Stenography at Washington Reveals Congressional Record Costs
Washington correspondent reports on the high salaries of presidents secretaries and clerks, the $50,000 per session cost of stenographic work, and the dual handwriting process for The Congressional Record. It notes the Senate contract with Dennis Murphy, House reporters, and the speed and procedures of transcription and printing.
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Washington Cor
Cleveland
House of
Congressional
Folger
Lincoln
Gresham
Bureau of Engining and Printing
Civil-Service Commission
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Congress
Senate
Dennis Murphy
House
Capitol
Dennis I’. Murphy
Mr. McElhone
Philadelphia
Character types by facial features in a New York paper
A 20th century profile contrasts facial traits with social roles. It links a strong Roman nose and stiff lip to rugged labor and leadership, while fine features mark artists and refined classes. It notes red faces and stout builds as linked to physical pleasures and merriment.
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N.Y Mail and Express
New Art Creates Painted Designs Inside Marble
Dr Hand Smith pioneers a process that embeds colored designs within marble and other dense materials using metallic oxides and a fixed medium. The method layers hues that penetrate perpendicularly to the surface, enabling internal paintings and sculptures. Samples are shown at Piccadilly hall in London, with decorative tablets and autumn foliage scenes.
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Scientific American
Hand Smith
Piccadilly Hall
London
Immigration Push Boosts Chinese Labor In Colonization
A historic note indicates Mexico’s policy aims to encourage Chinese laborers to colonize cotton sugar and coffee regions. The statement frames Chinese coolies as a powerful workforce shaping agricultural development.
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Mexico
Gould family home fitted up as a railroad studio at Irvington
New York correspondent describes Jay Gould as frugal in personal costs and power hungry in politics. His Irvington estate Lyndhurst is expanded into a grand railroad study room with wall maps and railroad law texts. Gould avoids social venues, travels incognito, and relies on a bodyguard for safety amid hostile forces.
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York Cor
Utica
Gould
Napoleon
Vanderbilt
Bonner
Irvington
Ronder
Morosini
Selovor
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Scranton
David Dudley Field
William Paulding
Hudson
Frederick
Phillip
Frederick Paulding
Philip Paulding
America
Aulding
Lyndhurst
Not the Girls Only as Gum Craze Draws Officials
A Chicago dealer laments gum chewing as a widespread habit among men and professionals. He cites jaw power waste and imagined mechanical gains from all the chewing. He notes some board of trade members and speakers use gum to keep voices in shape despite self critiques.
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Chicago Tribune
Board of Trade
Philadelphia’s Pretty Policemen
Philadelphia boasts the city’s handsomest police squad on Chestnut Street. Described as delicate, they wear brass helmets instead of caps, white gloves, walnut canes, boutonniere, and perfume. They sport silk handkerchiefs and patdht leather shoes while posing on street corners. They are learning long hair and cigarette smoking.
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Philadelphia
Washington Republican
Chestnut Street
Lion Tamer Wife Marries Boulier Again in Paris Ring
The latest society romance notes English lion tamer G Nouma Hawa wed widower Boulier in Paris. Boulier earlier married Mme Lecuyer, famed in traveling shows for lion taming, and the pair once reined a grand menagerie. He later joined Hawa in the cages after a stormy domestic history.
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Paris Cor
New Orleans
Mme. Honlier-Lecuyer
Boulter
Boulier
Houlier
le. Nouma-Hawa
How Gun-Barrels Are Made
A dated description of making gun barrels blending iron and steel. It details welding, twisting steel and iron into cables, forming a flat bar, spirally coiling around a mandrel, welding edges, cold hammering, and lathe finishing to produce strong barrels. It explains cylinder bored barrels and aims for even shot distribution.
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St. Nicholas
Damascus
Isle au Haut Life on the Maine Island Perilous and Diminished
A historical sketch of Ile au Haut off Maine describes a remote fishing community with about 200 residents, no post office or doctor, rough water access to Deer Island and Rockland, and a failed grand resort scheme that left roads and a pavilion to decay. It notes the island’s isolation, pale modern ties, and the 1772 settlement by Anthony Merchant.
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Lonesome Isle Au Haut
New York
Maine
Atlantic
Ile Au Haut
Lofty Island
Isle
Anthony Merchant
Fishers
Deer Feland
Rockland
Saale
International
Nand Bangor
A Norwegian Superstition
A Chicago Times description of a Norwegian farmer's wife dairy ritual. In summer she offers cheese to Nipen the Norse spirit at an isolated rock, sometimes with a sweetcake and can of ale. The dawn returns reveal the offering, with beliefs it ensures rich milk, safe lambs, and the husband’s safe voyage home.
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Chicago Times
Nipon
Cattle Boom in Chihuahua Mexico Put Forward
The Chihuahua region is projected to lead Mexico in cattle production due to disease free stock and mild year round fattening pastures. Water scarcity, managed by wells and windmills, remains a constraint. A Florida river land grant sold for $650,000 attracts Scottish investment. Germany buys 1,000,000 acres and seeks 9,000,000 more for colonization.
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Chihuahua
Mexico
Florida River
Germany
Watermelon pools form as growers unite across region
Watermelon growers join a pooling movement with Atlanta named as headquarters for 249 distributing centers serving over 5.9 million people in the northwest region, signaling a coordinated industry effort.
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Atlanta
Northwest
Western Plowman Record of Hen Eggs Draws Ire
A quirky label targets a farmer noting that recording eggs per hen marks a tag teats obsession. The remark implies tension over meticulous flock accounting and farm practices.
The Farmer’s Claim to Being a Farmer in Our Time
A speaker defends the farmer as the backbone of society describing a life of early rising, hard work, and household sacrifice. He argues farmers built railways, cities, canals, telegraphs, mines, and factories, and perform eight tenths of the land’s labor despite misrepresentation by the press.
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L Donn Pratt
Frien
The Maori King Visits London Stage
A London letter notes a tall Maori king named Tawhtao attending the Haverly Minstrel show at Drury Lane. The observer highlights his dignified yet awkward walk, tattooed forehead and nose, and suggests he may be unwell or drinking, while Skidmore attempts jokes for his majesty.
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London
Tawhtao
Haverly
Drury Lane
Skidmore
Visitor questions Connecticut farming and wealth portrayal
A North Carolinian in New York questions how Connecticut sustains itself amid vast rocky terrain. He notes wealth and neat stock but doubts where food comes from while contrasting New England cotton and southern crops. The New Era adds a quip on personal duties and cultural arts from The Current.
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Connecticut
New York Sun
New York
New England
Curious Customs of the Seminoles
A reminiscence from Porenological Journal notes Seminole birth names and rites for youths, with boys earning warrior names after a ritual scratching. severe penalties for theft and intoxication, including lashes and ear removal, and the Light Horsemen’s upkeep against liquor.
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Porenological Journal
Light Horsemen
Jacksons Power of Acting
Washington Cor respondent recalls Andrew Jackson as a consummate actor whose anger served to deter office seekers. Senator Hugh L. White recounts a Philadelphia bank recharter delegation confronting Jackson, who feigned insult, warned of disorder, then dismissed them with a rough display, proving a deliberate tactic to avoid boredom.
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Senator White
Philadelphia
Jackson
Judge White
Four years apart and fate on the river bridge
Congressman Blackburn recalls a Civil War memory on a Mississippi riverboat. He reunites with his wife and their baby after years apart, sharing how a young girl offered him lemonade and revealed the infant he had last seen as a newborn. The moment stands as a rare emotional pause amid conflict.
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Blackburn
Congressman Blackburn
Kentucky
Mississippi
Jupiter
American Inventions Credited by English Journal
An English journal credits Americans with at least fifteen inventions and discoveries now widely adopted. The list includes the cotton gin, the sewing machine, steam navigation, the rotary press, the grain elevator, artificial ice, the gauge lathe, and other innovations shaping global industry.
Things men do best say Chicago paper lists
A Chicago paper notes tasks every man can perform better than others such as poking a fire putting on a hat editing a newspaper telling a story begun by another and examining a railway time table. The Philadelphia Ledger criticizes a prevailing tendency to rely on legislative remedies for moral failings.
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Chicago
Philadelphia Ledger
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