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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1888
Page
5
Jericho and the Captain of the Lord's Host
The sermon links Jericho’s fall to obedience and faith as Joshua journies, the Ark of the Lord leading the march, trumpets sounding, and the walls collapsing after seven days of ritual procession. It contrasts God’s power with human plans, urging surrender to divine will and readiness for victory.
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Jordan
Egypt
Joshua
Winnon
Noah
Sodom
Thend
Jericho
Jerich
Hades
Gok
Gilgal
Christ
Jesus
Degeneration of the Human Teeth in Races and Species
In a passage summarized from Popular Science Monthly by Mrs. Alice Bodington, the article argues that brain development and cooked food create jaw constraints leading to tooth crowding. It notes wisdom teeth suppression in Americans, late second incisors, and compares dentition across humans, apes, and monkeys.
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America
Cope
United States
Alice Bodington
Popular Science Monthly
Cocoanut Cultivation in Florida and Seed Sources
The article discusses cocoa nut farming in Florida, noting most profitable growth centers on the Keys and south of Caloosahatchee, with palm beauty grown elsewhere. Florida nuts are smaller and less seed valuable, so planting stock mostly comes from Central America, especially Bay Islands and Honduras. Seeds germinate well with 15 to 25 foot spacing. Keys cultivation mainly weed control. A bearing palm may yield about 200 nuts annually, not daily. Muscle memory.
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Florida
Keys
Caloosahatchie River
Tampa
Cape Canaveral
Tropics
Central America
Bay Islands
Atilla
Bonaco
Ruatan
Honduras
Reminiscent lectures as a new social entertainment
A Boston widow with strong social standing offers drawing room talks on her memories of American society before the war for ten dollars per course, aided by occasional piano accompaniment. Critics say past society was dull yet respectable, while others plan similar lectures in the coming season.
Chinese Legation in Washington Try to Win Popular Regard
The Chinese legation in Washington makes handsome presents and calls on society. They travel together, leaving cards and photographs to establish individual identities, though locals note the photos resemble one another.
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Washington
The Kind of a Surplus We All Want
A dialogue satire frames tariff reform as saving pennies while costing wages as a farseeing worker votes Republican. The piece critiques surplus value and political rhetoric in a mirrored exchange about living costs and pay.
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Hama
The Sweetest Songs I Sing to You Poem
Grace II Duffield writes in the Cincinnati Enquirer about a romantic theme where the speaker praises a beloved gaze and compares love to a moonlit flower that blooms at night and withers at dawn. The verse explores deep thoughts awakened by the partner’s eyes.
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Tiad
Grace II Duffield
Cincinnati
Enquirer
Men and Women Mock Habits of Dress and Manners
A woman quotes The Argonaut on how both sexes share quirks in dress habits. She notes men flick coat tails when sitting, pull up trousers, knot shoe laces, refold handkerchiefs, and pull down cuffs as common, questioning why such behaviors draw scrutiny.
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Iman
Argonaut
A Hint for Cities and Open Space Reform
A New York Graphic note praises Philadelphia's Open Space association for increasing small parks and street openings as a sanitary measure. It cites a Missouri Horticultural Society address advocating openings every quarter mile with drinking fountains. It argues urban planning shapes behavior and that reform begins at home.
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Philadelphia
Open Space Association
Missouri Horticultural Society
New York Graphic
Noise in Factories Affects Women Workers Nerves
The Chicago News notes that initial factory noise causes headaches deafness insomnia in young women. Over time workers adapt and headaches fade while hearing becomes keen and nerves ease, a counterintuitive finding supported by statisticians and hygienists.
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Chicago News
Tallest Chimney in Existence at East Newark
The tallest chimney in the world is under construction at East Newark. It will stand 835 feet high with a base diameter of 28 feet narrowing to 9 feet at the top, built of solid brick to 810 feet, topped by a 26 foot cast iron rim and a bell. Using 1,700,000 bricks, it will cost about $85,000, with viewing possible from trains across the New Ark meadows.
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East Newark
Newark Meadows
New York Sun
Nothing Like the Dinner Horn in farm kitchen lore
The Chicago Herald notes the farmer's horn as the most thrilling meal call among devices from gongs to bells and waiters. It contrasts Japanese dinners bells and gongs with bugles and portiere bell strings, praising the horn’s appetite-stirring effect.
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Chicago Herald
Curious beliefs mark the Pleiades across cultures
The Arkansaw Traveler notes that many tribes, savage or semi civil, assign extraordinary importance to the Pleiades cluster led by Alcyone. The beliefs surrounding this star group seem ancient and widespread, suggesting long-standing cultural astronomy.
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Alcyone
Pleiades
Arkansaw
Waist sizes shrink as corsets shorten over 25 years
London stay and corset makers report the average waist size for women has dropped two inches in the last quarter century. A New York Sun note cites a mother who ordered a 16 inch corset for her 17-year-old daughter by day and an 18 inch piece for night use.
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London
New York Sun
Philosophy of the Plantation: Fisher Sells Cotton
Mr Levi Fisher sold a pair of bales of last year cotton to the Bensons this week. He says he could have got more last year but notes that selling then would have left him without the money now. Hartwell Sun.
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Levi Fisher
Bensons
Hartwell Sun
Southern women lead in New York money making says Chicago Herald
The Chicago Herald notes Southern women head the richest dressmakers firm in New York and that Southern birth women lead in other ventures. It also cites varied old items: organ inventor from Temden province, Walker’s 1783 artificial ice, Malthusian clergy families, fraud notes non-collectable, a prayer by a single grateful thought. Denied the Motion in the Supreme Court warehousing case Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul v Minnesota.
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New York
Chicago Herald
Washington
Supreme Court
Chicago
Milwaukee and
St. Paul
Prospectus
Wm. A. Hammond
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
Crea
V. M.buckley
Christian Advocate
Richard Proctor
Wiklsa Gibbon
Judah P. Benjamin
Othe
Loisetile
Pifth Ave
Railway disaster toll revised to nineteen killed
Rome reports the official death toll at nineteen with fifty five injured from the railway disaster. The incident occurred October 24 and involved multiple passengers and railway personnel. The revised figures reflect updated casualty counts from the incident.
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Rome
Feeding versus fighting in war notables and supply lines
In a San Francisco Letter Prentice Mulford notes army logistics out in front lines. He describes feeding an army as a central glory alongside fighting detailing rugged terrain supply wagons guerrilla threats and the daily cracker diet. He highlights quartermasters and sergeants as crucial to sustenance.
Capsized ship and tug sink in Buttermilk Channel
In New York near the Atlantic basin a three masted ship capsized in a wind storm. The vessel toppled a passing tug and both sank. The tug’s smoke stack broke and appeared ablaze. No ballast on the ship. whether any lives were lost remains unknown.
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New York
Buttermilk Channel
Atlantic Basin
Hethick
Brave Engineers Halt Collision At Howland Station
A collision was narrowly averted at Howland station when the 7:25 Boston train and an Old Colony line New York train met on a siding. Both engineers reversed engines to slow impact. passengers were shaken but mostly unharmed. A testimonial and fund were raised for the two brave engineers.
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New Bipcorp
Mass
Howland’s
Old Colony Road
Boston
New York
New Bedford
Asa de Ape
Collision on Erie Line Kills One Injures Several
A west-bound Erie freight rear-ended another freight near Otisville New York. Brakeman George McMullen was killed. Engineer Willard scalded, Conductor John Hawkins had his foot severed, Fireman A A Cronk lost a leg. East-bound No 14 struck the wreck, Hawkins also leg damage. Two engines and about a dozen cars destroyed. No passengers harmed.
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Port Jervis
N. Y
Erie
Otisville
Go'clockam
George McMullen
Willard
John Hawkins
A. A. Cronk
Hawkins
Pennsylvania Wreck Crashes Freight Train Near Tyrone
A wreck near Tyrone Pennsylvania at 2 PM involved an east bound freight colliding with a parked train. Thirty five cars carrying merchandise were smashed. Four Altoona youths attempting a ride were aboard. two boys John Ep ler and Edward Fawsett were crushed between cars. All east and west passenger trains faced delays.
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Altoona
Tyrone
John Epler
Edward Fawsett
Two Workmen Killed in Quarry Collapse in Indiana
A quarry accident at Elliotsville in Broomington County killed George Johnston and William Akin instantly when a rope slipped and a massive rock toppled onto them. The incident occurred October 25 as workers were lifting a large stone.
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Broomington
Ind
Elliotsville
George Johnston
Willian Akin
King Charles Albert’s Final Will Told in Poverty Tale
The Home Journal recounts Charles Albert of Savoy telling Italian ambassador De Launay he owned no money and planned a simple will. A companion recalls his remark as the king prepared to dictate a last will on his deathbed. Also noted is a Clydesdale colt selling for £8,000, the record price for a draught horse.
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Beelgrave
Jown Il
Theodosius
Milan
Natalie
de Launay
Berlin
Charles Albert
Sardinia
Oporto
House of Savoy
They Can't Be Contradicted on Free Trade Effects
The article argues two points: reducing imports grows domestic manufacturing and creates jobs and higher wages, while increasing imports reduces local production, tightens the labor market, and lowers wages. It frames the stance as a defense of protective policies for American workers.
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Cincinnati
Freie Presse
Grman
Maine Republican Convention Hisses Stir Press Prose
The New York Evening Post rhapsodizes over Blaine being hissed at a Maine Republican convention. The St. Paul Pioneer Press quips there is no statute against hissing geese snakes or Democrats, reflecting playful political commentary.
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New York Evening Post
Blaine
Maine
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Their Scheme Of Free Trade Stirs Ohio Debate
The Ohio State Journal criticizes free traders for proposing to drain national wealth by forcing the country to spend all its money on foreign goods, framing the plan as a risky path to national ruin.
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Ohio State Journal
Membership Qualifications for British American Association
The National British American Association defines membership for males of good character aged 18 or older, British-born or son/grandson of British-born, pursuing American citizenship. Applicants must subscribe to a declaration pledging allegiance to the U.S. constitution and support for preserving Republican principles free of denominational restrictions, opposing influential measures contrary thereto. The committee's constitution report was adopted.
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Chicaco
British American Nations Association
BEC
National
British American Association
United States
Anny Loa
Committee On
Fate Is On His Track: The Poet Joaquín Miller Wounded
In California near Oakland on a quail hunt, the poet Joaquín Miller known as the poet of the Sierras was shot when his horse bolted. A .22 bullet pierced his left hand, only a flesh wound, with lockjaw cited as the principal danger.
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San Francisco
Jon- Tsquin
Miller
Sierras
Oakland
Joaquin Miller
California
Rebellious Wales Fights Tithe Taxes in England's Dependency
London reports renewals of tithe anger in Wales as collectors travel villages under police protection. Editors note rising opposition, with strong calls for Welsh self rule and resistance to English church levies perceived as unjust by the Welsh people.
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England
London
Wales
Irresistible Flames Raging Across California Fames Ravage Farms
Forest fires sweep Santa Cruz Alameda and San Joaquin counties causing damage to fruit ranches and wheat. In Santa Cruz mountains large redwoods burn while San Joaquin fires push through dry tules hindering stock escape. Wheat worth 10000 dollars burned at State Senator Routier's ranch as crews of hundreds battle flames near Haywards with tinder dry grass and brush.
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California
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Alameda
San Joaquin
Santa Cruz Mountains
Routier
Haywards
Fruit Laden Steamer Atlas Sunk in North River
The Atlas from Hayti laden with fruit was struck by the New Jersey Central ferry Nelson at 4 15 p m in the North River opposite Barclay street and sank. The Nelson reached the pier damaged but no lives were lost. Fog hampered visibility and only the top of the Atlas smoke stack remained above water. The cargo is a total loss though the vessel may be raised and repaired.
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North River
Jersey Central
Borat
New York
Atlas Line
Atlas
Hayti
Barclay Street
New Jersey Central
Nelson
Irish Editor Arrested for Stealing Watch
Oct. 15 report says Mr. Dunleavy editor of The Clare Independent was arrested on a charge of stealing a watch. He was held for trial at the Limerick sessions. Also Vienna reports an anarchist plot to assassinate the German ruler was thwarted by police early in October.
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Canadian Pacific
Wisnipeg
Manitoba
Duty
Dunleavy
Clare Independent
Limerick
Vienna
Germany
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