Capital Society The Schofield Home and Carlisle Family
Washington correspondent notes Carlisle presses on amid bond issue rumors while cabinet reshuffle talk swirls. Gen Schofield gains lieutenant general rank as his family hosts ill relatives and the White House faces space and comfort challenges.
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Washington
Treasury
Carlisle
Pretty
K Street
William Carlisle
Mrs. Carlisle
Jane
Laura Wath
John G
Cleveland
White House
Perrine Gal
Capital Society
Executive Mansion
Gen. Schofield
Schofield
Connecticut Avenue
Inegard
War Department
Iowa
Justice Jackson
Supreme Court
South
William L. Wilson
Tariff
Hoke Smith
Secretary Carlisle
Veterans Deeds and a Cure by Pink Pills in Woodstock
A Woodstock Virginia veteran Levi MacInturff, served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, endured years of infirmity from the grip, and recovered after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He regained strength enough to work and walk long distances, praising the medicine, which is advertised as a remedy for various weaknesses and female troubles.
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Woodstock
Herald
Mexico
Levi MacInturff
Dr. Williams
McIntorf
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Wvomen
Buffalo
N.Y
Pierce
Jennie Williame
Mohawk
Lane Co
Oregon
Poisoning Coyotes Methods of Strychnine Use in the West
Denver Field and Farm reports a Colorado bill to let county officials buy strychnine for destroying wolves and coyotes. It describes methods from poisoning carcasses with crystals to capsules in meat and lard balls, noting effectiveness, caution, and carcass handling for fur value.
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Middle Park
Colorado
A Trifle Too Tough No Tips For Women From Men At Restaurants
The excerpt contrasts a cannibal king scene with a column on restaurant tipping. It argues women waiters deserve tips, while men often receive smiles as payment, highlighting gender bias in gratuities and pay. The piece cites reader commentary and the New York Herald.
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New York Herald
Beer Drinking Ladies of Philadelphia in 1858 Trial
A Philadelphia Record item cites a German witness in an 1858 saloon case describing lager beer as mild. He claimed it was aged six months in resin-lined barrels and that women in Philadelphia could drink seventeen to twenty two pints a day without being drunk.
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Helvellyn
St. Moritz
Atlantic
Naples
Switzerland
Becomig
Italy
Jamaica
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Enfinitely Worse Joke Between Jones and Bones
Jones laments a cruel joke as Bones recalls a harsher one about promises. Jones says his best girl promised to be a sister, while Bones reveals hers promised to be a wife, intensifying the sharp wit of the exchange.
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Jones
Bones
Five O Clock Tea and a Napoleonic Fashion Craze
The article notes a Napoleonic craze in spring and summer fashion with back-pleated skirts and revived Langtry knot hair. It highlights souvenir spoons depicting Atlantic steamers, the shift toward fine china knowledge in education, and a return to sensible footwear. Velvet gowns suit prosperous matrons, while hand painted chamois cloths suit polished tables.
Western trunk lines offer special rail rates for NEA Denver meeting
The National Educational Association meets in Denver in July. Western trunk lines set a rate of one standard fare plus two dollars for round trips with optional side trips to Colorado points and connections to California Oregon and Washington at reduced rates. Through cars Chicago to Denver provided. Contact Geo H Heatford for details.
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National Educational Association
Denver
Colo
Western Trunk Lines
Colorado
California
Oregon
Washington
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Geo. H. Heatford
Chicago, IL
Chicago Great Western Excursion Tickets Sold This Winter
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers excursion tickets to western and southwestern points on February 12 March 5 and April 2 1995 at a regular first class fare plus 2.00 for the round trip. Tickets are valid twenty days from travel date with further stopover details available via ticket agents or F H Lord Chicago.
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Chicago Great Western Railway
F. H. Lord
Chicago
Free travel offers and regional promises from the Burlington Route
An appeal urges readers to request a booklet titled A New Empire from J Francis in Omaha Nebraska detailing Sheridan County Wyoming. It notes the Wabash Line will offer April 2 excursion fares to southern points with liberal stopovers and Horace Seely of Des Moines is the contact.
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J. Francis
Omaha
Neb
Burlington
Sheridan County
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Horace Seely
Fourth Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Imprisonment for debt and early American life details
A century ago debt imprisonment was common and libraries did not exist. People wore queues and powdered hair while an old Connecticut copper mine served as a prison. Furniture came from England, hats were cooked, and plates dulled knives. Virginia held a fifth of the population. blasphemy or sermon critique could bring fines.
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Connecticut
England
Virginia
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Lamia Ruth Carlisle
Cabi
Bissell Onng
Jackson
Tennessee
Ikson
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Ett
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Cleved
Mosgal
Keen
Messissell
Jane Carlisle
Francis Dunlop
Georgetown
Yale
Beau Brummell
Count d'Orsay
Dunlop
Beer-Drinking Ladies of
Cova
U.S
China
God
Man
Devil
Gad
Heaven
Dee
Hatsam
Hanson
B. KR. Lorz
Scott St
Covington, Ky
Eap Island
Pacific
United States
Mrs. Williams
Peria
Capa
Joan Carte & Sons
Druggista
St. Jacobs
Ely
J. W. Davidson
Monmouth
ELY Brothers
Warren &J
New York
Chicago House Wrecking CO
Halsted
Sis
North Union
Ee Sio
John W. Morris
2B. Co
U.S. Pension Bureau
Syrsin
Atty Sinea
W.N.U
D.M
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