Preachers and Politics in the North American Review
Henry Ward Beecher defends clergy as ordinary citizens and urges ministers to guide civic duty without political entanglement. Henry J. Van Dyke counters that clergymen lack proper training for politics, warn against church state fusion, and call for preserving church independence from partisan agendas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ward Beecher
Dr. van Dyke
North American Review
Henry J. ‘van Dyke, Jr
D. D
Beecher
America
Christ
Jesus
New England
Francis Lieber
van Dyke
God
What Causes Cholera Report from British India Commission
London Lancet reproduces a Calcutta dated Nov 28 1884 dispatch from Dr J M Cunningham and the English cholera commission. It challenges Kochs comma bacillus theory and details experiments in Bombay and Calcutta showing no bacteria cause, that comma bacilli appear in other diseases, and that inoculations in animals did not produce illness, with a conclusion to finish inquiries by December.
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India
London
Lancet
the Gazette of India
Calcutta
J. M. Cunningham
Government of India
Ludis
Home Department
Inia
England
Messrs. Klein and
Gibbes
Kochas
Bombay
Koch
Exploded Hygienic Notion in Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
A historical piece argues against the old hardening belief that cold rooms and poor bedding build health. It contrasts past rugged living with modern warmed sleeping rooms and care, noting deaths from harsh practices and praising sobriety and simple comfort for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Lincoln Diplomacy with Kentucky Delegation
A Kentucky delegation led by Joshua Bell visited Abraham Lincoln at the White House. Bell spoke forcefully to secure action, but Lincoln spent time socializing and sharing stories with him. After a lengthy chat, the Kentuckians left without securing a direct pledge or expression of the requested outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Gabe" Wharton
Kentucky
Joshua Bell
Bell
Lincoln
White House
Cincinnati
The Stream of Life and Brown's Iron Bitters Tone
An 19th century style tonic claim describes how proper liver function and sufficient iron in Brown's Iron Bitters purify and enrich the blood. It asserts the tonic stimulates digestion, directs iron to red blood cells, and prevents weak, watery nourishment inviting illness.
Southern Coal Queen Maud St Pierre A Baroness Of Mines
Maud St Pierre, famed Southern Coal Queen, describes 300000 acres of mineral lands in Tennessee Alabama and Kentucky. She recalls buying Lookout Mountain water rights near Chattanooga and building a mountain cabin while expanding her mining empire and rivaling state geologists.
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Maud St. Pierre
New York World
Tennessee
Alabama
Kentucky
Louisiana
Birmingham
Franklin County
John F. Anderson
Nashville, Chatanooga and St. Louis
Chattanooga
Nashville
Alabama State Line
Anderson
Sherwood
Cumberland Range
Pennsylvania
Killibrew
Pittsburg
Maud
Mollie
Mountain Spring
Lookout Mountain
Miss St. Pierre
John A. Neal
Little Rock
Neal
Lorgfellow
Remains Hidden Fears Highlight Mountain Mystery
A speaker expresses constant fear that a missing person’s remains may eventually be found in mountain gullies, underscoring the unresolved nature of the case and ongoing concern.
What a Cent Will Buy For the Poor in London and Philadelphia
A Philadelphia Press piece contrasts a cent and a five cent coin with the abundance of tiny purchases it buys or fails to buy. A tramp savors rum with two cents while shopkeepers describe the scant options a cent affords, from bread and cabbage to soap, thread, and lamp oil, highlighting the poverty and the difference between American and English penny economies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
England
London
The Broncho and a Gentle Georgia Mule Poem
A Georgia mule like broncho is described as gentle yet deceitful. The piece narrates a rider’s wild, disastrous encounter with a broncho and the dramatic aftermath ending in a hospital visit, with humorous asides on the animal’s temperament.
Ballet Dancers in Paris Wage Scale and Training Grim
Pall Mail Gazette notes 1,027 Paris Opera ballet workers earn 45 to 115 pounds yearly. Administration covers essentials beyond cold cream and rice powder, totaling about 170,000 pounds. Training is grueling, with clashes between masters and pupils over life expectations and emotional upheaval.
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Pall Mail Gazette
Paris
An Intelligent Car London Correspondence with Sir John Lubbock’s Poodle
London correspondence notes Sir John Lubbock continues training his poodle Van to communicate via cards for desires such as Food and Out. The dog fetches the correct card for meals or going out, and a favorite is Bone, leading to a treat. Attempts to teach color recognition have failed so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
American Register
John Lubbock
Sir John
Poisoned Cheese Clears Rodents and Vermin in City
A terse notice reports a sanitation effort using poisoned cheese to eliminate rats mice roaches and other vermin in the city. City health agents coordinate baiting with licensed contractors and monitor for safety amid public concern about toxins and pets.
Latest fashions sweep through dress and accessories
Fashion notes describe gold embroidery vests with cloth dresses, combination costumes, and large silk handkerchiefs for shoulder wear. Paris revives the demi train gown, black lace hoods, and net fichus. new credits for basket plaits, three-plait hair, heirloom earrings, bright cashmere house-jackets, and pleated Norfolk bodices. flouncing skirts, low silk corsages, and English housemaid dresses signal spring and summer trends with full skirts, yoke waists, and ribbon belts.
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Paris
Lace Fichus Styles Gain Popular Demand
Lace, sarah and ribbon are in request for various fichus styles. A simple dressy addition uses black or white lace with an upright frill or falling collar. A waterfall of lace cascades from a lace band under each ear, looped with ribbon in black white or colored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Post
Sarah
Fichus
Persistent advertising will tell in a flood day tale
A Brooklyn Eagle reader reflects on a relentlessly rainy November day in Chapin Til and the giant Bethesda Water sign at Hatch's. Overwhelmed by the downpour he seeks Bethesda water, concludes with a newspaper moral: persistent advertising will tell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Lonesome Jersey
Chapin
Til
Eagle Business Office
Bethesda
Hatch's
Hatch’s
Distribution of the Sense of Taste in the Tongue
Popular Science Monthly explains the tongue’s three regional tastes. The tip senses pungent and acrid flavors, the middle mind chiefly sweets and bitters, and the back roasts meats and fatty substances. The tongue uses three staged examinations to filter foods before digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Oxford
Mystery Package Found in Massachusetts Senate Files
A queer package was found in the Massachusetts Senate files this forenoon containing a confidential governor’s message, accompanying papers, and the Senate journal of secret session. Seals remain intact and the injunction of secrecy endures, as clerk Charles Calhoun notes on April 11, 1839, during Governor Edward Everett’s term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Boston
Worcester
Senate
Charles Calhoumn
Senate of Massachusetts
State-Hovse
Iward Everett
C. C
Andrew Jackson Deathbed Washington Letter
In a Cleveland Leader column a Washington letter recounts Andrew Jackson as a lifelong ill man whose final days were spent in pain and besieged by office seekers. On his deathbed he asks for his spectacles and speaks of his children Marian and his adopted son Andrew, declaring faith in God.
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Washington
Cleveland
Jackon
Andrew
Marian
Jackson's Passing Prompted Tears and Faith
The text recalls Jackson's final moments with a pledge to meet everyone in heaven. He declares belonging to him and expresses a wish to meet all people, white and black, in heaven. Troubled children cry as the General asks for calm and faith. He dies peacefully as a Christian and a Presbyterian.
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Jackson
Anecdotes of Gladstone and the carrier, with humor
This excerpt recalls William Griffiths, a Brymbo hauler who reflects on a stranger helping him up a hill who proves to be Mr. Gladstone. It recounts Gladstone assisting a Chester carrier with a beer barrel, the carrier’s humorous reaction, and encounters with Margaret Hughes the carrier woman. It also notes Gladstone’s 1884 Hawarden Flower Show moment and Madam Gladstone guiding visitors to him.
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London Echo
Brymbo
Queen's Ferry
William Griffiths
Tinkersdale
Griffiths
Mr. Gladstone
Northrop
Chester
Moor Lane
Hawarden
Margaret
Margaret Hughes
W. H. Gladstone
London
Mrs. Gladstone
William
Golly
How the King Cured the Abbot
Manchester Courier recounts King Henry VIII while hunting in Windsor Forest disguising himself to dine with the Abbot of Reading. The king feasts, then later, after the abbot is imprisoned, returns in disguise to demand his fee of a hundred pounds for “curing” the abbot’s queasy stomach. The abbot pays and goes lighter in purse back to Reading.
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Manchester
Henry VIII
Windsor Forest
Abbey of
Reading
Kinleasantly
London
Tower
Henry
A Valuable Lace Dresses Bidding in New York
A complete Point d Alaencon lace dress with a bridal history seeks a buyer in New York. Once worn by the daughter of a Baltimore merchant prince who married the heir, the young wife died six months later. Her mother, left in poverty, has sold the gown piece by piece, and now the relic pleads for purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Leslie
Point d'Alencon Lace
New York
Baltimore
Would Not Do for a Base Ballist Washington Post line
Prof Simon Newcomb says his error in velocity of light calculations cannot exceed four hundred millionth of a second. He notes this is sufficient for ordinary uses but jokes that as umpire in a new ball game he would need nearer precision.
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Washington Post
Simon Newcomb
Walking advertisements for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup sales rise
The ad copy boasts that every man woman and child who has tried Dr Bull's Cough Syrup praises it and explains why sales are constantly increasing.
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Dr. Bull
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