Victoria Regia and the Washington botanical wonders
A look at Uncle Sam's eight to nine acre botanical garden near the Capitol. The article describes the palm collections, the palmhouse, and the Bartholdi fountain, plus the Victoria Regia water lily and elephant grass. It notes perquisites for new congress members and the distribution of plants to offices.
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Library Committee
Victoria Regia
Polo Garden
Boston Herald
Reflection and Presage in a Poetic Exchange
A two part verse exchange explores longing and fate. The speaker addresses Presage as a bird of ocean and outlines a tense relationship between desire and destiny. The poem asks the reader to witness courage, hope, and endurance through hopeful imagery of wings and thunder, ending with cautious waiting for a future glory.
Death and prayer in 1876 dinner talk about sudden fate
At a secretary of state's dinner in 1876 Hamilton Fish mused on sudden death and the prayer in the litany. He suggested a sudden death without illness might be preferable and recalled the morning obituary noting his own sudden passing at Garrisons-on-the-Hudson.
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Hamilton Fish
New York Tribune
Wealthy girls and young doctors in pursuit of status
A quoted New York Times snippet warns that young doctors seek riches by joining prominent churches and marrying wealthy women, while mingling with poorer classes risks marrying someone from a less affluent background, implying a hard path ahead.
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New York Times
How Did the Turtle Find His Way
A sea turtle aboard an English steamer bound for Liverpool escaped death by being thrown overboard and branded with the ship name. A year later the same steamer found the turtle alive on St Helena’s coast, over 4,000 miles away, still bearing the mark.
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Chicago
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Trains and clocks in Boston and Hill thoughts blur lines
Excerpts describe a Boston station guard announcing Chestnut Hill departures with precise times and a curious exchange about a clock. Other notes mention Mme Roland’s final journey musings, Goethe on inward voices, German Hebrew fur trade in New York, Bunhill Fields’ sculpture, virtue and correspondence, and wheat seed yield differences by latitude.
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Patent agency promotes safe patent filings nationwide
The Press Claims Company led by John Wedderburn pledges to protect inventors from incompetent attorneys and risky no patent no pay firms. It offers to manage patent work including designs, trademarks, copyrights, interferences and foreign patents with reasonable fees from 618 F Street NW Washington DC.
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John Wedderburn
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Washington, D.C
Notice of Forfeiture on Time Buse Lode Claim Montana
Notice to Stephen L Holxlen and heirs that $100 was spent on labor and improvements to the Time Buse lode mining claim near Wise River Montana to hold the claim for the year ending December 1, 1808. If co owners do not contribute within 90 days after notice, their interest will vest in the subscriber, Branca Tambeld.
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