Republican Clubs Rally in New York Sparks Youthful Leadership
The New York convention of Republican clubs drew a young core to Cooper Union with John R. Lynch as lead speaker. Notable veterans like Galusha Grow and William Windom appeared alongside rising leaders, while the gathering echoed 1856 party organizing and 1888 ambitions.
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United States
New York City
Henry Clay
John R. Lynch
Cooper Union
William M. Evarts
William E. Chandler
Committee On
Daniel J. Ryan
Ohio
Middle West
Murat Halstead
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Galusha A. Grow
William Windom
Wetmore
Rhode Island
George W. Hooker
Vermont
R. A. Alger
Michigan
George B. Lovering
Massachusetts
Thomas A. Osborne
Kansas
Chickering Hall
Indiana
Tennessee
John A. Kasson
Iowa
John B. Henderson
Missouri
James G. Blaine, Jr
Gen
E. F. Beale
Washington
Republican National League
Fremont
Rocky Mountains
California
Foster
Stephen B. Elkins
J. Hale Sypher
Louisiana
Public school system to be established in Alaska
A Tangled excerpt notes agents of the Federal government plan to establish a public school system in Alaska. It includes a stylized dialogue about authority and a mention of a syndicate negotiating mortgage on a railroad, with a passenger and porter in a tense exchange. The text combines maritime era slang and a politics angle.
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Alaska
Look in Thy Heart A Lament By G Melville Upton
A lyrical passage from Overland Monthly reflects on unrequited love and inner darkness. The speaker mourns a beloved's perilous gaze and the lingering doubts that echo their name, ending with a somber note on unfulfilled hopes.
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Sidney
G. Melville Upton
Overland Monthly
Hugo reports English ladies visiting Paris executioner
Victor Hugo recounts a visit to M Sanson in Paris where English guests toured the scaffold maker's studio. One young woman requested to be strapped to the guillotine and placed in the neck piece, then declared satisfaction after the blade was lowered.
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M. Lawson
Albany
Sanson
Monsieur Sanson
Mademoiselle
Victor Hugo
Population strains and ancient relics spark debate
A London Times corollary warns England faces overpopulation with a steep rise in population in three decades and a shift in value per head. Public Opinion notes Alpine relics at St Bernard show pagan sacrifice in ancient times. Good Housekeeping cites a Miz misinterpretation. Sitka church riches highlight a czar gift worth 40000 dollars and gold inlayed doors in Alaska.
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England
Farr
Cor
London Times
High Alps
St. Bernard
Canton
Valais
Alaska
Sitka
New York Evening World
Thought It Was an Owl and Other Scribbles
A miscellany of brief quips and anecdotes from various papers. A near sighted youth mistakes mud on his eyeglass for an owl and fires in the woods. A witty exchange on fatigue and speech follows. A London editor defends American women amid English society contrasts. A Dickens quip and a scientific note on silver molecules close the column.
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Watertown Times
Chicago Times
Notable 19th Century Figures in Global Affairs and Society
A compendium of quick mentions: the shah of Persia to visit England again and Blaine slated for a Japan trip. Leopold’s image, Kaifer’s career notes, and Conkling’s old senate desk. Philanthropy, titles, and curiosities including John Good named count and Ludwig relics sold. Cash, travel, and social tidbits mark diplomatic and elite life.
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James G. Blaine
Japan
Lord Dufferin
Persia
Stanford
Vabouchero
Leopold
Belgium
Edmunds, Hoar
Sherman
Eustis
Washington
D. C
Joseph Chamberlain
Cleveland
Kaifer
Sawyer
Senate Chamber
Roscoe Conkling
William IE. Chandler
Liang
Household Health and Care Advice From A Victorian Page
Practical tips on kitchen and home hygiene include freshening stale bread over boiling water, oiling wringers, washing and shining dishes, daily refreshed towels, preventing leaks with tub water, weekly chloride under sinks, safe nail cleaning, headache relief with hot towels, dietary notes on oysters, and washing stains with boiling water. Also instructions for wound care, bottle cleaning, sprain treatment, and early twelve hour joint use.
Daughters and Society Topics Span Continents in 19th Century Notes
The column surveys progress in female education in Turkey and women entering work in New York as typewriters. It notes Miss Ethel Sprague’s potential Boston debut, Mrs Archibald Forbes’s devotion to ailing husband, and prizes won by Toowoora girls in Australia for colonial domestic skills. It highlights Drexel sisters’ donation to missions and Amelie Rives amid crank mail offers, plus a Texas woman killing a buck deer after dogs drove it into her yard.
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Turkey
New York
Ethel Sprague
Kate Chase Sprague
Washington
Boston
Archibald Forbes
Toowooba
Queensland
Australia
Drexel
F. A. Drexel
Philadelphia
Amelie Rives
Harper's
Johnson Newman
Jasper
Tex
Mearts
Doria
Provence Warpex
Miss Mutoce
Ilus
Wivere Cout
Aspe
Fronesce Mont Gran
Henry Woon
Mra. Alexandra
California Cabin
M. T. Carpos
Murray Street
Batat
Irishmen Discuss Rail Passes at a Saloon
In a Texas Siftings excerpt Pat and another Irishman debate the value of passes after years of work on the Texas railroad. A joking line suggests a semi annual pass is the better choice. Tid Bits includes a Birmingham real estate quip from Mrs Snavely.
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Texas
Pat
Texas Siftings
Who Did the Work in North and South Dakota Division Campaign
The article contrasts turnout in the 1886 delegate vote across North and South Dakota. It reports North Dakota voters exceeded 69 percent while the South fell under 67 percent. It accuses anti-division manipulators in the North of covertly organizing to defeat division, with press quiet and emissaries spreading misrepresentation. It notes nearly 10,000 voters still supported state division amid underhand tactics.
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South Dakota
North Dakota
Northwestern
North
Dakota
Nancy
January Weather Outlook by Prof Foster Predicts Stormy Changes
Prof Foster forecasts a volatile January with seven early storm dates and abrupt cold to warm swings. He notes high likelihood of river impacts around the 1st 5th and 7th with additional dates on the 13th 18th 25th and 30th. The piece ends with an ad promoting Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for catarrh including loss of smell or hearing.
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Foster
Hood
B &S
Pond
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Heaven
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T. M. Lupton
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Omaha Depot
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F. B. Clark
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GEO. P. DIX & Daughter
Mitchell Dental Parlors
Standard Silverware CO
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