The Folding Room and the Million Speeches
Washington folding-room staff handle about two hundred sacks of documents daily, equaling roughly twenty-five thousand pounds, with Congress and Senate materials carried free through the mails. A million volumes of speeches and reports are produced yearly, many sent to constituents and farms, while the vast Government Printing Office employs thousands and maintains a vast library of volumes in the Capitol basement.
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Washington
Capitol
Robinson
Senate
Daily Mail
Thomber
Ennans
Ana
Seome
Moore
Congress
England
Middle States
Misissippi
Fish Commission
Ethnological Commission
Powell
Washington Cor
Chicago Journal
Theft of the Vault Locks at City National Bank
A vault lock malfunction at City National Bank at the Sixteenth and Lawrence streets corner halted business for three days. Despite new locks and expert effort, the main vault could not be opened, but deposits flowed in and money paid out. The bank later learned a surplus of fifty seven thousand dollars had been taken in during the closure.
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Ci National Bank
Sixteenth and
Lawrence Streets
Egram
Mystery of St Malo Bangs the Bayou Lore
The article recounts legends of a Malay settlement at the mouth of a southern bayou feeding Lake Borgne, detailing a secluded community of Manila natives who governed themselves, scarce of law, and famed for bold, secretive living. It describes their fishing routines, housing, and rough justice via arbiters and a fish car punishment for drunks, with Del Carpio offering memories of the place and its people.
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Lake Borgne
St. Malo
Caribbean Sea
Ths
Manila
Java
Tio
Yee
United States
Gowsip
St. Malothees
New Orleans
Malo
That Point
Emen
Bataille
Times-Democrat
del Carpio
St. Mal
Gros
Tors
Times
Democrat
Ledger of a Drunken Empire It Is a Widow's Memoir
A widowed woman recalls her cider mill's ruinous impact on family and community. Her ledger records debit days of licensing taxes and sorrow, including a murdered son, two deaths from delirium tremens, and a prodigal son's fall. The moral weighs loss, remorse, and divine judgment. Morning and Day of Reform.
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Bis
A Temperance Lesson From Youths And Doctors
A fragment from Youth's Temperance Banner recounts a blackened tale of a young man facing temptation in society and in a Medical College. It praises Dr Edson, nearly ninety-nine, for lifelong temperance and medical service in Genesee Valley while warning of alcohol’s hold on youth.
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Medical College
Warnaceoe
Edson
Lnnianapalis
Genesee Valley
Africa
Sister Em's
Papa
Mamma
Temperance Trema and the Loxsvoy Tewtenance Hos Pital Debate
A satirical column mocks temperance zeal and police lists in Europe, noting 14,000 patients treated without alcohol and restrictions on saloon access for educated drinkers. It cites a concealed paying scheme at a factory and harsh comparisons of drinker lifespans, then offers home remedy advice and temperance meeting remarks.
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Loxsvoy Tewtenance Hospital
Westrvada
Germany
Walla Walla
Richardson
Phil
Pier Wini Ng
Spanish Licorice Root in Iberian Flora and Trade
Spanish licorice root grows in lowlands along rivers such as the Ebro near Cordova. Varieties differ by root color. white flowering stems appear after several years. Roots are harvested September to March when sap rises, dried in trenches, then exported to Seville and Bilbao. Price is low, so collection is infrequent.
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Ebro
Cordova
A Drunken Mother. Exaggerated Report From Chester
A garbled report from London describes Elizabeth Robh in Chester drinking and endangering a child. The account claims she poured contents over herself during a rescue effort to protect Ap Antrobas and the child at St James, but the wording suggests the claim may be inflated.
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Chester
Elizabeth Robh
Amines
Antrobas
St. James
London
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