Bad and Good Points About Our Jury System
A veteran judge argues juries must reflect the whole people not a narrow class. He cites rising corporate influence, uneven verdicts, and the need to reform jury duty to preserve trial by jury as a cornerstone of free government. The piece urges broader civic participation and safeguards to restore public confidence.
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Lfe
Commonwealth
Common Pleas
Supreme Court
Thaddeus Stevens
Department of Internal Affairs
Harrisburg
Board of
Jury Commissioners
Philadelphia
Lessies
Cober
Bualnoea
John Hay Praises Scott at Westminster Abbey Bust Unveiling
Col John Hay spoke at Westminster Abbey during the unveiling of a bust to Sir Walter Scott. He praised Scott as a great American favorite whose novels and poems shaped frontier tastes and national imagination. Hay noted Scott’s enduring masterfulness in narrative and moral influence across both hemispheres.
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Sir Walter
Westminster Abbey
John Hay
Lowell
United States
Court of St. James
Sir Walter Scott
Wizard of the North
New York Tribune
Walter Scott
America
Scott
Kentucky
Waverley
Scotland
Preparations for The Big Jubilee in London
Special Correspondence from London describes the Jubilee preparations with Royal visits and crowd safety, including Queen Victoria seen at Hyde Park and discussions on stands and emergency egress along the route. It notes extensive London social events, court gowns, and the public’s devoted reactions to the Jubilee celebrations.
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London
Parliament
Oaths and Language in a Manchester Swearing Testimony
St James Gazette notes a Manchester inquiry into a house linked to gambling where Jewish residents spoke Yiddish when among themselves and English otherwise. The writer argues American swearing lacks mystery and virtue, praising English tone as simple and strong compared to Spaniard French German exclamations.
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Manchester
Ameri
James Ganette
Tobacco Abstainers Outpace Users in Yale Study
The Yale official physician reported on a class of seven students in 1891. Four tobacco abstainers outperformed seven users in weight by 104 percent, height by 4 percent, and chest girth by 20.7 percent, with abstainers gaining 75 percent in lung capacity compared with tobacco users. At Yale the average lung capacity gain was 77.6 percent for abstainers.
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Yale University
Amherst
Yale
Four Mosquito Truths From New Jersey in Summer Era
A Boston Transcript piece outlines four truths about the mosquito. It claims that clean air prevents malaria, that weak germs inoculate against strong ones, that mosquitoes do not drink human blood, and that mosquitoes only bite those susceptible to malaria, portraying the insect as a humane, almost medical ally rather than a threat.
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New Jersey
Boston Transcript
Weather Talk At The Cabin On A Scorching Day
Sambo and Chloe discuss a German claim of ninety six degrees in the shade as they fan on their cabin porch. Chloe questions the figure while Sambo defends it and explains a rule about hottest weather measured to a hundred degrees, with both repeating the idea amid heat and humor.
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M. P
Miles Radioo
Her Majesty's Drawing Room
Paris
Queen Mab
Sadie E. Kaiser
Tophet
Sambo
Chiow
Chloe
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John Dean
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Law Academy of Philadelphia
Morality
Miss Kaiser
the Tribune
Tweed
Badie
Queen's Hall
Windsor
Hyde Park Corner
Queen Victoria
Beatrice
Broker Chapman
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