Tiger cubs and a near fatal tiger attack
An English hunter recalls a disastrous expedition in India. He and guide Jungi trap two tiger cubs, provoke a mother tiger, and he loses his left arm in the ensuing clash. The tigress is killed and the cubs are recovered, leaving him badly scarred but alive after five weeks in hospital.
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William T. Hornaday
Warer
Emet
Etawah
India
Indian Civil Service
Madras
Mataal
Adams
Shikar
Jungi
Sahib
Ree
Aslee
Sehib
Jungs
Sezzee
B'Jore
Candies and Mock Turtle Soup at Boston Cooking School
The last lecture of the Boston Cooking School course featured candy making from fondant to various centers, plus a Mock Turtle Soup and Cream Almond Cake. Recipes covered fondant foundations, thermometer use, sugar coloring, and rolling methods, with many candy centers and praline-like finishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Cooking School
Catherine Owen
Parge
Coolness That Worked Well at Hartford Courant
A burglar famed for nerve robbed a city bank while directors met inside. He swapped coats with a clerk, moved to the vault area, requested a director to shift his chair, seized two bags of gold, and vanished without a trace.
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Hartford Courant
Smith
Grand Army Hall
Andersonville
Sugagr i
City Bank
What Was It Used For?
David Burdick of Danbury, visiting Brookfield, found a rare artifact on Sherman Foote’s land by Merwin brook. The item is a square four inch granitelike stone with five holes, central and four corners, hollow inside, possibly a war tool or shell. Burdick, a relics judge, suspects it held war naiita.
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Norwich Bulletin
David Burdick
Danbury
Brookfield
Sherman Foote
Merwin Brook
Burdick
Tax Burdens and Tax Debates Roil Congress in April
In Washington the House opens a major debate on national taxation as Roger Q Mills returns from a health trip to steer revenue measures. The scene features Mills, Kelley, Reed of Maine, and a gallery crowded with lawmakers and kin as debates over tariff and whiskey taxes unfold amid party friction and procedural delays.
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Washthoton
Capitol
Roger Q. Mills
Corsicanna
Tex
Ways and Means
Old Point Comfort
Mills
Judge Kelley
Pennsylvania
America
Kelley
John 8. Moore
New York
Moore
Npte
Burnsides
Milliken
Maine
Mils
Brumm
Greenteer
Aise
Iowa
Hus
Mis
Mr Mills Addresses Tariff Debate in House Session
Mr Mills of Texas moves to committee of the whole on the tariff bill. He argues war taxes and high duties burden labor, asserts protectionism raises costs for consumers, and that wages are driven by efficiency and price instead of tariffs. He cites historical duties, discusses income taxes, and contrasts English and American production costs.
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Jean
Saliow
Texas
Sam
Ctionel Mills
Long
Mills
House
Kelley
United States
Europe
Jay Gould
Vanderblt
New York
Rhode Island
Pensylvania
Pennsylvania
France
Germany
England
Milliken
Evnel
Hari
Jabor
Hughaland
Alsice
Labor Bureau
Fania
Mills Statement Sparks Rousing House Debate
The report notes Colonel Mills defending fundamental Principles while nearly all Democrats in the House express strong support. It also records Speaker Carlisle’s choice of a Ways and Means chairman as being clearly justified today.
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Colonel Mills
Carisle
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Gwalior
Srir
Nanapore
T Rn Shikaree
Hunter
Dune
Sorso
Theim
Leggio
Washington
Goodby
Groesbeck
J. Proctor Knott
Kentucky
K. John Ellis
Louisiana
Milton S. Taylor
Ohio
Ambrose A. Ranney
Ranney
Leopold Morse
Bland
Missouri
State of the Union
Congress
Breckenridge
Holman
Talbot
Committee On Ways and Means
Reed
Kirby
Cleveland
Springer
Illinois
Garfield
Randall
Martin
MR. Mills
Treasury
Ceiv
Lawghter
Democratic Party
Noth
Homer
Thomas B. Reed
Samuel Jackson Randall
Housekeeping
New Cay
Globe
American Agriculturist
Weekly Globe
Times
Boston
Mass
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