Notable Detractors and Dignitaries Mixed in Letters
Excerpts reveal diverse figures from politics clergy and journalism. Caldwell is named as a WV attorney recently licensed as a Methodist minister while Duartes Caldwell is mocked as the “Inger soll” of the bar. Others mock or praise public figures including Dorsheimer Pears on and McGlynn in Catholic and political debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duartes T. Caldwell
West Virginia
the Ingersoll
Methodist Episcopal Church
Three States Contribute 12000 Men Under Noted Generals
The three states Pennsylvania Virginia and New Jersey raise twelve thousand men under governors Mifflin Henry Lee and Richard Howell. Lee is Henry Henry Lee father of Robert E Lee and Howell is grandfather of Mrs Jefferson Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefrenson Davis
New Jersey
Washington
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Gov. Mifflin
Henry Lee
Robert I E. Lee
Richard Howell
Jefferson Davis
The Greatest Man I Ever Met by Justice Davis
A Supreme Court justice recalls a question about the greatest man he knew. After thoughtful delay he names Roger B. Taney as the greatest man he ever knew, revealing the judge's enduring respect for Taney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davin Davis
Supreme Court
Roger B. Taney
Centenarian Knoxville preacher recalls Revolutionary era
Jesse Liste of Knoxville Tennessee at 110 shows clear records and farm work history. He worked on a farm in youth and preached for forty five years before returning to farming. He remains hale and refuses to pass his wealth to children. He recalls his father’s Revolutionary War march and hunger. Waldersee the German count tied to Von Moltke and an American wife linked to political intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Liste
Knoxville
Tenn
Waldersee
Frederick
von Moltke
David Lee
New York
Prince Frederic of
Schleswig - Holstein
Princess von Moer
Austria
Count Waldersee
Berlin
Victoria
Annie Oakley the ace rifle shot and world champion
Annie Oakley, famed woman rifle shot, born August 13 1866 in Woodland Ohio, rose to fame in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and is renowned for rapid accurate shooting. Her exploits include exhibitions before Sitting Bull who named her Watanya Chila and a record of twenty five prizes from over thirty professional events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Oakley
London
Buffalo Bill
Woodland
Ohio
Richard K. Fox
St. Paul
Sitting Bull
America
Butler
Adaim Nursery Tales From A New Orleans Child
A compact sketch from Harper's Magazine recalls a small boy’s questions about family ties and a bath time inquiry. Vignettes include a child’s clever quips about punishment and a girl misnaming a robe bound Testament, reflecting playful homely culture and dialect.
Sitting Bull and allied chiefs held as great medicine men
The article profiles Sitting Bull, Tatinka, Spotted Eagle, Red Cloud, and Hump, outlining their roles as medicine men and leaders. It recounts Sitting Bull's history, capture, and later life at Standing Rock, and notes Spotted Eagle and Red Cloud as prominent figures, with Hump depicted as a rising Indian police chief adopting American ways.
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Sitting Pull
Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Cheyenne Agency
Standing Rock Agency
Bull
Tatinka
Sitting Bull
United States
Little Big Horn
British America
Brotherton
Fort Buford
Fort Randall
Spotted Eagle
Red Cloud
Pine Ridge Agency
Hump
Indian Police
Washington
Chicago Tribune
When Man Blames Society for Its Flaws
A reflective critique rails at human vanity and hypocrisy. It argues that people praise virtue while relying on social structures to curb flaws, showing how nations uphold punishment and fear to govern behavior, and ends by noting humans gave rise to the very system that shadows their nobler impulses.
Magnificent humans with a trunk full of nobler part
A fragment references Bob Buriette describing a group of remarkable beings as having trunks and nobler traits. The excerpt is partial and lacks clear context or event details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Buriette
The Antelope Stampeded Hunter in Snowy Valley Tale
A hunter recalls a snow clothed valley near Garden Valley Idaho where a herd of antelope charged after a single shot. He is knocked down and trampled, suffering numerous scratches and bruises as the herd passes over him before he returns home meatless, saved only by an external application of antelope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Mountain
Salmon River
Garden Valley
Idaho
Detroit Free Press
Candor and kindness bridge two political figures
The tale recalls Secretary Manning and Congressman Lawler during Manning’s illness. Lawler sent flowers daily, Manning apologized for past rudeness, and Lawler explained his gift was simple cheer for Mary Manning. Mrs Manning hosted dinner. Lawler declined to stay, honoring his word to his wife. The scene impressed witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Manning
Chicago
Washington Society
Manning
Light travels faster now than in childhood tales
Astronomical Intelligence and Col Yerger discuss light speed. The exchange notes light travels at about 20,000 miles per second today, versus 6,000 miles a second in the speaker’s boyhood, attributing the change to modern rapid transit and steam. A humorous aside about a district schoolmarm nicknamed Experience closes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterby
Col. Yerger
Insanity in New York asylums defies religious and temperate life
The New York Graphic reports that insanity cuts across faiths and social classes. Among asylum patients, 62 percent had temperate habits, 38 percent drank, and 51 percent belonged to Catholic faith. Marriage status varied, with 41 percent single and 40 percent married. Women predominated at 53 percent, occupations skewed toward labor and domestic work, and the piece argues economic status only partly predicts madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insane Asylum of
New York
Ireland
United States
Germany
Asylum
New York Graphic
Evolution of the Table from Fourteenth Century Feasts
A historical overview traces dining habits from pewter dishes and bone spoons to silver and gold tableware. It notes forks, salt cellars, and ceremonial salt passing, with Elizabeth and Henry VIII as references, and describes changing rooms, cooks, and women's domestic roles shaping dining etiquette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Venice
Henry Viit
Bridget
The Golden Mean and Snugly Cough Venture Plans
Snugly consults Dr Hustlem who prescribes a mountain cure while Dr Von Calm recommends Florida. Molidget asks which path, Snugly replies he will split the difference stay in Detroit and take comfort. The exchange appears in the Detroit Free Press and reflects humor about health tourism and conflicting medical advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hustlem
von Calm
Florida
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Inventions of The Day Include Electric Roaster And Steam Tricycle
The article reviews several modern devices such as an automatic chess recorder from Zurich that prints moves on paper, a nine to twelve string guitar pioneer from Kalamazoo, a non slipping belt pulley with perforated sheet iron, an electrical stencil maker using sparks, and a portable duck-hunting boat. It also notes growing belief in electric powered road vehicles and details a French steam tricycle with a five quart water boiler, a compact design, and a two-wheel detachable cart for a companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wurstemberger
Zurich
Switzerland
Kalamazoo
M. Gare
Joston Rank
California State Printing Office
Scientific American
France
Rules of a Russian Club From a Teher Nizel District Town
Club rules prohibit greased boots and wearing working clothes with odors. New Year and Easter dances require a dress coat. fines for velvet waistcoats or green neckties fund the band. Members warned against using window curtains as handkerchiefs and may be expelled. Smoking in the ladies room at dances incurs fines for toilet powder and cologne. Quadrilles forbid hurting others or stepping over decency borders. Indecent drunkenness and striking a partner are prohibited, as is hitting a billiard partner with a cue. A stray ad notes clothing dealers claim postwar gains in average height and weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehernizel
Mall Gaszelle
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Exceron Willliams
Louis XIV
Winns D. Howetts
Harper's Magazine
Zola
James Repparn
McGlynn
Henry Grover
Anti- Poverty Society
Dr. McGlynn
Prince Bismanck
Palmer
Blaine
William Dorsheimer
The
New York Star
Boston
Dorsheimer
Faneuil Hall
Harry G. Pearsoix
Cedar Street
Cardinal Manning
William
Baden Baden
Trente-Et-Juarante
Louis
W. L. Kenny
Ladonia
Tex
Rob
Adaim
New Orleans
Matie
Ernest
Little Fannie
Henex
Helen
Stevpen A. Dovenas
Lincoln
Rube
Man
Heaven
Congressman Lawler
McFidget
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