Senate and House Debates Over Treaties and Labor
Senate debates on fisheries treaty and railroad forfeitures, South Dakota statehood, North Dakota organization, and a Chinese labor ban. House passes Indian appropriation with education funding for Alaska, plus Bible teaching in native schools. Hector Bayliff’s household reforms and Cynthia’s new earnings method drive a 500 dollar renovation with long-term savings.
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Evarte
Committee On Foreign Relations
Riddleberger
Senate
South Dakota
North Dakota
Sherman
West
Belmont
New York
United States
McCreary
Kentucky
Haiti
San Domingo
Empire
Brazil
Committee On Labor
Department of Labor
Neill
Missouri
Congress
House
Springer
Ilinois
Alaska
Bayne
Pennsylvania
George Washington
Donn
Arkansas
Committee On Merchant Marine and
Fsheries
Ter
Morrow
California
Secretary of the Navy
Pacific Ocean
Winele
Cleon and I Compare Wealth and Contentment in Verse
Charles Mackay contrasts Cleon with the speaker across many lines. Cleon claims wealth, status, and doctors, yet the speaker values nature, vigor, independence, and readiness for death. The poem ends asserting the speaker would not trade places for riches.
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Cleon
I. Crarles Mackayr
Civilization tangle of things and a call for simplicity
A critic argues civilization is overburdened by possessions and cluttered homes. Comparing Western homes to Japanese minimalism, the piece questions whether simplicity could elevate life and leisure, noting a surge in mind cultivation clubs amid growing domestic overload. It laments the burden on housewives and calls for disentanglement.
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Hes Treasures
Superstitions of Chinese Child Rites Observed near Swa Tow
The Popular Science Monthly notes folk beliefs practiced near Swatow. A mother washes a fevered child with plant infusion and uses a cup to limit intake, considers spirit money for fallen children, and shaves the head to avoid the burden of hair.
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Popular Science Monthly
Swatow
Colors Held Fast Under Bragg at Shiloh
An eye witness account recalls Gen Bragg ordering colors to be kept forward during a brutal Shiloh clash. Colonel Allen, later Louisiana governor, urged a flank attack while Bragg sought a combined front and flank move. Prentiss was captured amid the fighting.
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Lockett
Buell
Shiloh
Bragg
Gon. Allen
Louisiana
Col. Allen
Gibson
Amos
Prentiss
New York Letter on Malaria and a Critical Book
A skeptical reader reviews a four chapter work accusing physicians of misdiagnosis and exaggeration. The notice narrates a patient’s ill health from malaria and rheumatism, criticizes doctors for profit, and highlights Warner's Safe Cure as a purported remedy praised by a Wall Street banker and Danish vice consul connections.
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New York
Florida
Europe
Wall Street
Kright
Schmidt
Warner
Gen. Christiansen
Drexel, Morgan & “O’s
Heaven
Earth
Bill Charters the original man and clever fisher tale
A Main Street cigar store raconteur recalls Bill Charters a Boston tinsmith who fished and crafted hooks. He imagines schemes to get by, tells of six month fishing layups, and recounts catching a 160 pound sucker with a pocket hook trap at the theater box office ending with the punch line that no fish tale is involved.
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Bill Charters
Bill
Boston
William
White Horse Gulch Debut Provokes Miner Social Storm
In White Horse Gulch a mining camp buzzes as a single woman arrives with her uncle. Miners admire her looks but pity her for a deformity, only to erupt when the uncle learns she wears a bustle. The crowd roars as the mix up reveals a cheeky misunderstanding about fashion.
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Rocky Mountain
White Horse Gulch
Everbody
New England
Pard
Cotton Crop of the United States in 1886
The cotton crop of the United States in 1886 was 5,550,000 bales.
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United States
The
Kr Sagesatarrh Remedy Promoted Despite Scrutiny
An advertisement proclaims Kr Sagesatarrh Remedy cures even severe catarrh while noting breath and illness strain relationships. The fragment also cites vast US expenditures on public buildings surpassing ninety million and farmland valued at ten billion dollars.
Charms From The Koran In Arab Custom And Medicine
Harper's Magazine details Arab practices where grandees and patriarchs dispense talismans written on paper and eggs to ward off illness, bad luck, and the evil eye. Women seek marabouts for Koran verses while men rely on doctors. charms are swallowed with water from a sacred well.
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Harper's Magazine
Baia
Sidi Abd-el-Rhaman
Famed Purgative Pellet Highlighted Amid Century Inventions
The text touts Nine Century inventions culminating in Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellet. It links steamboats gas lighting electricity and telephones as progress and claims the pellet relieves suffering and enhances comfort in the modern age.
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Dr. Pierce
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Caton
Sesson
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Zerrahn
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