The Garden Gate Poem Among Youthful Dreams
The boy on the garden gate sings and swings while dreaming of future fame and virtue. He gazes abroad as time passes toward manhood, imagining honors, crowns, and a place among kings. He may rise to lofty pride and guide by virtue, becoming one of the world’s great hearts.
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Garden
Tie
Chas. W. Butier
Reed
J. R
Henry
Thad
Ife
San Francisco Sunday Chronicle
The Sheep Herder's Frontiers Indian Battle
A desert shepherd recounts his perilous Arizona summer herding near Hell Canyon and Pheno Valley. After a deadly Apache ambush, a fierce rifle defense on a rocky knoll preserves his life, but his assistant is slain and the lone survivor contemplates leaving the trade.
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Prescott
Colorado
New Mexico
Hell Canon
Devil's Cedars
Pheno Valley
Marriage Bet Sparks Sudden Union in Prov Providence Journal
In a summer garden scene a quarrelsome old bachelor and Aunt Patty confront a hasty marriage proposal. Aunt Patty initially resists but the bold suitor presses for a quick yes or no, declaring Becky Hastings waiting elsewhere, while the pair spar over age and urgency.
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Aunt Patty
Chance
Patty
Burdock Burr
Jabez Andrews
Becky Hastings
Patt
Jabez
Beck Hastings
Providence Journal
Russia Recognizes Spanish Republic as Garlists Win at Seo de Urgel
A terse dispatch notes Russia finally recognizes the Spanish Republic while the Garlists secure a victory at Seo de Urgel. The Ohio New Constitution suffers a decisive defeat amid regional disorder in Georgetown, South Carolina and surrounding areas.
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Russia
Spanish Republic
Seo de Urgel
Global News Snippets From 1874 Dispatches
Reports from Madrid, Bayonne, Glasgow and London detail Carlist advances in Spain, Republican reactions, and strikes. Madrid says Carlists cut rail and telegraph lines. Blanco relieves Vittoria and drives Carlists to Estella. Bayonne notes Tristany capturing Seo de Urcel. 50,000 miners meet at Durhim to protest working conditions. Glasgow hosts a mass home rule gathering. London cites new clubs in the North.
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Republic
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Estella
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Tristany
Seo de Urcel
Lerida
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Bradlingh
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Scotland
London
England
Foreign Office
Omaha Girl Fatally Burned While Using Kerosene
Amelia Forpran of Omaha Nebraska died after attempting to start a fire with kerosene. The incident occurred recently and is under investigation by local authorities.
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Amelia Forpran
Omaha
Remarkable dog helps extract needle from cat
A St Bernardine and Newfoundland mix named Carlo in Wilmington is praised for diagnosing the cat Dick’s neck injury after a needle and thread got into its meat. Carlo licked the neck to ease pain and then pulled the needle free with his teeth, while a Crawford family member finished the removal.
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Whitfield Crawford
Seventh and
Madison Streets
Mr. Crawford
Carlo
Cario
Crawford
Wilmington
Del
French Household Frugality Highlights French Saving Habits
A letter from France contrasts French thrift with American waste. It notes no wasted food in harvesting or kitchen prep, precise meal portions, no leftovers, careful kitchen management, and fuel savings due to scarce coal and wood. A closing quip mentions a wealthy English widow seeking tall suitors for a shoe fetish.
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Mepiir
France
Chicago
America
United States
Two Rich Men in 19th Century New York Fortunes
A New York correspondent highlights Commodore Vanderbilt as the city’s leading personal estate holder with an estimated 40 million dollars, mainly in railway properties including Connecticut River and New Haven lines. He contrasts Vanderbilt’s rail focus with A T Stewart who combines real estate and personal estate holdings totaling at least 30 to 40 million, noting Stewart’s Broadway stores and Fifth Avenue palace.
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Lake Shore
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Mississippi
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A.T. Stewart
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Baptist Church
Amity Street
Depeau
Depeau Row, In Bleecker Street
Fifth Avenue Palace
Stewart
Vanderbilt
What Can You Do A nation’s plea for work and skill
A reader released from Eastern Penitentiary says he has no trade but seating cane seats learned in prison and even that is useless outside. The piece argues many lack marketable skills, from the educated heir to the unemployed laborer, and urges mastering a useful trade to fight poverty and crime.
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Eastern Penitentiary
National Baptist
English professor links typhoid to local fungus in water
Professor Buckman of England reports a typhoid outbreak tied to a gelatinous fungoid coating on a family pump spout. Microscope shows spores washing from the fungus into drinking water and sewer- outlet tests reveal similar growths in the drainage area. He concludes the fever originates from the ingested fungus.
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Buckman
England
Des Moines Woman Uses Vitriol On Scalp For Dandruff
A young Des Moines woman applied vitriol to her scalp to treat dandruff and retains little concern for the resulting condition of her remaining scalp.
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Dandfuil
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