Germans of America rally for mother country support
A German American gathering in Steinway Hall and other major cities expresses unity with the German fatherland against Louis Napoleon. Senator Carl Schurz delivers a key speech urging lawful action, denouncing war lies, praising Prussia, and pledging American and German collaboration for relief of the wounded while preserving U.S. neutrality. The piece notes rising German unity, support for Prussia, and calls for funds for the wounded with adherence to U.S. laws.
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United States
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Louis Napoleon
Steinway Hall
N. Y
Carl Schurz
United States Congress
America
Spain
France
Europe
William
Prussia
Napoleon
Benedetti
Germany
Rhine
Jena
Sadowa
Cerman
Slavery, Giddings and a Nation's Faults in 1830s
Joshua R. Giddings emerges as a vocal foe of slavery in Congress 1838 39 opposing gag rules and a Potomac bridge vote tied to slave trade. The piece recounts Slade Adams and Atherton actions, the Creole affair, Giddings resignation and return, and then shifts to reflections on love and marriage with literary references. It also details a large radical camp meeting schedule at Des Plaines Station and Asbury avenue with tents prices rail and local organizers.
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Giddings
Congress
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
William Slade
Vermont
Slade
District of Columbia
Atherton
New Hampshire
House
Adaing
Adams
Maryland
Capitol
Potomac
Rives
Virginia
Glasscock
Georgia
Richmond
New Orleans
Nassau
Tyler
United States
Botts
Asbury Avenue
National Camp Meeting Association
Okington
Desplaines Station
John Inskip
J. E. Kennicott
Dunton
Love and Love Making In a Prosaic Age
A rousing defense of love amid social vice and hypocrisy. The piece argues love endures despite rogues, frauds, and constraints, calling it God’s law and life’s rejuvenator. It asserts love cannot be crushed, survives social stigma, and should be openly expressed as a pure and vital force.
National Camp Meeting At Des Plaines Illinois
Preparations for the annual Methodist camp meeting at Des Plaines on the Wisconsin Division line of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway begin last week. The event runs from Tuesday August 9 for ten days with cottage homes, Brickton tent house, pumps for water, a boarding tent, and a large bake oven ready to serve a growing crowd and early exercises preceding the main gathering.
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Chicago
Desplaines
Methodists
Wisconsin
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Brickton
Asbury Avenue
Circle
A Heart in Little Things Exalts Quiet Leisure and Imagination
The piece argues that modern life values constant bustle and thrills, neglecting tranquil moments and simple acts. It cites Cowper and Eugene de Guerin to show how gentlemen can find beauty and happiness in ordinary duties, small duties, and mindful observation of nature.
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Cowper
Eugene de Guerin
Reecher
Union
Beecher urges engaging sermons to feed churchgoers
In a speech, Mr Beecher laments that dull sermons drive away listeners. He says if a boy must wake a sleeping pastor, let him, for men will not attend churches that offer only antiquated or insubstantial preaching. He emphasizes feeding the congregation to bring them back.
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Asman
Mr. Beecher
Austrian Concordat Repeal and Rome Occupation News
The Ecumenical Council warns that opposing concordats could lead to anathema. Meanwhile Austria rescinds the Papal concordat and approves Rome’s occupation by King Victor Emmanuel’s forces. R. Toombs of Georgia travels north, not for a roll call at Bunker Hill Monument as some misstate.
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Rome
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
R. Toombs
Georgia
Bunker Ifill Monument
Literary notices and festival reads listed in Boston catalog
The page lists multiple works and authors including Barrow Slyde Howells Fuller Caseli Grand Dickens and Disraeli with reviews, notices, and a festival reading at Field Os goood Co in Princeton Boston. It mentions books on politics literature and biography alongside a catalog intro.
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S.org
G. S. Barrow
Sidney Slyde
W. D. Howells
Margaret Fuller Caseli
C. P. Grand
Charles Dickens
Dall
Alaska
Disrael
Lothair
Bismarck
Ruggle
Allibone
Carleton
Smart
Fields, Osgood & CO
Penrtsitera
Boston
Contents list for Littell's Living Age periodical
Nov 1368 and 1364 issues list contents from Contemporary Review to Pall Mall Gazette and other sources. It notes translations, essays, poetry, and serialized works. Advertisement invites subscriptions via Littell & Gay of Boston with annual postpaid rates.
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Littelm
Contemporary Review
Cornhill Magnane
Arthur
Edinburgh Review
London Times
Dickens
Pall Mall Gazette
Oberammergan
Thomas Erskine
Linlathen
Contemporary
Academy
Barbadoes
Chambers’ Journal
Wallace
Saturday Review
Spectator
Sterne
Athneum
Canada
United States
Dorothy Fox
Jean Ingelow
Itre
Littell & Gay
Boston
August Tun Pimexonogiean Journal and Pack ARDS Monthly
August issue arrives late due to a building fire but offers valuable content. Notable items include Madame Demorest portraits, Sanity vs Insanity on insane asylums, Tuma on physical education, and critical takes on personals and matrimonials. Price eight cents, $8 yearly, Wells, 369 Broadway, New York.
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Tun Pimexonogiean Journal
Packards
Madame Demorest
Mediata
Wells
Broadway
New York
Magazine Offers $500000 Prize Story Opportunity
A Little Corporal Magazine advertises a $500000 prize for a story. Interested writers are asked to send twelve cents to Sewell & Miller in Chicago Illinois for the August issue to obtain full particulars.
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Little Corporal
Sewell & Miller
Chicago
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Joshua R. Giddings
Plato
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Milton
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Aggie
Stevar
Bfae Eterna
Cessesereees
Geo. I. Foster
South Water Street
John Kennicott
Ill
Thomas C. Hoag
Evanston
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Freeport News
Freeport Land Office
Andrew Sypher
Jacob Krotzer
Harlem
A. L. Wilkinson
West Point
J. W. Barber
Louise Miller
Davis
Philo Hammond
Thomas Hunt
Ridott
Thompson Wilcoxon
Henry Yongle
Peter Bennetham
James Alexander
Hugh Alexander
Dakota
Jonn T. Bollinger
John Gerhart
Winslow
Margaret Meek
Helena Beck
Freeport
Jore Lambert
Edwards
Brown
Nerea
T. L. Waddell
KE. A. Newton
Cass
Dennis Mahr
Thomas Cashiman
McEathon
N. C. Pickard
Jeremiah Webster
Wm. M. Lincoln
Fred, C. Welch
Alonzo Newton & Wealey Cary
Taylor & Aspinwall
Literary Notices
Atlantic Monthly
Contenta
Joseph
Bayard Taylor
Siam
Oldtown
Miss
Elderkin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
New England
James Russell Lowell
H. Derry
Dorothy
Garret
J. T. Trowbridge
Grand Traverse
Michigan
UA. W. S. Cleveland
Mr. Wardhawk
Sully
Bonnie Annie Lee
Ella Wheeler
Miriam Earle
Elizabeth Prescott
KE. L
Ford
Eulitor
Deacon and Peterson
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Ladies Friend
Saturday Evening Post
Freeport Journal
Journal
Freeport, II
D. Atkins
Bill
Gutter Snipes
Dodgers
Bustalo
Ils
Raul
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