Election day near as voters choose captain and slate
The item urges readers to vote next Tuesday for Captain Cooper Samuel Jd Dodds and John L Beveridge. It notes farming activity, demand for carpenters in Chicago, and asks readers about winter predictions. It mentions Best & Morgan ads, Freeport shopping, Stephenson County horses, First National Bank deposits, and a Chicago hotel rebuild. It also touches on the 1.8 million burned currency, gold and silver losses, Oregon Reporter ownership change, Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation copy destruction, and a Nov 4 lecture by Rev. Millburn. It concludes with a Akron breach of promise suit and drought impacts on the Ohio River and coal supply.
Fire Reach Forces Yale Students to Return Home
A Chicago blaze devastates homes of many Yale College families leaving students obliged to sever courses. Several students have already left town as parents face ruin. One pupil loses 200000 dollars while another, an orphan, drops from wealth to poverty.
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Chicago
Yale College
Smoke envelops Great Lakes halting steamer Arctic
Dense forest fires in Michigan and Wisconsin blanket Lake Huron and Lake Superior forcing the Arctic to delay fifteen hours seeking Marquette after passing the harbor. The smoke was so thick that daylight lamps were kept lit as if night.
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Lake Huron
Lake Superior
Arctic
Upper Lake
Marquette
Fire in Best & Morgan show window prompts quick action
On Monday evening laces and other goods in a Best & Morgan show window ignited from gas. Prompt response by Mr. Morgan and his clerks prevented a larger blaze. Estimated damage about £100.
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Best & Morgan
Registry today in Districts and streets division
A fragmented passage notes first Eastern District of New York and second Western District of Pennsylvania with district borders along Van Buren Exchange and Oak streets. The text then oddly questions a dishonored draft like Mr Gladblone, calling him a noted bill.
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New York
van Buren
Exchange
Oak Streets
Mr. Gladblone
A Conception of Humanity as Seen by the Chicago Fire
Rev Hy Ge MPARTITUR of Lena presents a meditation on humanity after the Chicago Fire. He argues that heroism, mercy, and universal sympathy shown during the disaster reveal a noble, God like human nature capable of rising above sin. The piece urges rebuilding Chicago to greater heights.
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Chicago
Hy Ge Mpartitur
Lena
Atlantic
Gulf Stream
England
Ireland
Scotland
France
Germany
Japan
Paul
David
Sing
Paradise
Eden
Renn completes Emmert’s Chicago building
Mr George Renn finishes John 8 Emmert's three story frame at 296 West Lake Street Chicago on a leased lot. The owner will gain the land rent after five years. Emmert offered more than the first year’s cost before completion. Renn likely stays in Chicago for more erection contracting work.
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George Renn
John 8. Emmert
West Lake Street
Chicago
Emmert
Mr. Renn
Fires Rage Across States Amid Michigan Appeal for Aid
Descriptions of widespread forest and farm fires from Beloit Wisconsin to Darmstadt and Pennsylvania. Detroit issues a plea for national aid as Michigan suffers massive losses from fires still burning, with winter looming and thousands needing food clothing and shelter. Milwaukee considers a special tax to aid victims.
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Michigan
United States
Darmstadt Woods
New York
Pennsylvania
Minwaukan
Sentinel
Beloit
Wis
Stacks
Detroit
Michigan State Relief Committee
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Lake Turon
Michigan Relief Committee
Grand Rapids
Milwaukee
Ludington
Wisconsin
Orrumwa
Grimes’ Wagon and Carriage Works
Turner’s Hall
Poughkrepsie
N. Y
Ulster County
Flatbush
Darmstadt
Hamispura
Dauphin
Lriday
Peters Mountain
Pleasant Family Gallerina Reunion at Van Dyke Home
On a recent Wednesday at Mr. John Van Dyke's residence near the city, the elderly patriarch aged eighty nine hosted a rare family reunion. His ten children joined him for dinner, the youngest being thirty nine, and the family has never experienced a death among its members.
Country riding habit quest strains publishers funds
A fragment suggests a country plea for a riding habit and a reply advising a walking habit, with Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary cited as costing publishers $50,000 before any page appears.
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Lippincott
Beecher On Chicago Fire Lecture At Plymouth Church
Rev Henry Ward Beecher spoke Friday night at Plymouth Church on the Chicago fire detailing immense loss and suffering across five miles by a mile, with tens of thousands left homeless, and praised national and international sympathy and resolve to aid the afflicted while warning against exploiting the need. He noted Chicago would rise like the Phoenix and urged continuous relief, condemning predatory thieves and praising universal charity across North, England, and Germany.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church
Chicago
Mount Blane
England
Yea
German Empire
We Gain Nothing By Being With Such As Ourselves
A speaker voices frustration at mediocrity and urges fellowship with the more excellent. The line expresses desire to partner with ten others better than oneself, invoking Liamos as a guiding mention.
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Liamos
Needs of the Relief and Aid Society 1871 Chicago
Carcano October 25 1871. Chicago Relief and Aid Society seeks beans potatoes and onions as top needed donations, plus straw beds ticking and clean straw or prairie hay. Sanitary Committee warns these foods prevent sickness while a feed program serves over 40 000 people with scarce vegetables. Signed Wirt Dexter Chairman Executive Committee.
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Carcano
Chicago Relief and Aid Society
Chicago
Sanitary Committee
Wirt Dexter
Tweed Hiding Wise Property Transfers in New York
The New York Times reports Tweed has concealed personal and real estate, selling or transferring stocks and diverting houses and lots to relatives. Over four million dollars in real estate moved recently, including a 976000 valuation to his son Richard M. Tweed, notably the Fifth Avenue residence. Bees are cited as metaphor in unrelated notes about honey crystallization and bee intelligence.
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New York
the Times
Tweed
Richard M. Tweed
Fifth Avenue
Witty Quaints on Etiquette and Law
A string of quips contrasts social grace and legal zeal. It notes silk umbrellas and cotton replicas, warns against overbearing behavior at parties, and jokes that lawyers cling to ruin like ivy. It ends with a gardener noticing a cigar in his own mouth.
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Ivy
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Dodds
John L. Beveridge
Freeport
Stephenson County
Chicago First National Bank
Dolar
Potter Palmer
Pacific
Oregon Reporter
Miller & Brother
W. H. Gardner
Susquehbanma, Pa. Journal
Gardner
Amboy Journal
Lee County
Chicago Historical Society
W. H. Millipurn
Akron
Ohio
Northwest
Ohio River
Mississippi Valley
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Cincinnati
Registry Today
St. Louis
Beecher
Chicago Fire
the Relief and Aid Society
Emmert & Burrell
Iul
Emmert & Borkelly
Woney
City of
F. C. Taylor
Washington St
Journa
Journal Block
Freeport, Ill
Atkins & Guilford, Proprietors
Dodgers
West of Ball
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