Campaign Club Delivers Rousing Demosthenes Tribute
The Campaign Club hosts Gravitation Spencer of Missouri famed as De Demosthenes de South. He urges political unity and swift action while railing at broken promises and the forty acres mule pledge. Edith Collins Vanderbilt fortune noted as Paris sensation and social fixture.
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Brother Gardner
Lan
Missouri
Demosthenes
South
Neiber
Miss Collins
Paris
Edith Collins
Commodore Vanderbilt
Horace Clark
Attacked by a possum and other oddities in a churchyard tale
An illustrated New Brunswick column recounts a gray opossum uproar near Livingston Avenue Baptist Church and includes curiosities on owls in California. A vivid frontier camp scene follows with two men, Ernest and the narrator, guarding livestock by a campfire as distant howls hint at a prowling wolf pack.
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New Brunswick
N. J
New Ae Journal
Globe-Democrat
Livingston Avenue Baptist Church
Dart
Ashland Cor
The
Ernest
Illy
Billy
Possum Attack Causes Frenzied Churchyard Chaos
A wild possum charged through a church crowd spilling umbrellas and screams as men beat the animal with canes. One man was bitten on the leg before a negro killed the creature and carried it home for supper. Witnesses describe terrified women fleeing toward Livingston Avenue and the high school portico.
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Livingston Avenue
Welton Street
John Fouratt
Miscellaneous Highlights From The Era News
The item compiles scattered readings on topics from education and farming to wealth and crime. Notable notes include the Bluefield Institute transfer to West Virginia for 8000 dollars, US and Victoria wheat yields near equal, social games in Hopkins Missouri, scarce fur-bearing animals, rising interest in vertical handwriting in Michigan schools, Australian flowers in London dining rooms, Victoria floral trade experiments with Britain, a Maine farmer’s milk theft confession, Malmaison sale hints, and a portrait of W S Stratton, Cripple Creek mine magnate, facing wealth-related burdens and threats yet constrained by practical limits on his spending.
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Bluefield Institute For the
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United States
Victoria
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Siberia
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London
Agricultural Department
Great Britain
Enfield
Malmaison
Josephine
Lighting a Cigar With Ice In a Patent Case Wager
A Washington lawyer, visiting for patent case consultations, bet that ice could light a cigar. He melted a clear inch-thick ice disk into a convex double lens with his palms and focused sunlight to ignite the cigar, proving the concept in a memorable demonstration.
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Popular Science Monthly
Washington
Washingtonian
Statue Fund Boosts Nine Foot Vanderbilt Tribute in Nashville
Citizens of Nashville Tennessee contribute to a fund to erect a bronze statue nine feet high honoring Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The sculpture commemorates his generosity in founding the university bearing his name and celebrates the city’s pride.
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Nashville
Tenn
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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