Book binding in India a threatened noble art
Ornamental book binding in India, once a refined craft, faces decline as families guard secrets and pass skill down within, turning artistry toward trade. Ulwar bindings echo old Groller style with brass blocks, gold, and hand work, praised for fine color work and echoed in specimens for queen and other elites.
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Journal of Indian Art and Industry
Col Horbien Hendley
Alwar
China
Aurangzebe
Royal Library
Windsor
Great Enterprise Suez Canal Marks Maritime History
The Suez canal stands as history’s premier shipping enterprise enabling Europe and the East to trade more efficiently. It cuts distance London to Bombay to 6330 miles from 10595, cost £17 million to build from 1856 to 1869, is 92 miles long and 26 feet deep, with tolls about £500 per vessel or eight shillings per ton. Annual commerce saves about £5 million. In 1889, 3,425 vessels passed with mean transit of 27 hours as electric lights allow night passage.
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Suez Canal
Europe
London
Bombay
Cape
Landlord Ques Death at Smallburg House
Coroner, already ahead $19.35 on inquest fees after expenses, discusses death by gas at Smallburg house. Landlord shows anger while others react, noting no shooting occurred and gas was used.
Colorado Senate considers irrigation petition and new bills
The Colorado Legislature meets on the twenty fourth day with a memorial from Yuma Washington and Logan counties urging artesian wells for irrigation. New bills include funding for a reformatory capi tol improvements and state canal completion while sessions and committee referrals unfold.
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Yuma
Washington
Logan
Board of Agriculture
Plains
Kennedy
Reformatory
Leddy
Capitol Building Fund
State Cay
Capitol
Bolsinger
Colorado Central
Hartzell
Senate
Frank Church
Charles F. Wilson
A. W. Hogle
Fire and Police Board
E. Monash
Board of Public Works
Committee On
MecNeeley
Auro
Loveland
Funderburg
Baca
Williams
Yuma County
Appropriations Committee
Holly
Lowell
Henry L. Acker
J. &. Goldsworthy
Maurice C. Hayes
Tenth Judicial District
Sopris
State Board of Pardons
Woodsworth
Colorado
Atlanta
Brown
Rundle
Murfitt
Campbell
United States
Stuart
Senators Pace Last Day as They Prepare Final Bills
The Senate adjourned early as lawmakers focused on introducing remaining bills before time ran out. Senator Boyd offered a resolution that was temporarily referred under the chamber’s rules.
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Senate
Boyd
Twenty-Fifth Day Senate and House Actions
The Senate introduced 153 bills while passing several third readings including a $272 quarter expenses bill, $5 for inaugurals and investigations by Boyd Johnson Swink, and a fee change for justice courts. A chewing ears or nose bill advanced. prize fight exemption noted. The House convened at 2 pm with Lowell presenting Carnahan as temporary Speaker. 134 bills read first time and referred.
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Senate
Boyd, Johnson and Swink
Lowell
Carnahan
Senate debate on Carney free coinage and finance memorial
The forenoon session centered on Carney free coinage and a finance memorial with a substitute by Senator Reuter. The Carney resolution, introduced earlier, denounces Wall Street and Lombard Street money sharks and calls for free and unlimited silver coinage.
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Senate
Reuter
Wall Street
Lombard Street
Debates Over Bonds and County Finances Continue In Senate
Deliberations feature per capita bonds and coin notes as options, with a tax delinquency issue delaying progress. Committees review river issues, district transfers, and bond indebtedness while discussions touch on the Cripple Creek mining district and the creation of Oro County with an 18,000 population and $2.4 million valuation.
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Senate Investigating Committee
Stevens
Moody
Painter
Newman
Denver
Swink
Evans
Agricultural College
Hartzell
Fulton
Carney
Boyd
Morton
Spurs
Jefferson County
Adams
State Library
Drake
Twin Lakes
Senator
Renterstate
McNeely
Barela
Pease
Boss Fulton
Honuse
Ney
Lowell
Maoe
Wallace
Rundle
Clark
Vigil
O'Mahoney
Cri Orek
Oro County
Twenty Eighth Day Senate Session Abolishes Capital Punishment
A Senate session ended at noon with the bill by Senator to abolish capital punishment being cassed. The House did not meet that day.
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Senate
Cassel
House
Newfoundland Move Toward Annexation by United States
Telegraphic items report Newfoundland facing a movement for annexation by the United States. Other dispatches note a rise in the Hudson River ferry crop, Illinois Glass Plant closure with 525 layoffs, earthquake turmoil in Oaxaca area, Midland construction wage cuts, a coal miner freezing death near Sunshine mines, Pat Doyle found near Irwin, and House committee action on Nicaragua bill striking a clause for a House bill.
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Newfoundland
United States
Kansas City
Kansas
Sathrice
Illnois Glass Company
Alte IL
Zamiltepec
Tuxtepec
Oaxaca
Mexico
Midland
Victor
Golee
Ardiff
Sunshine
Gaffeld County
Pat Doyle
Irwin
Doyle
House Committee On
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India
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