Literary Notices and Notes
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878
A roundup of book and periodical news for religious and literary readers of 1878, from Dr. Plumer's works translated abroad to the contents of the National Repository.
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On Sabbath Travel to Camp Meetings
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878
A fragment of editorial commentary arguing that Sunday travel to camp meetings, by rail or carriage, is as much a violation of the Sabbath as any other needless labor.
The Lost Catechism
Southern Christian Advocate · September 14, 1878
A brief religious column laments the decline of catechism instruction, quoting the 17th-century divine Thomas Fuller on why so many are 'carried about with every wind of doctrine.'
THOUSANDS RESCUED
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Che Foo, China
A dispatch describing the rescue of hundreds of Western missionaries and thousands of Chinese refugees during the Boxer Rebellion, brought to safety aboard a steamer with a secret destination.
Fighting on Russian Frontier
The Laurens Advertiser · August 5, 1914 · Allenstein, Germany
An early skirmish report from the opening days of World War I describes cavalry clashes and a cut rail line on the German-Russian frontier.
How an Arab Victory Moved the Chicago Grain Market
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Khartoum, Sudan
A short dispatch marvels at how news of Khartoum's fall in Sudan rippled instantly through Chicago wheat prices and New York stocks — an early glimpse of how connected global markets already were in 1885.
Haydoniana
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · England
A grab-bag of gossipy anecdotes drawn from the private letters and table-talk of the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, sketching the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Lord Brougham, Sheridan and Byron in unguarded moments — vivid, catty history from the inside.
The Case of Cardinal Hohenlohe
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · Rome, Italy
A Rome correspondent untangles a diplomatic flap over a Catholic cardinal serving as a foreign ambassador, and reports on friction between the Vatican and Bismarck's Prussia over the Catholic Church in Germany.
What Might Have Been
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Washington, District of Columbia
An editorial lament on the Forty-eighth Congress's failure to act on major pending legislation as its session neared its end.
A Former Prisoner Revisits Richmond
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Richmond, Virginia
A onetime Union prisoner of war returns to Richmond two decades later, retracing his path from the old Confederate prisons to the city's monuments, in a personal letter to the editor.
Attacks on Crispi
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Palermo, Italy
An Italian ex-premier publicly accuses sitting Premier Francesco Crispi of overstepping constitutional powers, a moment of open political conflict in 1890s Italy.
Foreign Telegrams
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873
A roundup of foreign cable dispatches covering American claims against the U.S. government, Spanish colonial policy, Carlist hostage-taking in Spain, the Shah of Persia's tour of Paris, Ottoman naval movements toward Sumatra, and the summons of a former Turkish vizier.
Chairman Jones' Movements
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Minneapolis, Minnesota
A brief dispatch tracking the travel plans of the Democratic National Committee chairman as he heads toward Chicago to organize the 1900 campaign.
Temperance Notes
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · New York, New York
A roundup of temperance commentary — from a new anti-drink novel by the author of "Ginx's Baby," to startling New York drink statistics tied to the coming Centennial Exhibition, to a Chicago shooting blamed on liquor — offering a vivid snapshot of the era's crusade against the saloon.
Why Are The Times Hard?
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
An 1876 argument that America's hard times stem from the $600,000,000 spent yearly on liquor, with the writer contending that decades of abstinence could make the nation the richest on earth.
Alcohol in Its Relations to Economy
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · United Kingdom
A statistics-laden temperance-column essay tallying the vast capital and tax revenue tied up in Britain's drink trade, arguing that the scale of alcohol production and taxation was almost too enormous to grasp.
Anna Dickinson's New Book
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876
A blistering excerpt from lecturer Anna Dickinson's new book demands that women confront the drink trade, prisons, and asylums rather than retreat into decorative silence—a startling document of 1870s reform rhetoric almost entirely forgotten today.
A Narrow Escape for Miss Nellie Grant
The Cairo Bulletin · July 11, 1873 · Long Branch, New Jersey
The president's teenage daughter survives a runaway pony carriage during a seaside outing — a small brush with tragedy that briefly touched the Grant family in 1873.
Society and Dramatic Gossip in the Hub
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · Boston, Massachusetts
A Boston correspondent's roundup of the city's literary lectures and theatre season — from a Shakespeare scholar's new course to John Stoddard's wildly popular stereopticon travel lectures and a stacked week of star actors on the boards.
Grosmith Funny as Ever
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · London, England
A round-up of London stage news—new productions, John Hare's plans for an American tour, and the romantic maneuvering around actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell—offers a snapshot of 1890s theatrical culture and its gossip mill.