The Sorrow of It and Wedding Jokes Parade
A montage of humorous vignettes and wedding chatter from the era includes a bride named Mrs Newbride celebrated for a successful ceremony as she voices a bleak outlook on life The banter shifts to domestic scenes with old couples meetings and witty exchanges The column stacks gossipy bits from Chicago Boston and Harlem Life with light punchlines and quaint dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Highton
Mrs. Newbride
Boston Courier
Epochs of American newspapers and industry scale
The piece outlines six epochs in U.S. journalism from 1690 to 1890, detailing growth across colonial, party religious and specialized presses. It notes today about 17,000 newspapers and periodicals, with two weeklies per county and local papers in nearly every village. It cites employment for about 22,000 and investment around 200 million in these enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Press
Cheap
Telegraph
Independent Press
United
The King’s Highway to Zion
A Sunday sermon contrasts earthly roads with a divine path from God. The speaker portrays a safe plain road built by the King’s Son, cleansed of sin, leading to Zion where the redeemed rejoice. He extols security in faith and the rewards of eternity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion
Earth
Heaven
Uead
Sharon
Christ
Israel
Miriam
King’s Palace
Hell
Caorus
Waite
Iuart
Jesus
Troops Ordered Home From Bapgyton Field
The dispatch from Gov. Flower told Col. Austen there was no reason to keep troops and if deemed safe they could withdraw and return to the city. Soon after, all troops were ordered home except 50 men of the third Regiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bapgyton, L. I
Austen
Flower
Plague Reports Surge Across Cities in Caucasus Van
Dispatches from physicians visiting Voro nezh Kasan Samara and Saratoff report 100 to 600 fresh cases daily in each city and 100 to 300 deaths. In the Caucasus daily new cases reach 1550 with about 75 deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Prierspens
Voronezh
Kasan
Samara
Saratoff
Caucasus
Cholera Toll Rises in Paris and Havre
Paris reported 60 fresh cholera cases and 44 deaths yesterday. Havre logged seven deaths and eleven new cases in the same period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Havre
Ex Governor Watts Dies Prominent Alabama Lawyer
MontGom MeERY Alabama September 17 Ex-Guy Thomas H Watts has died at age 72 or 73 after a long career as a leading lawyer and political figure. He served as Attorney General in the Confederate Cabinet and as Governor of Alabama during the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MontGom Meery
Ala
Guy Thomas H. Watts
Alabama
Diphtheria Outbreak Feared in Gare Nerville Orange County
Black diphtheria appears in Gare Nerville Orange County with De Witt Case family struck down a child dies and others prostrated raising fear of an epidemic as of September 15.
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Erneston, N
Garenerville
Orange County
de Witt Case
Revered Talmage and Kiepsch Sail From Russia
Rev Dr Talmage and Mr Louis Kiepsch, returning from Russia after delivering cargo aboard the relief steamship Leo to famine provinces, have sailed for New York aboard the City of Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LiverPool
Talmage
Louis Kiepsch
Russia
Christian Herald
Leo
New York
Paris
Boston Provisions a Floating Hospital
The city ferryboat Franklin has been provisioned with beds and will be ready at a moment's notice to serve as a cholera hospital if the disease appears in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Franklin
On Ceris Indians Island Off Sonora Mexico
An 19th century account describes Ceris Indians on a small Gulf island near Hermosillo. The isolated tribe, hostile to visitors, lives by fishing and occasional raids, with a population under 500, cannibal rumors, and a barren environment marked by cacti and scrub.
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Gulf of
Ain
Sonora
Hermosillo
F. Oakley
Guaymas
Mex
Gulf
Los Age
Mexico
Oakley
Ceris
Herasatie
Pueblo de Ceris
Democrata
California
Lower
Torado
Nora
York
New Tribune
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Georgie
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Brutus
Il Popolo Romano
Tom
Miss
Jack
Watkinss
Watkins
Elmira Gazette
Mr. Sought
E. B
York Herald
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Maudge
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Harold
Chicago Daily Tribune
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Iowa
Washington Post
Detroit Free Press
ASIT
Ledger
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Ron
Ishayy
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