Saline Notes and Oddities From a Chicago Page
A digest of quirky items from across the U.S. notes humorous quotes about education and temper, high treason rumors in Hawaii, bank scandals, poetry debates, social fads, and local mishaps. It mentions Boston Globe poetry stance, a being ill in Dansville, and a Chicago child pianist inspiring remarks.
Washington society at Capitol Hill and its famed skating season
The piece details Capitol Hill residences built for early leaders, society’s focus on charity balls, and the social circle centered around Senators Row. It highlights Miss Elizabeth Moorhead Stone’s debut, prominent Pennsylvania matrons, and the skating craze at the palais de glace with notable skaters and guests. It also notes Philadelphia’s gas works profit of nearly $300,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Grounds
George Washington
General Washington
van Nesse
Potomac Banks
White House
Elizabeth
Woman’s College
Baltimore
Miss Stone
Cleveland
Children’s Hospital
Washington
Washington Society
Congress
Capitol
Great New Congressional Library
United States
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
Turpie
Indiana
Mitchell
Wisconsin
Thomas Circle
Morrill
Vermont
Wyoming Territory
Merrill
Capitol Hill
Charles W. Stone
Pennsylvania
Stone
Sybil Pruncefoteer
Elizabeth Moorhead Stone
Society
Keystone State
Scott Townsend
Romero
Patenotre
Dr. Guzman
Senator Quay
Jack Robinson
Alvs
Harriet Lane Johnson
Justice Peckham
Capital
Palais de Glace
Legation
Denmark
Constantin Brun
Julian Pauncefate
Sybil Pauncefate
Lillian Pauncefote
Fuller
Alice Belknap
Philadelphia
America for God declares war on vice and declares a crusade
The speaker argues that America must be taken for God, framing the nation as the prophesied Western hemisphere. He envisions a vast evangelical campaign to combat alcoholism, socialism, nihilism, and atheism, led by a celestial and historic alliance, with cities as engines of reform and revival. The sermon lauds unity, cites demographic projections, and urges mobilization across political and religious lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Grecia
Medo-Persia
Babylon
Western Hemisphere
Germany
England
France
Egypt
Italy
Jesus
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Mr. Gladstone
Hawarden
Paris
United States
Hassel
Atkinson
God
Dakotas
Columbia Plains
Washington State
Great American Desert
Chatsworth Park
Henry Clay
Allegheny Mountains
Clay
Lucknow
Mohammed
Rockies
Sierra Nevadas
Buck
Tower of Babel
Shinar
Garibaldi
General Sherman
Stonewall Jackson
Washington
Delaware
Hell
Jerusalem
Heaven
India
Capernaum
Scotch Covenanters
Theban Legion
London Haymarket
Pilgrim Fathers
Drumeclog
Bothwell Bridge
Bannockburn
Edom
Bozrah
South
North
Fayette
New York
Kirkland
Ohio
Missouri
Salt Lake City
Pacific
Slater and Peabody
Chicago
Russia
Johnstown
Michigan
Charteston
Christ
New York Sty
Berlin
Edinburgh
Scotland
London
Stependows
Threshold of Discovery by Cathode Ray Explains New Medical View
The Kansas City Star predicts a breakthrough era as the cathode ray and sensitized plate enable doctors to locate bullets, poison in packages, and hidden objects in bodies. It foresees revelations about the heart liver and brain through rays penetrating skull and body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
Religious scruples drive repeated vaccination fines in Hissling
A professor at Hissling in Württemberg paid twenty fines of 15 marks over eighteen years for refusing his children vaccination. He cites religious scruples as the basis, though his children were vaccinated. The Ram's Horn notes ongoing religious divergences on the issue.
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Hissling
Wurtemburg
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J. Warren
Boston
Rudolph Spreckles
Hawaii
Koppers
Fitzsimmons
Dansville, N. Y
Carlton Simon
Salisbury
Austin
Boston Globe
Massachusetts
Aubrey Beardsley
Johanna
Barnum
St. Louis
Anderson
Ind
Golag
Cincinnati
New Jersey
Lord Shelto
Douglas
Lord Sholte
Cuba
Weyler
Sophia Braun
Skating Kinks
Charity
Elizabeth M. Stone
Talmage
Ram’s Horn