Tory Island Giants and the King of Columba Patrick
Patrick O Breen recounts Tory Island lore with Columba Patrick as king a seven foot giant who earned the crown by beating rivals and subduing women the island’s people claim descent from giants and trace Balor legends while a British lighthouse and a patrol threat loom over their winter seas.
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St. Columba
St. Patrick
Donegal
House of Leinster
Ireland
Tory Island
Columba Patrick
John Sullivans
Fitzsimmonses
Columba P
Ballymore
Balor
Castile
England
Lloyd
Admiralty
Patrick O' Breen
Read Newspapers, Rev Minot Savage Advice
The speaker argues that readers should select meaningful news each day rather than consume the entire paper. He likens full paper consumption to wasting time and urges focus on current events shaping war, peace, government, and society to stay informed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minot Savage
Winter Bathing in Boston at the City Beach
The Boston Journal reports winter bathers continue at the EL street bathhouse despite icy Atlantic waters. Ten bathers swam yesterday in 35 degree water, a typical weekday turnout, while Sundays or holidays bring larger crowds to the beach for a warm glass sunhouse rest after the dip.
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Boston Journal
South Boston
Atlantic Ocean
Boston Harbor
EL Street
Boston
The Guest
Poem fragment from Mabel Earie in the Outlook about a narrator who refuses help, claiming wealth and a frugal store while a call to aid the sinner persists, and a later palace door echoes the plea of being unworthy and stained by sin.
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Terry
Ram
Siam
Mabel Earie
Bright Young Woman Champions Women in Politics
The piece portrays a witty exchange where a young woman argues that women deserve a voice in government, pays taxes equally, and could curb crude election-day behavior. The man scoffs yet admires her resolve as they discuss Senate trouble, electoral college basics, and political economy. A secondary thread follows the Versatile Young Man and a Princess in society notes with boarding-school intrigue.
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Congress
Propylaeum
Down
Senate
Brothers at War New York Letter About Madame Du Barry Controversy
A New York letter details the suppression of the Madame Du Barry paperback by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Publisher J S Ogilvie reportedly surrendered the books amid pressure from his brother G W Ogilvie who vows continued pressure until a settlement. J S Ogilvie is described as wealthy and formerly a Green Point Sunday school superintendent. G W Ogilvie offers to stake 10000 dollars on the truth of his claim and would donate any winnings to charity if he loses.
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New York
Madame du Barry
Society For the Suppression of Vice
Nassau Street
G. W. Ogilvie
J. 5. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Rose Street
J. S. Ogilvie
Brooklyn
Indiana
Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Philadelphia
Texas
United States
Mexico
Asa Trenchard
Newman Noggs
Nicholas Nickleby
Caleb Plummer
Dr. Pangloss
Bob Acres
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Union
Boston
St. Louis
Europe
Indianapolis
Maennerchor
Social Turnverein
Turnverein
Musikvverein
North
Delaware Street
New York Harbor
Justice Field and the brazen book agent intrusion
Washington Post recounts senators in the cloakroom discussing expelling unwanted visitors and recalls a Justice Field anecdote. When a persistent book agent demanded entry, the justice appeared and ordered his servant to bring the man to him, threatening to handle him if necessary.
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Washington Post
Justice Field
Supreme Court
William
Questions and Answers from a 19th Century Quiz Page
A compact reader’s page collates trivia and Q A on laws, mathematics, postal fees, pensions, and biographies. It cites figures for postoffice revenue, types of professional writing, and historic figures such as Maury, Jefferson, and Morgan, with numerous mini questions and concise answers.
Washington Ally Turned Brigadier General and Public Figure
The text chronicles a Revolutionary War officer's career from early service in New Jersey and Monmouth to campaigns at Camden and Cowpens, his resignation in 1779, later return under Gates, advancement to major general, role in ending the whisky rebellion, and election to Congress as a Federalist. He died in Winchester, Virginia, on July 6, 1802.
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M. F. Maury
E. Matthew Fontaine Maury
Spottsylvania
Tennessee
National Observatory
Maximillian
Mexico
Europe
Virginia Military Institute
Quebec
New Jersey
Burgoyne
Washington
Monmouth
Congress
Camden
Gates
Tarlton
Cowpens
Adams
Winchester
The Islanders
Amenities of Literature notes the English as early literary travelers and contrasts them with continentalists who seldom leave home, remarking on the restless condition of those labeled insulaires.
Prince's train sparkles as Atlanta crowds hail Kaiser
Chicago Tribune notes the arrival of the prince’s train in Atlanta where crowds shout Hoch der Kaiser. The Kansas City Journal adds a separate item about a man who joined a church then died by his own action, and mentions legal rulings that life and fire insurance policies are forfeited if the insured commits suicide.
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Chicago Tribune
Atlanta
Indiana
The Burden of the Hour
Poem fragment reflecting on spiritual burden and endurance as life’s daily weight. The speaker imagines mountains of toil each day and suggests faith sustains strength, with references to God shaping years into hours.
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Steele
So-and-So
Earth
Edward Rowland Sill
Questions and
South Carolina
Sir William Wallace
Robert Bruce
Scotland
Alabama
Robert T. Lindsay
David P. Lewis
George S. Houston
Rufus W. Cobb
Edward A. O'Neal
R. N. Hasbuck
Postoffice Department
Buenos Ayres
South America
Baltimore American
Vincennes Sun
London Post
Masons
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
Woodmen
Red Men
Canada
Freemasons
Hobson
Army
C. R
Librarian of Congress
Z.C
Madison & Indianapolis
Madison
Vernon
Henry Mill
Wiliam Austin Burt
Londonderry
Yucatan
Cortez
Lopez
W. L. Crittenden
Cuba
Daniel Morgan
Braddock
Abigail Bailey
Virginia Levy
Atlantic City
Cholly de
Eicketen
Opera
Ralph Moore
Calcutta
India
Talking Skull
Napoleon
Li Hung Chang
Gladstone
Indianapolis News
Moore
the Journal
Handbook of
the Journal Newspaper Co
Indianapolis, Ind
Islanders
Kansas City Journal
Pambin
C. Aneshaensel & CO
Ohio Street
Stevenson
Huder
Pennsylvania
Address Magazine
North William
New York City
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