In Departments Some Are Better Condition Than Supposed
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent quotes a high department official who defends the existing workforce. He praises long-serving male staff for competency and warns that removing them for political reasons would harm government function. He notes many clerks are families’ breadwinners and warns of distress if mass removals occur. He also defends many women workers as virtuous and capable.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
F” Street
District of Columbia
Usbands
United States
Naval Academy
Pension Office
Naval Department
Ohio
English campaign shoat tale and a Berkshire hornet nest analogy
A Michigan farmer compares the Africa campaign to a Berkshire shoat with an insatiable appetite that wanders despite fences and walls. It spurs the image of the animal entering timber and starting a hornet’s nest, ending subdued after a long escape.
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Michigan
Africa
Chicago Herald
What Defines Louisiana Creoles and Their Heritage
The author, a self professed Creole, traces Creole identity in Louisiana to French Spanish and German ancestry, noting English use at home but French in family life. He contrasts New Orleans Creoles with country parish Creoles, cites political roles held by Creoles, and distinguishes Creoles from American descendants and Creole Negro patois.
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Louisiana
Andalusia
Spain
Germany
France
United States
England
Ireland
Nova Scotia
Canada
Great Britain
New Orleans
Supreme Court
Paris
Lyons
Louisana
Cor. Times-Democrat
The Penitentes and their deadly ritual in New Mexico
Birge Harrison reports in Harper's Magazine May issue on the Penitentes a secret religious society founded in Santa Cruz in 1693. He describes annual public expiation using cactus thorn beds naked-penitents walking on sharp spines and self scourging with cactus tied to thongs. Monsignor Lamy has tried to abolish the practice but faces deep cultural entrenchment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Santa Cruz
Pouliantes
Campo Santo
Monsignor Lamy
Paragrapher Quips From The Washington Hatchet
A Washington Hatchet piece presents satirical quotes from a Chicago girl a Boston girl milk man plumber spring poet and spring bonnet on paragrapher chatter about feet size language and social fuss. The voices mock media excess while clinging to personal traits and fashion items.
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Chicago
Boston
Spring Bonnet
Washington
A Coroner's Verdict on an Alcohol Related Death
A coroner's jury ruled a prominent man died of alcoholism. Critics argued the man never drank, never entered a saloon, yet the coroner cited the shooter as drunk. He insisted the case shows the deceased was killed by whisky.
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Eccased
Arkansaw Traveler
Bass Bros
Terrell
Texas
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G. G. N. McDonnel
Americus
Salem
Atlanta Constitution
the Penitentes
Washington St
Buffalo, N. C
Ranteed
Lars
Weeks & Ray
Proprietors
Olds Wagon
Indian Timber
Warraneta -Senome Cir Olds" Wagon Works
Fort Wayne
Ind
Stampa
J.F. Smith & CO
T. Louis
Harris
Rosy
Avdi
M'Fo
Louis
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