Oa Park Vindicator notes and quotes on public affairs
The piece lists local notices and anecdotes from Chicago and New York including remarks on political figures like Carl Schurz and Dewey, a rubber wire price conference in Chicago, and a Vassar elective aiding New York hospital children. It ends with a whimsical East Side cripple’s whispered question about heaven.
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Vassar
Gladden
New York
Young Women's Christian Association
Alek
Dinner with Depew Echoes Bowery Song Amidst Cables and Pensions
A Union seats club dinner to Senator-elect Chauncey M Depew spawns talk of a Bowery campaign and a Peach gag. Washington reports Hay may annul Pacific Cable franchise while Scrymser seeks Japanese subsidy. Siegel & Cooper unveils a ten year pension plan funded by life policy. Arctic Cruiser Bear rescues whaling fleet.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Union Seats
Bowery
Dr. Depew
Hoyt
the Bowery
Washington
Hay
Tiawalian
Pacific Cable Company
James A. Scrymser
New York
Honolulu
San Francisco
J. Pierpont Morgan
Scrymser
Japan
Hawaiian Islanois
United States
Empress Murderer Luccheni Begins Life Term at L Eveche
Details emerge on the Geneva prison L Eveche where Luccheni serves a life sentence. Cells house three floors with barred sky openings. daily work in workshops. meals limited to bread water coffee and vegetables with meat on certain days. no lights in cells. prisoners endure dawn to nightfall routines. visitors allowed yearly in presence of a jailer.
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L’eveche
Geneva
Lucchen
Switzerland
L'Eyeche
Luerhent
Judge Grosscup Named to Seventh Circuit Enemies of Labor Highlighted
The article profiles Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup, nominated by President Harrison in 1892 to the seventh United States circuit court for the Northern District of Minnesota, noting a long Chicago law career and prior Ohio political activity. It labels him an enemy of labor unions and says he issued many injunctions against them.
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Peter Stenger Grosseup
Mitneis
Showalter
Harrison
Gross¢cup
Chicago
Ohio
Judge Grosscup
President McKinley
Congress
Maj. McKinley
Grosscup
Ashland
Witten
Berg College
Judge Thomas
Boston
Largest Private Library Belongs to Louisville Colonel
The largest private library in the United States is believed to belong to Col. Reuben T. Durrett of Louisville Kentucky. It houses over 60,000 volumes amassed over sixty years focusing on Western history including works Col. Roosevelt used while preparing his Winns of the West.
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United States
Reuben T. Durrett
Louisville
West
Col. Roosevelt
Conventional Youths Converse Amidst Family Constraint
The young man seeks ease in sociable talk as a stern mood enters. The girl holds the moment as the father asserts the front door is open at this minute, highlighting household boundaries in a brief Indianapolis Journal vignette.
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Yong Man
Indianapolis Journal
Phantom ship tale continues with theft over relic
Philip Vanderdecken pursues Mynheer Poots after the doctor steals a valuable relic from his mother’s neck. Poots shelters in his house and resists, while Philip strains to reclaim the treasure and confronts danger and threats to his life.
Fire at Mynheer Poots House Leads to Vengeful Rescue
A man named Philip tries to burn down Mynheer Poots house to regain a stolen relic. He is interrupted by a sixteen to seventeen year old girl who saves him from harming others, persuading him to extinguish the blaze and accept amends. Philip agrees to withdraw and promises to return to settle the debt.
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Vanderdecken
Philip
Mynheer
Mynheer Poots
Clemenceau Buckles Time to Help Brother's Post
The story recounts Georges Clemenceau in a Paris chamber scene a dispensary visit in Martres with free skin-disease advice. He notes six waiting patients and orders two more to undress, then learns a man meant to seek help for his sister’s Algerian post vacancy. Clemenceau agrees to use influence.
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M. Georges Clemenceau
Dreyfus
Aurore
Chamber of Deputies
Martre
Cemenceau
Clemenceau
Monsiecur le Depute
Algeria
Elwestern Charity Note Cited by Rev Dawson
A presbyterian minister from Brooklyn urges Christians to assist their elderly women, calling it both duty and privilege in a moral appeal. The fragment highlights church charity as a social duty among congregants.
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R.S. Dawson
Pres‘y‘erian
Brooklyn, N. Y
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A. Hill
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