Croker Crafted Glencairne A Grand Irish Home Tour
Richard Croker hosts a journalist at Glencairne a Tudor style Irish estate near Dublin described as a rare domestic gem. The tour highlights a Japanese room grand hall Irish mahogany staircases portrait galleries and Croker’s stud with two sons’ photographs and a private oratory.
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Dublin
Richard Croker
Bay
Croker
Mr. Croker
Drexer
New York
Tammany Hall
W. J. Bryan
Glencairne estate tour with Croker shows tiger rug and stables
A visitor details Croker's Glencairne residence with oak panels, Adam style rooms, and tiled baths in New York era decor. Highlights include a tiger rug in the drawing room, a Dresden-style sideboard, and a punch jug once owned by Daniel O Connell. Croker extols Orby, his chestnut three year old, and describes 20 racing horses and distant Wicklow scenery. The piece also notes Rescue fire company plans to bury Old Mack, their long serving horse, in a dedicated burial ground.
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New York
Wall Street
Tammany Hall
Post Office
City Hall
Central Park
Fifty-ninth Street
Fifth Avenue
Democratic Club
Mr. Croker
Daniel O'Connell
St. Patrick
Orme
Rhoda
Rhodora
Wicklow Hills
Rescue Fire Company
Mack
York
Philadelphia Press
Women Who Ruled at Capital in White House History
The piece surveys wives of presidents from Dolly Madison to Mary Todd Lincoln and later, detailing their social influence, crises, and personal resolve. It highlights Dorothy Madison, Mrs. Roosevelt’s reticence, and Mrs. Lincoln’s ambitious presence, with sketches of Lincoln, Jackson, and other First Ladies shaping Washington society.
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William MacKinley
White House
McKinley
Executive Mansion
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Benjamin Harrison
Arthur
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Ohio
James A. Garfield
A. M. Pratt
Bayou, O
Garfields
Mary Todd Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
America
Lincoln
Edwards
Baker
Dorothy Payne Madison
Virginia
North Carolina
Old Dominion
Philadelphia
Dorothy
John Todd
Madison
Todd
Mount Vernon
Jackson
Col
John Donelson
Executive
Martha Washington
Lucy Webb Hayes
Julia Dent Grant
Martha Patterson
President Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Harriet Lane
Buchanan
Abigail Fillmore
James K. Polk
Letitia Christian Tyler
Angelica van Buren
Martin van Buren
Louisa Catherine Adams
Martha Jefferson
Properties of gasoline and explosion risk
The piece explains gasoline tanks rarely explode because they need gasoline vapor and air in explosive proportions, a combo rarely present. It notes that heat bursting a tank would mostly burn, not explode, and that large volumes burn rapidly while small amounts mixed with air can devastate a boat, even with no vent.
Fuller in the Face Joke Circulates Among Statesmen
A Washington anecdote recalls Chief Justice Fuller meeting an old friend over coffee. Fuller says the other is looking well while the friend jokes about Fuller’s face as a telltale sign. It reads like a light political quip from the era.
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Mr. Croker
Pugilists
Heenan
Sayers
Croker
Washington
Fuller
United States Supreme Court
What Success Means
A reflective piece notes that wealth gained at the expense of others is not true success. It argues such individuals deprive their heart and intellect, harming their better self, which becomes a mis-shapen lifeless power. It concludes that a woman who overlooks friends, family and conscience to advance socially or financially is not a success to herself or others.
Insanity debate questions existence of disease concept
A Current Literature discussion cites Dr. G. H. Savage arguing insanity as a medical category does not exist and that many unsound minds are not dangerous. The piece warns against pseudo legal notions and urges rational, restrained views on diagnosing madness, ending with a seasonal quip about keeping refrigerations.
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G. H. Savage
Lance
Savage
Breadfruit Tree Yields Food and Useful Products
The breadfruit tree, native to southern Asia and the Pacific, grows 40 to 50 feet tall with deep lobed leaves and a yellow rind fruit weighing four pounds. It provides staple food when roasted or baked and can be stored as weeks. The tree also yields cement from milky juice, coarse cloth from bark, tinder from dried blossoms, and lumber for building.
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Asia
West Indies
South Pacific Islands
Indian Archipelago
World Population and Annual Births and Deaths
World population is 1 400 000 000 with 35 124 000 deaths annually and 36 792 000 births each year. Births exceed deaths by about 1 668 000 per year.
The Advance of Japan Becomes World Power
The piece traces Japan’s rapid rise from regional power to a world power, comparing it to historic Asian states and noting the 1905 Anglo Japanese treaty linking Japan with major Western powers. It highlights Japan’s 1904-05 victory over Russia and the shift away from extraterritorial controls.
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Phrates
Indus
Milton
Mohammed
Pyrenaees
Genghis Kahn
Vistula
China Sea
Japan
China
Pacific
Russia
Turkey
Europe
United States
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Dolly Madison
Groverleveland
Frances Folsom
Mary Lincoln
Plucky
Winder
Bladensburg
Bank of Maryland
Mr. Carroll
Gen. Washington
Rachel Jackson
Rachel
Andrew Jackson
Robards
What
Wanted
Cyrus the Great
New York Sun
Persia
Cambyses
Samarkand
Smyrna
Caspian
Nile
Alexander
The
Columbus
Ohio Pointe Ane
Hocking
Crick
Ickele
Hocking Valley
W. H. Fisher
General Passencea
Mia
Cincinnati
Louisville
Chattanooga
J. A. Williamson
Toledo
D. G. Edwards
Railway
Defance
Defiance
Deshler
Wapakoneta
Oone Ee Owen Er Aren
Ly Hamilton
Obie
Bill Heads
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