Inside the Great Dollar Factory Engraving the Nation
A Washington correspondent tours the Bureau of Engraving and Printing detailing the workflow from wetting and counting paper to engraving plates and transferring designs. The piece highlights guards, secret-service vigilance, and the meticulous counting and sealing that safeguard banknotes, stamps, and bonds in a vast, locked complex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Washington
New York Sun
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury
Internal Revenue
East Vepperell
Mase
Have You Any Bumps The Physiognomical Peculiarities Of Noted Individuals
An elderly phrenologist in a library discusses busts and skulls of famous figures from Washington to Jim Crow Rice. He reads a letter and photographs to advise on marriage, notes head shapes linked to morals and talents, and explains gender differences, belief in phrenology, and reading faces for relationships and careers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Jim Fisk
Robert Burns
Horace Greeley
Pete, Cooper
Dic Lewis
Charles Sumner
Shakespeare
John Keily
Indiana
Robert Owens
Ellison
Stephen Burroughs
Grane
Jay Gould
Charles Fecker
Clara Louise Kellogg
West Chester Man Loses Voice After Singing Solo
William H. Fitzsimmons of West Chester injured his throat by striking the larynx while rubbing his neck after a solo at the West Chester State Normal School. He cannot speak and writes to communicate. Doctors warn against speaking for weeks as swelling subsides and his voice may return to normal.
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Amherst College
Massachusetts
Canada
Vendovi
Fiji
West Chester
Penn
William H. Fitzsimmons
West Chester State Normal Senovol
Argus
Recovering barytone voice feared to be harmed
The report warns that attempting speech could injure the throat glands and leave a Beready voice forever. Fitzsimmons' friends hope for a full recovery, noting he once possessed a fine barytone voice coveted in the region.
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Tr. Fitzsimmons
Skobeleff the Soldier and His Frontline Fame
Exchange notes how General Michael Skobeleff, a soldier born to military lineage, rose from youth in war to becoming a famed commander. From Khiva to Geok Tepe, his daring, care for troops, and relentless drive shaped a legendary, sometimes controversial career with bold feats and cautious strategic turns.
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Skobeleff
Caucasus
Michael Dimitrievitch
Europe
Cabul
Bokhara
Elphinstone
Greene
Guards
St. Petersburg
London
Staff College
Sadowa
Coucasus
Stonewall Jackson’s 90 day valley campaign battlefield legend
A Detroit Free Press retells Stonewall Jackson’s bold Shenandoah Valley campaign who moved with unmatched speed and daring. It details his victories at Front Royal and Strasburg, the near trap set by Fremont and Shields, and his rapid march to cross keys and Port Republic, ending with his death thirty seconds after a farewell to a captured Union officer.
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Detroit Free Press
Stonewall Jackson
Lee
Jackson
Shenandoah
Mount Jackson
Kernstown
Shields
Strasburg
Sach
Blue Ridge
Banks
Milroy
Staunton
Lauray Valley
Front Royal
Winchester
Potomac
Ewell
Percetea
Ank
Sheridan
Early
Charlestown
Halltown
Harper’s Ferry
Washington
McDowell
Fredericksburg
Fremont
Ashby
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Port Republic
Cross Keys
Gettysburg
Jeader
Free Press
Wilkins
The Romance of the Ring in History and Collectors
Harper's Bazar traces rings from ancient Egyptian to Elizabethan times. museums hold Charlemagne era pieces and Mary Stuart signets. It notes rings as symbols of wealth, marriage, seals, and personal identity across ages, with examples like Darnley’s band and Shakespeare’s ring preserved in Stratford.
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Harper’s Bazar
Hotel de Cluny
Cesnola
Aaron
British Museum
Mary Stuart
Darnley
Nottingham
Essex
John Thynne
Frances Devereaux
Valerio Vincentino
Shakespeare
Stratford
Luther
Raleigh
Lzabeth
April verses and spring imagery fill the pageant
A long collage of poems and quips on spring by Thomson, Tennyson, Miller, Street, Longfellow, and others. The piece interweaves nature’s renewal with light humor, domestic scenes, and social caricatures, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper culture of verse and miscellany.
The Hotel Clerk in Our Modern Era
Texas Siftings humorously profiles the hotel clerk as a noble yet comic figure. The piece describes his pompous bearing and finery, his duties from bell hammering to misdelivered keys, and occasional pretensions about train schedules. It lampoons the clerk’s distant relationship to railroad staff and ends with a playful note on improbable family ties.
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Texas Siftings
Loetel
Panther slain by hunter near Walnut Ridge
John Baker of East Prairie Mississippi county Missouri killed a seven feet five inch panther that had killed a wild hog. He shot the animal twice after it left the swamp onto Walnut ridge while out hunting on the first of the month.
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St. Louis
John Baker
East Prairie
Mississippi County
Walnut Ridge
Internal Revenue Storekeeper Fraud Claim Emerges
A Statesville District report alleges an internal revenue storekeeper and gauger received about twenty salary checks, some up to four years old, never presented for payment. Witnesses note he may have hidden funds, signaling confidence in government stability and bank integrity.
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Secret Service
Plate Primiing
Internal Revenue Department
Irish
Treasury
Internal Revenue
New York
Knox
Statesville
N. C
French Ideas of Women
A collection of aphorisms about women portraying them as cunning strategic figures. It satirically links female traits to revenge, deception, envy, and social gatherings, suggesting women exercise influence and caprice in relationships and society.
Four Generations of Reggara and a Grim Indiana Tale
An Indianapolis road tragedy shows a wagon to an asylum carrying a mother with a dead infant and four children bound for the poor house jail and grave. The father is handcuffed, while the Britton family of Germantown, Peon, endures generations of charity with a 96 year old beggar progenitor and toddlers begging door to door.
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Indianapolis
Insane Asylum
Britton
Germantown
Peon
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Gottfried
Anton Probst
Deering
Philadelphia
Burke
Bsilio
Tont
Eliza Farnam
Anna Dickinson
Liey
Turkestan
Khiva
Kbiva
Krasnovodsk
Ihs
Kauffmann
Sbokaud
Bulgaria
Stambon
Danube
Dragomiroff
Simnitza
Constanti
Nople
Sea of
Marmora
Henry Quatre
Vry
Geok Tepe
Tekkes
Akhal Tekke
Skobelet
Shenandoah Valley
Fed
Erals
Brig-A-Brac
Jjames Thomson
Alfred Tennyson
Emily Huntington Miller
Barry Cornwall
Alfred B. Street
N. G. Shepherd
Fitz James O'Brien
Anon
Mary Howitt
Henry W. Longfellow
B. Aldrich
fAnon
Jones
Jie
Brooklyn Eagle
Suickerby
Hartford Times
Sierras
H.C Bunner
Russia
Joaquin Miller
David
Moses
Palestine
Jordan
Christy
Pug-Nosed Girl
Philadelphia Times
Reggara
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