Barbra Frietchie and Currents in Public Schools Debate
The Press notes Barbra Frietchie rising toward mythic status amid congressional debate on Bible readings in public schools. It reports on Mount Hermon plans, a new church group, and The New Bally journal in London. It covers Senate discussions on Cuba relations, Samoa arbitrations, and naval armor pricing, plus long foreign-journey notes and secret-service spending trends through 1880s.
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Senate
Cuba
United
Tates
Stewart
Committee On Military
Mir Morgan
Alabama
Sahat
Grant and His Famous War Horses Across Mexico and Belmont
A fragmented reminiscence recalls Ulysses S. Grant riding down into Chapultepec Castle, then riding up out, with Cortes the horse’s name and the Colonel's astonishment. It recounts Garland the horse’s feats at Columbia Barracks, a six-gun leap, and Grant’s fame as Old Yellow. It notes Belmont and a daring retreat, a cream horse, and a black cook exchange episode with Bishop Polk.
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Cortes
Chapultepec
Ynalde
Leutenant
Scott
Fourth Infantry
Columbia Barracks
Fort , Vancouver
Columbia River
Washington Territory
Garland
George B. McClellan
Engineer Corps
Sas
Fidel
McClellan
Rufus Ingalls
Charles Lever
Charlie O'Malley
Richard Yates
Galena
Army of the Tennessee
Belmont
Mississippi
Bishop Polk
Columbus
Century Dawn Memorial Day School Recitation
A commemorative poem by William Heary Lynch urging peace and restraint as the century begins. It laments war, greed, and violence, calls for unarmed peace, and invokes moral renewal. The piece asks nations to pause bloodshed and envision a kinder, united world.
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Unites’ States
Germany
Samoa
Harti
Friends of Peace
Memorial Day School
Grant's Early Mounts Show Fearless Ride Mastery
From boyhood General Grant was famed for an unshakable seat on horses. He rode wild Texas stock as a lieutenant, a stallion he rode blindfolded, then unseated with ease as the horse dashed through chaparral. Longstreet and Cortez Memoirs note his fearless horsemanship.
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Washington
Texas
Longstreet
Military Academy
Cortez
Dimenity
In Brooklyn Car a Couple Skews to Stock Reports
A tall man reads a large newspaper in a Brooklyn car while a fashionable woman with candy and an opera libretto tries to snag a newsboy. The conductor blocks the sale, the newsboy is toppled, and the couple shifts to stock reports and society news as she reacts to lurid headlines.
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Brooklyn
New York Telegraph
Plead for Sunday Rest at Presbyterian Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly at St Louis May 21 passed a Sabbath observance resolution urging newspapers to skip Sunday reports of the Saturday conference. A debate over terms like slavery and enslaved ended with editing, replacing slavery with employment and enslaved with deprived, after Rev. G Kennedy Newell objected to strong phrasing.
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Leuis
Presbyterian General Assembly
James Vererance
New York
G. Kennedy Newell
Plainfield
N. J
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
William McKibbin
Cincinnati
St. Louie
Newell
Quiet Sunday as injunction halts St Louis strike leaders
Judge Adams issues a temporary writ restraining strike leaders from interfering with transit operations amid a St Louis strike. About fifty leaders are summoned to appear next Friday at 10 am to justify a permanent injunction. Debs ally arrives to aid the strikers in federal action as Mahon plans to plead his own case.
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Minneapolis
Rene Debs
Chicago
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Adams
Todd Suspended From Duty As Navy Hydrographer
Secretary Long relieves Commander C C Todd from duty as hydrographer of the navy and places him under suspension. The move follows Coast and Geodetic Survey efforts to take ocean surveys from the Navy with support from Cannan and others. Todd and supporters expect restoration after further consideration.
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Navy
Becaues
Long
Monument to Frances Slocum Unveiled Near Peru Indiana
The memorial for Frances Slocum, known as the White Rose of the Miamis, was unveiled at the Indian burying ground ten miles east of Peru. About 12,600 people attended, inclining nearly 200 Slocum family members and remaining Miami tribe members. Dr. Arthur Gaylord Slocum offered prayer, while Dr. Charles E. Slocum spoke. Victoria Bondy and Mabel Ray Bondy unveiled the monument.
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Frances Slocum
Indian Burying Ground
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Arthur Gaylord Slocum
Kalametno College
Charles E. Slocum
Defiance
Victoria Bondy
Mabel Ray Bondy
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Francer Slocum
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