Reaction to political and international news in 1900s papers
A collage of quotes notes political sparring in the United States and Europe. It covers U.S. officials like McKinley and Reed, criticisms of legislators, debates over cartoons, and Greece and Ottoman affairs with muted commentary on royal marriages and naval power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribe
Prorida Times-Union
Bradley
Mark Henn
Detroit Tribune
Providence
New York Press
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentine
Peru
Cincinnati Tribune
Washington Star
Nevada
Chicago Times-Herald
Ingalls
Chicago Dispatch
Oklahoma
Salt Klahoma
Buffalo Express
Chicago
Morocco
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Ind
Europe
London
United States
England
America
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Remarkable Deep Sea Salvage of Alfonso XII Gold
The 1885 Alfonso XII salvage off Grand Camary nets divers Lambert Tester and Davies large paydays. Lambert dives 908 minutes in 62 immersions to recover seven boxes weighing near 200 pounds each from 160 feet depth, while Tester gains 46 dips for 601 minutes. Davies cannot reach the lazarette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert
Point Gando
Grand Camary
Gando Rock
Alexander Lambert
David Tester
Frederick J. Davies
Tester
Davies
Lazarette
Tambert
Petrifying Water Near Franks Mill Bogs Stones In Water
A large spring a mile and a half from Franks I J feeds a mill for Hon B I Byrd. The water deposits a hard stone on bucket rims, petrifies wood and bones, and yields curious stream formations near Boggie Mountain as reported by the Dallas News. General reflection on avoiding responsibility follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franks
I.J
Boggie Mountain
B. I. Byrd
Dallas News
Eighteen and a half hands high horse claims West's largest
A Plymouth Nebraska owned horse reportedly stands eighteen and a half hands tall and is labeled the largest West of the Mississippi. The item appears amid a jumble of notes on colonization in Atlanta, Easterly supply schemes, and oddities from Missouri to Vermont.
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Plymouth
Neb
Mississippi River
Carrollton
Liberia
Atlanta
Boone County
Missouri
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Boston
Kansas City
Georgia Cities
Georgia
Virginia
Hagerstown
Otisville
N. Y
New York
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Maryland
Connecticut
Indiana
Tennessee
Illinois
Maine
South Carolina
Delaware
Wisconsin
Iowa
Michigan
Mississippi
New Jersey
North Carolina
Louisiana
Minnesota
New Hampshire
West Virginia
Vermont
Alabama
Colorado
Nebraska
Oregon
Sacramento
California
Proofs Needer and the Cuban Army Correspondent
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item records a humorous exchange about collecting life insurance from a widow. The husband is described as a newspaper correspondent with the Cuban army, and a clerk tells the woman to return in ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dubious Joy Reflects on Society and Family Feuds
A New York Journal item mocks high society by contrasting a girl barely out of a trundle bed with a woman of sense showing that popularity can trump propriety. The casual dialogue reveals the era’s snobbery and ironic tone about family approval and social worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kreed
Baltimore American
Washington
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
McKinley
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Samuel Jones Tilden
House Democrats
Washington Post
Chicago Times-Herald
Olney
Cleveland
Chiengzo
Mas. Melkinley
Theianopolis
Notable Wit and Warnings From Storied Speech Slips
A collection of anecdotes jokes and quotes highlighting stammering missteps legal blunders and witty retorts. Includes Charles Kingsley Jim Schultz and Rufus Choate stories plus a humorous tale of a soldier and Gov Rusk.
The Big Hat in Church
The observer describes a preacher vanishing behind an elaborate hat worn in church, leaving only a voice. The hat dominates attention, obscuring the sermon and sanctuary as feathers ribbons and a yellow rose create a shifting arc. The preacher seems to vanish, with only another similar hat visible ahead.
Country wit shot in road and calf mischief ends oddly
A 15 year old country boy driving calves to market confronts a city pleasure party and his quick retort ends their prank. The scene moves to a domestic quip about announcing a newborn, reflecting playful banter and local humor.
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Punse
Greece
Detroit
Canea
Chicago Inter Ovenn
Asia
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
New York Advertiser
Mike
Mezo-Vasarhely
Lake Hodos
Hungary
Louisville
Knobwoster
City Missionary Society of
Daniel W. Waldron
Lancaster
Mass
Big Horn County
Wyoming
Arizona
Painted Desert
Lexington
Barton County
Manchester Guardian
University of Pennsylvania
Nippur
Babylonia
Paris
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Napoleon TL
Louis Philippe
Napoleon III
Thomas Paine
Bobby
Papa
Teuess
New York Journal
Charles Kingsley
Jim Schultz
Cwin Groves
Henry the Third
Guise
Caylus
Carlyles
Carlyle
Rufus Choate
E. P. Whipple
Mr. Choate
Mimskull
Hans von Burow
Wey
James T. Fields
Guv. Rusk
Gov. Rusk
Baker
Nostairs
Mary Tatherine Howard
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