Verdi Marquis of Basseto Rivalry and Other Oddities
The piece notes Graham Lever known as Verdi the Marquis of Basseto and mentions the American syndicate Tr gobbling San Domingo as an improvement firm. It highlights New York pianomakers at the world fair and estates of a Vienna death, M Zova the novelist earning 400000, Isabella society’s bronze statue longing, and a long distance Chicago Boston telephone as absurd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Domingo
Chicago
Boston
Controversial Theories and Oddities Fill Odd Newspaper Row
A sprawling garbled column sketches a British author claiming racial leadership shifts and mocks immigration debates. It parodies fashion, crime, weather, boxing contracts, and various oddities with scattered names, places, and questionable antics across continents.
Inauguration Day as Cleveland Begins Second Term
The article recounts Grover Cleveland's second inauguration amid fierce weather, the parade from the Capitol to the White House, and the ceremony where Chief Justice Fuller administered the oath. It highlights crowd size, pageantry, Mrs. Cleveland's kiss, and the ensuing reception and ball, plus cabinet selections including Gresham, Lamont, Carlisle, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
United States
Capitol
Johnson
Cleveland
Perrine
Dan Ramedell
District of Columbia
Marshal Wright
United States Supreme Court
Morton
Fuller
Lushes
Supreme Court
Valentines
Teller
Med’nerson
Ransom
Committee of Arrangements
Harrison
Othis
National Capital Hints at Postmasters Serving Terms
A Missouri delegation asked the Post Office Department about appointments and learned no new postings will occur until current postmasters’ four year terms end. Appointees must devote full time to the office and abandon other business. quitting such business after appointment could lead to removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasmtndox
Post Office Department
Congress enacts sweeping bills across many issues
The fifty second congress passes bills on ship imports and exports as well as military matters. Legislation covers immigration, canal reciprocity with Canada, pensions for veterans, and expansion of military and naval facilities. Other measures authorize public works, land and records management, and postal improvements while details include the Sherman statue site, lighthouse funding, and an alloted bridge across the Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washiverton
Fifty-Second Congres
Inman
Canada
Gresham and Counselman
Marine Corps
Arapahoes
Secretary of Agriculture
National Bank
California
Centennial Board of Finance
Army
Naval Engineer Corps
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
American University At
Washington
Little Rock
Ark
Secretary of the Treasury
Mississippi River
New Orleans
North Pacific Ocean
Secretary of War
Great Lakes
High Seas
Court of Claims
United States
Weils and
la Abra
Buffalo Jones Builds Buffalo Breeding Venture for Big Profits
Buffalo Jones of Garden City Kansas has built a buffalo breeding business selling full grown buffalo for 1000 dollars and reporting 65000 dollars in earnings. His latest sale was to Austin Corbin for a Vermont park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Garden City
Kan
Austin Corbin
Vermont Park
Morgan
Cameroon
Anthropological Society of Berlin
Tom Garrison
Greenwood Lake
Tom
Nell
Gal
Washington Names Foriegn and Cabinet Posts Reported
Washington reports say the president will send to the Senate Fred Coudert of New York as minister to France Pat Collins of Massachusetts as United States consul general at Liverpool M W Jenkins of Wisconsin for the bench vacancy created by Gresham General Wheeler of Michigan pension commissioner and Irreal Pusey Gray of Indiana minister to Mexico Isaac P Gray of Indiana will be minister to Mexico Kilgore claims Mills of Texas blocked him and a Texan may get the post instead
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Q. Gresham
Harrison
Mr. Cleveland
Senator Ransom
Morton
Charlain Butler
Stevenson
Adve
Jefferson
Calhoun
Republic
Arthur
Hemricks
Senate
McCook
Cerk
Messrs. Lodge
Massachusetts
Murphy
New York
Reach
North Dakota
Smith
New Jersey
White
California
John Martin
Kansas
I’j Offer
Hoar
Martin
Washington
Maron
Fred Coudert
France
Pat Collins
United States
Liverpool
M. W. Jenkins
Wisconsin
Gresham
Gen. Wheller
Michigan
Lreal Pusey Gray
Indiana
Mexico
Kilgore
Congress
Isaac P. Gray
C. KK. Kilgore
Roger «. Mills
Texas
Mills
Benavides
Senate considers cabinet nominations in special session
Washington notes report a special Senate session commenced at noon to act on president nominations for cabinet and other top offices. President Cleveland later sent a message withdrawing the Hawaiian treaty, which had been pending in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Wastington
Cleveland
Oddities and quotes from court to clinic and stage
A collage of humor and trivia cites a Wyoming judge with eighty divorces in forty minutes, a New York hotel guest measured at seven feet, a dentist linking tooth decay to contagious germs, and a doctor claiming only one in fifteen eyes stay in good condition. Other lines joke about marriage, language, politics, and music as medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Rama Bataillard
New York City
Adam
Boston
Gotham
Tarchanoff
St. Petersburg
Chronology Snippet of Historic Dates and Inventions
A fragment listing milestones from ancient to modern times. Notable items include Tacitus first mention of Christians, sugar as medicine, silk introduction to Europe, Omar burning the Alexandrian library, potatoes in Europe via Spain, Arabic numerals in Europe, planetary conjunction, Beethoven's initial symphony, Beauvais carpet factory, Lincoln era election and Southern secession, Harvey on blood circulation, and the fastest railroad record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Europe
Omar
Beethoven
Beauvais
France
Lincoln
Harvey
Biood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Graham Lever
J. W. Graves
Graham
Verdi
Marquis of
Basseto
Forte
Vienna
M. Zova
Academy of Science
Isabella
Caartes Henry Pearsox
W. Goat
Marseilles
Pompadour
Jimmie Corbett
Mitchell
Tae
Cleever
Africa
Swiss Alps
Julien Pass
Jim Consert
Jackson
Tuene
Fraxx Caronix
West Chester
Sault
Seventh Avenue
Pittburg
Arkansas Bank
Comptroller of the Treasury
Maverick Bank
Gpover Clev Land
Wastaxetox
Grover Cleveland
Connecticut
Ennsylvania
Maryland
Georgia
South Carolina
Lousiana
L’ennsylvania Ayeous
White House
Arlington Hotel
Mra Cleveland
Mrs. Cleveland
McPherson
Lamar
Elec
Senate Committee On
Executive
McKee
United States Army
National Guard
McMahon
E. A. Stevenson
Pennsylvania Avenue
Senate Committee
Presiderteiert Stevenson
Sueg
Igor Aed
Senofield
John G. Carlisle
Dantal & Lamont
Hilary A. Jerbert
Tice
Peil Mell
Mr. Morton
Mr. Morrison
Sterling Morton
Kitton
Lamont
Lemont
Mr. Harrison
Col. Berret
Arm Iacm
Indianapolis
Baltimore and Ohio
Dickinson
Miss Saunders
Secre
Tary
Walter Quinton Gresham
Herri
On County
Thirty
the Treasury
Daniel SS. Lamont
Amont
National Capital
Secretary of the Navy
Hilary H. Herbert
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Mr. Herbert
Laurensville
Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Wilson Shannon Bissell
Buffalo
Ile
New London
Oneida County
N. Y
Bissell
J. Sterling Morton
Arbor Lodge
Nebraska
The
Interio
Roke Smith
Atlanta
Mr. Smith
Newton
N.C
Atlanta Evening Journal Company
Attorney Generral
Richard Viney
Corporation
New England
Mr. Olney
Oxford
Mass
Richard Olney
Brown University
Harvard Law School
Hoke Smith
Congressional
Summary of
Sr. Louis
St. Louis
Exposition Building
Harlow
Union
Rinlly
Boston Transcript
Broadway
John Woodworth
Charlotte
Mich
Colorado
Oqiner
Hugore Lett
Mills Semtex
Wasuington
Lords OF Creation
Tacitus
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!