Congressional appropriations and vetoes shape 1884 session
The senate and house debate appropriations for heating public buildings at Winona and St Paul, new lighthouses, and park improvements, with river and harbor bills, pension votes, and bills on labor, fortifications, and oleomargarine. Debates cover postmaster salaries, Dakota admission talk, and party splits over vetoed pensions and surplus disbursement.
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Senate Committee On Appropriations
Winona
Court House
St. Paul
Secretary of the Treasury
Wabasha
House
Morrison
Treasury
Representative White
Minnesota
Dakota
Virginia
John Randolph Tucker
John Goode
Senate
Goode
LeMillan
Committee On Commerce
Dawes
Edmunds
Irye
Hale
Harris
Hawley
Hearst
Pratt
Muddieberger
Saulsbury
Teller
Voorhee
Joseph Romiser
Messrs
Bennett
Blanchard
Bland
Calwell
Candler
Clements
Crisp
Croxton
Culbertson
Davidson
Ala
Downey
An Everyday Occurrence in a Love Triangle
Frank loves a country girl while charmed by a raffish rival. He battles desire, guardrails honesty, and nearly dissolves his engagement, choosing duty over passion and returning to Elsie. The tale underlines a quiet, unsettling truth about daily choices shaping a life.
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Circe
Soap and the Complexion in Brooklyn Eye
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt reports a physician recommending daily facial washing with pure soap to keep facial pores open and reduce blackheads pimples and dull skin claims that poor cleanliness causes sallow complexions and that white soap and warm suds best cleanse hands and face before bed
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Brooklyn Eagle
Good Housekeeping
Skin Care Advice From Old Time Remedy
The text advises on fat handling and home remedies for skin care. It recommends drying thoroughly, applying a few drops of mixed glycerine and camphor prepared by a druggist, then rubbing into the palms. It also suggests avoiding morning facial soap, instead washing with warm water and reserving soap scrubbing for bedtime.
Phrenology's Decline and Modern Brain Science
The funeral oration for Desbarolles contrasts palmistry with phrenology, arguing phrenology is extinct while modern brain science by Hit zig, Fritsch, and Ferrier reveals the brain's complex functions. It notes the shift from bumps and faculties to experimental neuroscience and anatomical mapping in hospitals and research.
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M. Dumas
Desbarolles
Gall
Spurzheim
Sporzheim
George Combe
Hitzig
Fritsch
Ferrier
Advances in Photography From Dry Plate to Paper Negative
Dr. Arthur H. Elliott cites the dry plate and the paper negative as the era’s top advances. He notes dry plates free photography to amateurs and pocket-size gear, while paper negatives simplify process and enable hundreds of exposures with a crank. Enhanced papers with dual-sided gelatine coatings promise permanent transparency, lowering costs and expanding access to the public.
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Arthur H. Elliott
Evening Post
Dr. Elliot
Fox Talbot
Gladstone at Liverpool Sees Last Words and Calls for Reform
In a Liverpool speech Mr Gladstone reflects on his age and fate, claiming seventy six breaths left and hints these may be his final words in the city. He cites the ballad Chevy Chase and warns that Ireland must not be treated as England’s Poland, urging prudence courage and honor and a ringing in of a peaceful era.
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Davis
Massachusetts
Committee On Commerce
House
United States
Senate
Butler
Messrs
Gray
Harris
District of Columbia
Territories
Beck
Congress
Yeas
Ingalls
Burlington
Mr. Gladstone
Liverpool
Ireland
England
Poland
A. M. Sanderson
Brandon
Wis
Farmer Remarries In Hope Of Lucy Or Her Mother
In a July garden scene, farmer Kimball courts Lucy Keene while musing about marrying her mother. After Lucy and Charley plan to wed, a twist lands Lucy as nurse and daughter of the house, and Kimball finally proposes to the widow. He chooses Mrs Kimball over Lucy, marrying the mother and keeping love alive with family.
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Farmer Kimball
Lucy Keene
Hester Mason
Robert Keene
Mary
Hester
Lucy
Charley
Sarah
Keene
Mr. Kimball
Armer
Cupid
Gacy
New Eve beauty guide by Leigh Hunt on graceful female form
The excerpt discusses ideal female beauty from Leigh Hunt, favoring a serpentine figure, natural ease in movement, and specific proportions. It argues against extreme waists or stiffness, praises harmony of hips and feet, and cautions against fattening foods and starved looks while noting variations in skin tone and arm Shape.
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Leigh Hunt
Milo
Venus
Venus de Medici
English Railway Cars in June Brooklyn Magazine
William H Rideing describes English trains with three classes. First class offers six cushioned seats, second class twelve, third class has minimal cushions and crowded space. Comfort and courtesy differ by class, with strict ticketing language reflecting social separation.
A Belle's Lament Echoes in Boston Globe Letter
A Boston Globe reprint presents a 24 year old woman lamenting social flattery without marriage, noting how wealth or status sway men away from meaningful commitment. She critiques society’s mating game and the impracticality of marrying for love amid class pressures, while a bachelor narrator muses on lonely bachelorhood and looming marriage in later life.
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Boston Globe
Globe
Fair Unknown
Louvre
Eve's Fair Daughters
The Lovely Princess of Wales in London Society Scene
A London letter praises the Princess of Wales as the era’s most beautiful woman with flawless features and lilac attire at a royal drawing room. It compares her to Princess Christian and Mary of Cambridge, details gowns, trains, headdresses, and the glittering orders and jewelry worn by the royals and guests.
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Mrs. Sherwood
London
Princess of Wales
Prince of Wales
Christian
Victoria and Albert
Crown of
India
St. Catherine of Russia
St. John of Jerusalem
Royal Red Cross
Schleswig-Holstein
Aple
Engand
Alberta
Princess Louise of Wales
Rioting and strikes disrupt San Francisco transit
In San Francisco a riot arose from a strike by about two hundred streetcar conductors and drivers. Cars were damaged and police dispersed the mob after a difficult effort. Several rioters were arrested amid allegations the action followed dismissals tied to Knights of Labor.
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San Francisco
New
Knights of Labor
Baltimore
Newark
N.J
Dakota
Bangor
Walworth County
New Rockford
Eddy County
Olivet
Hutchinson County
Ree Heights
Hood County
Frankfort
Spink County
Park River
Walsh County
Gary
Dever County
Keystone
Dickey County
Fairmont
Battle River
Dickinson
Wilmot
Bath
Hillsboro
Emery
Stursis
Minnesota
Elmore
Heron Lake
Ellsworth
Paynesville
Madison
Lillard’s
Garden City
Stephen
Montana
Great Falls
Wickes
Poplar Creek
Westmasters
Iowa
Rockford
F. Myers
Wisconsin
Crete
H. H. Hansen
Dicksville
J. Stage
Kendal
T. J. Wyman
Kilbourne City
T. B. Coon
Warnecke
Sully County
H. McKnight
Walker
Burns
Colin Hare
Red Lake Falls
D. M. Holmes
Kretzurichmer
Patrick Ford
Ireland
England
Parnell
Clair
B. F. Butler
Cleveland
Congress
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Favorite Prescription Restores Womanly Beauty and Health
The piece extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a singular remedy for female-related illnesses. It claims the tonic revives youthful bloom, eases nervous debility, and restores grace, presenting the medicine as a great boon to mankind by preserving beauty and health.
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Dr. Pierce
Nomination List Includes Senior Naval Officers and Administrators
The president sent nominations to the senate for Douglas W. Taylor of Portland Oregon as surveyor general of Oregon Lewis Williams of Missouri as commissioner of the District of Alaska to reside at Juneau City Commodore James E Jouett rear admiral Commodore John H Russell rear admiral Captains John Irwin and James A Greer commodores.
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Senate
Douglas W. Taylor
Portland, Or
Oregon
Lewis Williams
Missouri
Alaska
Juneau City
James E. Jouett
John H. Russell
John Irwin
James A. Greer
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery touted for consumption cure
An appeal to readers asks belief in the Creator’s affliction of one third of mankind by consumption. It claims Dr R V Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cured hundreds of cases once deemed incurable, and invites sending 10 cents for a book at World's Dispensary Medical Association 663 Main Street Buffalo.
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R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Summer fruit and remedies fill a busy page
A varied 19th century newspaper snippet covers health cures for summer ailments including Perry Davis Pain Killer and Allen’s Iron Tonic, a Madrid earthquake report, a claim of urethral cure methods, cattle drought losses in Texas, a Louisiana pine timber deal, Piso’s Remedy for catarrh, and a Keystone Oak Presbyterian church wrecked by a tornado.
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Perry Davis Pain Kiter
Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic Ad Claim
Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic claims to contain its entire nutritious properties and to restore blood, strength, and vitality. It is touted as beneficial for indigestion dyspepsia nervous prostration general debility and enfeebled conditions from exhaustion overwork or acute disease especially pulmonary. Caswell Harako & Co., New York, as proprietors and sellers.
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Mensman
Caswell, Harako & Co
New York
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Payne
Pugh
Salisbury
Vance
Eustis
Hizhret
Reon
Committee On Labor
Commissioner of Labor
Price
Eau Claire
Blair
Committee On Pensions
Mary J. Sottege
Whitthorne
Camden
Wilson
Maryland
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Blount
Shutterworth
Randall
Cutcheon
Frank
Este
Elsie
Chamber
Advances In Photography
Gladstone
William H. Rideing
Brooklyn
the Lovely
Arthur
Powderly
Madrid
Malaza
Texas
Dreuth
Chicago
Presbyterian Church
Keystone Oak
Sarah Halvorson
6Th St
Minneapolis
Minn
Pittsburg
Hall
Ayer
Michel Young
Oshawa
Hood
LyMan Allen
Lyon
Hanscom
Oshkosh
Cole
Drugg’sts
Willmar
Brown
Atie Nas
Blue Earth
Isametite Coox
Mitchell
Dak
Brown Chemical CO
Boston Lady
Collowna
Porter Cave
Perry Davis
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
Duke
Duke Soap Company
Otis
CPIUM
Ds. J. Dtzpuens
Levaven
Ohio
Pensi N Rence
M. Sites & Co
Washington, D. C
JPIUM
Prazer
Joseph Gillotts
Dr. I. G. Root
Pearl St
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, N
FW England Conservatory OF Music
Boston
Mass
E. Tourjee
Franklin
Wheat Woodward & Company
Corn Exchange
Owerss
Fis
A.J. Tower
Simmons St
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