Balloonist Woodward Aims Atlantic Flight From San Diego
Ventura county farmer Robert J. Woodward plans a 36 by 26 foot balloon ascent from San Diego to New York using two 8 by 6 foot wings attached to his inflated globe. He expects 10,000 feet altitude and a possible 36 hour coast to reach the Atlantic, with three days of provisions planned for the trip. He faces delays from gas supplies and weather, and has never prior ascended.
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Robert J. Woodward
Ventura County
San Diego
New York
Baliun
Woodward
Atlantic
San Francisco Examiner
Critics argue Matthew Marshall hides pro capitalist bias
A letter-writer attacks The New York Sun financial editor Matthew Marshall as a longtime Wall Street insider who misrepresents labor's plight. He cites Marshall's 1886 remarks on Henry George and argues the editor favors capital over workers, contrasting with an Evening Sun editorial about tramps and idle poor. The piece also mocks Marshall’s Manhattan viewpoint and notes contemporaneous items from Blairsville real estate and industry.
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New York Sun
Matthew Marshall
Wall Street
the Sun
New York
Marshall
New York Evening Sun
Mr. Marshall
Manhattan Island
Metropolis
Rockaway Beach
Hackensack Meadows
New York Press
New England Magazine
England
Jos. B. Buchanan
Only a Woman at the Bronze Church Door
A stark scene of a shivering, destitute woman begging at the bronze church door as organ music swells and crowds pass by unmoved. The poem condemns society's neglect of the poor while recalling past dignity and maternal care.
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Silks
Swingesh
Nevermore
Bronze Church
The Champion Mean Man
A coal heaver recounts a cruelly stingy employer who forced him to haul half a ton of coal with water dousing and extra cleanup, all for fifteen cents unpaid at week’s end, amid a tale of urban meanness and hardship. The piece threads in a lighthouse family vignette and advertisements for Dr. King’s New Discovery and other patent medicines.
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Chicago
Brooklyn Eagle
Loren Trescott
Gov. Lighthouse
Sand Beach
Mich
Detroit
Dr. King
T. E. Hildebrand
Sadler
Alex McCullough
Farkel
Westmorland Co
John McDonald
Sharpsville
Sophia Schambra
Wheeling
W. Va
Perry Cain
Frankfort Springs
Beaver Co
Mel Cullough
Higgingon
Harper's Bazar
Whispered Maxims and Curiosities of the Era
A dense miscellany of maxims, social notes, and early advertising blurbs. It cites racial caste views, population data, weather cues, and varied trivia from fractions of a penny to mining ventures. Endorsed patent cures and horse remedies fill the page alongside market hints and odd proverbs reflecting late Victorian curiosities.
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Farmer Woodward
Manley Tempest
New York Commercial Advertiser
Ste. Maremerite
Paris
Basfroy
Clarence Provost
Net
Fall Mall
Allatt
Mediterranean
Tis
Ahott
London News
Gnemul
Vines
Thia
Henry George
George
Mr. George
Blairsville
Blairaville Lend Improvement Co
Spain
Madrid
Central Office
United States Circuit Court
Toronto
Michigan
United States
Detroit News
The
New York Tribune
Typographical Union
Kingston
N. Y
Freeman
Whitelaw Reid
Daugherty Bros
John Carpenter
Goodland
Ind
Chamberlain
Indiana
Wm. I Moore
Homer City
Mean Man
J. H. Benham
Golconda
Pope Co
Wm. FE. Moore
Henry Baxter
Mandrake’ Bitters
U.S
Odds and
New Zealand
New York City
London
Wardner
Ida
Coeur d'Alene
India
Hetrick Bros
Bucklen
T.E. Hildebrand
Druggint
Standi Ly
Woolford
Herrick Bros, Druggists
AT. Lowry & CO
Generalbe Merchandise
Church Street
Indiana, Pa
S. M. McMasters
Penna
Indiana Progress
TOTAL
Southend Flouring Mil
L, Townsend & Son, Propritors
Messrs
LI. Fryer
South Bend
South Bend, PA
Philadelphia Street
Comfon
Pennington
J.J. Callows
J.T. Bouc
Philadelphia
Pnmstlim
College
Hiraiene
Gettysbrurg
Stata
Wall Ree
J. W.mcknight
D. D
H. G. Buralek
Shere
Sharret’s
Sharri
American House
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