The Helen Froment Dream in a City Hospital
Horatio Bronson, ill in a city hospital, narrates his fever dream of a devoted nurse named Helen Froment who wards his delirium with music, painting, and tenderness. After recovery the nurse vanishes as a fever-created vision, replaced by a German governess and a doctor’s blunt verdict that Helen was a figment born of delirium and a Rubens study left behind.
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Arthur
Venice
Helen Froment
Rubens
Clark
Europe
Bellevue
Boadicea
Saragossa
Jex Blake
the Stock Exchange
Horatio Bronson
Dam
Helena Froment
Lmvan
Hale
Horatio
Helen
Helen Frement
Mrs. Clark
Nester
Teckan
Wall Street
Ben
Helen of
Troy
Miss Hunt
Simon
Sheen
West Blank Street
Dr. Hammond
Sir Walter Raleigh
Clarks
Howe Farley
Moston
A Mile a Minute on a Locomotive
Counselor Farley recalls rushing to a dying child in Atlantic City with a Philadelphia to Atlantic City train ride described as seasickness like a wild voyage. The account details the engine’s speed, dust, and the engineer’s calm, ending with the child’s fading but saved moment.
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Farley
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Camden
Delaware
Philadelphia Times
Sneers at Democratic Complaints and Bribery Charges
A column condemns Democratic smears about bribery in tight elections, arguing the burden of corruption rests with the party that bribes. It asserts poor voters align with Democrats across the North, and that Republican laws have harmed labor while benefiting capital. It notes campaign funding from millionaires. a shift in few county votes can decide states and the Presidency. Also mentions a new railway venture The National from New York to Chicago led by Horace Porter, and a forecast by Commissioner Evans of persistent moonshine among mountain regions in North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Dorsey
Supreme Bench
Trascal
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Huntington
Dudley
Secretary of the Treasury
John C. New
Platt
Stephenson
Indiana
New York
Commercial Advertiser
Rome
Jay Gould Crassus
United States
Democratic Party
Republican Party
N. Yorld
North
Mason
Anl Dixon
Prarty
Washington
Evans
North Carolina
Tennessee
F. Sun
Orpaieston
Orga
United States Senate
Garfield
Virginia
Mahone
New York Tribune
St. Louis
South
Pennsylvania
Conkling
Cameron
Colremsees
The Republican Purchase and the Mahone Controversy
The Colnseed Enquirer notes Republicans bought Senator Mahone as a strategic asset, then laments the harm he caused Virginia and the party. It contrasts Mahone’s ruthless, publicized tactics with cleaner figures like Conkling and Cameron, warning of future buyer beware.
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Strother Bros
Hobe
Ted Gray
Ted
Chum
Harper’s Bazar
Ackerly, Mackle- Wary & Cords
Arthur Clark
Artige Clark
Advicw
Mexico
Chihuahua
Columbia
Allegheny, Ps
the National
Chicago
West Shore
General Horace Porter
Inter Ocean
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