Senate and House Actions Highlight Session Deadlock
The Senate and House clash over revenue bills with Morrison failing to push a committee of the whole. Multiple party reversals on June 17 votes are noted, along with committee replacements and land grants, pensions, and finance measures shaping adjournment to January 4.
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Senate
House
Morrison
Yeas
Amajs
Randall
Tim J. Campbell
New York
Findlay
Maryland
Jeannette
Indian Military Academy
Weaver
Simmons A. H. Harden
O'Donnell
Mr. Warner
Ohio
Committee On Post
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company
Montana
Dakota
Wall Between Two Hearts Grows Strong and Unseen
A wall grows between two people who share one life but drift apart through indifference and small wounds. The divide widens as work and gain consume attention, turning love into cold neglect and turning the union into a distant, lifeless separation.
Fame or Love drives Evelyn Gray to ambition and sacrifice
Evelyn Gray, helped by Dr. Emerson after a furniture van accident, loses her heart to fame not love. She refuses Paul’s proposal, choosing artistic success and independence for herself. As she seeks buyers for watercolor drawings, she clings to the dream of recognition despite her loneliness and poverty.
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Evelyn Gray
Doctor Emerson
Papa
Dr. Emerson
Reed
Evelyn
Paul
Evelyn Learns True Worth Through Quiet Love
Evelyn seeks recognition for her art but faces scorn from a dealer. A benefactor, Paul, buys her works and never abandons her. After confessing her mistake to her mother, Evelyn reconciles with Paul, who remains devoted. Her ambition fades as happiness with lasting love takes its place.
War memories of odd battlefield hoards from a Brooklyn colonel
Colonel Frederick Martin recalls during the war how soldiers gathered odd items from homes on the march. Cradles, a mirror, and a rocking chair traveled far, meeting mishaps and admiration alike as bullets and fate changed their routes. Soldiers also indulged in condensed milk, sharing a humorous, wry slice of war life.
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Lexatre
Claims
Spooner
Pike
Mr. Cheney
Mr. Spooner
District of Columbia
Mr. Pike
Civil Service
Mr. Williams
Cheney
J. Spooner
Mississippi River
Seaboard
Williams
Manderson
West
Atlantic & Pacific Ship Railway Company
Senate
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Commercia Club of
Dlair
Miller
Scrater Sherman
National Cattle Growers’ Association
Montana
Canadian
Frederick Martin
Brooklyn
Confederacy
Souther
Petersburg
Dead Letter Secrets Unveiled at Post Office Sale
Washington Star reports curious unclaimed items in dead letters include an old wig two years unclaimed a 33 inch waist corsets many shoes clothes jewelry and hair goods plus rings garters night dresses tea spoons toys and oddities such as artificial teeth eyes and a dog blanket guarded by postal clerks in a public sale setting
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Post Office
Washington Star
Winter cattle feeding and hog breed traits in farming notes
The New England Farmer outlines a practical winter ration using straw and bran for cattle, describes key hog features for breed excellence, and reports peanut yields in Tennessee Virginia and North Carolina. It also notes dairy cattle improvements in America with Holsteins Ayrshires Jerseys and Guernseys and offers advice on wallpaper and carpet color harmony for rooms.
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Union
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
Arnold
America
Restorative and household cures from an old nurse's chronicle
The article compiles cures and home remedies for warts rats fainting and neuralgia including sand paper to bleed alum ammonia and various oils. It warns about infant weaning habits and praises cookbooks as kitchen lore while praising a wife as a good cook.
Parlon Recipe for Baked Beans Without Pork
Miss Parlon offers a bean bake using dried beans soaked overnight and cooked with corned beef or optional pork. Beans are layered with the beef and a mixture of mustard and molasses, then baked two hours with added water as needed. A pork version replaces beef with pork and butter in the final stage.
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Miss Parlon
Selecting Carpets and Paper for Harmonious Rooms
Guidance on choosing a carpet and wall covering together rather than separately. Emphasizes how a carpet serves as background and should be selected to harmonize with the room, not merely for its pattern or beauty.
How to Broil a Steak for Quality and Juiciness
The article explains broiling technique as vital and contrasts two methods. It emphasizes hot fire, thick steak, and constant turning for eight to ten minutes. It advises serving immediately with salted platter and warns against letting gravy burn or steak become leathery.
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Astor House
Winter Cattle Feeding Tips From National Stockman
J H Denham of Belmont County Ohio outlines practical winter feeding for cattle. Rations vary with grain type, recommending mixed corn and ground feeds or cob meal twice daily for 900-pound cattle with hay. Calves thrive on shelled corn. avoid letting cattle waste away. conserve feed by boosting warmth with shelter and using weathered rough feeds early in winter.
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National Stockman
J. H. Denham
Belmont County
Swine Breeders See Economic Edge In Hog Raising
Enthusiastic breeders note hog farming offers quicker returns with lower capital than horses or cattle. Epidemic diseases pose the main risk, but hogs prolificacy enables rapid recovery and potential profit surpassing horse ventures, as one farmer shifts from horse showing to top swine breeding.
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Ohio
Bright Side for the Parm Boy and Moscow Rambles
Superintendent George F Thompson of Kansas Agricultural College shares practical views for farm boys, urging consultation on crops and training, plus lively observations on Moscow. He contrasts country life with city life, notes railways, churches, Kremlin museums, and the immense bell in the Kremlin.
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George F. Thompson
Kansas Agricultural College
Weightman Contended Richest Philadelphia Man
William Weightman is widely regarded as Philadelphia's wealthiest figure with an estimated fortune of $20,000,000. A self-made man, he co-heads the Powers & Weightman chemical works, and as a widower he entertains very seldom.
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Philadelphia
William Weightman
Chemical Works
Powers & Weightman
Justice Gray Is A Prominent Yet Retiring Figure
The article portrays Justice Gray of the supreme court as the largest man on Penn sylvania avenue who stoops for doorways yet remains a tireless worker. It describes him as robust and cheerful though single and diffident with youths. He denies engagement while his matrimonial fate draws interest.
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James B. Ancell
Michigan
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
Ingalls
Committee On Pensions
Senator Wilson
Iowa
Wilson
Chicago
Congress
Saulsbury
United States
Justice Gray
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Avenue
National Protective Association Meets in Louisville
The executive committee discussed a moderage license system to curb fraud and liquor sales to minors, close Sunday saloons, and urge municipalities to stop granting licenses to disorderly houses. Also notes a plan to move Southern California under Gen Miles from Prescott to Los Angeles.
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Wye
National Protective Association of Uur Dealers
Louisville
California
Department of Arizona
Nelson A. Miles
Prescott, Ariz
Los Angeles
Markets Across Cities Show Mixed Prices for Grains and Provisions
Curiaco reports wheat at 77 to 78 cents, corn 37 to 37 1/2 cents, oats 264 to 264 1/2, rye 53 1/2, barley 52 1/2, flaxseed 94 cents, clover seed 4.60. Minneapolis lists wheat 76 to 74 cents, bran 9.50, shorts 11, corn 40, oats 28, hay 8 to 8.50, rye 52, barley 46 to 48, flaxseed 85 to 86, and more. Milwaukee quotes mixed wheat, corn 36 to 39, oats 264, rye 56, pork 11.50, lard 6.20, butter 18 to 22, eggs 21, cheese 11 to 12. Sr. Pavut notes varieties of wheat at 76 to 75 cents, corn 30, oats 26 to 28, barley 47, rye 45, ground feed and corn meal 15.50, bran 9.50, hay 8, dressed hogs 4.20, flaxseed 83, timothy 1.60, clover 4, eggs 22, turkeys 6 to 7, chickens 4 to 5.
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Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Hoefetter's Almanac 1887 and Advertisements
An 1887 edition of Hoefetter's Almanac is offered free by mail to readers via druggists and country dealers across the United States and beyond. The almanac blends health guidance with light reading and precise astronomical calendars. Also notes endorsements for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery, Brown's Iron Bitters, Allen's Long Balsam, and related remedies, with various testimonial quotes and patent medicine claims.
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Sterling Medical Annual
Hoefetter’s Almanac
United States
Mexico
Hostetter
Messrs
Hostetter & Co
Pittsburgh
Pierce
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