The Blind Classes and the Plutocratic Threat to Reform
A 19th century sermon outlines revolutionary warnings against plutocracy and church neglect. It contrasts wealth display with mass hunger, cites Washington and Paine to urge timely action, and questions the ruling classes, church, and state about their response to growing social strain.
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Jerusalem
James 11
Macaulay
James II
Christendom
France
James
George Washington
Congress
Jonathan Boucher
Potomac
England
Washington
Thomas Paine
Norfolk
Lord Dunmore
Falmouth
Portland
Admiral Graves
Joseph Reed
Revolt or Revolution The Bastille Fall Reaches Louis XVI
In crisis the assembly sent a deputation to Louis XVI asking for troop dismissal. The king refused but offered to move sittings to Soissons. Upon learning of the Bastille’s fall the king cried revolt while the duke Liancourt called it a revolution.
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Louis XVI
France
Louis
Soissons
Duke de Liancourt
Robber Whistles Through Stage Stop in Oregon Heist
A masked robber halted a stage nine miles east of town near Klamath Falls. He forced driver Jack Bartle and three passengers to march up the road and looted Wells Fargo mail before robbing passengers of watches and cash. Carl Thompson, an insurer from Salem, hid $100 in his hat. The bandit whistled as he fled toward his mountain home.
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Ager
Klamath Falls
Here
Jack Bartle
Wells, Fargo & Co
San Francisco
Sunlight by a Crooked Route Lights Oil Tank Repair
A vessels crew used polished mirrors to reflect sunlight 27 feet into a dark oil tank hold to illuminate a leaky joint. The reflected rays reached through manholes and were magnified by lenses enabling a 10 foot square flood of light for repairs aboard the Kasbek.
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Briggs
Philadelphia Record
Farseeing Mr Greathead on dining and nutrition
A New York Tribune excerpt presents Mr Greathead advising frugality and slow chewing to reduce intake. He recounts ordering a small steak in a restaurant, receiving a tender chuck instead of round, and insists on a steak with ample chew as prices rise.
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New York Tribune
Sleeping passenger car delights both railway and riders
An engineer from Russia named Gunzburg unveils a sleeping passenger car that matches the capacity of a standard nonsleeping car of identical size. Every seat is convertible for sleeping without disturbing others, a feat the Transcaspian railway already uses, according to the Boston Journal.
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Gunzburg
Russia
Boston Journal
Spanking Advice Cited From Cor Henry IV in Letter
A reader argues that corporal punishment is effective and calls for whipping a disobedient son, claiming personal experience under Henry IV confirms its value and urging the recipient to inform them of any punishment given.
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Henry IV
Women In Foundries Change Pittsburg Labor Scene
Five hundred girls and women work in Pittsburg foundries earning four to five dollars a week, replacing men who made fourteen to sixteen dollars. The report notes the labor of shaping nails and bolts strains strong men, and calls the so called woman question for further investigation.
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Pittsburg
Joe Howard
Novices question motives after safe robbery
A Chicago Inter man recalls a train heist where novices robbed a safe and left five sleeping car orders untouched, prompting discussion on why the bandits were new to crime.
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Scott
Chicago
A Lesson in Good Roads and Union County Growth
The piece argues Union County New Jersey roads funded by bonds and taxes boosted land value and taxable wealth. It cites tax rates, property assessments rising from 27.9 million to 31.77 million, and increased carriage activity as evidence of improved markets and investment following road improvements. It notes prior road neglect hindered sales and that better roads drew buyers and per-foot land value gains.
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Telford
Union County
N. J
Board of Chosen Freeholders
Union
The March of the Caravan in Persian Travel
A reflective piece contrasts eastern caravan life with Western rail and road bustle. The traveler recalls night bells and the caravan captain emerging from darkness, the slow, immemorial Persian pace, and the complete contrast to home’s speed and movement.
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Persiz
Parlor Matches in Hotels Scrutinized by Bellboy and Clerk
A bellboy in a hotel explains to a clerk that eight day parlor matches are a nuisance and often banned by insurance policies. The clerk notes insurers prohibit parlor matches in rooms due to fire risk while sulfur matches are deemed safer. He adds parlor matches may ignite from moisture or spontaneous combustion, unlike sulfur matches.
Electricity at the Fair Reveals Electric Innovations
The article notes new uses for electricity across the fair buildings including mining applications and silent electric launches on lagoons. It contrasts indoor electric progress with Chicago’s smoky skyline and questions when electric power will reach coalfields and waterfall sites for widespread, clean energy.
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Chicago
New York Evening Post
Exterminate Parasol Ants In Trinidad War Declared
The Trinidad government passes an ordinance to eradicate parasol ants. An army of Aucodoma cephalotes forms narrow columns carrying green disks as they strip trees of leaves within 24 hours, a sight noted in tropical America.
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Trinidad
America
Kew Bulletin
Wealth Origins Revealed by The New York Sun
The New York Sun reports on receipts listing Four Hundred members from the last century trading items such as handkerchiefs beans hats pewter spoons molasses lampblack and other goods linked to prominent families like Stuyvesant DePeyster Rhinelander Brevoort Beekman and Roosevelt. The Atlantic Constitution notes descendants may object yet suggests honest pioneer trades leave no shameful record.
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France
Panama Gang
Italy
Germany
Congress
America
House of Representatives
Europe
Nery
Rome
Nero
Gould and
Ames
Gould
Boston
Will
Napoleon
Grea Iine
Moody
Vermont
Maine
Union
Brooklyn
Gladden
Canon Farrar
England
Earl of Shaftesbury
New England
Jesus Christ
God
Mammon
New York City
Assemblies of Workingmen
Jesus
Mons Sacer
New York Sun
Stuyvesant
Atlanta Constitution
Baby Cheney Narrow Escape From Poisoned Dish
A baby in Randolph Maine nearly died after a dog that had been poisoned nosed into a dish of green beans set out for kittens. Mrs Cheney reports the incident to a neighbor saying such a case has rarely occurred.
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Baby Cheney
Randolph
Vonway Village to become manufacturing town on power plan
Vonway Village in Massachusetts eight miles from Ashfield's famed summer resort aims to transform into a bustling manufacturing town and market center if a proposed water power scheme is completed.
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Vonway Village
Massachusetts
Ashfield
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Old World
Hue
Oves
Cairo
Constantinople
Teheran
Tangier
Ispahan
Algeria
F. W. Putnam
Harvard University
Philadelphia Press
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