News of the Week in Spain and Europe
Reports detail cabinet changes in Spain with Echegaray new Finance Minister and Mosquera as Colonies minister, floods submerging Leicester Derby and Nottingham, 449 lives lost at sea, Paris student protest for Professor Robin, and Seine and Thames floods affecting Paris and London.
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Northumberland County
Paris
Robin
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Seine
Thames
Windgor
Tonite Park
Orléans
London
Bowles Bros
Mlet
Silverdale
England
Nierdis
Gon
Sandwich Islands
Hane
Porto Rico
Washington to Covington Trip of President and Family
The President, his son Jesse, and Marshal Shirpe left Washington on the 20th for Covington Kentucky to visit the President's father. Reports say various committees adjourned and inquiries involve prominent Congressmen while other political and legal actions unfold across New Orleans Boston and Arkansas.
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Jesse
Marshal Shirpe
Washington
Covington
Credit Mobilier Committee
Eaid
Ames
Louisiana Committee
Bradley
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Congress
Boutwell
Senate
Henry Wilson
New York Oyer and Terminer Court
George Francis Train
Train Ligue
Tombs
New York
Orton
Whitelaw Reid
Tribune Association
Reid
Satanta
Big Tree
Fallin St. Louis
Texas
Huntsville
United States
Newcomb
Morgan
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Victoria Woodhull
Tenpto C. Claflin
James N. Blood
Luther ChalUs
Susan B. Anthony
Rochester
N. Y
United States District Court
Stokes
Erie Railway
Fisk
Memphis
J. J. Murphy
Louisiana Committee Plans Address to Nation on Relief
The Louisiana Committee met in Washington on the 29th and agreed to issue an address to the people of the United States outlining the law and facts in the case disturbing the state. It will petition Congress for relief when its session resumes after the holidays.
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Louisiana
Washington
United States
Congress
Senate actions and House bills on January 20
The Senate passed bills extending the Winona and St Peter Railroad completion time and allowing the Kansas National Bank to rename as First National Bank of Topeka. It appropriated 18700 for the Texan Commission, the Deficiency Appropriation bill with amendments, and ordered eight thousand copies of eulogies on Senator Garrett Davis. An Arkansas election irregularities investigation special committee regulation was debated and adjourned to January 6. In the House bills were introduced to extend Osage lands entry times, improve Indian administration, and amend the presidential election provisions. adjourned to January 6.
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Jay Gould
Erle-Railroad
Boston Board of Algermen
Woodhall
Clafiin
George Francis Train
New York
Boston
Henry L. Pierce
Gaston
Alabama House
L. C. Parsons
Robert Barber
R. Whitaker
W. W. Turner
Louisians Committee
United States
Warmoth
Indiana
Senate
House
Wm. M. Harrison
Arkansas
M. L. Stevenson
E. J. Earl
Hadley
Johnson
Sand
Winona & St. Peter
Kansas National Bank
First National Bank of
Sailing Against the Wind Explained for Seamen
A naval officer asks for a clear popular explanation of how ships sail close to the wind. The article uses diagrams of sails on a rail truck to show wind forces and how a ship can move toward windward while wind blows across the page, noting leeway and the difference from a rail vehicle.
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Her
Vacal Science
German servant girl cleans Brooklyn sidewalk to ash barrel
A German servant girl in Brooklyn sweeps the sidewalk then carries the dirt through the house to dump it in the ash barrel, her methodical care noted in the report.
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Tary
Brooklyn
New York Household Staff Seek Control of Culinary Labor
An edited Dallas era note reports that women living in New York households push to cut culinary labor by switching to Bridget like household management themselves. The move aims to reduce housekeeper duties and empower servants to handle tasks independently.
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New York
Bridget
Editor boasts of safety after controversy
A Commercur editor, newly in dispute with a contemporary, congratulates himself that his head is safe from donkey's heels. The rival reads this as a claim that the editor cannot make both ends meet.
Church Morning Reflections and Steam Engine Piano Joke
A playful exchange quotes Jady asking Mrs Partington about church going and her joy in attending services. The fragment shifts to a humor line about extracting music from a grand piano by letting a steam fire engine play it briefly.
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Jady
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