If Mother Only Knew A Poem by Lillie E Barr
A poetic lament on regret for not valuing a mother’s love while alive. The speaker pleads that if her mother knew, forgiveness and wiser heartedness would follow, but laments that it is too late as the mother has passed. The poem stresses the pain of lost opportunity and the enduring value of a mother’s memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie E. Barr
N. Y. Ledger
Proctor
Marrid
Vernon Banner
Arthur
Shelby
Lew Wallace
Jerusalem
Ben Hur
Indianapolis News
New Castle
Adulteration: A Mother Explains Everyday Substitutes
The dialogue questions common food items and traces their modern substitutes. A fragrant infusion becomes tea from leaves of Cathay, alder, and bay. Milk comes from polluted city pumps. Butter is margarine, once called butter by those who hoard wealth. Pepper is a spicy, dubious blend of roasted meal and dust with cayenne to provoke a sneeze.
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Cathay
There is no flock but one vacant chair
The verse laments loss and death as a single vacant chair in every home. It reflects on afflictions as divine trials and the dim sight of heaven beyond earthly sorrow, urging patience as sorrow fades into a broader eternal light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tran
Who will rock the baby in voting debate
In a heated exchange on the woman question the speakers dispute who stays home when a woman goes to vote. One replies the question hinges on who cared for the child during taxation, complicating the debate with a sharp quip about domestic duties.
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Bave Joe
Sam
The Clerk and the Calico Dream of Yesterday's Light
A reflective poem in first person traces a store clerk who scavenges calico and cloth, catching a gaze from a girl. It contrasts daily labor with a rush toward a moving future, where to hold to today risks losing yesterday and the elusive promise of tomorrow.
Local Man Loses Money and Watch in Stolen Stove Incident
Wm. Hackleman of Anderson placed 20 dollars and a 75 dollar watch in a stove safe keeping. He forgot the items and, while building a fire the next morning, destroyed them. The Richmond Enquirer advertises Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a remedy after noting the syrup cured a bronchial ailment in their offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Hackleman
Anderson
Richmond, Va
Enquirer
Christmas Brings Life and Activity to All Classes
The season stirs activity across all social strata as people embrace the festive spirit and communal celebrations. Families gather, shops bustle, and volunteers organize events, reflecting a widespread enthusiasm for Christmas.
Do Not Fail to Present a Christmas Gift to a Friend
A reminder urges giving a Christmas present to a nearest and dearest friend, even if the item is trifling in value, to show thought and affection during the season. The note emphasizes small gestures over monetary worth and stresses interpersonal warmth.
Egypt Leaders Pardoned Except Suleiman Pasha
In view of the disposition of the case of Arabi Pasha it is believed that all of the other Egyptian leaders except Suleiman Pasha will be pardoned.
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Arabi Pasha
Suileman Pasha
Co. C. Cornett
General Lew Watave Receives 15000 From Mexican Claims Board
The Mexican Claims Commission awards General Lew Watave fifteen thousand dollars for military services rendered to Mexico during the Maximilian period in 1865.
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Lew Watave
Mexican Clarm Commission
Mexico
Sun Suspends Publication For Want of Patronage
The Indianapolis Sun, a Greenback State organ, has suspended publication after years of operation, cited as a good paper in many respects due to its lengthy run and patronage decline.
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Indianapolis Sun
Greenback
The
Sun
Carpet bag politics cast in sharp light from prison and exile
The piece notes ex Governor Moses of South Carolina serving in a New York prison ex Senator Dorsey of Arkansas facing possible penitentiary time for defrauding the government and Spencer an ex carpet bag senator who fled to Canada to avoid testifying against Dorsey highlighting Republican rule in the South.
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Republican Party
Moses
South Carolina
New York
Dorsey
Arkansas
Spencer
Canada
Wisconsin Congressman Seeks Bill to Remove Judge in Star Route Trial
Mr. Hazelton of Wisconsin introduces a congressional bill aimed at removing Judge Wrytie from the Star route trial. The defense argues they cannot win fairly, prompting a measure to pause the case if any party files an affidavit claiming the judge is prejudiced, delaying trial until another judge is assigned.
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Hazelton
Wisconsin
Congress
Wrytie
Circuit Court
Supreme Court of
District of Columbia
Opposition to $50 million five year education aid bill
The House Education and Labor Committee favors a report on a bill to fund public schools with $10,000,000 annually for five years, distributed by illiteracy. Critics question the need and effectiveness of federal aid, arguing states can sustain their schools without central government support.
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House Committee On Education and Labor
Tariff Commission Shifts Report After Election
Post election, the Tariff Commission reverses its initial stance and now advocates high protective tariffs. They spent months touring the country listening to representatives of top tariff interests, but public pressure influenced a radical report change. The piece argues the people’s voice outweighs committee reports and condemns the expenditure as wasteful.
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Tariff Commission
Congress
Cso
Mahone Among Republican Bosses Stands Alone
Multiple newspapers reflect on political figures with Mahone as the lone Republican boss still standing. Essays discuss Blaine, Hubbell, and party shifts, while Gundrum and Gorham praise or critique Mahone as a leading political figure amid election fallout.
National Debt Debate Sparks Treasury Against Banks
An Indianapolis editorial argues against rapid debt reduction, claiming government bonds sustain a national banking system and hedge the economy. It criticizes the idea that debt is a burden, noting the banks’ influence and the costs of interest to taxpayers, and urges paying or reforming debt while lowering tariffs to safeguard the financial balance.
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Republican Party
Indianapolis
Congress of the
United States
Saratoga
W. H. Vanderbuilt
Vanderbilt
Jackson
Exchanges note fires brawls and politics across Indiana papers
A saloon cigar stump fire in Petersburg destroys the city government offices and records with a 40 000 loss. Rising Sun reports a New York Sun Sunday law enforcement effort. various notes include philanthropy by W C Depsow and US nail exports. mockery of a city marshal, a prophesied population thought experiment, and political commentary from multiple Indiana papers.
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Petersburg
Ind
Vincennes
Rising Sun Record
New York City
Harry Hill
Atlantic Gardens
Vernon
Preachers’ Aid Society of
Indiana
Lawrenceburg
United States
England
Ireland
Scotland
Ligonier Banner
Helen M. Gougar
Lafayette
Marshall Mandler
Vincennes Sun
Wolf and Hyena Trap Lesson and Moral
A fable about a wolf who schemes to trap a hyena but falls into his own snare after seeking lion guidance. The lion reveals he will aid the hyena instead, illustrating the danger of cunning plans. The tale ends with a double moral on timing and integrity and a note promoting Kidney-Wort for kidney and liver health.
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George
Solsee
Englishman’s estate host to British Captain in Kansas
A young Englishman, Mr Harri son, years at Coolidge area, hosts Captain Sherborne of the British army on his estate. Sherborne recalls a wartime Afghan battle where a wounded enemy seized a severed leg and fatally wounded the officer. The tale is followed by a charitable puff for Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup at 25 cents a bottle.
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Coolidge
Kan
Harrison
Captain Sherborne
Afghanistan
Sherborne
Portmonia and a ten dollar reward tale in Texas
In a coastal Texas scene two men debate a ten dollar reward offered by a newspaper for a supposedly honest man. The talk touches on honesty, reputation, and risk as they plan to loosen up with liquor at a barrel house saloon.
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Texas
Sam
Austin
Austin mistress defends cook in kitchen husband claim
Mrs. McCabb confronts her colored cook Matilda Snowball at Austin alleging romantic ties. Snowball responds that the man is her husband Ler loves your soul, not a male friend, denying any affair.
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Puck
H. W. Longfellow
Rachel
Mahone
Boston Herald
South
Philadelphia Press
William Mahone
Omaha Bee
Coant
Jay Hubbel
Washington Star
Michigan
New York World
J. Donald Cameron
Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg ‘Telegraph
James G. Blaine
Harrisburg
Democratic Congress
Providence Press
Hubbell, Keifer, Robeson & Co
Detroit Free Press
Tilden
Atlanta Constitution
Horatio Seymour
Springfield Republican
Utica
N. Y
Massachusetts
Washington Post
Republican Congressional Committee
Hubbell Fund
General Mahone
Philadelphia Times
New Jersey
Boonton Weekly Bulletin
Robert T. Lincoln
Illinois
William Walter Phelps
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
General Butler
Louisville Courier-Journal Notes
Republican
Virginia
Gorham
Greensburg
Democrat
John Street
Detroit Free Preas
Texas Siftings
Madison, Ind
Mall, Richardson &Co
Burlington Vt
Www
Main Cross Street
Central Avenue
Dewey
Madison
California
Jackman & Cunningham
F. Harper
Holman
Rumphrey
Bartlett & Mason’s
J. E. C. F. Harper
Cuba
France
Germany
Scientific American
of Science
Munn & CO
Pub S
Park Row
Foutz
David
Baltimore, MD
Ron Hee MiceRs
Tutt
C. C. Moore
Mafta
Cincinnati
Louisville
Queensville, Scipio
Elizabethtown
J.‘ M. & I. Railroad
O & M. Railroad
Aurora
River Mails
Hanover, Saluda
Swanville
Lexington
Manville
Bee Camp
Brooksburg
Milton
Stony Point
Mud Lick
Bryantsburg
Rexville
St. Magdalene
New Marion
Titusville
Benham’n
Haney’s Corner
Canaan
Barboursville
China
Clorce
Kent, Graham
Volga
Cresswell
Paptenenville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad
North
North Vernon
Columbia
St. Louis
Chicago, Il
Columbus
Cambridge City
West
Karenas
North Venon
Louieville
Hare
Wilk
R. P. Gahr
F.& M. Ins. Co
Second Street
Mulberry
D. W. Caldwell
H. R
Dering
Ap’t
E. W. McKenna
Cincinnnati
With
M. Ins. Co
Weat and Mulberry
U.S. Mail Line
City of
and Ben. Franklin
Williams & Barton
Madison Packers
Louis A. Sherley
Pike
Hos Sherlock
Prea’t
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