Personal Sketches of Members in Fifty-Fourth Congress
The Washington clerks prepare the first edition of the Congressional Directory for the Fifty-fourth Congress. Biographies, usually autobiographical, fill 110 pages and are supplied by members themselves, with some opting out. Three editions exist for long and short sessions, with about 20,000 copies printed and many available gratis. Walter Wellman.
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Washington
Cleveland
Senate
House
Congress
House of Representatives
Isham Harris
Tennessee
Walter Wellman
Denver
Chickamauga
Women
Grand Army of the Republic
Confederate Relic Room at Atlanta Fair Tells Quiet Pain
The Atlanta Fair features a Confederate Relic building where visitors, including Kirby Smith’s daughter and veterans, recall battles and losses. The guide notes sobbing visitors, mixed northern sympathy, and artifacts like Stephens’s horn, a fiddle, and a childbirth dress, amid stories of old wounds and shared memory.
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Atlanta
Kirby Smith
Confedera
George
Alexander Stephens
Charleston
Georgia
Jeff Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Robert Lee
Sherman
Paul Simmes
Gettysburg
Calhoun
Maude Andrews
Inittsburg
Gowns and wraps and Adare Manor noted in Ireland
The piece details ribbon trimmed gowns with varied colors and fashions for winter capes and bodices, praising velvet jackets and circular capes. It also mentions Sir Wyndham Quin’s Adare Manor near Limerick as a distinguished Irish home tied to the Dunraven family.
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Junie Chollet
Dunraven
Ireland
Wyndham Thomas Wyndham- Quin
Earl of
Mount Earl
Adare Manor
Dunravens
Limerick
Clever Son Mimics Father in Telephone Cash Ruse
A spendthrift youth with a talent for mimicry used his father's voice to coerce a cashier. He called a London company and ordered that £10 be given instead of £20, claiming parental command. The ruse worked until the father arrived, creating a scene at the office.
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Tsay
London
Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt
The Duke of Marlborough, Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill, at 24, has married heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt. His Blenheim Palace home stands as England’s famed estate, and he has penned a book and spoken in the House of Lords. Vanderbilt’s ten million dollar dowry helps him fund his ventures.
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Duke of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill
England
Palace
Blenheim
Marlborough
House of Lords
America
W. K. Vanderbilt
Remedies for Sexual and Chronic Diseases Advertised
An advertisement lists treatments for a wide range of male and female sexual and chronic ailments including syphilis gonorrhea gleet stricture varicocele hydrocele Brights disease diabetes and impotency. It claims cure for nervous disorders tumors cancers pimples and all chronic diseases and notes office hours 8 AM to 6 PM.
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Bright
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Walter Rothschild
Lord Rothschild
Tring
Hertfordshire
Japan
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Tokyo
Rothschile
Vignone
St. James
Evening Post
East Berry Street
South Side Wall Paper Store
S. Calhoun ST
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