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Editorial Notes and Comment

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885

A rapid-fire column of editorial asides from a Gilded Age paper, touching Robert Reed's fee for defending Guiteau, anti-Mormon lectures, premature Gordon obituaries, Wolseley versus Grant, a naval-building commission scheme, a Vermont politician's denial, French gains in China, the failing St. Albans Trust Company, Confederate treason apologetics, John Boyle O'Reilly's exile, London rioting, a mayor jailed for contempt, and the New Orleans Exposition's money troubles — a snapshot of how much a single 1885 news page could try to cram in.

FOREIGN NEWS

San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895

A grab-bag of world dispatches from a single day in March 1895 — German parliamentary politics, a royal Italian engagement, arrested Spanish editors, a Scottish thread cartel's price cut, the Garibaldi monument in Rome, and British aid to Newfoundland's fishing fleet.

Philadelphia's Ex-Mayor

San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Brief death notice for a former Philadelphia mayor and congressman, felled by influenza — a small footnote to a once-prominent political career.

Occupy a Malagasy Fortress

Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Madagascar

French forces seize a fortress in northern Madagascar during their colonial campaign, a small dispatch from a largely forgotten imperial war.

Temperance in the Public Schools

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Cambridge, Massachusetts

A citation of the Massachusetts revised statutes requiring teachers, from Harvard on down, to instill sobriety and temperance in pupils alongside piety, patriotism, and frugality.

A Cry Unto Womankind

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876

A fervent editorial appeal calling on women to abandon a role of decorative silence and engage directly with the social ills of the day — drink, vice, and neglect — through hospitals, asylums, and prisons.

The Sin of Drunkenness

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876

A moralizing temperance essay argues that drunkenness destroys virtue, conscience, and religious feeling, and urges parents to teach children early to hate the vice rather than pity it — a vivid window into 19th-century temperance rhetoric.

Methodist Unity

Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878

An editorial, quoting the London Methodist Recorder, weighing whether the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South — split since before the Civil War — might pursue fraternal recognition short of full reunion; the piece is cut off by the page's edge.

Our Texas Letter

Southern Christian Advocate · September 21, 1878 · Georgetown, Texas

A South Carolina expatriate writes home about the flourishing state of Methodism in Texas, its rapid growth, its clergy with Carolina roots, and the new Southwestern University at Georgetown.

Delicate Health of Two Public Figures of California

La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · California

Two brief and concerned notices on the health of two prominent figures of nineteenth-century Hispanic California: former governor Romualdo Pacheco and district judge Pablo de la Guerra, names now nearly forgotten outside local history circles.

A German Institution for Young Women

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Germany

An American writer's dispatch on a German charitable institution where young women could board cheaply, learn trades, and sell needlework anonymously to preserve their dignity.

Temperance at Washington

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Washington, District of Columbia

A brief note contrasting the drunken congressional sessions of half a century earlier with the sober habits of 1876's lawmakers, crediting a temperance society for the change — except, pointedly, among newly elected Democrats.

Poland to Seek Delegate-at-Large Seat

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Montpelier, Vermont

A brief Vermont political note floats Senator Luke P. Poland as a likely delegate-at-large to the 1876 Republican National Convention, with a dig at his tendency to speak more boldly at home than in Washington.

Warning to the Young Against Drunkenness and Idleness

Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878 · Georgia

A temperance essay warns young men that idle hands and the casual mixing of brandy and water are the first steps toward habitual drunkenness and ruin, singling out tobacco use as a gateway vice.

Counterfeiter Escapes Joliet Jail With Aid of Accordion

Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Joliet, Illinois

A fragment describing how a Swedish counterfeiter named Skoog escaped the Cook County jail's temporary quarters at Joliet by having accomplices saw through the bars while he masked the noise with an accordion.

A Dealer's Confession

Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876

A fragment of a temperance sermon in which a liquor dealer, reviewing his account book, finds that most of his longtime customers have died drunkards or become confirmed alcoholics — a grim ledger used to argue against the trade.

Lessons on Prayer

Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878

A Sunday-school style exposition on prayer, urging believers to bring their needs boldly to God and warning parents against neglecting their children's spiritual and moral upbringing.

Power in Preaching

Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878

A discussion, drawing on Bossuet and the writings of Abel Stevens, of how moral earnestness rather than mere technique produces true pulpit eloquence, followed by related notes warning against ministers dwelling too long on the objections of infidels.

Notes on the Parable of the Rich Man

Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878

A devotional commentary unpacking the biblical parable of the rich fool, weighing worldly wealth against spiritual riches for readers of this Methodist weekly.

Little Chance of Speaking French in France Nowadays

The Sun · November 16, 1913 · France

A 1913 feature has fun with the reverse language problem afflicting American tourists in France: everyone from waiters to shopgirls to society ladies now insists on practicing their English on visitors, making it nearly impossible to actually speak French in France.