Supper Crash at Uncle Tom’s Ends in Arrests
A teen narrator recounts Uncle Tom Taylor’s debt and hidden money box. Robbers invade the Lincolns hire, seek the box, and are thwarted by the narrator and three policemen who arrest all three would‑be thieves for five years each.
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Uncle Tom's
Reading About a Page and a Knock Out Night
A farmer and his son Moses recall a bungled attempted restraint of a man linked to a boxing night. The tale blends comic misadventure with a cautionary nod to street drama. A Boston hospital project named for Frances Willard is announced, led by Rev. Edward Everett Hale with an executive committee.
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Willard
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Frances Willard
What Made Him Poor
An old man begs at a door explaining excessive drinking ruined his youth, saved by kindness, and warns others of saloons driving poverty. A separate note describes an experiment where two plants of the same type react differently to water with alcohol, showing rapid deterioration in the alcohol-treated plant.
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Number One
Mable
Perding
Alcoholism in a Red Geranium Observed in Lab Test
The bark, radicular tunic, leaves, and flowers suffered most as a red geranium absorbed butylice alcohol at 90 degrees. In four days, the plant showed weakened vegetative life and poisoning symptoms with a distinct odor, partial burning, melanosis, and altered geotropism. The findings come from the Literary Digest report.
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Literary Digest
Temperance topics and naval ceremony noted in St Paul and London
A physician in St. Giles cites leeches killed by smokers blood, while Virginia remains the last state without temperance instruction laws. The Bishop of London becomes president of the Church of England Temperance Benefit Society. Tobacconists and singers heed tobacco effects. Odd Fellows exclude liquor sellers from benefits. A convention in St Paul June 14 discussed questions. a ship launch at South Chicasa featured four doves released from a cage.
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Virginia
London
Church of England Temperance Benefit Society
Canon Ellison
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
the Great Order
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Liva Mawr
South Chicasa
Elizabeth M. Utley
River levels decline. rabbit population to surge
The Mississippi River and its tributaries fall to depths not seen in nearly fifty years. Projections claim in ten years the descendants of two rabbits could reach about 70 million.
Savings banks in saloons stir temperance debate
The Cleveland Leader notes Russia tests savings bank branches in liquor outlets to curb drinking and wasteful spending. It acknowledges the irony yet asks if such banks could deter heavy consumption, while warning deposits might tempt withdrawals for liquor. The piece views the policy as a global temperance test with wide implications.
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Cleveland
White Fruit House Catalog Adverts Proclaim Bargains
A bustling prospectus from White Fruit House touts a prosperous year and a vast stock. It lists coffees, sugars, teas, canned goods, dried fruits, oils, syrups, wines, tobacco, and candies with low cash prices and emphasis on fresh roasted coffee roasted at home.
Plants Endures Alcohol Faster than Humans in Paris Study
Louis Adrien Levat reports in Revue Scientifique on experiments in Avignon gardens by M. Hildebert Richard showing alcohol damages plants quickly, suggesting alcohol administration to plants would hasten their demise rather than benefit them.
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Revue Scientifique
M. Hildebert Richard
Avignon
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