Doings of Congress in Nation's Capital
Senators and representatives moved on tariff adjustments and executive actions while debating sugar schedules and banking tax repeal. Confirmation of Jerry Donahue as Decatur postmaster occurred. plans for money circulation and a public building at Elgin were discussed alongside routes for a ship canal survey and a proposed exposition commission.
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Georgia
Repest
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Nebraska
Bingham
Pennsylvania
Robinson
Elgin
Nouse Committee On Railways and Canals
Yan
New York
Capitol
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Linton
Pennsylvania and
New Jersey
Maylach
United States
Baltimore
Uridze
Kurilogten
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Walsh
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
Quay
Caffery
Sucar-Trust
bin Savemeyer
Test of a Work Stomach at Zoothermic Institute
In Rome a so called pure place offers fresh blood for gout rheumatism and other malarial fevers cures. Blood is sterilized by aseptic methods after veterinary inspection and some patients bathe parts or all of the body in the warm blood for supposed benefit.
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Zoothermic Institute
Rome
Tontine
Giant 400-foot wheel to rise at Earl's Court London
A much larger wheel than the great Ferris wheel is being erected at Earl's Court London. The 400 foot structure will carry 2 000 people in lift cars. Three restaurants will be built on platforms at varying heights on the supporting towers and a big ball room will crown the towers at the az.
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Earl's Court
London
Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake
An advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest. It promises the finest, sweetest, most delicious food and the lightest texture. It warns against substitutes with gifts or cheaper prices that may contain alum or acids, urging use of Royal for wholesome, digestible results.
Revolving houses and cyclones prompt Paris joke
A Paris journal cites a United States craze for bizarre homes, including pie shaped and octagonal designs, but mocks a so called revolver house on a pivot with a weather vane and cannon that allegedly wards off cyclones. The piece ends by remarking on trusting foreign reports for domestic news.
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Paris
United States
America
Tila
Times
Rapid Transit in Foreign Cities
New York debates underground electric rapid transit while Budafesth in Hungary authorizes a road with 1,500,60 capital. Similar schemes are discussed for Bosgion and Paris, which aims to operationalize a rapid transit line for its Exposition crowds in 19uu.
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New York
London
Budafesth
Hungary
Bosgion
Paris
Faust Time by Oxen in Milford Freight Runaway
Dwight Platt of Milford Connecticut tied his ox team to lumber loaded cars by a side track near Milford Railway Station and left to rest. A freight train coupled on the cars without warning. The charging oxen derailed lumber along the track before a brakeman spotted them. Mr Platt now uses ordinary hitching posts.
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Faust
Dwight Platt
Milford
Conn
J’latt
Hartford Courant
How to Test Diamond
A simple method uses a pin to pierce a card and observe the hollow created. If genuine the hole appears once. if fake two holes may show. An imitation shows lines on the finger’s skin, while the true gem yields no such marks.
Ferritt the versatile man of varied pursuits
Ferritt proved adept in every venture he entered. Merritt recalls a time when he undertook an excavation and recovered substantial damages from the city, demonstrating his ability to secure compensation and navigate complex projects.
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Ferritt
Merritt
Portable Manchester Ship Canal searchlight system
A compact night navigation lighting rig for ships on the Manchester Ship Canal mirrors the Suez pattern. It combines a small engine and dynamo with an Admiral ty style search-light projector, mast arc lamp, and reflector. The 20 inch projector barrel and 20 inch mirror with a 10 inch focus allow removable cleaning via a bayonet socket, and a camera-like view instrument is included for aiming the arc image.
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Manchester Ship Canal
Suez Canal
Admiralty
Japanese Goddess Image Towering in Tokyo's War God Shrine
In Tokyo a colossal statue of a female deity dedicated to Hachiman stands nine tenths of a century old. The wood iron and plaster figure rises fifty four feet with a winding interior stair to the head cell holding twenty. The goddess wields a sword and a large wooden ball, and its interior anatomy is a detailed scale model. The eyes are magnifying glasses offering a broad view of the surroundings.
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Hachiman
Stomach Bitters Promotes Digestion and Health
The advertisement claims many stomach problems stem from imprudence and weak digestion, and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal health promoter. It asserts the remedy aids delicate appetites, cures nervousness from indigestion, liver issues, constipation, early rheumatism and kidney trouble, and defends against malaria when used consistently rather than sporadically.
White Treatment of Faupers in Holland Model Farms
The article describes a Dutch system with five thousand acres of public land divided into six model farms for paupers seeking relief. Eligible individuals may become free farmers by volunteering to learn agriculture and renting small plots. A forced labor colony punishes beggars and vagrants by making them perform farm and other tasks.
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Holland
Rose I Choose to Marry a Man I Respect
Quotes reflect a view on selecting a spouse by respect over romance. The speaker argues it is better to marry someone you respect than someone you adore, noting that loving men is easier than respecting them.
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Rose
Fort Wayne Business College Advises Rope Cordage Trust
Instructional line references Fort Wayne Business College and a maxim about giving a man all the rope he wants in relation to the cordage trust, presented as a proverbial admonition or lesson in restraint.
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The
Fort Wayne Business College
What Can Be Done A Lesson In Value From A Poem To A Check
A Young Lutheran quips on value and worth across professions from poetry to money to labor. He notes Tennyson elevating a worthless sheet into 865000, Vanderbilt turning words into 85000000, and the US minting value on gold coins. He contrasts skill, business, foolishness, labor, and editors, ending that even a large check would be worthless without merit.
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Tennyson
Vanderbilt
United States
Keep Your Temper And Live A Hundred Years
A Boston Herald quote urges temper control claiming Mrs. Charlotte Bell aged 103 credits calmness for longevity though she ends her days in the almshouse. The piece contrasts stoic restraint with a playful social exchange about drinking smoking and vices.
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Charlotte Bell
Boston Herald
Hall and Shilohs Cures and Odd Advertisements
An assortment of old medical cures and household products appears in the text. It lists Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents, Shiloh's Consumption Cure priced in several amounts, Glenn's Sulphur Soap praised for improving complexions, and a note about auctioning family relics. The tone mimics promotional snippets from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper.
Syrup of Figs Promises Health Benefits and Purity
An advertising note touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that cleanses the liver and bowels, dispels colds and headaches, and improves wellbeing. It claims universal physician approval and warns buyers to insist on the California Fig Syrup Co. product, available in 500 ml and 1 bottle sizes.
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California
Fig 8 Co
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