World Fair calls overshadows political clashes in era
A mix of brief notes covers politics at saloons, Chicago Exposition news, a Florida fruit combine, and U S pensions. Highlights include the Chicago World's Fair demand for focus, a predicted quiet Sullivan race, a Canadian cannibalism anecdote, and a $30 000 railroad job declined by aKentucky man.
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Chicago
Florida Orange Growers’ Union
Florida Fruit Exchange
Jacksonville
California
Sonora
Parable of Progress and Pestilence in the South
The piece laments moral decline and praises Southern economic gains. It cites sharp growth in iron, coal, minerals, and cotton products since 1880, saying pig iron output surged about sixfold and overall mineral production rose about eightfold. It notes Edison’s devices drawing European notice and mentions a Johns Hopkins professor receiving a grand prize for a solar photographic map.
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Awrnwa
Europe
Edison
Paris
Rowland
Johns Hopkins University
Return of Life and Love in Long Ago Dreams
The speaker recalls distant times and a lingering life force that returns with memory and longing. Questioning whether yesterday or any day can truly fade, the verse muses on love, the home, and the enduring nature of life and emotion across ages, concluding that life, bound and warm, persists in the heart. Mary Marrs Domin
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Mary Marrs
Domin
A Strange Lover and the Winter Chill at Bowley Manor
Aurelia and Mary share a tense evening at Bowley Marsh's home. Seth Hardman announces a strange neighborhood discovery while Bowley mocks politeness and Aurelia senses a dangerous air in the men. A cold, grave mood settles as they walk the grounds at dusk.
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Mary
Aurelia
Bowley
Aurey
Mies
Seth Hardain
Marsh
Rowley Marsh
George
Urediess
Seth Hardman
Bowley Miarali
Hardman
Bowley Marsh
Hachman
Maury
Night revelations in the Marsh household
In a midnight scene at House, Mary overhears Rowley Marsh and Seth Hardman plotting a murder and robbery. Hardman accuses Marsh of hypocrisy and outlines a long scheme tied to Sam Farnham and Tom Warren, revealing a grave and a hidden past connected to Mary’s family.
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Mary
Aurelia
Rowley
Seth Hardman
Marsh
Red Marsh
Tom Warren
Sam Farnhan
Warren
Farnham
Rowley Marsh
Hardman
Rowley Maral
Seth Hardiwn
Tom Warrenny
Sam Farnham
Bine
Dom
Sant
Sam Farolan
Liverpool
Sam
Bevan
Bowley Marsh
Hardma
Gray
Transcontinental Vision of Wonder and Waterways
The sermon by Rev. T De Witt Talmage celebrates Americas vast West as a divine project From ocean to ocean he envisions expansion states irrigation and progress With Yosemite Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon praised as sacred revelations and calls for national unity through faith and Young Men's Christian associations to guide a continent toward godly reform.
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T. de Witt Talmage
Brooklyn
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
North Sea
America
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
California
Sierra Nevada
New England
New York State
Pennsyvania
North
South Dakota
Montana
Washington
Congress of the United States
Wint
Utah
Salt Lake Cin
Torna
Liew
Cat Wither
Brik Hunt
SS. Cox
Congress
Sayas
Ramon Latviet
Atlantic
Pacific
Thi Rivera
Lancaster County
New York
Somerset County
New Jersey
Woouine
Idaho
Thawin Ly
United States
Mississippi
Spain
Ching
India
Russia
Caulrth
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Walls
Christ
Crear
Alexander
Indie
Alonzo
Hans Leo Te Hala
Satan
Oregon
Colorado
Northwest
Yellowstone Park
Gulf Stream
Columbia River
Vancouver
Young Men's Christian Association
Lincoln
Neb
Cbristian Association
Des Moines
God
Mr. Marquand
Isaiah
David
Wealthy Couple Dines Frugally at Leading St Louis Restaurant
A well dressed husband and wife visited a top St Louis restaurant on a crowded fair day. They ordered roast beef tea apple pie and milk but shared bread celery and grapes from a single table. The scene suggested prudent dining and hinted at a path toward wealth.
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St. Louis
President Harrison's Poculiar Experience near Door Park
President Harrison entered a drug store with a bottle in hand asking for a pint of alcohol for an alcohol lamp. The druggist did not recognize him and questioned if a prescription was required while noting potential political pressure on a vote against prohibition.
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Harrison
Door Park
Barry
Garrett County
Census schedule and cost outline for 1890 U S census
The article details the planned 1890 United States census with 40,000 enumerators, 175 districts, and supervisors earning around 350 dollars monthly plus per capita pay. It compares U S efforts to England and explains enumeration, special agents, and tabulation steps for collecting age, sex, nativity, race, and related data.
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Come
Goverswest
Census Office
Washington Post
United States
England
Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Unwelcome Arrivals
A clipped anecdote from the New York Weekly depicts a comic scene outside St Peter's gate where a confident new spirit pleads for entry. Saint Peter declines, noting the spirit is just out of college and not bearing advice about running the universe.
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St. Peter
St Peter
New York Weekly
Radbar Grone's Flowers on Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn readers frequent a Sunday sidewalk scene on Franklin Avenue before the gardens of Editor Btone of the Journal of Commeres, as local culture and shop life blend in a neighborhood snapshot.
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Radbar Grone
Brooklyn
Frankin Avenue
Btone
The
Journal of Commeres
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Bureau of Records and Pensions
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Wonders OF the West
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Philadelphia
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