Doings at Chautauqua Week of Education and Lectures
A detailed weekly志report from Montfort Cottage Chautauqua July 31 1896 covers Prof T H Dinsmore’s imaginative moon voyage lecture and its scientific motifs Mentions German classes under Henry Cohn and Miss Laura Skinner, mother and teacher training, Sunday Episcopal and Catholic services, and a grand collegiate procession at Amphitheatre The piece also notes notable attendees lectures and entertainment plus personal notes on guests at various cottages and hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Howard
Laura Skinner
Dolly
Neatett
Mart Hofer
Henry K Theory
Froebel
Newton
Press Club Reception at Kellog Hall Honored Guests
A Press club reception hosted in Kellog Hall honored Miss Rhina Mosher of the Woman's Christian Temperance union and Dr. Eliza D. Mosher of the University of Michigan. The event featured cake and lemonade and a tour of W CTU rooms on the building's floors. The piece notes daily noon prayers, a talk on municipal reform by Mrs. Simpson of Scranton, and details of Kellogg Hall and the associated kindergarten and pedagogy programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Press Club
Rhina Mosher
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Eliza D. Mosher
Woman's College, University of Michigan
Mosher
Mother
Simpson
Scranton
Frances Willard
Kellog
Hayes
Chicago
England’s Corn Laws Repeal and Global Wheat Prices
The Times-Herald argues English repeal of the corn laws lowered grain prices and forced farmers to diversify. It cites global competition from New England to Argentina, explaining price declines come from cheap lands, machinery, and transport, not the money standard. The piece urges American farmers to diversify industries to cope with a world market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States
New England
Middle States
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minesota
North- West
Argentina
India
Australia
Russia
Siberia
Liverpool
One on the Bishop and the Barnum Legend
A Syracula Courier story recalls FP T Barnum inviting London clergy to see his show. The bishop of London and family visited Barnum who impressed him as generous and bright. The bishop joked about meeting in heaven and Barnum replied that they would, drawing hearty laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry James
Hving
London
Syracula Courier
FP. T. Barnum
Barnum
Tax receipts in early tariff periods compared
Custom receipts total 6 013 005 leva in the first twenty two months of the Wilson tariff and internal revenue receipts fall short by 85 720 144 compared with the first twenty two months of the McKinley tariff period.
The Manzman and The Mahzmen Reference at Bookstore
A dignified customer asks about The Manzman and The Mahzmen, while a new clerk mishears as markaman. The exchange touches on a claimed “SAFE of Buffalo PIN” and a 10 cent cancellation offer at a Chicago Tribune style scene.
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Manzman
Markaman
Chicago Tribune
The Old Fables of Alchemists and The Philosopher's Stone
An overview traces alchemy from Egypt to Arabia to Europe, noting Gebir and Albertus Magnus, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, and famous trials and verdicts. It covers transformations blamed on copper brass, the rise of alchemical societies, and the decline with Newton and Galileo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Hermes Trismegistus
Chemie
Seville
Gebir
Spain
Europe
France
Germany
England
Cordova
Toledo
Italy
Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon
von Bolletadt
Philospper's
Nurnberg Alchemical Society
Ite
Leibnitz
Goethe
Copernicus
Keppler
Galileo
Newton
Youngest Ever Named Bryan Keeps Presidential Hope Alive
The Washington Post notes William Jennings Bryan as Democratic nominee with an implied age figure of zero years, asserting he would be the youngest president if successful. It contrasts past leaders and their ages at election, listing figures from Washington to Harrison to illustrate age patterns in U.S. presidential history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Buchanan
Polk
Pierce
Grant
Garfield
Cleveland
Tyler
Filmore
Johnson
Arthur
Hrgan
General Grant
Johnn Adams
Jackson
Harrison
James Buchanan
Mr. Bryan
Washington Post
William Jennings Bryan
Washington
van Buren
Lincoln
Hayes
Benjamin Clarkson
John Adams
William Henry Harrison
Disproved HY Figures from the Post Express
The article rebutts free silver arguments by citing Chicago Almanac price figures for wheat corn and pork from 1737 to 1876. It claims farm product prices were higher in years after 1878, challenging the demonetization claim. The tone argues free silverites misread currency effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News Almana
Chicago
Delta
Hard Times and the Gold Standard Debate
The Chicago platform is accused of promoting gloom while data supposedly shows rising farm and factory values under a gold standard. Proponents argue prosperity will return with Republican power, contrasting with past free trade promises. The piece cites farm property, manufacturing capital, and industrial output growth as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellver Folke
Wiesle
United States
Chicago
Elver
New York Commercial Advertiser
Sorrowful hour as Horatio recalls a private party
Horatio boasts of sixty seven acquaintances and recalls a folding bed in his hall room. Nordyke comments on the impractical joke as a secret party nears. Walter Juan Davia in Judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mopuss
Nowdyke Wilvora
Pollag
Bass
Horatio
Hitl Hall
Omer
Nantyke
Nordyke
Walter Juan Davia
Cork Spectator urges halt amid virulent epidemic speech
A Cork Town councillor claims the epidemic is virulent and cites deaths of people who “never died before.” He defends a colleague, protesting an attack on his absent friend and condemning backbiting behind a mask.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork
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Chautauqua
Tribune
Dinsmore
Preas Club
the Tribune
Montfort Cottage
Bultin
Ponce de Leon
T. H. Dinsmore
Rocky Mountains
United States of America
Venus
Eve
Garden of Eden
Adam
Earth
Jules Verne
Henry Cohn
Northwestern University
Evanston, Il
Cohn
Fh. Hotchkiss
Long Point
Celeron
Timo
Colins
School of Pedagogy
College Hall
F. W. Gonsaulus
Roger
Ine
Dr. Palmer
Ines
Harper
Buffalo Quartette
Buffalo
F. W. Gunsaulus
Levi Gilbert
Shaler Matthews
Joan Willams White
Annie Jenness-Miller
Washington, D. C
C. L
Arcade
Joseph D. Weeks
Temperance Tribune
Pittsburg
Massachusetts
Huebani
Tron World
Vincent
Lewis Milter
Hotel Atheraeeum
Mary Davis
Cook Cottage
Miseee
Young Women's Christian Association of Scran
Montford Cottage
L. MM
Ils
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Boston Globe
Mary of
Scotland
Tenley-on-the- Triahes
Prince of
Naples
Sir Isaac Newton
Mrs. Newton
Sir Isaac
Charles Baudelaire
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Milo Rose
Corol
M. Camille
Mile. Roge
Corot
Charles Lamb
Mary
Anna
Edward Fitzgerald
Omar Khayyam
Phillips Brooke
John Burroughs
Fitzgerald
Eupiid
Bishop Brooks
Samuel J. Tilden
Walt Whitman
Cofort
Army Hospital
John Greenleaf Whittler
Frances E. Newton
Chicago Kindergarten Institute
Mari Ruof Hofer
Amalie Hofer
Mary Louise Butler
America
N. K. Fairbank Company
The
Times-Herald
Alchemists
Popular Science News
Raimund Lull
Paracelsus
Leipzig
August of Saxony
David Reuther
Reuther
Beuther
Elector
Breuther
Gold-House
Adepta
Erbach
Tankenstecin
Oderwoods
Mone
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