Patchy Revolutionary Echoes From a Colonial Debate
Fragmentary OCR text recalls Virginia and New Jersey roles in a July Fourth debate over independence. It cites Witherspoon urging immediate action, cites a Philadelphia native, Rev. Jacob Duches, and notes a shift led by a laconic speech that tipped the scale toward independence.
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Phia
New Jersey
Witherspoon
Freeman
Siz
Jacob Dauches
Duche
Philadelphia
Congress
Washington
Lord Howe
Amari
Ain
Early Fourth of July Celebrations and Historic Vignettes
A fragmentary historical sketch recounts Independence Day customs from colonial to early national times. It notes Independence Hall readings in 1776, New York celebrations, and dramatic images like the George III statue on Bowling Green, later used as projectiles. It also mentions 1782 congress feasting, Hessian music, candlelit city homes, and vivid archaic oratory, including a New Jersey divine’s 1823 address with stark war-time memories.
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Paul
Ford
Independence Hall
Penn
New York
Bowling Green
George the Third
George
Congress
Trenton
New Jersey
Physician Doctor F W Lange claims alchemical silver transmutation
A report in which Dr F W Lange describes a claimed discovery of transmuting base metals into silver. He outlines his background from Scranton tinsmith to Wesleyan and Hahnemann medicine studies, and argues his process may confirm alchemy without personal interest in the philosopher's stone.
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Charles ©. Dickinson
Doctor Lange
Scranton
Wesleyan University
Mid ‘Aietown
Conn
Atwater
Hahnemann College
Philadelphia
Lange
F W Lange
Browne Trial Deliberations in Illinois Graft Case
The Browne trial enters a suspenseful phase as 13 jurors retire at 3:53 p.m. after lengthy instructions in a bribery case involving Charles A. White and Lee ONeil Browne. Attorneys for both sides delivered fiery arguments, with White called Judas by the defense and Browne portrayed as labor ally. the verdict hangs on whether Browne gave White $850 for a vote for Lorimer.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
McLurely
Springfield
Charles A. White
William Lorimer
United States
Wayman
White
Beckemeyer
Link
Mauskellunge
Mitchell
Madison County
Mississippi
Charlies A. White
Judas Iscariot
Lee O’neil Browne
Bible Times
Charles E. Erbstein
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Judas
Judas Lagariot
Judas White
Browne
P H. O’donnell
Erbstein
State Street
Benedict Arnold
Arnold
Lee O’nell Browne
Forrest
Charles A White
Briggs House
Jorimer
Mr Forrest
Bunyan Birthplace Through the Village of Histon and Elstow
A T P Weekly sketch recalls Histon’s historic gates and the abbey tied to Judith countess of Huntingdon and the Radcliffe line, all overshadowed by John Bunyan’s 1623 birth in Elstow. The visitor eyes the church, bell tower, old guest house, cross stump, and Moot Hall, linking Bunyan to local memory.
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Bunyan
Judith
Huntingdon
William the Conqueror
Histon
Humphrey Radcliffe
Hillesden
Elstow
John Bunyan
Banyan
T. P.'a Weekly
Noah and Japhét discuss building Uncle Toni Cabin
In a brief exchange, Japhét muses on avoiding a flood and Noah asserts their fortune rests on available material for what he calls the greatest Uncle Toni Cabin production.
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Japhét
Noah
SAY CHARLTON IS INSANE
Porter Charlton alleged killer of his wife Mary Castie Charlton fights extradition from New Jersey to Italy. Charlton’s lawyers plan an insanity defense after alienists labeled him incurably insane and dementia praecox, while authorities seek removal to Rome.
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New York
Porter Charlton
Mary Castie Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Hudson County
Jersey City
Charlton
R. Floyd Clarke
William D. Edwards
Washington
Hoboken
Rome
Chariton
Funston Near Death in Leavenworth Hospital
Gen Frederick Funston commandant of the army service schools in Leavenworth Kan is critically ill with heart disease at his home hospital staff and the best nurses attend him Mrs Funston who is in California was notified Friday Funston suffers angina pectoris and has long suspected heart trouble heat may have triggered this attack. Also note brief items on $5000 bank theft in Boston and House passage of a conference report on a public buildings bill.
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Washington
Gore
Senate
McMurry
Oklahoma
House
Colorado
House of Representatives
Nebraska
Kansas
Gallinger
Leavenworth
Kan
Frederick Funston
Army Service Schools
General Funston
Army
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Carroll
Braxton
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Philadel
Jacob Ducke
Castleton
Nathan
Indiatv
Saat Fe Swann
Kadtan
Tella
F. W. Lange
Ars 9
Daag Coe
Jung
Eugene T. Porter
New York States Department of Health
Announces Hoe
Coca-Cola
Rongo
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
Ges
G Bernard Shaw
Libby
Taneh- Libby
Vicana Sausage Park
Bess
Mik
Gen
Funston
Boston
Julius Rottenburg
Beral Restate
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