Fires take four in barn tragedy and Lexow probes widen
News of the week reports Mrs. Jennie Harrigan perishing with three children in a Newark area barn fire. Lexow committee hearings extend with Captain Schmittberger to be tried for alleged misconduct. Other items include thefts, fires, political moves, and international events spanning Oct 17 to Oct 23.
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Jennie Harrigan
Elizabeth
N. J
Schmittberger
New York
Lexow Committee
Senator Hill
Kingston
Governor Flower
Rourke Cochran
Albany
Johann Strauss
Vienna
John Boyd Thacher
Cleveland
Hill
Melville W. Fuller
Washington
Lourenzo Marquez
Africa
Maine
Joe Walcott
Austin Gibbons
Lucy Booth
General Booth
Salvation F Army
London
Emanuel Hellbers
Detroit
Hampton Roads
China
Mexico
Guatemala
Houston
Tex
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Buffalo
Kheport
Port Arthur
Virginia
Goff
Lexon Committee
D. S. Upson
California
William E. Gladstone
Corfu
Russia
Bayer
Inspector Williams
Annie Kelly
Chicago
Warren Spring
James H. Budd
Govrnor
Gloversville
Ztta Swartz
Grand Jury
Fall River
Mass
Corea
Princeton
Yale
State Mutual Life Insurance Company
Servia
William
D. O. Howard
John C. Eno
Supreme Court
Ulster County
Charles Pearsons
Hyde Park
Chicago Social Purity League
Sam
Louisville
Washington Courthouse
Jefferson, O
Grosny
Russian Caucasia
New York State
Joseph D. Bedle
New Jersey
Congress
William Lake
Emma Hunt
Albion
N. Y
Roberts
Adalguis
San Francisco
Ernest H. Schnaber
May Hilman
Scranton
Charles T. Saxton
Harrison
Brooklyn
Carlisle
Morton
Joseph Henderscher
Central Park
Anina
Hungary
Chung Kiang
Indian Territory
United States
Ross Taylor
Nyack
Edward Payson Westin
Europe
The Markets Report From The Daily Ledger
Money at 1 percent. Prime mercantile paper at 234 35 per cent. Sterling exchange shows actual bank business in bills at 4.57 and 4 8734 for demand with quoted rates 4.8749 and 4.88. Commercial bills at 4.853 and 4.85. Government bonds United States 38s reg 1.13 dods coup 1.14 dods 954.¢. Railroad bonds Pacific 63 of 95 at 1.20. Silver bids 64c.
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Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Dods
Pacific
Commodity Price Ledger from New York Market Roundup
New York market prices list flour bran and bran products, rye and cornmeals by region, wheat and oats futures, pork and dairy items, butter cheese eggs and regional potato ranges. The docket records bid ranges, spot sales, and option activity across multiple grain and foodstuffs with regional labels and quoted prices.
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New York
City Mills
Minnesota
Jersey
Milwaukee
Canada
F.o.b
Western Dairy
Icc
Elgins
Imptation Creamery
State
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Notable Figures in European Society and Arts
Warp Mcallister denies seeing a pretty woman in France. The duke of San Carlos, a king’s gentleman, killed himself over moral perfection. Helen Martin, senator’s daughter, joins St Mary’s novitiate in Leavenworth to become a nun. Friedolin von Holbein, last painter’s descendant, admitted to aussig poorhouse. Russians Menkhoudjinoff and Oulanoff reach Shanghai after a long Thibet journey. Tissot’s life of Christ may lead him to join La Grande Chartreuse.
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Warp McAllister
France
Duke of
Practical Household Tips From An Old Journal
The article offers thrift kitchen and home care advice including turning woodenware bottom side up for storage, ventilation importance, a fresh egg with sugar to ease hoarseness, egg skin treatment for boils, croutons in tomato and bean soup, making buttered bread croutons, boiled milk with salt for health, and preservation tips for ribbons and silks using brown paper and chloride of lime. It also notes blue paper wrapping for white satin dresses.
Barnside Bargain for Circus Posters in Rural Ledger Tale
Report describes a farmer resisting circus bill posters at his barn due to church ties and neighbor opinion. A poster man uses contracts offering 2 to 6 tickets. farmer signs reluctantly for three or four, then workers paste posters and leave. Interleaved notes mention Gladstone’s eye and a Shakespeare quote with Saadi’s warning on education and capacity.
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Shakespeare
Saadi
Christian Endeavor Leaders and County Convention Report
The county Christian Endeavor committee nears completion of plans for the Warren convention on Nov 1–2 with sessions in the Presbyterian Church and a reception at the Baptist Church. York reports over 6,000 delegates at the recent Pennsylvania gathering, with detailed status on junior societies and committee actions.
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Warren
Presbyterian Church
C. E
York
Pennsylvania Christian Endeavorers
Furgeson
Philadelphia
Christian Endeavor Missionary Extension
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Erie
J. T. McCrory
Pittsburg
Geo. McDonald
Altoona
John T. Pollock
W. S. Ferguson
J. F. Hartman
Francis Schuyler
Williamsport
The Church and Christian Endeavor Society
The Illinois Union argues that earnest young people sustain a strong church through Christian Endeavor and related groups. It urges the church to treat these societies as part of its work, provide leaders, oversight, and active support to keep them engaged and effective.
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Church
Missionary Society
Benevolent Society
Christian Endeavor Society
Illinois Union
A Friend’s Testimony on Religion’s Burden and Blessing
James Stalker quotes a friend who embraced Christianity and found religion no longer a burden but a ballast that carries him. He notes greater real pleasure in one week of faith than in years chasing pleasures, a view he believes urban individuals need amid anonymity.
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Jew J. O. Doyle
Christ
Jesus
Peter
God
Lord Jesus Christ
John i
Eph. i
I Pet. ii
III
James Stalker
D. D
Prototypes of Instruments among Africa India Aborigines
An English anthropologist credits aboriginal races of Africa and India with the prototypes of many stringed instruments. The piece notes horticultural use of gas houses on wheels, lightning risk differences between city and rural areas, and mentions a venomous snake at London Zoo. It also provides altitudinal ranges for evergreen oak and cinchona.
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H. Balfour
Africa
India
United States Department of Agriculture
Alexander McAdee
Zoological Gardens of
London
Burma
East Indian Archipelago
South America
Ancient Pgepiction of Bells and Beliefs in History
The article recounts early bell use in churches around 400 A.D. for storm warning, notes the etymology of Skedaddle and Irish biblical translations, explains sneezing as a plague prayer origin, traces the title doctor to Bologna in the 12th century, mentions William Gordenio as the first doctor of medicine in 1329, and describes the bow’s depiction in Egypt around 2000 B.C. and its use in Europe until 1640.
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Inernius
University of Bologna
William Gordenio
Asti
Oldest inscriptions and funeral customs across civilizations
A survey traces burial practices from epitaphs and 1793 tax on funerals in England to Egyptian royal tombs and early Christian burials near churches. It notes ante mortem rites in tribes and church burials ending in France c 1777, with remarks on epitaphs and legends about death as eternal sleep. A stray item mentions a Chicago telephone franchise linked to Promoter Baker and a smoke nuisance abatement aim.
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England
Egypt
France
Nero
Poppeae
Chicago
Chicago Power Supply & Smoke Abating Company
Baker's Doodle
Electrical Review
Lines of toil and soil in a duty poem
A verse tribute to workers and scholars who shape sustenance and knowledge. It celebrates peasant labor feeding the hungry, letters turning sunlit ink into living words, and the scholar’s pen teaching hunger’s first lesson as heaven’s command.
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