Love, Fortune and Fate in a West End Saga
In a West End mansion a wealthy merchant battles with his family over a clerk's marriage to his daughter Agnes. After years of hardship, Agnes dies as her lover Harry returns to claim his life with forgiveness. The composer, haunted by love and loss, unveils a masterwork that moves an audience with an elegiac symphony reflecting youth, love, and fate.
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Benevolent Society
Mephistopheles
Agnes Gurney
Agnes
Harry
Thomas Gurney and Company
Agness
Gurneys
Thomas Gurney
Mrs. Gurney
Fearcely
Tieekets
West End
Pice
Luis
The Master Is Dead After Silent Prelude
Bo touched them as flowers showered in a grand garden around him. He buried his face, a strange man to many, and stayed still while others waited for the final movement. When roused, he was dead. The narrator ponders Providence rewarding patience and life as a prelude to eternity.
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Hero Woose
Altogeter
Eternity
The Latest Dog Fashions From Paris Ruling Pets
Paris society notes reveal dogs flaunting summer travel dresses with pelisses and sugar receptacles. Pets at seaside resorts wear mantles, jerseys, and bracelets, while collars range from leather with bells to nickel imitations of pearls and even gold or silver pieces with small gems.
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Paris
Jean Qui Pleure
Jean Qui Rit
Varis
Propagating Shad and Salmon in the Hudson River
The Hudson River commission reports annual shad propagation since May 15 with 2,001,008 to 5,000,000 fry hatched each season. Spawns are removed from old fish with no injury and either returned or shipped to market. Nets hinder ascent to spawning grounds, yet artificial propagation expanded catches from about 500,000 to roughly 2,000,000. Salmon releases began in 1882 with Penobscot eggs. by 1887 50–40 fish of 10–20 pounds were caught, and in 1887 about 100 more were reported between Albany and New York. This year over 300 salmon were caught, largest 26 pounds and 3 feet 6 inches long.
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Hudson River
Penobscot River
Albany
New York
Minister and wife tell stories on marriage rites
A minister's wife, less solemn than her husband, recalls laughable tales from marriage ceremonies in a western frontier settlement. The minister customarily spoke soberly to each couple about the gravity and duties of marriage before the rites, taking them aside individually.
Great Peach Crop Prediction by Delaware Governor Briggs
Gov Briggs of Delaware and his sons own 700 acres in Maryland with 73000 peach trees and doubt the crop will exceed 1875 levels. A grower cites small June buds due to frost and March blizzard, though the frost did not severely damage bark. He warns only heavy rain followed by frost or hail could threaten the crop.
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Briggs
Delaware
Maryland
New York Graphic
Fitting Up Hotel Roofs For City Garden Pleasures
A movement to add roof gardens to hotels echoes the Casino style with aims to keep residents in city during summer. Many private dwellings already host cooling gardens their evenings, promising cool airs and floral avenues as workers pass by.
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Babylon
Jork Star
The Whole Business and the Honest Milk Giver
A humorous dialogue set in a rural shop where a countryman questions a dealer about the breadth of advertised goods. He asks for a fair tax on a healthy gal who milks well and works hard, prompting the dealer to affirm that he covers the whole business.
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Hull
Znoci
Talmage in Dixie full length portrait of prodigal contrast
The Reverend DeWitt Talmage speaks at Piedmont Chautauqua on Luke 15 28 about the elder and younger sons. He portrays the prodigal return with a feast at the father’s house while the elder brother scowls outside urging social mercy and religious humility. He urges reconciliation, condemns Pharisaic envy, and extols a forgiving God who welcomes the repentant.
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Atlanta
Groraia
DeWitt Talmage
D. D
Brooklyn
Prodial Sas
Veal
Jim
Germany
Krummacher
Christ
Lome
Adam
Eve
Church of Christ
Commons
Church of God
Heaven
John Bunyan
Richard Baxter
George Whitefield
the Thunderer
Washington's Visit to Hartford Ends in Breakfast with Ellsworth
A descendant recounts Washington visiting Hartford after the revolution. At Bull's tavern a boy delivered a note from Chief Justice Ellsworth. Washington accepted dinner, then breakfast with Ellsworth, and sang the Derby Ram to Ellsworth's twin sons.
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Washington
Connecticut
Hartford
Bull's Tavern
General Washington
Ellsworth
Derby
Ram
Aed
Fortune's Favorites Prize Draw Delights Galveston Man
George W. Seibert of Galveston, book-keeper for Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, won one twentieth of ticket 90 443 sharing in a capital prize of 300000 from the Louisiana State Lottery. He deposited the ticket with Ball Hutchings & Co. and praised the sudden windfall as a pleasant shock.
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Galveston
Tex
Vis
George W. Seibert
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
Seibert
Ball, Hutchings & Co
Louisiana Lottery
Harvest Excursions Boost Wabash Farmers Travel
The Wabash announces Harvest Excursion rates for Iowa farmers to visit Texas Arkansas and Kansas. Tickets on Sept 11 25 Oct 5 and 28 valid 50 days at one fare round trip. Stop overs allowed west of the Missouri river. Information from W G Martin T P Agent Des Moines Iowa.
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Iowa
Texas
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri River
W. G. Martin
T. P
L. M. Martin
Des Moines
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain
Nebraska
Burlington
B&q. KR. R
Northwest
P. S. Eustis
Chicago
Onstage fear and wool tariff talk in frontier Nebraska
A dialogue contrasts Mme Albani's stage fright with a confidence man and wool tariff fears for sheep growers. Plum Valley boasts stylish frontier girls as a divorce via violence is deemed reckless, highlighting attitudes on money, law, and social norms in Nebraska.
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Plum Valley
Nebraska
West
The Great Rock Island Route Excursions 1888
The Great Rock Island Route announces low round trip fares for excursions from Chicago to Kansas Nebraska Minnesota Dakota and western Iowa leaving September 11 25 and October 9 23 1888. Tickets are first class valid 80 days for return with through routes to principal points. Address Wm Rickey Davenport Iowa or E A Holbrook Chicago for rates and full particulars.
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Great Rock Island
Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Dakota
Wm. Rickey
Davenport
E. A. Holbrook
Wabash Route Land Excursion Tickets Offered
Farmers and others may buy round trip excursion tickets at one fare for S routes on several August to December dates to Jackson Tennessee and Mississippi locations as well as Alabama Louisiana and Dakotas. Tickets valid sixty days with stopover rights both ways. Wabash agents in Des Moines Iowa and Elliott's Business College noted for training. Minor note on cucumber and watermelon bed size.
Lady Champion Pedestrians Praises Moxie Nerve Food
Ida Wallace, victor in Madison Square Garden contests across multiple cities, credits Moxie Nerve Food for extreme endurance and steady effect. The claim notes relief from muscle strain and sustained effort, with a separate ad praising Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female ailments and uterine concerns.
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Ida Wallace
Madison Square Garden
Baltimore
Detroit
New Bedford
New York
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Thewss Gurney, Esq
Reaven
Jin
Heaself
Iarry
Ames Gurney
Thas
Larry
Ile
Talmage
Dixie
Perdition
House of God
Dresa
South America
Alf
Glasgow
Scotland
Glascow
Lremerk
Cain
Abel
Esau
Jacob
Saul
David
Hanan
Mordecai
Othello
Iago
Orlando
Angelica
Calgula
Torquatus
Ceasar
Pompey
Columbus
Cambyses
Dionysius
Philoxenius
Clesterian
Geoffrey Kneller
Hudson
Reynolds
Francia
Raphael
Xenophon
Plato
Theogenes
Waterloo
Earth
Cewd
Igsi
Fortune
Mme. Albani
Paby
Castoria
Miss
Hibbard
Jackson
Mich
Mulver
Maud
Rev
J. Roberts
M. E. Church
Fremont
Anton, Mich
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Augusta
Ann Arbor
Bright
E. Larzivexe
Farmers Land Excursions
Wabash Western Ry
Tenn
Aberdeen
Artesia
Citronelle
Ala
Hammond
Lake Charles
Jennings
W. C. Boner
Elliott's Business College
Buffalo Gap
N. J
Square Yard
United States
The
London School of Medicine For
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, VT
North
Clark St
W.N.U. DM. V
Yol Dwight
Herv. Porter
Ind
Milltone
Ave
Burl
St. Chicago
Pierce
Isaac Thompson
Cole
Hood
Saxomson
Newhall Street
Lowell
Mass
C.J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Pettits
F.L. Pond
M.D
Aurora, Kane Co
Lil
Teve & Co
Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co
Holly, Mich
Kidder
Stowell & Co
Charlestown
Main
Bryant’s College
Main St
Buffalo
N.Y
Atty’s
Washington,d.c
O’ Hara
Dale & Sempill
Clark & Madion St
W.S Wantinn & Co
Aurora
Warren
Tacoma
Nenry Gortz
Drugzist
Taree
Oaks
Michigan
B. F. Johnson & CO
Main Street
Richmond
Free Romes
Llitres
Timial
le Frei
Rsc
Toner
Ste Albans
Tos Daye
Cincinnati
Onio
G. Hlingraitam
Amsterdam
N. Y
D.R. Dyche & CO
University OF Fortre Dame
MINIM
St. Edward’s Iall
Sisters OF the Holy Choirs
Mintm
Neutre Dame
Rey. T
Warsi
Vres
University Notre Dame, Lnd
Emmert Proprietory Co
Frazer
Vey
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