Centennial Inauguration Day Celebrations Across New York
A century after Washington’s 1789 inauguration New York hosted three days of parades on land and water along with receptions and a grand centennial banquet. Naval and river processions, a sea of flags, and elaborate floats showcased the nation’s history, industry, and culture culminating in a massive Metropolitan Opera House celebration with speeches and fireworks.
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Martha Washington
United States
George Washington
Federal Hall
New York
General Washington
Mount Vernon
Elizabethtown
N.J
Wall -and
Broad Street
Sub-Treasury
SSS
Empire City
Washington
Thoven
Weber
Meyerbeer
Bonsath
Faust
Gretchen
Mephistopheles
Steuben
Do ‘Kalb
Bacchus
Hulielberg
Brooklyn
A. P. Ketchum
J. Edward Simmons
Board of Educaton
John J. Jasper
George
Frederick the Great
Feroudehis Volunteer Fire Comays
Alexandria
Wington
Metropolitan Opera House
National President Union
Willam Warner
Soho W. Daniels
Shelby M. Cullom
MD LS
President Harrison Arrives at Elizabethport for Grand Naval Parade
The President and party travel from Washington aboard a special train to Elizabethport. A lavish welcome includes breakfast at Governor Green's house, a public procession, a government vessel dispatch launch, and a grand naval parade with 500 vessels in the upper bay under Admiral Dorton. The Dispatch leads a rainbow yardarm salute as warships, steam yachts, and other craft form a stunning display.
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Baltimore
Washington
Charleston
Philadelphia
Boston
Sandy Hook
Ively
St. Mary's
East River
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Kill
Chicago
Merchant Marine
Wall Street
Governor’s Island
Newtown Creek
Battery
North River
Fifteenth Street
Hudson
Ats Bamissal
Kalute
Abrahams
Normal College
Governor Hill
Pright
Stuyvesant Fish
Gramercy Park
Harrison
Elizabeth
Port der Newce
Elizabethport
Elizabethtown
Governor Green
New
Alcyona
Dispatch
Jerse
Boat Club
Binef
Supreme Court
At “Porter
Jouett
Comguodore Remsay
New York
Grean
New Jersey
Nation
Rrison
Sicias
Eanes
West ‘Twenty Third Street
United States
David Dortey
Ling
Atlanta
Yorktown
Vesuvius
Juniata
Brooklyn
Jamestorm
Kearsage
Minnesota
Yantic
Oni
Cowles
Proceson
Liberty
Ellis Islands
Washington Letters Published From Before the Revolution
The New York Post prints Washington letters dating before the Revolution that reveal his methodical, prudent character and generosity. Topics include fashion purchases, selling a runaway slave, debtor disputes, and first-hand views of Mount Vernon life, with notes on money worries and land patents tied to the 1734 Ohio expedition.
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New York Post
George Washington
Washington
Mount Vernon
London
West Indies
Massachusetts
Virginia
Captain Posey
Oklahoma
Black
Lord Dunmore
Ohio River
A Train Wreck Near Hamilton Claims Dozens
A Chicago express derailed west of Hamilton at seven in the morning. The engine struck a water tank and rolled, trapping and burning eighteen passengers as the car walls ignited. Bodies recovered four hours later were beyond recognition. Most victims were men from the northwestern states en route to New York’s centennial. Fifteen men and three women among the dead, with eighteen others killed or badly injured.
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Hamilton
Canada
Limited
Chicago
Eud
New York
Prominent Figures and Fortunes in Debatable Times
A garbled century gossip panel lists notable figures and trivia: Cox lecturing out West, Tre Czar learning cornet, Dana the geologist at seventy five, Tennyson alias the pout at seventy, USCA Enropr’s income around 1,095,000, Victoria’s favorite tapioca, Crown Princess Vieronta of Byoden bearing a son, Senator Ingalls color tastes, Postmaster General Jo Howmaker valued at 10 million, Blyine fortune doubling, Bancroft ceasing writing, Proctor touring West, Chamberlain on domestic fondness for John Bright, Jay Gould’s age and wealth, McGiywill touring Europe, King of Greece clothes in London, Queen’s costumes via party, Day Parkrow richest Cincinnati native, Queen Nar returning to Serva, Ex-King Mion set to return.
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Cox
Tre Czar
D. Dana
Russett
Jay Gould
Worth &C
Unitain Sand
Greece
London
Parkrow
Cincinnati
Wan Catuan Indeeland
Cnt
Quren
Laughing jackass and other New Zealand birds in natural history
A colorful miscellany surveys grotesque forest denizens of Oceanic New Zealand including flesh-eating parrots the laughing jackass and kiwis and kakapo. It notes species behavior feeding habits peculiar calls and social patterns with remarks on other curiosities from natural gas speculation to curious bird pairs and colonial avifauna.
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York—Times
Thor Bird
Jackass
Orho
New Zealand
Wippus
Wippity
Logan
Amon
Findlay
Popular Science Monthly
Chinaman’s attire praised as most comfortable in eyeing
A Chicago Herald quote portrays a Chinaman as wearing a soft hat, minimal neck bands, and few layers, arguing his clothing is more comfortable than Western dress. The account lists up to nine neck bands and notes perspiration as a concern, framing attire as practical.
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Chicago Herald
Curious Cure for Phthisis Fools Town Doctoring Plans
Ridotoff a carpenter in the town defies doctors by claiming self cure of phthisis using a forty day regimen of milk and wet sheets from an old German medical book. He then seeks to treat others causing opposition from the Tehernigoff faculty who call the method fraudulent and want him jailed.
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Ridotoff
Tehernigoff
Russia
Sidoroff
Siderens
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