Republicans Press in Mississippi and Washington Action
Mississippi Republicans urge federal aid after alleging White League oppression and rights violations. Attorney General advises return to state for local talks. Other items note Red Cloud Commission testimony, a Mississippi governor dispute, and various political moves across states with clergy, elections, and territorial issues.
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Mississippi
Washington
White League
Tridian Affairs
Red Cloud Commission
Marsh
Esceaman
G. W. Renton
Muscatine
Iowa
Chicago
Nebraska
Omaha
George B. Lake
T. F. Gantt
Lauuile Maxwell
Courtney Wo
McLares
Cleveland
Ohio
Tennis
Tas Hey
Jeln
Henry Hobart Brown
Johoes
Fond du Lac
Madrid
Oyarzun
Te Governoy
Affours
Beret
Tucker
Nso
Ames
Rollicholen
Pic Pine
Gout Orner
Gay Auues
Markets and weather tales from New York to East Liberty
Market figures show cattle hogs and grain prices with scattered notes on flour wheat corn rye and barley. The piece recounts a weather foretelling scheme by a local reader named Cooley, a whale tale of Chips the beloved crewman, and a series of assorted anecdotes and tidbits from newspapers across cities, including aviation and sea tragedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Burley
Corn
Ike
Provisto Park
Lord—Prime Steam
Chyrse AG
East Liberty
Will-o'-the-Wisp Tale Teaches Caution in Swamp Paths
A gentle young reader tale explains the Will-o'-the-Wisp as a natural light in marshy ground. A boy, seeking a shortcut home late at night, follows a wandering beacon, falls into deep water, wanders off course, and only wakes at daybreak to return to anxious parents, learning the light was not a lantern but a Will-o'-the-Wisp.
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Gazelle
New Bedford
Chips
Chip
Myself
Indian Ocean
Western Australia
England
Juul
Gifford
Chicago
Paris
United States
Bethlehem
Dew Hamshire
F. B. Fay
Chelsea
Henry Ward Beecher
Br. Beecher
Jerebiah
Paul
Uroy
Prinars
N. S. Observer
Two Boys and the Path to Manhood in Uncle Peleg's Tale
Uncle Peleg poses a moral parable about two boys from identical beginnings. One succumbs to bad company, tobacco, liquor, and wasted money, growing dirty and unchecked by discipline. The other remains homeward bound, avoids vices, saves money, and matures into a respectable man by age thirty. The question asks which will be more of a man.
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Swat
Chips
Kanaka Joe
Mr. Joseph
Joseph
Boston
Chip
Cambridge
Huntington
London Mark Lane Express
Pimavenruta
Uncle Peleg
Faust
Mothers Are Best Friends for Boys and Girls
A Youth's Temperance Banner excerpt describes a boy learning from Uncle Peleg that a tricky misstep should be corrected at home, washing the mouth and following a mother’s guidance. Little Sue listens intently as the boy retreats, and the narrator extols good mothers as the finest allies for both genders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue
Peleg
Temperance
Correct Speech Habits for Youth and Its Rewards
Advice from Young Folks Monthly on speaking and writing accurately avoiding slang. Emphasizes learning from books, adopting concise clear language, and balancing expressiveness with restraint to become pleasant to listen to. Encourages youth to cultivate pronunciation, diction, and truthfulness through reading and practice.
Puzzling Author Quizzes and Curious Clues
A playful twenty questions style list assigns famous authors to descriptive clues with answers including Chaucer Dryden Pope Taylor Holmes Holland Hood Burns Abbott Southey Shelley Coleridge Young Lowell Campbell Akenside Wordsworth Longfellow Whittier Goldsmith Harte Spencer Chatterton De Quincey Bacon Bunyan Churchill Curtis Proctor W Savage Lander Steele Tennyson Willis Browning Swift Cornwall Shakespeare Crabbe Cooke Dickens Stowe Lamb Beecher Milton Motherwell Addison Howitzer Bryant Cowper Gray. The piece blends puzzle and literary trivia with humorous local notes about animals and a farmer’s tale, ending with dialect requests and local anecdotes.
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Hunan
William Shakespeare
Martin F. Tupper
Mhild
Chaucer
Dryden
Pope
Taylor
Holmes
Holland
Hood
Burns
Abbott
Southey
Shelley
Coleridge
Young
Lowell
Campbell
Akenside
Wordsworth
Longfellow
Whittier
Goldsmith
Harte
Spencer
Chatterton
de Quincey
Bacon
Bunyan
Churchill
Curtis
Proctor
W. Savage Lander
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Shermin
George J Wier
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Hooker
Slocum
Seymour
Pul Sheridan
Presi- Heanor Tin Society
I. M. Gist
Toba
J. 5. Pullerton
Philadelphia
Dist-Arry
Britton
Brooklyn
W. Beecher
Frank J Mouton
My. M
Europe
Ges
Moisrep
Maine Disretin
Samuel KF. Hersey
Rome
Cardinal McCloskey
Carlist Committee of
London Pubtel
Hendaye
Alphonsists
Tinto Tut
Aran Valley
Texas
Galveston
Monta Fe
Bay
Oude
EA Thomas
Supreme Court
Orange County
Gr Mae 'i
Patterson
New York Central
Lake Shore
New York City
Constantinerze
Herzegovina
Vienna
Tiskovac
Constantinople
Mostar
Vishegrad
River du Loup
Canada
Benjamin B. Maineck
United States Treasury
Theodore W. Brown
Cosenessmas Ware
Alabama
Utah
Secretary of the Interior
Red Cloud
Messrs
Marsh and
Welsh
Bosroy
Burt
Edward C. Tobey
Tex
N. B. Jupp
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Las Cruces
Richmond
Stockton-upon-Tees
Bosnia
Tilton
Beecher
Westervelt
Charlie Ross
Maine
Senate
House
Terems
California
Trwin
Phelps
Cooey
Cooley
Peter Marks
Prof. Jones
Max Adeler
Jin N
Lake
Havana
Charles Burns
Who Scott
Woodruff
Capt Wooduff
Point Sauble
Woodfull
Scott
Capt
Capt. Scott
Morning Star
Nat
Billy Crossthwaite
Emma A. Mayes
Addie
Manitowoc
Vicksburg Herald
Raleigh, N. C
Tove
Amn
Allan Carr
Chicago Standard
John Boyle O' Reilly
Appletons’ Journal
Mr. Hannowte
Milledgeville, Ga
Lex Storrey Tauaonts
Paderborn
Prussia
Don Pfatr
London
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St. Louis
Matinpa Cross
Cairo
Chicago Common Council
New York Commercial
Providence
Harvard
Ocala (Ga
John Simpson
Mr. Simpson
Gates
Tax Cresset
Denison, Tex
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