Week in History highlights revolved around crimes and politics
July 17 reports bodies found of the two Pitzel girls in Toronto linked to H H Holmes in Philadelphia. England sees Conservative landslide hurting Irish Home Rule. Crime, trials, fires, and uprisings thread through the items with notable names and places across North America and Europe.
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Toronto
H. H. Holmes
Philadelphia
England
Ollie Corbett
Champion Jim
New York
Rochester
Saginaw
Mich
Zimmerman
Frank Erne
Buffalo
Joe Craig
Jersey City
Mitchell
Ira Johnson
Greenville
S. C
Banque du Peuple
Montreal
Michigan
Maria Barberi
Dominico Cataldi
Interstate Commerce Commission
M. Stambuloff
Bulgaria
N. K. Fairbanks
Chicago
Ladies’ Catholic Benevolent Association
Supreme Council
William DeBates
Kewanee
Ills
California
Telegraph Bay
British Columbia
Oregon City
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Senator Hill
New York City
Saratoga Lake
M. Stainbuloff
Uruguay
Chili
Olympia
James Connor
Kate Conley
Simon Erlich
William Stoddard
Granville
N. Y
Richard Golden
Jed Prouty
Thomas Gray
Peterboro
Ont
Formur
David Scollie
Arthur Brooks
Phillips Brooks
Fulda
Ericsson
Charlotte
John Cronin
Harry Bowden
Sandusky
Canadian
Detroit
Wyoming
State Department
Cuba
Norristown
Markets Report Shows Mixed Currency and Bond Quotes
Money on call at 1 percent. Prime mercantile paper 3 4 percent. Sterling exchange indicates bank note figures with demand around 4.895 and 60 day about 4.89. Posted rates show varying dollar levels. Railroads Pacific ts of 95 priced at 1.20. Silver certificates quoted around 1.634 and 4.674 cents. Silver at 65.0 cents. Mexican at 53.34 cents. Government new 43 at 1.234 old at 1.13.
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Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Grain and market price report from New YorkCity July 22
A dense list of commodity prices shows flour, corn meal, rye, barley, wheat, oats, hay, pork, butter, cheese, eggs and potatoes across regions. Notes include spot sales, delivered prices, and May to Oct futures details for No. 2 red, No. 1 northern and other grades with regional variations.
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New Yorks
City Mills
Minnesota
Ile
Jersey
Milwaukee
Western
Canada
Blige
White State
Western Dairy
Do Creamery
Elgina
State Dairy
State
Pennsylvania
Long Island
New York
Maine
Bermuda
North Carolina
Charleston
Southern
Norfolk
Virginia Rose
Wheels and Riders on Women Bicyclists and Global Tours
Mrs Elizabeth Capy Stanton argues women ride toward suffrage on bicycles. Chaperons on wheels are in demand. doctors note Zimmerman’s heart is larger. W D Bachestor from Cornell tours Europe Africa and Palestine on wheels to fund trips via papers. C F Parpigon debuted Richmond’s first bicycle and brought a tall wheel from Paris. An estimated two thousand wheels circulate in Richmond. Reverend Farrpangs, an American missionary, credits cycling for extended reach and attracting crowds. proper saddle height could improve grace but complicate mounting.
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Elizabeth Capy Stanton
Zimmerman
W. D. Bachestor
Cornell College
Iowa
Europe
Egypt
Palestine
C. F. Parpigon
Richmond
Paris
Mr. Farrpangs
India
Odd and Otherwise: Circus rain storm and strange finds
A circus at Eagle Wisconsin faced a fierce rain storm forcing the manager to evacuate the audience. Philadelphia organ grinders employ colored girls for skirt dances to entertain crowds. Elgin Illinois merchant Thomas G F Dorsy runs Dolby and Seventeen Sons with seventeen partners and twenty one children. White Plains New York businessman W I Smith finally took a seaside day and drowned. A Van Buren Maine veterinary surgeon treated a horse shoulder swelling and found a silver dime at its center. Corner grocers debate how the coin arrived there.
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Elgin
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White Plains
N. Y
van Buren
Stage notes from around the world reveal theater plans
W S GinBERT to oversee His Excellency in New York while London opens the Lyceum season with Romeo and Juliet starring Mrs Campbell and Forbés Robertson. Paris fines Sarah Bernhardt for employing two underage girls after 9 pm at the Renaissance theater. London may see the Earl of Rosslyn on stage as a professional actor. Henry Irving knighted as Comedie Francaise sends congratulatory address. Demi Vierges at Gymnase draws 52 724 francs in first ten performances, a Gymnase record second only to L Abbe costantien in 1887.
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W. S. Ginbert
New York
Patrick Campbell
Forbés Robertson
Lyceum
London
Sarah Bernhardt
Paris
Renaissance Theater
Earl of Rosslyn
William Pitt
Henry Irving
Comedie Francaise
Jules Clarette
Mounet Sully
L. Abbe Constanten
Christian Endeavor Sermon on Hindrances and Helps on the Christian Journey
A Replice for the Week Beginning July 28 by Rev. H. Doyle presents the Christian life as a journey with hindrances and helps. It contrasts the broad gate of destruction with the narrow way to life and urges reliance on Christ, including referenced Bible readings from Deuteronomy to Revelation.
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H. Doyle. Torre
Jacob
Christ
Earth
Heaven
Glimmer of History Hidden in Odd Facts and Folklore
A miscellany of curiosities covers the meaning of fiasco from glassblowers to bottles, global colonial areas ranked by nation, palmistry thumb behavior as truth indicators, a technical note on tar powder grain shape and ignition, and a joke about coat of arms copyright in New York.
Ohio Christian Endeavor Union Organized in Springfield
The Ohio Christian Endeavor Union was organized April 15, 1887, in a convention at Springfield O. The convention included 38 delegates from outside the city. Eight years earlier Ohio had about 135 societies with around 3000 members. Now the state has over 2500 societies and about 100000 members.
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Ohio Christian Endeavor Union
Springfield
Ohio
The Largest Union in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia union with 444 societies is the world’s largest. Its rolls include two blind asylums rescue missions the almshouse the county jail the Magdalene Home the House of Refuge and the Sunday Breakfast association.
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Philadelphia Union
Magdalene Home
House of Refuge
Sunday Breakfast Association
Great of heart mind and will quote by Hitchcock
The passage extols a person of generous heart and bold mind who floods the world with affection and stirs thoughts, seeking a great career. The greatest is he who does the most and does it best.
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Will
R. D. Hitchcock
Love as the Christian badge of discipleship
A quote from William T. Ellis attributes true discipleship to loving one another, claiming this love as the kingly sign that marks believers. The text presents this command as the world’s test of Christian discipleship.
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William T. Ellis
Endeavor Herald Reports Christian Endeavor Across Seas
The article notes Sunday services by 27 enlisted men aboard the U S steamship Thetis ending with America and the Doxology. It highlights Cleveland Endeavorers funding 20 free drinking fountains and Utah home mission ties. It mentions an honorary Highland Presbyterian member in Louisville and a sailor converting aboard a San Francisco Floating Christian Endeavor voyage to Tacoma. It also notes Methodists reorganizing as Epworth Leagues and Nova Scotia fraternal strength as reported by The Endeavor Herald.
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Naval Society
United States
Thetis
America
Cleveland
Christian Endeavor Society
Utah
Home Missions
Home Mission Monthly
Highland Presbyterian Endeavor Society of
Louisville
Christian Endeavor
San Francisco
Tacoma
Glencona
Epworth Leagues of
Sea Provinces
Nova Scotia
Endeavor
Burdick House Fire Tied to 15-Year-Old Suspect
In Watertown New York George M Burdick reports his house caught fire six times in three months with the last blaze Saturday night flaring in three spots. His 15 year old granddaughter Nellie has confessed to setting each fire and is believed to have a man to influence her. Minor damage occurred in all incidents and she will be cared for going forward.
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Ortigia
Gulf of Genoa
Joe Noska
Giordano
New Orleans
Port Royal
Mifflintown
Tennessee
C. W. Rowe
Iowa
Mexico
Chicago
General Campos
Bayamo
Williamstown
Mass
Providence
Convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union
Baltimore
Vineland
N. J
Lafayette
Taylor
Florida
Zanesville
Bannock
Princeton
Jackson Hole
Ida
Spain
Cuba
Morton
Maria Barberi
Sing Sing
Quincy, Ills
Watertown
N. Y
George M. Burdick
Burdick
Nellie
Miners Meet in Pittsburgh to Set Uniform Wage Scale
Railroad coal miners from 56 mines gather in Pittsburgh to agree on a uniform wage scale and avoid a strike. A committee is appointed to draft the scale for presentation at the convention.
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Pittsburg
Feeding of the 5000 Shows Jesus Power Over Needs
The Disciples return from preaching as Jesus and the twelve retreat by boat to the north eastern shore of the Lake of Galilee. A crowd follows and Jesus feeds 5000 men and others with five loaves and two fishes, revealing spiritual as well as material sustenance. The text underscores faith in God’s provision against worldly desire.
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Lake of Galilee
Capernaum
Christ
Moses
Man
God
Pious Emperors Skip Sunday Theater in Venice
The piece notes Pharisaical strictness versus true piety and praises Emperor William and King Humbert for not attending a Sunday theater in Venice. A grand performance aimed to honor them drew a packed crowd, but both rulers declined attendance citing their rule not to attend amusements on the Lord's day.
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Germany
Venice
Humbert
William
Humility Born From Kindness In Christian Thought
A reflection on how kindness toward a serious worker fosters humility rather than pride or self sufficiency. The habit of Christian thinking makes the humbled throng eager to cast their crowns at Christ's feet when praised as faithful servants. Gray emphasizes inner virtue over status.
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Christ
Gray
Rules for Young Men From The Cosmopolitan
The Cosmopolitan offers five rules for young men: be absolutely honest, alert to opportunities, willing to learn, avoid intoxicating liquor, and be respectable and respectful. It adds a note to be a true Christian, faithful to Christ and to his church.
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Christ
Junior Leagues Shape Childhood Faith and Habits
The article argues that early home training shapes beliefs and behavior, lasting into adulthood. It urges churches to foster Bible study, devotion, and charity in children under ten, and positions Junior Leagues as the best channel for this formation.
Moral sense urged to curb crime and uplift society
The piece urges development of education and a quickened moral sense across all classes to prevent crime and guide public life. It stresses conscience in every department of society and asks, are you getting it.
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United States
The Muster Roll of Methodist Episcopal Church Membership
The muster roll lists 2,681,639 lay members and probationers, 14,811 local preachers, and 16,652 itinerant ministers. It notes 29,559 Sunday schools with 889,024 teachers and 2,501,917 scholars, church buildings valued at 109,284,066 dollars and parsonages worth 16,848,495 dollars.
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The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Luther league gains traction in church youth groups
The church embraces youth organizing as Illinois forms a state association and Chicago reports twenty chapters joining the Luther league, signaling a shift from traditional young people's societies.
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Young People’s Society
Luther League
Illinois
Chicago
How similar a man is to his shoes in verse
A poem compares men and shoes noting shared fates and traits. Both have a sole and a mate, both wear and wear out, need healing, are sold or mended, and both tread on others. It ends asking whether to be a man or to be his.
Generous Soul Brings Joy and Hope to All
A rousing verse praises the generous soul who lights sunny smiles in others, lifts sorrow, and stirs a bright glow of health and joy in the heart. The poem credits heavenly blessing for rare enjoyment born from kindness.
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