Timeworn Philadelphia landmarks recall a colonial age
A wandering observer recalls Independence Hall, Carpenter's Hall, Swedes Church, and other historic sites along Arch Street in Philadelphia and Wilmington. The piece laments the loss of original grandeur while celebrating relics from 18th century America and the memory of Penns Treaty with the Lenni Lenape.
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Independence Hall
Continental Congress
Congress
Gst
Peale
Drexel
Delaware
Carpenter's Hall
Hitle
Wilmington
Christiana Creek
Rensington
Qusker
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Philedeipsis
Letitia
Old Boston Court Memory Inspires Scholarly Reverie
The narrator recalls a square court near Boston’s quiet streets, once a tavern hub for East Coast skippers. He imagines Hawthorneesque scenes of ghostly tales, church bells from the belfry, and the city’s hidden byways, ending as a pleasant memory of the old court.
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Trafic
Hawthorne
New England
Boston
Old South Church
Epos T. Reap
War's New Terrors and Inventions Sharply Redrawn Battles
A 19th century dispatch detalles how European powers boast a flood of war devices from rifles that pierce multiple troops at two and a half miles to steam powered machine guns and torpedoes that drop from the sky with no smoke. It notes Turpin's electric machine said to erase forts and mow down 20,000 per engagement, while critics call it sensational.
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France
Germany
Austria
Turpin
AL. Turpin
Munchausens
Europe
Moving the Ferris Wheel to New York
Preliminary work to dismantle the Midway Ferris Wheel has begun. Five trains of thirty cars each will carry components to New York where the wheel will anchor at Thirty seventh street and Broadway with 18 000 electric lights. The operation, led by Supertatenubert L V Rice, is expected to take ten weeks and cost about 150000 dollars.
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New York
Midway Pisisance
New York City
Gorn
Thirty Seventh Street
Broadway
Supertatenubert L. V. Rice
Ingung the Fair
Chicago Tri
Personal View of Three Great American Statesmen
A long retrospective praises Daniel Webster alongside Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. The author muses on their era in the Senate, the architec ture of the Capitol, and how history will judge their legacies in shaping the Union, liberty, and constitutional freedom.
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David Wilson
Daniel Webster
Marathon
Webster
Saul
Israel
Clay
Calhoun
Hayne
Henry Clay
James &. Polit
Mexico
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Texas
Toompass
Hss
Bine
Senate
Calhoyn
Agiara
Mr Boy
Wehbater
Greece
Rome
FAIREST SEASIDE RESORTS EXCURSION TO ATLANTIC CITY
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad inaugurates popular excursions to Atlantic City Cape May and Sea Isle City with low rates and six trains. July 19 and July 28 trips offer twelve day return validity, stopovers in Washington and Mt Vernon, and Pullman cars on select trains. Apply to nearest B and O agent. Subscribe for The News.
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Atlantic City
Cape May
Sea Isle City
Farnday
Batimore and Obie Railroad
Pillsburs
Wheeliac
Parkersburg
I.l
Washbington Junction
Isie City
Siie
Washington
Congress
Potomac
Mt. Vernon
Asd
West Washington
Harper's Ferry
Hagerstown
Frederick
Philadelphia
Pullman
Children Day Observed Across County Towns
County correspondence reports Children Day events at Mounteine ME Church in Sandsy town with a large crowd and a long program led by Annie Cecil and Emma Maxwell among many local participants. Other towns note happy picnics, church events, visits by relatives, and minor local incidents including a mare’s death and a boy injured by a pitchfork.
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Mounteine
Jessie Cecil
Leona Davis
Ella Cecil
Birdie
Mattie Johnson
Turner Thompsons
Eli Cecil
Merry
Sesistant
J. W. Davis
Emma Maxwell
Myrtle Wolfe
Randolph Luhn
Adah Peters
Zion
Hood's Sarsaparinia Cures Wrath Do You Take Medicine
A regional ad fragment urges readers to take Hood's Sarsaparinia to regain or maintain health, linking prescription use with wellness and relief from ailments. The ad emphasizes preventive care and appeals to personal well being.
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Hood
McClure's August to Feature Crane Coal Mine Study
McClure's Magazine for August will publish Stephen Crane in a study titled In the Depths of a Coal Mine. The piece follows Hamlin Garland's Home stead and Its Perilous Trabes and will be notably illustrated, continuing the magazine's literary emphasis.
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McClure’s Magazine
Hamlin Garland
Jane
Stephen Crane
Garland
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