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It has been thought necessary in Chicago to display the American flag in the public schools in the “foreign quarter” of the city—which is about three quarters of it—in order that the pupils may discover what the Stars and Stripes are like. This is in truth an odd country with an odd people. A band of desperados have been trapped near the scene of the recent attempted train robbery near Delhi, Ohio. Peter Alt, proprietor of the Arlington house at Baltimore, Md., was shot dead by his son William, aged fifteen, while beating his wife. Dennis Williams, colored, was lynched at Ellaville, Fla., June 10th, …

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Andrew Grandstaff, a young desperado of Richland Centre, Wis., was captured June 2nd, and confessed the crime of killing old Reuben Drake, his wife and two grandchildren. He was taken from jail by a mob, and lynched, being tortured to death. There was almost a riot at the Second Presbyterian church in Newburyport last Sunday, owing to the parish committee having locked the doors and stationed an officer to prevent the late pastor, Rev. Theodore Beizeley, from entering. Legal complications are expected to ensue. New Hampshire Items Neil Sheehan, of “the landing,” at Dover, one of the liquor sellers who some time ago signed the …

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First they came for the undocumented immigrants,and I did not speak out because I was happy to get rid of them. Then they came for the foreign students,and I did not speak out because they were foreign. Then they came for the green card holders,and I did not speak out because they were taking Americans’ jobs. Then they came for the Muslims,and I did not speak out because they weren’t Christians. Then they came for the judges who ruled against them,and I did not speak out because judges are usually way too liberal. Then they came for the unions,and I started to get a little …

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A former Mayor of Claremont has asked us to consider covering an out-of-state corporation’s plan to build, on a one-acre site in that city, a processing facility that would handle 500 tons of construction and demolition debris daily. We have neither the resources, nor the inclination, to comply with every such request, this case seems clear enough, and the underlying issues grave enough, that we could not resist. Besides, the former mayor’s email practically does the job for us: “For years Acuity, an out-of-state business, has tried to get Claremont’s approval to expand its recycling operation into a transfer station for tons of construction and …

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The recent shooting of a health care magnate on the streets of New York furthers the argument that the Gilded Age is back—in full force. Any 19th century anarchist would immediately recognize Brian Thompson’s killing as a case of what’s called “propaganda of the deed.” These were violent acts meant to show the broader public that, while the prevailing political and economic systems might have been powerful and omnipresent, they were not omnipotent. A greater goal for these attacks was to spark a widespread insurrection; their consistent failure to achieve that end no doubt helps to account for their gradual decline. Until recently, anyway. It’s …

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