State secrets and newspaper privilege in 19th century debates
A reflective discussion tracks how reporters, editors, and clerks accessed and published government documents. It cites incidents of leaked presidential messages and treaties, bribery among correspondents, and senate secrecy, illustrating shifts in what counts as a secret and who may disclose it.
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Senate
Bayes
Congress
United States
White House
Ihe
Massachusetts
Boston
Washington
Boston Herald
Souvenir Cups Trend in Jewelry Trade
A noted fashion trend in the jewelry trade highlights souvenir cups made of metal as a recent fad. The article discusses why these decorative items attract buyers and how makers promote them in markets.
Noise and health in city life and policy
Health argues noise drives disease and neurasthenia, rendering city life unhealthy. It cites factory din, rail yard screeching, wagon clatter, street yells, and fireworks as preventable harms. London curbs noise. the piece urges American cities to reduce urban clamor.
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London
Great Floating Dock Ready for Tow to Algiers
The Maryland Steel Company built a massive steel floating dry dock at Sparrows Point for the United States government. It will be towed to Algiers, Louisiana after the hurricane season ends around October 1, powered by several ocean-going tugs. The dock can raise battleships up to 15,000 tons and lift ships up to 18,000 tons with the floor at or above the water line.
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Sparrows Point
Maryland Steel Company
United States
Algiers
Baltimore Sun
Boston Corbett the Lincoln Assassin Slayer Now Selling Medicine
Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, emerges from presumed death as a traveling patent medicine salesman for W. W. Gavitt & Co. He has lived in Oklahoma and Texas, owns property in Cloud county Kansas, and faces a $1300 back pension if his alive status is officially established. Guardian George A. Huron has watched his affairs since his 1888 escape from Topeka asylum.
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Topeka
Boston
Corbett
John Wilkes Booth
Topeka Insane Asylum
Kansas
Abraham Lincoln
W. W. Gavitt & Co
Cloud County
Oklahoma
Texas
Enid
George A. Huron
Huron
Booth
Eastman
Nevedesha
Mexico
Massachusetts
John Corbett
Salvation Army
Gavitts
Boston Corbett
W. W. Gavitt
Concordia
Eskimo legend explains globe held by great ice spirit
The New York Herald reports Etah Esimos describe a northern world view in which a giant ice spirit holds the earth with a left hand. They map continents as fingers and the Pacific as the thumb, detailing a vast hand spanning from Tierra del Fuego to Japan with Asia as the palm.
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Etah Esimos
Smith Sound
New York Herald
Cape Horn
Atlantic
Europe
Africa
Cape of Good Hope
Himalaya Mountains
Indian
Ceylon
Chinese
Australia
Great Plain
Asia
Pacific
Mamchatka
Kurile Islands
Japan
Mark Twain's Apology From Unseen Tale
A newly unearthed Mark Twain story portrays his visits to Harriet Beecher Stowe and daughters in shabby dress. Mrs Clemens scolds him for lacking a necktie after returning from the Stowes' house, and a note returns a black silk necktie Twain left as a playful, unfinished joke.
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Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Clemens
Stowes
Sam
Mrs. Stone
Norway Allows Taxpaying Women to Vote in Business Matters
The Norwegian chamber of deputies voted 68 to 17 to grant voting rights in all business matters to women who pay tax and earn at least 300 francs. This marks a milestone in expanding suffrage for taxpaying women.
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Chamber of Deputies
Uncle Sam's Big Money Mill
A historical look at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington DC. It details building costs and staff, the manufacture of government notes and stamps, and the security, paper, and printing processes from design approval to final issuance. It notes fibre paper with silk threads and watermarked security marks, strict custody of dies and plates, and precise accounting to prevent loss.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Fourteenth
B Streets
Bureau
Treasury
Internal Revenue
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Wise to Escape and a Forked Twig Tale
A rash young man boasts he can locate water with a forked hickory twig. The Kentuckian warns him to leave quietly, fearing the crowd will hang him if word spreads. The Denver Times records this sharp exchange and its dramatic warning tone.
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Denver Times
Elephant beetle of Venezuela weighs half a pound
The elephant beetle, claimed as the world’s largest insect, reaches about a half pound in full growth, noting its immense size among Venezuela’s fauna.
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Venezuela
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New York
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