President Grant objects to sundry Civil and Navy appropriations
A long presidential missive criticizes the proposed fiscal year 1877 appropriations. It highlights reductions for the Revenue Cutter Service and other services, warnings of inadequate funds for lighthouses, public buildings, arsenals, and judicial expenses, and urges Congress to provide adequate funding to avoid harm to public interests and proper government function. It also notes concerns about rebel archives and the scope of the civil service.
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Waantiaron
Massange
House of Representatives
T.omlla
District of Columbia
United States
Loglaladys
Congresa
The Sioux Account of the Oyster Slaughter Report
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. S. Poland at Standing Rock Agency July 24 reports from Native informants on the June 25 and July 2 hostilities with the Seventh Cavalry. Indians claim Reno’s attack failed, Custer reached camp edge, fighting lasted about an hour, and some cavalry escaped, pursued by two Indian war parties. Leaders Crazy Horse Black Moon Kill Engle. Sitting Bull directed operations from the council tent.
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Henry
Terry
Rosebud Mountain
urKe
Uull
Missouri River
Red Cloud
Spotted Tall
Cheycennes
Arrapahoes
Suaida
Custer
Witttup
Sitting Bull
Poland
St. Faun
Minn
Sixth Infantry
Mnit Tay
Standing Rock Agency
Adjt
Ruggles
Reno
Lita Big Ifurn
Rono
Thia
Indiana
Retr Cave Alry
Red Top
Minnesota
Sittleg Bull
Blackfeet
Engle
Aveney
Avenvy
Centennial Items From the Centennial Exposition
The report surveys relic displays at Philadelphia with notes on a New England cabin display and a Russian leather collection. It mentions retrenchment of Centennial Guards, a tree sample showing 064 years of rings, debates on Indian policy, and a Lake Erie survivors painting at the Ohio State building.
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New England
Russia
United States
Ohio State Building
Lake Erie
Perry
Religious and educational reform notes in Britain and Europe
Reports on temperance impact in Britain with Rev Newmain Jf allot estimations, vacation schools for city children, and a royal inquiry proposal. Also notes lines on Presbyterian anniversaries in Indiana, Sunday schools in Europe, and a London missionary journal account. The piece closes with science notes on insect migration and butterfly distribution.
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Newmian Jf
Great Britain
Providence
BR. J
London
Indiana
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism
Indianapolis
Joseph F. Tuttle
Wabash College
Europe
France
Paris
Germany
Schlig
Countess Goetz
London Missionary Journal
Bridgewater Gardens
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Tvho
Christian Union
Women’s Medical College for New York Falls on Hard Times
The Woman's Medical College of the City of New York, funded for four years by two charitable women, has closed as the benefactors can no longer support it.
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Philadelphia
Wachanige
Landsdowne
Chicago Evening Journal
Howells
Atlantic Monthly
Detroit Free Press
Woman’s Medical College of the
City of New York
Mechanical and Scientific Notes on Boilers and Wheels
In Austria thin copper skins inside locomotive boilers doubled life with little encrustation after 14 000 miles. Gas as future fuel faces furnace form questions. old works seek minimal alterations to existing furnaces. A simple spoke circumference rule predicts carriage wheel load capacity. a four wheeled wheel bears proportional weight by a half length circumference.
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Vanessa Cardus
South America
North America
Old World
H. Scudder
Behring’s Straits
Wagner
Scudder
America
Asia
Australia
New Zealand
Austria
War Scene at Belgrade Camp Immerses in Serb Life
A London Times correspondent describes a Belgrade camp near a hospital twenty minutes away. Militiamen in Serb dress, gypsies, and Roumanians fill a lively, improvised encampment with bags, gourds, and cooking pots. The scene shifts from bustle to night as watchfires glow and dancing ends with retreat drums.
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Mehanes
Vienna
The Narrow Seat and the Narrow Buggy Tale
A humorous tale from our city recounts Ned and Kitty courting and marrying amid buggy rides. Ned repeatedly orders the narrow seated buggy for their rides, but after marriage he asks for the same, only to end up with a two person buggy with space between them, prompting a gentle social lesson.
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Our
Ned
Kitty
Bill
Dream Insight: Dream Duration Misperceived by Fire Lamp Experience
A writer recalls a night shift during the camphene era where a lamp's reflection triggered a vivid, hours long dream. He awoke exhausted, only to realize the imagined fire scene was the lamp’s glare and extinguishers ringing. The piece notes how dreams compress time and age.
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Thad
H. McKay
Hartford
Conn
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Mechanical and Scientific
Belgrade
Thaye
Topchider
Cor
London Times
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