A Chinese Wedding Recounted in Shanghai Union Church
A Chinese native transported to America recalls Charles K Marshall’s November Shanghai wedding to a Christian Episcopal bride. The ceremony featured a jeweled red veil, a sedan chair exit, and a crowded church. The bride remains veiled three days, speaks and eats only under bridesmaids guidance, and the couple endures nonstop guests disrupting rest.
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Charles K. Marshall
Charles
Anisbride
Shanghai
Episcopal Church
The Income Tax and a Newport Ky Wedding Tale
The item reports a government instruction on income tax returns for 1870 noting that dividends and other incomes need not be reported in certain cases, plus a Newport Kentucky wedding story where a lighting mishap caused total darkness and a dramatic sunlit moment. It also recounts a Bismarck anecdote in a beer hall where he threatened to break a mug over an abuse of the royal family and then asked the bartender for payment after breaking it.
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Emphatic girl of the period aids crippled lover after crash
A notorious woman loyal to a rejected lover causes his despair by refuse. After a severe railroad accident he loses both legs. She consoles him and they marry on crutches once doctors allow him out. Also notes Western letter writer Howe R. Fornis lecturing on intemperance in Cheyenne and a large cattle shipment to Baltimore from Athens Ohio.
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President's message on Santo Domingo commissioners report
The President transmits the Santo Domingo Commissioners report to Congress detailing the push for annexation, arguments for protection under the United States, and the path from initial propositions to treaty negotiations, rejection by the Senate, and the commission's findings affirming motives and policy. The message argues for national interest, Monroe Doctrine concerns, and the need for public understanding of events and outcomes.
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North America
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Annexation debate shapes voters at nation’s call
The piece outlines President Grant urging patience as a nationwide decision on the annexation of Santo Domingo approaches, with a pledge to honor the people's verdict. It notes differing opinions, calls for printing the report, and reflects on executive restraint and constitutional supremacy. Includes short items on eccentric wills and street-level cons, jailhouse novitiates, a railroad scam, and election returns.
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U.S Grant
Executive Mansion
American Watches and World News Reflections
A compact survey of American watches versus foreign brands notes a national pride bias and urges buyers to insist on American Waltham watches for reliability and fair profit. The piece also covers brain weight studies across nationalities, planetary sightings after sunset, sleep remedies, California bird and insect concerns, and brief medical and humor items.
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Johnsons Anodyne Liniment and naval provisioning notes
A clerks remark favors Johnsons Anodyne Liniment as essential in military medical kits. Vessels may sail to Fishing Banks this summer but may wait for men from European waters due to current appropriations. Sheridan s Cavalry Condition Powders are advised nationwide for horses with appetite loss rough hair bowels water coughs colds gland swelling worms wind and heaves.
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