Underground Chicago A Hidden City Beneath the Streets
The article portrays Chicago as a vast subterranean world with about 8 000 workers including women-building tunnels sewers and conduits. It details tunnels of multiple foot sizes totaling nearly 38 miles, vast sewer systems on the South Side, and a network of pipes cables and tunnels powering daily life with limited daylight for many workers.
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Chicago
Boston
New York
Detroit
Cincinnati
Rome
Alexandria
Bureau of Public Works
State Street
Lagalle Street
Thirtyninth Street
Wrong Side of the Revolution A Southern Anecdote
A Southern statesman recounts a Fourth of July tale about Hessian soldiers who settled in North Carolina after the Revolution. A veteran recalls fighting with Washington and tests the crowd with a quip about crossing the Delaware, ending with a humorous twist about sides.
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Kluttz
Washington Post
North Carolina
Cornwallis
Trenton
Delaware
Washington
Marconi Signals Puzzle: Waves Bend or Travel Round Earth
The article discusses how Marconi's signals may not pass straight over the water barrier between Cornwall and Newfoundland. It suggests waves might bend or travel around the curved earth, possibly via a highly rarefied upper air forming a shell around the globe. It notes Fleming and Blake as competing ideas and hints at wireless power possibilities if true.
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Marconi
Cornwall
Newfoundland
Harper's Weekly
Fleming
London
Reforming Criminals Through Restorative Workshop System
The speaker argues against killing or shaming criminals and calls for reformative justice. A system is outlined where an arrested person undergoes life inquiries, tutelage by trustworthy mentors, and confinement if needed, then work in a workshop focused on reform rather than profit, with a kept record and eventual earned employment.
The Sabbath as Religious Institution and Rest Day
A historic view traces the Sabbath to a Babylonian proto type as an atonement day, not a rest from labor, with rites to appease gods. Hebrews later grafted ideas to create the weekly respite from toil seen as an inauspicious dies non.
French Census Shows Algeria Native Population Doubling
The French census returns for Algeria reveal the native Arab and Kabyle population has nearly doubled in under 50 years from 2 307 000 in 1356 to 4 071 000 currently. Worries. As people grow older, worries that once haunted them at night linger throughout the day.
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Algeria
Kaby'e
Chicago Inter Ocean
Atchison Globe
The Disciples Scattered and Philip in Samaria
In Acts 8 1-13 and surrounding text the scattered followers preach boldly as Saul persecutes, Philip goes to Samaria to preach Christ, miracles heal many, Simon Magus attracts attention, and Peter and John confirm the Spirit’s blessing. The early church grows amid opposition and wonders.
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Saul
Philip
Samaria
Christ
Bimon
Sameria
Philo
Jesus Christ
Simon
Phhiuip
Samaria Oso
Pa-Mest
Stephen
Jesus
Agrippa
Simon Magus
Peter
John
Miolip
Bunthown
Simea
German Language Use Drops Across Switzerland and Prussian Night Fines
The clumsy OCR notes trends in language and law, citing Swiss German usage falling to 697 per 1900 residents and a Prussia rule requiring husbands to be home by 11 pm with a $250 fine. It references Barbatre department, German wheat crop shortfalls, and dining habits, all in terse, fragmentary form.
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Barbatre
Switzerland
Prussia
Knights of the Golden Circle secret meetings exposed
An Indiana schoolhouse hideout of the Knights of the Golden Circle near Newcastle drew troops to stop a planned railway raid and governor assassination. Newspapers noted limited wartime dispatches and described Benbow’s warning, arrests, and one escape aided by Gov. Morton ally Martindale, while a sergeant recalled sparse army life reporting.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Knights of the Golden Circle
Sons of Liberty
Newcastle
Ind
Jesus Benbow
Copperheads
Knights
Selefontaine Road
Indianapolis
Gov. Morton
Reahbow
United States
KB. Martindale
Benbow
Knight of the Golden Circle
Indiana
West Wiepinta
The Youngest Soldier From Ohio in Civil War Times
Ohio produced the union army’s youngest veteran J P Lyon who enlisted at eleven as drummer in the Eighty first Ohio Infantry. The article traces Lyon’s war service from Morrow county birth to battles Shiloh Pittsburg Landing and Corinth and notes kin in Gen Nathaniel Lyon and others. It also lists other boy soldiers including Van Zandt Clem Rife Livermore Laird and McKinley in youth military service.
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Ohio
Union Army
Grand Army of the Republic
Minnesota
J. P. Lyon
St. Sicians
Jyelling Lyon
Eighty-first Ohio Infantry
Morrow County
New Jersey
Eights-first Infantry
Missouri
Tennessee
Shiloh
Pittsburg Landing
Pittsburg
Corinth
Mr. Lyon
Tipt
Davitt Lyon
Nathaniel Lyon
Wilson's Creek
Trat
Washington
Mr Lyon
Gilbert ‘van “Zandt
Maj
John Clem
WC Rife
Pennsylvania
C Wo Livermore
Eleventh
Wisconsin Infantry
Congressman Laird
Nebraska
J. H. Wilson
Fourth
Ohio Cavalry
Badger
Druimmer
Minnesota Infantry
Private John Allen’s Story and a Civil War Retort
A Kansas City Star writer recalls Private John Allen’s famed reply to Bou telle on Confederate flags and surrender. A Chicago Daily News item recounts a barefoot tale of hardship shared on a rail fence, ending with a warning about burning questions from the future.
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Cleveland
John Aller
Boutelle
Maine
Kansas City Star
Bonatelle
John Wren
Speaker Dle
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Chicago Daily News
Dusiky Duggan
Het
Marconi’s
Atlantic
Blake
Nilé
Niagara
Europe
Christendom
Great Britain
Henry Vite
Henry VI
Tim
Jos
God
Fecha Pather
Leone
Kai
Storkea
Representativen
Breeer
Mars
Poe
Weshard
Grand Army
John P Lyon
John Allen
Zeb
Besid
Chicageo
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