Humorous maxims and political notes from a bygone paper
Brief chronicle of social quips and political buzz as Thanksgiving nears. Opinions on talkativeness, efficiency, and thinking for oneself mix with irony about campaign buttons and corn husking. News touches on coal from Tongut, French capital backing a Chinese district, and a New World clash over indecency accusations against Anthony Comstock by the WCTU.
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Orient
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Anthony Comstock
W. C. T. U. Swith
Comstock
Dizzy Conway Leaves New York for Chicago Police Post
The piece praises Dizzy Conway as New York’s finest policeman but notes his departure to Chicago seeking fewer restrictions and a chance to serve downtown at busy crossings. It also mentions Mrs Margaret Adams, canal boat captain and New Womanhood member, who fights a mutinous crew member with a marlin spike before retreating to the cabin in tears and later anger.
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Dizzy
Conway
New York
Metropolis
Chicago
America
Margaret Adams
Society of New Womanhood
Et Ultra
Michael Haynes
Adams
Venezuelan boundary report due to president soon
Bradstreet's notes from Washington report the Venezuelan commission on the British Venezuela boundary dispute will submit its findings to the president shortly before Congress convenes in December. The panel had hoped to finish by November 1 but delays tied to Holland work pushed the schedule. Justice Brewer, chair, planned an October 9 meeting as the group completes its London tasks and prepares for Holland.
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Bradstreet
Washington
Holland
Justice Brewer
London
Don Carlos of Spain and the Carlist War
Don Carlos, claimant to the Spanish throne, and his Carlist adherents challenge Alfonso’s government. Born 1848, nephew of Charles VI, educated in Austria, he married Margaret de Bourbon and led forces in Catalonia from 1872. After years of conflict, his cause waned with a 1876 defeat and a pledge to retire from war.
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Carlos
Spain
Alfonso
Charles VI
Don Juan
Charles
Maria Theresa of
Austria
Margaret de Bourbon of Bourbon
Comte de Chambord
Juan
France
Catalonia
Aragon
Valencia
Don Alfonso
Paris
Gainsborough Letters Debate Lady Dartmouth Portraits
A 1771 correspondence between painter Thomas Gainsborough and the Earl of Dartmouth is published in a new volume from the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The artist discusses altering the countess’s portrait and dressing it in the modern style, offering to repaint for free if the current likeness fails, while seeking guidance on her Ladyship’s reaction.
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Thomas Gainsborough
Earl of Dartmouth
Historical Manuscripts Commission
Gainsborough
Countess of Dartmouth
Dartmouth
London
Revered Bowen Chicago's老est Methodist minister known as Hallelujah Bowen
Reverend Charles M. Bowen, reputedly the oldest Methodist preacher in Chicago, is famous for his fervent prayers and nicknames Hallelujah and Amen. Despite blindness deafness and broken ribs he remains active, tall and widowed, hosting daily prayers at Willard Hall and honored by the Epworth League at Cuyler Church. He quit chewing tobacco at 70 and has lived at 2288 North Paulina Street with his wife, celebrating a golden wedding six years ago.
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Charles M. Bowen
Chicago
Mr. Bowen
Bowen
Mer
Cuyler Methodist Church
Epworth League
North
Paulina Street
Willard Hall
France Expels Pretender in 1881 Over Carlos Tie
Fragmentary dated text notes France's expulsion of the pretender in 1881 for allying with Don Carlos Chambord and claims about 1,000 clubs in Spain supporting him. It mentions political cliques in the chamber and government amid Cuba and Philippines tensions and a Bath visit, then shifts to a London Telegraph quotation about portraits and a humorous dialogue between Ambitious Mamma, Reluctant Daughter over dowries and children.
Their Boy Returns After Two Years Away From Ithaca
Frederick G. Rew, a Cornell student who vanished Oct 2 1894, has returned to Buffalo N Y from a circuit around the globe. He was found in Ceylon aboard a French trading steamer and, after detectives traced him, sailed to Southampton and then to New York before reaching home. He recalls little of his early wandering but says he left to improve his French and German and gained language fluency and strength through world travel.
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Rederick Gordon Rew
Buffalo
N. Y
Rew
Cornell
Ithaca
Ceylon
Young Rew
Esbon B. Rew
New York
Bordeaux
France
Central America
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Cuba
East Indies
Mr. Rew
Cayuga Lake
Young Ren
Frederick G.rew
Endeayred
Vease
Joune Electrician
Southampton
MR ESTEP'S QUEER PIG CALLED NO ordinary PIG
A Port Townsend Gazette report describes a farm pig owned by L C Estep of Easton Alabama with an elephantlike head and trunk and a single enormous eyeball in its mouth. The article notes the pig as the eighth wonder of the world and details the bizarre anatomy and the unusual mouth structure observed by the owner.
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MR. Estep
L. C. Estep
Easton
Mock marriage claim shocks Youngstown woman
Hallie Leach of Youngstown Indiana met Charles Brown in Bloomington about a year earlier and agreed to marry after a brief courtship. A mock ceremony took place and Brown deserted her. police in Bloomington confirm the marriage was fraudulent. Brown, from near Arcola Illinois, faces arrest and prosecution proceedings.
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Hallie Leach
Youngstown
Ind
Charles Brown
Bloomington
Ed Brown
Iown
Brown
Arcola
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Miss Ouny
Ceri Agee
Gladstone
Don Carlos
United States
Contes
Pretender
Chambord
Chamber
Philipines
Bath
London Telegraph
Tor
Globe
Tom Hill
Round Valley
Mont
Slayden
Lamar
Mies
Grand Junction
Tenn
Walter Brown
Willie
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