Indemnity and Registry Reform for Mail Service
The text argues the post office registry system loses public confidence despite fee cuts and scarce security. It advocates government indemnity up to ten dollars for registered letters and packages to boost trust, reduce theft, and shift money letters from ordinary mail to safer insured methods. It cites Britain and other countries offering insurants and notes potential costs and benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
United States
Great Britain
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Bolivia
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile
British India
Japan
Kongo
Congress
International Postal Union
Uncle Sam
New York World
The Sin Eater and a Curious Welsh Funeral Rite
A London journal notes the Welsh sin eater custom where a relative feeds bread cheese and beer to a deceased person’s sins. The piece questions the moral burden on the eater and ponders consequences if successors inherit those sins, likening it to a medical practice’s burdens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Principality of Wales
London
Little
Wales
Liner Runs Aground In Thick Fog On New York Bay
The Anchor line steamer grounded off Sandy Hook after fog shrouded a morning voyage from New York. Passengers remained unaware as the propeller struggled, an ocean tug arrived, and extraneous newspaper alerts caused a surge of alarm aboard. Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton reminded NAWSA members to renew dues and recruit new contributing members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sandy Hook
Scott
Jerusalem
London Telegraph
Harriet Taylor Upton
Sabbath contemplation as Sunday duty for teachers
A brief exchange where a teacher asks about keeping the Sabbath holy and a child answers that it means resisting a strong urge to do something you greatly want to do on Sunday, reflecting a simple cultural view from the Indianapolis Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Indianapolis
Journa
Sleep Baby Sleep Poem Quoted From Youth's Companion
A poem fragment describes a sea crossing where a figure named S9 peachy lady soothes children to dreamland. It references an ideal land with laughter, flowers, music, sunshine, and fairies as the children drift to sleep. The excerpt credits Josephine Parkman in Youth's Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Parkman
Man Profits Buying Canadian Money In Ohio Region
A Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and Buffalo based buyer travels to frontier cities to swap Canadian currency for U.S. dollars at about 90 cents on the dollar. He accumulates Canadian coin from farmers, turning $250 Canadian into $1500 US weekly through yearlong work, earning roughly $25 profit per $250 exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
United States
London Bridge
Bank of Montreal
Canada
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Buffalo
Buffalo Express
General Miles Portrait in McClure's Magazine
The piece highlights General Miles as home loving and sociable with loyal friends, fond of outdoor sports from America’s cup races to cycling with family. It notes his quiet self control, affable manners, and routine work ethic that leaves him time for visitors, plus a well stocked library and good dogs. Salt is like good humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Miles
George E. Pond
McClure’s Magazine
Kentucky Miracle Judge Rice credits pills for cure
The Covington Kentucky Post recounts how Judge John M. Rice of Lawrence County retired from public life after years of rheumatic illness. After trials with Hot Springs and Silurian Springs, his condition worsened until his son John persuaded him to try Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He credits the tablets with restoring liver function and vitality and recommends them.
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Covington
John M. Rice
Louisa
Lawrence County
Kentucky
Sixteenth Judicial District
X Fort
Washington
John
Hot Springs
Ark
Silurian Springs
Waukeshaw
Wis
Dr. Williams
Kentucky Post
Schenectady, N. Y
Travel by Pullman Cars From Atlanta to Several Cities
A fragmented list shows travel routes involving Pullman sleeping cars from Atlanta to Brunswick Jacksonville Lynchburg and other cities including Macon Cochran Eastman Lumber City Baxley Jesup and Charlottesville. The text reads like a schedule fragment with incomplete city names and connections.
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Atlanta
McDonough Jackson
Fiovilla
Macon
Cochran
Eastman
Baxley
Jesup
Everett
Brunswick
Jacksonville
Carmel Pullman
Birmingham
Holly Springs
Memphis
Kansas City
Seolighs
Saeyetee Ee
Cumberland
St. Simons Islands
Chattanooga
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Daisy Jacksonyi
le Brunsches
Kanes Everett
Sewanee Jesup
Buxley
Lumber City
Casces Helena
Flovilla
Jackson
McDonough
Wee
Real Estate Listing in Butts County Georgia
Property for sale in Butts County includes a small farm near Jackson with four rooms and outbuildings priced at 750 dollars and space for cotton and gardens. Also offered is a 108 acre farm five miles from Jackson with a new four room house, wells, orchard, pasture, and a 1500 dollar price. A one acre residence lot on Third Street with servants house, vineyard, orchard and fine well. Additional one acre lot with new three room house near the court house. McDonald and Rose advertise free listing and commission terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Jackson
Dee
Batts County
Pittmans Ferry
Stark
Third Street
Indian Spring
McDonald & Rose
One Cent a Week to Subscribe to Atlanta Weekly Journal
An advertisement promotes the Atlanta Weekly Journal as a cheap, improved family newspaper with ten pages. It touts Sam Jones philosophy, Bill Nye humor, farm tips, women’s gossip, Juvenile Journal, and household miscellany. Subscriptions offer 50 cents a year, with a joint deal for twelve months of both papers at $1.00.
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News of the World
Atlanta Weekly Journal
South
Weekly Journal
United States
Daily Journal
Sam Jones
Bill Nye
Atlanta
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Arthur Roberts
Calcutta
the Sin Eater
Upton
Earth
Bradfield
Radeield
Tall Henderson
Ala
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta, Ga
McDonald & Kinard
Railway
Daily
Cessecver
Sigicons
Cnet
Lexington
Louisville
Lynchburg
Charlottesville
Eecadeese
Epee Sc Sten Pea
Sookeensens
U. S
W. H. Green
Washington, D.C
W. A. Ture,g
Benscot
Flo
Washington, D. C
Neral Pass
Knoxville, Tenn
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Jay
Ram
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George Muse Clothing Co
Whitehall St
Georgia
W. W. Anderson
Frank Z. Curry
Anderson & Curry
Attorneys AT Law
M. M. Mills
B. P. Bailey
Mills & Bailey
Attorney At Law
Watkins Building
M. V. McKibben
O. H. Cantrell
J. D. Watkins, Attorney ‘At
Watkins Hall
Jackson, GA
T. J. Dempsey
Dempsey
Mulberry Street
Jackson, Georgia
Morrison House
W. Buchanan
Andrew McLendon
Barber
Masonic B
C. W. Boghaman
C. W. Buchanan
Grand St
Pasco County
Florida
Tampa
Butts County
Peachtree ST
Altama
County
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