RUSSIAN POLICE POWER UNDER TSARIST RULE
Excerpted from George Kennan’s Century piece describes Russia’s police state. It argues public power dominates private life, with citizens deprived of self governance, needing permits for everyday acts from schooling to residence, travel, employment, and even reading certain books. The piece emphasizes pervasive state control across all provinces and social activities.
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George Kennan
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England
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Russian Empire
Electrical advances and curiosities in science news
A roundup of varied innovations and discoveries includes electrified tanning and glass engraving, a Canadian patent for economical ice production, European cattle ancestry from India, damp wall treatment in Germany, an underground London railway near street level, new plaster hardening, a method to illuminate submerged bodies, smokeless army powder, cable car illumination in Chicago, and multiple studies from India and Europe on lighting, materials, and biology.
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Germany
London
Humming Birds Break Ground Alighting Debate
A writer disputes solar ornithology claims that humming birds never alight on the ground. From a garden near a florist field the observer notes birds resting on stems and briefly on the ground, fluffing feathers and chattering, then resuming nectar forays. The account ends with an odd aside about polishing a teakettle with kerosene and cloth.
Gas as Earthquake Threat Triggered by Explosive Fuel Theories
A piece from Popular Science Monthly relays grave theories about underground gas wells and a vast cavity beneath Findlay. Seething flames a mile below supposedly threaten a catastrophic eruption blowing Findlay skyward, with explosions and shifting earth.
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Theurst
Findlay
Popular Science Monthly
Nearing the City of Refuge A Hymn for the Faithful
A devotional piece urging endurance as believers near heavenly gates. It speaks of resting with Christ, enduring trials, and remaining steadfast while awaiting the crown of glory and a promised home with Jesus. The refrain emphasizes faith, patience, and the refining fire as growth toward ultimate salvation.
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Aed
City of Refuge
Jesus
Do Something Worth Living For Quote from Dean Stanley
A call to leave a lasting good by performing deeds of justice kindness and reconciliation. The brief urges relieving sorrow paying debts mending quarrels and showing compassion before passing away in a religious exhortation attributed to Dean Stanley.
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Dean Stanley
Sunday Travel Tale in Early American Era
The Herald of Gospel Liberty discusses Sunday travel by John Adams returning to Massachusetts. It praises his restraint in delaying homeward travel to care for a sick family, condemns public scrutiny, and notes the Anti traveling Union of America has 6,000 members, urging growth to 60,000 in four years.
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John Adams
Pat Adams
Union of America
Human judgments on great men and lasting value
The excerpt questions the enduring worth of great men such as Alexander, Plato, Cicero, and Luther versus religious figures like John Bunyan and Paul. It argues we should pause our worship of worldly conquerors and consider whether removing biblical leaders would darken human history, as suggested by F Schauffler.
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Jesus
Earth
Alexandre
Plato
Socra
Croesus
Alexander
Cicero
John Bunyan
Elijah
Issiah
John the Baptist
Paul
F Schauffler
Difference in Vision on Death and Prayer
The piece contrasts John Phillips Brooks view of death with ours, suggesting the soul’s vast enlargement and eternal presence with God beyond sorrow. It discusses prayer’s efficacy, citing Rev Austin Phe and Mr Bickersteth, asserting prayer moves God’s will and is a reliable spiritual force.
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Phillips Brooks
John
Piast
Jobn
Austin Phe
Mr. Bickersteth
Jesus Christ
Luther
Hartford Ret. Herald
Beware of the Publican Net And Medicinal Alcohol
A narrative warns of temptation at social drinking places and the dangers of alcohol. It contrasts a tale of a man drawn into a publican’s trap with medical arguments against alcohol as a remedy. Doctors cited condemn alcohol as a harmful drug, noting its use risks rekindling addiction and undermining recovery.
Mammoth Petitions Call For Constitutional Anti Liquor Amendment
During the last Congress session petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment to prohibit manufacture import export sale and station of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage. They totaled forty seven thousand individual signatures and over half a million related signatures mainly from churches and temperance societies. The Senate refused to consider the joint resolution by a 33 to 13 vote. The measure had been pending for fourteen years and had been favorably reported by committees in the prior two Congresses. A July 9, 1888 committee note cited petitions from diverse bodies showing ten million Americans desirous of national prohibition of alcoholic drinks.
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Congress
United States
Tahoe CU
W.C. T.U
Senate
Temperance News and Notes in Melbourne Australia
A temperance hospital planned in Melbourne is noted. A Kansas judge rules Jamaica ginger intoxicating. Dane County Wisconsin records 266 arrests in 1888 with liquor-related causes totaling 205. A fragmentary insistence on prohibition duty is quoted. Doctor F W Richardson discusses health and longevity, claiming life length is shortened by a quarter.
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Temperance News and Notes
Melbourne
Australia
Kansas
Jamaica
Dane County
Wis
Roanoke Gilg
Fashion's Vagaries in London and New Delhi Styles
The article surveys 19th century fashion notes: London ladies abandon white undergarments for uniform color outfits in pale lavender pink or blue, with Toques and tall hats still popular. It mentions merino and silk next to the skin, vivid vest-and-basque combinations, camel hair walking dresses, and new color names like tele phone jubilee blue endiasm-rust and anemone. It notes generous drapery in walking skirts, the need for practical movement, and cautions against overly narrow tailoring that reveals leg detail.
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London
Indies
Last Battle on English Ground at Sedgmoor 1685
The account recalls Monmouth's rebellion culminating at Sedgmoor near Bridgewater on July 6 1685. Duke of Monmouth and Lord Grey failed to flank royal forces led by Lords Faversham and Churchill, fled after two hours of combat, and Monmouth was later executed on Tower Hill July 15 1685. The piece cites Argyle's Scotland landing, his capture in Edinburgh June 10, and Monmouth’s proclamation in Dorset on June 11.
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Monmouth
Duke of Monmouth
Charles II
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England
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James
Edinburgh
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Churchill
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Bridgewater
Somersetshire
Lord Grey
Grey
Tower Hill
Inter Ocean
Literary Notes and Antiquities Report
LITERARY NOTES cover new publishing and periodical news with a London and New York simultaneous issue of Babyhood and pricing details. The piece notes Dr Schiliemanis Athens residence, a marble cottage and Dion Marathon inscription, plus Troy antiquities and a sulfur polluted Leatherwood Creek calamity with dead fish floating downstream.
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Athens
Dion Marathon
Troy
Germany
Heavy clock in Trinity Church tower tops American list
The Pittsburgh Chronicle quotes a lively exchange about booming times and wonders at the Trinity Church tower clock in New York, noting it is the heaviest in America and requires two men over an hour to wind. A reader promotes a so called cure for epilepsy, offering a sample and treatise for a fee.
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America
H.G. Root
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