Power of a Word from a Vermont Garden Gate
A San Francisco Call recounts a mother's admonition to a 16 year old seaman about liquor. The youth travels the globe yet remains sober, recalling his mother at the garden gate. A former shipboard drunk acknowledges his change after the word that saved him. The tale ends lauding the candle's beams and a mother's influence.
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Vermont
Garden Gate
Edward
Calcutta
Mediterranean
Cape of Good Hare
Poles
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New York
Remains of Colonel Tea Son to lie in Mexican vault until next year
Major Joe H Stewart, on a committee, received a governor's letter from Aguascalientes noting two epidemics in the area, small pox and typhoid, delaying exhumation until December or January. The letter also cites a $100 duty per state and various exhumation fees, with remains reportedly stored in a vault in Aguascalientes.
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Austin Statesman
Joe H. Stewart
F. W. Teason
Mexico
Aguas Colintes
Agias Colientes
Why Women Do Not Marry
A young woman voices a widespread view that marriage interest wanes as women pursue careers and seek respect from men. She argues that inferior husbands and inflated social expectations push women to delay or avoid marriage, noting rising married women in business and inherited or earned fortunes supporting households.
Stop My Paper A News Editor Replies With Patience
Zepeka Commonwealth quotes a columnist arguing that stopping a newspaper subscription harms neither editor nor business and that editors are ordinary people who eat, wear clothes, and have feelings. The piece urges readers to settle dues without anger and notes editors would quit only if indispensability collapses.
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Zepeka Commonwealth
The Collored Race Generates Strong General Assembly Talk
At the Presbyterian General Assembly Rev. R H Allen of the Freedman's Aid Society presented a striking map showing black to white population growth in southern states. He cited rising black populations, land ownership, newspaper publishing, and schooling gaps, and warned of future numbers. Postmaster General Vilas requested the resignation of J L Meade in Copiah county over alleged involvement in the Copiah outrages and a murder.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
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Freedman’s Aid Society
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Georgia
South Carolina
United States
South
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J. L. Meade
Hazlehurst
Copiah County
Meade
Barsdale
Copiah
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How Boys Learn to Steal
A Stepienville Empire editorial argues that youthful theft of fruit and melons stems from perceived harmlessness. It warns that early stealing leads to larger crimes and urges parents to plant fruit for children to deter trespass and horse or cattle theft, concluding with the aim to keep youths from orchards.
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Stepienville Empire
Wedding on the North Side Bridgeless Creek Narrow Escape
Deputy Sloan and Annie Love wed after Sloan crossed the swollen Hub bard Creek with help from County Judge E L Walker to officiate. Mrs Haynes reports a hen laying a diamond-like egg weighing about a half ounce, found inside a boiled egg.
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Breckenbridge
Tex
Ad Sloan
Annie Love
Sloan
Hubbard
E. L. Walker
Eli
Haynes
Texas wheat crop threatened by national deficit
The Dallas Herald urges Texas millers to keep the state’s wheat at home as national output falls about one third below the five year average. It notes Texas buyers ship north and warns Kansas and Missouri shipments may rise to meet demand. If Europe also short, wheat prices could rise, benefiting local millers who retain Texas grain.
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Weatherford Sun
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