The Fall of Ward and a Prisoner’s New Start
Ferdinand Ward, freed after seven years in Sing Sing, leaves the prison with his seven year old son in tow and vows to build a life anew in New Rochelle and Stanford. He recalls his rise as a Wall Street financier, the Marine Bank collapse, and his long road to gainful work in printing and carpentry.
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Ferdinand Ward
Sing Sing Prison
Wall Street
Ward
New York
Johnson
Fassett
New Rochelle
Stanford
Grimesland Alliance Adopts Resolutions Against Butler Policy
Grimesland Alliance No 1389 Pitt county last Saturday adopted resolutions denouncing Marion Butler and the St Louis demands. The group condemns the Raleigh conference pressures and supports Pitt county’s bid for representation in the St Louis talks. J J Ellis Jr., secretary.
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Progressive Farmer
Marion Butler
Grimsland Alliance
Pitt County
St. Louis
State Alliance
State Farmers’ Alliance
Butler
Raleigh
Pitt County Alliance
J. J. Ellis Jr
Grimesland Alliance
Anniversary of St Marys School June Festivities
The Rector announces the anniversary celebration of St Marys School with services in the chapel and alumni address on Sunday June 5, reception June 6, concerts June 7 and 8, and commencement June 9. The Assamaz in Raleigh invites all former pupils to attend and contact secretary Miss Kate McKimmon.
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St. Mary’s School
Assamaz
Raleigh
The
Association
Kate McKimmon
Raleigh, N.C
True Heroism shines in a Philadelphia policeman’s sacrifice
The Charlotte Observer recalls Robert Nichol a Philadelphia policeman who died saving women and children during a fire. The piece praises his selfless courage and notes he was to be married soon, illustrating enduring chivalric virtue in ordinary life.
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Rowena
Ashby
Brain de Bois Gilbert
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Robert Nichol
Philadelphia
Chariotte Observer
Ingersel Reflects On Death In A Bereavement Letter
A Colonel Ingersel letter from Long Branch comforts a friend who lost his mother. He speaks of death in old age as serene and of youth as tormented, noting life’s journey from cradle to inn and the final good night as the last farewell.
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Ingersel
Long Branch
What An Editor Really Is
An editor is a cross between early piety and cranky old age. He never swears in the paper without abbreviating a dash. He rolls along like a stone gathering moss until the lumbago strikes into his back. The gathering of wealth has but a faint hope and shadowy might be in his mind. He lives from day to day in the hope of getting conscience money from his subscribers who owe him years of subscription, but the subscribers sleep well every night while he struggles on, and always has something coming.
Domestic turmoil over a wife's mission ends in head injury
In a strained home scene a wife challenges her husband with a remark about a woman on a mission. The husband replies with submission, triggering great domestic confusion and leading him to seek medical help from a family surgeon for a plaster on his head.
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Henry Blount
Cheap Jack
Congress
Paul
Louise
Charles
General Grant
Grant
W. H. Vanderbilt
Fisn
Stephen B. Elkins
Barrett
James D. Fish
Fish
Marine Bank
States
Produce Exchange
Ocala
Indianapolis
Farmers’ Alliance
St. Mary's
State Library
Daniel
Day of Weldon
Alexander
Russia
Europe
Talleyrand
Mathison Johnson
Draco
Moses
Ashe
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