Purify Greater Network Bishop Potter urges vigilance 25000 reformers
Bishop Henry C. Potter delivers a sensational address in St Pauls chapel New York advocating a 25000 strong vigilance committee to cleanse the city of vice and proposing a central three to five member board to oversee the efforts He stresses public duty and moral awakening alongside reforms in taxation and government revenue. The message blends social reform with calls for broader civic action.
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Henry C. Potter
St Paul's Chapel
New York
Vice
San Francisco
New Bureau Chief Appointed Director of Engraving Bureau
Captain William M. Meredith of Chicago is named director of the bureau of engraving, with Governor Stone of Pennsylvania supporting the move after President McKinley allowed Secretary Gage to decide. Meredith, veteran of the Civil War, previously held the post and is highly sought after by private interests. The salary is 4500 dollars yearly.
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William M. Meredith
Chicago
Bureau of Engraving
Stone
Pennsylvania
McKinley
Gage
Meredith
Harrison
Cleveland
A Dahlia Farm in Taunton Shows Stable Growth and Variety
H T Burt of Taunton Massachusetts runs seven acres of dahlia beds with about 1200 varieties. He notes easy culture, high fertilizer needs for uniform blooms, and that September to October brings peak color with new imports from England.
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H.t.burt
Taunton
Mass
Mexico
Garden Towers
Burt
England
Mr. Purt
Summer Fishing Tale From Old Brooklyn Life
A narrator recounts a rough summer in eighty three and a chilly trip to upper Canada for fishing. He boasts about a massive catch described as the biggest fish he ever landed before a quizzical crowd. Interjections joke about weight and wit, set in humorous neighborhood talk.
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Upper Canada
Prospector in the Rockies
A writer in Amazen's Magazine extols the prospector as the adventurer of the Rockies. He braves high peaks and wild caverns in search of gold, faces isolation and danger, and risks death or a remote return with a hidden fortune, while covetous rivals threaten his secret pile.
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Rockies
Amazen
Kre
Rocky Mountains
Origin of Rule Britannia and sea songs noted
A sketch by Alan Walter in Temple Bar argues England leads in sea songs while others have few. It recalls Jammes Thomson’s 1740 commission for Rule Britannia at the Prince of Wales theater and its edits by Bolingbroke. Also mentioned is a Seneca Kan. photo of a woman with her second husband and the ex-husband posing with her as a trio.
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Countess of Tankerville
William Booth
Salvation Army
Tacoma
Wash
Earl of Tankerville
Lenora van Marter
Alan Waltera
Temple Bar
England
Jammes Thomson
Prince of Wales
Cliefden
Buckinghamshire
Arne
Lord Bolingbroke
Whitehall
Twickenham
Calque
Camere
Seneca
Kan
Centralim
Never the Right One in Club Morale Jest
The New York Times quotes a club tale about lowering the flag for a death and placing a morbid notice. An old member jokes the sight of a half mast bait echoes the refrain that the right person is never the one you expect.
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New York Times
Family squabble over childcare and coal duties in Philadelphia Press
In a terse Philadelphia Press snippet a mother complains that her husband never helps with the baby and she is sternly pressed about bringing up coal. The husband defends his role saying he held the baby briefly last night.
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Mary
Philadelphia Press
Quite Comfortabie Invitation in the Club Offer
The dialogue features Dwelley and Dombey debating joining a club with lines about comforts of home. The exchange alludes to alterations and speculation, reflecting humorous newspaper prose from the era.
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Dwelley
Dombey
Boston Transcript
FragmentedVerse Riff Reflects On Proposal and Shipwreck
A fragmented diary style passage shifts between Tess and Prana discussing Jack's proposal and a shipwreck report. The text blends social chatter with a business mood, noting relaxation and daily toil and hinting at a gulf or hole after working. The garbled OCR preserves scattered names and ideas rather than a coherent narrative.
Pick Me Up reading down the lines at home
Dialogue from a period piece where characters discuss a summer at Dincé and a parlor portrait of Washington Crossing the Delaware. Jeames and Madam converse about Mrs. De Smythe calling and waiting, with a note of schedules and family manners.
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Washington
Delaware
Fragmented Punchline Snippets From Column Gags
A jumble of brief quips and lines from various papers. It includes a Brooklyn tram pause over a bag with an alligator, a Washington Star gag about a lady missionary, an Indianapolis Journal quip, a Philadelphia Evening Bulletin jab about a church choir, and lighter exchanges on social status, marriage, and a doctor's joke about a burn.
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Brooklyn
Washington Star
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Committee On Ways and Means
Congress
Takerville
Javal
Paris Academy of Medicine
Sorbonne Ophthalmological Laboratory
Carters
Sothern
H.sothern
Garden Theater
E. H. Sothern
Edouard Strauss
Johann Strauss
Court Hall
Austria
America
Italy
Dahlia
G. Ormandiver
Grogan
Hogan
Cleo
SEA Songs
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Prana
Jack
Barrars
Doyeit
Level Helden
Kentucky
China
Indianapolis Journal
Daisy
Dade
Harpers
Maude
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Eot
Misa Withers
Arthur Las
Befle
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