Meeting of Exiles at Miss Arinfeldt House
George Kennan describes a tense convicts gathering at Miss Arinfeldt’s house where gendarmes visit thrice daily. The narrator witnesses fear, whispered exchanges, and vivid accounts of cruelty and death, as a strange convict with a vacant blue gaze offers a chilling remark about a graveyard of their own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennan
Miss Arinfeldt
Dantelan
Madam Kolenkina
Miss Armfeldt
I Kurteyel
Madame Kolenkina
Macbeth
de Quincey
George Kennan
Why It Is by No Means so Black as It Is Painted
An excerpt explains the Sahara’s varied topography, debunking the flat and wholly arid image. The Upper Sahara rises on rocky plateaus with peaks, the Lower Sand ranges from two to eight hundred feet, and saltwater lake beds lie below sea level. Moving sand covers limited areas while rock, clay, and oases form the landscape, with date groves and villages fed by artesian wells. The piece notes the Sahara is not as dark as often claimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara
Dartmoor
Derbyshire
Essex
Leicester
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Lambert Playfair
Algerian
Cornhill Magazine
A Journey to Venus by a Celestial Railway
The article explores hypothetical railways circling the world and reaching Venus and the Moon at 60 miles per hour. It weighs human limits, longevity, and the vast distances, noting a Moon voyage could take 166–167 days while Venus would demand about fifty years, far beyond actual human travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solar System
New York
Chicago
Boston
Liverpool
Moon
Venus
Mars
Earth
D. C. Robertson
St. Nicholas
The Cruel Deportations Under Alexander II Despotism
The article condemns forced Siberian exile by executive order during 1878 and 1879 under Alexander II. It notes liberals and suspected revolutionaries banished without trial, including students, teachers, and readers of banned works, with hundreds swept into Siberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Alexander II
St. Petersburg
Herbert Spencer
John Stuart Mill
George Kennan
Mexican Finance Minister to Publish Garza Revolution Critique
M Romero will have a September piece in The North American Review exposing the emptiness of Garza revolution. Reports note a run of medical testimonials praising Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve, with several cures attributed to these remedies and sales listed by H. S. Puterbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Romero
North American Review
H Clifford
New Cassel
Wis
Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
Buccklen
Justin McCarthy
Mr. Gladstone
Cyclorama of the Chicago Fire At World’s Fair Venue
The article praises Chicago’s architectural growth and highlights the Cyclorama of the Chicago Fire as a premier exhibit near Michigan Avenue and Madison Street. It describes vast ruins, raging flames, and panicked crowds illustrated with mechanical and electrical effects to create a lifelike scene, urging readers to visit during the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michigan Ave
Madison St
W C T U Convention Agenda at Lanark Aug 1892
The WCTU holds a Lanark convention from Aug 31 to Sept 1 1892 with a full program. Events include executive committee meetings, devotional exercises, district reports and addresses, franchise discussions, press work, prison reform, narcotics, juvenile work, hygiene, heavenly temperance, and a range of lectures and memorial services led by named officers and delegates from Rockford Rochelle Davis Junction and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolleau
Jennie K. Atchinson
Davis Junction
Julia Barnes
Rockford
Parson
C. R. Hall
Rochelle
Louise S. Rounds
Lena Morrow
Gerlaw
R. R
R. H. Andrew
S. B. Wilkins
Carrie L. Grout
Harvest Excursions and Patent Remedies Advertised
A collage of travel offers and patent medicines fills the page. Promotions include half fare harvest excursions via the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway with dates in August to October, plus round trips to Washington for the National Encampment. The page also touts De Witt's Little Early Risers, Witch Hazel Salve, English Spavin Liniment, King’s New Discovery for Consumption, and various Chamberlain remedies, with prices and local agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Otturawa
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Winterset
Audubon
Harlan
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Cameron
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Missouri
Omaha
Lincoln
Fairbury
Nelson
Nebraska
Atchison
Leavenworth
Various Patent Medicines and Sales Claims in Local Adverts
A collection of old time drugstore claims tout Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion Castoria Dr Bixler's Blood and Liver Regulator Downing's Stramonium Liniment and Beatty's Pianos and Organs along with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy and Downing's Cough Elixir. Advertisements pledge cures for stomach liver and kidney issues skin problems and coughs with local merchants Poterbaugh Whitmore and Shawen cited. Excursion tickets to the Eastern Iowa Agricultural Association Fair are noted for Davenport with M.M. Onin as agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Peoria
Dubuque
Eastern Iowa Agricultural Association
Davenport
Illinois
Hazelhurst
St. Louis
Savanna
Milledgeville
Daggetts
P.maples
W. W. Whitmore
Grocer
Iowa Agricultural Association
Rock Island
M.M. Onin
Agt
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Meeting OF
Sahara Desert
Angelina
Edwin
Mme. Francaise
Marpur
The
Chicago Fire
Lanark
Demorest
S . Bedell
Warren
Istrict
Kate Hazlett
Hintson Finasace
Hannah Nichols
Thomson
S. E. Barden
Oregon
Louise
Ollie c. Eichelberger
Freeport
County Fair
Camp and Grove
Frances File
Edna Davis
Sycamore
Flower Mission
Calista Glotfelty
M. E. Lewis
Age White Morrison
Freeport College of Commerce
J. J. Nagle, M. E. Prin
Preeport
Ill
Brat Pianos
Dash
Brat
Harrison
Cleveland
de Witt
Paterbaugh
GA. R
Washington, D.C
M. M. Oain
Puterbaugh
J. I. Allemony
Draggist
Jno
Sebastian
Chicago, al
St Patrick's
Chamberlain
Burlington” Bulletin of
DR. Miles
Alphonso Hempfling
Butler
Miles
J. R. Miller
Valpargiso Ind
J. D. Taylor
Logansport
Ind
FH Gardner
Vistula
Daniel Myers
Brooklyn
Mich
Mites
H.S. Puterbaugh
Orange Blossoms
Yarmouthport
Mass
Bratty's Pl
Wariehtee Sin He
Woolford
J HW
Allewong
E Pian Beativs Organs
Systene Logion
New Jersey
Eee Are
Castoria
Downing
Pooterbaugh
Bucklen
H. Shawen
Wellsville
Kan
Hattie Mason
Chilton, Carter Co
Beatty’s Pianos and Organs
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington, N. J
Beatty
Epicleper
Nervine
Rowland
A. Wolf Cashier
Busiowna
AmMos Wolf
Davin Wor
Joni RK
Woirand
Amos Wolf
Notary Public
J. M. Glotfelty
Justice of the Peace
Offlee
P. O
J.T. Bcrman
D. Miller
C.W. Middlekauff
J. T. Jacobs
Old Stand
ASV
Tom
Peter Horner
J. A. Walker
West Side
Atreet
John H. Shaffer
Diert
Postoffice
J. C. Hanson
Lower Broad Street
C. E. Olmstead
E. E. Dubbel
J. Fe. Brown
J. D. Renner
Singer Manufacturing Company
H. W. Hartzell
D. C
Beate
Miles Mod
Elkhart
H. Reid Staley
Robt
Teachout
East Side Meat Market
Wroughton
Milledgeville Station
W. A. Breenes
Passeng
Pu Ave Dd A. M
Chil
Racine & 8S
Racine
Art
Ives
Kirkland
Clinton
OLIN
AGERT
Eldredge A
Eldredge Manufacturing CO
Belvidere, Ill
Sea
Anxandas
Rock Island & Pacific
Magnivicent
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Topeka
Rocky Mountain
Lake City
Ogden
San Francisco
Manitou
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Kansas
Indian Territory
Alberlea
Sioux Walls
8St. Paul
Lakes
Pacific Coast
United State
Canada
ST. John
John Sebastian Gen
R. Gust
West Side City
WM. Strickler
Furniture Dealer & Uncertater
Illinot
Ivanhoe Camp
M. W
CO. Gatti
V. C
A W
Clemmer
Rock Creek
1.C.C. F
Rhodes
F. A. Exmer
Kee
J. A Wrommn
N. G
SOSE
City Dray
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