Free silver pledge drew sharp lines in the Democratic party
President Cleveland warns that abandoning past tradition to endorse free silver would end the party. The Sioux City Journal notes ilawaii and its American ties, while a monument drive in Frederick funds a Scott Key grave monument with schoolchildren’ s pennies.
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Cleveland
Democratic Party
Sioux City Journal
America
Hawaii
Japan
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Key Monument Association
Frederick
Praneis Scott Key
Scott Wey
Minine
Potatoes Planted Fast by South Dakota Inventor
Around the state notes Thomas Williams of the Dakota Central railway has invented a machine that cuts drops and covers potatoes at an acre per hour. Sioux Falls reports births and deaths among residents with health data and vaccination figures.
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Thomas Williams
Dakota Central Railway
Russian Pole Goldfaden's Railway Station Clock Wonder
A clockwork railway station diorama by Russian Pole Goldfaden, a Warsaw clockmaker, allegedly took over 2000 days to build. The model includes a fully lit station with waiting rooms, signal boxes, a central dial showing New York Peking Warsaw and London time, and a live sequence of telegraph operators passengers and a miniature train. The piece showcases detailed mechanized actions and a flower garden fountain and coal tender within a life like station scene.
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Goldfaden
Warsaw
New York
Peking
London
Dan Ose
Ton Howe
Tromoe
St. Republic
Hens and Centipedes From Cape Elizabeth Sentinel
A tale about Shanghai hens escaping a fence to scratch strawberry beds ends with a prank altering chick legs, producing awkward scrapes. A second excerpt recounts a centipede sighting near Camp Grant described by Joe Galbraith with a local joke about a Santa Fe and its notorious nature.
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Car Painfield
Tuttle
Shanghai
Turtle
Cape Elizabeth
Santifee
Joe Galbraith
New Mexico
Joe
Camp Grant
Hell
New York Sun
Tides and Storms Signal Approaching Hurricane
When a tempest nears or passes offshore tides rise unusually high as if driven by the storm. The effect travels far from the cyclone center, suggesting tides may foretell a dangerous hurricane from distant indications.
From cradle to grave life’s moving panorama on Broadway
Harriet F Blodgett’s poem frames time and nature while a New York street scene unfolds as a living panorama. A moving procession along Broadway and Twenty third Street depicts infancy youth prosperity toil and death through vivid details of vehicles people and symbols.
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Paris
Marquis de Lafayette
Old
Lafayette
Washington Post
New York
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
Minnhood
New York Heralds
Long Road Humor From Georgia Anecdote
A Georgia farmer offers a lift to a city man. The passenger jokes about Vineland distance as they travel, then exits and hoofs it back. The Providence Journal notes a quip about England named for the Angles and a 1302 French sheep sale for $1.
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Dixie
New England
Georgia
Hullo
Jersey
Vineland
Providence Journal
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Philadelphia Record
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Little One
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