Dancing at Wasatch Ward in Salt Lake City
An eye opening description of a ward meeting hall dance near the Wasatch mountains. A mix of Scandinavian, English, Irish and Swiss attendees mingle as couples form through a numbered cotillion led by Brother Brown. The night features polkas and waltzes, simple dress, strict decorum, no alcohol, and a communal sense of home among church members and outsiders alike.
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Salt Lake City
Latter-Day
Wasatch Mountains
Ural
Misourian
Tere
Eeder
Brother Brown
Salt Lake
Cy Cor
New
Woss Than That at the Depot in Bimba
An elderly pair in a York bound depot discuss the stock market plunge and unemployment as one man laments a bad bunko loss while the other, battered and wary, contemplates westward work opportunities in a gritty exchange.
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Bimba
York
Guadba
Bunko
Davee
Liberty Geser
Napoleon
Evlilve
Waeren
Kiebfeld
Richfled
Mtculler
tTanite
Orier
Tradg
Leva. Ie
Tiberty
Ranulog Avery
Richfield
Pentanile
Autilles
Oration
President Lincoln Dream Prophesied Assassination
A Nashville Liberal article recounts President Lincoln's dream of assassination heard at the White House. He dreamed of a corpse on a dais and a soldier saying the president was dead by an assassin, after which Mrs Lincoln quoted his dream as prophetic.
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Gheen
Meron Geativnan
Jody
Grienes
Tam
Susan
Detroit Free Press
Lincoln
White Honay
White House
An Neanssin
Mr. Lincoln
The Girl of the Period in Social Satire
The author critiques modern leisure classes, contrasting the refined yet overshadowed woman with the ostentatious, vulgar resort girl. The piece laments the era’s shift toward conspicuous wealth, social polish, and self indulgence, noting how privilege masks lacking virtue.
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Bizhwa
Sna
Simmer Resort
Curious Fragments From a Bygone Era In Midsummer News
A garbled column lists varied items from scientific notices to local curiosities. It mentions English strawberry introductions, American roast beef notes, Nevada policy moves, a 50 000 dollar fortune, and tales of birds, oysters, and theater bolts. The piece mixes foreign and domestic trivia, travel curios and small anecdotes, all in a rapid, miscellany style.
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England
Coleridge
United States
John Fullan
Fenshing
L. L
Mahlon
Menana
Woo
Mulberry Street
New York
Montana
Voong
Burlington
Bob Schenck
Bright
Nevada
John D. Bullock
Southern Confederacy
Europe
Great Britain
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Church of St. Sulpice
Parla
Society of Friends
Tom Ochiltree
Ealison
Electric Light Company
Pennsylvania
Isaac Bartlett
Hope, Me
Academie Des Sciences
M. Keechel
West Point
Bishop Green
Mississippi
Louisville
Isabella
Spain
France
Alfonso
Paris
Hunter's Springs
Minn
San Francisco
Thomas
Scott Spemesery
Dudge Thomas
Scott
Arnott
Lyceum Theatre
London
Nashville man fined for kiss to schoolteacher
A Nashville man was fined 800 for kissing a schoolteacher, with notes suggesting the jury might have imposed more if the scene matched a nostalgically described affair. The account conveys courtroom tone and a satirical aside about proper conduct and penalties.
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James Thumm
St. Andrew's Chorea
Johnson
Virginia
Narragansett
Bay
Providence
Nashville
Borla, Haly & Donovas
Atterary+et-Law
Ohio
Berne
AMSG
A. L. Lessick
At - Law, Neees Heine Ree
B.A. Palmer
BahLsus
V. Len
Pemrines, Movants
Hack Pay
Smieoacs Ta Ubeaks
MAG
F. Ragam
Attorpeys-at-Law
Napoteon
UMS
BAG
Voce
Nore
Evans
MA Maan
Memes Hague
Justice of the Peace
Philip C. Schwab
Arart Laws
Beary County
Chic
Warls PU Teatt
W. A. Tressler
Sabington Street
Opeaers
Feveess Nore
Wite
Joseph Weible
Florida
A. B. Phillips
G. H. Sherman
H. H. Sheffield
O. Ty
Bloomfield
Baur
P. A. Baur
DR. J
Maly
A. W
Clinton Seatth
A. E. Maerker
Lelat
Gonsorral
Geo, W. Valentine
Be West Aide
Perry Street
Philip Webb
Oecase
Perry St
Ali
A.C. Johnson
Meir Droseing and
Humpoolay
Kuowi Weashigton
Steve
W. E.stilwell
Zink
Tyler
Ordery
Humphrey's
Honicxz
Tatlor
Yoo
John Diemer
Bini
First Mortgage Loans
Brest
Sor Btn
Pohlmann
Wil
Lhos
Burns
Bologna &c
Ste Sk
Tina
Rees
Vitueh
Cain
Napoleon Planing Mills, Reiser, Shoemaker & Stockman Proprietors
Woula
Weill Buy
Contomwenrs
Walees
Allesae
C. E. Reynold Land and Insurance
Napoleon, Ohio
He County
Buick
Belek Barn
Napoleoe
Sepoleon
Ts Mame
Alvo Fry
Joan
Thiauzency
Hut & Mayer
Court House
Miller& Smith
Liberty Center
Henry Co
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