Washington Bicycling Boom Transforms Capital Life
Special Correspondent describes Washington as a bicycle paradise with 4000 wheels and hundreds of tricycles, asphalt streets, and wide avenues. Clerks, milkmen, newsboys, and tradesmen use cycles, forming clubs like the Capital Bicycle Club with a grand clubhouse. The piece notes safe travel, health benefits, and dazzling feats on Capitol steps and Cabin John bridge, and praises youth riders and evolving urban culture.
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Washington
New England
Virginia
Venice
Neufchatel
Paris
London
Berlin
New York
Vienna
S Am
Post Office Department
Capitol Hill
Capital Bicycle Club
Fifteenth Street
White Lot
White House
Wheeling
Capitol Steps
Cabin John
J. A. Truesdell
Walt Whitman and a Pension Bill for the Poet
Aged 68 Walt Whitman lives in Camden New Jersey in a quiet frame cottage after serving as a Union hospital nurse in the Civil War. The article notes Congress introducing a pension bill of 25.4 dollars per month for his wartime nursing service and describes his bohemian life and Leaves of Grass.
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Walt Whitman
Long Island
New York
Mickle Street
Camden
N. J
A Stranger in Gotham and Politeness in Two Cities
Special correspondence from New York chronicles a curious charity at a Sixth Avenue drygoods store where found items like umbrellas and overshoes were distributed to cash girls. The piece contrasts New York and Brooklyn manners, notes a Sing Sing case involving Alderman McQuade, and sketches Walt Whitman at home amid simple surroundings and a life devoted to nature poetry.
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New York
Sixth Avenue Drygoods
Brooklyn
Greenwood Cemetery
Bridge
Greenwood
Uptown
Boodle
McQuade
Thirteenth Street
Pratt
Thirteen Club
Walter Wiberly
Greeley Tribune Heralds Northern Colorado Family Newspaper
The Greeley Tribune proclaims itself the brightest newsy family paper for Northern Colorado, focusing on agricultural topics and local commerce. It highlights the farmer, merchant, and real estate interests in the community.
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Family Newspaper
Job Department Offers Finest Work and Legal Blanks
The Tribune announces a well supplied Job Department ready to produce high quality work. Legal blanks are always on hand for public notices and official forms.
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the Tribune
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Our Mail Order Department
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Colorado
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Chicago
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M. Ferry & CO
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Mich
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U. S
M. A. McLauchlin & CO
Skinner Brook
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Weir
Greeley Tribune
Weld County
Greeley
Tribune
Carver & Dunning
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