Borough Boss Horrigan Bosses City Hall Showdown
In a tense city hall scene on Friday, Horrigan rallies the mobbed galleries and pressures aldermen to push a Borough Street railway bill past a mayoral veto. Williams signals police readiness as Gibbs and Wainwright grow anxious while the boss urges firm action and political leverage.
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Colmns
Horrigan
Roberts
Bose
L18 Doll
Phelan
Board of Aldermen
Comptrollers Office
Iate
Wainwright
Gibbs
Ellis
Williams
City Hall
Aldermanic Chamber
Publc
Russia
Mr. Horriigan
When Grant Came Home to Vancouver Barracks
Major General Ulysses S. Grant and party visited Vancouver Barracks in 1879 for an evening reception hosted by General Oliver Otis Howard. Governor Lafayette S. Ferry spoke in welcome. Grant joked about practicing speeches and marveled at crowds in Portland and on the Columbia River docks.
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Grant
Oliver Otis Howard
Department of Columbia
Vancouver Barracks
General Grant
Howard
Territory
Washington
Oregon
Governor Ferry
Washington Territory
Pacific Coast
Ike
Julia
Portland
Columbia
Willamette
Confederate Capitol at Neosho Led Missouri Secession Session
The old Masonic hall in Neosho Newton county was called the Confederate capitol of Missouri. Governor C F Jackson convened a special senate and house session on October 21 1861 and passed secession and annexation linking Missouri to the Confederacy. The only dissenters were Senator Charles H Hardin and Representative Isaac N Shambaugh. Senate journals were captured in Alabama and published in 1865. the House journal remains missing.
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Missouri
Neosho
Newton County
C. F Jackson
Twenty-first General Assembly
Senate
House
United States
Charles H Hardin
Bolone
Callaway
Isaac N Shambaugh
Dekalb County
John T Crisp
Alabama
Misson Volunteers
Jefferson City
the Senate
C. F. Jackson
Journal of the House
Kansas City Star
Phrase about government office and honesty from Senator Sorghum
A citizen questions why officials call a government office a 'ple' and Senator Sorghum replies that nearly everyone lies to themselves about it while believing others are harmed.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Platform in Brief Demands Reform and Tax Reform
The document denounces the rise in federal officeholders and calls for reduced federal administration. It opposes speaker power, seeks campaign contribution publicity, and criticizes Republicans on tariff policy. It supports congressional control of interstate commerce, emergency currency, income tax, court integrity, and injunction reform. It urges direct election of senators by voters.
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House of Representatives
Republican Party
Congress
Democrats Nominate Bryan and Kern by Acclamation
Delegates and spectators cheered as Bryan received the nomination amid a wave of unopposed support. Kern was urged for second place and won by acclamation after withdrawals from Towne Howell and McNeil, sealing the Democratic national ticket in a dawn adjournment.
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Indiana
Bryan
Kern
Colorado
Thomas
Charles A. Towne
New York
Connecticut
Archibald McNeil
Georgia
Clark Howell
George Gray
Delaware
John Mitchell
Illinois
Towne
Howell
McNeil
Bryan Declines a Second Term After Democratic Nomination
Lincoln Neb July 14 William J Bryan announces after receiving the Democratic nomination that he will not seek re election if elected. He says the presidency demands singleness of purpose and vows duty to God and country over personal ambition. The nomination is described as from the people and he praises the party platform.
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Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Democratic Party
Cleveland Bars Celebrations
Cleveland council approves a July Fourth ordinance by 21 to 7 banning private gunfire and fireworks displays. The city may permit an unofficial public display in parks. The measure follows ten deaths during this year’s Independence Day observances.
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Cleveland
Embezzler Martin Sentenced in Washington Case
Thomas R. Martin once a Washington real estate dealer pleaded guilty to embezzlement and forgery. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary at Moundsville West Virginia for forging 1500 and converting 2000 entrusted for investment.
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Washington
Thomas R. Martin
Moundsville
W. Va
Martin
Whole Hearted Obedience Tested in Kingship Story
A 1908 lesson analyzes Saul’s incomplete obedience as a test from God. It contrasts partial compliance with full submission, cites Samuel’s rebuke, and urges ministers to preach the whole counsel of God. It condemns worldly fear over divine will and calls for a wholehearted life in Christ.
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Aleoyright
American Press Association
Saul
Samuel
Gilgal
Gideon
Israel
Egypt
Baal
Jesus Christ
Christ
Johnr
God
Weak Kidneys Linked to Body Ailments and Cure Claim
An old advertisement asserts weak kidneys cause illness and urges Doan's Kidney Pills as the remedy. It quotes John Welsbaker of Carey Ohio praising the product bought at The New Pharmacy and notes 50 cent price with Foster Milburn as U S agents. It ends with a unrelated marriage remark about a woman opposing talk of marriage for her daughter.
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Bright
Dean
Carey
John Welsbaker
Ste Carey
Ohio
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Dean's Ointment Promoted In Indian Paper Diary
An East Indian paper prints a diary excerpt by a native writer describing a tense encounter with a roaring tiger. The writer notes extreme fear and the tiger's disruption of work as he clings to a tree, calling the animal inconsiderate and noting two prior incidents.
Cheapest accident insurance Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil
An advertisement touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the cheapest accident insurance. It claims to stop pain and heal wounds and urges readers to buy the remedy from druggists.
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Thomas
Electric tramways chartered by Mexico City firm
A company with four million dollars in capital has chartered the electric tramways of the City of Mexico. Fuleys Orino Laxative is presented as a new laxative that stimulates without irritation and is guaranteed to be money back. Sold by J. D. Ewing.
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City of
Mexico
Fuley
J. D. Ewing
England Coal Fields Reach About 13000 Square Miles
A contemporary report notes England contains roughly 13 000 square miles of coal fields. The figure underscored the nation’s rich energy resources and industrial potential.
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England
Bears the Bensture TO FELITA
Some people exercise their rights so much they work them to death. Feel languid weak run down Headache Stomach off Just a plain case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bitters tones liver and stomach promotes digestion purifies the blood.
The Well Bred Chicks
Effe on her first country visit observed chickens from a farmhouse porch scratching around. She cried for her mother to come see the chickens wiping their feet on the grass in a quaint countryside moment.
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Effe
Harper's Weekly
Beaux of the Regency Sleight in Calais Reunion
In Calais an old friend greets Beau Brummel with relief that rumors of his death were circulating. Brummel counters with a quip about stockjobbing, reflecting the wit and social circles depicted in Lewis Melville's Beaux of the Regency.
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Beau Brummel
Calais
Brummel
England
Lewis Melville
Patent Cats and Clockwork Feline Inventions
A man patents a sheet iron clockwork cat with a bellows tail that awakens a neighborhood and steel claws to fend off night prowlers. Another inventor gains a patent for a phosphorus coated pasteboard cat that glows in the dark to frighten rats and mice.
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Horrein
Wiliams
Willams
Morris & Cherrington
Bennett
Tooth
Nol
JOB & Salisfaction
Fia
Josh
D. M. Stearns
Felita
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