Beecher Letter Reassesses Black Suffrage and Southern Tensions
The Outlook publishes Henry Ward Beecher’s March 18 letter to the Louisville Courier Journal defending his nuanced views on racial suffrage after the Civil War. He rejects massacres, argues voting rights must be paired with education, and praises both emancipated Blacks and struggling Southern whites while urging national unity under Cleveland’s administration.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Louisville Courier-Journal
South Carolina
Carolina
South
West
North
Ory
Mississippi
Missouri
New England
Cleveland
Striking Laundry Showdown Sparks Urban Turmoil
Three unemployed men loiter on a Chicago laundry step as a strike simmers. Jones the organizer inflames with promises of wealth from employers, while one man contemplates flight to a Dakota sister’s farm. A dollar changes hands before the group disperses in cold wind.
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Chicago Journal
Jones
Union
Swaanson
da Akota
Commencement Heroes Rise in Early Summer Triumph
A Brooklyn Eagle account describes a commencement scene with a slim youth delivering a masterful oration on civil and religious liberty as the crowd applauds through a night of diplomas, flowers, and fanfare. Parents, mentors, and graduates mingle in the celebratory glow as aspirations and future dominion seem within reach. Some quip about fools and gas leaks closes the vignette.
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Choate and Oliver Wed in Albany at St Peter’s Church
Miss Cora Lyman Oliver daughter of Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver and Joseph H. Choate Jr son of the U S ambassador were married at noon at St Peter's Church Albany in a notable ceremony attended by Ambassador Choate and Mrs Choate who had traveled from London for the occasion.
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Joseph H. Choate, JR
Cora Lyman Oliver
Albany
N. Y
Robert Shaw Oliver
United States
Choate
St. Peter's Church
W. W. Battershal
William C. Doane
Ambassador Choate
Women’s Hosiery Closeout Across Multiple Items
The advertisement lists various closeout prices on women’s hosiery and undergarments including Rich elieu ribbed black lisle hose at 3 cents each in dozen lots, women’s fancy hose at 35 cents per pair, children’s lisle thread hose, women’s Mercerized Lisle Vests in blue at 15 for 35 cents, and white ribbed vests at 39 cents each, all offered Monday with limited stock.
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Oxford
Madras
East
Ais
Batiste
Dunmore
Dee Gosen
Slaen
Hermsdorf
Taxes Five Cents a Year Andorra Republic Delights
A Boston Transcript essay portrays Andorra as a tiny, debt free republic with a simple bicameral consular government. It notes double suzerainty by France and Spain, minimal administration, no prison, low taxes, and isolation from modern Europe.
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Boston Transcript
Europe
Andorra
Pyrenees
Charlemagne
Louise le Debonnaire
France
Urgel
Spain
Foix
General Council of
Crokers
Deverye
Republic
Snakes and a Whistle Sound Reported by Narrator
A narrator recalls muddy conditions and a rare wild encounter as he describes hearing a blacksnake whistle. The observer notes two more snakes making the sound and remarks on the almost indescribable noise and closed jaws observed during the event.
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National Magazine
Washington planted trees at Mount Vernon long after
The Washington Mount Vernon estate features a grove said to be planted under his direction. Washington’s diary notes mulberry maples black gum and poplars along serpentine walks dated before 175, with survivors preserving rural beauty. Linden, oaks, maples, tulip trees, poplars and magnolias remain.
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New York Evening Post
George Washington
Mount Vernon Tate
Washington
Mount Vernon
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la Vida
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Indiana
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Postoffice
Antherea
Ladies’ Home Journal
East Aisle
Indianapolis
Alendid Sona
Castor
Priestley
Batisto
Warner’s
Iceland
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Pao
Bissel
Momiday
Cnttis
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Ascot
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