After the Battle Sermon on Stripping the Slain at War's End
A Talmage sermon uses battlefield imagery to warn against sin stripping the slain souls. It contrasts the merciless world and Satan with the bedside mercy of grace, recounting Saul’s field, the fallen, and the dying to urge conversion through examples of Bunyan and Newman.
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South Mountain
Shiloh
Ball's Bluff
Gettysburg
Oeon
Irene
Scott
Mexico
Napoleon
Moscow
von Moltke
Sedan
Saul
Mount
Gilboa
Mount Gilboa
Satan
Lnds
Citg
Wardree
Labor Problem's Religious Side Sermon in San Francisco
The Rev George D Heron of Grinnell Iowa declared that the railway and work wage questions are religious issues. He cited U S averages, noted extreme wealth, praised laborers who stood for principle at Pullman, and urged the church to side with the oppressed amid a historic crisis.
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George D. Heron
D. D
Iowa College
Grinnell
Central Methodist Church
San Francisco
United States
America
Pullman
Chicago
Stag party at Auburn man’s home reported
An Auburn man hosting a male stag party entertained friends while across the street the wives of other guests were socializing, with the event noted as a social arrangement in the neighborhood.
Up to Date Bariety Girl at Blacktown Teases Society
A satirical portrait mocks a wealthy socialite in Blacktown, detailing a life of luxury, fashion, and courtly teas. The verse notes her grand lineage, patronage of leisure, and a husband whose social circle distracts him with clubs, cognac, and chic nonsense. Arthur Grissom signs off in Truth with a witty jab at refined folly.
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Blacktown
Arthur Grissom
Millionaire Defend in Breach of Promise Suit
A hotel scene features a proprietor chiding a clerk for assigning the best room to an utter stranger. The defendant, described as “worth a million,” faces a breach of promise suit with $200,000 in damages claimed for the plaintiff's injured heart.
They Object To New Woman and Bachelor Girl Banter
A humorous dialogue questions why women should not be lawyers or lawmakers while ridiculing male resistance. Mrs Sweetie brings her baby to a New Woman International Progressive club meeting and the session ends with social chatter.
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Dey
Miss Newage
New Woman International Progressive Club
Sweetie
An Artist's Blunder Sparks Laughs in New York
A fragment from a NY newspaper jokes about a painting titled View on the Hudson. A friend quips the artist forgot a steam tug pulling forty seven canal boats, while a quoted speaker uses a racial slur and declares no nonGermans admitted unless they come themselves.
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Dauber
New York
Hudson
Didn’t Get Left in Vacation Letter Mix Up
A humorous exchange reveals the office boy’s vacation letters arrive addressed to the editor after his return. Muttered comments from Mother and Little Ethel reference peaches and complexion while Uncle Mose defends his dog as a best friend, with Van Pelt offering 50 cents for the dog.
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Spacer
Liner
Ethel
van Pelt
Mose
American Inventors and Robbery Quip in Dialogue
A dialogue notes that an inventor is someone who creates things others manufacture and wastes money trying to stop them. It adds a quip about robbing banks and questions what robbers expect to steal, weaving humor through a parental and local language tone.
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Papa
Blackwell
Wood-Yarde
Childish remark about graveyard clothes humor
A four year old girl asks why graves exist while walking with her father in a village cemetery. He says they belong to people who have gone to heaven. She replies that the graves are where angels have left their clothes, highlighting a sweet misinterpretation.
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Broadway
Houston Street
Christ
Mlidsky
Boodlers in Indian Territory Spark Lexow Style Inquiry
Two clubmen discuss a town in the Indian territory proposing a Lexow style committee to investigate boodlers. A light punchline suggests civilized treatment of Indians. The exchange frames civic reform rhetoric in colonial voice.
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Indian Territory
Rest Collector Frustration Echoes in Europe Break Plan
A restless exchange shows a collector exhausted by daily demands from the Gilded Youth and their mounting bills. The speaker contemplates a European trip to recuperate, lamenting the endless invoicing and worry.
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Ike You
Europe
A Terrible Arraignment
A fragmentary remark from a New York World piece mocks Rosilla McGraw for posing by Chimmle's last year baseball pants and implies social disapproval, with a staged district quip about the ward's view of a Comin' Woman and public sentiment.
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Birdie McGoogin
Rosilla McGraw
Bradder Chimmle
Too Much for Endurance in a Domestic Row
An employment agent recalls a stubborn client who endures endless insults and vulgar language. The quarrel centers on a demand to “fill the ecal-hod” and a plea to reclaim the anthracite vase, highlighting the clash of patience and temper in a harsh home dispute.
Amusing Corner of Schoolroom and Social Snippets
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from daily life. Jokes on memory and manners open with a faded noble and a joking teacher. Small anecdotes cover labor versus capital, a tough youngster, cigars, a romance tease, and a club’s Ladies Day dynamic.
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Celestial City
Newman
World
Heaven
Chancellorsville
Pittsburg Landing
Stone River
Atlanta
Massachusetts Rega
Bunker Hill
Nored Society
Count
Kaskowowski Schniffingloski
Jack
Jackson
Mac
von Blumer
Mankington
Angel
Hustand
Slogo & Company's
Fastime’s
Wool
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