What He Believed In and the Church Woman
A tale follows Tom Winter and friends as they discuss a wife who goes to church. Tom marries a church-going woman, changes his ways, and discovers a deeper happiness through family life and steady principles.
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Jem
Jem Knight
Here
Chicago
Jerusalem
Tom Winter
Tom
Parsons
Mr. Gracely
Emily
Mr. Winter
Ife
California
Tex
Siftings
Boy Safe As Carrot Clash Sparks Street Chase
An exchange between a Michigan Avenue grocer and a boy ends with a dash into the street after a dispute over carrots. The grocer threatens police as the boy jokes about a beat officer courting his sister, depicting a comic street scene from Detroit.
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Michigan Avenue
Detroit Free Press
A Curious Calculation From Revelation Applied to Cosmos
A historical note explores a Bible-based geometry using the Revelation measure of the city, cubing twelve thousand furlongs to yield vast volumes. It then allocates space, inhabitants, and generations to estimate room counts beyond human scale, concluding with a claim about 109 rooms per person across imagined multiple worlds.
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Throne of God
Court of Heaven
Apache captives parade through Nashville toward Florida
A Nashville Union reporter described Apache captives marching through the city toward Florida. The column included men and women of many sizes with varied attire from buckskin logs to blankets and improvised hats, noting a tall, dark copper-toned group and a mix of clothing styles and accessories.
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Nashville Union
Nashville
Florida
Big Buck
Woes of a Candidate and a Cattle Incident
A Chicago sheriff race features schemes to extract cash from candidates via clubs tickets paid for benefits and aggressive newspapers while in Nevada a ranch hand fights a deadly ten foot eight inch snake at Conn's ranch with a knife finally killing it and bringing the carcass home for display.
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Hundreth
Matson
Davis
C. R. Matson
George R. Davis
Michael Schweisthal
Chicago
Illustrated Papers
Jake Berman
Conn
Beiman
Berman
Carson Nev
Accident to Senator Wade Hampton in Mississippi hunt
In Mississippi, Senator Wade Hampton was separated from his hunting party while deer hunting on Monday. A vine snagged his gun causing a buckshot discharge that killed his horse. Hampton crawled and walked for about five hours before a search party found him near the house exhausted and injured.
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Columbia
Wade Hampton
Mississippi
General Hampton
Senator Hampton
Ballot Box Found Empty in Pulaski County Arkansas
During a county election in Pulaski County a township ballot box arrived at the County Clerk's office empty. The Clerk questioned how this could be while the bearer claimed he was told only to bring the box and not the ballots. Ark. Traveler.
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Pulaski County
Arkansaw
Ark
A Peculiar Power in Nature Class
A teacher asks if any animal moves rapidly backward and a student quips that the male kin do it, highlighting a playful science classroom moment reported by the New York Sun.
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N. Y. Sun
Modern Embalming Outshines Ancient Egyptian Methods
A Chicago undertaker dismisses Egyptian embalming as impractical, noting Egypt's climate preserves tissues anyway. He argues modern techniques preserve fullness and hue of life, preventing desiccation and offering kings the dignity their bodies had in life.
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Chicago
Egypt
Pyramids
The Evolution of Early Pocket Clocks and Watches
Early timepieces began as large iron devices called pocket clocks with weights. The first springs appeared in 1560 replacing weight-driven mechanisms. Initial watches had a single hand and poor accuracy, with silver dials, ungilded brass cases, and long production times.
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Edward VI
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