Notable misfortunes and prices in early world affairs
The column surveys tragic deaths from train travel, cost of English judge attire, church reform aims, and the value of system in business. It notes German and Russian tensions, irrigation gains in Colorado, a suicide at sea, US tax on heirloom jewels, and a World’s Fair ticket plan. It also covers military figures, Oklahoma cotton output, and English adventurer Seymour Barrington’s legal troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Exme
Ino Lan
Texas
Seymour Barrington
Grace Wilhelmina Cochran
Kansas City
St Louis
Wells
Clayton
James P. McCann
Barrington
Mississippi Legislature On Forty-Sixth Day And Beyond
The Mississippi Legislature moved through daily work on calendar bills and local measures. The Senate advanced the privilege tax bill and district realignments while the House postponed a key county abolition bill. The forty seventh to fiftieth days saw bond issue debates, school book contention, and several appropriation actions as both houses faced adjournment with mixed momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
House Committee
Coshoma County
Farley
Finance Committee
Chancery
Joint Legislative Conference
Yazoo
Railroad Commission
Alcorn A. & M. College
National Guard
Ways and Means
Stennis
Ways and Means Committee
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Tuat
United States Supreme Court
Louisiana
Monroe McClurg
Greenwood
Hannis Taylor
Washington
Messrs. Blackwell
Carothers
Lee
Cavett
Clark
Coleman
Carroll
Leflore
Denton
Lauderdale
Hast
Blaridge
Heidelberg
Hollingsworth
Hoyle
Mitchell
Murphree
McQuiston
McFarland
Monroe
Robinson
Choctaw
Rankin
Sheffield
Bethy
Holmes
Spencer
Mississippi Oyster Commission
State Charity
House Judiciary Committee
Duat
Cleveland
Sumimilitianeres Ucd
Erin Ee Wutlar
Pike
Coahoma
Simlar
Jefferson Davis
Circuit Court
Capitol Commission
Legislative debate mirrors adjournment date in Mississippi
In the legislature discussions center on the sine die adjournment date now set for March 22 after Senate action on House resolution. Key items include Pike county district hopes, World’s Fair funding for Mississippi, coal oil inspection, Yazoo and Mississippi Valley rail exemption, and a no depository law outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
McLaurin
Yazoo
Miller
Lampton
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Southerner for the presidency speech calls South to lead
In Washington D C Representative Malcolm R Patterson urged the South to end its second fiddle role in the Democratic party and back a Southern candidate for president. He named Williams Bailey and Carlisle as possible nominees, criticized northern exclusion, and argued for the South to reclaim electoral influence and independence in national politics. He cited lessons from prewar prominence and current shifts in northern opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Malcolm R. Patterson
Memphis
Epecatt
House
North
Williams
Bailey
Carlisle
Wendell Phillips
Elihu Root
John G. Carlisle
Treasury
Kentucky
South
Mississippi
Patterson
Grover Cleveland
Paris opens school for theatrical critics in training
In a Paris feature on music and drama, a proposed school for theatrical critics will enroll students to attend rehearsals and write critiques for practice. Madame Bernhardt jokes about traveling without her coffin as a grandmother, and Alma Paderewski recalls his early musical start as a trombone student at the conservatoire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Paria
Madame Bernhardt
AL Paderewski
Werfmw Comservatoire
Army Generals Endorse Peruna Cure for Catarrh
A flood of endorsements from generals and officers across the Union and Confederate lines lauds Peruna as an effective catarrh remedy and tonic. Letters from J Floyd King Robert Smalls James Longstreet and many others praise its curative and preventive benefits, urging readers to try Peruna and seek Dr Hartman’s free medical guidance if results are not prompt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna
King
J. Floyd King
Washington, D.C
General Longstreet
James Longstreet
Gainesville
General Noske
Chas. F. Noske
B. St
N. W
Powell
Hecker Post
W. H. Powell
Belleville
Sebring
W. H. Sebring
Jacksonville
Fla
Lumax
L. L. Lumax
19Th St
Washington, D. C
O'Beirne
James RK. O'Beirne
Broadway
O'Connor
U. S. Legions
Dennis Eetee
St. N. W
Urell
M.eee
12Th St
Washington
D. C
Payne
D.C
Iruna
Waahington
Eugene B. Payne
Middleton
Hancock Regiment
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Whitney keeps late father’s racing stable intact
Gov Dockery of Missouri shows a plain walking cane with his full name carved in inlaid shell saying it was a gift from a pardoned convict who served years. Moses B Clemonts of Portland leaves about 100000 to trustees to distribute within ten years to benefit society and charitable causes. George J Gould, active director, keeps fit and arrives before ten, often in shirt sleeves, walking briskly through the Western Union building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Payne Whitney
Gov. Dockery
Missouri
Mr. Dockery
Moses B. Clements
Portland
George J. Gould
Gould Companies
Jay Gould
George Gould
Western Union
Broadway Aittle
Foreign railways and class use in Germany and Mexico’s rail lines
China has about 800 miles of railways while Germany employs 545000 in its system. First class accounts for 4.19 percent of passengers. second 21.74. third 48.25. fourth 23.98. military 1.44. Mexico now practically owns National, International and Interoceanic railways after acquiring stock and plans consolidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Literary Litter and Notable Names From Victorian Musings
An assortment of literary notes reviews Kipling's Hindustani fluency and English skill, cites library statistics including 1,750,009 books and 69 mile shelf length, and recalls Mark Twain, the Villa Quarto quip, and Ker of Roxburghe as a discussion of names in Sir Walter Scott's verse and prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudyard Kipling
Hindustan
Engliah
British Museum
Mark Twain
New York
Florence
Villa Quarto
Duke of Roxburghe
Ker
Walter Scott
Kérft
Bard
Carr
I Am Untimely Death and a Blackmailing Lawyer Tale
A Kansas City journal item recalls a stranger asking a depot man to prove who the town’s black and white lawyer is. The man on the platform asserts I am the only lawyer here, then promptly gets a client. Also referenced is a Cherokee Remedy advertisement for coughs and a comic line about Mr Rockefeller’s wealth in doughnuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkins
B&w
Ani
Kansas City Journal
Fragmented Victorian snippet headlines from 1900 era miscellany
A collage of quotes and notices from 1900 including remarks on vegetarianism and lunatic asylum anecdotes, an advice line about curing colds with Bromo Quinine, a lampooned ad for Putnam Recken Dyes, and stray street notices. The fragmentary text weaves literary quips, ads, and brief editorial asides.
Also Mentioned on This Page
B. T. Hobbs
Khaven
St. Louis
Reichstag
Germany
Princeton University
Alexander H. Phillips
Russia
Japan
Althoug
Colorado
Lucania
Nottingham
Congress
District of Columbia
Smoot
Utah
Smith
Smoothiny
Marshal von Waldersen
von Waldersee
von Moltke
William
von Waldernee
Legislature
Han
Bome
Pike County
Mixon
Clem V. Ratcliff
Henin
The
Oil Trust
Judiciary Committee
Pompeii
Aassatant
Monsieur
say+ Be
Manchester Guardian
Philtadel
Man Patterson
Tennessee
F M. Jacobs
M. E
Brooklyn
Springfield
Bishop Brown
Methodist Episcopal
Fort Wagner
Petersburg
Garrizona
Shan Hai Kwan
Tien Tsin
Music and Drama
General Smalls
Beaufort, S. C
Robert Smalls
General Abbott
Abbott
Yarnell
W. G. Yarnell
Lincoln Street
N. E
General McBride
D. McBride
Pennsylvania Ave. N. W
General Erwin
John B. Erwin
Schell Benefited
F. M. Schell
Duffield
Cairo
M. C. Butler
Kirby
Roe D. T. Kirop
Washingan
General Bigelow
J. O. Bigelow
C &I
General Chase
G. A. Rey
B. F. Cae
Harrizon Bt
Anascontia
S. S. Yoder
Ohio
Yoder
Gen. Wright
Marcon Reat
Corcoran St
Hawley
A. F. ‘Hawley
General Talley
Val. U. S. A
Tam Co
Wm. Cooper
St. N. E
Foreign Railways
Literary Litter
Mr. Rockeftler
Chas
Gastonia
Fac Simite Signature of
Ites Sco
Obinson
Piso
Gilbert
Boston Transcript
Lavater
Bears
Castoria
Winchester
Cartidges
Wwe
RalishSs St. Jacobs Oil
Paine
Pele
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