Music Hath Charms Theory of Music as a Moral Force
An essay argues music can prevent crime by occupying idle minds, urging home music as a nation’s nursery. It contrasts poor families using home instruments with rich youths influenced by sports and gambling, proposing daily city band concerts and tax funding for music for the poor to reduce vice and strengthen civic virtue.
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Newsboys
Emerson
Germany
France
Bridewell
Virginia
Patti
Hea
Professor Blank
Chicago
Chicago Herald
Hotel Lobby Demographic Quirks Reported in Palmer House
A Chicago Palmer House lobby visitor tallies unusual patron traits from a three hour period: one legged 47, one armed 18, glasses 40, mustaches 106, full beards 59, no facial hair 78, Prince Alberts 180, not 100, bar entrants 110, and patrons who sat then left without notice 180, per New York Tribune.
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Palmer House
Chicago
New York Tribune
Famous criminals in New Caledonia described
An offiicial report from Noumea details status of French convicts in New Caledonia. Notable inmates include Berezovski the 1807 Paris exhibition shooter, and others such as Gillies Abadie Guichard Fenayrov and Fenayron. Some convicts live comfortably, work on farms, or perform as bandsmen under governor supervision. The colony houses about 10,000 convicts, 600 warders and 240 female convicts, with many inmates earning privileges or aiming for eventual settlement in Australia.
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Etter
New Caledon
New Caledonia
Berezovski
Alexander I
Nou
Paris
Gillies
Abadie
Lecercle
Noumea
Guichard
Marseilles
Australia
Fenayrov
Boulevard Malesherries
Chaon
Fennyron
Maison Central
Fenayrou
Aparce
Republic
London Telegraph
Modest Millionaire at Opera Shows Simple Luxuries
A New York Graphic report recalls Henry Villard and family in modest opera attire from earlier prosperity. The observer notes the daughter’s breakfast shawl and the father’s restraint, highlighting a frontier of wealth that wore humility. A New York Tribune item adds a $15,000 legal bill from a Wall Street attorney, split across five dinners at Delmonico’s.
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Henry Villard
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York Graphic
New York
Wall Street
Atney
Basravy Wenbee Se
Delmonico's
Ventilating Drains and Sewer Gas Dangers Warned
Charles F. Wingate in Youth's Companion cautions on sewer gas hazards, urging ventilation and sanitation. The article explains odorless gases can be deadly, cites exposures in Newark and Cleveland, and promotes earth closets and sub irrigation as safer options. It emphasizes air as a disinfectant and urges strict drainage purification and regular household cleanliness.
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Newark
N. d
A& Cleveland
Denist
Begas
Waring
Charles F. Wingate
Companion
Resident Foreigner Life in Peking Described in Harsh Terms
C B Adams writes in American Magazine about Peking as a vast suburb for foreigners. He details ungraded dusty streets, seasonal quagmires, drownings in floods, overpowering odors, open sewers, and crowds of scavengers feeding amid stench and filth.
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Peking
Tartar
C, B. Adams
American Magazine
Election Proclamation for Warren County Pennsylvania 1887
R A Love, sheriff of Warren County, announces a general election to be held on the second Tuesday of November 1887 between sunrise and 7 pm at multiple precincts. Voters will elect judges, county officers, and two county commissioners among others. The notice lists polling places by township and borough, and specifies voting by tickets per an act on ballot classification.
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General Assembly
Commonwealth of
Warren
Warren County
Uie Munch
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Stein
al Wa
Tari Coutlly
Thre Voor
Caid
Enedie
Seid
Stuathers
Yonnge
House of Psy
Cohwubus
Tidiente
Engine House
Clarenden
Ols
Booth
Brokensian
Abbe Hetel
Youngsville
Jy Ut Siggins
Barmington
Farmington Centre
Glade
Sehoolhouse
Wan
J. Thomas
Kinzuw
Thesaat Sterling Green
Limestone
Rulston Hill
Mead
Pleasant
Fine Grove
Lane’s
Pittsfield
Tate Land
Western District
J. J. Acocks
Vastern
Sugar Grove
Sugar Grove House
Spring Creek
Schagl House
Frineis Bitus
Shefield
A. T. Chirnes
South West
Lue
Enterprise
Triumph
Watson
Plank Road School
Senate
House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Justice of the Peace
United States
Oliver
Congress
Urea
Cleeter
Uicasuay
Col Warren
R. A. Love
Sheriff's Office
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Ely Hros
Greenwich &J
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Fied
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Water Street
Episcopal Church
Episcopal
Tigh Street
Hazel and
Laure
W. H. Pickett & CO
Sassar
Sherman
Dewett
Syracuse
Warren, Pa
Maple City Chair Co
OC. Holmes
Maple City
M. C. Eloclimes
Second St
Savings Bank
L. G. Noyes
Boston
Bougert
Reynolds & Eddy's
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