Madame Elena Returns to Care for Ill Son
Denise Fielden, known as Madame Elena, travels from London to Lincolnshire to see her frail son Michael. In the vast Fielden manor she reconnects with her husband, confronts past mistakes, and agrees to take Michael with her for his health, while the couple weighs their strained marriage against the boy’s fragile future.
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Fanchon
Madame
Denise
Michael
Lincolnshire
Agale
Hannah
Littl
Fieldens
Tomaso
Murtur
Love and longing pull Denise toward a hush hush reunion
Denise faces a choice between remaining desolate or reuniting with her husband and son. In a tense late night, her son Michael persuades the shy mother to lure the father back, sharing a secret of a kissed picture and hopeful plans for a real family core.
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Denise
Father
San
Michael
Don
Sonny
Micha
Hle
Woman’s Principles and the Value of a Good Husband
The piece argues that a normal woman’s main asset is a suitable partner and that personal choice matters more than laws in selecting a good husband. It notes that legislatures can protect women from bad marriages, but the onus is on personal enterprise. It ends with a quip on why men’s tobacco use seems odd.
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Sass Harper's Weekly
Creed Revision Expected as Presbyterians Ratify
The New York Herald reports 227 of 235 Presbyterian presbyteries voted for creed revision based on eleven overtures from last year’s general assembly. The vote, telegraphed to New York leaders, clears the major obstacle ahead of the Los Angeles assembly and may restore the church’s national influence.
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New York Herald
Presbyterian c Church
America
General Assembly
New York
Los Angles
Cal
Rail developments and policy crime in Chicago notes
A roundup reports rail and telecom updates across Chicago era lines. It cites the Louisville and Nashville expansion into Chattanooga, a faster Northern Pacific coast link, and Texas and California line ambitions. It warns of a massive policy gambling network draining urban poor pockets, with 1400 shops and school child involvement, plus church related bet practices.
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Louisville and Nashville
Chattanooga
North Coast Limited
Northern Pacific
St I’n l
Board of Railroad Commissioners of Iowa
Western Union Telegraph Company
Austin and Hano
Hearter and
Texas Central Railroad
Missouri Court Rules Against Denying Pew Seats
Kansas City Circuit Court holds Congregation Gomad Ghesse liable after barring Jagota a poor Jew from a pew sold to him by Graves. Jagota, a shoemaker, faced aristocratic obstruction at the rear seating and abandoned the purchase, Graves sued for $65.
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Missouri
Circuit Court
Kansas City
Gomad Ghesse
Samuel Graves
Hr. Jagota
Jagora
Graves
Fragmented 1900s notes mix on rulers and reform
A string of terse, era sounding lines mentions the Macedonians and a sultan, Mark Hanna seeking a dentist, Chicago preachers battling vice, Ames memory, an aspiring Moroccan throne pretender, Britain’s new warships, and an anti imperialist claim about Funston unable to swim a stroke.
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Cleveland
Mark Hanna
South
Chicago
Ames
Minneapolis
Morocco
Great Britain
Philadelphia
Funston
Telephonic experiment by BE Walker in London described
A London experiment by BE Walker used a wooden rod and two speaking trumpets to transmit the ticking of a watch. A New Orleans plot aimed to incite wholesale slaughter of whites by negroes imported from San Domingo was uncovered.
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BE. Walker
London
New Orleans
San Domingo
First DC Railroad Authorized by Congress Bill
Seventy five years ago a Congress bill authorized building the District of Columbia first railroad. President John Quincy Adams announced plans to pay off five million dollars of the public debt, totaling thirty eight million liquidated to date by his administration. General Lafayette was sworn in as a member of the French Chamber of Deputies.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Avenue
West Madison Street
Ogden Avenue
Halsted Street
North Clark Street
Clybourn Avenue
South State and Dearborn Streets
Armour Avenue
Black Belt
Ghetto
Polny i
Banks
Iren
John Hi
Congreve
District of Columbia
John Quincy Adams
Lafayette
French Chamber of Deputies
Sultan Hosts Napoleon Banquet Fifty Years Past
Fifty years ago the Sultan of Turkey held a banquet in honor of Napoleon while a tragedy occurred in New York as fifty people died when a passenger train fell through an open drawbridge. Russia delivered an ultimatum urging protection for Christians in the Sultan's dominions.
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Turkey
New York
New Haven
Russia
Forty Years Ago in Civil War News Battles and Trials
A collage of events from the era: Lincoln and Halleck visiting Chancellorsville outcomes, Vallandigham's Cincinnati court martial, Grant criticized for canal funds near Vicksburg, Poland rebuffing amnesty, Georgia drawing US notes into law, Field and Livermore testing cotton costs, and reports of tensions with England. Alleged Confederate victories at Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg also noted.
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Lincoln
Gen. Halleck
Gen. Hooker
Falmouth
Clement L. Vallandigham
Cincinnati
Mount Vernon
Ohero
Gen. A
Grant
Vicksburg
Miss
Poland
Russia
Georgia
United States
South
George B Field
Livermore
Milliken's Bend
London
Newa
England
Alabama
Sen IE Lee
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Salmon P. Chase obituary and era notes detailed
Thirty years ago, Salmon P. Chase, chief justice, ex Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, ex Senator and ex Governor of Ohio, died in New York City. The US exhibit at Vienna included two cases of firearms, a stuffed eagle, two caltcellars, a dentist chair, and six Mississippi river water bottles. Grant received at his Galena home. Say levee nearing completion amid Missouri litigation. Dixon Illinois drowned 38 and 25 injured as a bridge over Rock River collapsed during a baptismal service.
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Salmon PP Chane
United States
Treasury
Lincoln
Ohio
New York City
U S Grant
Galena
Missouri
Dixon
Ruck River
James G Fair sued for divorce amid $3 million offer
Twenty years ago United States Senator James G Fair of California faced a divorce suit after his wife refused a $3,000,000 settlement and two houses in a peaceable separation. The item notes a 278 mile express train record between New York and Boston.
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United States
James G. Fair
California
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Noah Porter
David Dudley Field
John Greenleaf Whitther
New York
Crook
Sierra Madre
Mexico
Patrick Delaney
Thomas Caffrey
Lord Cavendish
Dublin
Pennsylvania
Boston
Prof Pupin claims electric light without heat breakthrough
A decade ago Prof Pupin of Columbia College was said to have practically solved the problem of producing electric light without heat making some of Tesla's experiments commercially practicable. Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, was said to fight annexation at Honolulu. Commissioner James H. Blount had promised not to restore Queen Liliuokalani. The National Cordage Company, an early trust, collapsed after three years.
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Pupin
Columbia College
NikolaiTesla
Claus Spreckels
Honolulu
James H. Blount
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Clyde
Saginaw
Hamilton
Chicago Policy Mad
Attorney General of
State Supreme Court
Southern Pacific
Texas Commission
Gulf
West Texas and Pacific
Southern P Pacific
San Pedro
Los Angeles Salt Lake
Clark
Oregon
Harriman
Salt Lake
French Railway Administration
France
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