Fragmented 19th century notes span health fads and trade schools
The column surveys diverse topics from a coined silk wrist ailment linked to fashion to praise for the Minnesota Wallace Law and the rise of commercial high schools in New York. It argues these schools mirror agricultural and trade institutions by teaching market skills alongside production know how.
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Mosquitoes as a Health Factor in Summer Resorts
The piece argues freedom from mosquitoes will become the key health criterion for choosing summer resorts. It notes sects as disease breeders and compares malaria risks in Italy Spain India with British estimates, stressing public concern over mosquitos and malaria causation.
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Italy
Spain
India
Ross
The Petersens Move In with a Musical Twist
Theodore Foster arranges a grand piano gift after wrecking the old instrument during move in. Maud and siblings adapt to new piano, and a birthday bill of sale surprises Mand. Aunt Sarah remains central as the family navigates love, music, and a confirms.
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Canadians Decline Chicago Corner Stone Invitation
Washington report from Ottawa says Sir Wilfrid Laurier cannot attend the Chicago post office cornerstone ceremony next October due to strained U S Canadian relations over the Alaskan boundary dispute. F W Fitzpatrick states Laurier would have liked to go but now advises the governor general to decline the invitation.
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Henry Tres Cobb
Associated Press
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Underwood Sues for Libel Over Confederate Veteran Article
General John C. Underwood of Covington Kentucky files suit in the U S circuit court at Nashville Tennessee for fifty thousand dollars alleging the publishers of The Confederate Veteran L A Cunningham editor and the publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal church south defamed him by false and malicious statements about his role as superintendent and secretary of the Confederate Memorial Association.
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John C. Underwood
Covington
United States Circuit Court
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Confederate Memorial Association
Confederate Veteran
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Mormon Church Demolished in Kentucky Beechburg Church
Elder L M Figgins reports an angry Kentucky mob destroyed the Beechburg Mormon church in Fleming County. The building was chopped to pieces with axes to prevent rebuilding with the same timber. Ben E Rich of Chattanooga received the letter detailing the act and the mob’s inability to obtain fire insurance on the church.
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Electrocutions At Auburn Prison In Murder Case
Oscar Be Rice, a white man, and Ton Kennedy, a Black man, were executed by electricity at Auburn prison. The double death penalty followed trials for the murder of Rice’s wife and John Hummings by Kennedy during a jealous dispute.
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Ton Kennedy
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Tice
Kenneday
John Hummings
Convention at Quitman to discuss cotton and betterment of Georgia
The Georgia State Agricultural Society holds a three day convention at Quitman with speakers including J F Hanson Hoke Smith and John Temple Graves. A full day titled cotton by is set to debate uniform classification and weight of cotton in the state.
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Quitman
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H. O. White
Hoke Smith
O. B. Stevens
Atlanta Markets Corrected Weekly Grain and Grocery Prices
A dense market summary lists coffee, sugar, rice, dairy, crackers, candy, oysters, flour, meats, and cotton. Prices for New York and New Orleans coffee, white alge and syrup, various cheeses and creams, grain and meat futures, and local cotton middling are provided with multiple figures and units.
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