Legislative activity spans finance to forestry actions
The record details senate and house actions including post offices funding, silver certificate debates, land agent scrutiny, and a naval establishment bill. It notes committee reports, veto messages, and the push for public building appropriations, with discussions on Yellowstone Park items and foreign land ownership limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On
R. Bland
Committee On Appropriations
House
Messrs. Townshend
Cobb
Northwest
Ryan
Perkins
Dorsey
Nelson
Senate
Sparks
Minn
General Land Office
Evarts
Finance Committee
Treasury Department
St. Louis River
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Death of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden in New York
A New York dispatch reports the death of Hon. Samuel J. Tilden on Wednesday August 4. He served as governor of New York and was the Democratic candidate for President in 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
State Dental Society Elected Officers and Minnesota News
The State Dental Society in St Paul elected officers for the coming year and adjourned to meet in Minneapolis in 1887. News items include deaths from pickled beef in Hutchinson, John Hastings in Red Wing shooting burglars, and several public notices on education funding, river floods, and local infrastructure. Major figures named include Dr. C. M. Bailey and Maj. Alfred Bates, with multiple obituaries and civic notes across Minnesota towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Dental Society
St. Paul
Minneapolis
C. M. Bailey
H. L. Crittenden
Northfield
H. N. Reid
D. W. Edwards
le Sueur
L. C. Gould
Alfred FE. Bates
Hutchinson
James O'Hara
Renville County
Fairfax
O'Hara
Cairo
D. D. Whipple
Viola
Olmsted County
Sauk Rapids
St. Cloud O
John Hastings
Red Wing
Judge Wilson
Winona
Loren Fletcher
Charlies Schmidt
J. Yackel
Lewiston
H. O. Hamlin
Minnesota River
St. Peter
Willie Gainscheidt
Adam Schwartz
Edwin Nelson
Nelson
Watonwan
State Board of Examiners
Gov. Hubbard
Northrop
University
Kiehle
F. C. Listoe
Rochester
Minn
Barron
Wis
Allen A. Evans
Grafton
Oak
Alice Louise Kenney
William Gardam
Lake City
Daniel W. Hixon
Stevens
B. A
Bogart
Waupun
L. D. Schoolmaker
C. L. Bonner
Terrill & Rivers
Artz Bros
Clay County
Red River Valley
Minnesota
Crookston
Redwood County
Treasury
Abe Hall
Stillwater
Hall
Mississippi River
St. Cloud
Stearns County
Little Falls
Leech Lake
Orrison County
Ashley C. Morrill
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edward M. Johnson
Claude B. Leonard
William C. Johnson
George H. Townsend
St. Panulis
St. Louis
Monster Agricultural and Horticultural
Senate
James Cannon
Mankato
Lund
Congregational Church
Howard
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Commanders favor Vancouver centralized department offices
Advices from Vancouver indicate that Department Commander Gibbon supports concentrating department officers at Vancouver barracks the Pacific head quarters. A planned step is moving the Spokane quartermaster's office to Vancouver to distribute Fort Spokane and Fort Coeur dAlene supplies from there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Gibbon
Vancouver Barracks
Department of the Pacific
Quartermaster
Spokane
Fort Spokane
Fort Coeur d'Alene
Spinner
Treasury
Jennie Douglass
Chippewa Falls
Charles Loveland
South Side
Milwaukee
John Brady
Edward Primrose
George H. Taylor
William May
Carl Winter
House of Correction
Louis Walker
Rogers
Haeckman
Edward Waterman
Love on the Tennis Court Ends in Tragic Farewell
Nell Whitney, wife of Tom Whitney, discovers her husband’s love for Esther Very after years of quiet devotion. On a Sausalito afternoon they sail to Angel Island and climb toward the hills. Nell, overwhelmed by the revelation, drifts alone to the sea and vanishes toward the Golden Gate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth C. Atherton
San Rafael
Esther Very
California
Joaquin Miller
San Francisco
Whitney
Nell
Tom
Tom Whitney
Ani
Mrs. Whitney
Miss Very
Esther
Sausalito
Ross Valley
Sam Rafael
Dheag
Tamalpais
San Anselmo
Amalpais
San Francisco Bay
Bay
Yacht Club House
Angel Island
Golden Gate
Argonaut
The Curse of Slang Prompts Commencement Laughs
A Norristown grammar school girl asks Mamie about her essay on the Curse of Slang. Mamie complains the task is daunting and wishes the paper was in Halifax, joking about delaying the work and showing off her graduation harness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown Herald
Mamie
Sarah
Halifax
King Ludwig's Heart In Silver Urn Borne To Altoetting
A Munich ceremony recalled medieval customs as King Ludwig's heart, removed before embalming, rested in a silver gilt urn filled with spirits of wine. Bells tolled, flags half-masted, and shops closed during a military procession to the railway for a special train to Altoetting, where monks now keep the heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Ludwig
Altoetting
Cavalry Pageant at Champs de Mars Stuns Paris Crowds
Special Correspondent describes a vast display in Paris with 200000 spectators watching Algerian spies and French troops in a grand cavalry charge. The event featured Arab riders on pure Arab horses, lancers, and a dramatic clash near a military convoy, ending with President Grevy and General Boulanger congratulating the army amid political tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Post
Paris
France
Champs de Mars
Caroussel
Saumur
Saint Cyr
Champ de-Mars
Grevy
Sahara
Camp de Mars
Boulanger
Army of
Portugal
General Boulanger
Republic
Besval
The Variability of California Gold Dust Prices
The San Francisco Post explains how gold dust in early California varied in value and appearance. Early sales averaged eight to sixteen dollars per ounce, with later mint returns ranging from nine to twenty dollars. Dust quality differed due to alloying with silver or copper and inconsistent particle shapes and colors.
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California
Marshall
Colona
San Francisco Post
First Use of Breech Loaders at Gettysburg Reunion
Gen Berdan, commander of the Union sharpshooters, reveals breech loading rifles were first used in war by his unit at Gettysburg. He recalls opposition from departments and generals before Lincoln ordered arming the command and appointing officers. He credits the sharpshooters with proving breech-loaders superior to muzzle loaders, accelerating their adoption worldwide within ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Messrs
Sherman
Hoar
Sewell
Hawley
Voorhees
Gorman
Eustis
James C. Matthews
Albany
Recorder of Deeds
Washington
Shelly
House
United States
Allison
Conference
Yellowstone Park
Plumb
West
Is Railroad Company
Evarts
Gettysburg
Gen. Berdan
Berdan
Europe
Prussia
Lincoln
Daily newspaper workers and their rest days examined
A discussion of how morning papers manage daily output with writers, compositors, and pressmen taking weekly days off. It notes substitutes cover shifts, foremen arrange rest, and that overwork is not universal, with many professionals also overdoing work but most writers just clock two to three hours of writing plus preparation time.
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Hood
Lhave
A. B.camry
Providence
E. &. Cuzserno
Stonington, Ce
Northwest
Minneapolis
Northwestern Enterprise
United States
Falls of St. Anthony
Sister Republic
West
H. Woodruff
Cincignati
L. B. Hibhard
W. C. Byron
W. D. Washburn
Fatalist General Rosecrans Faces Explosive Experiments
A San Francisco Call account recalls General Rosecrans performing dangerous nitro glycerine tests with dynamite at a quarry. He calmly shrugged off near misses, saying a man’s time comes when appointed, even after a nearby explosion nearly ended him.
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Gen. Rosecrans
San Francisco
An Inventor's Advice and Dr Pierce's Discovery Stir London
George Stephenson urged perseverance to succeed as an inventor after years of hard plodding. In a modern note, readers report rapid relief from liver complaints impure blood and chronic lung diseases after using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. All druggists stock it as John W Mackey drives a London stir.
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George Stephenson
Dr. Pierce
Ma_Caani
Miller
Lexington
Minn
Josefa Kennedy
Washington Ave
Minneapolis
Gro. E. Caanr
Ninth St
Longfellow Birthday Book and Patent Remedies Promote Health
An advertisement bundle promotes beauty gifts and health cures. It touts Dr. R V Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women ailments, Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and McCaine’s St Paul Chemical Oil. It notes 4000 Americans in London and records Baron Willison’s death as Berlin governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Johns
Washington, D. C
McCaine
St. Paul
Reeded health tips and local ads from a 19th century page
An OCR fragment lists household remedies and tonics including Perry Davis’s Pain Killer and Brown’s Iron Bitters, citing cures for colic and lifelessness. It also notes Cuba sugar production, a Minneap olis exposition advertisement, and various patent medicines with claimed signatures.
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Congressional
Wilson
Iowa
House Committee On Public Buildings
la Crosse
Senate Committee On Commerce
Duluth
Judiciary
Kauaire
Madison
Judicial District
Eau Claire House
Andrew J. Wilson
SrNate
Hoose
David R. Hunter
Butterworth
Gen. Hunter
Fitz John Verter
Yeas
Mary Norman
John W. Ferris
David Siderkin
Mary Anderson
Herbert
Boutelle
Reed
Matson
Bake
Bayne
Randall
Baker
Louisiana
South Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
North
Kenna
Massachusetts
Ses Biol
Mississippi River Commission
Missouri River Commission
Adelard Guernon
Charles H.potter
Omaha
Hovusk
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Thereas
A. K. Cutting
Paso del Norte
Republic of Mexico
Cutting
Mexico
House of Representatives
Framenty
S. J. Tilden
Minnesota State News
Samuel Kammerer
Fountain City
James H. Drake
Sioux City
J. E. Moore
St. James
W. P. Jewett
Kitty Cousins
King Ludwig
Rosecrans
John W. Mackey
London
Longfellow's
R. V. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Baron Willison
Berlin
Humbert
Itali
Ayer
Duc d’ Aumade
Chantilly
Perry Davis
Cuba
Alice Nash
Blue Earth
Minuw
John Ruskin
Great Britain
Dr. P. Allen
Druggiet
Lyon
Cole
GU Cenis
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Uticura
Porter Cave and Chremical Co
Boston
Morbus
I. Ye
Perryb Davis
All Drugeists
Oy Brown
Bos
Pvowwn Chemical CO
Baltimore, MD
Rewark Machine CO
Columbus
Ohio
Arcade
Cincinnati
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
J. Otéruess
Lebacem
Hardy
Penich
St. Joseph
C. M. Sites & Co
Tax Huma Remegor
Lafayette
Lad
Joseph Gillotts
Frazer Ryle
Frazer's
Amton Binghamton
Dr. H
Boot
Pear St
Wheat Woodward & Company
Corn Exchange
Hinar
A. J
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