Largest Paper in the County Reports Diverse Global and Local Notes
The issue lists a Johns Hopkins nursing school opening in Baltimore with eighteen pupils, Edison’s England visit remarks, church and aristocracy debates, Chicago women’s gambling crusade momentum, and a Dutch doctors’ device. It covers Russia’s role, China’s future, Serbian education funded by Russia, French military laws, German and Italian war prep, and electric industry growth in the United States with vast telegraph and railway figures. An English humor contrast and a Rutledge Georgia eagle sighting conclude the items.
Iron on the Anvil and the Toiling Song
A poem-like scene depicts a blacksmith forging iron with steady hammering and a refrain praising work as a path to peace and progress. The verse links toil to hopeful futures and inner satisfaction, urging perseverance and diligence amid life’s turmoil. It mentions a weary wheel, a steady hand, and the refrain We toil, we toil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caley Denn
Ambushed Adventure in the Orange Free State
The narrator recounts a perilous trek in November 1521 from Winvarg toward Maseru, joining Colonel Griffiths to quell a Kaffir rebellion. After a tense river crossing near Lady Brand, he is ambushed by Basuto warriors, fires a pistol duel, and escapes through reeds into the fort with help from a swift cavalry charge and a sword.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winvarg
Smaill
Oraige Free State
Rees
South Africa
Busuto
Cape Colony
Cos
Cape Town
Delighiel
Griffiths
Providence
Nettel
Maseru
Colonal
Tsm
Natal
Lady Brand
Hasuto
Tiffin
Caedon
Feotates
Baswo
Wioe
Tia
Lim
Kafir
Frank Leslie
How Passover Bread Is Made In The Passover Process
The article details kineeding with gunpowder water as the only added component and rapid baking. It describes forming flat cakes rolled between robras then perforating, cutting, and baking in a brick oven. A four foot diameter mitzath cake browns with small holes and cracker like taste. Unleavened cakes weigh about eight per pound and are ground to meal as a wheat flour substitute.
An Expensive Instrument in the Hands of a Musician
The most costly musical instrument to its owner is large and awkward to transport. It often incurs damage from dancing or collisions during movement, especially on streetcars. After long use it may seem worth more than its price, with owners occasionally valuing it around $1,000 or more. A Chicago Herald note cites a musician winning $3,600 after suing a railroad for a total loss.
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Staiger
San Francisco
New York
Canso
Penzance
Aden
Bormbay
Madras
Penang
Singapore
Hong Kong
China
Henry Irving
London
Hoath
Jefferson
Chuwego Herald
Black River
England
Men In Blue
United Kingdom
Journal of
Crothert
Scott
Lease
T. J. Finprey
M. D
Lone Star
Texas
Boston
Hood
M EE. Reno
A. Reed & Sem
Wanseon, Ohio
Iga Leads In Spelling Still Beating Lily At Head
A reader notes Harriet Spafford's tale of a girl named Iga surpassing Lily in spelling and pride when she finally finished first. The piece shifts to a doll eye maker Osler and a French order tale, then a moral about Arthur learning to do favors after Aunt Jane’s guidance.
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Lily
Harriet Spafford
Arthur
Aunt Jane
Jaane
Mamma
Chad
Jane
Leather Polishing Wheels in Metal Work History
A New York Mail and Express report describes leather polishing wheels used to finish metallic implements. Walrus leather, thick and durable, is favored, though buffalo, giraffe, elephant, hippopotamus, bull neck, and sea-lion leathers are also valued for polishing various items from forks to cutlery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Mail and Express
Alcoholism statistics and temperance debates in the press
The piece cites a British Medical Association claim that average lifespans differ by drinker type, then argues for common sense over statistics. It summarizes England's alcohol consumption and its social ills, quotes Salvation Army actions in New York saloons, discusses the idea of an alcoholic trance in crime, notes Catholic and temperance figures, and highlights temperance efforts across regions including France, Iowa, Colorado, and among Indians.
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British Medical Association
Leo Oe
Atlanta Constitution
Salvation Army
New York
Byn
Ode Army
Sun Office
New York Sun
Notts
France
Iwania Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Mary H. Jones
Philadelphia
Colorado
Chicago
Mys the Laver
Californi
A Practical Religion and National Strike Call
A collage of opinions urges temperance and moral reform amid scattered notes on religion and social critique. It cites whiskey harms, promotes a polite family religion, and calls Welsh and English workers to a national strike against drink, while advertising Dr Pierce’s cure and Hall’s Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Toledo in 1887.
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Indiana Progress
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Thomas A. Edison
Cannon Farrar
Church of England
Doctor Cureau
Holland
Emile de Laveleye
Russia
United States
Lady Churchill
Vienna
Servia
Stutesss
Kieff
St. Petersburg
Germany
Italy
Berlin
Rome
Gergen
Rutledge
Ea-Mon
FOUTH
Africa
Cialdren
Might
Malin
Mackenzie
Osler
House of Commons
Olsen
Bat
Bn - Cooke
Sallie A. Moore
Eliiladelphia
America
The
Independent
Seattle, Wash
Kansas
Pisa
Saga
Teledo
Meesra
J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Nours Tenly
Somers
Yaehar & Co
Bre Propa
Toledo
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Laurelion
Phertical A
Wowelsdorf
Oregon
Erin
Xraig Anil
Imigrat
Portland
Ore
Ienae Thomson
Tansil
C. L Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Magn
Cent < & Co
Lakeard
Som &Co
Stedy
Mure Hand
Ste
Brenan Calewe
Watts Main 8
Buffalo
Demethets Se
Cved
Jane A
Uoles
B. Phisdopais
C. D. Lavin
Sstep
Rend
Lebanon
Joseph H. Hunter
Congress
Sz LL. Bocelay
Herine
W.L. Boog
Shearta
Rand
W. L
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Welland
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