Tax dodging and domestic economy in perilous times
A San Francisco Examiner column rails at pre Assessor schemes to dodge taxes via government bonds, exposes rich-man schemes to avert taxation, and urges civic vigilance. It then shifts to domestic economy, arguing women should be educated in cooking and household management to empower wives, improve society, and reduce waste by ill prepared households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jullwallet
Fullwaller
Skinflint
America
Master Grant and His Son Rise in Public Favor
A political sketch criticizes President Grant for promoting his son Master Fred Grant from subaltern to staff officer, recounts cadet days at West Point with sharp denigration, and condemns perceived nepotism and demoralizing conduct. The piece contrasts GPA to Morton and Sheridan amid Civil Service concerns and notes Curtis resigning from the Civil Service Advisory Board.
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Frederick
Grant
National Treasury
Fred
West Point
Academy
Ife
Ile
Ind
Theresay
Military Academy
Morton
General Grant
New York
Civil Service
The
Gero
Curtis
Witchcraft Trials and Executions in Early Britain
A 1698 case reports a 19 year old girl who ate sorrel from a suspected witch and then convulsed vomiting needles pins feathers and more. she was jailed and the witch was hanged and burned. A 1722 case in Cornock Scotland involves an old woman accused of turning her daughter into a horse and being burned. The witchcraft act ended in England and Scotland around 1750 but remained in Ireland until 1821.
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Cornock
Southerland
England
Scotland
Lreland
Singular paralysis case after door strike described
A Boston paper recounts a strange paralysis-like hand decline in a young man after striking a heavy door. The hand grew numb and withered, became gray and useless, with nails black and growth halted. Surgeons saw no prior case like this and the dead limb remained unchanged for years, similar to a previous neighbor incident with a boy struck on the arm.
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Boston Paper
Adams Named Arbitrator Earns $22,500 Year in Gold
Cartes Francis Adams served as Arbitrator for the United States at the Geneva Tribunal. His Washington closure last week awarded him $22,500 in gold for one year of service. He received the same annual pay as Minister to England plus an extra sum for traveling expenses.
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Francis Adams
United States
Washington
England
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