Mixed historical notes and social updates from the era
A broad clippings montage covers population estimates for Louisville, European feminism discussions led by Mrs. Grapstone, and social correspondences involving Mrs. Jenness Miller. It notes literary letters to Mrs. Buswert, a wedding of Juxa Toy in Pittsburgh, and a Washington reception where poetry offended a relative of Morgan. It reports a Paris unveiling of a Louis Blanc statue amid anarchist protests, chimney shadow measurements near Marseilles, and labor band conflicts in St. Louis. Additional items include Logan administration affairs, probate actions for Senator Logan, Sac and Fox delegation travel, and Rochester city surveying disputes with New York.
Congress Debates Pension Bill and Administrative Reorganization
Senate debates over passage of the Dependent Pension bill amid veto, assembly of committees, and advances on the Agricultural Department measure. The bill would create the Department of Agriculture and Labor with a president appointed secretary, shifting labor and weather services, while the House and Senate exchange related legislation and appropriations amid votes on retaliatory bills and public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Agricultural’ Department
Weather Service
Signal Service
Department of Agriculture and Labor
Bureau of Labor
Biginal Service Bureau
Department of Agri ‘Culture
Tomas &. Hopkins
Frye
Belmont
Committee On Foreign
House
Tax Senate
Ingalls
Sherman
van Wyck
Edmunds
United States
Pacific Railroad
Hatch
Reagan
Texas
Bate
Tennessee
Bir
Plumb
Conference Committee
Father
Washington
Fredericksburg
Freedman's Savings Bank
Bone
Representative Cole
Maryland
Multiple Disasters Reported Across Regions and Seas
A roundup of fires, wrecks, and calamities includes Mr. and Mrs. Barbour Drum burned in Big Flate New York, a capitol fire destroying documents, the Locksley Hall collision near the Mersey, and the Regulus and Brenda damaged. Indianola abandons due to storms. Needles bridge wrecks kill four. Looting, executions, and labor shifts noted alongside international tensions and port strikes.
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Barbour Drum
Big Flate
N. Y
Capitol
Washington
Locksley Hall
San Francisco
Mersey
Regulus
Brenda
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Indianola
Tex
Port Lavoe
Matagorda Bay
Atlantic & Pacific
Needles
Cal
Brix
Lehigh Valley Road
Easton
CiEeanine House
New York
London
Neal
Vancouver
B. C
Odessa
Russia
Turkey
Goroszelo
Dubach & Co
Herriman & Co
Hannibal
Marie
GexMany
England
Houdening
Hainault
Belgium
P. D. AkMotn Saya
Brittox & Maxson
New Orleans
van Zandt
Cook County
Ebury-rarke
New South Wales Assembly
Morgan
Oue Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of the
General Land Office
North Range
Reed City
Mich
Jackson, Lansing
Kansas Legislature Implements Various State Measures
Kansas Senate and House pass and defeat multiple bills including an Executive and Judicial Appropriation, a payroll act for workers, coal weighing rules, and forestry and tax provisions. A temporary mansion project in Topeka and a new criminal court for Leavenworth are advanced, with temperance legislation and local bills also moving through sessions. Senate debates include the Quantrell Raid bill, constitutional amendments, and county line adjustments amid adjournments and resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Springs
Wye. T
West Virginia
United States
Texas State Senate
William T. Troxtox
United States Navy
Norfolk
Iris
Kuidja
Russia
B. F. Butter
Philadelphia
Cockrell
House of Lords
Salisbury
Great Britain
Venezuela
Wilcox
D.B. Lucas
Jefferson County
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Hainan
Ham
Socray
Tur
British Columbia
Vancouver
Rhode Island Senate
Burton
Marianna
Ark
W. H. Gardner
Tombigbee River
Gainesville
Ala
Senate
Daniel Magone
New York
Sresmer
Sistria
Widdin
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Wis
Lst
Sixator Hucn Nesos
Cornwall
Beaubien
St. Etienne
France
Coronado
Kan
Missouri
Mississippi
House
Kansas City
Omaha
Keokuk
Kansas
Bureau of Labor and Statistics
St. John County
Logan
Supreme Court
Tilton
Carroll
Bush
Topeka
Leavenworth
Levin Gilready
Redden
Metropolitan Police
Murray
Messrs. Hewins
Lowe
Shean
Sheldon
Ways and Means
York
Bolman
Newport Missouri tree tragedy and assorted notes
News notes report two new fatalities from a Newport tree collapse near Newport and two fishermen lost in Buffalo during a snow storm. It also notes steerage rates to Europe, several business failures in New Orleans and Prescott, oil mill plans in the south, Britain Venezuela diplomacy, land warrants inquiry, a presidential appointment, a U.S. Senate nomination, a West Virginia Senate vacancy, and a land cancellation decision affecting Reed City, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Europe
Britton & Mayson
New Orleans
Woodbury & Portis
Prescott
Ark
New South Wales Assembly
P. D. Armour
Great Britain
Venezuela
House of Lords
Salisbury
Senate
James M. Trotter
Recorder of Deeds
District of Columbia
James C. Matthews
Wilson
West Virginia
United States
D. B. Lucas
Jefferson County
Rnk
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
North Range
Reed City
Mich
Jackson, Lansing
Market Reports Grain and Provisions from St Louis
Market notes from St Louis dated March 1 show grain and provisions prices for flour, corn, oats, rye, barley, butter, eggs, and whisky. Active markets include corn firmer, oats dull, hogs higher, cattle active, and pork and lard steady with varied regional quotes. Multiple commodities list cash, futures, and local grades across Minnesota Iowa Kansas and New York markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Loui
Mays Blige
Manke
Bugsie
St. Louia
Hki
Western
Elgin Creamery
Western Steam
City Steam
Kansas Orry
What's in a surname four novel Pisu for simplifying names
A reflective piece on the origins and meanings of surnames, tracing how names arise from family, occupation, locality, appearance, and character. It notes regional distributions in Scotland and England, debates about changes of name, and the social impact of names, with literary asides and examples from history and fiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romeo Montague
Romeo
Mac
Fitz
Alun Waterson
Walter
Walter Alunson
Dale
Brook
Sarah
Land
Wood
Heath
Hunt
Ireland
Granville
Lond Lyttleton
Granvilles
Grande Ville
Smith
Cook
Bhephoni
Plowman
Knight
Coroner
Corone
Archer
Slinger
Justice
Provost
Dresser
Chapman
Barbour
John
Bell
John Bell
Thomas
Rose
Thomas Rose
Oliver
The
Thorne
Oliver Thorne
Nicholas
Sparrow
Nicholas Sparrow
Gay
Gage
Blythe
Merry
Makepeace
Cruikshank
Glutton
Pennyfather
Miser
Swindler
Scotland
MacDonald
MacKenzie
Robertson
Stewart
Bott
Kerr
Elliot
Johnson
Maxwell
Gordon
Forbes
Grant
Ogilvie
Campbell
Cameron
Maclean
Kennedy
England
Churchyard
Deadman
Scamp
Goto Bed
Slaughter
Startup
Twentyman
Allbones
Littleproud
Fudge
Puddle
Wildblood
Bootland
George Seton
McDonald
Brown
Thompson
Mr. Beton
Smiths
Wales
Jonen
Williams
Isaac Disraeli
Zonius
John Wilkes
Dr. Johnson
Elkanah Settle
Wilkes
John Dryden
Cuthbert
Cuddy
McAlpine
Halfpenny
Welcome
Bullock
de Winton
Wilkins
Ephraim Bug
Howard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Louisville
Nevis Moosticht
Wyoming’ ‘Territory
la Fontaine
Mol- Mere
Pere -la Chaise
White House
Henry Pfister
Shulteness
Zurich
Cleveland
Jenness Miller
Juxa Toy
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Minnie Frederick
Louis Blanc
Paris
Marseilles
O'Neill
Committees On
Labor
Endicott
St. Louis
John A. Logan
Chicago
Jackson
Tue
Sac and Fox
Indiana
Moses Neal
West
Isaac F. Qomxsy
City Sur‘veyor
Rochester, N.Y
Lake Erie
State News
William Woolheater
Thomas Coffey
Wien
Coffey
Wohlheater
Whisky *Alliance of
Senator Ingalls
United States Senate
Willard W. Meyers
Bosna
James H. Holland
Diosworth
Anna Osborn
Selkirk
Dillon
Thomas 8
Ohio
George Greenmyer
Birch
Hugh Mmcvashion
George Brookly
Zeandald
John W. Simpson
Milan
Charles Watts
Arkansas City
John Croling
Valley Falls
Joseph McThomas
Longton
Joseph Thompson
Zherryvale
Philip Cook
Sedan
Wilson F. Caton
McCune
Hiram W. Miller
Jarbondale
Samuel M. Hewitt
Beloit
David D. Bailey
Cuba
William Woolf
Andover
Emporia
Britton Iron and Steel Works
Benator Cockrell
Mies von Zandt
Spica
Market Reports
Ryre
Barler
Minnesota
Iowa
Ueht
Thom
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