King Alcohol and the ruin of virtue in a Northern note
A fiery abolition of drink rhetoric condemns King Alcohol as ruinous to home and public life. The piece targets a corrupt politics era, praising sobriety and promising a blessed future where men remain at home, wives restore affection, and society heals from vice. It ends with a humorous hotel anecdote about a blacksmith and dinner, illustrating rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satan
Gentlea
Heaven
Hell
Earth
Mixed News Snippets Highlight Oddities and Politics
A dish of brief items covers diverse topics from India Buddhists and Russian bathing to mortgage provisions and oysters for oarsmen. It notes Ireland campaigns, US politics debates, literary figures, and a Virginia attorney general in jail amid a tax coupon dispute.
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Virginia
Bond
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Luxurious Pullman Trains Planned for New York to Florida
The Pullman Palace Car Company outlines vestibule trains linking New York and Florida starting January 1 1983. Trains form a continuous suite of drawing rooms and dining cars with concealed connections, elegant interiors, and a schedule departing New York around 9 30 am to reach Florida by dinner the next day.
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Florida
New York
Pullman Palace Car Company
Fragmented dialogue hints at a broken heart and an offer
A fragmentary scene shows a woman urging George to quit smoking and drinking after a tense exchange. He admits to some smoking and drinking and contemplates leaving as she suggests his wifely influence might persuade him to change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Judge Enet welcomes President Cleveland in Memphis
The judge delivered the welcome address to President Cleveland in Memphis recently as the president began his reply. A tobacco warehouse opened last week in Rocky Mount with high prices paid for leaf.
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Enet
Cleveland
Memphis
Rocky Mount
The Scribe at the Circus Observation
An observer follows an uptown circus parade at dawn and attends a show that night. The piece highlights animals, performers, and a vivid, sensory diary of sights and sounds including a limber woman and a smoking act. The tone resembles a personal, archaic journal entry.
Autumn Leaves and Fading Hopes Verses
Poem by Earnest Heary from Palexra, North Carolina, reflecting on autumn winds, barren trees, and fragile hope. It contrasts fading color with cruel fate while urging patience until new joys come.
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Marge
Wry Syracuse Lawyer Wins Case Despite Misspelt Script
A Syracuse attorney drafting two briefs used odd terms like gate carpenter hotel keeper and cunstelus yet secured victory. The piece notes a lawyer who can weep before a jury needs no orthography.
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Syracuse
Cunstelus
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Mirror of Riverside Nursery
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James Gordon Bennett
Paris
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Billee Mahone
George Bancroft
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Coleridge
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Spain
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Tory Morning Post
London
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Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Adele Grant
Thomas K. Beecher
Henry Ward
Greenback Party
Blackwell's Island
Bellevue Hospital
Nellie Brown
Nellie
Mr. Davitt
America
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Elizabeth Ralls
Philadelphia
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Lagrange
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