Cannibals, Torture, and Rescue in the Congo Free State
A Houssa soldier named Alakei relates a dramatic Congo incident observed by Capt. Coquilbat. Abandoned by his comrades, Alakei hid as cannibals roasted their bodies. later he escaped, was recaptured, and finally saved when Stanley’s men and Naussas intervened, ending with his return to relief steamers.
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Alakei
Congo
Aso
Coquilbat
Africa
Hanssens
Aruwimi
Thera
Alon Bals
Congo Basin
Alakai
Capt
Coquilhat
Tie
Haussets
Ile
Grea
Laos
Hs Moan
Stanley
von Gele
Soudan
Leprosy Inoculation Experiment Sparks Controversy
A Pittsburg Dispatch letter cites a Bawaiian convict spared from death for leprosy inoculation years ago. The tubercular leper case is linked to Father Damien notices, arguing the contagion of leprosy and the questionable necessity of the experiment.
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Damien
Pittsburg Dispatch
Abducted Brooklyn Boy Identified After Forty Years
A six year old Brocklyn boy abducted in 1963 near Crocelyn is found to be Charles Lispenard of Brooklyn. The search linked farm records in Benton County to a Pennsylvania farm family and a wife who helped raise him until a Brooklyn jeweler named George Lispenard confirmed the reunion. The mother, long grief stricken, learns her son is alive and well.
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Brocklyn
Indiana
Tige
Crocelyn
Charlie
Benton
Charley
Allen
Caie
Benton County
Lim
Charlie Allen
Ward
Charlie Lispenard
George W. Lispenar
Brooklyn
George
Charles L Len
Alien Lispenard
Brookly
Cali
Logansport
Tad
Cor
Cincinnati Guquirer
Segregation of the Sines in the South in 19th Century Debate
An Atlanta Constitution piece quotes Senator Ingalls arguing mulatto populations thin while whites migrate inland. It asserts races drift apart, with legal shifts allowing paternity actions and changing social unions. The editorial foresees increasing black and white segregation and a centripetal southern racial dynamic.
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Ingalls
Smator
Atlanta Constitution
Diverse emotions in a New York hospital school for cripples
The New York Mail and Express describes 150 young patients at a hospital institution for the physically afflicted. Their roof playgrounds, nonathletic games, and especially their singing reveal patience, hope, and quiet happiness amid hardship. The piece ends noting the lesson that realizing one's ignorance is valuable knowledge.
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Busa Vic
New York
New York Mail and Express
Fragmented verse hints at a romance scene
A garbled stanza reflects a speaker describing lace dress and fluttering emotions. The fragment references love, a charming figure, and a desire for companionship, with missing lines obscuring full meaning.
Lucille Comes to the Hart Farm Amid Family Strife
Lucille Dudrenu travels to the Dinard born aunt and uncle, faces cold reception and rough talk, then endures isolation and illness at the Hart household. She consoles crippled cousin Bob, learns English, and quietly earns a place with gentle acts. Her death from typhoid ends a life of quiet devotion.
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Wiliam Lars
Mary
Dubreuil
France
Diran
Alis
Bir
Mr. Tart
William S Tiurt
Ile
Robert
Liart
Lucille
Hart
Weill
Mrs. Hart
Mamua
Nanitua
Dinard
Sue
Lucilla
Lucy
Stephen
James
Bob
Sreckon
Jaimes
Toux
Lneills
Reed
Hatever
Crippie
Lanilie
Lacy
Sevie
Nevairel
Rod
Zere
Uinis
Tsay
Lucille Dal Ned
Lucile
Haré
Lacey
Dows
M. B. Wiliams
Bubble Party Holiday Fun Promises Large Soap Suds Bubbles
A 1980s style note promotes a Bubble Party as a holiday entertainment using clay pipes, soap suds from Ivory Soap for clean lathers, and prizes for largest bubbles. It warns against counterfeit white soaps claiming to be Ivory and notes a referee to judge.
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Rafere
Procter & Gamble
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Neil
N. Greenland’s
Nelson Greenland
Warren Ps
Undertaker and
Evmbaulvar
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