A Wonder He's Alive and a Sailor's Incredible Odyssey
Henry Skillings returns to San Francisco after twenty three years with a saga of shipwrecks slavery and duels. He sailed from Hong Kong on the Audibon survived a wreck swam ashore and saved all aboard. He later traded in Samoa Ponape and Mokie facing dangers including duels and battles amid European colonial conflicts.
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Henry ’. Skillings
San Francisco
Skillings
Hong Kong
Audibon
Sydney
Gilebert
Webbers
Samos
Rawtawma
Samoa
Ponape
Pouape
Mokie
Labor and education for colored citizens urged at Mohawk Lake
A late speech at Mohawk Lake argues the colored man must work to uplift himself and praises hand training alongside books. It criticizes schools that produce graduates without practical skills and asserts trained workers have better prospects than those with mere academic credentials.
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Normal Institute
Mohawk Lake
taDe
Pion
Georgia Crop Report Shows Encouraging Corn and Cotton
The Georgia Department of Agriculture releases a June crop report noting corn at 97 percent and cotton better than last year with stands around 93 percent. Oats suffer freezes and rust, fruit damage is widespread, worm issues plague lowlands, and labor for chopping out is tight but progress is fair and outlook favorable.
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Artanra
Department of Agriculture
Echo of the War Reveals Long Lost Brother to General Oxley
At an unveiling event a West Virginia adjutant general learned from an old soldier that his lost brother Jim Oxley, killed at Gettysburg, may have been identified. The veteran’s description matched perfectly, moving General Oxley to tears as he promised to tell his family the first news of their missing kin.
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Oxley
Tucsen Tork
West Virginia
Oziey
Jim Oxley
Gettysbur
General Oxley
Virginia
North Carolina Experiment Station Warns on Butter Imports
The station reports 53 317 lbs of butter imported into Raleigh in the year ending Sept 30 1688. About twenty seven tons entered the city. officials urge home production to meet demand. Of the total, 35 060 lbs were used in fall and winter, 16 257 lbs in spring and summer. The station plans experiments to boost domestic supply.
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Raleigh
H. B. Barrie
Went to the Front in 52
A humorous census moment in Brooklyn 1852 shows a German widow quizzing a census taker about her husband’s service. The exchange plays on language with a muddled front line reference and an officer’s misinterpretation.
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New York Sun
Brooklyn
Stasten
A Day of Settlement and Social Snippets
A Louisville Times item notes settlement inevitable with taxes rising and political excuses fading. Chips From Various Blocks report New York society notes three thousand Four Hundred members will summer abroad. A humorous dialogue references a sabre scarred hero, Saratoga season, and a biblical student claiming Eve sewed garments with pine needles.
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New York
Charles
Blythe
Rd Chunp
Saratoga
My Lord
A Significant Victory in Democratic Columns
The piece notes Rhody's rise in the Democratic column and her impact with factory coverage. It also cites the Washington Post arguing Army musicians are underpaid at 17 dollars monthly, calling for better government compensation for musical talent.
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The
Washington Post
Post
United States
the Post
Costly Luxuries and Time Standards Creasing Local Debate
The Lewiston Journal laments political spending on McKinley through votes and notes payments of five to twenty five dollars per vote cited by backers. It also discusses two time systems with calls for a separate local clock to avoid global time and urges a suspension of external chronologies.
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Madison
Lewiston Journal
United States
New brochure details Oxygen therapy and cures by Starkey and Palen
Des. Starkey & Palen publish a 200 page brochure titled Oxygen its Mode of Action and Hestille TM. It promises full information on this temperate curative agent and records of hundreds of cures in chronic cases, including those abandoned by other physicians. Mailed free to inquiries to No. 1520 Arch Street Philadelphia.
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United States
Des. Starkey & Palen
DRS. Starkey & Palen
Arch Street
Philadelphia
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Sevice
Lot Sim
Cleveland
Lee
Louisville
Go. P
Houston Post
Rhody
LAW Building
Lynchburg, Va
Knabe
Fifth Avenue
Baltimore St
Balti
Meee Heene
Weringen
D.O
Berea
Oscar. Derr & CO
Roanoke
Railoadla
Oscar D. Derk & Co
1St Ave
Creesetmand
Boston
Mapam
J. R.cressemann
M. D
Madame Lubin
Kate Srocum
Broadway
Drs Starkey
Palens
Starkey & Palen
Wm. I’. Kelley
Congress
Phila
Victor L. Conrad
Luth
N Observer
Charles W. Cushing
D. D
Rochester
N. Y
Wm Penn Nixon
Inter- Ocean
Chicago
W. H. Worthington
New Suth
H. P. Vrooman
Quenema
Kan
Mary A. Livermore
Melrose
Masachusetts
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Utilis
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Chichester
First National Bank of
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Isoaco
Carr
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D. Heartt
Cashier
W. Fuller
Chas
A. Jordan
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J. W. Walker
W.w.fuller
Bryan
J. A. Bryan
A.H
First National Bank
Uni
Correpondente
Banking
National Bank
First National
S. H. Hawes
Richmon, VA
Hawes
Richmond
Tam Dare Ronr
Governor Streets
Henderson, N.C
Wholesale and Retails
Ghnber
Luis
Paul Wark
Soiarate Cohand
Henderson
N.C
15Th St
Richmond, Va
Ren Ly
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