Sermons and Scandals at Hopkins Hall and Central Music Hall
A Chicago audience hears Sam Jones critique preacher methods and cites a Taft taft-Paddock Bible trial anecdote. The feature describes Swing’s lecture style at Central Music Hall, contrasts with a clergyman’s rhetoric, and recounts a long court case verdict and a judge’s mercy in Joliet.
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Thenited
Avery
Ted
Daniel
Ephraim
Westers Missour
Fur County
Campalre
Ernest Paddock
Candace
Taft
Wreyman
Las
Mawby Smith
Promins
Bether
Almoss
Treah Chew
Weil
Joliet
Edjours
Rhode Island Soldier Survives Confederate Picket Force
A Rhode Island soldier on picket duty repelled a Confederate cavalry raid. After wounding several attackers, he fled into a brushy trench where a hog collapse created cover, allowing escape. The pursuers, hearing the noise, mistook him for an escapee and left. The soldier returned to camp unharmed.
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Caine Riperionns
Rhode Island
Rae
Pra
Persol
Ani
Cee Bonad
Beauty and Fascination in a Washington Social Scene
A Washington Star piece contrasts beauty with fascination in women, detailing a 35 year old who embodies presence over mere looks. It discusses how fascination through sympathy draws men, cites a party of beauties, and weighs traits that captivate over conventional beauty.
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Wenth
Washington Star
Sistema
Sii
Washington
Misa Blank
Jhetty
Choupatta
George Elias
Ques Elizabeth
Madam Do Sniel
Harriet Marteena
Rod
Ehrough
Viorence Nightingale
Mary Carpenter
Abe Sammaes
Two War Heroes and the Melancholy Life of Theodore Tilien
A New York review sketches prominent figures like Abbey and Ed Stokes, tracing Abbey's theatrical rise from Ohio to Broadway and Stokes's unlikely ascent through the Hoffman House bar. It also portrays General Miles, General Sickles, and Theodore Tilton as emblematic 19th century dramas, noting Tilton's Paris exile, poetic works, and the fate of his life amid tempestuous fame.
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Tsu
Tres
Bin
Heory EB
Abbby
Bis Enterprises
Stokes
Sacoais
Theodore Tillen
Oory J. Abbey
Upper Broadway
Mr. Abbey
Ohio
Newelty
Buffalo
Ned Adams
Aubry
Akron
Ojo
Inda Kernhardt
Booth
Patti
Nilssne
Langtry
Coucelio
Irwin
New York
London
Abbay
Grand Central Hotel
Toombs
Sing Si
Sing Sing
Toon
California
Hoffman Hogee
Ed Stokes
Wall Street
Sbke
Tammany Hall
Senator Hill
Roscoe Conkling
Conkling
Mr. Stokes
Arthur
el Stokes
Sagersol
Nelson A. Miles
Department of the Air
Governor
Miles
Ho le
Roe
General Sherman
Doc Cameron
Daniel E. Sickies
Congress
Sickies
Vere
Lester
Democracy le Congress
Caton
Madrid
Spanish Republic
Washington
Feral Sickles
Theodore Tilton
Paris
Fly
Ademary
Casa de la Regence
Rue St. Honore
Comedie Iran
George Francis
Madison Square
Park
Mobilier
Union
Henry Ward Beecher
Uncle Sam's Lifesavers and the Coast Guard Start
A historical overview recounts the origins of Uncle Sam’s lifesaving service with shipwrecks off the Jersey coast. After two disasters claimed hundreds of lives, Congress funded stations and Sumner S. Kimball reorganized the system with regular crews, improved stations, and better boats, dramatically reducing fatalities at sea.
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Uncle Sun
Aoeof
Embraer
Jersey
Coast Guard
Laddy Hook
Lista Harbor
Sem
Loog Island
Montauk Point
Conny Island
Fife Savers
Enores
Rascun
Theople
Sam
Mr. Cox
Sumner S. Kimball
Ines Sad Coe
Kimball
Sewee von
Kimsball
Sud
Jersey Coast
Tina
Uise
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Nye and
Sam Jones
WTR
GOR Alwats
Swing
Chicago
Hopkins
Ivan
Jones
Kentucky
Bam Jones
Coe
God
Sac
Ridgeted
Weday
Paddock
Theo
Gos
Stu
Aig
Atlantic
New York City
Ed. Stokes
W. E. D. Stokes
Jim Fisk
Credit Mobuler
Loto Salim
Wicronninay
Tenry Banbet
Daniel E. Rickles
Uncle Sams Lee
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Brave Coast Guard
Brown
Maui
Wreeling Business College
Cor
Tele Mem Teel Tite
Spettia
Acitkmetics
Corea Perewast le Virschss
Low Prine Sova
S73
Satan
Mase
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