Doings of Congress Senate and House actions summarize
Senate passed the silver bill 34 to 22 and moved Wyoming admission forward while Idaho is expected next. House reported favorably on clerk work hours bill, and anti trust conference trimmed to original Senate form. Sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills advanced as committee debate shifted to land purchases for Omaha and Minnesota Sioux affairs.
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Platt
Wyoming
Idaho
House
Halli
Dunnell
Red Wing
Lake Pepin
MF Morrill
Finance Committee
Manderson
Nebraska
McCook
Senate Committee On
Indian Affairs
Congress
Minnesota
Senate Committee On Appropriations
South Dakota
Washington
Montana
North Dakota
House Committee On
Committee On
Blaine
Plumb
House Committee On Coinage, Weights and Measures
Berry
Committee On Pensions
Davis
Gorman
West
Under Contract in Brighton Scene Baited Fight Claim
A man sightseeing in Brighton spots a loud suit youth and two followers who taunt him. The would be boxers push for a fight but the man, under contract, refuses to engage until meeting Oswero Whirlwind. He vows to fight all three in thirty seconds, but leaves the scene before any confrontation.
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Brighton
Cove
de Cove
Charlie
Dan
Challie
New York
Degrading Fee System Faces Reform in Labor Wages
The Indianapolis News condemns waiter tips as degrading and a threat to manhood. It argues wages should be fixed for services, not earned as gratuities, and urges labor organizations to denounce the fee system to uplift the laboring class.
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Chicago
Indianapolis News
Threats of Winona Servants Strike Over Youth Meetings
In Winona Minnesota servant girls rise against Y M C A maternal society meetings. A paper criticized their comportment triggering a response via the press. The girls threaten a general strike if the meetings continue.
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Winona
Minn
The Dimple Craze and Its SemiSurgical Stir in Smiles
A whimsical, century old piece extols dimples as a soul sparks radiance. It describes women regulating smiles to dimples, and even outlines a crude “dimpleoid” technique, claiming half an hour daily for two years can forge defined cheek scars of delight.
Gate of Heaven Gem Gift Tied To Beecher Tale
The story recalls William Hunt and Henry Ward Beecher meeting at Remick’s Boston where Beecher praises a chalcedony as a piece of the gate of heaven. Hunt later passes the gem to his sister Miss Jane Hunt as a protective amulet, after Hunt’s death, highlighting a noted artist and a famed clergyman in a tale from Ladies' Home Journal.
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William Hunt
Henry Ward Beecher
Mr. Remick
Boston
Mr. Beecher
Paradise
Hunt
Beecher
America
Jane Hunt
Ladies’ Home Journal
Indiana Congressman’s Visitor Foiled by Church Gaffe
A well known Indiana congressman allowed a constituent to roam the capital alone and attend a local Episcopal church. On return, he claimed he “fit and fell with them every time,” eliciting amused disbelief from his host in a New York Tribune anecdote.
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Indiana
Congress
House of Divine Worship
National Capital
New York Tribune
Are the Girls to Blame Opinion Piece
A dated opinion column argues that public stares are a two way street. The author cites Ella Wheeler Wilcox advising women not to meet unfamiliar men's eyes, suggesting discomfort arises from both parties and urging caution in public interactions.
A Tale of Western Versatility in a Vermont Shop
A Kansas man forwards a Youth’s Companion piece recounting a shop conversation where Western men born in Vermont traded far flung career tales. One boasted a string from real estate to livery, another from schoolteacher to sheriff, and a mysterious figure traced a life from baby to engineer to Indian agent to dentist. The yarn ends with the quiet exit of a man whose varied path mocks lists of occupations.
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Kansas
Vermont
Mississippi
Nebraska
Texas
Boston
Colorado
San Francisco
A Lesson in Manners From a Doctor of Courtesy
An old lady from an earlier era rebukes a Harvard youth who visits her on a country veranda. He removes his hat, then forgets etiquette, prompting a pointed remark. She recalls his father’s generation and notes she never saw him with his hat on when speaking to a lady.
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Harvard
Road Runner Outsmarts Rattler in Central Deserts
A traveler in California recalls a road runner that walks the road center and lures a rattlesnake into a cactus trap. The bird plucks thorn barriers with its bill, circles the snake with cactus spines, then watches as the snake wounds itself while the bird sits aloft. Reported by J. F. Normile via St Louis Globe-Democrat.
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California
Bells Invented in 400 A D in Campania
The invention of bells is attributed to Paulinus bishop of Nola in Campania about 400. They were first used in churches for defense against thunder. First hung in England at Croyland abbey in 945. In the eleventh century baptisms preceded use. The curfew bell began in 1068 and ended 1100. Bellmen in London were appointed in 1556 to ring at night and urge care for fire and candle and aid the poor for the dead.
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Paulinus
Nola
Campania
England
Croyland Abbey
London
Costa Rica Ships New Theater Fund Plan
Costa Rica proposes a fresh finance scheme to raise funds for a capital theater. Congress imposes an export duty on coffee to generate the needed money, though only about $200,000 is required, so the tax is expected to be short lived.
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Costa Rica
Congress
Kneeling At The Threshold Poem By W L Alexander
A poetic meditation of fatigue and hope as a weary traveler kneels at the door of divine rest. The speaker recalls a harsh journey, longs for dawn, and envisions the radiant company beyond the doors while awaiting the Master’s bidding. The verse, attributed to W. L. Alexander in The Christian at Work, frames faith as patient endurance toward heavenly rest.
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Father
W. L. Alexander
My Cousin Ere ne and the Lord Stolholm Mystery
A first person narrator recalls a Parisian cousin Erene, her vanity, and a planned marriage to Lord Stolholm. After expressing love for the narrator, Stolholm confesses his lifelong love for her. a deadly duel between Bavarian suitor and Dutch rival occurs in Vienna, ending with Stolholm saving the narrator and revealing Erene’s deceit. The narrator learns she is free to wed Stolholm, and wedding cards arrive for Erene’s marriage to a Frenchman.
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Lord Steinolm
Erene
Paris
America
England
Forsooth
Holstien
Lord Stolholm
Ilain
Frank Leslie
Illustrated
Prince of Greece Runs Pranks at Potsdam Palace
The Petite Presse recounts a humorous tale of the Greek crown prince, once engaged to the German princess, visiting Potsdam in plain clothes. A sentinel doubts him at the gate, but the princess greets the “beggar” warmly, prompting the shocked guard to exclaim at the possible blessing.
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Petite Presse
Prince Royal
Greece
Princess Imperial
Germany
Potsdam
Berlin
Masher
The Jobber’s Moral Trade Secret From a Cashonly Customer
A jeweler explains a cash only policy with a trusted peddler. When the customer owed 2.65, the shopkeeper forgave the small balance and wrote the bill as paid in full to keep the customer loyal. He argues that credit invites swindle and that losing a single small debt preserves long term trade.
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Blank
The Attic Window and The Fire Escape Dilemma
A busy boarding house resident shares a wry tale of a fifth floor attic dwelling. A visitor asks how to escape a fire, and the hostess suggests waiting for firefighters while admitting she could rest until help arrives. The exchange lampoons urban haste and longing for rest amid daily toil.
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Mr. Howells
Narrow escape lynching tale ends in marriage proposal
In the 1960s Georgia, a railroad telegraph operator recounts halting a lynching attempt by cutting a signal wire. A tornado wind gust redirected a train so a bound girl on the track survived. He freed her, tended her wounds, and proposed marriage when she survived. The engineer later explained the wind lifted the train, sparing the woman.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Georgia
Atlantic Express
Darkies
Authority in the Home Keeps Daughter Hopeful and Honest
A Harper's essay urges mothers to stay firmly part of the home and guide their daughters through the stormy adolescent years. It argues for respecting the daughter's independence while offering advice, support, and shared activity to keep family ties strong as she seeks her own income or career.
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Harper's Lazar
Young America
Coach Accident Near Jonestown Injures Fifteen Ladies
A coach carrying fifteen young ladies from Schuylkill Seminary Fredericksburg to Jonestown railroad station derailed after a harness break. The four horses balked and plunged down a twenty foot embankment, the coach toppled onto the animals. All riders were seriously injured and the driver hurt.
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Jonestown
Schuylkill Seminary
Fredericksburg
Syrup of Figs Proves Popular Remedy Confidence Grows
The favorable impression from the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs has been confirmed by the experience of all who used it, reflecting well on the California Fig Syrup Company proprietors and manufacturers.
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California Fig Syrup Company
Six Novers Free Offered by Cragin Co Philadelphia
Free offer sends the Six Novers to any one in the United States or Canada postage paid upon receipt of 25 Dobbins' Ricetrie Soap wrappers. A circular lists the novels available around each soap bar. Soap sold by all grocers.
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Cragin & Co
Philadelphia
Canada
Dairy Supply House Offers The Dairyman By Mail
The Dairy Supply house of Cornish Curtis and Green Co of St Paul Minnesota invites readers to request a copy of their publication The Dairyman by sending their address on a postal card The firm is a large manufacturer and dealer in dairy equipment and supplies from steam engines to butter ladles and will pay anyone seeking dairy goods to write for information.
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Dairy Supply House
Cornish, Curtis & Green Co
St. Paul, Minn
Dairyman
Explanation of Dreams and the Moral Sense in Dreaming
The Boston Transcript discusses dream imagination as a clash between evolved restraint and primal instinct. It argues dreams lack conscience when sleep dulls civilization, yet true dreamers report visions that surpass waking thought, revealing a soul rising above morality.
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Boston Transcript
Painting a Man Red in Dutch Hills Incident
Frank Gratton a painter faced charges before Justice Kavanagh in Long Island City after he knocked over a paint bucket causing a splash of red paint on Nicholas Redline who fled through a barber shop causing a panic. Gratton a nearsighted worker had feared Redline would topple his ladder during house painting on Dutch Hills property.
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Frank Gratton
Justice Kavanagh
Long Island City
L. I
Nicholas Redline
Gratton
Dutch Hills
Redline
Khedline
Philadelphia Ledger
Utica Woman Ends Life With Tiredness Note
Mary L. Eaglesfield of Utica penned I have worked until I am tired out then asked for burial in Potter’s field and bought laudanum. She traveled to St. Agnes cemetery and drank the fatal draught. Hours later she was found dead and rest eternal was said by the New York Evening Sun.
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Mary L. Eaglesfield
Utica
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