Temperance, politics, and crime across a wide world
A Zanesville paper reports temperance advocate Francis Murphy to wed Mrs Rose Wood of Martin’s Ferry Ohio, while President Hayes hosts a dry Rhode Island reception. Notes recount church trials, mobbing a San Fernando pastor, and drought outlooks in Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Tales of Mark Twain’s name, royal engagements, explorers of Africa, and a string of crimes and counterfeiting arrests fill the page.
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Zanesville
Francis Murphy
Rose Wood
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Hayes
Rhode Island
San Fernando
Cadiz
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Lafayette
Indiana
Mr. Clemens
Mark Twain
Isaiah Sellers
New Orleans Picayune
Prince Imperial
Infanta
Dona Pilar
Isabella
Africa
Cincinnati. Gazette
Mt. Vernon
Mississippi
Constance's Story of a Second Love and a Quiet Heart
Constance recalls her arranged marriage to Roscoe Arnold and a secret love for Ivan Grey. A trip to New Orleans introduces Ora, Roscoe's sister, who collapses on arrival and reveals a fragile past. Constance faces duty, desire, and the pull of youth as she tends Ora and protects her family.
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Roscoe
Ora
Constance
Lolo
Tyan Grey
Blue Mountains
Conny
Ivan Grey
Mr. Grey
Tyan
Trose
Roscoe Arnold
Hesperides
Roe
New Orleans
Connie
Melisser
Little Lyle
Up the Bosphorus atmosphere and voyage notes
A San Francisco Chronicle travel piece describes drifting along the Bosphorus from the Golden Horn toward the Black Sea. The author marvels at green-walled shores, palaces and villas, and the seamless clash of continents across Pontus Propontis Euxine Marmora as ships anchor mid stream and sunset renews the voyage.
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Bosphorus
San Francisco Chronicle
Golden Horn
Seraglio
Hudson
Asia
Shurope
Sea of
Marmara
Black Sea
Pontus
Propontis
Euxine
Marmora
Three Women Fight for a Husband at Canadian Depot
A Western husband leaves for home with his mother’s prompting at Bonaventure depot, her two wives clash aboard the train as the conductor exiles unticketed passengers, while the scene highlights a Missouri style attempt to legislate for the masses. Also mention of a Missouri state capitol incident where a chief clerk fled to Canada after failing to submit an insurance bill, amid bribery insinuations.
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Hamilton
Ont
Spectator
Montreal
Bonaventure
Missouri
State Capitol
Canada
A Southern Reminiscence From The Atlantic Monthly
The piece moralizes on slavery and abolition while recalling antebellum Southern life. It reflects nostalgia for plantation days, family bonds, social rituals, and slave imagery, paired with a critique of slavery and an acknowledgment that happiness once arose from others’ misery.
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The
Atlantic Monthly
Rascal
Tragic Kentucky crime ends in mob hanging
A Kentucky couple in Washington county concealed a deformed infant in a nailed shut box. A neighbor uncovered the act, mob violence followed, and the husband and wife were found hanged after the event, dating from about ten days prior. The piece ends with a reflective aside on human nature and contrasts a Sunday hymn with weekday behavior.
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Lebanon
The Stowaway Boy and the Englishman’s Pluck
An engineer aboard a Liverpool bound steamer recalls a stowaway child who faced the mate’s rope with courage. The tale contrasts sea courage across nationalities and ends with the captain’s mercy and a lifelong bond in Halifax.
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Poe
Mary
Halifax
Catholic Doctrine Denounces Protestants as Damned
Excerpt from a Catholic instructional text asserts that outside the Roman Catholic Church there is no salvation. It claims Protestants lack true faith, call Christ a liar, reject the Pope, and refuse confession, ending with the judgment that they die in their sins and are damned.
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Jesus Christ
Fathers of the Church
Holy Ghost
Christ
God
God the Father
Troly
Lucipher
Hell
Prosperity by Simplicity and Reform
A call to continued economies and modest living urges building smaller homes, modest furnishings, and lower personal and social keys. It advocates reform in public and corporate affairs, civil service, and cautions against rebuilding shattered cobble homes or chasing artificial wants.
Rapid Growth of Black Hills Towns
Correspondence notes rapid booms in Deadwood Custer City Battle Creek and nearby towns. Deadwood rose to about 10 000 after a month then stabilized. Custer City jumped from a few cabins to 600 houses and 1800 inhabitants. central City Gaysville and others saw land prices soar from 1 to 500 800 dollars. Rents in Deadwood ranged 40 to 100 dollars monthly for modest buildings.
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Black Hills
St. Paul
Custer City
Deadwood
Battle Creek
Gaysville
Central City
Three Mothers and Ten Babies in One Week
The town hears news of four newborn boys for Mrs Remm and ten babies among three nearby families within a week while three girls ages eleven to thirteen drown in the Muskingum river near Marietta. A Missouri coroner's jury convicts a man named Bill Jackson by verdict.
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Marva
Dispatch
The
Chicago Tribune
Remm
Guthrie
Kessler
Muskingum River
Marietta
Bill Jackson
Missouri
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Union Block
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van Wert
North Ride First Street
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Kepler Rt
Ijsenders
J.K. Woods
M. D. Juyrician and
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sBond
Bridge
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DePuy House
Calla
Mgavres
W. M'Gavren
H.C. McGavren & Son
Siemen & Gipe
McGavren & Webster's
William Smith
C. Oltce
A. L. Teubner & Co
Kresidence
Mulino
Jackson Sts
C. B. Steman
Otlee
Burt's Bank
Main St
J. M. Stutshan
M. D. Paeiimiet
McKim's Store
Washington Streets
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Attorneys AT Law
G. E. Wells
Hetst
Se Courts
A. J. Porter
C. Glenn, Gleen & Porter
Weardy's Block
John Darnell
Hetat’s Block
Alexander
G. M. Saltzgamer
Alexander & Saltzgaber
Tohneys AT Law
Bank Huilding
James M. Barr
J. K. Price
Ira P. Suissler
Price & Shissler
AT Law
McCurdy's
Beers
Jas. Clark & Ben’s Shoe Store
C. P. Edson
J.B
Evans & Collins
I. W. Penn
Main BT. van Wert, O
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G.C. Graham
South Washington St
van Wert, Ohio
American Sewing Machine Company
Madison St
Toledo
Swineford & Sons
Grocers
Arcgdae Bloch
Swineford & Sonb
van Wert Werkly Bulletin
George Foster
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
New York
Utah
Pittsburgh
Mitchell
Maysville
Kentucky
Levi Ball
James C. Ownes
Ownes
Clamant
Ball
Mes. O. Spring Matteson
Grandmother
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Peterkins
Kaspars
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Toledo Blade
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Louis Smith
Albert Betz
Adams Township
Defiance County
Smith
Bett
Defiance
Betts
Smith Farm
Osborne
United States District Court
Petee
Colonel Moore
Erie Street
Peter
Bridge Street
Herbert
Central Station
Osborn
United States Court
Cbase
Smal
Tase
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
London
Channel Islands
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Millais
O. P. Clark & Son
Phillips Patent
Oo. P. Clark & Son
South Washington Street
Mahan & Clark’s
Algo
City Mills
A. R. Strother
G. W. Millenbaugh
West Main St
George & Call
McGuffy
M. H. Tuttle
Zion
Lloyd
Barrin
Tom Thumb
Liverpool
Prince Halfred
Jane
Reeve
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