Pageant and procession at subtreasury after ceremonies
After church ceremonies the presidential party moved to the subtreasury at the corner of Wall and Nassau as a literary program began. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the oration praising the late leader, with crowds along Broadway cheering Mayor Grant and former presidents.
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Wail
Nassau
Broadway
Pine Street
Grant
Harrison
Morton
Mr. Gerry
Clarence Brown
Cleveland
Hayes
Chauncey M. Depew
Gen. Sherman Cam Ip
Treasury
Centennial Banquet and Parade Honors Figures in New York
A grand New York Centennial banquet featured President Harrison and guests including Mayor Grant Gov Hill and Vice President Morton. Toasts by Cleveland and others followed a lavish eight inch French menu, with extensive wine spending and a May 29 parade led by Maj. Gen Schofield drawing about 100000 spectators along Broadway via a crush of crowds.
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Grant
Gov. Hill
Morton
Gov
Hill
Jones
New York
Blaine
Harrison
Fair
Republic
Cleveland
Felows
Israel
United States of America
J. M. Schofield
West Point
Loward
Waverly Place
Broadway
City Hall
Revelle
President Harrison
Washington
Lami Aa
Gen. Braddock
Congress
Sparks
Anna
Agricultural Notes On Farming And Poultry Practices
Practical tips for seed handling and storage, hogs, cattle, and poultry. Advice covers feeding, shelter, testing milk and eggs, disease remedies, horse care, and crop rotation, with anecdotes from breeders and Southern livestock guidance. Includes a railroad anecdote about a woman’s plea for crossing a trestle.
Pocketbook Test Of Street Courtesy On New York Street
A young man found a woman's pocketbook on Third Avenue and One Hundred twenty-fifth Street. He tested passers by by dropping it and noting how couples reacted. After several exchanges the four cents and tools vanished, and only a lithograph remained with the pocketbook.
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Washington
Clarence W. Bowen
Centennia Committee
J. G. Whittier
United States
St. Paul's
New York
Samuel Provoost
Committee On States
Fifth Avenue
Morton
Harrison
Paul’s
Vesey Street
Trinity Church
Re Nev. H. C. Potter
D. D
Fisher Ames
Grotesure
Holy House
Manet
Third Street
Fifty-seventh Street
New Yorks
Metropolitan Opera House
New York Sun
Third Avenue
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Tremendous Speed of Ducks Observed in Washington
A Washington report quotes a prominent Wawa set gun club member describing duck and goose speeds. He claims measurements down to a dot per hour and compares a canvasback’s pace to a train. He notes air speeds near eighty miles per hour for the slowest ducks and rapid distances when racing ahead of a group.
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Wawaset Gun Club
Sunset and Sunrise over Norway Seen From a Moving Ship
A narrator on a western look from a ship describes Norway’s coast and fiord scenery. The sun sets, illusions of a stationary horizon appear, gulls retreat, then a chilly air follows. Sunrise returns with shifting yellow clouds to primrose and bluish pink hues. Rocks glow as day resumes.
Benevolent Gift Leads to Unexpected Tax Surprise
A Somerville gentleman gave five dollars to an aged man with poor shoes. Later at City Hall the same man, now wearing a fine story, claimed the money and demanded another five dollars, startling the giver with the coincidence.
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Somerville
Not the Question She Expected
A youth asks Miss Laura to explain his arrival while Willie plays with blocks nearby. Miss Kajones responds with cold calm as the headache worsens and Willie’s noise continues, leaving the visitor unsure of her reaction.
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Laura
Mr. Hankinson
Willie
Miss Kajones
Smiley's Tough Fight With Twin Black Bears on Smoky Ridge
A lone hunter Job Smiley recalls a dramatic on mountain encounter on Smoky Ridge. Armed with a five foot hickory limb he fends off two full grown black bears in a brutal close siege. After a final knife edge struggle Smiley kills one bear and maims the other then collapses exhausted. Old Tom Blakelock aids him and returns to find three cubs captured from the den. The episode leaves Smiley recovering for weeks. Cincinnati Enquirer letter from Graham county North Carolina.
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Smoky Mountain
Job Smiley
Big Smoky
Old Tom Blakelock
Old Tom
Bears
Cincinnati Enquirer
Graham County
N, C
Parallel Lines as Metaphor and Remedy in Advertorial Passage
An editorial uses parallel lines to illustrate differing viewpoints then promotes Warner's safe care and Allen's Long Balsam as universal remedies for kidney and health issues. It cites kidney cleansing as a cure, claims heart and organ relief, and includes endorsements from W H Worthington of the Patrons of Husbandry.
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Warner
W.H. Worthington
The Laughing Plant of Arabia Described
Palgrave notes a native Arabian plant with seeds that mimic laughing gas. A Kasum dwarf variety and a three to four foot Oman form exist with yellow clustered flowers and pods holding two to three black French bean sized seeds. Pulverized seeds in small doses cause loud laughter, singing, dancing, and comic antics for about an hour.
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Palgrave
Central
Arabia
Kasum
Oman
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George
Gotham
Ss. Paul’s Church
St Paul’s
Henry ©. Potter
Gen. Schofield
Ierim Pe
Heaven
Alaska
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Grand Arch
Union Square
Madison Square
Sherman
Evarts
Archbishop Corrigan
Federal Hall
Neptune
Annapolis
Army
Navy
James Russell Lowell
Canada
B. F. Johnston
F. G. Short
Wisconsin Experiment Station
W. G. Markham
Avon
N. Y
Australia
Breeders Gazette
Hoard’s Dairyman
Southern Live Stock Journal
Southdown
Cotswold
Paddock
Hoard
Ox Bow
Newbury
Tennille Ga
Enterprise
Carsonl. Lanier
Dublin
Wrightsville &Tennille Railroad
Choopie River
Washington News
Norway
Boston Budget
Smiley
Jamestown
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Scientific American
Cuticura
Porter Drug and Chemical Co
Boston
Mass
CuTicuna
Carters
Iftler Pills
Carter Medicine Co
F. C. Austin Mfg. Co
Chicago
General Ag
Dai
Minn
Rogers & Ocadway
ST. Paul
Nester
Orrer Drve
Pearce
Cahoon
Coulds
Austin & Caldwell ,O
Chicaco, WI
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
EE Freighyt
Allen Woven Wire Fence Co
North Market
Ontario
Sia
N. W.N.U
Myte
Swift
Joan Dern
Peru
Ind
Jons F. Heane
Auburn
Ala
Swift Srzcmvic Co
Atlanta
Bayou Sara
Murray St
New
York
Paine
E. G. Suirn
Claussen
8. C
Mars
E. Autclifr
Peoria
Wexis, Richardson & Co
Burlington, VI
Harlay Saherman
Burlington, Ve
Raine
Gevorce W. Bouvon
Stamford
Conn
Diamond Dyes
Zien Sont Oy Cole
Mrs. D
Mrs. G
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World’s Disensary Medical Association, PropRietors
Tae
Donaldson's Glass Block Store
Northwest
Donaldson’s Glass Block
Feathers
Lad's & Chi
Driving G
Batiste
Sewing Co
Brtu
Mirrora
Pocket Boo
Cambrie
Selesia
Sui ‘Boss
P’s
Tranks & Baga
Donaldson & CO
Minneapolis, Minn
GOW
Saleratus
Woodward & CO
Minneapolis
Duluth
A.J. Tower
Simmionr St
Masa
Colburn
Joseph H. Hunter
L. F. Ross
Iowa City
Iowa
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