Europe Trip Costs a Congressman's Eight Month Grand Tour
Hon S S Cox talks of Europe travel expenses paid from his congressional salary 5000 dollars for him and his wife. They visited Constantinople Egypt Palestine Russia Norway and Sweden staying in top hotels and meeting officials. He notes consular service pay and Russia's nihilist unrest amid reform aims. He also cites life expectancy trends for business men.
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S. S. Cox
Europe
Constantinople
Egypt
Palestine
Russia
Norway
Sweden
Africa
Asia
Mediterranean
Cox
Lew Wallace
Seraglio
United States
St. Petersburg
Christiana
Czar
America
Mr. Cox
Interesting Mortality Tables Highlight Life Expectancy Facts
A Financial Value of Life column by John W Guiteau discusses mortality tables from Insurance Times. It lists selective figures showing the number of people alive at various ages and the portion reaching older ages, reflecting insurance perspectives and aging trends.
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Insurance Times
John W. Guiteau
Ex- Ee
John W W. Guiteau
Guitesu
Moving an Immense Building at Tremont Street
The Engineer's Club of Philadelphia described moving the Hotel Pelham at Tremont and Raylston Streets Boston to widen Tremont Street. The 4,000 ton free stone brick hotel was moved 13 feet 10 inches in 13 hours 40 minutes using iron rails rollers and 4551 days labor cost 30000. Cracks preexisting in walls remained unchanged.
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Engineer's Club of
Philadelphia
Howard Murphy
Pelham
Tremont and
Raylston Streets
Boston
Tremont Street
Boylston Street
Engineering and Mining Journal
Two Husbands at Fourteen in Early Maryland Marriage Scandal
In Dame's Quarter Somerset County Maryland on February 5 a seventeen year old named H E Whyte married fourteen year old Ella Shores. Two years later Ella wed Sydney Shores sixty five, her late uncle’s widow’s husband. The clergyman Zacharias Bowen claimed ignorance of the girl’s age and was acquitted. Shores was jailed for a misdemeanor fine of 500 dollars but escaped debt. Ella sought a divorce and Whyte after her remarriage aided in their life together.
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Dame's Quarter
Somerset Couty
H. E. Whyte
Ella Shores
Sydney Shores
Zacharias Bowen
Shores
Whyte
Baltimore Dispatch
Lovers in a Midnight SpoonHolder Chair Scene
A fragment from Toledo American depicts a chair used as a spoon holder by a pair of lovers under a midnight hour, implying a hushed romantic tableau in a sparsely described setting.
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Toledo American
Miscellany of curious notes from the era
A jumble of remarks on missing property, a Philadelphia traveler, saloon robberies, bells inscribed for Garfield, and reform through revival. Reports from New York, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn touch on finance, crime, obituaries, and social satire, with commentary on Western grain markets and speculative losses.
French Rogue Foiled in Paris Diamond Theft Plot
Colonel Gaston U S A visiting Paris at the Continental Hotel bought a diamond bandeau and necklace worth 20000 dollars with a check that was rejected. He left a leather bag, but the shopwoman found only wood, wire and glass beads when she opened it at night. The suspect with a large overcoat slipped away. thieves remain uncaught.
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Jndee Wilkinson
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit Free Press
Bismarck
Gaston
Georgia Negro's Trained Dogs Steal Ducks
A prominent Georgia citizen woke to a yard disturbance and found seven ducks dead while four more were in a thief's hands. The thief used two dogs, a large white one and another, to seize ducks from the yard and carry them into the street, then hand them to the crook. The report comes from the Columbus Enquirer.
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Columbus Enquirer
Efficient farm living through careful vegetable gardening
A Rural New Yorker excerpt extols economical farming via varied vegetables and well-managed plots. It urges hiring sparingly, using one-horse cultivators, and detailed soil preparation. The piece stresses early planting, pure seeds, and steady weed control for hearty, productive gardens.
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Yanting
Mit
New Yorker
Hereditary Defects in Horses End Dusky Driving
The article explains how horses bred for hard driving can seem sound as colts and through age develop sudden defects. It notes hereditary tendencies in affected parts and unseen tendencies revealed by gait. Observable quirks like pawing and bedding away from the stall may signal these inherited issues.
Wealthy New Yorker Hails from Home With Vast Holdings
Wilson Waddingham, a New York millionaire, reportedly earned a million in mining stock last year. He owns about 1.5 million acres in New Mexico with 80,000 cattle and has built a $106,000 residence in New Haven, reflecting broad holdings and influence.
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Wilson Waddingham
New York
New Mexico
Poe
New Haven
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