battle between hunters and mountaineers is suspected.
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Gettysburg Reunion Honors Army of the Potomac and Virginia
A Gettysburg Sunday reunion gathers 10,000 veterans including Gen Longstreet and Gov Beaver as First Army Corps veterans recall battles. Speakers praise unity, democracy, and the valor of both sides, with religious rites and fraternal toasts marking the two day observances.
Brooks family seeks commutation amid jail visit and appeals
Mrs N S Brooks and her daughter Annie arrived from Hyde England to visit Hugh M Brooks alias Maxwell in jail. They will petition Gov Morehouse on the 9th for mercy, presenting letters and documents in his favor. Separately at St Joseph a scab incident led to a shooting after crowds chased Golden Holman, injuring Dick Harrigan. Melville Fuller nomination for chief justice moves forward without recommendation. Russian crop reports are favorable with strong winter wheat and spring crop prospects.
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President opposes private pension bills and calls for reform
The president rails against widespread private pension acts including a case involving Mary Anne Doherty, noting deceit and repeated arrests. He argues pensions should align with general laws, urges a pension code, and proposes a tribunal to assess merit, warning against inducement of fraud and unequal treatment of veterans.
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Daniel Doherty
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Details Emerge On Burlington Dynamite Plot And Suspects
General Manager H B Stone reveals that in mid May the Burlington railroad faced dynamite plots including Bowles, a brotherhood engineer, who left Chicago with dynamite and caps. A May 29 derailment near Aurora showed damp sawdust, dynamite remnants, and a cap. multiple cartridges bore the same maker marks as those linked to Bowles, Broderick, and Wilson.
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Aurora
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Yellowstone Park Editors Excursion Planned from Dakota
Watertown Dakota July 3 1888 committee arranging a Yellowstone Park excursion for editors publishers reporters and correspondents of Dakota. Start Sept 8 by Northern Pacific train with optional side trips to Salt Lake City Denver and Omaha via Union Pacific. A printing office car provided with type and plates from Marder Luse Co Minnesota Foundry Northwestern Newspaper Union American Press Association. Contact C W Ainsworth Watertown for details.
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Saloon melee ends in deaths in Queens district riot
A crowd of drunken roughs forced entry at Thomas Tierney's saloon in Long Island City. Tierney fired, killing Richard Owens and fatally wounding Cornelius Walsh.
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New Mexico
Gomes Relents and Saves Navara from Cuban Fire
Diego Gomes atones for a jilted love by risking his life to rescue Adolph Navara from a burning cabin. Isabella Navara pleads for mercy, then Gomes delivers Navara to safety before taking the rebel to headquarters and confessing his deed. The act costs Gomes his life as he dies by dagger in his breast days later.
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West Indies Crumbled By Slavery Abolition Says Powter
A. B. Powter of Kingston Jamaica, now at the Laclede Hotel, warns that post abolition conditions across the West Indies worsen. He argues slavery’s end caused labor shortages, reliance on coerced labor, and decay in islands like Jamaica and Haiti, with cannibalism reportedly resurging in Haiti and white landowners shrinking.
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A. B. Powter
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Grand Cayman
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Jamacca
West Indian Islands
Powter
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Kettle Drums and Social Gathers Through History
The New York Journal of Commerce traces the phrase kettle drum to ancient usage and explains its social meaning. It cites Fielding and Coventry on drums as assemblies of guests. The term derives from Dutch and Saxon roots meaning crowd and noise, describing a large informal gathering at a house on short notice.
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Tom Jones
Francis Coventry
Pompey the Little
Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee Wheat and corn market quotes
Market wire reports wheat and corn prices across Chicago Minneapolis St Paul and Milwaukee. Prices cover No 2 spring wheat No 2 red corn and oats No 2 rye barley flax seed Timothy hay and dairy items with pork lard butter eggs and cheese quotes. Provisions steady with pork at 13.55 and lard around 8.70 to 8.77 per hundredweight.
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Milwaukee
Death Among The Vice-Presidents from the New York Evening Post
The article notes a pattern that every vice president over 60 at election died in office. It lists George Clinton, William R. King, Henry Wilson, and Thomas A. Hendricks with ages at election and death, plus nine presidents who took office after 60, including Taylor. It warns against electing aged men to the presidency or any office that could become presidential.
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Dream of Fair Women and Health Advice Ad
The piece promotes Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a health and beauty aid for women, arguing health and beauty go hand in hand. It asserts the medicine is the only women’s remedy sold by druggists with a money back guarantee printed on the bottle wrap and honored over many years.
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