Social ties and rivalries mark Congress friendships
The Boston Letter describes how Edmunds and Ingalls frequent the Democratic side, Sawyer acts as a workhorse for the Pension Committee, and Southern Democrats mingle little with Republicans. It notes pairings like Guenther with Laird and Reed with Hiscock, plus cordial yet distant ties among Bayard Endicott and Lamar Garland.
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Edmunds
Ingalls
Massachusetts
Evarte
Joe Brown
Morgan
Alabama
Sawyer
Wisconsin
Mitchell
Pension Committee
Congress
Hammond
Blount
Reagan
Randall
Morrison
Springer
Tom Reed
Reed
Guyer
Guenther
Laird
Nebraska
Crain
Texas
Tarsney
Michigan
Chums
Hiscock
Butler
South Carolina
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Chum
Bayard and Endicott
Frozen Mines near Gray's Peak in Georgetown Courier
A late Georgetown Courier report describes cold, frozen workings on McClellan Mountain near Gray's Peak. Adits on the Stevens vein extend about 1000 feet, with ground frozen to over 250 feet depth. Frost forms delicate fan-shaped tracery on walls and timbers, with no thaw evident in seasons.
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McClellan Mountain
Stevens
Independence
Centennial Vein
Pittsburg
Boston
Georgetown Courier
Gray’s Peak
French Craze art work promo for ladies placque
The Empire News Co offers a new art craze for deco rating china glassware and more. For $1.00, ladies in Boston New York and other eastern cities can receive an 18 inch decorated placque with materials 100 color designs and full instructions. Include five addresses to receive a bonus 30 inch gold tinted placque. Syracuse NY.
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Boston
New York
Mdies
Empire News Co
Syracuse
N. Y
Pueblo Lights 43 Street Lamps At 2000 Candle Power
Pueblo now features forty three street lamps each rated at two thousand candle power illuminating downtown avenues.
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Pueblo
A Genial Restorative and Local Glass Industry News
The article touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a gentle restorative that gradually improves digestion and promotes regularity without harsh drugs. It notes the tonic’s suitability for delicate constitutions and its protective effect against malaria. Also reports thirteen glass blowers arriving at Golden signaling imminent glass manufacture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden
Archbishop Corrigan Emerges From Henry George Affair
Right Reverend Michael Augustine Corrigan, born 1840 in Newark, rose to prominence amid the Henry George McGlynn dispute. Educated at Mount Saint Mary’s and Saint Mary’s, he became professor, seminary head, and founder of reformatories in New Jersey, later Newark bishop and archbishop. He opposed Henry George’s theories in a 1886 pastoral letter and is noted for scholarly attainments and popularity with both Protestants and Catholics.
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McGlynn-George
Michael Augustine Corrigan
Henry George-McGlynn
Newark
N. J
Saint Mary's College
Wilmington
Del
Mount Saint Mary's
Emmettsburg
American College
Rome
Father McGlynn
Corrigan
The
Propaganda
the Irish
Lateran Basilica
Amer- Archbishop
Seton Hall College
South Orange
McCloskey
New York
Henry George
Miss Nina Van Zandt and August Spies Courtship in Jail
The article notes Nina Van Zandt, 20, pursues marriage to anarchist August Spies awaiting death in Cook County Jail Chicago. It details her background at Vassar, charitable work with destitute families, her parents’ move from Philadelphia, and mixed public reaction to the prohibition of the marriage by Cook County Sheriff amid Spies' murder trial.
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August Spies
Cook County
Chicago
Miss Nina van Zandt
Spies
Miss van Zandt
Philadelphia
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
Vassar
The Cast Iron Man Teaches Gen Logan Boxing
Washington Corresp notes Professor Collins known as The Cast Iron Man visits Gen Logan at the Logan boarding house. The boxing trainer demonstrates basics, stuns Logan with a body blow, and sparks a plan to learn the sport. Mrs Logan welcomes the routine as beneficial exercise for the general.
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Professor Collins
Logan
Gen. Logan
Washington Cor
Cleveland
Latin School of Boston Oldest American Foundation
The Latin school of Boston, founded in 1634, is America’s oldest school of its kind. Notable pupils include Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Cotton Mather among early era celebrities.
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The
Latin School of
Boston
America
Benjamin Franklin
Sam A. John Hancock
Cotton Mather
Indiana Senate Contest Sees Harrison Turpie and Allen Nominated
Republican Senator Harrison Democrat David Turpie and Labor candidate Capt J H Allen vie for Indiana’s Senate seat. Harrisons’ Civil War service and lineage noted, Turpie praised for classical studies and state service, Allen described as Irish-born Confederate veteran turned Unionist and Terre Haute businessman.
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Indiana
Harrison
Judge Turpie
Jason M. Allen
Benjamin Ilarrison
Senate
Milton County
Ohio
Oxford University
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Washington
Indiana Supreme Court
Benjamin Harrison
Seventieth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Mississippi River Commission
United States
Joseph B. McDonald
David Turpie
Frien
Turpie
J. H. Allen
Mississippi
South
Grant
Terre Haute
America
Irish Land League
Miss Cleveland Refits Her Cottage at Holland Patent
The article notes Miss Cleveland has earned enough from her writing to refit her Holland Patent cottage in New York. It recalls her father, a pastor who died when Rose Elizabeth was seven, leaving nine children and a cottage donated by Presbyterian friends for the bereaved family.
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Miss Cleveland
Holland Patent
Utica
N. Y
Rose Elizabeth
Rose
Home at Holland Patent Portrait of a Quiet Village
The Holland Patent village, named after Lord Holland's land grant, is a small community of under 500 residents. Miss Cleveland lives nearby where she writes, while Rose Elizabeth keeps her mother’s old furniture and a mahogany sideboard in the dining room. A tall library mantel bears the inscription "O ye fire and heat bless ye the Lord" as Miss Cleveland, deeply religious, says grace before meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland Patent
Lord Holland
Cleveland
Rose Elizabeth
Whitman Pension Claim and Paris Unwed Tax Rumor
The piece notes Walt Whitman defending his pension claim for Civil War service with the Ninth Army Corps and hospital duty. It also reports Paris gossip that a tax on unmarried men may become law, citing 490000 bachelors versus 416000 spinsters as a perceived imbalance.
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Walt Whitman
Ninth Army Corps
Fredericksburg
Washington
Paris
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Gen. Logan and
the Boxer
Lovure
E. E. Snow & Co
Eighth Street
Denver
Colorado
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
R. EE. Hart
Skinner Block
Sixteenth and
Lawrence Streets
Occidental Lodge No
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A. M
J. BE. Ganniguss
W. M
J. A. Wooppury
Sec’y
Greeley Commandery
K. T
B. Wison
E. C
A. Wooprury
Garden City
Order of the Eastern Star
Mason W
H, Wyman
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Greeley Lodge No
Knights of Pythias
E. C, Dawson
C. C
F. Davey
Forest City Lodge No
Bexserr
Downey
Recorder
U. S
M. Nixon
Fuller
U.S
Grant Woman's Relief Corps No. 15
Saknau A. Hocanty
A. Pawns
Poudre Valley Lodge No. 12
Weld
Thos, G
Macy
Greeley
Wittakp
Carver
Chosen Friends
J, Jones
C.H, Forp
See’y
Greeley Guards
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R. C
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B. D. Harpin
F. P. Frost, Sec’y
Pendre Valley Hook and Ladder Co. No
W. M. Boower
Foreman
Wo. J. Crips
See
Greeley Steamer Co. No
D. F. Camp
S. G. Futur
Mayher
Portland and Loniville Cement
Plaster OF Paris
RED Cross Paints
Jy Ooseph
Joyce
Maple Street
Colo
Greeley Commission House
Oasis
Frank Green
G. Cook
A. A. Woodbury
W. A. Miner
D. Davieson
Lawrence Street
Golden State
Blake Street
Enver
Grand Outfit
Tavs & Co
Augusta
Maine
H. Hatterr & Co
Portland
Alaska Grape
Alaska Grape Co
Larimer Street
George Sinsonw & Co
Portland, Maine
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