The Benry notes and international items in brief
The column surveys varied topics from silver price effects on souvenir spoons to Argentine political exodus and gold drain concerns. It also touches France Siam tensions, President Cleveland’s early extra session, bicycle posture, Princess Maud and Rosebery marriage hints, Ah Wing in Montana prison, battleship design challenges, and Delaware deep water pilots with hereditary pilotage.
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Almoort
United States
Delaware
Lewes
Women in the professions surge since last census
Accompanying the latest census figures show large gains for women across many fields. The data list 110 lawyers 165 ministers 320 authors 588 journalists 2 001 artists 2 196 architects 2 106 stock raisers and ranchers 5 185 government clerks 2 458 physicians and surgeons 13 182 professional musicians 6 800 farmers and planters 2 107 clerks and book keepers 14 465 heads of commercial houses and 155 000 women school teachers.
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United States
New Columbian bell rings in Chicago on July Fourth
The new Columbian bell, cast with diverse metal pieces of historical value, rang for the first time in Chicago on Independence Day. It symbolizes American achievement and history, though the Philadelphia Liberty Bell of 1776 retains supreme honor for its famed ring.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington Gripes Over Ainsworth Duties
Citizens in the District of Columbia dislike a government clerk who overworks staff yet welcome an official who can add a second clerk where only one was needed. Col. Ainsworth’s presence provokes mixed reactions and may cause rejoicing if he is displaced.
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Ah Wing
Montana
China
Wing
District of Columbia
Col. Ainsworth
Washington
Buttonhole style rhetoric gains ground in legal oratory
In New England debates after ex-Gov Robinson's Borden trial speech the buttonhole conversational style is favored. The article argues the informal speaker gains results, commands attention, and appears to talk sense, while the rising advocate benefits from familiarity though risk of flattery. Gov Robinson is praised as a better lawyer in his chosen mode.
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New England
Gov. Robinson
Borden
The Farmer Holds the Key to the Nation’s Life
A long defense of farming argues that agriculture sustains civilization and urban life. It asserts the farmer leads economic and cultural progress, urges modernization through science and efficient labor, and praises the farmer as central to society despite urban neglect.
It Should Be In Every House by J. B. Wilson
Sharpsburg resident J. B. Wilson praises Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming it cured his wife facing pneumonia. Cooksport man ert Barber says the remedy helped his lung troubles more than anything. Free trial bottles advertised at Powell s drugstore. The Columbian exposition is praised as its own best advertisement with critics failing to belittle it.
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Iit
Bowen
United States
Thomases
Ben Franklin
Samuel* Parker
Chicago
J. B. Wilson
Clay
Sharpsburg
Dr King
Cooksport
Dr Powell
Cincinnati
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Rokroo
Deafness Cure Claims and Tomes by Catarrh Treatment
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and offers a $100 reward for any deafness caused by catarrh not cured, inviting readers to request circulars.
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Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Harrison's Chicago speech praised as patriotic lesson
A Tributé front recounts Ex-President Harrison as a polished speaker at the Ft. Dearborn Massacre statue unveiling in Chicago. It hails his English, noble sentiments, and urges inclusion in school readers to teach lofty patriotism and delight American audiences.
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Harrison
Ft. Dearborn
Chicago
Peoris Ierald
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