Home and Country in a Poem by Montgomery
A poem extols a beloved home as a blessed land where humanity abandons war and pride. It presents a woman as central, guardian of loves and duties, while domestic life and domestic joys thrive. The speaker asks where such a spot of earth can be found, urging readers to see homeland in every surrounding scene.
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Earth
Lfe
Howe
Thailand
Montgomery
Patent Office
Adar
A. Snow
Washington
Washington Letter from 1878 on politics and observatory plan
Regular correspondent in Washington critiques Democratic reformers, notes congressional spending, and praises District partnership laws. Describes Observatory site selection, malarial issues, and civil service questions around Hayes administration. Mentions taxation, copper stills, and hostility to federal enforcement of distillery laws.
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WaAsahington
Thurman
Potter
Atlantic City
Tilden
Congress
Washington Heights
Meridian Will
Kalorama
United States
Treasury
Paris
Democratic Party
South
Japan
Purkey
Pejee Ishind
Sherman
Hayes
Custom House
New York
Senate
Reed
Toledo
Washington Territory
Quack Medicines and Patent Nostrums at English Convention
A New York medical journal notes a British pharmacists convention urging limits on patent medicines. Proposals include disclosing ingredients and stopping deceptive ads. Cited examples include lead-containing hair restorers and a morphine-laced “Sure Cure for the Opium Habit.” American apothecaries may resist, yet the public should learn that most proprietary medicines are inert or harmful.
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England
New York Medical Journal
Buhach Cultivation Near Stockton Noted by Independent
The Stockton Independent reports a buhach plantation near Stockton grown by G. N. Milco. The pyrethrum carneum plant yields blossoms for Persian insect powder selling at 5 to 15 dollars per pound. The operation, with 63,000 plants, is among the few in the United States aside from Amador county and Ohio. Picking lasts until October and profitability hinges on suitable locality and rising demand.
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Stockton
G. N. Milco
Amador County
Ohio
Widow Refuses Suitor Then Death Ends Pursuit
In Chicago a widow who refused to remarry faced rejection from Christian Beatrim. After many advances he drank heavily at her saloon and twice proposed in her room. He threatened suicide if she did not consent. She refused again, he fired the pistol at himself, and died.
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Miller
Chicago
Christian Beatrim
Christian
Nere
Lamb and a Stage Coach Companion
Charles Lamb travels in a stage coach when a fellow passenger notices his coughing and offers sympathy. Lamb responds dryly that the cough is real but that it is the best he can do, highlighting his wry wit.
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Charles Lamb
Lamb
Hanging the Mayor of Bodmin in martial Cornwall tale
A Chronicle describes Sir William Kingston executing the mayor of Bodmin, Boyer, under martial rule. At dinner the provost marshal reveals an imminent gallows, and despite protests the mayor is hanged without respite.
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Bodming
Réig
Edward
Cornwall
William Kingston
Boyer
Bodmin
Kingston
Napoleon Laughs At Hissing Tragedy Nightcap Sleepers
One of the First Empire poets Nepomucence Lemercier wrote a tragedy about Christopher Columbus. Napoleon ordered the piece be played thrice after it was hissed. Third act audience wore nightcaps and pretended sleep, pleasing the emperor and ending his effort to support the drama.
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Nepomucence Lemercier
Christopher Columbus
Lemercier
Napoleon
Remercier
Water in the Ear Warns Bathers to Plug Ears
Dr. Rexton of the New York Ear Infirmary warns that both salt water and cold fresh water irritate the inner ear. Each year many seek treatment after water enters the ear during bathing or catching a chill. He advises plugging ears with cotton before entering the water, especially during surf bathing.
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Rexton
New York Ear Infirmary
Meek Youth Disappears After Free Try-On Suit
A Lewiston shop tale tells of a polite young man who tried on a suit coat vest and pants then an overcoat that would not fit. He vanished when the clerk fetched a larger coat, leaving the store wearing the initially tried garments. In France the Privas tribunal convicted Lafarge and Larmande of illegally pressuring workers to vote for the Government candidate, with trivial fines.
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Lewiston
Privas
France
Lafarge
Larmande
New Texas Bean Medicine Named Sophoria
Texas researchers announce a bean derived alkaloid from sophora speciosa. Professor HH C Wood of the University of Pennsylvania reports a new compound to be called Sophoria. A single bean is said to cause pleasant exhilaration and sleep lasting one or two days.
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Texas
HH. C. Wood
University of Pennsylvania
Diverse Measurements and Odd Anecdotes From Old News
The excerpt notes about animal weight composition and mineral content, a Wellington quote on rising early, a report of two mound builder skeletons found in Kentucky, concerns over a missing woman's skeleton, Pennsylvania tobacco production surpassing Connecticut valley, Lancaster county's 18.4 million pound yield, trials of new French infantry equipment with dual haversacks, and a redesign that shifts weight to shoulders and hips.
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Pennsylvania
Connecticut Valley
Connecticut
Virginia
Missouri
Lancaster County
France
Effect of Protection on the Laboring Classes Chronicle
This piece argues protection benefits laborers by securing employment and higher wages, countering Cobden Club free trade claims. It credits tariffs with sustaining industry, railways, housing, and national wealth, while faulting Democratic opposition and postwar economic woes as misattributed to protection. New Republic.
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David
A. Wells
United States
Cobden Club
England
Europe
Democratic Party
Congress
New Republic
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Freeport
Ilinois
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the Second National Bank
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Alfred H. Wibe
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Munn’s
Court House
Ill
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Elton
Second National Bank
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J. F. Beaumont
Opera House
F. A. Dietrich
Stoneman’s Block
Stephenson and
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Cherry Street
Esther W. Taylor
R. F. Hayes, M.D
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Green St
Henry OC. Hyde
Garlipp
Jordan & Wilcoxon
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Stephenson &J
Royal Insurance Company
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Liverpol
London & Globe
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Insurance Company of North America
Philadelphia
Phenix Inc.Co
Continental Ins. Co
Springfeld, F. &Ém.ing.co
Springfield
Mags
Girard Uns. Co
D. B. Schulte
de Xeon
Rs. Pelce
D. A. McMillan & Co
Illinos
Aca
Ang Bee
D. A. McMillan & 09
Swarts & Stocking
N. B
Ford, Rose & CO
A. W. Ford
Practical Watchmakers
Chicago Sts
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Davis
Fuyaf
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True & Co
Augusta
Cor
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