Reception for President Panil in New Orleans
Reports describe a grand reception planned in New Orleans for President Panil with arrival at 5 30 p m and a welcome speech by the mayor and council. The day includes a parade, uniformed clubs review, a choral society concert, and a late reception at Ryan Hall before the party departs at midnight.
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Oyer
Panil
Jose
Yury
Ryan Re T German Choral Society
Renide
Ryan Verybody
Kelley Seeks Move to New York Next Season
A reporter overheard remarks suggesting Kelley is unhappy with his Boston club role and may join the New York team next season. Murrie asks about the bid and Kelly hints at possible release this fall, signaling tension over his current position.
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New Yorks
Murrie
Kelly
Kelley
Boston
New York
Miller Massing Missing Brookings College Leader
M W Miller president of the board of trustees at Brookings agricultural college vanishes after mortgaging 200 cattle to Iuron Bank for 3200 and sailing to Chicago on September 7 to buy stock for the college farm. He has not been heard from since the 12th. Banks report cattle not at Wessington, raising fears he carried territorial money. Dispatches sent with no results.
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Itunion
M. W. Miller
Agricultural College
Brookings
Iuron Bank
Chicago
College
Wessington
Miller
Fire at English Kitchen lodging house in Detroit
Fire at 3:15 AM gutted a four story lodging house on Jefferson Avenue. Half clad lodgers cried for help as fire crews arrived. three were not rescued. Victims include Elisha Stroh of Breckenridge Missouri and an unidentified man about 25. Loss estimated at $3000. Charles Peleron, 22, is in doubtful recovery.
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Detroit
Mich
Jefferson Avenue
Charles Peleron
Elisha Stroh
Breckenridge
Bellevue Bank Failure Shocks Norwalk County
Norwalk Ohio reports the collapse of the Bellevue bank, one of the oldest in Huron county. Last midnight assignments list T Wood as assignee. Liabilities reach about 100000 with depositors secured and not expected to lose. Poor investments and management blamed for the failure.
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Norwalk
Ohio
Bellevue
Bellevue Bank
fLuron County
T. ©. Wood
Stand-off Between Judge Palmer and Rural Newspapers
Judge Palmer holds a sharp view of country newspapers while rural presses edge back with an equally blunt opinion of the judge. The exchange paints a tense, unresolved press judicial relationship in a regional mood.
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Alexandria
If Judge Palmer Seemingly Jeopardizes Delegateship
The Bismarck Tribune notes Judge Palmer may risk his delegateship ambitions by labeling the Sioux Falls Press as the justly recognized leader of Dakota daily papers. The remark draws attention to press influence and regional media hierarchy.
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Bismarck Tribune
Judge Palmer Praised By Woonsocket Times Despite Criticism
The Woonsocket Times calls Judge Palmer a model man while disparaging it as a penny-a-liner backwoods publication, noting the ironic contrast between praise and its notorious reputation.
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Palmer
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Woonsocket Times
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Temperance Lecturer John Finch Praises Sparks View
Mitchell Respus Blican notes John K. Finch, a temperance lecturer in the region, uses his talk to praise Sparks and agrees with Sparks’ view of Dakota people. Finches hints at seeking a land office position.
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Mitchell Respus Blicann
John K. Finch
Sparks
Finch
Baseball Gossip Sparks Big Money Trades and Rumors
Toodianapolis may bid large sums for Ram sey or Louisville as clubs in the National League profit this season. The Cuban Giants have played 152 games, losing 38. Dalrymple may coach Pittsburgh next season. Fagan, from Rutland VT, debuts with the Mets. Van der Abe plans Oct 16 games versus St Louis and Detroit. Betting runs on the world series. Boston seeks Clarkson and Thompson for next year. An American clerk touts a new antiphone that filters ambient noise, sparing ear and conversation.
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Louisville
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Detroit
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Mike Kelly
Boston
Clarkson
Chicago
Thompson
Kelly
Butler claims first colored troops in Civil War not from Massachusetts
General Butler writes to a Boston paper asserting Massachusetts did not enroll the first colored troops of the Civil War. He states that in 1862 he enlisted three regiments of colored men in New Orleans and sent them into action long before such troops were used elsewhere, a claim reported by the Chicago Times.
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Boston
Massachusetts
New Orleans
Chicago Times
Hay Fever and Population Figures Referenced
A medical writer notes hay fever mostly affects English and American people, especially the upper classes and males. It claims the disease is nearly absent in northern Europe and rare in France Germany Italy and Spain. The piece adds a census forecast that New York City will reach 2,000,000 and Brooklyn 1,000,000 in three years.
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Europe
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
New York City
Brooklyn
Wis US views and wry notices in a late 19th century column
Deacon Burdette explores American viewpoints on life through weekday anecdotes. A string of witty vignettes covers conversations about poetry, taste, immigration, and humor. Short urban sketches note clever quips from Frederick the Great, a cold day in September, and a parade of jokey exchanges among editors, farmers, and neighbors.
Religious movements and church congress plans for 1890
A panorama of 1890 religious activity spans missions funding totals, church legalities, and upcoming gatherings. Topics include the Methodist Episcopal South choosing St Louis for the general conference, Presbyterians leading Protestant Christendom in numbers, and the eleventh church congress set for Louisville with debates on church name change and historic episcopate and apostolic succession. The Baptist and Episcopal missions report large trainable donations and converts, while a Maine judge rules on choir whispering during services.
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South
St. Louis
Presbyterian Church of the United States
Maine
Missionaries
Baptist Missionary Union
Louisville
Cincinnati
Detroit
South
Richmond
Randolph
Phillips Brooks
Seymour
Thompson
Prince
Absent minded uncles and witty children in humor clips
A collection of brief humorous exchanges from various papers. A little girl jokes that an uncle’s memory is tired and must forget. A Dot tale jokes about aging cheese. A four year old in Duluth laments heaven. A child bows to Mrs B after seeing a hand organ monkey. A girl imagines heaven as outdoors inside a big house. Johnny and a classmate joke about medieval go up the bald head chant. A wee girl injures elbow but complains of dizziness as her funny bone hits the wall.
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Boston Journal
Omaha
Dot
Duluth
Binghamton
Johnny
Washington
Buffalo Courier
Daughters of Eve and Notable Society Snippets
Queen Victoria denies writing a book while a young Mexican bull fighter rises in arena. Duchess of Cumberland recovers and resumes duties. Miss Fredericks of Columbus elopes with a student from Ohio State. Miss Minnie Foster of Warren dies after arsenic attempt to beautify her complexion. Boston's wealthiest widow Mrs Henry P Kidder attracts attention. her husband died soon after marriage. Mrs Logan recovers from accident and plans removal of husband’s remains to Chicago. Rock Creek church cemetery vault guarded by soldiers nightly.
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Fredericks
Columbus
Ohio State University
Minnie Foster
Warren
Boston
Henry P. Kidder
Notable mentions from an old newspaper page
The estate of M Katkoff is valued at 1 400 000. Eight hundred dollars raised for Walt Whitman is sent to the good gray poet. Justin McCarthy prepares a second volume of History of the Four Georges. Sidney Luska will serialize for Wide Awake. Stevenson plans winter abroad. Carlyle biographer Garnett remarks on the Carlyle mystery. May Kendall to publish From a Garret. Bats, tough quarry, are hard to shoot with anecdote of a bat flying with twenty wing holes. A quip about Mr Chinker and seven percent on good security ends the snippets.
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M. Katkoff
Walt Whitman
Justin McCarthy
Sidney Luska
Robert Louis Stevenson
Japan
New Zealand
Colorado
Garnett
Carlyle
Kansas City Times
Notable Notes From Public Figures Across Nations
A collection of brief curios about public figures and notables. Charles Dickens's son sails for America on Oct 9. William Walter Phelps chats with reporters. Senator McPherson prefers cigars to smoking. Other items mention Premier Crispi as Garibaldi’s soldier, Henry George’s fortune, Oscar Wilde’s interest in Mary Anderson, and various diplomatic and royal anecdotes.
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America
William Walter Phelps
John R. McPherson
Governor Foraker
Ohio
Premier Crispi
Italy
Garibaldi
Henry George
Oscar Wilde
Mary Anderson
Miscellaneous Local Notes and Odd Facts
A recap of scattered items from Sopchoppy to Sugar Hill and Michigan. A rock blasted from shaft No 9 at Calumet and Hecla landed near an old woman knitting. Sugar Hill hotel staff include divinity students and a long-time schoolteacher who speaks French and Latin. The term carat derives from Abyssinian corn flower seed. Delicate scales measure signatures to milligram accuracy. Holland Michigan fruit train shipped 69 cars of fruit to Chicago in four days, totaling 70 608 packages. Sept 7 saw a 26 car fruit train as the largest from the area. Ocean steamers at 18 knots require about one to one and a half miles to stop after engines reverse. A Fulton Market butcher supplies pigs for Joss worship in New York. up to 30 pigs daily on a single order. A St Paul observer notes children’s penmanship often mirrors that of their parents without intent, sometimes indistinguishable.
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Florida
Calumet & Hecla
Michigan
Sugar Hill
White Mountains
Holland, Mich
Chicago
Fulton Market
Joss
New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Extinct Australian Lion Question settled by cave finds
New NSW Wellington caves yielded undoubted remains of a marsupial lion. Jawbones with teeth in good condition were examined by Professor Sir Richard Owen who concludes the species was a pouch bearing lion equal in size to the African lion. Findings align with other Tasmanian beasts and support past theories of carnivorous Australian megafauna.
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New South Wales
Mines Department Museum
Sydney
Richard Owen
British Museum
Victoria
Owen
Australia
Chambers’ Journal
Water power use by five manufacturing branches
Water power distribution shows flouring and grist mills 8.4 percent, sawmills 22.7 percent, cotton mills 12.7 percent, woolen mills 4 percent, totaling 85 percent across five branches. Iron industry uses very little water power. Boston Budget notes the Newd of a Pretx and a puzzling interjected dialogue about a park and a figure.
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Boston
Ayer's Pills touted for digestive relief and health gains
An advertisement extols Ayer's Pills as purely vegetable with no calomel, claiming they strengthen digestive organs, regulate bowels, and boost appetite. Testimonials from Darius M. Logan of Wilmington, C O Clark of Danbury, Philip Lockwood of Topeka, and Henry Semmenway of Rockport praise relief from dyspepsia, headaches, and debility after taking one or two boxes, noting improved digestion, appetite, sleep, and overall health.
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Darius M. Logan
Wilmington, del
C. O. Clark
Danbury, Conn
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Topeka
Kans
Henry
Semmenway
Rockport
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Various Inventions and Natural Observations Highlighted
A roundup notes garlic use in hydrophobia with good results and copper treated wood for hardness. An Irish inventor and an Irish company unveil a glass blowing machine and an electric boot polisher. Portland inventor develops a kerosene engine. soft water saves costs in London institutions. Fossilized flowers in mummy wrappings endure color. steam as a hygrometer near rail lines. Texan railworkers joke about passes beside a short exchange.
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Boston
Francis Hazlett
H. R. Stickney
Portland
London
Failing Courtness Question Echoes Real Estate Talk
Readers note a clipped exchange where a woman from Birmingham, Mrs Snavely, comments on real estate speculation with a sly line about a dip and snuff. The passage captures social banter and local slang in a brisk, fragmentary style.
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