Congress Debates Free List Amendment and Tariff Measures
Senate action on binding twine on the free list passes amid Republican ire at Kennedy remarks on Quay. House and Senate clash over tariffs and river projects as debates, amendments, and committee reports shape the week.
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Davis
Kennedy
Quay
HOUSE
Senate
Clayton-Breckenridge
Breckenridge
Aldrich
Conerence
Mesers
Sherman
Mison
Hiscock
McPherson
Vdnce
Carlisle
When New Twins Miss a Grand Party
A neighborhood story from Youth's Companion about two new children who cannot attend a big party at a nearby house. They watch guests from the fence, admire lanterns and lights, and find solace at home with stars and fireflies, choosing happiness despite their exclusion.
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Lulu
Mamma
Luin
Agnes
Proper Table Craft for Meat and Sauce Service
Guidance on carving beef and serving sauces. Use sharp, appropriate utensils. Slice across the grain and near the bone for juicier, more appealing portions. Serve fish with plated utensils and place sauces to the plate’s side for best presentation.
Honesty Rewarded at Beaubien Street Grocer
A Detroit grocer rewarded a colored man with a pound of codfish after he admitted attempting to steal about two dollars worth of goods. The man claimed his name was Thompson and insisted his honesty should be trusted, prompting the unexpected act of generosity.
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Detroit Free Press
Beaubien Street
Thompson
Jill
Saginaw
Could Make Her Happy
Mabel receives a question about happiness as a voice fragment discusses a life insurance policy and an untimely death. A 4 hand aid reference implies a fictional or clipped dialogue structure from an old Washington Post item.
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Washington Post
Mabel
Yearning for Country and City in Two Travelers Tale
Two men seek relief from urban noise and seek country peace yet return to city life. They trade places and discover shared longing, with each finding the other’s carefree methods contrasted by life’s realities. The tale appears in the Chicago Evening Post.
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Chicago Evening Post
Chichester
Drugeist
Eiboon
Chichester Chem'lc
Madison
Phila
Dick Hammond and the Cable Slide Plan
In Lumberton a sixteen year old, labeled the laziest boy, surprises family and neighbors by proposing a cable slide to move mountain timber. Dick claims he can lower thousands of ties for 50 dollars, convincing his skeptical father to fund the attempt.
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Aunt Myra
Dick Hammond
Lumberton
Edward Bellamy
Society
Manly
Squire van Huren
Squire van Haren
Mr. Adams
Myra
Hammond
Ketchum
The Laziest Boy Becomes Smartest in Lumberton
An excerpt from the Boston Traveller notes a tale where a lazy boy in Lumberton outgrows peers, becoming the brightest, with lines about worth surpassing others. The quotation frames a social Arizona style shift in value and wit.
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Lumberton
The
Boston Traveler
How Millionaires Start From the New York World
A portrait gallery of future fortunes showing early jobs that led to wealth. Henry Villard began as a reporter, Austin Corbin on a Vermont farm, Collis Huntington a 15 year old merchant in New York, and others from Ireland, Ohio, and Troy who started with earners as varied as newsboys, clerks, porters, and teachers. The piece notes later successes and modest beginnings of figures like Eugene Kelly Levi P. Morton Russell Sage Henry Clews Augustus Belmont Rudolph Aronson Augustin Daly John Stetson Tony Pastor Hammerstein J A McCaull Chauncey Depew Jay Gould William Grace William Vanderbilt Benjamin Tracy Erastus Wiman and more.
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Henry Villard
Northern Pacific Railroad
Austin Corbin
Vermont
Collis P. Huntington
Calvin’. Brice
Ohio
Daniel Dougherty
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Eugene Kelly
County Tyrone
Ireland
Levi P. Morton
Russell Sage
Troy
N. Y
Henry Clews
August Belmont
Rudolph Aronson
Augustin Daly
John Stetson
Tony Pastorndlown
Harry Miner
Hammerstein
John A. McCaull
St. Mary’s College
Emmettsburg
Chauncey M. Depew
Jay Gould
Delaware County
William R. Grace
Calao
Peru
William Vanderbilt
Navy
Benjamin F. Tracy
Erastus Wiman
Jenny the Mule and a Colonel's Coin Flip Tale
The Major recounts Colonel Waterman's mule Jenny bought for 30 dollars before the war. Ten years later a new mule resembles Jenny, bought for 75 dollars. The son discovers the new mule is Jenny, not alive but a year earlier she had died, underscoring the joke about aging mules and the impossibility of dating them.
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Waterman
Jenny
Frank
Chicago Herald
Restored After Five Years Of Gypsy Kidnapping Tale
Five years after eight year old Johnny Hale was abducted near Marion Indiana by gypsies his return is reported. A tramp boy calling himself Johnny Hale seeks help at a farmer’s home near Elkhart saying the gypsies maltreated him and he ran away hoping to find his parents. Marion parents are notified to be reunited with their son after years of grief.
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Johnny Hale
Marion
Ind
Joseph Weikel
Elkhart
The Virtues of a Successful Woman
A Chicago Herald reflection on how true success lies in kindness and tact rather than achievements. It urges teaching children to cultivate goodwill, listening patiently to praise, and admiring others with sincerity.
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Chicago Herald
Thanyrk Siam and the Perfection of Thy Ind
In playful 19th century prose the author extols a feathered powdery edible dish as a feast’s centerpiece. The passage muses how meals lacked charm before its presence and how a table is incomplete without its snowy creamy allure.
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Siam
Silent battles in a mismatched marriage end in comic sleep reversal
The Brownes, long content to disagree quietly, face a heated breakfast clash over attending a party. He plans to drug her to sneak out, she feigns sleep, and their ruse backfires as they wake to reveal mutual deception and shared, humane laughter.
Roosters Cut Vocal Chords In Town Prank Ends In Escape
A Richmond tale describes Dr. Jim White who consoles a barking dog with to city roosters. A medical student rigs a pitiful plan, cutting roosters voices, the owner discovers the ruse, and White moves away soon after. The owner later replaces the noise with parrots.
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Jim White
Richmond
Dr. White
White
Pioneer Press
How Sheridan Shaped A Soldier From An Irish Recruit
General Sheridan reproved a tall Irish recruit for slouched posture. He demonstrated parade stance with chest out and chin up, saying the right look makes a respectable soldier. The recruit parried with humor and pledged to never see the lieutenant again.
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Sheridan
Knowledge costs a penny and saves a day
A Brooklyn manufacturer paid a $25 bill for a quick fix to a hot water pump. The itemized charge included 50 cents for knowing how, which the owner deemed fair after the engineer used a hammer and three taps to make the pump run. The tale highlights practical know how as a valuable service.
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Brooklyn
Messrs. Blank & Co
John Smith
Monitors for Chicago World’s Fair Attraction Idea
A Chicago Times note proposes lifting the sunken Monitors off Cape Hatteras as a potential fair display. It argues the real draw would be a man who has not yet advised Chicago on the fair's greatest attraction.
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The
Chicago Times
Chicago
Cape Hatteras
Newlywed Couple on Train Faces Mocking Drummers
A newly married pair on a Chicago to Milwaukee train endures taunting by traveling men as the groom defends his wife with a sharp rebuke. He calms his sobbing bride and vows to protect her, driving away the hecklers and arriving in Milwaukee in peace.
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Oligos
Chicago
Prince Albert
Wadsworth Feuben
Milwaukee
Peck
Fortune in Litigation Over Ancient Rhine Merchant’s Heirs
Paris Letter reports the Thiery fortune from 50 000 Louis d or in Paris and 800,000 thalers in Venice, untouched since 1676. Napoleon allegedly appropriated the thalers for his army. Descendants meet in Cologne and plan legal action to recover with interest, claiming Paris and French chambers have weighed indemnity.
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Jean Thiery
Rhine
Paris
Venice
Napoleon
Thiery
Cologne
Bathing Suit Hero Saves Drowning Man on Jersey Beach
Harry McElroy of the New York Athletic rescued a man in danger off the Jersey coast after diving in with his strong arms. The incident sparked a dinner table quip about the rescued man’s character and the value of the bathing suit he wore.
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Jersey Lightning
Jersey Justice
Jersey
Harry McElroy
New York Athletic
Harry
Glaucus
Trick of Gamblers In A Denver Card Ruse
A card cheating ploy used in poker clubs involved sticking two cards together to create a double card. In a showdown the second highest hand won on ground of a misdeal. A Denver man swallowed the glued card during the bet heavy with thousands at stake, yet remained unfazed as he collected chips and won.
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Citizens’ Poker Club
Denver
Remarkable Bristol Twins Johnsons Share Life in Lockstep
Two Bristol Johnson twins astonish by perfect likeness in height weight hair eyes and features. They work same trade hold identical positions share religion and tastes and even have wives and six children in matching genders.
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Bristol
Eng
Johnson
Shakespeare
Uncle Ratsus Claims Masters of Figures in Debt Lesson
A merchant tests a job applicant with a subtraction problem asking how much would be owed after three months for five dollars lent at one dollar monthly. The man insists he knows Uncle Ratsus, implying street wisdom outpaces arithmetic in a humorous exchange.
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Ratsus
Apparent disk size of sun or moon by naked eye
An estimate places the solar or lunar disk at three inches to a soup plate in diameter. A ten foot distance would hide it behind a silver quarter or a buckshot about a quarter inch across at arm’s length.
Family bathers thrill East River drift near Hell Gate
A German family of seven sails a small row boat beneath Hell Gate on the East River. All wear bathing suits and leap into the water from the boat, scrambling back with evident delight despite weak swimming. The tide runs strong at about five miles per hour, yet the group appears to enjoy the precarious excursion.
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East River
Hell Gate
New York Star
The Biggest Dwarf at Bowery Museum
A Bowery Museum keeper claimed a new dwarf is the largest in the world, insisting the height surpasses Bourke Cochran while a country visitor dismisses it as no dwarf or curiosity. The exchange highlights the sensational claim and skepticism surrounding the exhibit.
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Bowery Museum
Bourke Cochran
Migratory Beekeeping on Wheels Gains California Attention
An apiary on wheels moves herds of bees from foothills to higher elevations. Beekeepers follow clover chapas and other flora as insects harvest nectar and store it in their biosoms before relocating to richer ranges.
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California
Nine Juvenile Prisoners Charged With Riot in Chicago Court
In Chicago a court heard nine juvenile prisoners totaling under 100 years in age charged with riot. Six were girls. An accuser, a large woman with a lunch basket, described a vacant cottage invaded by a dozen children playing house. She faulted the crowd and said pebbles lemons and old shoes were thrown, but could not name the exact offender. the court discharged the youths as they left with suppressed giggles.
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Chicago
Philadelphia Times
Syrup of Figs Promotes Health on Every Trip
Advert Displays Syrup of Figs as a pleasant and effective remedy for kidneys liver and bowels. It claims to prevent fevers headaches and other sickness. Bottles priced 50 cents and 1.00 sold by leading druggists.
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Hood
C. J. Hood &Co
Lowell, Maas
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