Bazar economy and charity stir Freeville relief efforts
A long excerpt from a Harper's Bazar style piece details a Freeville bazar aiding the poor during hard times. Mrs Millyan, Miss Bryant, and others organize dress dolls, sewing, and donations while stressing honest work and self restraint to sustain relief without fostering dependency.
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Academy
Mrs. Jones
Rochester
Buffialo
Udge Rochester
George Allen
Relief Society
Miss Bryant
Tocuta Stite
Catharine Waters
D¢He
Nelly
Fudge
Burchell
Harper’s Bazar
Little Eddie Mistakes Church Music For Circus
A young boy from Albion New York Eddie R attended a circus then went to church with his grandmother. He asked if there would be a circus to see the lion. The grandmother explained it was church. He replied the music sounded like a circus in the sanctuary, a quip attributed to Harper’s Magazine.
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit
Martha
Franklin Street
Bob Smith
Bob
Foxy Bill
Bill
Edwards
Eddie R
Albion
New York
Eddie
Harper’s Magazine
Untold Lies and a Boston Plantation Melody
A conversation among Yankees turns to lies with one bragging of being the biggest fool in America. Josiah Henson, the original Uncle Tom figure, before his illness, joined a Boston concert performing a plantation era tune that moved the audience to tears.
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America
Pshawes
Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom
Mrs. Stowe
Ambitious Boy and Rufus Choate’s Lesson in Pursuit
A Boson tale shows Rufus Choate mentoring a farmer’s son who seeks a legal career. The boy endures a grueling study of Blackstone, learning the cost of ambition is long years and sparse rewards. Also described is a Jackson man who travels with his house in a wagon, housing a wife and three children.
Germanys Bismarck Seeks to Undermine Centennial Exposition
The Toledo Blade reports that Prince Bismarck pushes German manufacturers away from the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Berlin press rumors warn of financial ruin for exhibitors, while Berlin censorship and party aims cast doubt on Germanys support. Officials in Berlin and Washington are urged to issue official contradicting statements to protect German participation and credit in the fair.
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Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Germany
Philadelphia
Berlin
United States
Toledo Blade
Tennessee flood uncovers ancient skeletons near Louisville
In Blount county along the Tennessee river, four feet of earth washed from ten to fifteen acres, exposing a thousand skeletal remains of infants to adults. The bones, not in a mound, were revealed after floods and tides, with some bones brought to Chattanooga aboard the City of Knoxville. Local residents recall no prior discovery of human bodies in the area.
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James Prater
Louisville
Blount County
Prater
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Crawford
Meigs County
Mediterranean Sea Exploration Aims for Deep Dredge Studies
The London Times Paris correspondent reports an expedition soon departing Marseilles to explore Mediterranean depths and marine life. The steamer will perform Challenger like soundings and dredgings with microscopes and photography to preserve rare specimens. Funded by M Marion, M Talabot, railway officials, and Marseilles residents, the venture excites French science circles.
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Mediterranean
Paris
London Times
Marseilles
M. Marion
M. Talabot
Paris, Lyons
Paris youth sent to galleys for murder over theft
A seventeen year old in Paris lured an eleven year old to steal nine hundred francs in gold, strangled him, cast him into the Seine, and escaped with the money. He received twenty years in the galleys, spared the death penalty due to youth, contrasting with the harsher American view as shown by the Boston child murderer case.
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Paris
Seine
France
Pomeroy
Boston
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