Gossip From Washington Special Letter on White House Hosts
The president earns fame for generous hospitality with dinners and lunches often hosting half a dozen guests. Mrs Roosevelt reportedly did not receive Friday, while Mrs Harrison used selective invitations to limit visitors. Gen Henderson of Iowa, speaker of the house, is portrayed as highly popular and approachable, noted for his long service and reelection to preside over the Fifty Seventh Congress. He remains regarded with broad support from both sides and has not taken a firm legislative stance yet.
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White House
Harrison
Gen. Henderson
Iowa
Washington
Scotland
Henderson iI
Happenings of Interest in the Capital City
The article surveys divided Republican views in Congress on tariff and ship subsidy reform, supports a Nicaraguan canal with American control, and endorses Chinese exclusion and river and harbor bills. It notes Congress visitors at the White House increasing, the president drawing crowds, and a Memorial Arch fundraising plan via Sunday lectures to fund-raise from city patrons.
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Congress
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
McKinley
Homicide in America Sharp claim shocks nation
A Louisville preacher asserts home life is safer in Afghanistan than in Kentucky and claims murder rates exceed those of London, Britain, and even Europe excluding Italy and Turkey. The Nashville American endorses the claim as a stark critique of American violence.
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Dominions
Afghanistan
Kentucky
London
Great Britain
United States
Europe
Italy
Turkey
Russia
Nashville
Animals Laugh and Talk Cited by African Explorer
An African explorer reports that animals, including gorillas, communicate with laughter and speech. He recounts gorillas laughing when elephants had already devastated a field, as if mocking the earlier destruction. He also describes a gorilla calling to another distant monkey.
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Africa
Explorer notes monkeys' habits in tropical forest
The explorer observed monkeys pausing to think before actions, noting they rarely drink water and rely on juicy berries and fruits. He was impressed that tropical animals must work hard for food, often traveling miles daily and facing challenges finding safe places to rest.
Training Russian Policemen In St Petersburg School
The minister of the interior plans a second policemen training school for provincial service. It will offer lectures and drill for officers and men with practical capital duties during training to build a better police force under autocratic oversight.
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St. Petersburg
European Makers Test Coal Economies for Steam Power
Experiments are under way by numerous European manufacturers to save steam using American coal. The southern coal fields span about 60,000 square miles, seven times the combined size of Great Britain, France, Germany, and Belgium.
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South
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Rock Island to Open Southwestern Extension to El Paso
The Rock Island plans to open its southwestern extension to El Paso by January 1, linking with Southern Pacific and Mexican Central. The 546 mile line from Liberal Kansas to El Paso will be built under multiple Rock Island charters to meet Texas law and facilitate rail operations. A 30 mile Dawson field branch in New Mexico will join at Liberal, with completion targeted by mid 1902.
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RE Paso
Texas
Southern Pacific
Mexican Central
California
City of
Mexico
Santa Fe
Liberal
Kansas
Taso
Rock Island & Pacific
Cage
Rock Island & Mexico
Chicago, Rock Island & el Taso
el Paso
el Paso & Northeastern
Santa Rosa
New Mexico
Rock Island Construction
J. H. Conlon
Chicago, Rock Island & Mex
Carrizozo
Liberizozo
Western Union
Dawson Fields
The
Rocks
Beaubien and
Miranda
Colfax
Liberal Station
Canadian River
New Mexican
San Miguel, Mora
Southern Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Largest pane of glass turned out in Kokomo factory
A Kokomo Indiana plate glass plant produced the world s largest pane. Finished size 150%4x- 22144 inches, weight 1 450 pounds. In rough form it weighed 2 900 pounds and required twenty men to move. The pane was successfully finished and crated, flawl.
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Kokomo
Ind
Sue
First Submarine Cable and Patent Remedies Ad
A brief note recalls the first submarine cable laid across the English Channel about fifty years ago and mentions Hostetter’s Stomach bitters as a popular dyspepsia cure. It urges sufferers of indigestion and related ailments to try the product, highlighting a private die stamp on the bottle neck. A child question about animals and legs leads to a playful exchange about stockings.
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English Channel
Hostetter
Catarrh Cure Promoted With Variety of Spurious Claims
An assortment of old patent medicine and novelty ads touts Hall of Catarrh Cure and other remedies for rheumatism and coughs. The pitches claim universal cures, offer money back, and mix humorous quips with testimonials, suggesting a late 19th to early 20th century retail ad page. Includes references to Garfield Tea and Pepperidge tonics and light humorous vignettes.
A Good Way to Begin 1908 Herbal Tea Claims Health
An item promotes Garfield Tea as a cleansing and purifying herbal remedy for the New Year, promising to regulate liver kidneys stomach and bowels and improve happiness and health. It notes order as heaven's law but cites earthly disorder aiding lawyers’ meals and contains stray remarks on politics and skepticism.
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Heaven
Earth
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