Opinion on Guiteau sanity and Garfield illness notes
Mrs. Dunmire of Leadville, Guiteau's ex wife, says he was sane when he fired at Garfield and would testify to that. Senator Voorhees spoke in Atlanta and Washington about Garfield and the Senate opening, while Rev Power clarifies he never saw the President during illness. A New York physician warns of rising opium smoking among Americans, including women and slaves, with dens run by Mongol overseers and a grim future.
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Voorhees
Atlanta
Washington
Senate
New York
Paradise
Indian stake dances and rattlesnakes shock frontier officer
An army Lt. Bourke recounts Native men and boys handling live rattlesnakes in dances near railroad towns. He notes the sun and snake dances resuming in 1881. Also told are tales of elopement drama in Charleston Ark, a fatal duel resulting from mule riding, and a Salt Lake Tribune jab at Mormon healing claims.
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Lieut.Bourke
World School and Church News Snapshot
The report notes Ocean City seating capacity for services at three thousand. Washington and Lee University renames the Applied Mathematics chair in honor of Thomas A. Scott. George I. Seney pledges $100,000 to Wadevan Seminary if matched by others by a deadline. Presbyterians baptize fewer infants than Episcopalians. The Revised New Testament is adopted in Andover and Yale chapels. Princeton’s Dr. McCosh uses both versions. A 24,000-name Church of England protest opposes Romish practices within the church. At Yeddo University in Japan all professors are Germans with German salaries and private lecturing rights. A German minister heads Japanese education. China reportedly plans a German university in Beijing.
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Ocean City
N. J
Thomas A. Scott
Washington and Lee University
George I. Seney
New York
Wadevan Seminary
Hartford
Conn
Seney
Presbyterians
Episcopalians
The
Church Union
Theological Seminary
Andover
Phillips Academy
Porter
Yale
McCosh
Princeton College
Church of England
Yeddo
Japan
Pekin
Quip Gallery of Spectator Snippets and Satire
A collage of wry quips and jokes from American papers. It cites pithy lines about weather, inventions, fools, and a noted child abduction case with a biting editorial tone. The snippets nod to cultural puns and fresh irony across cities like New Orleans and Boston.
Schopp the Tax Paradise: A German Town's Bonus Plan
A German town Schopp in the Palatinate redistributes its surplus receipts by paying each household 2 pounds 10 shillings, following an earlier 4 pound bonus. German papers applaud the scheme as a life’s easy solution and urge readers to migrate to Schopp.
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Rhenish
Palatinate
Schopp
rank/urter
Konitscher Zeitungen
Cologne Gazette
Industrial notes from 19th century era on mills and tech advances
Eight more mills planned for Fall River Massachusetts this year. France England tunnel progress two miles per year from both ends. Cincinnati inventor Doane introduces a $50 electric motor for streetcars enabling ten cent daily running costs. Gold and silver production shares cited. postal cards could encircle the world if linked end to end. Georgia cotton mills gain cost advantages. Columbus employs 1,800 white workers. Brockton Massachusetts now outsells Europe in sewing needle production. Japan exhibition features paper belting proving stronger than leather for machinery use.
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France
England
A. Doane
Cincinnati
Fontaine
Georgia Land and Immigration
Atkinson
Georgia
Columbus
Broeckton
Mass
Europe
Japan
Wit and Wisdom Snippets From Newspapers
A collage of quips and misquotes from various papers, noting wry lines on domestic life, lectures, and travel humor. Items reference Lowell, Colonel Ingersoll, Ole Bull, and a Vermont or New England tone, with satirical takes on trade, lawyers wives, and travel luggage trends.
Sunshine Valley Editor Tale in a Canyon
The narrator recalls a grim newsroom legend as Bill reveals the valley hideout where the last editor was killed. They recount earlier editors in town fights, with one wounded and others reportedly dying or surviving after barroom incidents and gunfire.
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Bill
Sunshine Valley
San Francisco Chronicle
Dont Tell Mother Says Beecher On Child Secrets
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher argues in Christian Union that parental oversight shapes honesty in children. She urges mothers to be trusted confidantes, discouraging secrecy and deception and advising open confession to parents to foster trust and prevent mischief among girls and boys.
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Ory
Henry Ward Beecher
Christian Union
Wonderful Recovery From Terrible Cleveland Accident
George Klein of Cleveland survived a severe head wound after his skull was sawed open at a local pail factory. Doctors treated him with ice and removed all bone fragments, and the boy is alive and likely to recover, described as one of the most wonderful cases in the medical world by the Cleveland Sentinel.
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George Klein
Cleveland
The
Cleveland Sentinel
Lads Brave Recovery After Severe Injuries and Surgery
Georgie, severely injured with brain damage and facial fractures from a factory accident, shows remarkable recovery. He has no pain, eats regularly, and only needs a portion of brain removed. skulls cuts may fill with cartilage while facial pieces heal. Parents describe him hopeful but cautious.
Forest Drama Beside the Amazon Monkeys and Harpy Eagle
In a Paramayo River camp near the Amazon we witness a monkey troop and a harpy eagle attack. A mother monkey sacrifices her baby to save it, tearing the infant free as the eagle drags mother and prey aloft. A hunter fires, but the eagle escapes with the victim. Dr EF Oswald reports from St. Nicholas.
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Bogota
Rio Paramayo
Amazon
Billy
EF. S. Oswald
St. Nicholas
Humors of the German Army and a Turkish Veil Decree
A London Daily News piece recalls a prince’s compliment that led to a brutal drill day for privates after a molehill stumble. Commanders blame regiments, while the prince praises the day as rest, turning it into extra fatigues and punishment. A Constantinople decree orders Turkish women to wear thicker veils.
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Hacklander
London Daily News
Constantinople
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