Illiteracy and Old Lawyer Highlight Empire and Court
Seventy nine percent of soldiers in the Russian army cannot read or write, signaling illiteracy in the empire. The Czar opposes free schools to retain despotic privileges. In the United States, John Isveridge of New York, admitted to the bar in 1811, aged 95, and once counsel to the city during James Harper’s Mayoralty, remains tall and recently argued a major case.
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Empire
United States
John I Sveridge
New York
Corporation
James Harper
Dalatians Grow Pyrethrum Seeds in California
Travelers in Dalatia years ago noted vast tracts of land covered by a wild flower named pyrethrum. Its odor kills insects and its powdered leaves form the base of insect powders. The seed has spread to the United States with a Dalmatian growing it successfully in Stockton, California.
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Dalatia
United States
Stockton
Cal
Postmaster of Golden Urges Clearance Before August
A door notice from Golden's Postmaster announces the need to clear out the store truck before August first. The message encourages willing buyers with a direct appeal and the lure of a good smoke, promising no later opportunities.
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Golden
Agust
Language-learning age, Dr McCosh argues
The Rev. Dr. McCosh of Princeton told New York listeners that ages nine to twelve mark the prime for language learning. He said children can acquire more then than many adults at twenty five and cautioned against abstract scientific teaching before twelve.
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McCosh
Princeton
New York
Barber John Howland in Providence debated shopper
A Providence Unitarian barber named John Howland argued with a devout Episcopalian customer. The exchange ended with Howland asking who he was and the opponent replying in soap lather and a blasphemous insult, revealing a heated religious digression in a neighborhood barber shop.
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Providence
John Howland
Cock disturbance at Worcester assizes causes hunt for crowing bantam
Lanon Huppieston complains at Worcester assizes of being awoken by a crowing cock near the Judge's lodgings. Search fails to find any noisy bird. A neighboring garden cock is quiet, and the true culprit is revealed to be the Baron's learned fowl, brought with him in a hamper to be killed when needed.
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Lanon Huppieston
Worcester
Why not eat insects says English writer Vincent M Holt
Vincent M Holt surveys historical examples to claim insects are palatable and could be delicacies. He cites Romans and various nations and proposes a bold menu including snail soup fried soles with woodlouse sauce curry cockchafer fricassee of chicken with chrysalids boiled mutton neck with wireworm sauce cauliflowers garnished with caterpillars and moths on toast.
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Vincent M. Holt
Brice of Ohio Builds Fortune as a Noted NY Host
Col Brice, an Ohio millionaire, earned about 6 million in five years from railroad ventures culminating in the Nickel Plate. Now based in New York with a Murray Hill residence valued at 230000, he amasses fine furnishings and a rich library. A leading social figure, he hosts dinners and concerts as the city’s professional amuser, keeping guests entertained with deft, professional banter.
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Cot. Brice
Ohio
Mr. Brice
New York
Murray Hill
Amuser
Jamauser
Ime Ao Phrotbil
Postmaster’s Bold Retort Roils Political Row
A Pennsylvania Democratic congressman complains about a Republican postmaster who denounces Cleveland and refuses to resign. The postmaster declares he would stay in office under Cleveland, claiming the President lacks the will to remove him. The incident highlights partisan tensions and questions of character.
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Pennsylvania
Cleveland
White House
Indications of Spring records leafing in Norfolk trees
The Marsham family at Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, keep an 85 year log of ash and oak leafing dates. Oak leafs first 52 times, ash 27, both on same day 6 times. Oak mean leafing April 25, ash April 29. Also notes a Birmingham meeting sending a congratulatory address to Lord Bramwell for moderate drinking with his reply and a telegram about Birmingham for the next election.
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Marsham
Stratton Strawless
Norfolk
Birmingham
England
Lord Bramwell
Knightsbridge
Brooklyn Evangelist Enforces Pulpit Consent Rule
A Brooklyn female evangelist secretly rented a suburban church and announced that no preacher could enter her pulpit without her consent. Her husband rose to threaten any minister entering without her approval, vowing to drag him out by the collar, quelling dissent and allowing services to continue.
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Brooklyn
Amicable settlement of the Brunswick will details
The dispute over the late Duke of Brunswick's will ends with notable allocations. The Duke of Cumberland receives about 4 million dollars, the King of Saxony about 1.25 million. The Dowager Duchess of Hamilton, Princess Marie, gets 250 thousand, and Prince Alexander of Hesse also receives 250 thousand. Bavaria’s two royal family members receive 125 thousand each. The windfall comes after the sister, the former Empress of Russia, had aided him for twenty five years.
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Duke of Brunswick
Duke of Cumberland
King of
Saxony
Duchess of Hamilton
Marie
Baden
Alexander of Hesse
Princess of Battenberg
Russia
Bavaria
Woman Keeps Money Hidden in Cellar Cash Box
In a Philadelphia testimony Mrs Minnie M Strap described hiding money in a copper box inside a glass jug buried in the cellar floor. She dug a two foot deep hole, covered it with dirt and a board, and checked it weekly after church to add savings mostly in bank notes and $20 gold pieces.
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Minnie M. Strap
Philadelphia
Senator Esty Frames Bigot Charge With Witchcraft History
In a New York Senate debate on freedom of worship the charge of bigotry was cast at Senator Esty who denied it and cited ancestral wrongs. He recalled that his ancestor Mary Esty and Rebecca Nurse, both noted for strength, died in the Salem witchcraft persecutions of 1692, underscoring a contrast with bigots.
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New York Senate
Esty
New England
Mary Esty
Rebecca Nurse
Sed Pharge
Salem
Maseg
Ancestry of Pilgrim links Esty to Mayflower voyage
Medical men credit cholera to four bacilli that poison food and water. They urge boiling water and cooking food before consumption. A Paris Kentucky cholera outbreak in 1849 showed a large family with no illness due to cooking and boiling. The text hints at possible cholera’s return this summer.
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Paris
Farmer Versus Swarm of Huge Rats in Candor Barn
Barden, a Candor farmer, repairs a pig sty when two large rats attack. He uses a hammer, then calls his St Bernard as rats swarm, the dog kills several, leaving about six survivors and a floor drenched with dead rats. The rodents are described as unusually large, nearly a foot long.
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Barden
Candor
Broome County
New York
Mr. Barden
Sty
Queen Victoria Reaches Sixty Seventh Year of Reign
In this Current column America lauds Queen Victoria as she enters her sixty seventh year on the throne. The piece notes her long rule surpassing Elizabeth and highlights Victoria as a modern force shaping industry and science while praising Britain and its institutions.
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John McGovern
Victoria
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
India
Elizabeth
Henry III
Edward III
Plantagenets
George Iiii
Victoria Alexandrina
Darwin
Wellington
Garibaldi
Talleyrand
Beaconsfield
Bentham
Sydney Smith
Carlyle
America
Homere
Rise of Black Population in the South Highlighted by Aide
Rev. Dr. R H Allen presents a stark map at the General Assembly showing the surge of colored people from 3 947 000 twenty years after the war to over 7 000 000 today. He cites increased numbers in Mississippi and South Carolina, daily births, and projected national growth, noting land ownership, taxes, and publication activity amid illiteracy counts.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
R. H. Allen
Freedmen’s Aid Society
Mississippi
South Carolina
United States
South
The Correct Way to Die in Kun Persia
A Persian death ritual is described as a dying man lies on a thin floor mattress surrounded by about twenty people. Dervish medicines fail, a heated room fills with tea steam tobacco smoke and mourners. The rite includes Koran readings, professional mourners, and washing of the dead before quick burial within twenty four hours.
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Kun
Sia
Shiraz
England
Amoollah
Mohammed
Irih
Persia
Taking Their Time
Mrs Snobberly hosts a banquet at Fifth Avenue New York and hires violinist Herr Baenkelsaenger for the evening. His Swedish Wedding March is slow and prompts Snobberly to complain that musicians always dawdle when paid by the job.
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Texas Siftings
Frayed Collar Brief Sparks Comic Sermon Moment
A minister struggles to fasten a new four-ply collar as perspiration pours. He stammers about the text for the morning sermon quoting misread biblical verses, while his wife calmly asks for the text. The scene ends with a failed pun and a humorous New York Times citation.
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New-York Times
Protest Meeting Forces Young Man to Sign Temperance Pledge
A Pittsburgh audience watches a tense scene as Fisher hesitates at a pledge table hosted by Mr. Murphy in a temperance effort. After a dramatic struggle, Fisher signs the pledge, joins a love feast, and pleads for prayers for Mike Brannon, with background stories of past missteps and reform.
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Fisher
Murphy
Methodist Episcopal Church
Liberty Street
Temperance Gate
Liqnor
Murphiy Pernally
Visher
Mr. Murphy
Brannon
Mr. Fisher
East
Morgan Park School of Divinity
San Francisco
Bunker Hill Church
Boston
Pittsburgh
Mike Brannon
William White
Squire
Washington, D. C
Prohibition Abroad and liquor's impact on health
A critique contrasts prohibition in Madagascar and the Zambezi trade with the European liquor trade. It cites a Demorest's Monthly quote and Dr Loomis on stimulant use and long term vascular disease, highlighting perceived moral and health consequences.
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Madagascar
African Trading Company of
Zambezi
Christencom
Europe
Miss Faanohs Willard Addresses Tremont Temple
Miss Willard spoke at Tremont Temple in Boston urging temperance and the ultimate conversion to German regulation of the country. The address highlighted reform, women's influence, and moral renewal within the temperance movement.
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Faanohs E. Willard
Breth Tempérancé Hion
Tremont Temple
Boston
Tornado Wracks Iowa Towns Reducing Homes and Deaths
A Sioux City dispatch reports a night tornado sweeping fourty miles radius, razing churches and farms, destroying mills and warehouses, killing two children and injuring several adults. From Elk Point to Hartington to Coleridge, buildings were leveled, trees torn, and crops damaged as telegraph services failed and emergency details trickled in.
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Sioux City Dispatch
Trote, Livingstone & Co
Shenkberg
McDavis
Hart & Co
Standard Oil
St. Paul
Omaha
Ben
J. Rivere
Jackson
Neb
Dovey & Barney
Elk Point
D. T
Coleridge
Finctson
Hartiington
Lemars
St James‘ Catholic Church
Plymouth Mills
New School House
Ponca
B. Hennyford
Hennyford
Episcopal Church
Jeffersey Union County
Sioux City
Dubuque
Iowa
Cherokee
Manson
Storm Lake
Aurelia
Remsen
Willow Creek
Marcus
M. E
M. Y. Ames
Meridian
Newell
Fonda
Mason City
Bath Township
H. T. Lincoln
R. J
W. D. Parker
D. F. Wheeler
F. Doderer
Haue
Mount Vernon Center
Iowa Central
Hampton
Lemars Iviva
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
St. James’ Catholic
Plymouth
Lincoln
Néb
Hartington
Loener
Wakefigd
Henry Erickson
Cerro Gado County
H. F. Lincoln
Ingersoll Plans Summer at Marblehead Neck Mass
The article notes Cou. Ingersoll will not travel to Europe before fall and will spend the summer with his family at Marblehead Neck, Mass. It also reports Nova Scotia mine production: 16,079 ounces of gold, 54,985 tons of iron ore, and 1,389,295 tons of coal.
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Cou. Ingersoll
Europe
Maneposhemet
Marblehead Neck
Mass
Nova Scotia
Taxable Property Value and Washington Shade Trees
The assessed value of taxable property in New York City is 1,175,052.8, about 55,419.79 higher than 1884. Over 60,000 shade trees line Washington streets according to city records.
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City of
New York
Washington
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Wooster, Ohio
Herald Prevting CO
Jolly
Ator Esty
Francis Murphy
AL. Loomis
Canada
Ancet
Nebraska
Northwest
James Lick
Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
California
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