Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Lawrence Talbot Neal
Ohio Democrat Lawrence Talbot Neal born September 22 1844 at Parkersburg West Virginia. He lived in Chillicothe Ohio since 1863 practiced law, served as district attorney legislator and two terms in Congress. He has long sought the gubernatorial nomination and drew notice at 1888 and 1892 Democratic national conventions.
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Lawrence Talbot Neal
Ohio
Parkersburg
W. Va
Chillicothe, O
Neal
The Jay Gould of France Pereire Shaping European Banking
The Eugene Pereire, dubbed the Jay Gould of France, leads the Banque Transatlantique and has transformed European banking over two decades. At 60, he remains vigorous, liberal in patronage of arts and sciences, and highly respected by European bankers.
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Eugene Pereire
Europe
Jay Gould
France
Banque Transatlantique
Admiral Culme-Seymour: A Third Generation Navy Leader
Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, now commanding in the Mediterranean, hails from a noted naval family. His grandfather Michael Seymour captured the French frigate La Thetis in 1808, earning a baronetcy and the rank of admiral. His father’s line also produced admirals and a G C B decoration, making the present admiral the third family member to reach commanding rank.
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Michael Culme-Seymour
Tryon
Michael Seymour
Culme-Sey
Michael
Origin of the Term Deadhead
The piece explains that D. H. Colvin a former Chicago mayor and U S Express agent received free deliveries. Packages sent to him were called D. H. or free of charge and these items were known as dead matter, giving rise to the term deadhead.
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D. H. Colvin
Chicago
United States Express Company
D. H
How to Do Ornamental Icing on Cakes
Frosting points are small tubes with cut ends to shape icing into leaves and lines. Place a point inside a soft rubber frosting bag and squeeze icing through the nozzle onto the cake. A house furnishing store offers various styles and a little practice makes one proficient.
How to Make a Carrot Hanging Basket
Cut off the crown of a sound carrot to four inches deep. Invert the piece and scoop out the interior to form a cup half an inch thick at the sides and an inch thick at the bottom. Suspend the cup with cords and hang by a window, keeping it filled with water. Leaves curl up from the crown and cover the cup as they grow.
Watching a Child's Early Illness Signs and When to Call a Doctor
The piece urges vigilant care for sick children noting listless play, sudden collapse, feverishness, poor appetite, and pink facial spots. It advises monitoring evacuations breath color and spirits, and to call a physician early if danger is suspected to prevent deeper illness.
How Druggists Colored Bottles Came Into Use
The colored bottles used by druggists originated with Moorish and Spanish chemists who brewed chemicals in retorts and vessels shaped like bottles. Their experiments, with colored fluids, linked these vessels to the chemists in the public mind, making them recognizable signs.
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Arabia
Old
Spain
Rich Buttermilk Biscuits From Crack Rising Batter
A vintage recipe outlines making biscuits using buttermilk and flour batter that rises overnight. It prescribes salt soda and lard mixed with flour, batter served in place of water, and baking in a quick oven for richer sweeter biscuits than water and baking powder versions.
Detecting Purity by Clarity and Reaction with Soap
A simple method notes no odor or unpleasant taste and a rapid combination with soap to form lather. Fill a clean glass stoppered bottle with half a pint, add a few grains of white sugar, and place in a warm, well lit room. water purity preserves clearness for a week or more.
Christ Presence Through Prayerful Moments
Poetic reflection on sensing Christ in daily scenes. The lines link turning from sin to virtue with Christ’s presence in nature, in pardon requests, and in moments of duty guiding and guarding the heart. A meditation on faith woven into ordinary life.
Experiments on Cobra Venom By A A Kanthack
The bite of the Indian cobra is fatal and Kanthack reports venom can be destroyed by boiling strong solutions or by ammonia chlorine water and carbolic acid. Weak boiling may neutralize venom but cannot help bite victims. Strychnia offers no cure according to the tests.
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India
A. A. Kanthack
Ventilating sewers using a Bunsen gas heater device
English towns試 adopt a safety furnace to destroy sewer gases. A series of cylindrical rings form a combustion chamber with air channels between inner and outer rings. A Bunsen burner heats the cones while air from the exterior feeds the system, reducing explosion risk.
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New York Sun
French Tax Grants Women Trousers For Merit Only
The New York Evening Sun notes the French government charges a yearly tax of 10 to 12 dollars for women to wear trousers. It says the right is not universal but a merited tribute, akin to awarding honors. Named recipients include George Sand Rosa Bonheur Mme Dieulafoy Mme Foucault and two stonecutters Mme Fourreau and La Jeannette.
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George Sand
Rosa Bonheur
Mme. Dieulafoy
Mme
Foucault
Mme. Fourreau
la Jeannette
New York Evening Sun
Secondhand plate glass trade and lunar facts featured
A New York Tribune note describes Boston dealers trading secondhand plate glass, often bought from insurers, with owners preferring replacement. It also cites explanations about the Moon’s fixed face, a Canadian floating bank on Kootenai Lake, frog respiration, and a Bombay health officer defending crocodiles as water reservoir scavengers.
World’s Fair Displays Highlights From Steamship Models to Paintings
Cunard shows modern shipbuilding with full rigged models from Britannic to Cam pania. Mme Weisenger, famed Austrian painter, features Morning at the Sea shore at the fair. Washington state building rests on ten logs 125 feet long cut from 340 foot trees. Chicago docks to fair trip is seven miles by water, lake roughness can hinder passage. Early American playing cards, 1583, are shown in Anthropological building.
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Cunard Steamship Company
Campania
Mme. Weisenger
Austria
Washington State Building
Chicago
America
Wagner Palace Car Company Opens Kansas City Office
A new office for the Wagner Palace Car Company has been established in Kansas City. The statement notes few Russian trains reach speeds of 22 miles per hour, underscoring comparison with American rail services.
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Kansas City
Wagner Palace Car Company
Debate over repeal of Federal election laws roils House
The piece argues Democrats misplayed the role of Republicans in a partisan debate on the repeal bill. It questions why Congress members not in federal offices still collect salaries from the federal treasury, suggesting a contradiction in claims about their status.
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House
Congress
Great Revolutions Through Modern Era Chronicle
A summary list traces major revolutions and political shifts from 1660 to 1815. Events include England's Restoration, the Orange Revolution, Polish partitions, the American Revolution ending at Yorktown, the French Revolution and wars, and Hungarian independence. Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Charles I
England
James I
William and
Mary
Peter II
Anne of Courland
Greece
Sweden
Poland
Russia
Austria
Prussia
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Europe
Hungary
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Amazons and Other Theatrical News Items
Johnstone Bennett to appear in The Amazons by Pinero. Ian Robertson’s A Play In Little is set for Mrs Kendal and Mr Kendal. Nat Goodwin may play David Garrick later this season. Piton to stage a sensational New York melodrama. Sutton Vane completes Beyond the Breakers. Charles Frohman reportedly lost 89000 on Fanny. Sims and Raleigh had 5000 before writing. Mrs Jacob Nunemacher dies in Milwaukee once Lizzie Webster on burlesque. Dakota sold to Roland Reed after suit against Crane. M B Curtis seeks dramatization of murder trial. Minnie Seligman-Cutting premieres Margaret Byng and Gladys with emotional and comic elements.
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Sutton Vane
Charles Frohman
Fanny
Sims
Raleigh
Milwaukee
Jacob Nunemacher
Lizzie Webster
John Fowler
Ernest C. Whitton
W. H. Crane
Dakota
Roland Reed
M. B. Curtis
London
Minnie Seligman-Cutting
Margaret Byng
F. C. Phillips
Gladys
Rail lines expand with new Chicago to Galveston service
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy now operates solid trains from Chicago to Galveston. Track extensions on the Texarkana and Fort Smith line northward from Wilton, Arkansas reach Allene, Arkansas, widening rail connectivity.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago
Galveston
Texarkana
Fort Smith
Wilton
Ark
Allene
Illinois Central offers Chicago Memphis through sleeping car service
The Illinois Central Railroad announces a through sleeping car between Chicago and Memphis. Depart Chicago 8:00 p.m. arrive Memphis 4:50 p.m. next day. depart Memphis 8:05 a.m. arrive Chicago 7:20 a.m. next day. Inquiries to J. F. Merry, Agt. Man chester Iowa. A. H. Hanson, Genl Pass Agt. Thomas Bailey Aldrich buys land at Tenants Harbor Me for a summer residence. Harper’s Bazar Oct 7 features Maynard Butler and T. W. Higginson articles.
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Ilinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Memphis
J. F. Merry
L. Ass. Agt
Manchester
Iowa
A. H. Hanson
L. Pass. Agt
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Tenant’s Harbor
Penobscot Bay
Harper’s Bazar
Maynard Butler
T. W. Higginson
JLID
Timan
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Andansas City
ST. Louis
Minnesota
Tama
Manitoba
Dakotas
Wyodaho
Oregon
Washington
Lake Tnetonea
Duluth
Ashland
Eee
Clear Dela
Axe Northwest Sour
Kansas
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Texas
Ansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
Abatia
Mississippi
Louisiana
Tor Springs
Hot Springs
Degaia
Ipal
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Stucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
New York
Mneapolis
Kansas City
OWA Central
Mhackert
Manaces
A. F. Banks
P Barry
Aso
Shall Town
Compound Oxygen Treatment publicized amid medical claims
An advertisement touts the Compound Oxygen Treatment as a cure for numerous listed diseases seen as desperate by doctors and patients. It promises free consultation, mailed home treatment, and a 200 page book with testimonials from Drs. Starkey & Palen of Philadelphia, with offices in Philadelphia Toronto and San Francisco.
Grains of Gold: Character and Honest Wealth
The piece advocates selfless effort over wealth without labor, praising inner virtue and decisive action. It warns that every choice starts a chain of consequences and urges immediate good deeds rather than postponed plans.
Fashion Holds Liberty Yet Sets Taste In Fashion
The article notes fashion allows individual taste with no strict rules while condemning poor taste. Navy blue recedes for now as summer gowns in the color remain widespread, with demand for fresh gowns and fabrics lasting until frost.
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New York Evening Post
Bon Marche Paris Showcases Costly Bride Trousseau
A Paris department store display features a bride's trousseau valued at 25 000 dollars as part of a comprehensive textile exhibit. A colonial display includes a carved powder horn etched with New York map and the English coat of arms.
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Bon Marche
Paris
New York
Turf Topics Highlight Trainer Records and Montana Pool
Eddeers has driven three 2 10 pacers to records. Lon Trotter is a noted harness trainer. Charter Oak stake won by mares three straight years. Colonel North racing stable to be sold in US and England. Montana people described as game bettors. During the Montana circuit 424000 passed through the poolbox.
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Eddeers
Lon Trotter
Charter Oak
Colonel North
United States
England
Montana
Roasting Tips From Early Cooks on Meat Doneness
The article outlines factors affecting roast speed such as meat age and fire, and suggests 15 to 20 minutes per pound plus smoking as a sign of doneness. It reiterates the white meat fully cooked and dark meat underdone rule and recommends pouring boiling water over the roast at insertion to coagulate albumen.
How to Make Polish for Cherry Furniture
Boil alkanet root in a glazed pot with linseed oil until the root is soft. Strain and apply to cherry furniture for a rich finish.
The Waiting Pair Prepare To Leave Club
A couple fusses over final preparations before departure at the club. She checks her comb, veil and sandals while he asks to switch off the gas. She delays until punctually ready, insisting the gas be put out.
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Harry
Europewide upheavals from 1795 to 1815 summarized
A condensed timeline notes the revolutions and political shifts across Europe and adjacent regions from 1795 through 1815. It covers the Batavian republic in alliance with France, Venetian and Helvetic reforms, Rome’s brief republic, Serb and Spanish uprisings, Sweden’s constitution, Holland’s alliance with France, and post war reorganizations including Belgium, Switzerland, and Parma.
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Holand
France
Venice
Austria
Italy
Switzerland
Helvetian Republic
Rome
Spain
Ferdinand VII
Sweden
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