Deaths of L. J. Polk and Sidney Dillon Lead Railfront Names
Reports from Raligh and New York cover the death of L. J. Polk, president of the Farmers' Alliance, and the death of Sidney Dillon, former Union Pacific president. Details include procession, church services, cemetery rites, mourners, and remarks on Polk's funeral. Also notes business leaders and political maneuvering around the Omaha convention and ratification meeting in Chicago.
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Washington
Raleigh
N. C
Sidney Dillon
The
Union Pacifies
Rauman
President Polk
Farmers’ Alliance
First Baptist Church
Polk
Holt
Supreme Court
State Farmers’ Alliance
Grand Sire Buissee
Sovereign Grand Lodge Odd Fellows
Dre. J. W. Carter
T. E. Skinner
J. J. Hall
Oskwood Cemetery
Hall
Skinner
Alliance
Afr
Ramsay
New York
Northampton
Montgomery County
N. Y
Ireland
Dillon
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Jay Gould
Stewart
Omana
Neb
L. L. Polk
Farmers’Alliance
Omaha
United States
William B Stewart
Nevada
Thomas Watson
Congress
Georgia
General Weaver
National notes and incidents from the week
A broad digest lists events from Omaha drills to murders and strikes. Kinship visits Blaine in Bar Harbor, a Weat Point graduation, railway earnings, drownings and lynchings, factory plans in Cleveland, and political moves in Montreal. Also noted are crops, fires, debates, and international tensions with Russia China and Hungary.
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Omaha
James G. Blaine
Bar Harbor
Weat Point
Atchison Railway System
Charles Rea
Will Haden
Paris
Marquette
Mich
George Whetstone
Cass County
Tex
Woods, Jenks & Co
Tabor
Field, Lindley, Wiecher & Co
Russia
J. F. Mosely
Stockton
Cal
Justice Reed
New Jersey Supreme Court
John Redmond
New York
Etruria
Queenstown
China
Pamir
Buda Pesth
Hungary
Coeur d-Along
Idaho
Council
Irish National League of
New York City
Ireland
Germany
Mysterious Music and Tales of the Far Off Country
A feature discusses beliefs that music lures souls away to a distant realm. It cites medieval legends and Goethe’s Erl King as examples of music signaling danger, and recalls the Piper of Hamelin tale and sea sailors fearing haunting melodies.
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Orpheus
Wesley
Baring Gould
Sum Ray
Rome
Elfand
Tin
Nameth
Lot
The Portal Opened Wide And The Piper Led The Children
A wondrous portal opened as if a cavern hollowed itself and the piper walked in followed by the children. When all had entered the door in the mountainside closed shut.
The White Lady Legend Across Castles and Clans
Popular lore describes the White Lady as a Snow white specter who appears before important events and deaths in German noble houses. She bears keys, is linked to ancestors, and is seen watching children at night. Scottish chiefs were also said to have a protective spirit over their line.
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Scotland
Insect Wax From China Awakens Curiosity
The Rural New Yorker explains how brown pea shaped scales on Chinese evergreen tree bark host wax insects. Female insects produce the scales and eggs while males excrete white wax that coats branches to a quarter inch deep. After harvest, wax is boiled from branches, skimmed, molded, and used to coat ornamental items and tags to slow burning.
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China
Lord Lytton's Last Poems Epilogue Echoes Time
An obituary style note discusses the epilogue of Lord Lytton's posthumous volume, highlighting verses about time passing, impermanence, and the world fading. It notes prophetic tone, with lines about songs fleeing on the wing and the Now as sand, Near as perishing, Afar as fairyland, and Beyond as God's bosom.
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Lord Lytton
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