Temperance lecture marks Lincoln assassination link
Special Washington Letter recounts a drinking-crime thread through Booth and Lincoln’s era. Eyewitness accounts describe Booth as a hard drinker, his post mortem on the gunboat, and debates on his body’s fate while highlighting the temperance argument sparked by the crime. Senator Stewart recalls the night of Lincoln’s death.
Woman Sues Atlanta Streetcar After Struck by Fat Passenger
A colored woman sues an Atlanta street railroad for 1000 dollars damages claiming a 200 pound man standing on a crowded car grabbed a strap missed it and fell into her lap crushing her breath. She seeks relief for the alleged accident and injuries.
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Atlanta
Weather as told by a fickle wife in Yonkers
A Yonkers Statesman snippet notes weather prediction by a wife described as changeable and reliable enough to foretell the forecast, with the nickname Crimsonbeak invoked in a light exchange.
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Yonkers
When the robins come again in Easter time
Poem noting spring’s approach with robins, warmth, and renewal. It references Alice Hayford Bliss and the Chicago Daily Record as the source of the verse. The piece contrasts nature’s fickle sun with faith and praise for the season.
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Alice Hayford Bliss
Chicago Daily Record
Frosty Comfort Days and Blizzard Greetings
A northern wind figures a frost filled respite as the speaker greets a cold wave with humor and politeness. The piece anticipates summer longing and recalls the current frost as a cherished distress before warmth returns. The second fragment, Night Silence, paints a dreamlike scene of a moonlit stillness where fairy figures animate Titania's realm.
Paths of childhood dreams and dawns of new times
A collage of verse excerpts and light verse from 19th and early 20th century papers. Clinton Scollard contemplates a climb to a sea horizon, followed by reflections on old and new times, a brief sketch of a little financier, and a cheerful poem equating a laugh with sunshine and music.
If He Were King
Poem excerpt where a would be king vows to travel lands to claim his beloved, who retorts that a king would do little amid danger, preferring inaction and faint reactions to threats rather than ruling. The speaker asserts grandiloquent rulership while the maid challenges his imagined courage and action.
Peruna lauded as spring catarrh remedy by officials
A cadre of letters from public and civic figures praise Peruna as an excellent spring ton ic and catarrh remedy. Dan A Grosvenor Deputy Auditor War Department writes from Washington that one bottle brought swift improvement and lasting wellness. John Williams County Commissioner of Duluth endorses Peruna for catarrh and relief. Mattie L Guild President of the Illinois Y P Christian Temperance Union credits Peruna with curing she has found invaluable. Mrs Elmer Fleming Minneapolis says it permanently cured her catarrh after three months use. The ad notes spring is ideal for treatment and promises systemic cure anywhere in the body. Readers are invited to write Dr Hartman for free advice.
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Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
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