Hedge your false hair fears and Indian policy rethink
A long critique argues against sensational false hair fears and praises hair’s affordability. It cites Baron Huddleston’s Exeter trial claiming women lie more effectively, then discusses a U S court ruling recognizing an Indian as a person with habeas corpus rights. The Ponca case highlights U S policy clashes with law, suggesting policy may change as a result.
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Fort Omaha
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The People's Savings and City Water Debacle
Analyzes savings banks post depression and the role of government loans. Then shifts to Boston water charges to the fire department, criticizing a 30 dollar per hydrant/ reservoir levy and annual water costs far exceeding private use, urging reform and fair taxation. The piece contrasts bank stability with municipal spending and calls for policy adjustments.
Savings banks drain harms local economy says report
A Boston analysis questions the shift of deposits from Massachusetts savings banks to the national treasury. It argues most funds come from local savings capital, not profits, and warns that heavy government drainage endangers regional industry and real estate. It urges reliance on local investment and responsible self development.
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Boston
Svings
Massachusetts
City burden versus privilege of government retrenchment
The city faces a burden out of proportion to its privileges. The government has trimmed its budget as a watchword, and if it intends to pursue any project to its logical end this issue must be addressed by the city authorities.
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Price
Missouri
Texas County
Hawes
Dennis
United States
Conkling's debate and reform foes clash in Senate
A reform minded Senate debate features Roscoe Conkling's curial clash with Senator Voorhees over New York elections, Tweed ring taints, and a civil damage law burdening respectable grocers. The piece also notes theatre reform efforts by the New England Theatre Reform Association and ongoing political maneuvering around currency and bullion issues in the House.
Okolona States Critiques Party Harangues As Mismanaged
A local critique laments Okolona States political missteps in a letter from its manager to the Ohio Republican committee chair. It claims the publication costs and aims reveal the party’s need for tailored rhetoric and the true purpose of disseminating material.
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Okolona
Ohio Republican Committee
Congress
NOTES OF THE WEEK Highlights From Public Life and Society
Cardinal Manning returns to London from Rome. London lord mayor salary listed at 50000 dollars. Various notes on Zulus, Edmunds, a New Yorker quitting smoking, and English beef comprising American meat. Montgolfier’s Adelaide lives in France at eighty nine. Women lawyers rising. divorce rates increasing. Pope peace talks with Dollinger. Anti drinking groups form in New York and London. Pension arrears for Schenck noted. A Middletown dentist faces suit over a mustache extraction. Caleb Cushing library sale announced. Senator Kernan’s son studying for priesthood in England. Omaha court calls an Indian a person, others disagree. Napoleon described in racial terms by Whitehall Times. Hartford bishop McMahan reportedly related to ex-president Mac Mahon. San Francisco cops clash with Clubber Williams fame. Frye forms liquor committee. Chandler nominated. A costly Peruvian railroad runs one train weekly. Eaton admits error. Blaine and Cook cannot. Barry Sullivan prominent in Stratford memorial. Mosquito activity noted with new tools. Aristocratic dog on Fifth Avenue nods from a window. Chicago Inter Ocean May 16 issue touted 196 pages. Minnesota grand jury probes social evil in Ramsey county. Pope distributes funds to indigents at Easter. Forney calls for widow and child fund for Bayard Taylor. Oil pumping alarm raised in Philadelphia. Freight train wreck near Round Valley Idaho. Cavell swam 18 miles in Yarra, Australia, to fanfare. Grant drinking rumors addressed with funeral imagery. Lincoln era assassinations cited. Maximilian note. Big Rapids wedding incident involving arrest and witnesses. New Jersey juror asks Butler about Davis treason. verdict affirmed. Lawrence Barrett honors drama, heckling noted during Western appearance.
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Sherman
Omaha
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McMahan
Hartford
Conn
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San Francisco
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William P. Frye
Maine
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Harry Meigs
Peru
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Joseph Cook
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Shakspere
Stratford-on-Avon
Chicago Inter-Ocean
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Forney
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Stanton
Joseph Henry
General Meade
Philadelphia
Round Valley
Idaho
Professor Cavell
Yarra
Australia
Cavell
Grant
Lincoln
Maximilian of Mexico
Big Rapids
Mich
Barrett
Curious Tales From A bustling Town And Abroad
A jumble of vignettes: a peep-hole stock man finds empty benches while noting culture in town, Jenny Lind’s hopeful daughter rejected by indolence, a London house with dozens of fowls and a compulsory removal order, a 225 acre Sunday school assembly plan with a hotel and 3000 seat pavilion, Mme Catacazy’s death noted by a Paris correspondent, a Cornwall farmer’s wife found dead beside her paralysed husband, and Berlin artists quick with large paintings and pill advertisement signs.
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London
Minnesota Lakes
Paris
New Orleans Picayune
Mme. Catacazy
Washington
Grant
Fish
Lunteglos
Cornwall
Berlin
White Mountains
Fragmented Table Gossip From Various Newspapers
A collage of short quips and bits from multiple papers notes oddities and satire. It mentions two thieves freed in a cellar, Japanes e handkerchiefs, a Maine origin, a New Orleans joke about juleps, and a punch line about a deacon in Brooklyn. The tone blends humor with social commentary and stray anecdotes across places and times.
Gossip and Oddments from American News Letters
A curio of miscellaneous items spans crime and culture. A New York broker Bullock trades toward Elmira grocery ventures. a Massachusetts normal school misdefines eucharist. misreadier “euchreist” prompts playful derision. A Causerie muses on summer lassitude and a glass of Apollinaris. West Haven graveyard scams offer gravestone cleaning for fees. an Ohio murderer jokes about Virginia’s harsher penalty. Labouchere recalls a Washington NY burying misadventure and a corpse lingering in travel bundles.
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N.Y
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New York
The Tulip Legend Morality Verse
A poem tells of a tulip lifting its head to a youth who passes by and infers he should wear summer clothes. He dresses in white for onlookers, but cold east winds arrive before night. The moral warns to choose proper clothing and wear an overcoat when needed.
Morals of a Misguided Evening in Two Chases
A short tale ends with a man admitting he left his money at home after a failed late night plan. The couple faces embarrassment over car fares and walking, while a moral warns against counting chickens before they hatch.
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