Bitter talk on Tammany and Croker shocks readers
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer captures a vivid tirade criticizing Tammany Hall and Boss Croker. The speaker Abbots Grant’s messages and the art of gaining riches through political influence are denounced as theft of votes. The piece ridicules Croker and Grant as unworthy, ignorant manipulators aided by proxies, with vivid metro references and historical allusions.
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Manhattan Beach
Bourke Cockran
Cockran
Tammany Hall
Croker
Gilroy
Grant
Por Croker
Louvain
Belgium
Dan O'Connell
Jerusalem
New York
Europe
Buffalo Bill
Cody
Crokers
Mr. Croker
Cody-Croker
Gath
Cincinnati Enquirer
Lost General Shelby Gold Watch Returns Hope
General Shelby hopes to reclaim his late father's gold watch, stolen in Lexington in 1848. A Peach Orchard, West Virginia, man recently claimed possession of a watch bearing Shelby’s name and seeks to learn if he is still alive to return it, with a suitable reward promised. The tale is intertwined with reflections on genius attributed to illness and dream states from various authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Shelby
Jo Shelby
Lexington
Samuel Jackson
Shelby
Peach Orchard
W. Va
Kansas City Journal
Typhoid Outbreak Blamed on Water in West Pullman
The Chicago Chronicle reports up to forty typhoid cases in West Pullman linked to a water supply failure. A Hyde Park pumping station valve blew, cutting water Sunday through Monday. Lake Calumet water was later used without notice, likely spreading typhoid due to contamination. Health officials cite negligence by a water department worker as the root cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Department
Pullman
Health Department
Hyde Park
West Pullman
Lake Calumet
Chicago Chronicle
New York World and Post Dispatch in sharp dispute
A bitter press war erupts between Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York World and The St Louis Post Dispatch editor Colonel Charles H Jones. Jones seeks injunction to keep control. Judge Woorla grants a temporary restraining order with Sept 30 hearing.
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St. Louis Post Dispatch
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Charles H. Jones
The
Post- Dispatch
Jones
Board of Directors
Post-Dispatch
Woorla
Colonel Jones
Politzer
John A. Dillon
the World
St. Louis
Colonel Dillon
Pulitzer
World
World Office
Th Ch
Dispatch
Fought in a church ends with sexton discharge
A church dispute in Fordham New York over children playing in the Sunday school room led to a confrontation between Rector Charles Holt and sexton Henry Howarth. The sexton alleges the rector lied after a scuffle that involved pushing and a held vote by vestrymen.
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Charles J. Holt
St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church
Fordham
N. Y
Audry
Charles
Sexton
Henry Howarth
Miss Andrey
New York Sun
Guarding Rutgers square fountain by 100 neighborhood boys
A hundred New York boys over 12 form the mountain league to protect the Rutgers square fountain at East Broadway and Canal Street. They will patrol day and night with badges, under supervision of City Vigilance League, Good Government clubs, and support from Roosevelt and Colonel Waring as they tackle banana peels and other debris that polluted the fountain. The effort aims to keep the square clean amid local interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rutgers Square
East Broadway
Canal Street
Jacob Schiff
Misses Ward
Brewster
Nurses’ Settlement
Henry Street
Hebrew Institute
Spectorsky
City Vigilance League
Good Government Clubs
Mountain League
Joseph Goldstein
Morris Frankel
Joseph
David Widrowitz
E. Frank
Waring
League
Lower East Side
New York Times
The Celestial Butcheries and a Call to Action
John A. Cockerill argues from New York Herald that China’s new Taung-li Yamen members threaten missionary safety and foreign interests. He urges the United States, Britain, Germany and others to threaten Peking, capture corrupt officials, and execute them to force treaty observance and protect missionaries. He warns of imperial decline and urges self-help and forceful pressure rather than quiet diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cockeril
Peking
China
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Rome
Cromwell
Vatican
John A. Cockerill
New York Herald
Cushings Daring Night Raid On Rebel Ram Albermarle
Theodore Roosevelts retelling recreates Cushing slipping past Confederate guards on October 27, 1864 to approach the Albermarle ram under a fort’s guns. He launches a stealth attack, torpedo the ram, and after the explosion, swims through darkness to survive and reach Union lines. He endures hunger, heat, and pursuit, finally rejoining his squadron at dawn.
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Cushing
Albermarle
Albemarle
Theodore Roosevelt
St. Nicholas
Baby as security leads to asylum in disorderly case
A baby was used as security for a five dollar fine at West Chicago Avenue police station. The clerk refused it. the child was later taken to St. Vincent's asylum after Mrs. Selig left the courtroom and then the bench. Selig's fine was stayed and he was released. Chicago Tribune.
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West Chicago Avenue
St. Vincent's Asylum
Frank Selig
Sally
S41
Selig
Charles Spencer
Mia
Chicago Tribune
While He Slept Archibald Clarke Shatters Sleep Work Records
Archibald Clarke a Kentucky farmer near Grump displays remarkable somnambulism by cultivating four acres while asleep. He once dug a pond ditch and even traded butter for coffee and sugar without waking. Living alone, he now employs a young man to guard him at night after discovering his condition. Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
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Archibald Clarke
Grump
Kentucky
Mr. Clarke
Clarke
Cincinnati Enquirer
Molasses and feathers attack at Hold ing Ford school
An incident in Hold ing Ford Minnesota involved John Welna a schoolteacher assaulted by three women Mrs Katie Zinner Mrs Stephen Dieterich and Mrs Luther Nimrood after a warning was posted on the schoolhouse door Welna was pinned tied and struck with a pail in front of students Warrants issued for the three women linking a prior arrest in a related case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Welna
Holding Ford
Minn
Welna
Katie Zinner
Stephen Dieterich
Luther Nimrood
Welpa
Halleck
Chicago ‘Times-Herald
Balloon skirts and class taste in 19th century fashion
A fashion critique argues rich people seek exclusive fabrics and elaborate styles to maintain status while workers seek affordable luxury. It credits democratic taste, notes rising luxuries since 1850, and predicts wide access to comforts as society evolves. It also covers yacht racing mishaps, G A R encampments, and New York public lectures advancing science and history education for all.
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Abundanes
Queen Elizabeth
Agriculture Board Awards Best Exhibits Across Departments A B C
The Agriculture Board recognizes top exhibits in Departments A B and C. In Department A special honors go to Mt Carroll Primary and Intermediate divisions for penmanship geography and drawing. Savanna Milledgeville and Lanark students win premiums for language, drawing, and rural school categories across multiple classes. Department C lists township and Carroll County maps, soil and biology related displays, with multiple students from Mt Carroll Savanna Milledgeville and Shannon receiving $2 and $1 awards from various donors and supervisors.
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Agricultura Board
Mt Carroll
Mt Carrot
Lum
Savanna School
Mt. Carrot
Milledgeville Behout
Prem. Lom
Diptom
Mt Carrol
Jeannette Greene
Othe Agriculur
Wey
Milledgeville Sehoul
Savanna Sehool
Milledgeville Behr
Claes
Sevanna Sabot
Mattie Corbett
Sehool
Matele Corbett
Roy Kel
Biste McCatl
Mt. Carroll
Mt. Carrol
Diviston O
Savanna Sakon
Letitia Parks
Lettela Parks
Drawins
Leon Smith
Premium
Jessie Patterson
Me. Carrol
Alida Deloaton
Fred Wieter
Chas Mutton
Steve Bawden
Etta Rowland
Lanark
Drawines
Ihel Bebuol
Milledgeville Hehoul
Milledgeville High School
Jo Department
the Agricultural Board
Nettie Bender
Shannon
Moyer
Francis Cheeseman
Cherry Grove
B. F. Straw
George Mowry
Freedom
G. C. Stick
Rowe Winter
Woodland
J. W. Hay
Fred Glotfetty
Rock Creek
B. K. Myers
Hdua Schrader
Salem
James Graham
Magele Hammerstein
Savanna
Berry
L. Nelle Wagner
Elkhorn Grove
James Hunter
Howard Rammell
Farr Havers
B. F. Baker
Carroll County
Earnest Kneale
Eva Bickelhaupt
Mariel Moore
Ansa Tigh
Thomson
St. Carroll County
Charles Gillogly
Mu Carroll
Timois
Rath Lambert
Lepha Melleary
Fair Haven
Earnest Koeale
Eva Bickethaupt
North America
Tony Fowler
Savana
Mabel Hass
Beulah Brown
Olas
Harold Kneale
Lorena Greene
Bruce Machen
Marl Hendricks
Nellie Johnson
Alina Brown
May Moll
Harold Kosale
Brace Mache
Alfred Schleening
Cyde Hendricks
Zetta Moore
Carl Hendricks
Zelle Moore
Karl Hendricks
Ralph Withart
Robert Fuller
Ada Leu
Frank Isnany
Epvane
Harold Koeale
Lutie Westbrook
Mary Ruth
Milledgeods
Winifred Bell
Flora Hummel
Fred J. Rhodes
Jenole Ketterman
May Heeder
Hare Butely
Clase
Lissie Sutely
Deanette Green
Malel Gelve
Milton Fry
Charles Lowman
Grace Batley
Orasia
Mount Rainier book offer and land prospectads
A jumble of auction-like notices and promotional prose mixes with prize lists from Carroll County Fair including Primary and Declamations awards to Mt Carroll students and a long lane of ads about land to Mississippi and Alabama along the Mobile and Ohio line. Also cited are notes on rail voyages, illustrated books, and medical testimonials praising Chamberlain's remedies and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
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South
Mississippi
Alabama
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Hrsny Poxot
Alabama Land and Development Co
Mobile
W. J. McLean
Margette Indy
Chicago
Posny
A. G. Bartley
Magic
DeWitt
Wa. Hogan
Land sale proposition for Whid by Jeland area
ELE owners of a large land body on Whid by Jeland to Puget Sound Washington will divide into tracts to sell with heat and cowards per acre, on time add no year inent the fat year. Staple crops Nas close ricets, sebine 1,200 populations mid climate. For jeri informing address Bh. BW KEKMAN, Seattle, Wash.
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Jeland
Puget Sound
Wash
Kekman
Seattie
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Peather
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Congress
Washington Times
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Union
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Patent Office
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Joseph Jefferson
Engineering and Mining Journal
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Emery F. Sith
California
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Athinta Exposition
Heary W. Grady
Milledgeville School
Bavaana
Altle Mitchell
Mt Carron
Chaeh
Maude Tomlinson
Aavanus
Ania Stakeiniiinr
Carroll
Clase A
Piret Price
Leroy Todd
Milledgesville
Percy Kinmert
Mt. Parrott
Charo Barthel
Milledge
Eva Grove
Mt Carrel
Trivision
USS Mas
Sehout Hime
Carroll County Fair
Tianenger Department
Northern Pacific Railroad
North Pacific Coast
Mount Rainier
Tacoma
Railroad Co
Wonderland
Chas, S. Fee
St. Paul, Minn
Annapolis
Joan G. Broons
Boots
Shoen
Main St
Ala
THES
Mechanicsville
St. Mary County
A. J. McGint
Wm. Hogan
City Drug Store
Darlington
Wis
Chamberlain
Hogan
Hogan's City Dring Store
Puterbaugh
Lawelag
Hull
Cheney
Toledo
de Witte
Wa Houan
James L. Francvis
Enyss
Dregard de. King
Chad
Keokuk
Towa
de. King
Pete Leddy
Patertaugh
Fred Miller
Irving, HL
S. Puterbaugh
Rennica
Chimberlain
Morrison
Col
Ken
Wile AL
Mega
City
Lana
Groffs
Trea
Jackson Medical CO
Star Accident Company
Illinois
Fas
Elias Lauvel
Dora
David Kingery
Avid Krogers
Mw Hensawis I. Krsarny
Susan Ann Grissinger
Brian Ann Crissinger
County Court
Mount Carrell
Exsta Braonn
B.C. Dio, Atty
Lt. White
B Ki. White
Garcud
Hythe
County Cour
Mentarral
Homier Neat
Wwe
Etre
C.A. ‘Snow &Co
Perent Office
Waamirar Deneennes Vesvece
Canacer
Eupgen
Coll Remedy CO
Flathead Valley
Will
Leeie Poorne
Wockford Bghsioness College
Rockford Business College
Rockford
Tlineis
Greeley
Tual
PSS
Thinois Central
Lovina Bureau
Adie
J. IF
Wellisuton Horthers
Unnwger
Murriaen
Panne
Heo
Kure
ALLE
Wk Kade
Chamberisin
Draggin
Uence
Harrian & Co
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