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Newspaper

High Point Enterprise

Location

High Point, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1887

Page

4

Behold Also the Ships and the Navy Heroic Remembrance

Rev Dr Talmage lauds American seafaring with vivid recalls of great ships and battles. He honors naval heroes from Monitor to Farragut, celebrates the nation’s wartime fleet, and urges faithful remembrance of sailors who perished at sea and in battle.

James Richmond Ichmond Inman Line National Line Germanic White Star Line Circassia Anchor Etruria Cunard Line Great Eastern Atlantic Toixico Shenandoah Oss Kalamazoo Roanoke Dunder Monitor Housatonic Weehawken Tecumseh Alabama Miami Whithead Commodore Hull Louisiana Minnesota Cushing Hartford Pot Madson Mississippi Iecanert Lepanto Actiam Christ Augustus Mark Antony Salamis Noah Europe Ohio Tennessee Cumberland Monile Spanish Armaia Iend Westfield Shawsheen Sudtken Southfield Wintiehi Scott Whitworth Western Gulf Eastern Gulf Noth Atlantic Earth Hell Morris Island Admiral Dahlgren Philadelphia Melville Hatteras England Royal Family Baltic Sea Czar Czarina Atlantic Ocean Delaware Decatur Hull Chesapeake Lawrance Niagara Ferry Yonder Johan Adams Stringham Gools Phi Adelphia Dabieren Vomier San Jacinto Bailey Carondelet Wathe Black Hawk Porter Enton Foote David Glascoe Farragut Miguifest Brooklyn Navy Yard Admiral Foote North Carolina Heve Astor House New York Oo Kade Farragut David David Farragut Pennington Mobile Bay Brooklyn Hertford

Adairs Admirals Funeral At Woodlawn

The article describes a grand funeral for a naval admiral with President and cabinet present. War veterans recall his leadership while sea imagery and religious exhortations frame the procession. A patriotic, ceremonial scene ends with a blessing and a call to perseverance.

El Carnival de los Muertos depicts Mexican satire

The American Magazine notes a yearly publication named El Carnival de los Muertos that mocks public figures with death imagery and caricatures. It claims century subscriptions from the living and gratis copies to the dead, delivered to homes or tombs. It ridicules presidents, cabinet members, officials, journalists, and citizens with crude engravings.

The Republic

In a Northern California Forest

The narrator threads a narrow horse path through towering trees in a dense canopy. Darkness presses in as time and sunlight become hard to gauge, yet after hours the traveler emerges back under a blue California sky with five hours left before sunset.

California

Man of Many Deficiencies Described in Portland Tale

A Lewiston Journal item recalls a remarkably patched man riding an elevated car in Portland. He boasts false teeth and hair, a cork leg, glass eye, three fingers, a missing thumb, and a false ear, yet remains lively and walks ten miles daily despite having buried his last wife a year ago and declining five marriage proposals.

Lewiston Mutual Insurance Portland Vic

Wild Geese Killed by Lightning Reported Near Town

Resident R Burch reports during last Friday’s storm a flock of wild geese was struck by a vivid lightning flash. Six birds fell dead with no visible wounds while the rest scattered in alarm. He later ate roast goose, claiming it the first recorded instance of geese struck in flight.

R. Barch Rock Creek

The Pallium Blessing for Paris Archbishop Richard

The Pope blesses the pallium sent to Monsignor Richard as Archbishop of Paris. The white woolen band with black crosses originates from two lambs blessed on January 21 and woven by St. Agnes nuns. Before gifting, the pallium rests on St. Peter’s tomb.

Richard Paris St. Agnes St. Peter San Francisco

Wealthy Indians and governance in the Indian Territory

The article surveys the five civilized nations plus other tribes totaling about 65,000, detailing governance, education, and land rules. It highlights wealthy individual Indians like Jim McAllister and Frank Colbert, their coal royalties, cattle holdings, and business interests, and notes liquor bans enforced by marshals with harsh local enforcement.

Pan Perryman Bushy Head McCurtin Muskogee Tishimanga Texas Kansas Jim” McAllister McAllister Flo McAlister Denison Frank Colbert Colbert Station Nail Chistopher Columbus O’tooles Flanigans Shaughnessys Murphys Hudson's Bay Company Indian Territory Marshal New York

Numerous French Painters and Exhibition Display

A Vrench art journal notes in France there are 22 857 painters with 12 000 having opportunities to display their works at exhibitions, illustrating a large, active artistic community and exhibition scene.

Vrench Art Journal France

History as Moral Philosophy in Everyday Examples

A philosophical reflection argues that history distills moral precepts by illustrating them through concrete cases. The author suggests that examining past events clarifies ethical principles and guides current judgment.

Health Hints From Dr Elmore Palmer of Buffalo NY

Dr Elmore Palmer suggests various home remedies from catnip tea to onion shrup for coughs and colds and other folk cures. He discusses the health effects of grief on the body and recommends long rests in old age with increasing hours in bed. An English correspondent recalls Paget advocated bread and flour paste emetics to expel swallowed teeth from a patient.

Elmore Palmer Buffalo N. Y James Paget

A Chance for Inventors in an English Journal

An English science journal lists urgent invention needs for today including Macaroni machinery red lead pencils typewriters for ledgers indelible ink car starters ventilators and better horseshoes. It also calls for wind velocity instruments sea depth measuring tools locomotive headlights air tight hinges draughtsmen ink and durable iron brass molding materials for repeatable molds.

India

How They Vatten Cattle in Germany

Charles Boschen of Washington Market extols German cattle grown on his father’s Bremerhaven farm. He describes fattening methods, including three years of slow feeding, weekly bran, and a white clover field, before English buyers ship them across the channel.

Charles Boschen Washington Market Bremerhaven New York Sun

Storms Foretold by Insects On Mount Puy-de-Dame

An item from Selectific American notes that before storms the summit of the Puy-de-Dame is visited by swarms of gnats winged ants and swallows. The ants and gnats’ origin remains a mystery as insects fill observatory floors and are crushed by the millions.

Puy-de-Dame

A Famous Detective at Sing Sing Jail

The article profiles James Jackson a famed State detective stationed at Sing Sing. He examines convicts and screens visitors to stop released prisoners from reuniting with accomplices. Jackson travels long distances to recapture fugitives and identify criminals from other states. He claims perfect recognition from a glance and recalls a nose altered by a prior escapee. He is 5 feet 8 inches, about 35, with black hair and eyes, and knows around 10,000 criminals. He credits his vigor to Brandreth’s Pills and Allcock’s Plasters, used nightly and during fatigue, and boasts of his health and skill.

James Jackson Sing Sing Jackson Allcock Brandreth

Killed By a Picture in Moscow Showing John the Terrible

The article describes a famous modern painting in Moscow titled John the Terrible depicting a king who murders his son. It portrays the moment of shock and horror as the bloodied scene unfolds, with claims that a woman fainted and died on viewing it.

Moscow John the Terrible

Eye-water Remedy Promoted by Dr Isaac Thomson

If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr Isaac Thom son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25e per bottle.

Isaac Thomson

Cure for nervous debility and female ailments offered

A Sanctioned medical ad advises young men and middle aged sufferers to mail 10 cents for an illustrated curebook from the World's Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street Buffalo New York. It promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as restoring health, easing stomach and heart distress, and relieving backache.

World's Dispensary Medical Association Main Street Buffalo, N. Y Invalides’ Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo N. Y Pierce Edo Jaime Ad World’s Dispensary Medical Association Main St

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