Senate and House in a Flurry of Tariff Debates and Fights
The Senate eulogizes the late Senator Beck with Ingalls delivering the notable address as tariff amendments stir action. The House debates lard definitions and advances a bill by 117 to 77 with no quorum, while an Oklahoma destitution telegram is read. A clash on the floor features Beckwith and Wilson trading blows as order briefly breaks. The tariff bill moves forward with amendments and a stated September 8 vote.
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Senate
Beck
Ingalls
Davis
Washburn
Minnesota
Casey
North Dakota
Spooner
Wisconsin
HOUSE
Hayes
Iowa
Yeas
Platt
Secretary of the Interior
Newham
Oklahoma
Senate Committee On Postal Affairs
Congress
Merrees
O'Neill
Pennsylvania
Lewis F. Watson
Aldrich
Plumb
Committee On Rules
Capitol
Committee On
Tilson
Washington
Beckwith
New Jersey
Cannon
Mason
Illinois
Williams
Ohio
Selback
Wilson
Serjeant At Arms
Finance Committee
McSwat's Mistake Triggers Guilty Mail Mix-Up
In a comic domestic scene Mr McSwat realizes he mailed the wrong letters. Lobelia reveals a hidden invitation to Auntie Kit ter y and a fashion publisher letter sent in different envelopes. He exits into darkness, kicking himself over the mistaken mail.
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Lobelia
Kit‘tery
Mr. McSwat
American writers envy English praise in fool's paradise
In this Fortnightly Review snippet the author argues Americans rely on European approval to accept their own art and ideas. It contrasts American certainty with English imperial complacency, noting Americans resist humility while English claim dominance and misread American judgment.
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England
America
Aizee
Imperial
The Same Clothier and Furnisher Exchange
A brief exchange notes the familiarity of a tailor and customer about the pistol pocket size in trousers. Mr Sheers asks the question and Mr Tanque replies the pocket gauge remains unchanged.
Diamond tactics in Boston drugstores end in fair play
A Boston druggist builds a corner shop and resists a bully rival who threatens to open nearby. The challenger loses as the original owner secures a long lease at the opposite corner and thrives, proving strength without unjust force.
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Boston Gazette
Boston
Providence
Apeeson
Tragedy in Sahara: Soldier Frossard Dead in Biskra Rescue
A young soldier, Frossard, perished in the Sahara near Biskra after water ran out. He allegedly killed his horse and drank its blood, then cut out its lungs before dying or being killed by heat and hyenas as a Spahi tried to fetch water from the oasis of Gartha.
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Pall Mail Gazette
Sahara
Biskra
Frossard
Algeria
Gartha
Horns Form the Human Body A Wart-like Growth on Lip
A 65 year old laborer presented with a horn protruding an inch from the lower lip on the right side with ulceration around the base. The horn appeared three years earlier as a small wart and regrew after razor removal. Treatment removed the horn and attached lip tissue by a crescent-shaped incision under cocaine, edges joined with sutures.
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New York Tribune
Ammonia Naming Ties to Ammon Temple Dung
The chemical ammonia traces to ancient times with Egypt as a historic European supplier. It originated from camel dung burned near the temple of Jupiter Ammon, collected by Arabs in March and April, processed to extract ammonia. Now mainly produced from crude gas liquor in illuminating gas factories, with higher winter production than summer, affecting cost.
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Europe
Egypt
New York Sun
A Way to Heaven in Tioga Hancock County
In Tioga, Hancock County, youths fill the open space behind the village church to play the national game on Sundays. The pastor’s sermon is interrupted by cheering as a runner is urged to slide toward Heaven, shouted from the window by the congregation.
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Hancock County
Tioga
Kingdom of Heaven
Ancient Bank of England Deposit Stick Curiosity
A Washington Post note describes a century old Bank of England certificate of deposit using a notched two-foot stick split into pieces. One portion proof of deposit was given to the saver and the other piece had to be notch matched to claim £7000, a system said to defy forgery.
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Bank of England
Washington Post
One Kind of Knot Observed by a Country Correspondent
A reader asks how many people form a knot. He notes a dozen as a knot but says two well disposed people and a minister can also form a fine knot. The expression varies with context.
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Bing
Two Young Pressmen Form Newspaper Partnership
A wealthy newspaper proprietor recounts his early venture at 23 with 200 dollars, journeying fifty miles in a wagon to a mountain town. After freeing a rival's trapped cart in mud they meet the other 23 year old, discuss, and form a partnership to establish a newspaper, leading to future prosperity for both.
Portland Visitor Promotes Bird Machine That Could Let a Man Fly
Patrick Peters from Prince Edward Island arrives with a machine he calls the bird. He claims it can fly freely, rise thousands of feet, and be guided like a horse rake, offering public tests for a fee. Locals say he is honest and eager to demonstrate.
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Patrick Peters
Prince Edward’s Island
Portland Press
Mr. Peters
Euse
Peters
Toortland
Shorthand Typewriter Aims to Speed Public Speaking
The Boston inventor G. K. Anderson builds a shorthand typewriter that records a speaker’s words rapidly. After five to six weeks of practice an intelligent operator may reach 100 words per minute. The instrument prints about 250 words with the same strokes that would print fifty on a standard typewriter, using a simplified alphabet and tape imprints.
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G. K. Anderson
Boston
New York Telegram
Pencil variety aids stenographers and horses on roads
John Brown of The St Louis Globe Democrat notes that using pencils of different sizes helps a stenographer rest his hands and avoid cramps by engaging varying muscles. He compares a horse rig over an ordinary turnpike to a race track horse, implying road wear differences.
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John Brown
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Egyptian Dream of a Living Mummy in Louvre Museum
A narrator recounts a dreamlike voyage through ancient Memphis to a funeral procession for Apis. He is embalmed by Thethmosis and later discovers he remains alive as a mummy in modern times, witnessing Egypt’s ruins and a museum mishap that awakens him back in the Louvre.
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Nabis
Nepherkeres
Nile
Nasamon
Isisin
Diospolis
Memnonia
Memphis
Thethmosis
Osiris
Ming
Egypt
Louvre
Gustave Tondouze
The Bachelor Club Man Remembers Two Children
A Chicago bachelor recalls Georgie and Margery, two lively children he met daily near a door-yard. He describes their playful motherly games, his fond daily visits for cigarette pictures, and his realization on returning from two weeks away that they were gone, moved away, not dead.
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The
Chicago Herald
Ilome
Georgie
Margery
Mamma
Gambling for a Man's Life Cleared by Jury Game
Lauderdale County jury deadlocked on murder verdict. A game of seven up between Silvertooth and another juror decided the case, producing a jack that swung the vote to acquittal and freed the prisoner.
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Atlanta Constitution
Lauderdale County
Silvertooth
Waiting for the End: Spinner’s Dire Sa?e From Florida
A letter from General F. E Spinner, longtime watchdog of the U S treasury, from Pablo Beach Florida, describes a grave illness that has confined him to bed with chills and worsening disease. He fears never meeting again and hopes to be buried near the Mohawk.
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F. E Spinner
United States Treasury
Pablo Beach
Fla
Man Drowns After Sleeping on Pier for Early Fish
A man sleeping on a government pier to be first to fish woke suddenly and fell into the lake, drowning. The Chicago Mail notes that fishing on Sunday is a trivial matter beside the monumental mendacity its concomitant.
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Chicago Mail
The Deadly Mule Trade Turned Tragic
The Detroit Free Press reports two people were shot and killed amid a southern mule trade. A verdict of not guilty was directed by the court, marking perhaps the first tragedy tied to over familiarity with long eared anarchists in which a mule did not act.
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Detroit Free Press
Best Family Remedy Syrup of Figs Advert
All are entitled to the best their money will buy so every family should have at once a bottle of the best family remedy Syrup of Figs to cleanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c and 1.00 bottles by all leading druggists. You can't pass the toll gate by telling bout your money at home.
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Cormuda
Soso
Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
Boston
Sapolio
Northwestern Conservatory OF Music
Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis Minn
North West
Nage
JH. Morse
Northwestern Newspaper Union
The Faults and Follies of Age Promiscuous Laxatives Spotlight
A critical note condemns laxative pills as ridiculous and harmful, urging use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to ease constipation and protect the stomach bowels and liver, claiming painless relief and long term benefit.
Desert lands of California Forbes irrigation plans unfold
The San Francisco Chantele notes California deserts shrinking on maps as latent fertility awaits irrigation. It cites Chicago investors backing a plan to irrigate 300000 acres in Southern California via mountain reservoirs and a network of pipes ditches and flumes, citing Riverside Redlands Los Angeles and other towns as signs of profitable results.
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San Francisco
California
Lake Tulare
Chicago
Riverside
Redlands
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Fresno
Pearl Found in Pecatoni River Adorns English Countess
Charles Ellis, an amateur fisherman from Winslow near Galena Illinois, found a large dark bluish brown pearl in the Pecatoni river. He sold it to an expert buyer for 600 dollars. A Tiffany’s observer from New York valued the gem at 1200 dollars on sight for coronet use.
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Charles Ellis
Pecatonica River
Winslow
Galena
Ills
Tiffany’s
New York
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
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