Secretary Sherman speech attacks Southern rebellion at Cooper Institute
Secretary Sherman Defends federal supremacy over states citing constitutional amendments and laws. He denounces nullification, voter suppression, and armed resistance in the South, urging Northern unity to enforce equal rights and national authority.
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Sherman
Newark
Cooper Institute
New York
United States
South
Union
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
Matt Sucky
Mishiggs
Kansas
Arkansas
Democratic Party
Chisolm
Dixon
Raugteleus
Congress
North
Hendricks
General Grant Reception Plans in Chicago November 12
The Chicago Union Veteran Club urges veteran Union soldiers to form and join clubs nationwide for General Grant’s November 12 visit. They call for club secretaries to secure uniform badges and blank rusters, report anticipated attendee counts, and coordinate quarters, with a standard uniform of dark attire, a gilt hat badge, white gloves, and a gilt cord.
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Club
General Grant
Chicago
Chicago Union Veteran Club
Aniltrra
Lnte
Vn Nbir Ns
Grand Prolific
Union Veteran Club of
Inuaio
Iettor
S&eecre
Wiliam C. Carroll
Fragmentary travel tale with a pompous disputant
A traveling Rev. Dr. Bled- B00 endures a boastful bore who parades his shallow learning. The exchange reveals the man’s misreading of a supposed compliment as the doctor listens and resists. The fragment hints at dialogue about knowledge.
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Bled
Poised motorist envies roadside pond’s cooling nature
A fashionable, eloquent man drives a country road and muses aloud about saving his heated head in nature’s cooling. An Irishman overhears and responds with a humorous Irish-tinged retort.
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Min
Fire on the Nueve Pajaro del Oceano Ends in Sinking
The Spanish steamer Nueve Pajaro del Oceano burned at sea near the Yaredon lighthouse on a Havana to Nuevitas voyage. Seventeen officers and crew survived, but only thirteen of forty-two sailors lived, with four merchants and thirteen soldiers lost. The Louisa H brought the survivors to port, while the ship’s burning wreck exploded from powder stores and flames.
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Louisa H
Yoos
St. ‘Mary’ Street
Nueve Pajaro del Oceano
Bahamas
Havana
Nuevitas
Diaz
Nuevo Faro del Oceano
Cuba
Yaredon
Wrony
Feayune
Visit to a Pin Factory
A detailed account describes a compact pin factory machine that mimics hand dexterity. A belt from a ceiling shaft powers multiple machines arranged in rows. A peg holds a reel of straightened wire fed through small rollers to form pins, illustrating mechanical ingenuity.
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Elady
Evenhus
Log Flume Adventure in the Sierra Nevadas
A detailed, if winding, portrait of a mountain flume ride that ferries mining timber down from summit to valley. The narrative combines scientific imagery with bold danger, describing swift water, reinforced feeders, and the thrill seeking Lake Tahoe travelers who ride planks and boats along the roaring canal.
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Tantalus
Lake Tahoe
Sam Patch
Salt Lake
Buffalo
Banara
Jose
Ila
Charybdis
Cascade of the Tahoe Patrol and a Grim Sea Sickness Tale
A fragmentary passage describes endurance amid a long cascade and patrols at Tahoe. It evokes distress and death from sea sickness, with vivid imagery of pale figures and a perilous trek along a flume as men march the route.
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the Tahoe
Breach of Promise in a Chinese Village Near Nanking
A court case in a village near Nanking involves Chen Yu and his daughter, betrothed to Chen's son. Discontent grows, a rival Chin pursues the daughter, and the magistrate orders a formal contract. After clashes, the marriage proceeds with state protection and police escort to ensure completion.
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Nanking
Chen
Chin
Chen An
Kin
Yu'a
Shanghai
China
Sheu Pao
Mysterious disappearance tale recalled by Hawthorne era
A London gentleman named Wakefield faked a voluntary disappearance by moving next door to his home, daily glimpsed his wife but remained unseen for twenty years. After his death was presumed, he reappeared to resume marriage, illustrating the odd social consequences of such stratagems and noting later similar cases in modern times.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wakefield
Mr. Wakefield
Borden Nene
Senator Chandler Found Dead in Chicago Hotel Room
United States Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan died in his bed at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago on the morning of the 1st. The Chicago Tribune reported that Chandler had arrived in Chicago after campaigning speeches in Wisconsin and spoke at McCormick Hall the night before. An inquest found death due to cerebral hemorrhage. Remains were escorted to Detroit by special train with full civic honors.
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United States
Zachariah Chandler
Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago
Ticago
Wisconsin
Wihare H
McCormick“Hall
The
Chicago Tribune
Spalding
Chandler
Joseph Smith
Follo
Jesse Spalding
Mr. Chandler
Janesville
Mr. Spalding
Jancyville
General Logan
Grand Payutic
No. B
Boston
George Schneider
Lawrence
McCormick Hall
Sam Collyer
Ben
Cluir
Wnwell
Michigan Central
Detroit
Ilo
Sit P
Light Infantry
Light Guard
National Guard
Montgomery Rifles
Fort Street
West
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Senator Chandler
Michigan
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