Our Own Correspondente in New York 1881
A Brooklyn man’s failed home plumbing misadventure ends with an explosive harpoon and a safer turn to science. Across Manhattan, urban life, tenement congestion, and weathered transport figures frame a city scene as thunder and a civic reform effort unfold amid public notices and social satire.
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New York
Brooklyn
Manhattan Island
Louis Berge
England
France
Bowery
United States
Thompson Street
Congress Hyatt Smith
Lm Place
Brookly
Dr. Wild
On the Wing Through Chicago and St Louis in 1881
A traveling correspondent rides the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Alton and St. Louis routes to Chicago for the German Sangerfest. The piece praises conductor L Mason, the Palace chairs, dining cars, and St. Louis Bridge then shifts to the Garfield assassination shock, noting Lincoln and Garfield as beloved leaders and a nation in prayer for the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Capitol
Great American
Colorado
Baltimore and Ohio R. A
Lee
Beauregard
Jackson
Gettysburg
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Gov. Wise
Congress
Ohio
Iadiana
Illinois
Chicago
Palmer House
Chicago & Alton Road
L. Mason
Chicago, Alton
Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
Phags
Fra Roces Sermon Forces Repentant Hands to Fall
Naples preacher Fra Roces delivers a dramatic sermon on sinful living and divine judgment. He asks for repentant hands and, amid astonishment, nearly every raised hand drops as he invokes Archangel Michael to cut off hypocritical hand signs. The incident highlights traits of impudence vanity and curiosity as linked children of one family.
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Fra Roces
Naples
Archangel Michael
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Sullivan
Ww. G. Young & Co
Drs
Indianapolis
South Side
R. FE. Conkle
Gis
Troll & Burks
Crawley & McKinley
Vic. Woodhull
Victovia
Miss Wood
Colin Campbell
Duke of Argyle
Princess Louise of
Lorne
Cambell
Charles I
Argyle
Cromwell
Haubees
Gotham
Barnes
Prospect Park
Telephone Central Office
Flatbush
Orangemen
Herald
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