Reverent Wings and Footnotes in a Sermon on Humility
The preacher extols humility and reverence, urging a recognition of feet as the base of human action and the soul as a well of life. He contrasts reverence with irreverence, cites biblical imagery of covering feet and face, and urges steadfast faith in Christ to lift the spirit beyond worldly decay.
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William von Kyleom
Ain
Christ
Belgium
Grant
Garfield
George P. Morrises
Karnac
God
Heaven
Twain
Swain
Queer Recovery of Stolen Watch on Lewis Street
Frank Murphy of 387 Lewis Street New York recognized his watch in a stranger's offer to sell it. The watch had been stolen from him while he slept in a Grand Street saloon. Murphy detained the seller, Denis Carey of 72 Sheriff Street, and called a policeman. Carey gave no details on how he obtained the watch in Essex Market Court.
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Frank Murphy
Lewis Street
New York
Columbia
John Johnson's Dictionary Outburst
John Johnson, a self styled literary man who sought attention, bought an old dictionary. After it was repaired the binder printed John son’s Dictionary on the back. He flew into a rage and demanded why his full name was not printed as John Johnson’s Dictionary.
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John Johnson
Johnson
Noted Indian Fighter and Family History Unearthed Ring
A gold ring with inscription Hon. John Frost, Esq. ob. 25 Web. 1st2-325 ai was found at Eliott Maine. It links to Capt. Charles Frost, an Indian fighter killed near the Berwick line around 1782 whose burial was reinterred after desecration. The note also mentions New York hotels offering chaperons for female guests and a guided shopping tour in the city.
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Eliott
John Frost
Charles Frost
Berwick
Kittery
Frost
New York
Dreamland odor sparked spectral memory in twilight
The verse recalls a faint breath from dreamland, a ghostly memory of a splendor that once was. The speaker longs for a life lived in a diviner realm, like a music heard once that cannot be reclaimed, a shy, vague something past.
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Lowell
Struggle for Life in Winter of 1862 on Mount Idaho
A veteran describes a perilous winter along the Idaho Montana corridor in 1862. He recounts blizzards that buried trails, wolves, and scaled climbs toward a mining camp, detailing hardship, survival, and a commitment to deliver letters to comrades.
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Henderson
Idaho
Montana
Rocky Mountains
Indiana
Pitt River Valley
Oregon Coast
Black Mountains
Buffalo Lands
Canada Line
Fes
Mount Shasta
Walla Walla
Millersville
Ike Mossman
Oakland
Lewiston
Express
Camas Prairie
Mount Idaho
Morning Star
Tate
Wolf Encounter on Dead Horse Hill
Joaquin Miller recounts a perilous ascent through a snowbound chasm followed by a silent three-wolf pursuit. He battles with pistols, loses a derringer when a wedge breaks, and finally defeats a wolf in close combat before reuniting with friends at the summit.
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Dazel
Lead Horse Hill
Trai
Dead Horse Hill
Joaquin Miller
San Francisco
Cali
Return of Uglich Bell Sparks Russian Court Fight
The Uglich bell, banished to Tobolsk in 1593 for aiding the Ubich plot, is returned to European Russia amid debates over its banishment. Tobolsk officials argue the three century exile persists, while Uglich demands its restoration, prompting a court question.
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Russia
Uglich
Tobolsk
Boris Godunoff
Dimitri
Mr. Kennan
Ugach
Siberia
Why Mastus Would Like to Be a Slave Again and Other Bits
A mosaic of humorous vignettes and banter featuring dialect sketches and social scenes. Jokey exchanges cover race, class, travel, dogs, fashion, and wealth with punchy one liners and a few punchy misprints.
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Mastus
Northern Society For
Tobias
Gottrich
Fragmented Comic Snippets From a Vaudeville Page
A jumble of exchange lines and character bits from a stage act includes Mr Homespun teasing Mandy, Henry and George debates about kissing, a custodian, a maid and a suspicious policeman, plus quips on tariffs and art. Puck style excerpts reflect playful social banter and backstage gossip.
Quotes and quips from a newspaper humor page
A collage of light verse and jokes from various papers. Snappy lines lampoon advertising, editors, ministers, and publishers. The bits reference Gladstone, Puck, contempt for weak ads, and a running thread of tongue in cheek observations.
British Guiana enacts conscription amid opposition and defense need
An 18 to 45 year old male conscription ordinance is proclaimed in British Guiana after fierce opposition over its un English character. The measure aims to drill a trained colony force to deter potential Venezuelan threats amid insufficient volunteers.
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British Guiana
Soldier in Blue Victorious in a Grim Civil War Scene
A veteran recalls a brutal Civil War engagement with mud and blood, the jaws of a hell trap, and a left wing saved by a regimental volley. He describes a blue uniformed comrade saved, the cruel carnage, and the haunting memory of the dead and wounded piled in the grass.
Remarkable lung surgery by two surgeons for Maj Towne
Surgeons E W Andrews and C W Crary of the Medical Board of Pension Examiners performed a major operation on Maj C C Towne of Argyle Park after a long illness from a growing abscess in the right lung. They opened the cavity, removed several ribs, and extracted stones and sand like material, with the patient now recovering.
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E. W. Andrews
C. W. Crary
Medical Board of Pension Examinvers
Maj. C. C. Towne
Maj. Towne
Argyle Park
Chicago Tribune
Andrews
French Army Bicyclista Regulates wheelmen in war use
The French War office plans to enroll 6000 to 7000 cyclists to serve as messengers in war. They carry cavalry carbines and thirty six cartridges on the machine and a revolver with eighteen cartridges in belts. Critics fear an overload of directions from headquarters.
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French War Office
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