The Presidents Wife A Gossipy Sketch of Mrs Harrison
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece recounts Caroline Scott Harrison’s childhood in Oxford and Philadelphia, her early temper, education, and marriage to Benjamin Harrison. It notes their modest means, home life in Indianapolis, wartime sacrifices, and her charitable leadership including Garfield Hospital advocacy in Washington.
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Caroline Scott Harrison
Oxford
Chicago
Stev. J. W. Scott
Miami University
West
Dr. Scott
Scott
John Neal
Philadelphia
Carrie
Lord
Caroline
Old College
Old Miami
Dr. Bishop
Farmer’s College
College Hill
Cincinnati
Oxford Female College
Indianapolis
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Washington
Harrisons
Garfield Hospital
Harrison
Logan
Popping the Question in Varying Styles Across Regions
The article contrasts three courtship approaches pop hesitating pop deliberate and pop precipitate noting New York and Philadelphia trends. It cites West regions where precipitate proposals are common as in St Louis where a widow found a husband in an hour. It mentions a Deaf Mute Lawyer from Chicago highlighted for his abilities and a Supreme Court connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philadelphia
West
St. Louis
Boston
Reuue
Ed G. Parkinson
Chicago
Aent
Tee
United States Supreme
Lincoln Rewrites Emancipation Proclamation Draft
Historian Nicholas Hay notes Lincoln, on December 81, 1882, revised the proclamation draft with final changes including a military necessity qualifier. New Year’s receptions delayed the signing, and fewer than a dozen witnesses observed the signature before seals and archives.
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Messrs
Nicholas and
Hay
Lincoln
Chase
Department of State
Bill Nye Story and a Hotel Clerk in a Pottery Benign Exchange
A Chicago News report recalls Bill Nye arriving in New York with a thousand dollars earned west of the Rockies. Nye asks for a bed at Everett House, pays nothing up front, and remarks to a clerk that he recalls Henry Clay, then jokes that the clerk resembles common yellow clay. The piece ends with a tangential medical column on emetics and a sensational note about a supposed hydrophobia cure from Peruvian pouca juice.
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Clay
Bill Nye
Chicago
Bill
New York
Mr. Nye
Delmonico’s
Nye
Everett House
Ayacutho
Peru
Eam
President Barnard's Rise From Coast Survey to Columbia College
The article portraits Charles W. Barnard of Yale origins and Union sympathies who, after fleeing the South at the start of the Civil War, became Coast Survey staff, then President of Columbia College in New York for 24 years. His success is attributed to innate character rather than luck.
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Barnard
Columbia College
University of Mississippi
Massachusetts
Yale
South
Sumter
Washington
The
Coast Survey
City of
New York
Tama
McCulloch
The Blood in Our Veins and a Paradox of Ancestry
An article notes that with generations counted at twenty five years each, a living person would have had about thirty five million ancestors by the time of William the Conqueror, implying a mix of noble and common ancestors in every lineage. It ends with a quip about belief and understanding linking to Dr Parr.
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Chicago
William the Conqueror
England
Baltimore Sun
Hood
W.H. Lawrence
Agricultural Epitomist
Indianapolis
Ind
A. P. Leighton
Portland
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Jacon Tome
Port Deposit, Md
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Price
Hale
Pike
Dr. Parr
Livestoc
Choice
Abe
State
Werter
Wisconsin
Baltimore
Capr
Grain
C.J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Magee
J.A. Magee & CO
Lawrence, Mass
Toronto
Canada
Swift
Drower 3
Atlanta, Ga
Bradfield
Bradfield Regulator
Atlanta
Melon
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Charles A. Vogeler
Baltimore, MD
Texas
Houston & Texas Century.co
Fort Worth
Denver
Wilbarger County
Panhandle
J.S. Napier
Vernon
C. C. Gibbs
Land Ag’t
Houston
Tex
Ely
D. G. Davidson
Ely Brothe
Ars
USA
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Tutt
Valentine Buos
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Wwe Cmuwimume
Manuf’c CO
Holmick
Ems
Ford W. T. Fitzgerald
Iear
Washington, D. C
Fitzgerald
U. & Claim Agency
Sam
Nationa
Ance Forall
Atortune New Union Pub Co
Waite J.P. Geppert
M.D. Dim't
Hee
S Kam Street
Lovell Manly. Co
Erie, Pa
N.K
Joseph H. Hunter
Bell
Pierce
Mar
World's DispensaRy Medical Association
Proprietors
Aerce
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