White House receptions and agriculture publications
The article notes the White House secretary plan for five grouped receptions this season to avoid crowding and broaden guest lists. It highlights the growing circulation of Agriculture Department publications, including farmers bulletins and the Year Book, with 6.28 million copies circulated in 1898 and growth driven by practical farming content. It also covers executive session openness and proposals for new Washington buildings, including a Carnegie library, a justice department, and a Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill.
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Agricultural Department
Senate
Washington
White House
McKinley
Diplomatic Corps
Congress
Judiciary
Army
Navy
Agriculture Department
George William Hill
United States
Department
Hill
Philippine Islands
Charles Sumner
Grant
Santo Domingo
Andrew Carnegie
Supreme Court of the United States
Senator Morrill
Capitol Hill
Public Library
Capitol Grounds
Arthur W. Dunn
The Sassafras Plant Tea and Medicinal Uses
A Charleston News and Courier correspondent extols Sassafras as a valuable medicinal plant. The whole plant yields an excellent fragrant tea with alterative virtues, while its inner pith forms a thick mucilage when prepared in water. The mucilage helps fevers and dry mouths, and the oil from the root makes a pungent liniment for pains when mixed with turpentine. quack liniments often use sassafras oil as a main ingredient.
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Charleston News and Courier
When Gunpowder Was New in Hunting History
The article notes gunpowder’s slow adoption by nobles and earlier use by commoners, citing Maximilian's claim of bow superiority and a chamois at 200 fathoms. It mentions poacher suppression and later shift to firearms in the deer chase, and a second tale about Major Lawrie and a spider in his helmet during the Atbara fighting, ending with the spider surviving the voyage to London.
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Maximilian
Boa
Gentleman’s Magazine
Major Lawrie
Spider
Atbara
Bruce
Omdurman
England
Baltimore the Social Arcadia
Baltimore society is praised as the world’s finest in the city’s very best circles with incomes under $2,000. The piece credits reasonable living and notes dancers, girls, and universal cheerfulness define the town’s atmosphere.
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Baltimore
Hope and cynicism clash in a Washington Star quip
A misanthrope laments having no friends while a cold acquaintance consoles him with a grim omen about life. The exchange highlights a bleak outlook and a world described as toolings and cold contracts, echoing a satirical tone.
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Washington Star
Witness Confounds Question About Age In Court
A courtroom exchange has an attorney asking the witness for her age with a sharp jab about war time. The witness quips she was born before the war, prompting a stern reply about legal categories and jurisdiction.
Cucumbers Through Ancient Lands and Uses
Cucumbers originate in the East Indies and grow in Cashmere China and Persia. The fruit was highly valued by ancient peoples and is common in Egypt where a drink is made from ripe cucumbers.
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East Indies
Cashmere
China
Persia
Egypt
Senate rules shift power from House to Senate in U S politics
The piece argues the Senate has become more interesting than the House over the last decade due to looser debate rules and running dialogue. It credits new states and younger senators, notes the impact of cloture and attendance rules, and highlights Beveridge's Indiana campaign tactics and wider political effects.
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House
Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Beveridge
Albert J Beveridge
Indiana
Zhim
Arthur W. Duyn
The Eyes That Won a Will Case
The Philadelphia Press recounts James T. Brady’s dramatic courtroom moment in a will contest. He defended a beautiful young woman whose eyes inspired jury sympathy, revealing she suffered total optic nerve paralysis that left her gaze without vision.
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New York
James T. Brady
Brady
Philadelphia Press
The School Playground and the High School Dream
A critique argues that crowding and pride push communities to build grand high school facilities that replace neighborhood playgrounds. It laments the loss of recess and the vanity of stone and brick schools that serve ambitious principals over children.
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Isabella G. Oakley
Popular Science Monthly
Fragmented Detroit tale mixed with political quips
A Detroit Journal fragment shows a conductor chasing a passenger off a Woodward avenue car amid quick quips about truth and revenge. The Washington Star adds a sardonic note with a politician calling a defeat historic and a friend reminding history repeats. It also cites Japan’s many islands and UK builders at length.
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Detroit Journal
Washington Star
How the Royal Academy Elects Members and Its Rich Welfare
Pearson's Weekly describes the Royal Academy's selection method for academicians and associates, detailing the blue copy list, chalkboard scratches, and final ballots, as well as the president's casting vote in ties. It notes pensions for members and widows, substantial annual funds, and generous charitable support from the academy's wealth, including the Francis Chantrey bequest and annual exhibitions.
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Academy
Burlington House
Royal Academy
Ernest Crofts
Francis Chantrey
Pearson’s Weekly
Divorce Rumor Surfaces Over Golfer's Troubled Marriage
A Boston Transcript item reports Mrs. Greene and Mrs. Brown discussing a divorce involving Sarah Jon son from her husband. They allege he used a golf stick as a poker, describing the husband as a monster.
Yellowstone Park Birds and Bears Charm Tourists
A Troy Times recount notes from Yellowstone National Park praising strict wildlife rules that prevent hunting inside the park. Visitors observe tame chipmunks, an unafraid eagle, a calm wolf, grazing deer, and bears lingering near hotels for refuse, with bears retreating only when approached.
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Yellowstone National Park
Troy Times
Willing to Share the Honor in a Frightened Bedside Scene
A late night scene has a patient panicking about imminent death. The doctor jokes about wills lawyers and ministers to calm the man, then reveals there is nothing wrong. The exchange ends with the doctor admitting he fears being the fool tonight.
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Studds
Mr. Saintly
Liverpool Mercury
Music and Eating
A diner recalls a restaurant where dinner was served with an orchestra. The intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana sped from slow to presto as the two step finale emerged, prompting the head waiter to claim patrons eat faster with quicker music.
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Washington Post
The Purging Punchline Between Priests and Vicar
The Retort Courteous from the London Chronicle portrays Father O'Leary and a Church of England vicar meet on the road. The vicar warns of awful news about purgatory’s bottom falling out and Catholics tumbling in, provoking Father O'Leary to lament the Protestants’ fate.
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Father O'Leary
Church of England
Father O’leary
Purgatory
London Chronicle
Little Dot-Mamma Tea Crack Fright
A child explains to Mamma that a crack in a tea cup will look like a hair when company arrives. The exchange centers on the surprising flaw and parental reaction.
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Mamma
Trained nurses questioned on appearance in debate
A brief comic exchange from the Philadelphia North American features Carson asking if trained nurses should be pretty and Hillebrand replying that they should not if they are to follow their calling permanently.
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O Carson
Hillebrand
Philadelphia
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