Strength in Swimming and Safe Water Practice
A Youth's Companion excerpt discusses winter drownings and heroism by boys who saved peers. It notes bronze medals from the Royal Humane Society for Cecil Manning and Murray, plus brothers Anthony and Charles Ellwood for saving younger siblings. It warns that strong swimmers cannot lift others and offers advice on safe training and wearing clothes in water to learn buoyancy, urging prudence and gradual risk.
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Perso
Royal Humane Society of London
Cecil Stanley Manning
Murray
Thames
Hampton Court
Anthony
Charles Ellwood
Prudencs
Vigilante justice in early San Francisco era
The account describes 1850s San Francisco where vigilant committees rose to curb crime. McKenzie and Whittaker were hanged in 1851 after prison abduction, followed by trials and executions of Casey and Cora in 1855. The movement briefly ruled the city, restoring order before elections brought back official control.
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Lyrach
San Francisco
Pold
California
Pacific Coast
McKenzie
Whittaker
King
Casey
New York State
Causey
Charles Cora
Hichardson
United States
Terry
Supreme Court
Chicago News
Reminiscence and the Elders’ View of Past and Present
The passage reflects on elderly residents who idealize the past while living with modern comforts. It notes their memory of yesterday’s world, their grasp of global events, and their longing for a past that may have never existed, contrasting nostalgia with present life.
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Daily Paper
Florida
A Workingman's Wife and the Noon Hour Romance
A Chicago Herald narrative recounts a working man's tender moment with his wife and child at a Monroe LaSalle street site. The scene contrasts a bustling city with a brief, intimate family pause and a carriage bustle outside, followed by assorted quips from period humor columns and traffic statistics.
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Monroe and
LaSalle Streets
Monroe Street
Sabor
LaSalle Street
Chicago Herald
July Wide Awake list features Hawthorne tied pieces and children’s reading
The July Wide Awake highlights illustrated articles on Deacon Shem Drowne and the Grasshopper weather vane at Faneuil Hall, with portraits of Peter Faneuil. It also presents Amy Robsart’s Embroidery and other pieces, two illustrated stories, serials, short articles, verse, and Men and Things. Annual price is $2.40 with specimen back issues available for 5 cents.
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Hawthorne
Shem Drowne
Browne
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Eucinda J. Gregg
Elizabeth Browne McPherson
Grasshopper
Peter Faneuil
Faneuil Halls
Amy Robsart
Gates of Warwick
Eleanor Lewis
Helen A. Hawkey
James McKay
Matilda Archambeau van Dorn
Amanda B. Harris
Mary E. Bamford
Rose Dalton
E. H. Hawley
Smithsonian Institution
Miss Rimmer
D. Lothrop Company, Publishers
Talmage Lecture at Woodsdale Island Park
The noted preacher T D DeWitt Talmage will speak at Woodsdale Island Park on July 14 on Is the World Better or Worse. Special trains from Cincinnati Dayton and Miamisburg will offer round trips for fifty cents including fare and grounds admission with the lecture at 4 pm.
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Woodsdale
Talmage
Charming Summer Resorts Along Milwaukee Road Invites Visitors
Over three hundred lakeside resorts span Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and the Michigan peninsula served by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway. Rail access is easy and options range from formal dining to casual meals with comfortable attire. Prairie birds and waterfowl yields expected high this year with deer hunting promises in northern Wisconsin. Free information available through Bron Hearronp, G P A Chicago IL. The misfired train joke adds a light note from the Houston Courier.
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Peninsula of
Michigan
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Milwaukee
Delightful Resorts Reach by Chicago and North Western
Readers are told the Chicago and North Western Railway provides fast vestibule trains to Waukesha Madison Lake Geneva Neenah Marquette St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Ashland Lake Minnetonka Yellowstone National Park and Colorado resorts. Excursion tickets and pamphlets are available from ticket agents or W A Toenl r general passenger and ticket agent Chicago. HL Budgley notes the refrain is hardest part of a drinking song in a Binghamton Republican item.
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Chicago & North- Western Railway
Chicago
Waukesha
Madison
Lake Geneva
Neenah
Marquette
St Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Ashland
Lake Minnetonka
Yellowstone National Park
Colorado
Far West
North- Western
W. A. ToenLr
One Night Train to Colorado via Burlington Route
Travel advertisements describe a Denver bound route leaving Chicago at 1:00 PM or St. Louis at 12:5 AM, arriving 6:15 PM next day with through sleepers chairs and dining cars. Connections from East via Burlington Route include Chicago 6:10 PM St. Louis 6:18 PM and Peoria 3:20 PM and 6:00 PM. Daily trains. Tourist tickets available at ticket agents and at given offices. Colorado pitched as rest and pleasure destination amid other light notes.
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Colorado
Burlington
Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
Peoria
Beseven House Rootes
Gnicewe Peoria
California Fig Syrup Company Endorsed for Its Laxative Remedy
The pleasant liquid full remedy Soup of Figs earns high regard for its universal acceptance and approval. The California Fig Syrup Company highlights the value of its qualities and customer satisfaction.
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California Fig Syrup Company
August Flower praised by Appleton resident
Lorenzo F Sleeper of Appleton Maine recounts a long illness with dyspepsia improved by August Flower. He says after starting the remedy his symptoms disappeared and he can eat freely without distress. He urges others with the disease to try the medicine.
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Lorenzo F. Sleeper
Appleton
Seaside Sand Fight and Quack Remedies Featured
A colonial era column notes silly patent cures for liver and headaches and jokes about seaside sand and mountains. The Elmira Gazette highlights Little Liver Pills as a cure while other ads promote Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Hill's Hart and Whisker Dye. The Columbus Post quips on the reliability of the crank.
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Glenn
Hill
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