Sketch of Sumner Attack on the Senate Floor
A May 22 incident recounts Charles Sumner being struck by Preston Brooks in the Senate chamber after Sumner’s speech criticizing Butler. Brooks hit Sumner with a walking cane, wounding him severely as bystanders intervened. Morgan and Keitt aided Sumner, who collapsed from loss of blood and the cane splintered.
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Charles Sumner
Butler
Preston
Brooks
Senate Chamber
Mr. Sumner
Sumner
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Mr. Keitt
Congress
Mr. Morgan
Century
Country life tale ends with a boy's near death
Bill Nye recounts a rustic summer scene in Piscataquis where a pale, hungry boy visits a Maine farm with his mother. The narrator plans drastic measures to fetch a doctor as a dramatic night unfolds under moonlit clouds. The child survives and is expected to return in July.
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House
Bill Nye
Hymn selections reveal Top hymns and authors survey
The Best Hundred Hymns reveals that 3400 to 3500 lists were received after a January appeal. Top choice is Rock of Ages by Toplady, with abiders like Abide with me and Jesus Lover of my Soul close behind. Authors Watts and Charles Wesley lead contributions, each with seven hymns in the final tally.
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Topady
Lyte
Charles Wesley
Jesus
C. Elliott
Newton
Sarah F. Adams
Keble
Horatius Bonar
J. M. Neale
Dr. Watts
Watts
Cowper
Dr. Bonar
Bishop Heber
John Mason Neale
Fate
St Johns Watch and Historic London Pageantry
In old London a St Johns Watch procession lit by cressets displayed wealth and pageantry as armed men paraded from St Pauls to Cheapside. The piece also surveys rail brake tests, whetstone making, opium cures scrutiny, fine platinum wire visibility, wax history and England’s 1904 Norse conquest.
The Old Fashioned Garden Revival Echoed in Memory
A contemplation of antique garden charm from the Boston Transcript with notes on hollyhocks sunflowers and lilacs. It contrasts 19th century flora such as tiger lilies Canterbury bells and monk's hood with modern fashion, ending with a Dakota Bell humorous railway anecdote about church life and farmyard horseplay.
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Boston Transcript
Tennyson
England
York-and-Lancaster
Horticultural Hall
Not to Call Him a Liar Say Punch On Truths
The piece cautions in parliamentary language against labeling a man a liar though excitable rhetoric and romance can color accounts. It notes exaggeration, false recollections, and misleading statistics while urging restraint in calling someone a liar.
Cause and Effect Tales from a Boy and Father
A short anecdote recalls Tommy asking why his father gave five cents to a beggar. The father explains it was so the man could eat bread. That night Tommy refuses bread, hoping his father will give him five cents, a witty moral about charitable motive. Pan first am almansca prepared by Begiomontanus in 1 delavus.
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Tommy
Papa
Pan
Begiomontanus
Nerve Food Plant Extract Claims Big Benefits
Advertisers tout eight cents daily use of Moxie Nerve Food Plant extract as a cure for fatigue and illness, with claims of nearly double output and vast savings. Dealers trumpet record interest while a nervous woman’s bottle becomes neighborhood talk and curiosity spawns bonnet-cost conversations.
Peculiar Customs Of Johanna Island Comoro Fortunes
The Boston Journal describes Johanna in the Comoro Islands where natives are jet black yet neat. After marriage women may not appear in public unless with their husbands. rich men may have four wives, poor men one. A man can sell a half share in his wife by law when poverty worsens. A native belle displays in a red calico Mother Hubbard gown with banana leaf print and no footwear, topped by a blue china teacup as headgear with the handle turned for easy removal.
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Johanna
Comoro Islands
Mother Hubbard
Boston Journal
A Healthy Stomach Boosts The Dyspeptic Nation
A long defense of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable remedy for dyspepsia. The piece warns against many scams and touts the tonic as the best long trusted treatment to ease indigestion, regulate bowels, kidneys, and bladder, and calm nervous symptoms.
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Humbug
Bose
Host
No Burglar of sense Will Diane a Non Advertiser
A Detroit Free Press item reports a householder awakened by a burglar who mocks the man for not advertising his business. The exchange ends with the burglar leaving through a window and a moral about nonadvertisers.
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Detroit Free Press
The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man in Advert
Dr. R. V. Pierce markets a female health panacea named Favorite Prescription, claiming it treats prolapsus displacements ulceration internal fever bloating cancer risk and other female ailments at one dollar. The ad targets women and remarks on domestic authority of young wives.
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Pope
R. V. Pierce
Pierce
Invali Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
Golden
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
U Sion
Fitzge. & Powell
Indianapolis
Ind
Ebster
Gov't Printing Office
U. & Sureme Court
Gen
Mi Merriam & CO
Springfield
Mase
A Spring Mattress and Household Health Cures
An advertisement style piece touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for liver and blood purification, likening a spring mattress to year round health. It promotes Scott's Emulsion with hypophosphites for consumption, scrofula, bronchitis, and debility, with a testimonial from a doctor and claims of palatability. It ends by endorsing Lyon's Heel Stiffeners as a five dollar yearly savings for boots and shoes.
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Dr. Pierce
Scott
W. A. Hubert
M.D
Salisbury
No Trouble to Swallow Dr. Pierce's Pellets
A vintage advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Pellets as a painless cure for headaches, sour stomach, and bowel issues, promising quick relief with 25 cents per vial. It also suggests a sly tip for dealing with a bothersome peddler by offering to buy him out rather than threatening him.
Prof Loisette Memory System Endorsed by Notables
Prof Loisette presents a memory system with strong endorsements from Mark Twain and several prominent figures. The prospectus offers correspondence or personal instruction with lectures claimed to be taught at colleges near New York and multiple universities and schools.
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Loisette
Mark Twain
Proctor
W. W. Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Buckley
Fifth Ave
New York
Columbia Law
Hous
Benjamin Dr
Mimor
Yale
University of
Odd Fellows Excursion to Denver via Rock Island Route
The C RL & P Ry offers the grandest chance to view Colorado mountain scenery at the lowest price. Tickets to Denver and return on sale September 13 18, good to return until October 31. Excursions from Denver to all Colorado points at one round trip fare. For details contact E A Horpsoosg QT &P.a C RL&P Ry Chicago OL.
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Odd Fellows
Denver
Col
Rock Island
RL & P. Ry
Colorado
QT &P.a,c
Rl&p. Ry
Chicago
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