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Odd Man and Oddities in a Scattered News Reel
A mosaic of curious notes and jests cites political wits, theatrical chatter, and social quirks. Mentions include Clara Morris in Santa Barbara health, a Brooklyn fire inquest, Congress Indian war spending, and various odd inventions, social trends, and literary asides from Boston to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Girls
United States Senate
Clara Morris
Santa Barbara
Brooklyn
Congress
Wagner
Percival
Kansas
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Maine
Atlanta
California
Minneapolis
Minn
Garfield
Miss Braddon
Chicago Times
Commandery of
Colored Masons
Pacific Coast
New Episcopal Church
Boston
Phillips Brooks
Illinois Central Railroad
Louisa Muhlbach
San Francisco
Hawthorne
Una
Albert Webster
New York
Catacazy
Washington
China
David Dudley Field
Simon Cameron
Republic
England
London
Irving
Richard II
Richard I
Ewell
Richmond
Confederate Congress
Plymouth
South Pass
Mississippi
D. Hitchcoel
Palestine
George Bancroft
Charles O'Conor
Aleck Stephens
Edmund Yates
London Times
Yale
Patent Office
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Claims
Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims
Southern Claims Commission
Executive Departments