Territorial Talk and New Mexico Political Skirmishes
The Albuquerque press columns attack administration policy and political figures, praising or denouncing ex officials, and scattering rumors about Gov. Ross, ex-governor Axtell, and others. A plan for county immigration boards is debated, with notes on a coal mine, a marriage in Albuquerque, and local legal cases.
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New Mexico
Litchman
Ross
New Mexican
Albuquerque
Democratic Committee
Nmber
Trimble
Neil B. Field
H. B. Fergusson
W. H. Williams
Silver City
Folsom
Bureau of Immigration
Washington Ferritory
Ft. Stanton
Mincola
J. W. Donnelly
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
J. A. Williamson
Olive Colvin Innis
Wallace Worth Hite
Hite
Socorro
Reed
Chiricahuas
W. A. Leonard
Meredith & Ailman
Harkey
Leonard
Southwest
Sentinel
Philip Allen
Aztec
Jong
Lynch
Best Young Men Discuss Harrison Cleveland Shuffle
In a Brooklyn Eagle column Burdette quotes a pair of best young men debating Harrison and Cleveland. They ponder elections and the president's pay, noting Harrison as president and Cleveland as vice president in a turnabout arrangement while questioning judges and formal titles.
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Harrison
Indiana
Cleveland
New York
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Joke about a jeweler's master thief getaway
A humorous tale quotes a senior partner scolding staff as the cashier clerk and partner abscond with cash silverware gold watches and jewelry. The boss muses about traveling with diamonds and nickel watches, planning a trip to Jersey while packing a basket with goods.
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Montreal
Spain
Europe
South America
Jersey
The Greedy Savages and Education Efforts
The Indian commissioner laments famine among tribes and recalls efforts to prevent starvation by day schools and cultural instruction. He blames military administration for fostering dependence and fears civil authority cannot end the habit without food aid. The excerpt ends noting maneuvers testing electric light against smoke at Malta batteries.
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Deacon Burdette
Malta
Enterprising Plaindealer Heralds Its Claims and Quips
The Plaindealer proclaims itself the sole local newspaper paying the compositor and printing a page at home while banning poker and excess in its sanctum and touting its temperance column and puzzle department. It lampoons English usage with yacht names and cites anecdotes from papers like The Washington Capital and Topeka Capital, then jests about a pharmacy fix for problems and Indian meal irony.
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Plaindealer
Plaindealer Sanctum
Philadelphia visitor finds historic site paid by Wannamaker sales
In a humorous dialogue from the Boston Herald a News Boy points to John Wannamaker's store as a historic Philadelphia landmark and notes a pair of pants for $3. The exchange includes a patient at a Christian Scientist office asking about the healer, who is ill today.
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Philadelphia
News Boy
John Wannamaker
Yeacher
America
Christian Scientist's
Boston Herald
Minnie
Minneapolis
Miss Minne
Australia
United States
Herald Publishing Company
Palace Avenue
Geo. W. Hickox & Co
J. L. Marsh
Arm strong answers Childs on Hampton Indian school
Gen Arm strong replies to Rev Dr Childs about treatment of Indian boys at Hampton school. He says Childs misleads, notes guard house inmates were moved outdoors three times daily and could end confinement by disclosing liquor sources. He defends room as a whisky fight against Indians’ worst enemy and cites corrections by Whitlesey and Smiley.
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Childs
Monror
Armstrong
Hampton School
J. 5
Washington
United States
Virginia
Child
Our
States
General Whitlesey
Smiley
Board of Indian, Commissioners
Wade Hamptons Army Story Novel Yet Provokes Laughter
A compact, period style item notes Senator Wade Hampton telling an army story to President Harrison, who admired its wit despite profanity. The anecdote involves a war era chaplain, a colonel, and a fence, illustrating Hampton’s rare tendency to entertain the president with a vivid tale.
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Wade Hampton
Senator Wade Hampton
Gen
Harrison
Senator Hampton
Hampton
South Carolina
St Regiment
Columbus
Journal
Fragmented Victorian Chatty Snippets and Risque Phrases
A mosaic of brief, disjointed sentences from late 19th to early 20th century sources includes intimate quotes, casual violence, religious book endorsements, social banter, a river suicide, and light theft dialogue. The tone shifts from erotic to moralistic, with a stray sailor remark and a stage ride suggestion woven through.
Kiss Confusion Between Husband and Wife
A playful dialogue reveals a newlywed couple's misgiving about affection. The wife notes only one kiss in two weeks, while the husband cites a stage kissing trainer and a lingering stomach ache as reasons for his reserve. A stranger’s financial request adds a further quirky touch.
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Santa Fe
Frre Lance
Raten Daily Independent
Eugene Fiske
Tom Smith
Fiske
Cora
Gracie
Alice
Miss Boston
Mr. Boston
William Walter Phelps
Bayard
Topeka
Mexico
Vatican
Rome
Segast
Valencia
Mel
N. Y
Sampson
New York Sun
St. Francis de Sales
Father Faber
Art Museum
Fifth Avenue
van Bier
Mary Skinner
Chicago
Kirst
Royal Baking Powder CO
Wall Street
The
Free , Lance
Ayer
Foss
Milwaukee
Wis
Paurner Gavaty
Schumann
Wagner & Haffner
People OF
Body Brussels
B. Hanley
Colorado Bear
San Francisco Street
Blain Brothers
Drealers
San Francisco
Street
Grant Rivenburg
J.ossen
Uelabpadgel
Archbishop's Garden
Deal
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