Sword Craft and Duel Turn Deadly in Moscow
Ruric and Conrad Damenoff duel in a deserted Moscow boathouse after a tense confrontation. Ruric demonstrates superior sword skill and restraint, saving Damenoff’s life by parrying and breaking the weapon, ending with Damenoff mortally wounded as bystanders and Vladimir the monk watch in shock.
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Orsa
Damonoff
Rurie
Urzen
Olga
Ruric
Petisse
Darmonoff
Conrad Damenoff
St. Paul
Nevel
Stephen Urzen
Conrad
Alaric
Vladimir
Arzen
Holy Church of God
Bishop Leonard condemns sensational sermons in annual charge
The Episcopal bishop of Ohio criticizes sensational preaching as driving worshippers away. He cites Chicago symposiums and urges ministers to restore plain gospel teaching, focusing on sin, Christ, and spiritual uplift rather than politics or social topics. He calls for fearless preachers devoted to truth.
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Damonoff
Ruric
Rurke
Ruric Nevel
William Andrew Leonard
Ohio
Chicago Record-Herald
Leonard
Chicago
Jesus Christ
Church of Life
Clemson
Columbia
Ben Tillman
Tillman
Political discontent and western settlement discussed
A Georgia reader denounces politicians for empty promises and higher taxes while praising farm life. The piece cites party strife, the Gaffney incident, and a call for reform under a progressive Democrat. It then recounts Oklahoma land settlement movements led by David Payne, quarrying expeditions, and federal actions opening the territory for settlement.
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South Carolina
Larry Gantt
Spartanburg Herald
Charleston’s Blind Tigers Defy Dispensary Law, Judge Says
In Charleston General Sessions Judge W C Benet urged the grand jury to enforce the dispensary law amid open violations across the city. He noted Charleston parallels state and neighboring violations, urging a serious effort to uphold statutes. After remarks, 59 dispensary indictments were presented and all were no bills.
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Court of General Sessions
Charleston
W. C. Benet
South Carolina
Grand Jury of
Benet
Police Department
Gadsden and Santa Anna Meet Amid Diplomatic Fray
The article recounts James Gadsden’s blunt rebuke to Santa Anna during the Guadeloupe Hidalgo negotiations, with an interpreter smoothing tensions. It then shifts to a New York barge office crowd, criticizing Italian immigration and lottery practices, noting disease and deformity among the poor and a birth rate reported at 60 percent.
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New York
Italy
Naples
Labor Strife and Campaign Stopovers In South Carolina
Labor battles erupt in Columbia as Southern railway machinists strike and non union workers are guarded in a sleeping car. Five are wounded in the clash as authorities seek to curb unrest amid heightened tensions. Also reports from Spartanburg preview Senator McLaurin’s July 4 appearance with plans for speeches and a Progressive Democracy invitation to farmers and mill workers.
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Columbia
Southern Railway
Tillman
McLaurin
Spartanburg
Senator McLaurin
Gaffney
John B. Cleveland
Cleveland
George B. Dean
W. R. Dillingham
Kennedy Street
Spartan Inn
Bennettsville
Greenville
Honea Path
Abbeville County
Spartanburg County
Oklahoma's Romantic Path to Statehood and Discovery
The article recalls the early romance of Oklahoma, meaning Beautiful Land in an Indian language, and its exploration by Captain Randolph B. Marcy and Lt. George B. McClellan in 1852. Their government report popularized the region then part of Indian Territory and foreshadowed its later map status.
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Coronado
Charles V
Oklahoma
David L. Payne
Kansas
Oklahoma Town Company
Southwest Colony
Payne
Ewing
Rock Falls
W. L. Couch
Stillwater
Beautiful Land
United States
Indian Territory
Randolph B. Marcy
George B. McClellan
Immigrant hardship and longing in early American press
Regina Armstrong in Leslie's Weekly notes the harsh urban life faced by Italian immigrants, including crime and illegitimacy, yet highlights their hope for America as a land of quick money, comfort, and protection from hardship.
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America
Regina Armstrong
Leslie’s Weekly
Massachusetts union plans aim to level South textile mills
Pittsburg Post reports Massachusetts cotton manufacturers seek to organize or aid unions in the Carolinas and Georgia to equalize mill competition. Fall River agents in the South say unrest among Southern workers could spark a large textile union movement within two years, shifting conditions with Northern mills.
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Pittsburg
Massachusetts
Carolina
Georgia
South
Fall River
South Carolina
Carolinas
North
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W. E. Curtis
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Jim Gadsden
Frank Pierce
New Hampshire
Rio Grande
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