Illinois Governor’s Mansion Cat Room and State Cat Politics
In Springfield a young girl Florence presides over the state cat room in the executive mansion with a royal lineage and plans for a new throne room. The piece recounts the state’s cat guardians, the Dowager Duchess, and impending mansion repairs as political theater unfolds.
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President Hayes
White House
Nellie Arthur
Springfield
Florence Fifer
Florence
Dick Oglesby
France
Duchess of
Malta
Illinois
Master Dick
Miss Florence
Oglesby
General Assembly
Tom” Merritt
Tom
Growing Old With Happiness Lessons by Helen A Steinhauer
An essay on aging gracefully and joyfully. It urges drawing wisdom from life, living in daylight, seeking light and kindness, cultivating contentment, and accepting others’ idiosyncrasies. Turn obstacles into stepping stones and ripen like golden fruit in later years.
Weather Prophet Entertains Visitor With Blunder
A Signal Service forecaster faces an angry man after predicting mild weather while a blizzard arrived. The stranger rebukes the misprediction as zero degrees and bitter cold. The exchange ends with playful remorse from the weather staff.
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John
Chicago Herald
A Valuable Experience from the House of Commons Speaker
The late Lord Eversley was famed as a successful Commons speaker who always identified the right man when many rose in unison. He once said in humor, I have been shooting rabbits all my life and have learned to mark the right one, as quoted by the San Francisco Argonaut.
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George H. Varnell
Mount Vernon
Varnell
Board of Supervisors
Jefferson County
William D. Curtis
Chicago
Curtis
Brown County
Roy Odenweller
S. P. Odenweller
Industry Township
Jack” Warburton
Galena
White Caps
H. M. Miner
Moultrie County
Decatur
Sullivan
Moultrie Country
Charles J. Beattie
A. C. Gordon
Jamieson
Beattie
Gordon
South America
Mary Shorts
John Shorts
Lord Eversley
House of Commons
San Francisco
Minnesota
Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Lowa
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Kansas
Missouri
St. Louis
Toledo
Tennessee
Kentucky
California
San Joaquin Valley
Washington Territory
Tacoma
Windrim Honored as Treasury Supervising Architect
Secretary Windom appoints James H. Windrim of Philadelphia as Supervising Architect of the Treasury replacing Will A. Freret who resigned by request.
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Windom
James H. Windrim
Philadelphia
The
Treasury
Will A. Freret
Illinois Law-Makers Debate Bills and Appointments
Illinois Senate and House actions include reading and advancing numerous bills on contracts, draw-back checks, state printing funds, guardians, and a public guardian plan. A resolution endorsing Robert Todd Lincoln as Minister to England passed, and the valued policy bill was approved 90 to 32 after debate.
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Senate
One
Agena
Oeee
Lasalle
Circuit Court
LaSalle County
House
Reinhardt
Secretary of State
State House
Eckhardt
Herrick
Secrest
Pierce
White
General Assembly
Brown
Green
St. Louis
Thomas
Campbell
Hadley
Crawford
Evans
Washington
United States
Court of St. James
Robert Todd Lincoln
House of Representatives
Illinois
England
James G. Blaine
Stephenson County
J. Fisher
Crafts
Institutions of Learning
Robert T. Lincoln
Eating with Fingers and Royal Babies in Society
A comic essay on table manners contrasts finger eating versus forks and notes cultural cleanliness. It jokes that royal babies like Alfonso of Spain lack playmates, implying a lonely fate for a lone king among European royals.
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State Cats
Clarkson
Beaverville
Iroquois County
Cleophas Bonreau
G. Caillonette
Camargo
Douglas County
Thomas A. Edmonson
W.S. Fulton
Livingstone County
Alexander M. Brewster
Thomas Feehey
Donovan
John Nelson
A. ©. Morrison
Fish Hook
Pike County
Levi Gardner
John Moyer
Hinesborough
Emma Gardner
P. W. Hines
Hume
Edgar County
Harvey Boone
C. A. Minor
New Salem
John B. Watson
Daniel Cover
Piper City
Ford County
Edwin D. Cook
Mary D. Horan
Prairie du Rocher
Randolph County
J. R. Duclois
A. L. Branch
Ridge Farm
Vermillion County
Lidia
Carter H. Harrison
Louis Neebe
Fifer
Oscar Neebe
Neebe
Julius 8. Grinnell
Harrison
Mr. Grinnell
F.S. Winston
Leonard Swett
Helen A. Steinhauer
Windrim
Illinois Law-Makers
Alfonso
Spain
Europe
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