Quips and Epigrams in Curio Columns
A mosaic of clipped quotes and wry jokes from period notices includes quips about fashion misers mispronunciations and street theater. It features playful lines from Vogue Atchison Globe and the Fowell Courier noting amusing misstatements and social scenes with names like Maria Hale and Calvea Nova and a lawyer’s tart remark about client insults.
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Fowell
Hale
Maria
Cela
Conrie
Mra
Atchison Globe
Half a Century of Experience Told in Averages
A statistician notes a man aged fifty has slept 6,000 days and worked 6,500. He spent 4,000 days in amusement, consumed eight tons of meat and two tons of vegetables, and drank over 7,000 gallons. Illness totals about 500 days despite gluttony, and he has walked half the Earth's circumference.
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Statistician
Lina
The Hen as a Farm Money Maker and Remedies
A collage of 19th century ad copy and anecdotes extols a hen as a major farm money maker, claims about grain to cash, and then shifts to assorted health ads for bitters, tonics, and medicines. It includes endorsements for Dr King’s Royal Germetuer and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, with travel lines for trains and steamboats.
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Tourtat
Tieng
Alison Pean Steamship
Songan
Central
King
Karl
Seaboard Air Line
Norfolk
Old Point Gomfort
Alan Per
Atlanta
Washington
Aguste
Portemouth
Hall
Congressional Proceedings in Tennessee and Utah State Admission
A mixed congressional senate report covers election contests in the eighth Tennessee district deeming P H Thrasher not elected and B A Enloe entitled to the seat. It notes passage of a public lands repeal bill for Alabama and Utah statehood, with other measures on pensions, private calendars, and a retirement system for revenue cutters. The senate discusses the Peffer resolution on labor disputes, arbitration, and military measures to enforce federal law, plus passing military and appropriation bills.
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Neasion
Tennessee
P. H. Thrasher
B. A. Enloe
McRae
Alabama
Iowa
Chap
Richardson
Spee
Senate
Mississippi
Meridian
House
Utah
Kerr
Representative Dockery
Missouri
Revenue Cutter Service
Clark
Pieffer
Daniel
Virginia
Peffer
Ite
United States
Chicago Decides Against Pullman Strike Wave
Chicago building trades council meeting of 160 delegates voted almost unanimously to rescind the strike orders, ending the walkout. Normal conditions return as federation and union groups call off the action and resume work, despite Debs and Lovering’s vows to continue the fight. The Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association also endorses its Grand Master stance and waives sympathy for the strike.
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Chicago
Building Trades Council Organization
Building Trades Council
American Railway Union
Debs
The
Federation of Indor
Building and Trades Assembly
Pullman
Loverlgn
United States
John M. Eagan
General Managers’ Association
Hopkins
Egan
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
North America
American Ailway Union
Miles W. Barrett
Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Association
Grand Board of Directors
Turbulent Turkey Earthquakes Kill and Destroy
Four fresh shocks were felt in Constantinople as tremors toppled houses in Stam boul and the Grand Bazaar. Merchants fled, valuables abandoned, many buried beneath debris. over 150 feared killed or injured.
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Constantinople
Stam~boul
Grand Bazaar
National Capital Strikes and Tariff Talks Shape Senate Action
The interstate commerce panel will study labor troubles, General Miles reports Chicago calm, and Washington foresees improved strike conditions. Senate ends partisan rancor after tariff passage as conference panel nears a report on differences. River and harbor funding rises by 5.1 million with state allocations listed. Cleveland backs military restraint and arbitration prospects loom, with Knights of Labor urging a new arbitration bill by Senator George of Mississippi.
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House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Miles
Schofield
Chicago
Washington
United States Senate
Conference Committee
House
Senate
Virginia
Jamestown Island
Norfolk Harbor
North Carolinna
Roanoke River
Cape Fear
South Carolina
Winyah Bay
Georgia
Cumberland Sound
Brunswick Bar
Florida
Pensacola Harbor
Key West
Daniel
Cleveland
Congress
Mr. Cleveland
The
Knights of Labor
Senator George
Mississippi
Sale Confirmed of East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railway
United States court at Knoxville confirmed the sale of the East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia railway to the Southern Railway company. Judge Lurton announced the new management will assume duties on August 1. The note adds a reflective warning against dwelling on past prosperity.
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East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
Southern Railway Company
United States
Knoxville
Lurton
Cholera cases and deaths. rail strikes and fires in 1900s reports
403 new cholera cases and 34 deaths reported in St Petersburg. Cincinnati Schwab brewery fire causes $100,000 loss, fully insured. NH convention nominates Knowles for governor and Carr Heald for Congress. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway mining plan rejected by miners. logansport RR work resumes full time soon. Strikes disrupt Georgia to Texas lines. Michigan and Cleveland unions face internal disputes. Knights of Labor strike unlikely. railroad crews strike across Cincinnati to Mackinaw. Pacific Railroad offers $5,000 rewards for train wreckers. another $5,000 for shooters.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Cincinnati
Peter Schwab & Go
New Hampshire
D. D. Knowles
Tilton Seminary
Edgar L. Carr
Pittsfield
David Heald
Milford
Birmingham, Aln
Tennessee Con, Tron and Railway Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Logansport
Ind
Galventon
Texas
Gulf, Colorado
Santa Fe
Meridian
Miss
Aurora
American Railway Union
Cleveland
Lake Shore
Knights of Labor
Marshall, Mich
Cincinnati, Tacksen and Mackinaw Railroad
Southern Pagiflc Company
Prendergast Dies On Gallows In Chicago Execution
Patrick Eugene Prendergast died at Cook County Jail after being hanged for the assassination of Chicago’s chief executive. The nine month wait ended as physicians and grand jury members watched. witnesses included newspaper men. He requested time for a speech but Father Barry persuaded him to forgo remarks.
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Prendergast
Carter Harrison
Scaffoll
Father Barry
Floating facts and oddities across cities and cures
A collage of notes on water storage capacity in Boston and days of supply, Philadelphia as pioneer portrait photography, a Kingman editor heckled by suffragists, and giants Hanson Craig and Daniel Lambert weighed. It also recalls cures for the blues with a mystic box, horse meat regulation in Paris, irrigation drives across western states, and a quip about moneyed men eroding respect for wealth.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Daguerra
Populisr
Kingman
Kan
Woman's Rights
Mother Hubbard
Indiana
Hanson Craig
Danville
Ind
Daniel Lambert
Paris
McClure
Uses for soda as cleaning aid in the home
The article describes many soda based cleaning tips including using a damp cloth dipped in common soda to brighten Sova Tinware, applying hot soda solution to remove paint splashes, cleaning glass and paint with soda water, washing kerosene smoke from ceilings, and rinsing with clear water after soda washes. It also notes dissolving soda in hot water to clean oil paint, placing soda on drains to prevent clogs, flooding pipes weekly with boiling water and soda, washing marble porches with hot water and soda, keeping cut flowers fresh with soda, and using soda on grease spots before boiling water.
His Sure Rule of Action and a Saloon Split Error
A North England lawyer recalls a juryman who judges guilt by the man in the dock, saying he must have done something to be there, thus finding all accused guilty. The note adds a casual quip about a single mistake in division when sharing earnings with a saloon keeper.
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England
Argonaut
Syrup of Figs Promises Gentle Laxative Health Benefits
Knowledge extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It emphasizes kidney liver and bowel cleansing without weakening them and notes the product is sold by druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Sensible Rules for Lengthening Life
Practical advice on temperance and daily habits to extend life. Emphasizes regular meals and sleep, avoiding excess, managing stress, moderation in hunger and thirst, and cooling after exertion. Encourages a calm temper and avoiding unnecessary troubles.
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