Vice Presidents Honored With Senate Busts Across Time
The plan to place marble busts of U S vice presidents in the Senate chamber progresses from living subjects to listed predecessors. Architect Edward Clark reports compliance with the 1886 resolution while selecting sculptors from states that supplied the vice presidents. Existing busts include Adams Jefferson Tompkins Hamlin Wheeler Arthur Hendricks Morton, with 15 more to be added as funds and space allow.
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Senate Chamber
Stan Co
United States
Edward Clark
Capitol
Senate
Clark
St. Gaudena
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Daniel Tompkins
Hannibal Hamlin
Lincoln
William A. Wheeler
Chester A. Arthur
Thomas A. Hendricks
Levi P. Morton
Boston
Globa
One Legged Senators and Cork Legs Highlight Washington
Washington Letter notes that four one legged senators existed, with Berry stubborn on crutches. Henderson of Town hides cork leg well and avoids detection. Butler of South displays a cane and a smooth gait, while others reveal their artificial limbs in awkward ways.
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Senator Berry
Arkansas
Henderson
Dubuque
Cork
House of Representatives
Butler
South
Washington Letter
Desert travelers perish in Cocopah mountains
Loreto Villa in charge of Allison cattle herds left Black Butte for Campo, Cal. His mule returned without him and a search found his saddle on a bush near camp. Tracks show Villa went to Desert Springs and into the canyons. two other men named Ross and Williams are presumed dead with him, adding to the desert’s dead near the Breedloves’ grave sight.
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Loreto Villa
Allison Brothers
Cocopah
Black Butte
Campo
Cal
Desert Springs
Signal Mountains
Coyote Wells
Villa
Can Hills
Camel
Ross
Williams
Breedloves
Education in New York Fashionable Schools Costs $900 a Year
An Exchange note describes a girl's education in elite New York schools costing $900 annually. Tuition covers English etiquette good form lectures and French conversation, with music and other arts extra. Students dine at dinner, are sometimes at home, and may receive gentlemen with parental consent.
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New York
Mumbled newsroom debate over a congressman quote
In a city desk exchange the editor questions a reporter about a sentence on the congressman. The writer defends it, while the editor hints at a safer version to avoid misstatement. The quarrel reveals newsroom tensions over accuracy and phrasing.
A Suffering Country Mrs Snarl Shoes Fashion
The item notes ros ter shoes falling from fashion with Mrs. Snarl mentioned as a figure, while Mr Snarl, possessing two pairs, features in the spoofed roster. The brief reflects a humorous or satirical snippet about changing styles and household characters.
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Snarl
Various Global Quirks and Social Notes From a Bygone Era
A survey of curious facts from history touches on religious circulation and slave trade in Amsterdam, immigrant populations in the U S, censorship of Byron by Turkey, hotels repurposed for flats, Salvation Army cautions, punishment methods in prisons, termite nest looting in Africa, aluminum engraving, rare lithographic stone, English in New York brass signs, chariot warfare in ancient Egypt, Lucknow massacres, a large Sunday school procession, a tall Berlin Ghants club, Vienna Lazy club, and London Baldheaded club observing peculiar social clubs.
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Amsterdam
Holland
United States
Byron
Salvation Army
Berlin
Ghants
Vienna
London
Smokeless powders and their secret manufacture
The article explains smokeless powder relies on nitrocellulose paste derived from gun cotton, dissolved in solvents like acetic ether or acetone, rolled into sheets, dried, and cut into grains. It notes French Le bel gun usage, Vieilles powder with picric acid, and German 1889 nitrocellulose powder, all marking instability and storage challenges. A good powder must balance violence, heat cold resistance, water resistance, and storage stability.
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Baltimore American
Dr King's New Discovery Endorsed by Illinois Family
D W Fuller of Canajoharie N Y praises Dr King s New Discovery saying his family always gets the best results and would not be without it if provable. G A Dykeman a Catskill N Y druggist calls it the best cough remedy after eight years of use. Trial bottles free at Tom E Hildebrand Indiana Wm I Moore Homer City and Milt G Miller Blairsville. Large sizes 50c and 1.00.
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D.W. Fuller
Canajoharie
N. Y
Dr. King
G. A. Dykeman
Catskill
Tom E Hildebrand
Indiana
Wm. I. Moore
Homer City
Milt G. Miller
Blairsville
Lange
Is Marriage a Failure in Health and Indigestion Remedies
An advertisement urges readers to try Aunt Fanny's Health Restorer and The Great South American Nervine for symptoms like dyspepsia liver complaint indigestion and nervous prostration. It claims trial packages and large 30 cent sizes at Daugherty Bros Indiana Pa and includes a testimonial from Harriet E Hall of Waynetown Ind praising the Nervine and Nerve Tonic with local sellers Hetrick Bros Indiana Pa.
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Fanny
Daugherty Bros
Indiana
Harriet E. Hall
Waynetown
Ind
Hetrick Bros
Herrick Bros., Druggists
Sure cure for rheumatism from Indiana Pa circulars
A man from Indiana Pennsylvania reports a ten year battle with lum bago rheumatism while a stone mason. After using Indian Herb Cure in May 1893 he says he has felt no lumbago since and describes his subsequent work achievements including laying 341 feet of stone crossings and building eight cellar walls and thirty four ...
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James Anderson
Indiana
Tems lawn game adapted from Japanese polo rules
A description of Tems a foot version of Japanese polo dakin with seven per side players in a rectangular lawn enclosure. Racks of balls and wands with bamboo crooks propel white or red balls into a central goal behind a tall screen. First to seven zoned balls wins.
Train Schedules for Blairsville and Pittsburg Routes
Leave Blairsville for Freeport Butler Junction and intermediate stations at 8.05 and 11.00 am and 7.00 pm Weekdays use same times for Springdale Allegheny City via Butler Junction 8.05 11.00 am and 7.00 pm Butler Branch via Butler Junction 8.05 11.00 am Weekdays Leave Blairsville Intersection for Pittsburg 533 745 1011 am 127 428 and 610 pm Sundays 533 1011 am 428 and 610 pm For Altoona 730 940 am 318 and 628 pm Sundays 940 1111 am 318 and 628 pm For Harrisburg Philadelphia New York Baltimore and Washington 940 am and 628 pm Sundays 940 am and 628 pm Leave Pittsburg for Indiana via Blairsville Intersection 525 800 am 430 pm weekdays Leave Altoona for Indiana via Blairsville Intersection 340 800 am and 345 pm weekdays For detailed information address Thos E Watt Pass Agt Western District 110 Fifth Avenue Pittsburg Pa 8 M Prevost J R Woop General Manager General Pass Agt
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Blairsville
Freeport
Butler Junction
Springdale
Allegheny City
Butler
Butler Branch
Pittsburg
Altoona
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Indiana
Thos
E. Watt
Western District
Fifth Avenue
M. Prevost
J. R. Woop
General Pass
The Advancement of Women and Boys Progress
Harriet Holt Cahoon argues that women’s advancement challenges traditional gender roles and presses boys to evolve. She suggests societal shifts toward equality may yield broader changes, including justice and new expectations for both sexes.
Patent medicine list ad with local testimonials
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as making the user feel renewed and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Viola Kreider of Conestoga Pa. It also markets Grange Blossom a painless cure for female diseases, English Spavin Liniment for animal ailments and blemishes, and Orange Blossom as a women’s remedy. Names include Daugherty Bros Hetrick Bros Sweeney and Indiana Palimar93ly.
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Hood
Viola Kreider
Conestoga, Pa
Grange Blossom
Daugherty Bros
Hetrick Bros
Indiana
Castoria Claim and Farm Ad Quote From 1894
An 1894 classified note touts Castoria as a cure for rheumatism and neuralgia with rapid results and jokes about its use from infancy to motherhood. The ad also promotes selling farms in the Progress and mentions new tablecloths and a Mack Ray item received on Monday.
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Mack Ray
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Lucknow
India
Dr. France
France Medical Institute Co. of
Columbus
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
Herrick Bros
Diruggists
Dr. Williams
Medicine Co
Schenectady, N.7
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ace
Indi
Ana
Cokeville Remo Beeene
Vsereneeen Tee
Lve. Smith
Indvie
Tome Neanee
Blacklick
Ug. Evens
Graceton
Homer
Lic
ILI
Reed
Verenaaseres
Ru Fanees
Black Lick
Mit
Eeeeereery Mit
Wheeling
Work & Young
the Advancement of Women
Thas
Eve
Haryot Holt Cahoon
Allegheny Valley RR
Niagara Express
West Penn Junction
Kittanning
Oil City
Titusville Express
Buffalo Express
Emlenton Accom
Pittabur
Emlenton
Day Express
Kiiming
Frantz Bro’s
Georgeville
Mahoning Township
Castoria
Mies, Khe Ching
Gilbert Bro’s
Insurances Real Estate
Indiana, PA
Gro. W. Gilbert
Vogel Bros
EM. Lockard
Penn’a
New York Weekly Tribune
THE
Indiana Progress
Inprana
Penna
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