Diverse News Notes From A Turbulent Era
Dr Hal O Wotan on state board condemns rapid fortune shifts and immigration spillover as driving toward insanity. Dr Henry Carpenter’s distinguished lineage and links to Stevens and Buchanan noted. Canadian Pacific plans subsidies for Vancouver Yokohama mails threaten American routes. A man cured of asthma by bird shot leads to fatal food poisoning scare. Brigham Young’s son John Willard pays lavish estate heirs. Winnipeg Sabbath described as a quiet old New England scene. Mayall claims color photographs in London Times, three years' work, no hand painting.
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Hal O Wotan
Dyetrol
State Board of Cortoet Ome and Charities
Reynard
Crauden
Tino
Michigan
Port Huron
Macie
Hame
John Willard Young
Brigham Young
London Times
Mayall
Prodigal Son Returns After Twenty Two Years Absence
G D Worley, once a barefooted youth, returns to his Kentucky home after twenty two years of wandering. He reunites with his aged mother, now believed dead, and his wife and son, amid a village feast. A neighbor once suspected in Worley’s long-ago disappearance is welcomed back into the family. Worley plans to resume life with his mother accompanying him back home.
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Adsence
Wipless
Wilness
Wareley
Worley
Bowling Green
Erasioo
Belleray
Kentucky
Hone
Warley
United States Army
St Louis
Avid Malvern Railroad Company
G. D. Worley
Morehead
Iba
Hiram
Warlew
Relic of the War: tariff men and moonshiner unite on whisky tax
The New York Evening Post notes signals that northern tariff advocates and southern moonshiners may join to repeal the whisky tax at the next Congress session. The piece argues that opposition to internal revenue evokes wartime relics and frames free liquor as preferable to other free goods.
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North
South
Internal Revenue
New York Evening Post
Homes for Workingmen by a New Plan in The Epoch
Erastus Wy tan of New York proposes a combined building and insurance program to provide homes for workingmen in London style. A buyer would pay 500 down on a 2000 house and 4 yearly 500 installments. if he dies, his wife inherits with no extra payment. The plan shifts cost to employers and insurers, appealing to wives and conservative workers, promising stability and lasting home ownership.
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New York
George Peabody
London
Erastus Wytan
Kingmen of
Ives
Gts Howe
Inentitiee
Taston Philanthoplets
Te Liboring
Thos
Boston Advertiser
The Age of American Literature in a Colonial Library
A reflection on Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford Library and the scant presence of American books in its catalog. The piece compares early American authors to British tastes, notes Webster and Cooper, Bryant and Hawthorne, and envisions American literature growing beyond a half century. It ends with a query about the next fifty years.
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Werel Abbotsford
Walter Scott
Si Walter
Isa
Suyutiel G. Good
Peter Parley
Daniel Webster
England
Amelia
Sir Walter
Washington Irsing
Fenime A Cooper
Wiliam
Lidia el Sigatutey
Waller Scatt Wiel
Wooder
Columbia's First Woman Graduate
Mary I Hankey, twenty, daughter of James Hankey of Garretson Station IL, became Columbia's first woman graduate. She appeared slight and attractive, with blue eyes and clear complexion, dressed well, carrying a silk paten fan and forget-me-nots. Her father tutored her at home, a college man. Bouquets of roses were given to her and the other young ladies.
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Columbia
Mary I. Hankey
James Hankey
Garretson Station
New York Herald
What We Have Suppressed In Chicago Better Elements Stay
The Detroit Tribune quotes a harsh view of Chicago politics, arguing the better elements appear on top while others manipulate the system, describing the situation as an awful slimy mess held down by those in power.
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Chicago
Detriot
Tribune
Blaine Sons Story Shows Wealth and Woes in New York
Three sons of James G Blaine faced temptations during a New York visit. Eminons Blaine thrives as a railroad man in the northwest and plans for wealth. Walter and James Blaine Jr. pursue different careers while the father’s fame, courtship of power, and a pocketful of $200 bills weave through the tale. A missing stash becomes a comic chase as Blaine recovers the money with legal flair.
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James G. Haine
New York
Emmons
Walter
James Blaine, Jr
Wiese
Eminons Blaine
Northwest
Wliwina Way
Chicago
Tess
Blaine West
Meg
Blaine
Walker Blaine
Vanity Fair Style Echoes Through Time in Dreamlike Verse
Fragmented verses reference vanity and fashion with archaic phrasing and garbled lines. The piece mentions a pack of temptations, longing for love, and comments on fashion’s hold over society. It evokes a nostalgic, melodramatic tone about garments and desire.
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Vanity Fair
Vanity
Mablen
Yisu
Giant eagle attacks hog and a buzzard in wild scene
In Georgia a hunter recounts a dramatic encounter with a large eagle. The bird seized a hog, fought off rival birds, and then dragged a buzzard and its four young beneath a tall pine. The mother eagle and cubs displayed startling size and power in a swamp setting near Dublin.
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Plantoon
Milton
Tam Satitied
Mr. Lester
Dublin
What Bank Checks Say
A Chicago News piece notes bank checks reveal character of firms and individuals. It contrasts stolid big banks with flashy outfits like Pumpkin, Hayseed & Co, detailing printed photos, family likenesses, and even mustaches on checks. It argues stability and backing influence check size and reliability.
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Bank Canliler
Aoont
Mtine
Valentian
Instone Uke
Artioch
Aod
Marshall
Pall Mitte
Pumpkin
Hayseed & Co
Michigan
Alwok
Oslost Incubater Company
Dames Russell Lowell
Chicago News
Yale Seallot Class Athletes Cost Figures Questioned
Hartford Courant critiques Yale college authorities over annual exam of athletic costs. Letter argues data are meager and often based on guesses, exaggerating expenses to mislead readers. It contends generalizations harm the college and broader educational aims.
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Yale
Enarsa
Fether Education
Hartford Conrint
What Mother Gets
A boy describes his mother performing endless chores at home, waking everyone, preparing meals, and sending siblings to school or work. He notes her as the sole breadwinner in spirit, while acknowledging she has no pay. The exchange, from American Farmer and Somerville Journal, reflects rural family dynamics.
Essence of the Tuo-keth and Confucian Virtue Explained
The text expounds a bimaterial ultimate principle guiding all existence, with active yang and passive yin driving creation. It ties material and moral worlds as opposite results of the same force, praising Confucius as the last holy man whose sacral books reveal this vision. Government aims to make people virtuous and contented.
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God
Confucius
Jubilee misrule noted in press critique of Victoria
The Allanta Contifullior condemns Queen Victoria’s Jubilee plans as misaligned with widespread suffering in Ireland Wales and London. It argues royal generosity overlooks hunger and poverty while class divide widens amid a looming unrest and calls for charity and justice from those in power.
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Quen
Victoria
Allanta
Ireland
Wales
London
Scotland
Qreen
France
It Was the Cat and the Kateer At Supper
A fragmentary verse recounts a jolly cat at a supper of fried fish when a blue smoke puffed from the dish and cinders flew. A chimney puffed out the cat as the inevitable dish allure returns, with a temperance man from Pittsburgh objecting to a full receipt.
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Kateer
Palalophia News
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Alma Record
Mich
Alma
Henry Carpenter
Lancaster
Switzerland
Melcriet Zimmerman
Avenies
Carpenter
Henry
Jing
Tate
Thaddeus Stevens
James Buchanan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Vancouver
Yokhama
Amerione
Cannisian Pacific
Atlantic
Tyeland
Canada
Pacific
Bath Cam
Frevktert
Winnipeg
Manitob
the Prodigal Son
Blaine's
Beareay
Somerville Jowre Wal
Pitteburgh
Pittaburgh Chronicle
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