Georgia Politics and Trade Coinage Debate Highlight Livingston and Hill
Leonidas F. Livingston, Georgia congressman and Georgia State Farmers' Alliance president, defends opposition to a third party and supports free coinage. He predicts passage of a bill by the House and likely approval by the Senate and President Harrison. The article also includes impressions by Senator Custom of Illinois from a European tour, noting favorable views of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the German Emperor, Lord Salisbury, and Labouchere.
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Leonidas F. Livingston
Congress
Atlanta
Georgia State Farmers’ Alliance
Metropolitan
Georgia Alliance
Tom Watson
Livingston
Hill
St. Louis
Democratic Party
Elmira
Lno
Georgia
House
Senate
Harrison
Senator Custom
Illinois
Europe
Frank Carpenter
Prince of Wales
London
Princess of Wales
England
Lord Salisbury
Great Britain
Labouchere
Cox
What Makes Hair Curly
A micro scale view explains curliness: a hair is a hollow tube, straight hair is round, while curly hair is flattened on both sides and curls toward a flat side. The hand on women is coarser and thicker on the scalp than men's.
The Japanese Paper Trade and Mulberry Bark Pulp
A veteran observer in the American Paper Trade explains Japan's paper craft. He notes mulberry bark pulp yields exceptionally tough paper and describes crude methods, rice paper cost, and limited exports. He recalls Japan's early money using mulberry bark and the shift to silver coin.
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Japan
Tokio
Germany
England
United States
Washington’s tax troubles and old Fairfax court records
A fragment from a column notes George Washington in Fairfax County facing repeated tax indictments yet ultimately paying due taxes. It recounts an old Fairfax court book, 909 pages long, with antebellum entries and a tale of Washington’s fiscal skirmishes. Also included are short items: a lost boy found by policeman Butler's dog Gip, Vanderbilt’s loss on a steam yacht, and Stetson selling Sapphire near cost, plus a brief remark on discipline among chickens.
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Fairfax County
Old Dominion
George Washington
Waslington
Lord Fairfax
Daniel McCarthy
John West
George
Washington
Kansas City Times
Charley Holmes
Thomas H. Buttwell
Gip
Butiwell
San Francisco Examiner
Vanderbilt
New Yorker
John Stetson
Boston Herald
Grip epidemic alarms Philadelphia physicians
The morning News reports grip is rising in Philadelphia with many cases and a growing death toll. Doctors warn the illness may be more severe than the two years ago epidemic and foretell higher deaths until weather improves. The disease is spreading to New York New Jersey Connecticut and California with the South largely spared so far.
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Philadelphia
Morning News
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
California
History of dolls shows culture and craft through ages
The article traces dolls from ancient German toys to French fashion dolls, noting their social significance and possible psychical value. It also cites Chinese guilds and bankers' influence in Pekin and Tien-Tsin, before a quip about school rules and a humorous exchange.
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George Eliot
Maggie Tulliver
Tacitus
Nuremburg
Thehurch
Boston Transcript
United States
Pekin
Tien-Tsin
Frank G. Carpenter
National Tribune
One of Florence's Jokes and Aboard the Atlantic
A humorous tale from Wilmington News about Florence on a Cunarder proposing to corner the silver market on board. The pair amass coins, frustrate pursers, and end with 125 pounds sterling exchanged for their silver at par.
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Florence
New York
Wilmington News
Poetic memory and political note in early American press
A collage of verse and prose touches on Sidney Lanier and nonconformist history, then shifts to a cigar case tale, a quip about smoking tips, and a New York World item noting the large New York delegation seeking 39 rooms in Minneapolis for the 1888 Republican National Convention amid hotel shortages.
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New York Times
New York World
Minneapolis
New York
West Hotel
Lawrence
Chicago
Grand Pacific Hotel
Chautley M. Depew
Thoas C. Platt
Frank Hiscock
Warne Miller
J Sloat Fassett
Disappointed Payment From Wedding Rite Years Later
The anecdote recalls Bishop Pierce performing a marriage for a wealthy friend. He expected a handsome fee but received only a pair of gloves. Years later, while inspecting them, he found a ten dollar bill hidden inside, a message of consent tied to the gloves and the long past ceremony.
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Bishop Pierce
Tisop
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Burwell
J. J. Cobb
W. D. Hamrick
COBB
J. D Hamrick
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Bowden Street
W.l. Fitts
Office Mandeville
Dixie Street
Wells
Fitts
Adamson & Jackson, RD. Jackson
Carrollton GA
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C. J. Walker
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Cobb, Walker & Cobb
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Mandeville
Theuilding
Ks. S. C. White
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Georgia Politics
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History OF Dolls
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Denver Republican
Say Ahad
Pittsburg
Great Deep
America
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Chicago Tribune
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Rank L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
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