Fragments From a Tragedy and Modern Life Reflections
Readable text recalls a New York Saturday disaster on the Schilfer line with spared and lost passengers and a bereaved father seeking news. It threads into a critique of urban pace, work strain, and moral warnings about speed and leisure, interwoven with wide-ranging clippings and notices from markets, law, and culture.
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Schilfer
New York
Chas. Schulery
Bertha
Kornblum
Karwie Evans
Scheele
Busan
Duckfield
Mysterious Illness Strikes Ames College Students
Students and officers at Ames College face a sudden outbreak on the night of May 3 with many stricken by purging vomiting and abdominal pain. Most recover by morning though several cases among young women are severe. Rumors of a prank emetic food item persist but physicians offer no clue as investigators pursue the cause.
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Greg
Peter
George Eliot
Semyigret Cotcee
Amés
Siresus
Ames
Scattered Uproar and Odd Moments Reported From London and Iowa
An April audience disturbance at a Moody and Sankey prayer meeting in London interrupted proceedings after a man declared a message for Moody. A St Louis youth confesses breaking a lamp post glass to a captain, pledging repayment and good behavior. A baby wanders onto railroad tracks near Viola Iowa and is saved when the train passes, preventing harm.
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Méssrs
St. Louis
Police
Catriint
The Bollandiity of Brussels Saint Lives Project
A fragment mentions a seventeenth century Seonet case on publishing saints lives from the Catholic Church. It notes sixty folio volumes printed by the Bollandists and a French Revolution impact, with October nearly done and 4,070 saints yet unwritten.
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Bollandiity
Brussels
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