Vacation plans of U S senators and the president
Congress nears adjournment as senators and the president prepare summer escapes. Mills and Sanders depart for campaigns, Morrison seeks Cap May, and others favor Newport, Maine, or Potomac trips. Vacation styles vary from fishing and golf to law practice and light travel, with talk of junkets and expense concerns fading amid leisure plans.
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Acdrict
Fon Elcetien
Morrison
Capa May
Tam
Halford
Congress
Shermean
Europa
Baltimore
Hoston
Senator Brics
Newport
Frye
Rangeley Lakes
Maine
Washington
Bahtor
Poker Problems From a Parlour Card Game
A scrambled excerpt discusses betting strategy and bluffing in poker, warning that bluffing trains betting acumen but that betting on high cards is risky. It notes the shy and bashful girl in gaming and mentions a wife presenting a husband with misdirected gifts in a muddled narrative.
Archbishop Vaughan Faces Critics in England Catholic Shift
The new archbishop of Westminster, Archbishop Vaughan, is described amid debate over his aristocratic Catholic ties and views. He supports social reform, education, and a planned school of Christian art, while stressing openness with the Vatican and a peaceful approach to England's Catholic growth.
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Vaughes
Salford
Cardinal Manning
Westminister
England
The
Tablet
Howarda
Petres
Duke of Norfolk
Howard
New YorkWorld
Black and White
Herbert Vaughao
Hila
Iing
Cardinal Wiseman
Archbishop Vaughan
Hia Grace
Cardinal Msnolug
Bogtood
Thomas A’ Becket
Christ
Vatican
London
Prussia
Holy See
Wain
Germany
Turkey
Europe
Oxford
Cambridge
Rome
Henry Will
Bess
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Manniny
Procathedral
Church In
America
Coul Vm
Vaughan
Colonel Vaughan
Field
Herefordshire
Courtfield
Roger Bede Vaughan
Sydney
Jerome Bond
Bernard Vaughan
Jesuit Society
Kenelm Vaughan
South America
John
Chelsea
Cardinal Weld
Plymouth
Herbert Vaughan
Stonyhurst
Dr. Manning
Community of Oblates
St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart For Foreign Missions
Society For the Education of Negroes
Baltimore
St. Bede's College
Manchester
Snd
Rhine
St. Joseph's Missionary Society
Mill Hill
Tale of a Convict's Bride Burlesques a Life of Crime
A woman tells in vivid first person how Daly, her husband, a thief jailed for years, wooed her with money and charm. She defends him, laments a broken home in New York after his arrest, and vows to await his release in nine years, maintaining faith and love amid public shame.
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Daly
Abe
Wallace
Tnts
Hyves
Columbus Avenur
Fatip
Webster
New Haven
Hartford
Connecticut
New York
Mae
O'Brien
Main
Katin
Mootha
East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street
Lis
Fortene
Europe
ROW RATTLERS POISON VICTIMS AND SNAKE SPIT CLAIMS
A historic letter questions whether rattlesnakes spit venom and argues that venom is not expelled by spitting. The author compares copperhead action, notes the snake’s swift strike, and cites cases of accidental bites from rattlers and a Virginia hunt. The piece emphasizes accurate science and dangerous misperceptions.
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Cope
Strick
Rockingham County
Virginia
Onain
Tragic river romance ends in murder on Mississippi
On a steamboat tale set in antebellum river life, two enslaved men, Joe Henry and Black Tom, clash over love and wages. After Joe wins Amanda, Tom vows revenge. Floodwaters force a confrontation at night near Arkansas Mississippi border. Tom drowns Amanda and fights Joe to death, their bodies later found.
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J. Lowle
Joe Henry
Tom Singleton
Ned
Tom
Gluck
Market Street
Morgan Street
Eleventh Street
Thorn
Joe Henep
Tme
Tima
Joe
Amanda
Qbicot County
Arkansas
Black Tom
Washington County
Mitsiaippi
Chicot County
Amands
Mississippi
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Hiecork
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Yor
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Montana
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Palpahia
Sanders Polond Hwarthy
Ben Patker
Blakves
Chandler
Seastor Proctar
Cullom
Ilinois
Springfield
Llingia
Methat
Cuilom
Senator Palmer
Ililpolschentz
Lincoln
Dougise
Stopford
Hoar
Squantum Club
Rhode Island
Atlantic
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Federman
Florida
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West Virginia
Potomac
Fshing
Seestor Stockbridge
Monroe
Batler
Sukh Carinton
Cohmett
New England
Alaska
Hico
Tig Tom Reed
Tom Jubneen
Ohio
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Wilnels
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Ancertea
Cicero
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