When They Were Boys The Infancy of the Present Administration
A historical sketch traces the early lives of cabinet members like Rusk Windom Blaine and Tanner. It notes humble origins among farmers and laborers, early schooling, and frontier upbringing shaping future leaders. It recalls Rusk’s threshing anecdote and Tanner’s Lincoln night testimony work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckeye
Blaine
Ephraim Blaine
Ephraim L. Blaine
James Tanner
Schoharie County
Albany
N. Y
Washington
Tenth Steel
Ford
Lincoln
Stanton
Young Tanner
Georgetown
Tanner
Mr. Tanner
Mr. Lincoln
Fearful Stroke of Lightning Hits East Point
A violent lightning shower struck East Point near Atlanta on a Saturday afternoon. More than twenty bolts struck within a quarter mile causing damage to a windmill, lawn grass, a window, a carpet, and even killing a cow while a telegraph operator was knocked from his chair. A copper colored cloud drifted northward as balls of fire rolled along railroad tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Point
Atlanta
Macoa
She Gave Me That Which She Indeed Had Many Times Bestowed
Willard O Wyte mocks romance in a Boston Journal quip about a mitten and a mittened kiss. A second note jokes that purses are made of leather, remarking on leather goods from the Shoe and Leather Reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard O. Wyte
Boston Journal
Strong willed Georgia woman displays extraordinary strength
Mrs. Annie Abbott of Milledgeville, a 98 pound 25 year old, wowed private spectators in Ford's theater with feats rivaling Lulu Hurst. She lifts and destabilizes heavy men on chairs, remains steady on one foot, and resists large muscular attempts to move her. She notes power rises after about a minute of contact and fails when on carpet or iron. The report also critiques Russian art as a contrast to Western imitation.
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Colorado
Linde
Jeremiah M. Rusk
Agricultural Department
Minnhooed
Unio
Jerry
Georgia
Lulu Hurst
Ford's
Annie Abbott
Milledgeville
Florida
Jacksonville
South Carolina
Hot Springs
Arkansas
John K. Sullivan
Kremlin
St. Petersburg
France
Germany
England
Peter the Great
Catharine
Peter
Catherine
Empire
Russia
Theodore Child
Harper's Magazine
The Kremlin and Russian Art: a Unique Spectacle
The Kremlin appears white and gold on its hilltop plateau with roseate brick gate towers and green roofs. Its walls enclose four squares, cathedrals, churches, palaces, and historic monuments including the Tsar Bells and Tsar Guns, forming a fairy tale yet distinctly Russian architectural marvel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kremlin
Alhambra
Ivan the Great
Moskva
Printing in Ninth Century Egypt Through El Fayum Papyri
El Fayum manuscripts show movable type printing in Egypt by the ninth century, with twenty seven printings on paper found from the tenth century. Papyri reveal religious content suggesting priestly use, and references to early paper money during the 1147 Crusade. Evidence indicates Baghdad caliphate owned a paper factory in 794 795 in the city.
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el Fayam
Egypt
Archduke Rainer
Fayum
Syria
Bagdad
Grant as a Wood-Cutter Remembered By Judge Lanham
The St Louis Republican recounts how Grant chopped cordwood around the stump rather than half down each side. He recalls visiting St. Louis during his presidency and laments the burden of the nation, contrasting happier days cutting wood for pay and family happiness with present duties.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jerry Rusk
Windom
Buse
Rustic
Wisconsin
Rusk
Capt. Bacon
Ohio
Congress
Sherman
Pieres County
Beasley
Beasleys
Beasley Boys
Gen. Rusk
Pieves
Wiliam Windom
Treasury Department
Mount Vernon
Wisdom
Judge Hurd
Frank Hard
Soo
Corporal Tanner
James G. Blaine
Kreeley
Garfield
Valley Forge
Jimmy
Andrew Jackson
Garmmar
Plutarch
Harrison
Noble
Thomas Ewing
Secretary of the Treasury
Lord Lyons
Sullivan
Grant
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