Various isolated facts from a late 19th or early 20th issue
A collection of short items covers agriculture dairy and fruit yields in Connecticut and across the United States, literary notes on Haydn and Addison, pyramids and Egyptian relics, U S population by marital status, military phalanx spacing, Emerson’s grave marker, world matches value, Canton plague deaths, relics near Louisville, and skeletal heights of Native Americans. The fragmentary text presents a patchwork of curiosities and data points without a single cohesive story.
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Connecticut
Haydn
Watts
Joseph Addison
The
Spectator
United States
Emerson
Sleepy Hollow
Concord
Hong Kong
China
Canton
Bennett H. Young
Louisville
Advertising device on bicycle printing press idea novelty
A wide range of ad ventures is described including a pneumatic tired bicycle used as a printing press with an ink well and transfer roller to imprint ads on sidewalks. It critiques novelty boilers, health cures, and various advertisements for medicines with claims of cures and testimonials.
Congress Debates Tariff Bill and Free List Additions
The House reports the enrolled tariff bill signed by the speaker and debates on coinage, silver, and a bill for contracts paid in gold or coin. Conferees consider items in the sundry civil bill including Army claims, quarantine stations, and exposition funding while Pacific railroad judgments remain contested. In the Senate, free list considerations for sugar, coal, iron ore, and barbed wire proceed amid amendments and protest, with calls to halt further tariff legislation this session.
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House
Black
Illinois
United States
Treasury
Enid
Committee On the Judiciary
Colberson
Ford's Theater
South Port
N. G
Mahone Lot
Government
Atlanta
Sayers
Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
House of Representatives
Washington
Reed
Messrs. Payne
New York
Cogswell
Mass
Washington Notes on Cabinet, Senate, and White House
Washington notes report the senate finance committee adjourned without action as Republicans demand democrats fill Carlisle vacancy amid rumors of his replacement by Wilson. President Cleveland's malaria illness prompts Gray Gables retreat. tariff bill pending. House sugar and other bills referred to the finance committee with unlikely passage this session. House and senate debates involve coal, iron, sugar, and barbed wire free list trading for coal. Royal Hawaiian commission returns unsuccessful. Memphis grand jury indicts 504 for liquor offenses in Shelby County. $1.5 million revenue loss cited over eight years.
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Senate
House
Manderson
Hill
Quay
Butler
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Southern Steamship and Railway Associations
Harris
Secretary of the Treasury
Harrix
Finance Committee
White
California
Senator White
Vance
Murphy
Carlisle
Congress
Gorman
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Guarlisle
Wilson
West Virginia
Cleveland
Gray Gables
Sigar
Committee On Finance
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
James D. Porter
United States
Middle District
Tennessee
Porter
Royal Hawaiian Commission
Lillioukalani
New Republic
Tonolulu
San Francisco
Ohio and
Baltimore
State Department
Nova Scotia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Ilinois
Indiana
Canada
Toronto
Thurber
O'Reilly
Pennsylvania Road
Memphis
Tenn
Shelby County
Miners End Strike as Agreements Reach Spring Valley
Telegraphed items report the Spring Valley miners ending the strike after a coal company accord. Other news notes Congressman Raynor withdraws to seek the Maryland gubernatorial nomination. Russians, Italians, and Transvaal events, plus a Cubero NM wreck, a Chicago firm resignation, and Idaho and Indiana political developments fill the column.
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Spring Valley
Til
Teader Raynor
Maryland
San Francisco
Bennington
Eveta
Walter Wellman
Tromsod
Norway
Arctic
Ragnvald Jarl
North Pole
J. B. McCreary
Kentucky
United States
Blackburn
Brown
Rome
Italy
Crispi
Giganti
Praetoria
Transvaal
Africa
Atlantic and Pacific
Cubero
N.M
James Norton
William Norris
Swan
Board of Trade
Booge, Frazer & Co
Chicago
Hawkeye Commission Company
Omaha
Neb
Booge, Razer & Co
Hawkeye Company
Mtg
Ite
Sicily
Massa di Carrat
San
Koloman
Netze
Cologne
Idaho Democratic Convention
Boise City
FP. Stevenson
Congress
James Ballantine
John B. Thatcher
James H. Bush
James Stoddard
J. G. Elder
New York City
BR. C. Williams & Co
Columbus
McBryde
Trades Assembly
Braunschweiger
Darlington Riot Suspects in Habeas Corbus Ruling
McCollough Lucas Norment and Appell charged with killing Constable Pepper faced habeas corpus hearings before Judge Watts. McCollough got bail at 2500. the other three discharged for lack of evidence as the Darlington riot case moves on.
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Columbia
McCollough
Lucas
Norment
Appell
Darlington
Pepper
Watts
Tennessee
Democratic
Nashville
W. H. Carroll
J. W. Childress
Alabama
Baxter
Debardeleben
McCormick
Tennessee Coal, Tron and Railway Company
Tournier
Miners’ Committee
Savannah
H. M. Comer
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Central Railroad
Brice
General Thomas
Sail
Mississippi
Jackson
A. M. Newman
Franklin
Congress
Debegnter
Trade Topics in Bradstreet Weekly Review
Bradstreet notes mixed tariff sentiment across the nation with less enthusiasm in eastern centers except New York and Baltimore and general improvement in the central and western regions. Cotton, sugar, and coal sectors show varied forecasts. wages likely to fall in woolen goods and iron and glass. southern districts see cautious optimism as cargoes shift westward and lumber tariffs loom.
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Radstreet
Bradstreet
New York
Baltimore
Nouthern
Far West
Denver
Helena
Portland
San Francisco
China
Boston
Providence
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Vittaburg
Newark
Rochester
Birmingham
Southern
Southern Iron Works
Atlanta
Little Rock
Eastern
Texas
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
Mississippi River
Indiana
Ilinois
Ehipient
Powder Houses Explode Near Fort Smith Arkansas
A blast at Speer Hardware powder houses two miles from Fort Smith Arkansas on the Poteau River kills three people in a nearby cabin home of Mrs. Cook and injures none reported. The blast shatters the cabin and crates 1200 pounds of dynamite and 300 kegs of powder, with shock felt up to twenty miles away in Van Buren Alma Greenwood Jenny Lind Hackett Kavnarugh and other towns. Ground conditions after the blast delay farming activities for days due to wet soil.
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Speer Hardware Company
Lostel
Fort Smith
Ark
Poteau River
Greenwood
Jenny Lind
Hackett
Kavanraugh
Taxes in Europe and beards in Russia headline tax contrasts
A fragmented early 20th century newspaper fragment discusses tax systems across Europe and Asia including Russia, Britain, France, Siam, and Egypt, noting beards under Peter the Great and income tax growth in Britain. It then shifts to a recipe and assorted ads for beauty products, fairs, and entertainments in Macon Georgia, with promotional blurbs for Midway Junior, the Dixie Interstate Fair, and Karl’s Glover Stost as a purifier.
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Russia
Norway
Europe
Great Britain
France
Egypt
Siam
Finland
Peter the Great
Solomon
Midway
Macon
Vumperons
Amin
Cairo Street
Intianecamp
Cleveland
Georgia
Afr
J. J. Kensnedy
Karl
Glover
Invention Promises Electric Phonoautograph Typewriter
The Chicago Evening Post describes an electric phonoautograph that types letters from one end to the other, resembling a cash register in look though unfinished. It aims to replace human typists though its spelling and punctuation are imperfect. The piece notes it’s not yet on the market and may improve with time. Also advises on rubber canning rings restoring elasticity by soaking in weak ammonia water.
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Chicago Evening Post
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Tively
Tront
Whoatier
Plego
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Milliona
Flonsad
Hall
Pd Onexay & c
Toledo
Druggiate
H. K. Johnson & Co
Riehme
Vie Central Railroad
Quean Steamship Comany
Informa
Central i
Musitiow
Hood
Parila
Tians OF
Botil House
Sree
Telegraphic News
Indianapolis
Y O'Bhack
Resolutions Committee
Senator Voorhees
Voorhees
Matthews
Washington, D. C
Southern Boards of Trade
Willard’s Hall
Willard’s Hotel
Feees
Totterine
J.T. Shuptrine
Ie Nee Lowry Hardware CO
Atlanta, Georgia
Mall
Ji Pranklin St
Kilt
HALMS
Tees
Para
Phonautograph
Pierce
Gore
Kunn
1Th Street
New Yo City
Dr. Pierce
Garden
Usher
Mas. Kean
W.L. DougLas
W-L-Douglas
Brockton
W. L. Douglas
Tocanve
Custon
U.S
Manly Machine CO
Ens
Dalton, GA
Eevere Allel
iWon Bing
Tod Billounesse
Cateh
JW. Rice, Ad
Jatalog
Anta
Pokers
Hs, Novae, Dann
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