Woman lawyer advocates a home and husband
Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner, a leading New York lawyer and advocate for women, rejects divorce and prefers domestic harmony. She chaired the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs legislative committee, helped create domestic relations courts, and urges women to choose home life over a separate office.
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New York
Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner
New York State Federation of Women's Clubs
Mulliner
Senate
Government Official Adee Noted For Forty Years Of Service
Alvey A. Adee, second assistant secretary of state, marked forty years in U S government service. Born November 27 1842 in Astoria New York Adee joined the foreign service in 1870 at Madrid and rose through the ranks becoming a respected diplomat and long time official. He helped in signing the peace protocols with Spain and served as acting secretary of state during pivotal Chinese affairs in 1900. At sixty he remains active touring Wu Tope on a bicycle when not at his post.
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Alvey A. Adee
United States
Washington
Mr. Adee
Astoria
N. Y
Yale
Madrid
State Department
Spain
Adee
State
Ad Interim
Wu Tope
A Deed in the Dark Shaded by Alleyway Assault
A ragged tale recounts two nighttime attackers planning to club a traveler with knuckles dusters. A struggle erupts. one assailant claims a success as the victim suffers injuries and escapes, leaving questions about what caused the sudden getaway and the aftermath for the unnamed traveler.
Puckerless Persimmons Tested by Department of Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture is experimenting in Washington and the South to remove pucker from persimmons and to produce seedless varieties. Big varieties ripen soft, making transport difficult and limiting market use. Efforts include grafting seedless types from China, aiming to create a fruit like a seedless orange to satisfy a long felt want.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington Star
Washington
South
Department
Maryland
China
Loafing and the Soul in Whitman and Tennyson
The passage extols loafing as a path to the soul, citing Whitman and Tennyson. It argues modern life is too narrow to invite the inner self, and suggests occasional loafing is beneficial for perspective and variety, though constant excess harms society.
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Walt Whitman
Tennyson
Lunch On Wheels Aboard Trains In The South
A traveler recently returned from the south recalls a lunch table on wheels used beside trains for passenger service. The four by two foot high table on wheels carries fruits and sandwiches on a lower shelf and rolls along at stations with no dining room or brief stops.
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South
North Carolina
New York Sun
Chamberlain Portraits and Public Service Ties
Sir Benjamin Stone photographed Mr. Chamberlain at Birmingham fetes for Pitt’s seventieth birthday. In Commons days Chamberlain aided his colleague, once offering to fetch Michael Davitt to the chamber. The exchange links the statesman’s likeness in aspiration to public usefulness.
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Chamberlain
Sir Benjamin Stone
Mr. Chamberlain
Pitt
Bir
Sir Benjamin
Birmingham
House of Commons
Michael Davitt
Trials of the Great and Crowd Encounters
In a reflective dialogue the speaker recalls crowds rushing to claim past familiarity and others pressuring for photos with a hand on the shoulder. The exchange hints at social fatigue and memory tension in crowded public life.
New Secret Service Built By Uncle Sam Shows Early Impact
The Bureau of Investigation under the Department of Justice, led by Stanley W. Finch, crews up nearly 200 lawyers and agents to prosecute antitrust and banking violations. It operates nationwide and abroad, replacing the old treasury secret service with broader powers and a budget of over $680,000, already producing prosecutions of Morse and Walsh and uncovering major frauds and plots.
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Washington
Naiion
Department of Justice
New
Secret Service
Wilkie
Treasury Department
Gov
Roosevelt
Congress
Stanley W. Finch
Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Finch
Bureau
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Charles W. Morse
New York
John R. Walsh
Chicago
United States
Mexico
Alabama
Alaska
Weaknesses in the Army Highlighted by Inspector Generals
The annual report by Inspector General Carlington warns of unprepared units including a battalion of artillery headed for the Philippines without a field officer and a battery led by a second lieutenant under two years’ service. Major General Wood orders new field inspections to test practical efficiency beyond existing training and clerical scrutiny.
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Uncle Sam
Carlington
Philippines
United States Army
Bell
Wood
Fight cancer and leprosy in the Philippines
Government doctors hail progress against cancer and leprosy after successes against yellow fever and TB. Drs Coca and Gilman claim a vaccine inoculation with carbolic acid as a specific cancer cure, while Drs Clegg Currie Brinkerhoff and Hollman report leprosy treatment gains in the Philippine service.
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Moses T. Clegg
Donald H. Currie
Walter R. Brinkerhoff
H. T. Hollman
Marine Hospital Service
Arthur F. Coca
Philip K. Gilman
Philippine Government Service
Army
Navy
Coca and Gilman
Alligator Nest Facts From Leslie's Weekly
A brief on how wild alligators build nests with mud saw grass and leaves. Eggs hatch in about two months six days, and young ones are guided to a den where the mother swishes her tail to kill minnows. A mother may have several dens for her brood.
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Alligator Joe
Gator
Leslie’s Weekly
Stage Drink Is Remarkable For Potent Theatre Beverage
A London Globe note praises stage drinks as potent and unsettling to actors and audiences alike. It cites actors failing to drink naturally and describes a musical comedy scene where a gaudy drink leads to dramatic spills and tears among gallerygoers.
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Frederick
London Globe
Iroquois Regard for Language and Identity
The Iroquois held language as a sacred part of the body and never spoke another nation’s tongue except as interpreters. During intertribal councils, debates were led in their own language with translators, and speaking others’ languages was seen as a grave insult to ancestors and the Great Spirit. Deaf mutes were viewed as having lost the power to speak or hear.
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William W. Canfield
Obnoxious Weed Reaches Twenty Thousand Acres in Victoria
The St Johns wort planted in Bright Victoria by a migrant-era lady spread from a garden to cattle routes and Victorian watersheds. It has colonised about twenty thousand acres of farmland, forcing the agricultural department to spend thousands to eradicate it with methods costing up to fifty pounds per acre.
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Bright
Victoria
St. John’s
Agricultural Department of Victoria
Westminster Gazette
Tilden’s 1877 Forecast of Record Corn Harvests
The Philadelphia Ledger cites Samuel J. Tilden’s Sept 1877 Gramercy Park address, predicting America could grow 3 to 4.6 billion bushels of corn annually within a generation. Railroads near Forty-second Street anticipate ample transport to meet a massive harvest, easing wheat declines.
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Europe
Samuel J. Tilden
Gramercy Park
Philadelphia Ledger
Ireland
United States
Tilden
White House
Forty-second Street
Magistrate Laughs At Hatchet Letter In Organette Theft Case
Robert Burton, antique dealer, charged Frederick Hopner, watchmaker, with stealing an organette and assorted items. Burton, long familiar with Hopner, accused him in court and read a scathing letter calling him a black villain. Hopner fainted at the reading as a pledge of items was noted by the Pall Mall Gazette.
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Robert Burton
Marlborough Street
Frederick Wiliam Hopner
Hopner
Burton
Doctor Crippen
Mead
Pali Mall
One Tie Sparks Wide Talk With Senator Carter
In Helena a gilded youth wore a rainbow necktie during a chat in a hotel lobby. Senator Tom Carter, described as wealthy, notes he has only one tie at a time and swaps to a new black string tie when worn. The exchange highlights contrasting fashion and frugality between the youth and the senator.
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Helena
Mont
Tom Carter
Carter
Popular Magazine
Birthmark Drawing Previews American Bride Comment
In a conversation the count learns of a planned marriage to an American girl with a birthmark. The marquis confirms the report and promises a drawing of the birthmark for illumination, describing the plan as part of the reveal. The scene hints at social curiosity and character descriptions.
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Ixse
Dones
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Wilar
Londen
Finch
Samuel Tilden
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