Vacant Chairs Teach a Nation to Remember Home
Rev T DeWitt Talmage returns to Brooklyn Tabernacle with a sermon on Thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty. He argues vacant chairs in homes reveal enduring influence from father mother and child and urge faithfulness to God.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn Tabernacle
I Samuel
Saul Avill
David
Saul
Jonathan
Louvre
Luxembourg
Raul
John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Mr. Wilson
Henry Clay
American Senate
Prince Albert
Windsor Castle
Theris
Kiang
Mer
Edward Payson
Richard Baxter
Robert Hall
Christ
Heaven
The Vacant High Chair Sermon on Heaven’s Promise
A California pioneer recalls a Sierra Nevada childhood and a Fourth of July miner’s plea to a crying infant. The sermon links vacant high chairs in earthly homes to the hope of assembly in heaven, urging families to seek salvation as chairs in life become empty. The speaker envisions no vacant chairs in heaven and calls for repentance.
Reunion of Foxcroft Woman and Nevada Millionaire
A Maine romance ends in marriage as Mrs. Bassett of Foxcroft weds Abram O. Favige now known as a Nevada millionaire after years apart. Favige left Maine for fortune, married elsewhere, later fell from grace, while Mrs. Bassett built a boarding house and later lost her husband to Savage. Savage, now wealthy, reunited with his boyhood love and they wed, heading to Nevada.
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Nevada
Foxcroft
Abram O. Favige
Miss Chadborn
Bingham
West
Maine
William Bassett
Bassett
California
Savage
Freedom Speech by Gen Logan at Minneapolis Sparks Debate
Senator Logan’s Minneapolis speech champions universal citizenship rights and the obligation to protect equal political liberties for Black and white Americans. He criticizes Democratic rule for denying votes, urges Republicans to enforce legal rights at home and abroad, and calls for unity to advance republican ideals.
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South
North
England
Republican Party
Logan
Minneapolis
Unsolved Mystery of the Swamps in Florida
The Chicago Merald surveys fifty years of reports of smoke rising from Florida swamps. Explorers found no visible source when near the area, and witnesses claim strange experiences. Scientists largely attribute it to a vapor from peculiar swamp conditions seen only from a distance.
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Chicago Merald
Florida
White
Centenarian student seeks degree in China
A 106 year old Chinese student recently appeared before scholars to request permission for examination, accompanied by his wife and two sons aged ninety and eighty. Other candidates respectfully addressed him as Old Master, but he declined and urged to be called Comrade.
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Persmission
Kenna's Blunders and Premonitions of Failure in Campaign
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Senator Kenna's struggles as chairman of the Congressional Committee. It cites a failing campaign book used to raise funds under Civil Service rules and a vague financial statement filled with criticisms, accusing him of poor planning and flawed argument. The piece portrays a barren eighteen months with exhausted strategy and reliance on old Democratic stock.
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Congressional Committee
Senator Kenna
Kenna
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Three Thousand Unnoticed Civil Service Revelations
A Washington note reports Assistant Commissioner Stockslager told to resign if he seeks Congress. He withdraws from the race, cited as a Civil Service compliance display. The Iowa State Register blasts selective disclosures of Civil Service violations by the Administration. The Chicago Journal notes Key Judge Manning of New Orleans is the new Minister to Mexico and was a lieutenant colonel in a rebel regiment.
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Washington
the Land Office
Stockslager
Civil Service
Congress
Iowa State Register
Manning
New Orleans
Mexico
Chicago Journal
Partisan Navy Aims to Defeat Reed in Maine
The North Atlantic Squadron faces political meddling as ships are sent to Portsmouth New Hampshire for repairs to target Congressman T B Reed of Maine. The piece argues Democrats push to defeat Reed by tying naval deployments to election gains, claiming officers lose training and maneuvers due to political influence.
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North Atlantic
T. B. Reed
Maine
Navy Department
Naval War College
Newport
R. 1
United States
Secretary of the Navy
Washington
Portland
Swatara
Galena
Yantie
Portsmouth
N. H
Kittery
Poe Frank Jones
West Indies
Norfolk Navy Yard
Tom” Reed
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Congress
New Hampshire
Tribune
Foreign Gossip Mixed Inquiries From Global Headlines
A survey of varied curiosities and notes from around the world. Turkey demands the owner's photo on passports while Saxony lacemakers earn only a pittance. Shanghai post offices arise as German postal business grows. Samson the French executioner history is cited. Mordecai and Esther’s tomb draws Hebrew pilgrims in Hamadan Persia. Russian privates face court martial for thousands of robberies. Britain’s national debt exceeds £20 per person. English postal telegraph traffic surges from 9 million to 34 million yearly. A Paris crowd rewards a drowning rescuer who is later jailed for larceny. London hospitals largely rely on voluntary contributions and endowments. The Dryphore spectacle in Paris displays a 50-ton oak from a Rhine forest. Berlin’s Central Union for Placing Labor aided 5305 job seekers, over 60 percent finding work, funded by employers. The Lancet warns tea drinking may cause nervousness and impaired hearing, a claim echoed by London Truth about the Bishop. The Prussian House of Lords contains 313 members, 7 hereditary, 216 life appointments, with Konigsberg lacking a representative for years.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Great Britain
England
Paris
London
Lancet
Johnson
House of Lord
Prussian
Konigsberg
Press Cullings On Democratic Endorsements And Southern Labor
A compilation of editorials and dispatches criticizing party politics and labor in the South. It notes Democratic conventions tied to strings, calls for equal labor market chances for Southern Black workers, and comments on Republican and Democratic stances, including claims about politicians and the Knights of Labor. The pieces reference West, Benedict, Hill, Blaine, and Thomas Ff. Karcy, with Southern labor conditions described as underpaid and controlled by masters.
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Baltionore
San Francisco Chronicle
Congress
Philadelphia
West
Missouri
St. Louis Chronicle
Thomas E. Benedict
Rounds
Magone
Benedict
Hill
New York
Washington Dispatch
Hep
Republican Party
Buffalo Express
Bes
Kansas City Journal
Blaine
Thomas Ff. Karcy
The
Knights of Labor
Copiah County
Miss
South
Philadelphia Press
Democrats nominate Sweyer over Powderly in Pa district
Chicago Journal notes the Democratic pick in Pennsylvania's Twelfth District, choosing coal operator J. H. Sweyer after Powderly declined. The piece argues the nomination exposes the party's opposition to monopolies while decrying a 25 cent coal price hike seen as a tax on workers.
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Pennsylvania
Congress
Terence V. Powderly
Easton
Knights of Labor
J. H. Sweyer
National Coal Ring
Chicago Journal
Baby Killers A plea for wiser care of infants from Detroit Tribune
A Detroit Tribune passage warns unskilled mothers and nurses harm babies through tight shoes, rough handling, careless teething remedies, and frightening tales. It urges sympathy, individual care, and avoidance of fearsome myths to prevent illness and early death in children.
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Mamma
Freddy
Willy
Detroit Tribune
Heroic Rescue In River By Sunday-Clad Man
Robie Hurd eight years old slipped into the Schuylkill at Philadelphia as witnesses cried out in fear. Luke Dillon, driving by in his Sunday clothes, sprang in and rescued the boy after he sank thrice and lay in the river mud. Rescuers revived him and he recovered. This marks Dillon’s third life saved.
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Robie Hurd
Schuylkill
Philadelphia
Luke Dillon
Mr. Dillon
Philadelphia Press
Treasure Guarded Ride: Richmond Treasure to Wagons
General Duke recounts orders at midnight to move toward Washington Georgia and the transfer of Richmond treasure. Fifty guards and six wagons moved the cash Belts and chests, later raised to two hundred guards. About 108000 to 110000 in silver paid to troops. Duke handed over remaining treasure to Acting Confederate Treasurer Clarke at Washington.
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Duke
Richmond
Washington
Theophilus Steele
Treasury
John B. Cole
Savannah River
Breckinridge
M. H. Clarke
Confederate States
Boxes of Treasure From Civil War Loot Found in Treasury
Acting Secretary Fairchild ordered the division of abandon property to restore jewelry and valuables seized by the army during the Civil War. Two boxes hold nearly 500 watches and other items from soldiers who died in hospitals near Washington, Cape Lookout and Elmira, with others from captures by Sherman in Camden, South Carolina. Unclear if Twiggs swords captured by Butler in New Orleans can be restored.
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Fairchild
Washington
Cape Lookout
Elmira
Treasury
Twiggs
Butler
Orleans
Fire power and tactics at Hazen Grove described by Pleasanton
In a Century article General Pleasanton explains how artillery at Hazen Grove defeated Jackson’s troops. He notes the need for lower infantry fire and details the physics of muzzle impact and rebound, asserting that proper volley timing could have prevented a Confederate advance and secured the guns.
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Hazen Grove
Jackson
General Pleasanton
Lincoln Seen By Enslaved Southerners On Campaign
A Civil War reminiscence recalls soldiers encountering enslaved people who believed Lincoln rode with Union troops. Upon inquiry, they pointed to a tall officer and asked to meet Lincoln, blessing him as Massa Lincoln. The scene moved the narrator to tears, illustrating wartime perceptions.
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South
Lincoln
President Lincoln
Massa Lincum
J. F. Jewell
Chicago Ledger
Life sketch of Lucius Fairchild new G A R commander in chief
Ex Governor Lucius Fairchild born December 27 1830 in Kent Ohio rose through Wisconsin law and politics. He served as Captain and Brigadier General in the Civil War losing an arm at Gettysburg and later held posts as Secretary of State Governor Consul in Liverpool and Madrid and Minister to Spain. He led the Iron Brigade and was elected Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at San Francisco per the Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Fairchild
Kent
Portage County
Wisconsin
Madison
California
Dane County
Wisconsin Volunteers
O'Connor
Gainesville
Gettysburg
Iron Brigade
Liver
Grant
Hayes
Paris
Packard
Louisiana
Liverpool
Spain
Madrid
Hannibal Hamlin
Maine
Chicago
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Department of Wisconsin
Grand Army of the Republic
San Francisco
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Thundering flank attack at Chancellorsville
Lieutenant General O O Howard recounts the fighting at Chancellorsville where Confederate divisions broke through Devens and McLean lines. He details the chaos, cannon and musket fire, his fall from his horse, the death of aide Des saur, and resupply by orderlies as Union troops attempt to reform the trenches.
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Colonel Asmussen
Devens
Schurz
Dieckmann
McLean
Dessaur
Hooker
Dickinson
Barlow
Buschbeck
Gen
O. O. Howard
Century
Washington man claims he “captured” army blankets in wartime
Jonas H of Washington Indiana recounts helping a quartermaster ship a box after the war and swapping the shipping tag to his own name. He then obtained a box of new army blankets intended for the Quartermaster, arguing that “everything is fair in war.” The anecdote ends with his claim that he captured them from the government while the Quartermaster “captured” them from him.
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Jonas H
Washington
Ind
Jonas
Smith
Sam
Quartermaster
Detroit Free Press
New European Observatory Rising on Sonnblick Peak
The Sonnblick Observatory is under construction on the Sonnblick in the Tyrolese Alps at ten thousand feet. Mines dot the slope above five thousand feet and a passenger wire rope lift rises to eight thousand feet. A miners’ house stands there for winter residence and a glacier ascent leads to the summit in about three hours.
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Europe
Sonnblick
Tyrolese Alps
Christian Union
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Samson
Mordecai
Esther
Hamadan
Persia
Baby Killers
Soldiers’ Department
Lucius Fairchild
Stonewall Jackson
Chancellorsville
Sonnblick Observatory
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