Frankie Meets a Fairy in a Snowflake Adventure
In Saturday Night Frankie Spencer watches snow cover the garden then, braving the cold, climbs icicles and frees a fairy trapped in ice. She grants him a ride to fairy land aboard a snowflake where tiny frost-dwelling fairies pile rewards on him. He returns home warm but empty handed, pondering what to ask next.
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Frankie Spencer
Frankie
Mamma
Wardly
Fairy Land
Olie
Res
Arbor
Carrier Pigeons in Wartime Communication
Before fast transports and telegraphs, pigeons served as vital messengers across Europe. Belgian fanciers trained birds to carry dispatches during the siege of Paris, with rates of ten cents for twenty words. Birds returned home at speeds up to forty miles per hour, some lasting eight hours at seventy miles, and carried thousands of messages wrapped around tail feathers.
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Belgium
Paris
Tours Bordeaux
Tours
Europe
Elections Boost GOP as Republicans Gain States
In a time of supposed Republican rift, the party shows renewed vigor with gains in local Ohio Indiana Winds and Iowa elections. Connecticut posts strong results while Democratic strongholds like Dubuque Lyons Rock Island shift Republican. Jewell defeats Democrat Enetish in Connecticut with a larger majority. Rhode Island remains solidly Republican.
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Connecticut
Ohio
Indiana
Winds
Iowa
Dubuque
Lyons Rock Island
Sumner
Enetish
Domocrat
Jewell
Rhode Island
Courge
Republicans win mayoralties in Milwaukee and Madison
Local elections suggest shifting sentiment as Milwaukee elects a Republican mayor by 1,260 votes and Madison, another Democratic stronghold, names a Republican mayor by 54 votes. The piece mocks prolonged Democratic weakness and questions party durability.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Madison
Heypt
Northern Pacific Rail Road to Tie West to Puget Sound
The Northern Pacific Railroad advances toward its western terminus at Puget Sound from Duluth and St. Paul, with Lake navigation and the vast land grant supporting its financing. The article extols planned cross continental linkage, favorable routes through Montana and the Cascade region, and the project as a catalyst for settlement, development, and civilization across the Northwest.
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Buffalo
Chicago
St. Louis
Queena
Duluth
Northern Pacific Railroad
Minnesota
Red River
Winnepeg
Pacific Ocean
Puget Sound
St. Paul
San Francisco
Golden Gate
China
Grand Circle
Asia
Atlantic
Europe
Republic
Northern Pacific
Missouri
Yellowstone
Columbia
New York
Pacific
Deer Lodge Pass
Montana
Rocky Mountains
Union Pacific Railroad
Sherman
Arizona
Arctic Circle
Andes
North America
California
Sierras
Oregon
Cascades
Central Pacific Company
Pacific Coast
Straits of
Fuca
Washington
United States
Massachusetts
Man’s kerosene prank to dog sparks barn fire tale
A Glen Palls man claims a dog showed cleverness by fleeing a blaze he started with kerosene. He says the dog ran under his barn and caught the barn on fire, despite being called to come out. The remark sparked discussion on canine sagacity and human folly.
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Glen Palls
N. Y
Frith
Adventure of Gilbert Beck in Sioux Territory
Gilbert Beck, a young traveler from Plano Illinois, left Denver area March 27 and was attacked by about fifty Sioux. He killed two attackers, lost his horse and money, and suffered injuries before being captured and tortured. He escaped by freeing ropes, stole a horse, fled a pursuing party, and reached a Kansas Pacific station, then Plano by April 5.
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Aurora
Beacon
Piano
Ill
Gilbert Beck
Texas
Denver
Ife
Nuber
Ile
Kansas Pacific
Plano Ill
Grant As Speaker and Silence Revealed
A writer praises President Grant for dual traits of tact and talkativeness. When silent he is cautious, unsure, or with unreadable company, appearing discouraged. When engaged, he talks steadily and plainly, lacking polish but delivering square, honest, plain language.
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President Grant
Glorious Republican Victory In Local Election
The entire Republican ticket, save one Democratic Commissioner of Highways, was elected Tuesday. The editorial praises the fair nominating process and fends off bolting, urging party discipline and loyalty to majority candidates. The writer signs as Lovis Gazelle from Rack Run.
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Hurran
Rock Row
Sun Fairmun Tower
Rack Run
Lovis Gazelle
Choir Resumes Song After Clerical Wit
A clergyman in an Eastern city joked during a rumored choir dispute by starting a hymn at the second verse Let those refuse to sing who never knew their God The choir complied and sang on reflecting the jest with reverence and humor in the Sunday service
Blair Warns of Civil War Threat to Negro Rights
A letter to the Montgomery Mail repeats Blair's claim that reconstruction is the paramount issue and condemns efforts to discuss economic and civil service measures. He warns of a new civil conflict, opposes enfranchisement delays, and accuses Blair of inciting hatred toward Black voters. The piece likens his stance to a dangerous rebellion and fears Republican tyranny.
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Blair
Montgomery
Alabama
Spain
Missouri
Mississippi lawmaker accuses reconstruction of fraud and tyranny
Democratic state legislator Landram of Londes denounces the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments as frauds imposed by federal bayonets and endorses Frank Blair’s view that reconstruction is void. He vows to rally armed resistance against the U S government to defend Southern rights as the historian Benedict Arnold would label traitors.
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Mississippi
Landram
Londes
Frank Blair
Missouri
United States
James Longstreet
Benedict Arnold
Burlingame and Sumner Exchange Bold Confession in Canada Visit
A Chicago Tribune account recalls Anson Burlingame challenging Brooks in Canada. Burlingame admits aiming to wound Brooks and, recalling Sumner’s Senate injuries, vows murder of Brooks and accomplices. Tears mark the moment as Sumner aims to ease the tension.
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Burlingame
Mr. Sumner
Canada
Brooks
Chicago Tribune
Sumner
Anson
Senate
Three Spaniards in Alabama Vault Tale End in Death
In St Clair county Alabama, three disguised men break into a tax collector’s home while the goodman is away. They demand taxes from the wife, who resists. They locate the money and dine, but the wife poisons their coffee with arsenic. All three die, and she unmasks two strangers while the third is revealed as her husband.
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St. Clair County
Ala
Sylvanus Cobb
Pierce Egan
Goodman
Murder Report From Nebraska Trip Involving Parks
The Gallena Gazette reports Thomas S. Parks, once local resident, was murdered on a cattle drive to Nebraska. John Conden says Parks hired three men to drive cattle from Texas. one man quarreled and shot Parks dead then killed the other two to avoid detection. A forward arrestee faces possible vigilante hanging. the murderer described as a Southern guerilla from the late war.
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Gallena Gazette
Thomas S. Parks
Nebraska
John Conden
Parks
Texas
Dle
North Carolina Ku Klux outrages tallied in senate records
Senate records show 131 violent Ku Klux outrages in select North Carolina counties with 89 against Black victims and 42 against whites. The article argues for total sweep to end interference, citing World and Chicago Tribune opinions.
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Senate Committee On Southern Disorders
North Carolina
The
World
Chicago Tribune
Lord North and the Ancient Concert Subscription
Lord North, known for his strong dislike of music, was questioned about not subscribing to the Ancient Concert while his brother, the Bishop of Winchester, did. He quipped, If I were as deaf as my brother I would subscribe too.
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Lord North
Winchester
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Bert A
Bradley
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Grant
Nea
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W. H. Tambling
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Eleroy
Freeport
the Republic
Life Insurance
Gon
D. Atkins
G. J. Bliss
O. B. Bidwell
F. W. Hance
Wilcoxon ‘Opera Building
H. M. A. Hawks & Co
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Balshazzar
Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galves
Lawrence
Kansas City
Kansas
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