Wonders of Chicago Drainage Made Visible to the World
Special correspondence explains Chicago's rise from mud to a modern city, lifting buildings with jack screws and draining via the Illinois canal to the Gulf of Mexico. It notes Chicago's water use, the canal’s role, and a commission exploring canal expansion to handle sewage and river flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf of Mexico
Chicago
Chica
Lake Michigan
Illinois Canal
Ilinois
Mississippi
Alton
Mississippi River
Great Gulf
Hennepin Canal
Biographies of Windthorst and Richter in Bismarck era clash
A detailed profile of Ludwig Windthorst and Eugene Richter contrasts their voices in the German Reichstag over the army bill. Windthorst, a courteous, disciplined clerical leader, is praised for parliamentary skill and reform efforts, while Richter, a radical reformist, champions progress and criticizes centralization.
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Berwin
Europe
Reichstag
Bismarck
Dr. Windthorst
Dr. Richter
United States
Ludwig Windthorst
Meppen
Navy
Goettingen
Heidelberg
Osnabruck
Hanover
Prussia
Windthorst
House of Delegates
Sadowa
George
William
Guelph Fund
House of Deputies
Eugene Richter
Richter
Dusseldorf
Bonn
Berlin
Neuwild
Bomberg
Progressist Party
Advice to Journalists on Specialization and Demand
The managing editor argues journalism will favor those who specialize. As journalism grows, pay rises and demand increases, paralleling medicine and law's move to focused fields. Writers who master a specialty will be in steady demand as newspapers expand and topics diversify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International
Noite
Lord
Treasure of Hue De Conrey Visit Turns Out Valueless
The Hue treasure seized by Gen. De Conrey in the imperial palace and sent to France, once valued at 15,600,000 francs, was found to be worthless. The so called bars of silver turned out to be lead as reported by Paris Intransigeant. The Augusta Chronicle quotes the line that all great fortunes eventually disappear into the public realm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Boston
San Francisco
Walter Wellman
Hue
de Conrey
Imperial Palace
France
Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Herald
the Tribune
di Cesnola
Cesnola
Vanderbilt
Tribune
Walter Wiberly
Europe
Bismarck
Reichstag
Germany
Sadowa
Austria
Napoleon III
Sedan
Place de la Concorde
Strasbourg
Alsace
Re-elected Connecticut Senator Hawley Noted for Long Public Service
Joseph Roswell Hawley of Connecticut has been re-elected as senator. He began in politics with Free Soil and the Republican party, owned The Republican and Hartford Courant, and served as governor, congressman, and Civil War officer. He led the United States Centennial commission and an 1876 international exhibition effort.
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Joseph Roswell Hawley
Connecticut
Republican
Free Soil
Press
Republican Party
Hartford Courant
Gen. Hawley
North Carolina
Young Joseph
Joseph R. Hawley
Hawley
Hamilton College
New York
Lincoln
Sumter
Grant
United States
Milestone Michigan Senator-Elect Col Francis B Stockbridge
Senator-elect Francis B Stockbridge of Kalamazoo Michigan, a wealthy lumber and railroad man, has long funded Republican campaigns. A Maine native now 61, he built a Michigan business in 1850 and served in state government before declining the post of minister to The Hague due to his wife’s ill health.
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Michigan
Francis B. Stockbridge
Kalamazoo
Mich
Wes
F. B. Stockbridge
Maine
General Grant
The
Hague
Cushman K. Davis Elected Minnesota Senator
Ex governor Cushman K. Davis of St. Paul succeeds J. B. McMillan as Minnesota senator. Davis, likened to Benjamin F. Butler in appearance and wit, was born in Jefferson County New York forty nine years ago and graduated Carroll College at nineteen before studying law at Ann Arbor. He served as United States attorney from 1868 to 1878 and then won Minnesota’s governorship as a Republican.
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Cushman K. Davis
St. Paul
J. B. McMillan
Minnesota
Northwest
Benjamin F. Butler
Jefferson County
N. Y
Carroll College
Ann Arbor
Mich
United States
Davis
Chicago desire for a standing army at Highland Park
Sixty six Chicago citizens press for a permanent U S military garrison at Highland Park on Lake Michigan, donated land if used for military purposes. Commercial club buyers including Senator C B Farwell influence resolution to seek twelve regiments due to anarchist fears. The measure passes the senate and goes to the house. The White House mince meat is attributed to Mrs Folsom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Highland Park
Lake Michigan
Commercial Club
Illinois
C. B. Farwell
Highland Park Senate
Logan
Secretary of War
United States
Call
Senate
House
White House
A Stranger in Gotham on Sidewalk Blockades and Curious City Folk
Special correspondence from New York notes sidewalks blocked by goods and skids, a lack of alleys forcing street loading. It highlights a jeweled mix of quirky characters from a dapper truckman to a 60 year old Jersey diner visitor, box cafes, back-number merchants, and Sunday museum debates sparked by Cesnola and the Metropolitan.
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New York
San
Ann Street
Chicago
Jersey
Battery Sea Wall
West Street
North River
Pugilists and racing figures loom in 1887 sports scene
Special correspondent reports a lively 1887 in American sport with English boxing stars Jem Smith and Charlie Mitchell arriving, Dempsey and Kilrain active, upcoming Sullivan Smith plans, and a grander year for horse racing led by Tremont Connemara and Bessie June. Bicycling faces turf clashes but strong races persist. aquatics and sprinting may pause if scullers and sprinters sail to Australia.
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New York
America
Jem Smith
Charlie Mitchell
Adonis
Homerica
Pat Killen
Frank Glover
Jake Kilrain
Bill Bradburn
Joe Lannon
Jack Ashton
Sullivan
Smith
Madison Square Garden
United States
Mitchell
Dominick McCaffrey
MacCormack
Mac
Kilrain
Dom
McCaffrey
Jack Dempsey
Dwyer Brothers
Tremont
Connemara
Bessie June
Australia
The Paris Bank Generale Facade and Liquidity Debate
Paris Cor. notes the Bank Generale with 12 million capital and 48 million deposits. It questions solvency under liquidation, estimating 4,000 depositors served at 25 minutes each would span thousands of minutes and days, highlighting potential crisis delays. The piece ends with a note on Meyerbeer whistling Yankee Doodle at age five.
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Rune de Provence I
Bank Generale
America
Paris
Philadelphia Times
France and Germany Army Size Compared in Fears of War
The piece describes rising tensions between France and Germany, noting France's larger army on every service except infantry. It references Bismarck's Reichstag speech and predicts potential conflict, with France increasing defenses and war credits amid Alsace Lorraine frictions.
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France
Prussia
Germany
Sedan
Alsace-Lorraine
Paris
Africa
Senate
Europe
America
Bismarcks
von Moltke
Empire
Bismarck
French Army Outnumbers Germany Yet Battle Uncertain
The article compares French and German forces noting France leads by about 50 000 overall with infantry slight German edge. It questions moral and stubborn endurance of French troops citing bravado over hang on and comments on decadence and decadence among modern soldiers. The piece ends with Wall Street figure 8 V White posting I am not a deacon.
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France
Germany
Waterloo
Alsace
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Wonders TN
West
Crrcaco
Tts
England
Augusta Chronicle
U. 8S
Gotham
Paris Bank Generale
Meyerbeer
Isda
Grtilery
Engineer Corps
V. White
Wall Street
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