Old Slickery and the French Minister at the White House
In a Washington Star retelling, a foreign minister once arrived without a proper envoy and spoke French to the president. a kitchen helper and an Irish servant guided the scene. The incident ends with a formal introduction by Secretary of State McLane, revealing the era’s courtly etiquette and humorous misreads of republican manners.
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Cook
Rene Diplomatiatia
United States
McLane
Brenier
Maniners
White House
M. Ie
Pat
Patrick
Wigatery
Yase
Washington Star
Poultry Pointers for Home Hens and Fowl Yield
Guidance on keeping turkey hens tame near the house and managing free range flocks. Recommends cooping mother hens, rowling chickens to run ground, wooden floors to reduce damp, bone meal to strengthen bones, clean nesting material, tobacco stems to deter vermin, and choosing large breeds like Dorkings Cochin or Brahmas to maximize meat from feed.
Memorable Ride That Shaped Britain's Hanoverian Era
The 1701 act of settlement shifted the British throne to the House of Hanover by a single vote. Sir Arthur Owen, Pembroke MP, rode from Wales in haste to cast the pivotal vote at Westminster. His urgent journey enabled the dynasty change, influencing Britain’s royal lineage and later history.
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Sir Arthur Owen
Great Britain
House of Hanover
Pembrokeshire
Westminster
Wales
Britain
Victoria
Navy Marksmen Pride as Pensacola Target Practice Surges
Special Correspondence from Washington reports the U S Navy’s Pensacola target drills showing improved gunnery across six battleships led by the Alabama with high hit rates and faster firing. Despite accidents that killed and wounded workers and damaged guns, officials stress safety and ongoing ordnance improvements.
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Washington
Tensacola
North Atlantic
Southern
Gulf Water
Pensacola
Aagship Kearsarge
Alabamn
Hinds
Iowa
Massachusetts
Texas
Alabama
Diana
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Santiago
Evans
Cervera
Kearsarge
Ibis
Agate
Ocean
Maois
Indiana
Lexag
Exa
Wade
Trona Island
Navy
Town
Monterey
Indian Head Proving Grounds
Proving Grounds
Fred
United States
Ordnance Department
Charles O'Neil
Orlnance
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
O'Neil
Black Ingle Wins Stallion Battle for Plains Leader
In a dramatic stallion duel described by Sewell Fors in Horses Nines, the black thoroughbred defeats the buckskin, seizing leadership of a free company of plains rangers. The buckskin wanders away to form a new band while the black asserts dominance and readiness to guard his herd.
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Sewell Fors
Shen
Furugele
Black Ingle
Plains Rangers
Cortes
Friday S hacky and luck in odd numbers
A fragmentary notice discusses Friday as the sixth day and describes luck in odd numbers. It quotes names and brief banter about eclat and temperance, then advertises a new eighty page emigration book from the Northern Pacific Railway offering town by town openings along the line.
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Bix
Jon Advartisar
Paalfe
Ling
W. Mott
St. Paul Mion
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedy Claim
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and offers a 100 dollar reward for any catarrh caused deafness not cured by Kal’s Catarrh Cure. It promotes a pamphlet from B J County & Co of Toledo Ohio and notes Kal’s Family Medicines as best.
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Nal
B.J. County & Co
Toledo
Kal
Chicago Great Western Railway Ticket Offers 1903
Low rates from Hampton and Illinois via Chicago Great Western Railway to multiple western cities with return tickets at one fare. Fares listed include 1885 to Billings Montana 21.86 to Livingston Hinsdale 823.85 to Toledo Butte 2035 to Portland Seattle or Tacoma 28.85 to Victoria or Vancouver. Tickets on sale through November 40 inclusive with return validity to October Lth. P Elmer G P A Chicago.
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Hampton
Chicago Great Western Railway
Livingston
Hinsdale
Mont
Telows
Butte
Portland
Oregon
Seattle
Tacoma
Wash
Victoria
Vancouver B. C
Chicago
Great Western
Profid. P. Elmer
Pirate Dreams Reflect Inck Journal Cartoon
A Pittburgh Gazette cartoon caption recalls a boy’s ambition to be a pirate and a lawyer’s remark about chasing dreams. The exchange highlights contrasts between youth ideals and adult reality in a humor strip.
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Lawryer
Inck
Pittuburg Gazette
Proceeding With Causlon In Punctilious Debate
In a Washington Star exchange Senator Sorghum questions the aim of motions and proposes restraint. He says he does not want to overly impress others with punctilious principles and warns against pressuring anyone to make a proposition.
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Causlon
Sorghum
Washington Star
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