Prohibition Oration at Columbus Delivers Historic Plea
G T Stewart delivers at Columbus on the eve of the National Prohibition Party convention. He traces the party line from 1833 Philadelphia to 1869 Chicago and urges total prohibition, warning of liquor’s social and economic ruin, urging unity under liberty and morality. He contrasts festive dress with a call to duty.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Saratoga
Clevesland
United States
Old State House
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Congress
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Frog
France
Italy
Aurora display over New York and European capitals
A vivid February aurora lit the New York sky attracting crowds after Sunday evening services, with a blue-green corona visible across cities in Europe. Reports from Rome describe a second glow, sparking varied interpretations from superstition and patriotism to scientific interest, as observers noted the rare celestial event seen worldwide.
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New York City
Browning
Bertram
Angela
Europe
London Daily Telegraph
Rome
Culiseumn Po
Tiber
United States
England
Music of the Rocking Chair and Its Quirks
A humorous look at rocking chairs describing how their sounds vary with occupants from grandma knitting to nervous grandfathers and heavier aunts. The piece laments modern makers and praises old craftsmen for sturdy joints and tongue joints, while using lively metaphor to critique obsession and social perception of passion.
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Masiv Ie
Salty
Tremicus Trek in Soudan Jungle Tale
Tremicus, a recent French traveler, recounts a perilous river crossing in Soudan. He lands, observes monkeys, loses his last rifle cap, and endures wary primates, howls, a lion, and hyenas as night closes in while he searches for the boat. He avoids danger by moving cautiously along the beach.
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Tremicus
Soudan
Thad
Loy J
Narrow escape on shore as sailors rescue exhausted traveler
The narrator reaches a shore spot and spots a barque in sight. A dark silhouette looms, prompting a retreat before a lion. Steadily pressing on, the man spots the crew aboard the vessel at last, who answer and rush to aid him, his strength spent from intense nervous strain.
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Srength
Plain living advised to aid scholar Howard
A Scholar Visitor notes Howard complains his mind is slow this winter and admits struggle with memory and writing. The advisor suggests returning to a frugal boarding place, eating plain wholesome food, and avoiding intemperate luxuries to purify the blood and sharpen thinking. Other scholars would benefit from similar advice.
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Howard
William
The Mighty Evil of Intemperance Exposed
A Temperance message catalogs intemperance as a vast evil in the United States, detailing direct liquor costs of 1.49 billion dollars and indirect losses of 1.25 billion, plus grain destruction. It claims crime and murder rise, families suffer, and thousands are imprisoned, widows and orphans grow, and moral decline accelerates under wealth and fashion aiding the vice.
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United States
Everl
Principles of Negotiable Instruments and Contract Law
The text lists legal notions on notes and contracts: Sunday notes void. fraud or intoxication bar collection. loss does not release maker. endorser liability if not served within 24 hours. minor’s note void. interest only when stated. principals liable for agents. each partner liable for debts. ignorance of law not excuse. lack of consideration void. signatures on pencil valid. receipts not conclusive. acts of one partner bind all. contracts on Sunday unenforceable. contracts with a longee id void.
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P Ersey
A Wine Bath in Paris Explained to an American Visitor
An American traveler in Paris learns from a staffer that a “wine bath” in a cheap establishment is reused for many bathers. The negro explains the bath wine circulates through dozens of clients, then is sold downstairs to the poor, and finally sent to America to be resold as French wine.
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Paris
America
Masis
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