The 3rd Division Leads in Action at Chobham Ridges
The account describes General Carey and Sir Charles Staveley coordinating with Sir Hope Grant in a drawn out engagement at Chobham ridges. Guards defend entrenched positions while cavalry navigate boggy ground and dangers from redoubts. A telegram notes progress, with heavy guns and advancing lines pressing the retreating defenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carey
Sir Hope Grant
Carrey
Sirharles Staveley
Sir Hope
Bisley Common
Prince's
10Th Hussars
Echo
Sunningdale
Staveley
Chobham Ridges
Sanders
Chobham
Charles Staveley
Charles
Life Guards
Blues
Indian reformer Banerjee speaks on women's status in India
Miss Mary Carpenter hosted Babu Sasipada Banerjee and his wife at Red Lodge Park Row. Banerjee, in fluent English, addressed the social condition of India focusing on the female population. He outlined twelve years of effort to elevate Indian women and argued social progress hinges on their advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
India
Hear
Miss Carpenter
Mr. Banerjee
Chander Sea
England
The
Indian Association
Mary Carpenter
Red Lodge
Reformatory
Parkrow
Babu Sasipada Banerjee
Elaborate Elmira Church Plan Sparks Curiosity
Mark Twain praises a religious insight as Elmira New York plans a multi building church complex. The design includes arena seating for the aged, horse stalls under pews, playrooms, free libraries, six bathrooms, infirmary, and a kitchen aloft. Beecher pledges solicited support, raising over forty five thousand dollars pledged within months.
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Mark Twain
Elmira
N.Y
Thomas K. Beecher
Lectures Across Theological Seminaries And Notable 1871 Honors
The piece notes a cross seminaries lecture plan among Chicago Baptist Congregational Presbyterian and Evanston Methodist leaders for next term. It reports a rattlesnake incident near Omaha, a dubious South American cancer cure debunked by Washington City Medical Society, and Mrs. Colt’s vast wealth. It lists university honors such as 153 DDs and 81 LLDs awarded, plus English recipients, and mentions John Hopkins’s rise and philanthropy, ending with commentary on the number of 1871 Divinity degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist, Congregational and
Presbyterian of
Chicago
Methodist of
Evanston
Omaha
South America
Washington City Medical Society
Colt
Colonel Colt
America
Hartford, Conn
The
New York Tribune
Amelia Watt
Cincinnati
Monmouth (Ill.) College
Celia Burleigh
Unitarian Church
Brooklyn
Conn
New York Times
General Butler
Massachusetts
John Hopkins
Baltimore
Mason and Dixon
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
John Hopkins University
Baltimore City
Boston Congregationalist
Harvard University
Earl de Grey
Washington
Dr. Allen
Yale College
Potato Blight Sweeps English Crop Across Forty Counties
Reports from forty English counties show the blight prevailing this year across the potato crop with losses ranging from 10 to 75 percent and an average around 30 percent. The Bradford district sees 7 to 25 percent losses, and Ireland also reports widespread disease.
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Bradford
Irelan
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