Congress Debates Relief Aid and Navy Bills in Senate
The week notes floods relief funding of 100000 for the Southern sufferers, plus debates on army efficiency, polygamy voting limits, levee funding for Mississippi, and various post office, river and naval measures. Other items cover Mason pardon chatter, Chinese bill positions, and a Red Cross treaty ratification.
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Senate
Harrison
Military Committee
South
Cockrell
Equipore
Topeka
Kansas
Indiana
Grand Island
Neb
Grand Army of the Republic
Mills
Returning Board
Yeas
Edmunds
Mahone
Committee On Naval Affairs
Albermarle
Mississippi
Tennessee
Judiciary Committee
Page
Cal
Virginia
P.T. van Zill
Michigan
United States
Utah
C. C. Allen
Missouri
ScoviLue
Washington
Corkhill
Guitean
Philadelphia
Allison
Henry Leon
Congress
Sergeant Mason
Mason
Bigelow
Albany
Arthur
Senate Committee On Territories
Saunders
Southern Dakota
Dakota
North Dakota
Committee On
Hamilton
Mansfield
Milan
Ohio
Swaim
Rockwell
Garfield
Barnes
Soldiers Home
Tuer House Committee On Elections
J House
Lynch
Chalmers
Notable 1882 dispatches and acknowledgments from Washington
A sweeping Washington summary reports Father Boye's death from chloroform during surgery in the city, wartime ration requests from Louisiana, Ohio swamp land funds for schools, treasury bond repayments, and cables on the Lena steamer. It notes investigations into the Peruvian scandal, Mississippi River improvements, Senate confirmations, Melville's letter on De Long, and local political moves in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts
Goodwin Bros
Lynn
Mass
Mason
Albany
N. Y
Rhode Island Republican Convention
A. H. Littlefield
Samuel P. Colt
Henry Remshaw
Dr. Gray
Yale Lunatic Asylum
Utica
Guiteau
Navy
Independent of Wolfe
Philadelphia
Prohibitory amendment bill sent to voters by Iowa legislature
In the West and South column a bill passed by the Iowa Legislature on the 13th to submit to the people a prohibitory amendment to the Constitution. The report blends other news of fires, murders, floods and a naval disaster across several states, including Texas Leano, Illinois Lisbon, and Tennessee Parish levee breaks.
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Iowa
Jostan Hopeers
Leano
Texas
Maria Benson
Gordon Lonp
Lisbon
Zerah Hail
Lord
Tensas Parish
Newton
Milkland
Bond Bay
Tensas
Grant
Vicksburg
Sunflower County
Iroquois Club
Andrew Jackson
Palmer House
Chicago
Tur
Etna
Great Kanawha
Point Pleasant
Dune Anderson
Henderson
Rumors of European War Tensions and Czar Clemency
Count Von Mourke prepares a furlough to Switzerland amid signs of Pan-Slavist tension. Reports claim Czar Nicholas II may grant clemency to arrested Nihilists and reduce penalties, while Germany and Austria plan a united response to Russian policies. Balkan agitation, alliance talks, and anti German demonstrations are noted in dispatches from Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg.
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Count von Mourke
German Empire
Switzerland
Skobeloff
Helena
Vladmir
Vienna
Russia
Times Berlin
Germany
Austria
Servia
Benia
Herzegovinia
Europe
Bosnia
London
St. Petersburg
Fire outbreak hits Winter Liva dia Theater in St Petersburg
A fire broke out during a performance at the Winter Liva dia Theater in St Peters borough. No lives are reported lost. Other items note General Wallace's audience with the Sultan, a Cuban political resignation report, a Pennsylvania murder letter seeking clemency, smallpox outbreaks in Pennsylvania, Apache war fears near Gila River, and a fatal grass fire near Terry Georgia.
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Anna Maania Hermann
Louisville
Hermann
Germany
St. Joseph
Mason
Albany
N. Y
Guiteau
Seventy-eighth
Ohio Regiment
Leggett
Brookfield Township
Caldwell
Noble County
Ohio
Arthur
Lieutenant Clarke
Tenth Infantry
Garfield
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Crittenden
Missouri
Hannibal & St. Joe
St. Louis
Helena
Ark
St. Francis
Livadia
St. Petersburg
Wallace
United States
Turkey
Maprip
Pendergast
Cuba
Frank Rumberger
Daniel Troutman
Berks County
Hoyt
Pennsylvania
Henry
South Mountain
Mocrongie
Lehigh County
Shamrock
Gila River
Lordsburg
el Paso
Texas
James W. Forsythe
New Mexico
Fourth Cavalry
Thirteenth Infantry
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Nashville
Senate
Sunday liquor law debates and Brigham railroad bill progress
Ohio Senate and House proceedings from March discuss the Sunday liquor law petitions, bills on libel, railroads, and state infrastructure. Reports note adjournments, readings, and the Brigham railroad measure. the Senate defeats Pond’s liquor bill but continues action on related measures. House votes and committees address jail, roads, and public works with interim adjournments.
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Senate
Klorr
Jones
Ohio
Fiouse
General Revenue Fund
Pond
Hodge
Mason
House
Brigham
Horr
Flouse
Beman
Negley
Judiciary
Koons
General Garfield
Congress
Old Capitol
Washington
Hadley
Judiciary Committee
Farmer Johnson Named Husband in Canadian Mystery
In Berlin Ontario a respected deacon, farmer Johnson, is confronted by a Russian woman and her son who claim he is their husband and father under the name Tresinski. He admits the claim is true and expresses a wish to settle the matter by buying the claim from them.
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Johnson
Berlin
Ont
Tresinski
America
Sun
Making Men of Boys and the Value of Guidance
A writer argues that boys become men through patient teaching rather than instinct. Demonstrates with farm scenes showing how frank instruction and trust build interest, responsibility, and practical skill, urging farmers to involve youths in work and decisions. The piece closes recalling a related anecdote from Chicago Tribune about lost family keepsakes.
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Hben Rexford
Christian Union
Home Sweet Home Author Lingers in Tunis Grave
A Leeds Mercury correspondent in Tunis recalls Colonel John Howard Payne, author of Home Sweet Home, buried among English dead. The piece notes Payne died an exile on African soil, yet his simple lines bind the world, contrasting with fortunes forgotten in time. The narrative hints Payne died a bachelor with a single elder brother and a daughter.
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The
Leeds Mercury
Tunis
John Howard Payne
United States of America
Payne
Africa
Death in the Pot and the Diet Scare
A Texas Siftings passage traces a public panic over purported food poisons in common items from cigars to batter-cake and coffee. It notes shifting warnings, from cod-fish balls to cistern water, and mocks endless dietary bans before a return to normal eating and full workdays.
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Texas
Missing Baby and Wild Horse Dash Through Campus Martius
A woman wheeled a baby across Campus Martius when frantic riders spooked a horse team. The buggy overturned and spread mud as onlookers searched vainly for the child. The mother calmly claimed the baby was safe at home while crowds muttered.
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Campus Martius
Woodward Avenue
Detroit
Noz
Modoc Indians thrive in Indian Territory life
The Lakeview Oregon Herald reports the Modoc Indians moved from the lava beds to the Indian Territory are now among the quietest and most peaceful groups in the country. Only 109 remain but they cultivate 400 acres, maintain schools, and prosper. Scarfaced Charley, once a Modoc hero, is now a respectable farmer.
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Lakeview
Oregon
Indian Territory
Scarfaced
Charley
Advertising and Job Rates Offered in County Columns
A prospectus notes the county column medium as the best way to reach the better class of people at low living rates. It promises affordable terms for advertising and job prices, with samples of work available on application.
Curious Facts and Figures From 19th Century Markets
A compilation of varied data from auctions and markets: three tons per square foot breaker force on the Atlantic coast. a 1796 half-dollar bringing 23.50 at New York auction. 500,000 bushels of charcoal used monthly in Leadville. Milwaukee and Charleston race for black population ratios. Rockaway land speculation by New York capitalists. a London area cat speculator paying 10 to 40 cents per pelt. Noble Furnace property near Cripple Creek sold for 67,500 acres 15,000 tract. global newspaper total 54,274 with 10,592,000,000 circulation. imports to New York including condensed milk cheese Scotland turnips and sauerkraut. W. H. Durham dies in Georgia from Civil War wound. Meigs and vast wartime spending. bonanza mines California and Consolidated Virginia share histories. post-railroad price swings and 1875 market highs and later declines.
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Atlantic
New York
Leadville
United States
Charleston
S. C
Milwaukee
Rockaway
London
Ont
Noble Furnace
Cripple Creek
Wythe County
N. Y. Sun
France
Scotland
Germany
WN. Y. Tribune
W. H. Durham
Harris County
Georgia
Chancellorsville
General Meigs
Vanderbilt
California
Consolidated Virginia
San Francisco
Virginia
Chicago Times
Quotes and anecdotes from early 20th century papers
A collage of wit and social commentary from periodicals including Whitehall Times Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Bulletin. It mixes aphorisms on conversation duty vanity and fashion with humorous vignettes about manners and a young Irishman offering his seat on a train to polite ladies.
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Loston
Whitehall Times
New Orleans Picayune
Pye
Beecher
Philadelphia Bulletin
Bartlett-Coutts
Mr. Bartlett
Ashy
Chicago Tribune
Moses Hockheimer
Yaas
Det
Chicago Times
Patrick
New York
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Marl
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Main Street
Kk. R. Taylor
West End
Eagle Hotel
Mar
F. Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas
Hae Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
Keeen Water St
Kyle
Camibridle
Marzif
A. T. Hogue
Antrim
Newnom & Moss
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Steubenville Street
Mark Ts
Pure Creek
Bell & McKelvey
Miller's Station
C.& M. Railway
Are Now Manufacturing
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Carines
Pine Street
Main
Mark
L. Twining
South Pine Street
Marks
J.C. Scorr
T. B.scorr
Zanesvills, Ohio
Scott Bros
J. Woodford
Cambridge, Ohio
Guernsey
Hotels
Hagel Deho
PET
B.S. Hering
St. Charles Hotel
SMBUS
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Thompson $. Crow
Farmers Hotel
Mill Street
Wa Rainey & Son
J. W. Leppencott
Col. Broadway and South Streets
Quaker City
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Nicaragua
Davis Island
Ohio River
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Kellogg
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W. M. Moynalier
Francis A. Boye
Secretary of War
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Foster
General Land Commissioner
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