Minnesota Solons Debate Legislature Tactics and Tax Plans
The Minnesota Senate reports a protest signed by 27 Democratic and Alliance Senators over senate leadership in committee selection. Senator Phillips advances a constitutional amendment toward a single tax, Tawney proposes a jury reform excluding struck juries in most cases with Ramsey and Hennepin counties spared. Hompe seeks selling land within lake red lines for school purposes. In the House, Cross introduces a railroad rights bill, Currier pushes a bid to amend the U S Constitution to elect senators by the people, opposed by Lomen who votes against. Feig defends current method as corrupt, Reeve joins opposition. the measure passes 81 to 11.
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Donnelly
Democratic
Alliance
Senate
Phillips
Tawney
Ramsey
Hennepin
Hompe
Red Line of Lakes
Cross
Goodhue
Currier
Blue Earth
House
Congress
United States
J. Lomen
Lomen
Feig
Reeve
Lawmakers Propose Committees and Bills On State Matters
Senator March introduces a joint resolution to form a two senator three house member committee to study waterways linking existing channels. Bills raise juror pay boiler inspections court of pardons salary cuts and corporate renewals while wolf bounty reform draws debate over costs abuses and alleged imports of scalps.
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March
House
Davis
Coroners and
Justice Court
Daugherty
United States
McMillan
Feig
State Board of Health
Bell
Ramsey
Senator Mayo seeks railroad inquiry and stock details
Senator Mayo calls the judiciary committee to investigate Minnesota railroads including mileage construction rents depot fees salaries and contracts with details on stock ownership and officer interests Also a Searles measure funds a Get tysburg battlefield monument with 20000 and a Lake County roads bond bill passes under rules suspension A Gildea resolution proposes a railroad cost committee and Currier’s memorial on presidential direct election is indefinitely postponed and then passed
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Mayo
Judiciary Committee
Searles
Minnesota
Gettysburg
County of
Lake
Senate
Gildea
Pipestone
Wagoner
Searle
Currier
Congress
United States
Memorial and bills shape session with gambling curb and banking changes
A Semi memorial to congress urged passage of the Butterworth bill to ban dealing in options amid warnings of gambling crimes in agriculture and looming revolutions. Amendments by Senator Stevens altered wording. Morse opposed. March’s banking law bill lowers state bank capital. House session ends with Dunn Price election ruling for Price by 64 to 42 and a prison investigation resolution gaining approval.
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Congress
Donnelly
Stevens
Morse
March
Lonmen
Raiload Commission
Leavitt
House
Dunn-Price
Price
W. H. Tripp
Minnesota
Minnesota Tresher Company
House Opens With Light Attendance and Key Bills
The Minnesota house met at 2 30 PM with Lane K Stone of Omsey county presiding. Several important bills were introduced including H F 141 extending Keyes amendment to the Australian election law and a crime against the franchise act. A mechanics lien law H F 133 by Gallagher of Hennepin was also proposed to strengthen security for laborers and others.
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Lane K. Stone
Omsey County
Smalley
Tripp
Hennepin
Keyes
Gallagher
Farm and Household: Dairying and Winter Housekeeping Hints
Practical notes for farmers and homemakers outline dairy practices and winter domestic tips. Includes guidance on breakfast ideas and general farm management suitable for the era. Focuses on improving efficiency in home and barn tasks with concise, actionable advice.
Facts for Farmers and Horse Care Insights
A series of practical notes for farming and animal husbandry. Tips cover teaching colts, hog health, feed effects, handling cattle, blanket use, fencing, and humane practices. Emphasizes feeding efficiency, market readiness, winter care, and avoiding frequent feed changes. It notes possible herd and stable inspections and mentions France's pork demand and government aims.
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France
Pigs Need Warm Indoor Stables In Winter
Pigs especially improved breeds have less hair and require warm sleeping quarters. Avoid exposing them to straw burrowing and cover. A tightly enclosed room not over six six feet high with adequate straw is better than outdoor piles. Outside retreats can leave pigs too warm then chilled at troughs.
Home Laundry Tips From An Old Guide
Mildew removal by soaking in buttermilk or lemon juice with salt and sun exposure. Renew ribbons with cool soap suds and damp ironing. Use a clean cloth under ironing. A washing fluid from equal parts ammonia and turpentine. Two spoonfuls into boiling water. Remove shine on black fabrics by washing then dipping in hot tea and coffee and sponging.
Women influence grows in American life and education
A reflection on expanding roles for women in the United States. The speaker urges balanced female education with more health focus and outdoor activity, arguing home life should inspire and elevate men returning from duty, victory or defeat.
Biscuits and Cakes from Plain Kitchen Fashion
A recipe passage details butter and flour doughs with lemon zest and raisins, a second mix includes beef dripping currants sugar and lemon rind with baking powder, and a third dough uses oats and butter forming lemon biscuits. It instructs mixing with milk or egg and baking in a quick oven.
Elegant wraps and cloaks for warmth and style
Good Housekeeping notes long jackets and many wraps in dark rich fabrics trimmed with Alaska sable or bear fur. Wool and silk cloaks provide warmth with quilted silk lining ideal for driving. For evening wear the Elizabethan cloak in silk brocade with Mandarine fur lining offers light, expansive drapery and a high rolling collar.
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Alaska
Foreign views on American breakfast habits noted
A New York Times paraphrase argues foreign critics of American breakfasts. It notes French observers shrug at a heavy late morning meal and highlights a growing private residence trend toward a tray breakfast with fruit, roll, and coffee served in individual rooms.
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New York Times
New York
Universal practice of second breakfast noted in society
The passage describes a second breakfast at noon that merges breakfast and lunch, common in country houses and seaside cottages. It is praised by physicians and hygienic scholars as a healthy custom increasingly accepted as universal.
English dairy shift widens as farmers turn from wheat
The British dairy farmers association notes a decade of decline in grain and competition from American and Russian wheat. English farmers increasingly move to dairy and store cattle, facing stiff imports and sanitary bans on American cattle. Butter demand rises as supply trails.
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British Dairy Farmers’ Association
York
United States
Ameraica
Russia
Canada
England
Dominion of Canada
Denmark
France
Open windows and air bedding urged for health
Health advice urges every sleeping room to keep windows open each morning and bedclothes aired to sun. It notes lead poisoning from new tin pans caused cramps and vomiting in three people, rescued by prompt medical help. It highlights housekeeping as a foundation of prosperity and mentions Mrs. Armour as a famed Chicago housekeeper.
Ingenious Advertising Schemes and Legal Warnings
A discussion of how ads aim to attract attention beyond the law in order to promote products. Examples include streetcar card art and rival schemes that risk liability, plus a London case where a theatre song referenced a wine merchant, leading to a failed damages claim.
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London
Thompson's
Boston Advertiser
Beardless Soldiers in Ancient War Fashions
The New York Ledger notes Alexander the Great shaved his troops to prevent enemies from seizing beards. It compares this to Chinese soldiers with queues who were caught fleeing and mistaken for allied troops. The piece ends with a wry observation on military appearance.
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Alexander
Asia
China
New York Ledger
What's in a name in Biggs Boggs exchange
In a chatty column, Biggs jokes with Boggs about assets being in a wife's name. The playful exchange hinges on ownership and names within a marriage. No other facts or names provided beyond the quip.
Math question at a private school sparks whispered name
A mathematics teacher asked a pupil for the square root of 400 in a well known city private school. Before an answer could come a neighboring boy whispered Ward McAllister, prompting astonished murmurs from others.
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Ward McAllister
New York Tribune
Shakespeare Hamlet Drowning Scene Questioned by Theater Crew
A theater manager and a stage carpenter debate Hamlet's drowning of Ophelia. They joke that Shakespeare may not have known how to stage a drowned scene or a tank effect, reflecting theatrical craft concerns.
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William Shakespeare
Ophelia
New York Weekly
Striking coal miners pledge support for spring action
A worker asks a stranger if he is a workingman and learns of a plan to organize a nationwide strike. The American Confederation of Farm Hands promises aid, stating coal could rise to 30 dollars a ton and flour to 50 dollars a barrel if the strike is supported and approved in spring.
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American Confederation of Farm Hands
Tobacco Chewing Conversation Among Wives
Two women discuss urging their husbands to quit chewing tobacco. Mrs. Jones believes asking him will work while Mrs. Brown resists, noting the taste lingers during kisses. She says the tobacco makes other women sicker, but she remains accustomed to it.
Birthday joke on Madison Avenue lady calms crowd
A young Madison Avenue woman boasts in a streetcar that today is her birthday. After a conductor teases her about age she hilariously declares she is thirty four, prompting a moment of surprised silence before the crowd moves on.
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Madison Avenue
Brigham Young Mistakes Wife for Stranger in Counsel
A woman seeking church counsel accuses an officer of opposition. Brigham Young, slow to recall, asks for her name and then pretends to doubt, only to realize she is his wife after consulting a memorandum book and admitting the face seems familiar. The exchange highlights Brigham Young's wary memory and blunt humor.
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Bringham Young
Church
Brigham
No Ear for Singing Earns Student Holiday
A Scottish youth with poor singing voice was always excused from singing lessons. His mother challenged the school's banter, and the teacher replied the boy had no ear. She protested that his ear was fine, noting his lung capacity, leaving the exchange framed as a humorous misunderstanding.
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Scotland
Dear Creatures Explain Men Through City Girls
A fragment presents regional responses from Chicago to Brooklyn as girls describe their feelings for a man. Each quote shows playful slang and varying intensity from “dead stuck” to “personal magnetism” and “love or paralysis.”
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Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
New York
Boston
St. Paul
Brooklyn
Goin for mister Chauncey McConnell on a Nashville trip
A long nosed traveler with a hungry expression asks a passenger about his plans on a train to Nashville Tennessee He plans to sell four shares of bank stock dispose of an eighty acre farm near the city invest in a clothing store on North Cherry Street He is from Beardstown Cass County Illinois aged thirty nine with a wife and four children and a former druggist
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Nashville
Tennessee
North Cherry Street
Beardstown
Cass County
Ill
Chauncey McConnell
Harrodsburg
Congregational Church
Outspoken frankness sparks a street confrontation
A man questions a stranger’s frankness then proves the point by abruptly kicking him into the street, exchanging verbal jabs about honesty and trust. The exchange ends with the observer admitting he likes frankness but not outright avec outspoken methods.
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Texas Siftings
Mrs Shoddy Demands Blue and Gold Library Set
A wealthy husband’s wife orders a grand library from a bookstore then storms in anger when the selection arrives. She complains the books are not blue and gold to match her furniture, criticizing the “choicest works” as mismatched.
Wasted Eloquence and a Judge’s Quick Call Next Case
A judge in a neighboring state intervened to curb wordy proceedings. Seeing the first case would likely settle cheaply, he asked for the amount in question and paid two dollars himself, then ordered the next case.
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Sir William Grant
Bear attack on rider near Etta Mine Harney County Ore
Charley Jones rode near the Etta Mine in Harney County Oregon when a silver tip bear charged. Jones wrestled with the beast and thrust his arm into its mouth to escape. After the bear chewed the arm nearly to the bone it released him and Jones crawled a mile and a half to safety.
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Oregon
Charley Jones
Etta
Harney County
Ore
Jones
Man Tricked Landlord With Cemetery Ruse
A Wilkesbarre family man sought to rent a house known to shun families with children. He took his wife and five children to Hollenback cemetery and claimed all his kids were dead. He secured a lease and returned to share the supposed good fortune.
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Wilkesbarre
Hollenback Cemetery
Philadelphia Times
Minister Misses Call Amid Heat In Springfield
A Springfield pastor, trying to make pastoral calls as the thermometer hit 95 degrees, rang bells at several houses but found no one home. He asked a boy if his mother was inside and the boy replied that she would only appear in her nightgown at lunch, so the minister decided to defer his visit.
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Springfield
Musical Mrs Taylor in Freehand London
Old Mrs Tom Taylor widow of the dramatist is described as one of London’s finest amateur pianists. Though small and frail she walks with difficulty to the piano and plays with a sad sweet charm that captivates all. Her sight is weak and she reads no music, relying on memory or improvisation.
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Tom Taylor
London
Annette's Romance and a Widow's Reckoning at Poplar Hall
Annette Raymond despises her father’s employer George Wortley. Wortley accuses Lester Arnold of forgery and bribes Annette to marry him to spare Arnold. She marries Wortley to save Arnold, but Wortley dies and confesses the forgery claim was a plot. Annette later meets Arnold in London, seeks forgiveness, and they wed months later.
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Poplar Hall
Arnold
Lester Arnold
London
Cleveland Press
Woodcock Choice Sparks Humble Dinner Table Moment
In a restaurant a country man and a young woman discuss a woodcock dish priced at $2.50. She plans to try it though unfamiliar, while he persuades caution and orders two oyster stews instead. The cordial exchange highlights curiosity and restraint.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Suspended by a Finger
A Madison woman, Mrs. 8. Hardy, underwent a remarkable accident in a stable. She stepped on a feed trough and, gripping a rake, slipped and hung by a finger, then used a hoe handle to unhook herself and collapsed. She later recovered.
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8. Hardy
Madison
Bangor News
Carefulness in Speech and Language Purity
An excerpt on the value of precise speech and language culture. It argues propriety in word use reflects culture and the love of English, comparing linguistic harmony to musical interpretation, and urges every language lover to preserve integrity. It ends with a note about Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and its internal as well as external use.
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Johnson
Castoria’s long history and scattered market mentions
A collage of old remedies and anecdotes notes Castoria as a trusted option for children and illness, alongside stray lines about diverse languages in Mexico and tea as medicine. It cites Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, confederate army numbers, and a wealth of fragmented quotes including a New York World anecdote on financial ruin and a Delmonico dinner reveal.
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Growin Ious
Adligions Hight
Johnson
Smoker’s Revenge In Will Sparks Probate Battle
William Bachelor of Coshocton Ohio bequeaths his vast estate with a twist disinheriting nephew Nathaniel Bradner over the wife Hatch named, and all heirs must swear they will not share any bequest with Brander. The tale notes Bachelor’s grudge stemming from a New York visit where Mrs Bradner objected to smoking in the parlor and a vow to retaliate.
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William Bachelor
Coshocton
Nathaniel Bradner
Bradner
Bachelor
Philadelphia Ledger
Feline Fun Playful Exchange Echoes Montaigne Reflection
The quote explores a playful dialogue between a person and their cat, noting mutual entertainment and shared rhythms of starting and stopping. It frames a light study of companionship as a two way pastime.
St Jacobs Oil Praised As Great Pain Remedy
An 1890 interview in the N Y World lauds patent medicines and asserts St Jacobs Oil as a prompt permanent cure of pain. It claims abilities to cure chronic cases decades old and notes many cures from a half bottle, with good results when used as directed.
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Hood
N.B
N. Y. World
St. Jacobs Oil
Hesebrough M’f’g Co
State St. N
Awkward Water Shortage Delays Meran Bozen Train
The Meran-Bozen railway division faced a water shortage that halted a train, forcing passengers to assist crew with water. After promising improvements, the paper again records the inconvenience and urges safeguards for future trips.
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Meran-Bozen
Meran Zeitung
Centenary of the Tall Hat Celebrated in Europe
The tall hat marks its hundredth birthday in Europe as the simple Quaker hat worn by Dr. Franklin sparked its decline. Early on the high hat symbolized progress and faced police persecution. Germany and Russia banned them with penalties, but in the forties they became a respectable trade mark.
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Europe
Dr. Franklin
Germany
Russia
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Chicago Herald
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Lester
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Mexco
Brecnam
Pris
Delmonico’s
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Feline Fun
Montaigne
Syauritigg
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Croup
SF Lee
Carter Medicine CO
New Tor
Tutt
Park Place
N.Y
Cuticura
Soc
Porrax Darac and
Cogmicat Corporation
Urden Sapolio
Sappho
Po Chichester
Chichester
Returm Mali
Chichester Chemical CO
Madison Square
Eegaieman
Geo
Stoup
Verona, A
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Salem
Ohio
Dr. Bridgman
Broadway
Conei
DR. Taft Bros. M. CO
Poches
Patrick O'Fa
Arthmalene
Washington, D. C
Wilcox Specific Co
Phila., Pa
Nicollet Avx
Minneapolis
Northwest
College Journal
T. J. Caton
FTI
I. G. Root
M. C
Peart St
Fai Mengal Co
Buffall
Ita
P.O
T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
LCL
M. Farry & Co
D. M. Ferry
Detroit
Mich
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