French Society Aims to Protect Abandoned Children
The French Society for the Protection of Abandoned Children, led by journalists and supported by Alexandre Dumas, urges early life moral training and indenture as a remedy for juvenile crime. It reports on an international congress, aims to create collaborations, and cites a Bandeco youths directory that found work for over 18,000 youths in five years.
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A. P. Dietz
Philadelphia Times
General Society of
France
Itesta
Ing
Paris
Tribunal of the
French Republic
Universal Brotherhood
Alexandre Dumas
French Academy
Bandeco
Country and Editor Character in Townsend’s View
The piece contrasts a country editor raised among families and modest poverty with an urban editor trained in college who may distort truth to seem superior. It argues the healthier, happier rural background yields frank enthusiasm for good causes.
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George Alfred Townsend
Atlanta Burned and Rebuilt After Sherman Siege
Twenty years ago Sherman’s army captured Atlanta causing widespread destruction. The article recalls the fall of the city, cavlary pursuit, and the embering fires that reduced much of downtown to ruins before the Restoration as the Union occupied the area and rebuilt. It notes key figures and locations including Hood’s withdrawal, Gen Geary, Gen Jeff Davis, and the Ly on house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Constitution
Sherman
Hosta
Atlanta
Decatur Street
Blocum
Marietté' Streat
Mahoney
Exra Church
Jonesboro
Hood
Pat
Old Lyon House
Geary
Rawhey
Jeff G. Davis
Forsyth Street
Shareman
Judge Erskine
Sharman
Salta
Dickens And His Docs On A Night In Rochester
An Englishman an Irishman and an American recount a country tramp near Rochester that leads to a humorous mishap with two large dogs and a muddy escape. They learn the host is Charles Dickens and tour the Gad's Hill estate as the scene shifts to Chicago's Dearborn Street fire history.
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Gad’s Hii
Home Journal
New York City
Gad’s Bill
Elo
College
Chum
Kent
St. Bernard
Rochester
Dickens
God’s Hill
Chicago Times
Chicago Herald
Dearborn Street
Times
Haines
Elitor
The Vanilla Disease Described by Dr Layer in New Orleans
The article reports Dr Layer of Fordeaux describing a disease linked to vanilla. Early symptoms include facial numbness and a spreading eruption with swelling and reddening. The writer notes malaise and nervous symptoms possibly from oily pods touching skin.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Luayer
Fordeaux
M. Layer
English wit prize tale ends at two for threepence
A London weekly offered a one pound prize for the cleverest anecdote. A dinner party tale describes a boy from a Breengrocers shop serving tarts. When asked what they were, he pointed to the dishes and said first that they were penny each, then two for three half-pence.
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London
Breengrocers
O Tle
James
Weird Estimate of Blood Drawn by Mosquitoes in War Tale
A fragmented OCR paragraph cites Professor Gannymore estimating large volumes of blood drawn by mosquitoes in the United States. It references a grand total and wartime periods, but details are unclear and garbled.
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Arkeanean
Gannymore
United States
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John Linn
Perkin’s
G.L
S.N. Wynes
Rock Island
Illinois
French Society For the Protection of
Cing. Sary
Nglish
Ney
America
New York
T While & Phesenger
Cape Cration
Arths Voy
Ayer
St Ayker
Leland Bas
Ua Ne
Spilla
LeLann
Lel
Fincher
Lfg Innuunoth Ocean Iotel
Long Branch
Broadway
Leland
J.c.ayer & Co
Lowell
Mase
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