Remarkable aid from Chicago laborers for Sevcek home
The episode in Frank Sevcek life shows community charity after his storm wrecked home. Carpenters and bricklayers worked Sundays to reconstruct the cottage under city inspectors, with neighbors offering flowers and support. Mrs Sevock adds a new son as a celebration, making the modest rebuilt house a symbol of humane help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Sevcek
Sevcek
Chicago
Brother Sevcck
Mrs. Sevock
Sevocks
Chicago Tribune
The Close Man and the Two Pennies Folly
A Washington Post excerpt recounts tales of avarice and cunning in two cases. A neighbor borrows a hoe, returns it late, and demands ten cents for it. A rich lady boards near crab apples, seeks cheap fruit, and considers paying two bushels worth of corn to settle the matter. A secretary reads fifty begging letters asking replies with two cent stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New
Washington
Tia
Two Weathers Fort
Washington Post
Julia
Fragmented snatched text on fashion and body image
A garbled passage discusses a bulky figure named Gale, contrasting old fashioned fat with new fashion, mentioning dieting, feasting on farinaceous foods, and a club mirror. Additional jumbled lines reference Oates, a fashionable person, and a newspaper line about “Pros of Weles” being bald and fat and troubled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wales
Joaquin Miller Describes California Paradise and Planting Life
In a Chicago Tribune account, the slender elder poet Joaquin Miller recalls his California home two miles from Oakland high above the Oogan. He touts a 200 acre purchase, recent fortunes from his orchard project, and a plan to live among 15,000 trees planted over three years with his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joaquin Miller
Leland
California
Col. Howard
Mr. Sutro
San Diego
San Francisco
Oakland
Oogan
Christ
Chicago Tribune
Racked in Big Buildings
An officer recounts a low Broadway incident where a young man and woman were trapped in a building. The couple, afraid of scandal, refused to exit via the stairs until the man returned home to fetch his wife to assist the woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Broadway
Manta Thood
Church Phy
Bibs
Poe Propeieton
Frcoklyn
Rome announces new Vatican liberal unit and publications
From Rome comes a notice of liberal unity at the Vatican and the forthcoming New Testament edition by Abbe Conza Luzi. One hundred copies will be issued by Forotipia Danesi Rome at 200 lire plus fifty subscribers get Hexaplar MS volumes at 300 lire. Also mentions the sale of public land rights in Indiana and German economic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Vatican
Conza-Luzi
Verallone
Athe- Meeuma
The Scholar in America and Public Leadership
A critical look at how educated scholars are viewed in the United States and their role in public life. The piece compares American attitudes to Europe, notes the misperceptions of scholars as dreamers, and argues for stronger scholarly influence in national affairs. It cites Emerson, Shaler, and Atlantic Monthly to urge broader engagement by educated minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
England
Germany
Mommseen
Shaler
America
Atlantic Monthly
Hatters and Hats and a Trout Tale
A humorous slice from old papers covers a hatter tiring of women buyers, a Michigan summer fishing tale by T E Dickinson about a seven pound brook trout that swallowed a smaller one, and a rescue of a Chinese daughter in law from a murderous mother in law, plus a Russian emperor’s hidden train and a bee versus turkey clash in Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Dickinson
Michigan
J. Milton Oliver
Opera House
Dickinson
Chicago Herald
Peking
Chao
Pekingz
China
Various Global and Local Oddities Highlight Curiosities
The report catalogues eclectic notes from across the world and Britain. It mentions France warning bishops over elections, a 700 pound Swiss cheese, rising ostrich flies threatening feather markets, and red tea plantation spiders in Assam threatening crops. It also covers France’s wine and dairy consumption, a Victorian glazier’s bankruptcy linked to grasshoppers, Bulgarian patent medicine laws, and milk scalding as a health suggestion. Additional items include trunk damage costs per mile by rail, and school dress codes at Eton and Harrow banning brown untanned Neather Dante attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Assam
France
Glaziers
Bulgaria
Professor Brown
United States
Eton
Harrow
New Cure Promises Fast Relief for Various Ailments
A garbled advertisement page touts Dr Miles' New Discovery and other remedies for fever, biliousness, stomach and liver complaints, and drops dead risk from exertion. It claims free samples at Tom E Hildebrand's exposition notes and notes a Fort Smith druggist distributing trial bottles. It also mentions real estate deeds and a scrap of paper saving a life via Dr King's New Discovery with hopeful testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. P
Tom. E. Hildebrand
Dr King
W.H. Cole
Draggiat
Fort Smith
Hiklebrand’s
General Election Proclamation in Indiana County
Sheriff D C Mack proclaims the 1889 general election to be held on November 5 with polls in wards and townships across Indiana County. Voters elect state treasurer, register of wills, recorder of deeds, clerk of the orphan’s court, county surveyor, and district attorney, with listing of polling places by township and borough.
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GOD Save
Commonwealth
General Assembly
Pennsylvania
D. C. Mack
Indiana
Orphans’ Court
Indiana County
Freeman of
Armagh
Armatrong Township
David Anthony
Tracklick Township
Ferguson School
Banks Township
Echoo House
Smithport
Burrell
Blacklick
John K. Henry
Blairaville
Said
Buffington Township
Barkley's
Brushvally Township
Wolf's
Said Township
Election Procedures Assembled From Township Votes
The text outlines voting sites at various township locations, hours from seven p m, and the eighth article of the New Constitution. It details qualifications for voters, ballot requirements, and protections for electors, with sections on registration, bribery penalties, residency rules, officer eligibility, and the standardized voting tickets across counties. It also covers election board composition, secrecy, tallying, and the preparation of triplicate returns for court processing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freemen
Young
Hugh Blakely
United States
Electu
Woolty-Lwoy
Warda
Commonwealth
Seecron
Aunt Ledge Secries
High Seas
Pohtic
Senate
House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Assembly
Congress
Court of, Common Pleasuries
Alggether
Faded Paris Art Exhibition Mentions and Family Ties
The text recalls Vidal receiving works shown in Paris during 1855 to 1875 and notes his connection to external models and a brother artist. It mentions lingering uncertainty about loat hns foe and a patron at the grape ree in tieodie, with cited reference to John W Wright in St. Louis Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paraian Scalyan
Vidal
Paris
Tieodie
Stalry
John W Wright
St. Louis Republic
Dr Miles Nerve and Brain Tonic Promises Fast Relief
An old ad touts Dr Miles nerve and brain tonic as a cure for headaches dizziness sleeplessness and nervous weakness tying many ailments to weak nerves. It claims free trials at Tom E Hildebrand's drug store and includes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a top skin and wound remedy sold by the same pharmacist. It also mentions cheap Indiana travel offers and a refitted hotel for low rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wien
Miles
Tom E. Hildebrand
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Ban
Stepa
Milan
Evein
Nature
Italy
Standard
London
Mr. Jones
Philadelphia
the Scholar IN America
Newport
Johnny
New York Star
Russia
Unadilla
Mich
Opes
David Kennedy
T. M. Latimer
Federal Street
Aleghbeny
Axminster
Regent
P Dhis
J. R. Anderson
Camphore
T. M Latimer
Federal
Allegheny
Recorder's Office
J. A. Findley, Rder
Canoe Township
Simon Henry
Cherryhill
Norris Cameron
Greenville
Centre Township
X Roads
John Barclay
Conemaugh Township
Cherrytree
Grant Township
Nickle’s Mills
Freemen of Green
Cookport
Homer City
Court House
Aaid
West Indiana
Jacksonville
East Mahoning
Pursosra
Aaid Township
North Mahoning
J. B. Heathorough
Marchand
South Mahoning
James Hayes
Plumville
Weat Mahoning
Albert v. Davis
Marion
Tobias Ryckman
Mechanicsburg
Montgomery
Churchill
Pine
Burns School
Rayne
Lase Etoter
Saliaburg
Counal
Town Hall
Sheloden
Joseph Anderson
Mid Borough
Smicksburg
East Wheatfield
Reed
West Wheatfield
School House No. 2
White Township
David McCardle
Agirs Township
Bhertit
Offen
Oyeberg
Umit
T. E. Bildebrand
Draggist
Buckien
T. E Hildebrand
Zandly
Pittobang
ODELL
Horsements
THE
Dell Type Writer Co
Reskery
Eliam
Oak
Gar Grest
Fe Wei
Mexico
Boggs & Buhl
Alaska
Jos. Horne
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