Wealth and politics mingle in a late 19th century prayer for reform
The excerpt surveys high society and finance from Prince of Wales to Krupp, notes Harvard President Extor on education and science, critiques public school foreign language instruction, and discusses debt sales, immigration growth, manners, and contentment. It reflects a period voice on wealth, reform, and social conduct.
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Extor
Harvard
Chicago
Grand Rivers
Lynn County
Kentucky
Chattanooga
Tenn
A. Taylor
Ashland
Henry Clay
Shamokin
Frank Hill
Pueblo
Col
Mia Hill
New Orleans
Manuel Politz
Hennessy
Frank Lawler
Salem
Lnd
William Drummey
Cambridge
Boston
Paris
Thomas McGee
John Aaron
McGee
Harrison
Huston
J. A Lemeke
Evansville, Ltd
Gertrude Hilcox
Milwaukee
Avaux
Tex
Senate
Mr. Frank
Page
Carter
Grank
Texas Week in Review of New Projects and Incidents
Texas highlights include new mills and factories at Yoakum Edna and Abilene outfits in Birmingham and Comanche iron foundry plans. Farms expand across counties with oats corn and cotton outlooks, while transport gets upgrades in Abilene Taylor and Denton. Crime and accidents touch communities from Bonham to Waco with deaths, injuries, and burglaries.
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Andy Lankford
Bonham
Limestone County
Marceline Martinez
San Antonio
Denton County
Atlanta
Comanche
Bonham’s
Abilene
Kenneyville
Austin County
DeWitt County
Cuero
J. H. Exell
Brookston
Gainesville
James McKenzie
Corpus Christi
Houston ¥. M. C
Sam Jones
Sterling County
Coryell County
Hallestsville
General and Foreign News From The Past Week
Richmond Kentucky reports eighteen miles of macabized streets and many unrelated items across states. Notable mentions include deaths in Michigan and Ohio, suicides in Wisconsin, a murder arrest in Kentucky, a new tobacco factory in Tennessee, and pension fund notes in Washington.
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Richmond
Assumption Parish
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
W.T. Mansell
Ostawanla
Grand Rapids
Mich
Arkansas House
Sam Houston
Barbour County
Alabama
John W. Chamberlain
Michigan
Lansing
Martin
Tenn
Treasury Department
Washington
Lafayette
Ind
George Heineman
Henry Tweggs
Springfield
Thomas Baker
Kentucky
Autiago
Wis
Texas Lawmakers Debate Dallas-Oak Cliff Merger
Austin reports a crowded House committee scene on the Dallas Oak Cliff consolidation with threats of clashes among lobbyists. Senate and House battles unfold over the Austin charter and a string of bills including a Sunday law revision and a state railroad commission measure.
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Austix
Tex
House Committee
Dallas-Oak Cliff
Senate City Committee
Austin
Ths
Dallas
Batts of
Bastrop
House Committee On State Affairs
Judiciary Committee No. 2
Railroad Commission
Gresham
Avustix
Senate
Maetze
Kearby
Crawford
Garwood
Townsend
Simkins
Stephens
Whatley
House
Brown
Lewin
Baker
Tom Green
San Elizario
Vestal
Gossett
Secretary of State
Rogan
Caldwell
Kimbrough
Federal Treasury
Texas
Jones
Panola
Party of
Blair Bill
McKinley
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Goodman
Robertson
Averix
Frank
Gulf Coast
Tyler
Burney
Browning
Donley
Lindsley
Smith
Batts
State Volunteer Guard
National Guard
Lampasas
Dilla
Grayson
Freeman
Henderson
J. A. Belgin
Rogers
Anderson
Coneo
Playwright DeMille Silences a Bore With Parrot Tale
A dinner tale from DeMille ends a noisy guest’s chatter: the parrot story prompts a dog to attack, then the parrot discovers his own fault in speaking too much. The piece notes Edison and Koch rising in fame and other literary names entering the scene as older stars fade.
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Tige
The Money Supply and Gold Reserves Reported
The article notes approximately 2 billion in money in the United States with two thirds gold and one third silver in coins and paper funds backed by Treasury vaults. It cites a Hartford Times summary and mentions a treaty phrasing dispute over infinitives and a Mexican syndicate buying interior debt bonds in Europe.
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Treasury
Washington
New York
Hartford Times
Europe
Lima Seen Through Theodore Childs Eye in Harper Magazine
A vintage Harper’s Magazine passage by Theodore Child portrays Lima as a decayed and impoverished capital of New Spain, with crowded streets, beggars, and unhygienic conditions. He notes money changers, lottery sales, and the prevalence of huacas while Peru’s finances falter and coinage remains scarce, driving credit and bank checks.
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Theodore
Child
Harper" Magazine
Viceroyal
New Spain
Lima
Constantinople
Paita
Peru
Remarkable seventeenth century mills described in travel notes
English traveler Morrison at Dantzio Prussia reports a mill that cuts boards with an iron wheel powered without human hands and that also turns logs onto the saw. Dr John Dee claims a Prague mill where the devil himself was master.
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Mr. Morrison
Dantzio
Prussia
John Dee
Prague
Ten Largest Cities Listed With Rankings
The text ranks cities by size, placing London Paris New York Canton Berlin Vienna Tokio Chicago Philadelphia St Petersburg as the ten largest. It notes New York would rank second if its metro area were counted like London Paris and other great cities.
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London
Paris
New York
Canton
Berlin
Vienna
Tokio
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Petersburg
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Seesteraham Lea Graham Reader
Grahkem
Prince of Wales
Great Britain
Tne
Herr Krupp
Baron Rothchild
Allegheny City
Rome
Conroe
Birmingham
Liana
Yoakum
Beaumont
Campbell
Hunt County
Prick
Galveston
Mainland
Childress
Bee County
Dalla
Parker County
Taylor
W. F. Lewis
Waxahachie
Hamilton County
Weatherford
Coke County
Jom F. Matthews
John Williams
Grapeland
J. K. Moore
van Alstyne
Sinclair
Sam Cole
Yellow Jack
Fort Worth
George Fiergravea
Grimes County
Sabinel Mining and Smelting Company
el Paso
Mexico
Lexington
William Hoover
Claude
Baptist College
Brownwood
Wolfe City Foundry Company
Haw Dowling
Will Kupek
Terrell
Dowling
Red River
Calvert's Ferry
Dentton
Bruce McCarty
Hico
Crockett
Whiteright
Wolfe City
Additon
Kaufman County
McKinney
Myers & Kendall
Washford
Laredo
Monterey
Smith County
Wagner
Lone Star Iron Company of
Jefferson
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Dixon Williams
Deniron
J. W. Lawrence
Denson
John Daliy
Independence
Berlin Bridge Company
Frio County
Leona
Frio
Meck
Ernest Ameling
Stantly
Corrigan
Colorado River
Austin Dam
Alvin
Calvin Metz
Bitter Creek
al Frais
Charley Bailey
Waco
Chick McClellan
McClellan
Eagle Pass
Charlie Mims
C. M Caldwell
Mims
J. R. Gibson
Sulphur Springs
Coliwatar
Ohio
Arthur L. Kellar
Brazil
Matilda Evans
Gransbury
Andrew Goldberg
Opelousas
Boyce
Rapides Parish
General Sherman
Herman G. Liebiz
Mascoutah, LL
Prospect
Jacksonville
Ala
William Barth
Rosedale
Columbus, Ga
George Lantz
Markle
Frank Dice
William Chaney
Adkinsonville
Louisville, Ky
Kansas House
Alliance
North Carolina Penitentiary
Weldon
Ilinois
Robert E. Peary
United States Navy
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Lizzie Cloak
Harrisburg
Collins
Nebraska
United States
W. Winchester
Covington
Hamilton
Ill
Sadie Carr
Noble
Yuma
A. T
Chirique Trading Company
Pensacola
Fla
Bocas del Toro
Colombia
North Carolina
Stanly County
Murphy
New York City
William West
Washington, Pa
Crouch
St. Louis
Union Dairying Company
Lottie Sherman
Jefferson Bryant
Bryant
Connell
Tupelo Swamps
Altheimer
Ark
Julian McQuade
Harper's Magazine
Vicksburg
Miss
Edwin G. Ford
Shreveport
Orlando and
Mosquito Inlet
Florida
Orange
Volusia
Orlando
Bay St. Louis
B. Beck
Frank McGrath
Kansas Farmers’ Alliance
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Joe Addison
Redfield
Supreme Court of Hawaii
Buenos Ayres
M. Floescoe
Charles of
Roumania
Prince Reuss
Hohen Johe
Alsace- Lorraine
Church of England
South Sea
Baiten
Entive
Chillan
Pisagua
Clers McKeggie
National Provinal Bank of England
Woods
Mra O'Shea
Charles
Evelyn Wood
THE
Texas Lawmakers
Glaascock
South
William Neal Ramey
Bowie County
Stateaseks
Board of Aldermen
Jefferson Davis
I. HH
Bell
J. Martin of
Wise
Smoot
Harlem
Lindsay
Swan
Perry
DeMille
Edison
Koch
N. Y. Sun
Bret Harte
Mr. Gladstone
London News
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