A Sharp Dodge Under the Elm Trees
Lydia Grey and John Forsythe scheme to marry for a home and coal profits. Mrs Grey frets as Lydia delays wedding finery while John offers a farm mortgage and a clever plan involving government bonds. The coal claim and bond swap reveal a sharp, morally shaded match that ends with a kiss.
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Lydia
John Forsythe
Mrs. Grey
John
Sedgewick
Saunders
Liddy
Mose
Seth Naylor
Winter Emblems of Faith from Munsey's Magazine
Clifford Howard in Munsey's Magazine reflects on winter as a gentle herald of life, recounting memories of summer and the quiet consolation found in snow and ice. The poem frames nature as a bearer of hope, faith, and the promise of renewal.
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Bacred
Clifford Howard
Munsey’s Magazine
The Last Days of Veteran Rudolph Mittler
The Chicago Times-Herald recounts Rudolph Mittler a Civil War veteran and color bearer for the Illinois Volunteers who lay near death in his cottage. With his wife unable to understand him, his eldest son finally learns the veteran’s wish to see the flag he carried in battle draped over his bed. He dies peacefully surrounded by family and his flag covers his coffin.
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Rudolph Mittler
Illinois’ Infantry
Chicago Times-Herald
Common Roads in the United States and Road Costs
General Stone of the Agriculture Department estimates total united states roads at just over 1.3 million miles. Most roads built by local labor lack engineering, costing more to repair than macadamized roads. In 1893 Massachusetts New York and New Jersey spent millions on repairs, totaling about 20 million for roads nationwide. Fine roads cost 400 to 500 dollars per mile to construct and require less repair than dirt roads. France’s success is linked to prompt year round repairs.
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America
General Stone
Department of Agriculture
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
France
Peculiar Names Mark Ohio Family of Reverend Smith
In Ohio a Smith family led by Reverend Jeremiah Prophet Elijah Smith has children with unusual given names. The sons are Most Noble Festus and Sir Walter Scott Bart, while daughters are Juan Fernan dez-Island and Terre Del Fuego, reflecting a whimsical naming trend within the household.
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Smith
Ohio
Jeremiah
Elijah Smith
Festus
Sir Walter Scott Bart
Juan Fernandez-Island
Terre del Fuego
Debs Address at Columbia Theatre on Labor Needs
Eugene V. Debs spoke to a large Atlanta audience at the Columbia Theatre about the Pullman Strike and labor’s needs. He praised education, warned against money power, denounced inequality, and urged workingmen to unite, study, and rely on the ballot for rights while endorsing women’s future role in society.
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Columbia Theatre
Atlanta
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Mr. Debs
H. P. Blount
Federation of Trades
Debs
Lexington and Concord
Yorktown
Washington
Ats
Séniator West
Supreme Court
Harlan
White
Brown
Lyman Trumbull
Gov
Altgeld
Illinois
Pullman Company
Pullman
Walling the Murderer in Pearl Bryan Case Chronology
Scott Jackson provides a detailed statement to his attorney recounting a week with Walling leading to Pearl Bryan's disappearance. He describes notes, trains, a college meeting, rooms, thefts, and plans to discard Pearl’s belongings, including throwing a bundle into the sewer and items into the Ohio River.
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Pearl Bryan
Scott Jackson
Will T. Wood
Cincinnati
Walling
Jackson
Pearl
Ohio
Proclamation by Weyler vows harsh measures in Cuba
General Weyler, new captain general of Spanish forces in Cuba, announces instructions to volunteers, soldiers, and inhabitants. He urges unity with Spain, warns against aiding the enemy, and says loyal citizens will be helped while rigor of law is used against supporters of insurgents. General Rosser lectures on Battlefields of the Confederacy in Charleston before a large audience.
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Weyler
Cuba
Spain
Rosser
Thomas L. Rosser
Virginia
Confederacy
Charleston
Curious Facts From Odd Corners Of The World
A collection of quirky notes includes a one pound newborn in San Francisco on Christmas Day, a claim about Missouri apple trees and rabbits, a Providence church being turned into a theatre, and historical tidbits on curtains, Brummell’s London house, Algona well, teapots origins, breadfruit, Murillo art in New York, Regicides, turkey trade in Lancaster Kentucky, and milestones in Vermont and Manchester Conn. Also mentions Indian corn, Johnnycake popularity, and Mexican corn processing methods.
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San Francisco
Old Central Congregations
Providence
BR. L
Alford Street
London
England
Europe
St. Andrew’s Church
New York City
Andrew
Benjames
Seville
Murillo
Charles I
Lancaster
Vermont
Moses Pierce
Derby
Eliza A. Pinkham
Millbridge
Clarisss Spencer
Manchester
Conn
Congregational Church
Asia
Africa
France
Germany
Mexico
How to Keep Warm in Cold Weather Clothing Tips
The article urges using woolen or flannel garments to preserve body heat and reduce cold, citing conduction and evaporation. It argues summer wear for dryness, notes clothes save meals by reducing costs, and compares giving blankets to coal, claiming blankets offer longer lasting warmth and greater benefit per value.
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Pille
Birds That Are Architects Describe South African Grosbecks
A New York report notes how large grosbecks in South Africa form vast colonies and construct tree dwellings with grass roofs. Each communal nest resembles a street of tenement houses, providing heat and rain protection. Around 400 to 500 pairs share the same shelter.
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South Afri
New York
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Florence B. Hallowele
Lydia Grey
Forsythe
Ayior
Ylor
Tumle
Peoberhood
the Veteran
American Railway Union
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