Basil Vere and Marie Win Her Father’s Consent
Basil Vere woos Marie, daughter of a wealthy lawyer, amid disapproving kin and a rival Francis Somerville. The river accident水平, confrontation, and dramatic reconciliation lead to Marie forgiving Francis as Basil earns her father’s blessing.
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Francis Longer
Marie
Basil Vere
Thames
Oxford
St. ‘Saviour’s Church
Basil
Francis Somerville
Francis
New South Dried Potatoes Promise Big Market Impact
The South Carolina Experimental Station touts dried potatoes as a simple low cost method to preserve and ship a major crop. Boiled peeled and evaporated potatoes can be stored years and rehydrated for eating, potentially turning one acre yielding 337 bushels of raw into 105 bushels of dried product for distant markets.
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South Carolina
Canadian Mineral Value Reaches Record in 1900
The total value of Canada s mineral product in 1900 reached over 3 000 000 dollars, accounting for a significant share of the country s wealth and contributing to national development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Cattle Boom and Deserted Ranges in the Old West
The cattle country once offered vast grass and free range with minimal taxes and immense profits. Immigrants flocked in after railroads connected Texas. Conflicts over land led to fence-cutting and bloodshed as ranges emptied. now many ranges in Texas New Mexico and Arizona are deserted and unable to sustain cattle.
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Orice
Ron
Century
Texas
Texas Pacific Railroad
New Mexico
Arizona
Unusual Animal Surgery Saves Nylghan Leg
A three month old nylghan in the Central Park menagerie had a left foreleg broken in two places after a leap during a game. Directors and keepers used a tar splint after setting the bones. four weeks later the limb showed thorough union and the animal resumed lively activity.
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Nylghan
Central Park
New York Sun
John W. Smith
Snyder and
Shannon
Edmund B. Southwick
Willcox
Fireman interrupts Welsh singer with dramatic boots gag
An entertainment in a large provincial town featured a vocalist performing The Miner and Dream of Home in fancy costume. Mid second verse a fireman burst in from the hall entrance yelling to the entertainer to come off stage, claiming immediate danger, as the man wore the fireman’s boots for effect.
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Bill
Distrust of Herbert Shaping Promising Yet Unreliable Youth
Ethel notes Herbert has a lovely disposition but her father doubts his reliability He fears Herbert would improve without resenting guidance and recalls a ball game where Herbert refused to fight an umpire after an unjust call against the Washington Stars.
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Herbert
Ethel
Washington ‘Stars
Giving Better Than Receiving
A sermon argues that giving brings greater blessing than receiving, citing Jesus and Paul. It extols charity, selflessness, and the joy of aiding others, urging readers to practice giving to reach harmony with God and lasting personal worth.
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Paul
Jesus
Christ
Warning to the Profane by Rev Frank De Witt Talmage
A preacher recalls a thunderstorm in Elizabethtown where a blasphemer amid a barn audience challenged God and was struck dead by lightning. The tale warns profane defiance and urges reverence for divine will.
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Rev
Frank de Witt Talmage
Harmony with God's Will by Rev W B Jennings
A religious meditation on harmony with divine will. The text argues harmony brings joyful obedience and a fuller life, with God as man’s environment and the source of existence. It contrasts harmony with sin which disturbs order and discord.
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God
Rev
W. B. Jennings
D. D
Resurrection as a Reality by Rev. John D. Leek
A sermon arguing the centrality and evidence of Christ's resurrection. It cites witnesses, historic corroboration, and early church practices as proof that He rose from the dead and remains divine.
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Rev
John D. Leek
Christ
Strauss
Josephus
Tacitus
Whatsoever Ye Do in Life Under Lordly Rule
A religious exhortation from Rev. L. E. Sellers of the Christian Church in Terre Haute Indiana urging that all aspects of life including business politics society and religion be governed by the aim of pleasing the Lord rather than personal appearances.
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L. E. Sellers
Christian Church
Terre. Haute
Ind
Katherine Hager Featured in Local Notice
A fragmentary local notice mentions Katherine Hager in a public listing with limited readable details. The item hints at a personal notice or event but lacks full context or dates.
Soldiers at Home and Grant's Rise to Lieutenant General
A reflective piece recalls Civil War life in camps and on march days, then shifts to Grant’s 1864 appointment as lieutenant general. It recounts Congress and Lincoln’s handling of Halleck and Grant, the White House reception crowd, and a wartime anecdote about Von Schrader of the Seventy-fourth Ohio enduring derision from his own regiment during a mud march.
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United States
Congress
Halleck
Washington
Chambers of Congress
Grant
Bill
White House
Great East Room
Noah Brooks
Satler
Pezcuel
Alexander ‘von
Schrader
Seventy-fourth Ohio
Granville Moody
von Schrader
Seventy-fourth
von Schrader -Atobe
Chicago Inter Ocean
Army Taunts and By Words from the Civil War Sutler Scandal
A Civil War anecdote recalls the 1862 Jackson Tennessee sutler looting incident involving seven Illinois regiments. The Twentieth Illinois bore guilt for a stolen box of cigars found on Eph Castle of Company H, resulting in a $1,500 per-man levy. The incident prompts jibes about cows and milk versus rations.
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Jackson, Tenn
Eph Castle
Twentieth Illinois
Twentieth
Illinois
Jackson
City Troops Prove Tougher Than Country Regiments
Captain William T. Haskell of Washington, D. C. argues that city regiments show lower mortality than country regiments. He cites War Department records and anecdotes from French and German officers noting higher disease in rural troops, challenging the idea that urban life is unhealthy.
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William T. Haskell
Washington,d . C
War Department
Army of the Potomac
New York
Stoddard
Vermont
Chickahominy
Gettysburg letter honors Sickles amid Civil War reminiscence
A 1902 Interior Department dispatch quotes Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet praising Gen. Daniel Sickles for his Gettysburg role and noting wounds that heal and unity after the conflict. Longstreet sends best wishes to Sickles and the Army of the Potomac.
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Gettysburg
Department of the Interior
Washington
D. B. ‘Sickles
Slocum
Potomac
Gene Sickles
James
Fragmentary reminiscence on practice and memory
A clipped fragment recalls piano practice and memory of a mother named Mamma and a child named Arthur. The text hints at fatigue and questions about angels bearing someone through difficult practice moments.
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Arthur
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St Saviour’s
Marid
Ily
Marte
Alpper
Lin Vain
Mane
Vis
Otis
Julius Fist
Maddy
Vere
New York News
Rev. J. O Rust
Heaven
Emerson
Menlo Park
Edison
Jesus Christ
Kazlitt Arvine
Elizabethtown
Adirondack Mountains
Katherine
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