Charles Dudley Warner A Nation’s Writer of Cheerful Thought
Charles Dudley Warner, a major American literary figure, drifted into journalism after college and a stint in various trades. He joined the Hartford Courant as chief editorial writer, where he has served for over thirty years, and began his authorial fame with My Summer in a Garden. Warner’s Hartford home reflects a colonial, book-filled studio ideal with travel trophies, oriental tiles, and a well-used third-floor work room.
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Harles Dudley Warner
Warner
America
Ik Marvel
New England
Cazenovia
N. Y
Hamilton College
Missouri
Chicago
Joseph R. Hawley
Hartford Courant
Young Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Mr. Warner
Hartford
Courant
Damascus
John M. Allen of Mississippi in Congress Since 49th Session
John M. Allen of Mississippi has served in Congress since the Forty ninth session after being elected from the First district. Born in Tishomingo County in 1847, he fought in the Confederate army, graduated from the University of Mississippi law school in 1870, served as district attorney for the First Judicial district, and later won election to Congress by a large majority over the Populist candidate.
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John M. Allen
Mississippi
Mr. Allen
Tishomingo County
Press as Safeguard of Liberty and Civic Reform
The article defends the press against claims of sensationalism, citing Frank Leslie’s Weekly and Justice Brown to argue newspapers are the nation’s conservative force protecting rights and liberty. It highlights recent municipal reform in New York and other cities as evidence of the press’s decisive role in moral and civic crises.
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Frank Leslie
Justice Brown
United States Supreme Court
Yale Law School
New York
Georgia Congressman Lester Biography Snapshot
Georgia native born in 1837, Mercer University graduate 1857, admitted to Savannah bar 1859, served in the Confederate army, state senator from 1870 to 1879, president of the senate in final three years, later elected to the Fifty-first Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses.
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Lester
Georgia
Rufus
Mercer University
Savannah
Senate
Criticism of Roswell Horr and silver coinage debate
Frederick A. Binney attacks the New York Tribune columnist Roswell G Horr for promoting silver coinage critics claim harms U S prosperity. The letter argues silver’s value and gold standard nations, condemning Horrs logic and alleging a wider conspiracy by European financiers.
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Wall Street
Uncle Sam
Harr
Congress
Union
Mr. Horr
New York Tribune
Frederick A. Binney
Laughlin on debt theory in Europe wedding tour remarks
A New York report quotes Professor J Laurence Laughlin asserting debt fueled prosperity through bond sales. He links Cleveland's bond issue to higher wages and revival, then warns the approach favors public debt over private solvency and could ruin monopolies.
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J. Laurence Laughlin
New York
Europe
Cleveland
Laughlin
Professor Laughlin
Chicago University
Standard Oil Company
A Girl Fiend In South Carolina Brutal Crimes
Anna Bell a 14 year old girl in Girfield County South Carolina is alleged to have disemboweled a months old baby and then hanged a one year old boy over a well and burned him with a poker after he refused to confess to murder. She was sent to the house to cook dinner while parents worked in a field nearby. The same girl is said to have disturbed a corpse to rob it of a breast gin two months earlier and three years ago killed another baby but was cleared due to age.
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New York Tribune
R. P. Harr
Harvey
Coin
Chicago
France
Horr
United States
CoAne
Harr
Great Britain
the Tribune
Rothschild
Europe
Bismarck
Herr
Germany
The
Tribune
Atlantic Ocean
New York
America
Anna Bell
Girfield County
S. C
Profitable Rivalry in Topsham Fire Departments
Topsham Maine faces a split fire department after members opposed a new chief engineer formed an independent company and bought a hand tub. Now two fire units compete to reach fires first and work most effectively.
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Topsham
Congregation Lifts Spirits After Organ Fails in Rockland Church
In Rockland a faulty organ left the organist with only groans as the bellows failed during service. The pastor urged the congregation to rise and sing Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow, prompting some parishioners to wonder about the pastor's remark.
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Rockland
Gum Chewing Linked to Tongue Cancer in Ohio Case
Nellie Newkirk, a young resident near Big Prairie Ohio, reportedly developed a tongue cancer due to chewing rubbery gum that could be stretched and snapped back. Doctors claim the repeated snapping caused the cancer, making it incurable.
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Nellie Newkirk
Big Prairie
Ohio
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Marvel
Weekly
Rufus FE. Lester
Roswell G. Horr
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