Charley transforms through kindness at the red schoolhouse
In New Land 28 to Natural Scenery a small red schoolhouse sits among mossy woods and daisies. Miss Alvord mentors Charley Linn a troubled youth, offering patient arithmetic help and gentle guidance. His behavior shifts, self respect grows, and he later becomes a teacher, honoring the teacher’s influence as he travels to Europe and returns with a grateful gift.
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Newland
Miss Alvord
Charles
Beo
Charley
Nere
Alvord
Ald
Chetley
Europe
Boslared
Bree
Fragmentary Quote Reflects Personal Repayment View
A readable fragment quotes a speaker asserting they felt amply repaid and that another party TL would not lose opportunity for worldly gain, signaling a personal reflection on value and opportunity.
Moorish Girls A Glimpse Into Moorish Algerian Fashion
The passage describes a Moorish girl from Algeria noting her beauty and deceitful coquetry. It details her oval features dark eyes, graceful carriage, and hair arranged in bands under a velvet chachia. Attire includes gauze chemise, serroual drawers, dajabandi vest, lila jacket, striped silk belt, silk sash, and green velvet babouches, with full veiling in public.
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Algeria
Algiers
Constantine
Marriageable Women and the Social Problem
The piece surveys why many marriageable women do not marry, rejecting gender imbalance and poverty as sole causes. It argues against excessive female standards and urges more opportunities for men and women to meet. It concludes a systematic method to bring couples together is needed.
Exodus from Alsace and Lorraine reshapes region
New Year dispatches report a mass exodus from Alsace and Lorraine depopulating towns. Metz has only 17 recruits, Otserma nearly empty, and Havre counts 1400 adopting French nationality amid German troop presence. The trends alarm German authorities.
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Alsace
Lorraine
Metz
Otserma
Havre
Editor answers how to break an ox in village paper
A reader asked how to break an ox and the editor joked with two brutal methods. One plan would hoist the ox by its tail to a forty foot pole, then by horns to another pole, then drop a five ton pile driver on its back. If that fails, start a country newspaper and rely on subscriptions.
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Stephengson County
Ilinois
Saidz
Ira Babcock
New Court
Freeport
Stephenson
Illinois
Illnois
Cornelius Furst
Liberal Republicans in Missouri Face Gratz Brown Critique
The piece contrasts Gratz Brown’s defense of Liberal Republicanism in Missouri with the Rebels’ harsh attacks on colored men during political activity.
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Gratz Brown
Missouri
Mc Clure predicts Greeley loss and ends Ku Klux era
In a interview Alexander K Mc Clure says October elections settled presidential contest and Pennsylvania leans to Grant while Ohio and Indiana tilt away from Greeley. He notes October results as final on Ku Klux suppression and equal protection for all citizens.
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Alexander K. McClure
Ile
Pennsylvania
Grant
Ohio
Indiana
Greeley
Ku Klux
Reverdy Johnson
Blaine Charges Rebutted Over Union Pacific Stock Claim
The Tribune groups failed to prove Blaine took stock in the Union Pacific Eastern Division for aiding the Pacific Railroad bill in 1862. Speaker Blaine, in a Cleveland speech, showed he was not a member of Congress when the bill was voted on, disproving the accusation.
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Tribunes
Blaine
Credit Mobilier
New York
House
Eastern Division
Union Pacific Railroad
Cleveland
Ohio
Congress
Maine Senator Challenges Republican Ally to Old Sledge
The lone Democrat in the Maine Senate proposes a game of Old Sledge with a Republican colleague to decide party alignment. The banished posture of the liberal Democrat is mocked as he contemplates leaving the Democratic side for the Republican end of the chamber.
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W. A. Gaskill
Chattanooga
Tenn
Grant
Baltimore
Greeley
Democracy
Maine
Senate
Crespe’s Island
Trumbull Billing Question in McCardle Case
Senator Trumbull charged the government ten thousand dollars for two hours of service in the McCardle case, while Secretary Stanton allowed only three thousand. The secretary, noted as a capable lawyer, knew the value of Trumbull's labor, which equaled Stanton's two years' salary.
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Trumbull
McCardle
Stanton
Reactionists Triumph in Japan Seen Temporary
The Japanese Minister at Washington says the victory of the Reactionists in Japan is only temporary while the London embassy faces funds shortages and a looming grim outlook for its members.
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Japan
Washington
London
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Cara
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Internal Revenue Bureau
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Union
J. IL. Drew
Davenport
Iowa
Aurora Commercial College
Jennings’ Seminary
G. W. Quereat
Re M
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Til
Fuller & Fuller
Chicago
Cobbin
Goopsrpeed & Co
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Sendlee
Smith
Dotor
Liberty
St. Louis
Michigan
Magnetic Springs
America
Magnetic Spring Company
St Louis
Gratiot Co
Mich
Hegeman
Hegeman’s
Hiermann & Co
P. G. Hox
Asthima
R. W. Read
Eteridge Tulle « CO
Rome
N.Y
Stinson & Co
Fines Art Publishers
Portland
Comb &Co
Batchelor
W. A. Batchelor
Bond St
Legal
Sando B. Bidwell
John B. Shaffer
William S. Shaffer
Mary W. B Shaffer
Stephenson County
Raid
Twenty-Seven
Sai
Stephenson Street
Freeport Ave
Tlinois
Orlando
Bloweun
Guardian
Charles Rettzell
Elizabeth B. Strohecker
Cytne J. Reitzens
Vic Mois
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Mary
Brawley
Sory
Mary Rt. Brawley
Chicao
Recorder's Office
Finois
Mary St, Brawley
Alert
Ofreult
Jiltula
Enie
Buena Vista
Mark R. Brawley
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Circuit Court
Bald County
Aaron Bolender
Barbara Fisher
Solomon Fisher
Adam Bolender
Levi Bolender
Frederick
Bolender
Elizabeth Maurer
George Maurer
Matilda Kleckner
Jackson Kleckner
John Bolender
Isaac Bolender
Reuben Bolender
Enay
Ewenteins
David Zimmerman
Comuilastoner
Jonx Corres
Compl
Solleitor
Newlinois
Said
Bald
Holden
William Polk
Henry C, Lyon
Lydig Wohlford
Lydha Wohlford
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Freeport Journal
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