Grant Memoirs Volume Two Due April First
The second volume of General Grant's Memoirs will be published about April first. Mason City votes five percent tax to aid Mason City and Fort Dodge railway. Senate approves 250000 dollar appropriation for a General Grant monument. Frank Palmer buys Knoxville Chronicle to edit and publish it. The Soldier's Home bid rises high. Des Moines pays 50000 for the State fair. Drape costs total 32442 for Washington departments and 5475 for Hendricks. A Philadelphia belle paralyzed by cosmetics. generally cosmetics used to paralyze others. Woman suffrage adopted in part in St John New Brunswick. widows and unmarried women paying city taxes on 1000 property may vote. Omaha AOUW to organize Nebraska Grand Lodge by next month 10th.
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Omaha
Grand Lodge
Nebraska
Editorial Shakeup Rumor Denied By Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Mail claimed a change in the editorial management of the Des Moines Register, a report the Register angrily denies, though the item continues to circulate.
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Des Moines Mail
Des Moines Register
Florida Senator Jone’s Seat Falters Over Romance
Senator Jones of Florida has not attended since spring. Rumor says he courts a wealthy widow with 2 million dollars in her own right. She plans to sustain the affair until a final political setback or capitulation occurs.
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Jones
Florida
Political Scandals Split Along Party Lines Over Rail Profits
The Republicans profited from Credit Mobilier with Democrats, while Democrats did not share Pan Electric gains with Republicans. The contrasting conduct highlights partisan fault lines in postwar politics.
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Credit Mobilier
Secretary Whitney Reposed As Clerk Boots Overshoes
A visitor to the naval department lately found Secretary Whitney resting in an easy chair while a government clerk, identified as a white man, put overshoes on his chief's feet. The scene is described with strong critical language about favoritism and governance.
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National Republican
Naval Department
Mr. Whitney
Swinton lauds Knights of Labor liquor ban rule
John Swinton says excluding liquor dealers and saloonkeepers from the Knights of Labor brands king alcohol as hurt by the measure. He argues the rule far surpasses Maine laws and speeches by Gough in reducing drunkenness and constraining the rum traffic.
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John Swinton
King Alcohol
Knights of Labor
Maine
Gough
Reception for Mildred Lee at Galt House Louisville
A Monday reception in the Galt House Louisville honored Miss Mildred Lee daughter of the late General Robert E Lee. Ex Confederate soldiers of Louisville and Washington and Lee University alumni hosted with Gen Thomas Taylor and ex Confederate Generals Buckner Duke Dewitt Echols among the attendees. Invitations bore the Confederacy flag.
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Galt House
Louisville
Mildred Lee
Robert E. Lee
Washington and Lee University
Thomas Taylor
Buckner
Duke
Dewitt
Echols
Import Policy Debate on Free List for Grains and Bristles
The article notes past imports of 660000 bushels of potatoes with 15 cent duties and 42000 bushels of corn plus 40000 bushels of oats paid at ten cents. It reports 50000 pounds of bristles taxed at fifteen cents per pound and argues for placing these on the free list to boost imports and country self sufficiency.
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United States
Washington's crippled veterans struggle after war
Dusveve Times notes that many one legged and one armed soldiers thronged Washington in idle need after being displaced by a paternal government they helped save. Many Arthur era appointees were fired or quit to avoid special treatment, marking a dark day as the Confederacy resurges in memory.
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Washington
Arthur
Confederacy
Violet in Dresden Finds Home at Last with John Dabney
Violet arrives in Dresden to work with Frau Schilling and learns German while roaming the Altmarkt. Lost and lonely in a foreign city, she nearly wanders the streets all night until a German couple helps. A voice in the crowd calls her name, and John Dabney appears to reunite them at the end.
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Violet
Mr. Dabney
Hampurg
Dresden
Frau Schilling
Duverstrasse
Blasewitz
Royal Gallery
Altmarkt
Bruhl
Neustadt
Belvedere
Schlossplatz
Elbe
John Dabney
Platz
Schlosstrasse
New York
John
Germania
Bruhl’s _t terrace
Wildrufferstrasse
Mary N. Prescott
Harper's Bazar
The Yankee in South America Corres Buenos Ayres
A Boston Advertiser corresp describes US influence on the eastern South American coast from Cape St Roque to Cape Horn. He notes a small Yankee presence beyond legations and consulates, with American firms, rail equipment, ships, and services like insurance and Waltham watches finding markets, while local production grows and English imports rise.
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South America
United States
Cape St. Roque
Cape Horn
Baldwin
England
Germany
Rio
New York
Bell
Waltham Watches
Great Life Insurance Companies
Buenos Ayres Cor
Boston Advertiser
The Manufacture of Base Balls Described
The article outlines an intricate process for making base balls. It details forming a rubber core, winding blue yarn, wrapping with Venetian yarn, oven baking to remove moisture, cement coating to fix shape, adding blue yarn and white twine, weighing to standardize, and finally applying a leather cover from two opposing figure eight pieces.
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New York Sun
Ruins in Guatemala and Mexico Unearthed
The New York Sun reports extensive ruins along the Guatemala Mexico boundary. The region shows signs of ancient denudation with walls and terraces built to check erosion and small patches of tillage on stone floors. scholars consider these ruins older than Yucatan sites.
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Guatemala
Mexico
Yucatan
New York Sun
Murder statistics from the international congress in Rome
The Rome session of the international congress reveals murder rates by country. Italy averages eight murders per 100000 inhabitants, Spain and Hungary nine, Austria two, France and Belgium one, and Great Britain sixty five. In morality crimes Italy stands at four and Germany at thirteen.
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International Criminal Congress
Rome
Italy
Spain
Hungary
Austria
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Germany
Ring of Iron Remembrance Worn by Wiener Tageblatt Editor
Carl Hoffman longtime editor of The Wiener Tageblatt died in Vienna. He wore an iron ring on his right forefinger from a chain link he forged decades ago while a political prisoner. The ring symbolized two years of hard labor and incarceration.
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Carl Hoffman
Wiener Tageblatt
Vienna
London
Gambling Tables at Monte Carlo Face Diplomatic Action
Foreign Letter reports an international commission will pursue diplomatic measures over Monte Carlo gambling tables. It states that from 1877 to 1950, about 1,520 people, more than Monaco’s population at the time, committed suicide after losses at the Monte Carlo tallies.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Free Negroes in the South and a New Era of Juvenile Writing
The article surveys harsher social pressures on free blacks after the Civil War era, detailing economic and legal indignities, dependence on white tolerance, and the persistence of poverty. It also reflects on antebellum remnants, such as a ginger cake seller, and shifts to a discussion of how modern literature for youth has evolved toward clear, engaging writing that appeals to readers of all ages, citing George Makeface Towle.
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Raleigh
Wilmington
Newborne
Fayetteville
Board of Town Commissioners
Atlantic
Julius Caesar
George Makeface Towle
Boston Globe
Circus Rider in Stage Equestrian Act Sparks Debate
James Robinson notes a 42-foot circus ring would fit few theatres yet a play Eloped with a Circus Man has Bob Stickney set to ride. He wonders if such acts can boost legitimate drama, predicting burlesque, variety, and circus acts expanding into theaters and dime museums.
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East
Bob Stickney
Germany's New Ironclad Oldenburg Demonstrates Novel Design
The ironclad Oldenburg, described as entirely novel, is a broadside ship armed with ten ten-inch guns five on each side. Designed to concentrate fire on a single point, it is claimed to possess force capable of disabling even the strongest ironclad, per the Scientific Journal.
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Germany
Oldenburg
Scientific Journal
First Parsonage in Washington Endures on Capitol Hill
The first parsonage ever built in Washington still stands on Capitol Hill and now serves as the home of Mrs. Gen. Lander. The house sits among notable residences of political giants from Webster's era, as described in a Washington letter.
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Washington
Capitol
Gen. Lander
Jean Davenport
Webster
Rules Regulating Commercial Travelers Exposed
An exposé reveals drummers endure strict rules from a prominent house. Two cited guidelines caution against ostentation and personal expenses, urging politeness and restraint while noting travel costs are not personal expenditures. The piece mocks lavish displays behind the uniform of business travel.
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Sam’s
Posen
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