The Trent Affair Book Sparks Renewed Interest
A new book by Thomas L. Harris of the University of Chicago recounts the Trent affair in detail, tracing English American relations from the Revolution to the Civil War and detailing Mason and Slidell's Confederate mission, Wilkes’s seizure, and the resulting diplomatic crisis with Britain. The analysis covers cabinet debates, European views, and legal questions surrounding neutral rights and the seizure.
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Venezuela
England
United States
Trent
Thomas L. Harris
University of Chicago
Slidell
Buchanan
Prince of Wales
London Post
John Bull
South Carolina
Mr. Harris
Justine McCarty
Edward Bulwer Lytton
W. E. Gladstone
Edinburgh
Confederacy
France
James Murray Mason
Virginia
John Slidell
Louisiana
Harris
Mason
Senate
Wilkes
Alessis
Slidel
Charleston
Nashville
Havana
St. Thomas Island
Southampton
Bahama Channel
San Jacinto
Charles Wilkes
New York
North
Washington
Lincoln
Senator Hale
New Hampshire
Hale
Lane
Indiana
Great Britain
Indianapolis Sentinel
Warris
Seward
Edinburg
Girdling the World Through Electricity Ideas
The article notes a demonstration at the Electric Fair where a message moved from one gallery to another via Vancouver and Tokio in under fifty minutes. It argues the Pacific cable will further shorten global message times and praises electricity's vast promise beyond current understanding.
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Vancouver
Tokio
Make a Successful Doctor
A playful item from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes Dr Emdee encourages his son toward a medical career. The exchange features a father asking about signs of success and a quip about the boy’s face for hot house whiskers, reflecting lighthearted family dialogue.
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Emdee
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
The Fleming Case Aims for Murder Conviction in New York
The trial of Mrs. Alice A Fleming for the murder of her mother Evalina Bliss drew vast attention in New York. Proceedings featured top lawyers and scientists, 1100 talesmen, and a highly scrutinized jury. the case revolved around alleged poison in clam chowder and in the victim’s stomach.
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Alice Almont Fleming
Evalina David Bliss
Goff
Court of Special Sessions
New York
Fleming
Livingstone
Harry Fleming
New York State
Mary
America
McGowen
Buchanan
United States
Victor H. Vaughn
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Williams
Bliss
Eel Like Sophie Lyons Arrests and Discharges in New York
Sophie Lyons known as Mary Watson was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court on a suspicious person charge and discharged by Magistrate Kudlich. The New York police tracked her after a Sixth Avenue store purchase and a streetcar pursuit. She allegedly stole a pocketbook in Dunellen New Jersey. lawyer George Friend called the arrest an outrage. Lyons, about fifty, reputedly has a $50 000 fortune and a suspected criminal lineage.
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Ferdinand Wilckes
Fleming
Mrs. Bliss
Kersey
Harlem
College of the City of New York
Bliss
West One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street
Henry E. Bliss
Mrs. Fleming
Wilckes
Dunellen
N. J
Woman Dies After Frightened Ride in Meansville
Mrs Charles Jennings and William Hartwig of Meansville Indiana were driving when a horse spooked by a passing steam roller bolted into a curb. Mrs Jennings was thrown out and died instantly with no visible injuries. Doctors call death the result of fright.
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Charles Jennings
William Hartwig
Meansville
Ind
Atory of Colorado Gold Cripple Creek Book Issued in Chicago
O W Crawford publishes a colored illustrated guide to Cripple Creek Gold detailing mining locations milling treatment and payments. The book covers mines titles camping Cripple Park Apollinaris Springs and Indians lore with a second edition in press. Price 50 cents or five names and 25 cents postage paid.
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Cripple Park
Apollinaris Springs
Qubeeka
Words on marriage and virtue for young women
A speaker counsels anxious girls about marriage and self examination. She notes flaws in married friends and urges cultivation of patience and unselfishness as everyday virtues. An unselfish life remains fulfilling whether or not marriage occurs.
Riddles and remedies from a past issue
A collection of short jokes and quips with product pitches and moral quips. Highlights include Adam and his children riddle, claims about Dr Kuine’s nerve restorer, a note on mile stones, cough balsam, a weather vane parable, teething remedy by Mrs Winslow, and a dusty teacher joke.
Notre Dame University Opens Fifty Third Year
Notre Dame University enters its fifty third year with the next session starting September 8 1896 Parents are urged to write for particulars to the University of Notre Dame Indiana for applicants considering away from home study The institution claims superior facilities for mind and heart cultivation anywhere in the country.
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Notre Dame University
Institution of Learning
University of Notre Dame
Indiana
Coney Island Name Origin Traced to Rabbits
The article notes multiple definitions of coney with the simplest and most accepted meaning rabbit, explaining the name was given to Coney Island because rabbits abounded there per Julian Ralph in Scribner's.
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Coney Island
Coney
Julian Ralph
Scribner's
Syrup of Wigs Promoted As Family Remedy In West
The San Francisco Argus reports a tongue in cheek note praising Syrup of Wigs as a pleasant laxative for children and a soothing aid for costive or bilious parents, declaring it the best family remedy and urging each family to keep a bottle. A western banter references boss less wagons and mules in the east.
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San Francisco Argus
Wordplay and cures in a 1895 Seattle ad and 1815 London deaf asylum
An 1895 Seattle advertisement touts Halls Catarrh Cure with price and a quick pun asking what word gains a syllable to become quicker. It mentions a testimonial by J B Palmer and notes a London event: the first asylum for deaf and dumb children founded in 1815.
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London
How to Grow 40c Wheat from Salzer Seed Co
Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue promises thousands to the wide awake farmer. Send a 4 cent stamp for the catalogue and free samples of grains and grasses for fall sowing from John A. Salzer Seed Co. LaCrosse Wisconsin. A young woman models jaunty capes and parasols trimmed in matching silk.
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Salzer
John A. Salzer
Change of life guidance from Lydia E Pinkham ad story
A Patchogue woman recounts using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ease the change of life. The testimonial praises the remedy and invites others to consult Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free guidance based on years of experience.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Mara
L. Kerry
Patchogue
I. I
Bacon in pan improves lamb gravy flavor
A few slices of bacon placed in the pan with a lamb roast greatly improve the gravy flavor. The bacon adds fat and rich taste, enhancing the overall dish.
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Alice A. Fleming
Charles W. Brooke
John C. Shaw
Gratz Nathan
Howard P. Oakes
John I. McIntosh
Seaman H. Miller
W. J. O'Sullivan
Dublin University
New Haven
Eel
Sophie Lyons
The
New York Police
L. E. Landon
Dr. Kuine
Kume
st. Pi a_elphia
Halls
J. B. Palmer
Seattle
Wash
Long Island
Ayer
W. N.Y. Chicago
Columbia
Pope Mig. Co
Hartford, Conn
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