Samuel Gompers on Labor Day Meaning
The text portrays Labor Day as the workers’ holiday, celebrating achievement and social progress. It outlines the labor movement’s goals, calls for broader union organization, and describes enacted laws across states while urging peaceful, persistent effort for justice and industrial peace. It also presents a poetic vision of a future with dignity for workers and families.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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In Darkest Africa. Puck Chief and missionary clash
The Chief and his confidential man discuss a missionary who claims his religion is the only genuine article. The missionary warns of imitations, prompting a sharp exchange on religious authority.
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Africa
Puck
Philip
Jack
Kissing the book oath practice in early English courts debated
Victorian columns discuss the shift from kissing the scriptures to other oath forms. The piece cites Coke and Cowper reports, notes that the practice appeared in the 17th century, and recounts the Owen case where oath validity was upheld without kissing the book. It also notes Shakespeare’s rare allusion to the act.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Lord Coke
Coke
Law Journal
Owen
Oxford University
Fate of a Greedy Shark
U S Treasury agents share tales from across states while a New Orleans sponge fisher recounts a shark story near Cedar Keys. A huge shark found belly up carried a half barrel of mess pork in its stomach and later starved after the pork blocked digestion.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
United States Treasury
Custom House
Cedar Keys
Keys
Government to Provide Head Stones for War Veterans Graves
The government will furnish grand army committees with marble head stones for unmarked graves of soldiers from the Revolution, the War of 1812, and Mexican war veterans.
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Grand Army
Southerners Drink Less Liquors Observed in New Orleans
A New Orleans Times-Democrat reader notes a declining southern alcohol trend. He cites saloon lunch hours with fewer whiskey purchases, more milk and beer, and growing soda fountain use as factors, claiming no statistics exist but a driller notes soda sales exceed fifty million dollars annually. A Pembroke dockyard plan also mentions women tracers.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
South
Snail Farming Across France and Tyrol
Snail farming is a growing agricultural branch in France and elsewhere. Edible snails vary in size with escargot as the large white form, while limace and limacon denote medium and small varieties. In France most snails are wild, but artificial culture is expanding from August to October. Snails are wintered in brick or wood houses and marketed April to June. In Tyrol June to mid August harvests gather snails from damp spots to feeding grounds near homes. Snails feed on cabbage and grass daily and bury themselves for winter, then are packed in perforated boxes with straw and shipped to Paris and other cities.
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France
Bkrance
Tyrol
Paris
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the Marchment
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