President Harrison Addresses Congress in 1890 Message
President Harrison reviews foreign affairs and domestic policy, praising cordial relations, maritime conference progress, and Haiti and Brazil developments. He urges tariff revision, surplus management, silver coinage plans, Chinese exclusion enforcement, coast defense funding, and stronger protection for federal officers and railroad workers. He highlights Indian affairs, land claims, pensions, new states, and calls for civil service and copyright reforms.
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Congress
Treasury
Ias
Secretary of the Treasury
Victoria
Dominion
Avery
Secretary of War
National Guard
David
Terry
Justice Feld
Supreme Court of the United States
Lathrop
Cal
United States
Posthastutsnenss
Department
Address by President on Civil Service and Education
The president discusses the Department of Agriculture, the District of Columbia, and civil service reform. He urges a weather service split from War, education funding, and rights for colored citizens, plus stronger federal election oversight and ocean trade policy. A final note covers a romantic marriage near Cochransville.
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Department OF Agriculture
Whith
Department
Weather Service
War Department
Signal Corps
Congress
United States
Executive
House of Representatives
England
France
Grante
Nto
Urawa
New York
South Amercan
South America
Conference of American Nutone
Washington
Central
China
Japan
Great Oceanc
America States
Ingland
Atnaneynen
Wilberal
The Mysterious Light On Mt Adams With Two Climbers
A party of young women and their guide encounter a strange crimson glow on a high Mount Adams ascent. A husband searches for his wife as darkness falls, a mysterious light drifts over the ravine, seen by eight observers and never explained. Rescuers finally reach them before midnight, and authorities cannot determine the light’s origin or meaning.
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Mt. Adams
Boston
John
Mr. Cushing
Mia
Mr. C
Lelwéd
Brest
Ross
Houicht
King’s Rivine
Voicus
Atranger
Piazzi
Gaetho
Tatts College
Household Guide Recipes and Tips From 19th Century Kitchens
An assortment of kitchen instructions on making veal balls and ox tail soup plus household hints. Directions cover rice soup, boiling and browning methods, cleaning pans, preserving tea and coffee, lard and pie plate cleaning, parsley storage, boil preparations, turpentine uses, oyster liquor clarification, carpet cleaning with buckwheat, meat loaf, eggs with apples, linen whitening with soap, silk cleaning with ammonia and alcohol, and notes on early U.S. gas infrastructure and investment totals.
Rainbow rose shown at San Francisco flower show
An entirely new rainbow rose is exhibited in San Francisco displaying delicate pink petals with darker vertical bars. Other items note light's role in animal development, zinc-water fireproofing, ink plant from New Granada, and a study of idiocy and teeth in Europe.
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San Francisco
New England
New Granada
South America
Europa
Europe
Fate's Wheel on the Ocean Through Time
The verse speaks of Fate's wheel cutting through mist and foam as a ship endures the sea. It contrasts sun and shade with life's busy commotion, describing the wheel's rapid turning through vast years toward Death's ocean.
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Death
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Harrison
Questa
North
Myyself
Maritime Congress
Gardie-Nowin
Coustes
Canada
Republic OF Wayti
Republic of Haiti
Hrazila
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Sam
Onuc Sss Sane Nelae
Treasury Department
Congresa
Wdy
Tooncur
Secretary of the Interior
the Pension System
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Saie
District OF Columbia
States
Agaaint Rudolph Her
Samucwal Gray
Rhoda Iand
Frederick P. Stearns
Max
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Contihigdon
postoMices
Ben
Lyman
Jo Ines
Taun
Pia
Essary
Esceuthye Mansion
Washhington
James Hall
Cochransville
Ohio
Carrie Malsen
Tyler County
BY Emily A. Thackeray
Nellie
Heaven
Earth
Ejuch
Oital
Argentina Republic
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile
Bolivia
Argentine Republic
Sto'os
Wether
Varden
Nile
Lado
Murchison’Falls
Albert Like
Wadolni
Emin’s ‘Goverment
Senedbrer
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