Secretary Foster and the Monument
Washington monument funding saga recounts Foster as he moves a Senate bill into a House subcommittee, securing congressional action. Randall’s tease becomes Foster’s mission, leading to government completion and the aluminum cap atop the pyramid.
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Foster
Congress
Washington Monument
Launhig
Samuel J. Randall
Kerr
Randall
Senate
John Sherman
Washington Cor
Philadelphia Record
Ancient city Amyelm legend of silence and peril
Fragmentary account describes Amyelm in Laconia founded by Amych and later taken by Sparta after a fearsome tradition of silencing warnings. It contrasts a serpents origin myth tied to Pythagoreans with a shipyard tank experiment on the Clyde enabling rapid, accurate vessel design and performance tests.
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Europe
Italy
Monti di Pleta
London
Amyelm
Laconia
Amych
Thas
Amyche
Servine
Notil Mually
St. Louisa Republic
Dennys
Clyde
New York Telegram
Maharajah Shikar Party Totals Eleven Tigers and More
The Maharajah's shikar party bagged eleven tigers, three panthers, two bears, two chinecers, eleven buffaloes, forty nloe deer and twenty one boar. The five largest tigers measured up to ten feet six inches and weighed about 445 pounds. The swamp deer and two Cambhor remain listed with weights near 300 to 370 pounds.
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Racervas Duvacelli
Ines Aristotilis
Dead Man's Cove tragedy from the Blizzard of 1841
An old mountaineer recalls the Dead Man's Cove wagon tragedy during the 1841 blizzard. A mother left her sick husband and four children to seek help, but died returning to the cabin after gale and zero cold. The wagon party perished near Dead Man's Cove, their names lost and graves unmarked, remembered as a graveyard of emigration between the Dakota line and Missouri River.
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Bard
Wyomin
Idaho
Dakota Line
West Branch
Missouri River
Waal
Alizzard
Sam
Blizgard
Sartin
Friz
New York
Herabu
Varnish Cake Mystery Baffles New York Times Readers
A couple hosted a card party with a large ornamental cake that was shared by four doormen. The next day the boys fell ill and a doctor suspected poisoning. The confectioner blamed varnish added to the cake as part of a batch for varnishing shop woodwork, and the tale of the varnish cake spread through the neighborhood.
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New York Times
Indian chess and its four play ers from the London Spectator
The article describes chaturanga with a rajah elephant horse and ship and four pawns, played by four players in partners facing across diagonals. Moves proceed in sun order with openings aided by dice, no queen, a limited bishop, and the risk of capturing a partner’s rajah. A mutual consent can restore lost rajahs. retirement with honors of war is possible.
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London Spectator
Moorish Justice and Brutal Punishment Report from Tangier
A Nineteenth Century account describes Moorish law courts as extortionary and harsh. It cites ankle-bone breaking for petty thefts, random punishment for favored accusers, and prisoners kept in squalid, bribe-dependent conditions. The writer notes witnesses and locals in Tangier reacting with disdain.
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Cordova
Tangier
Left side sleeping linked to morning taste complaints
A medical note explains that waking with a bad taste is often due to sleeping on the left side after meals. It argues the left side disrupts stomach activity, heart function, and lung space, recommending sleeping on the right side to improve rest. Also included is a Quaker wedding anecdote with selfperformed ceremony and brief vows.
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St. Louis Globe Socrat
Old Settler Legal Battle Sparks Courtroom Outburst
An elderly St Paul settler, late to a trial, demands urgency in debt collection and disrupts the jury from the gallery. The scene unfolds as he confronts the panel while the case against his claim proceeds. The report mentions Herbert Spencer at seventy with keen features and a green harp once owned by Tom Moore.
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St. Paul
St Paul Gijote
Herbert Spencer
George W. Childs
Philadelhia
Tom Moore
Loto
Kelly Wins Quarter Interest in Lottery Ticket Dispute
In a New Orleans City item from February 7, the court awards John J. Kelly a one quarter undivided interest in a lottery ticket sold by a club including Fenlow Norse man O Keefe and Connors. Kelly receives $3750 from the proceeds now on deposit.
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John J. Kelly
People’s Hank
Lowery
John W. Fenlon
T. Lowl
Law Fenlow
Kelly
Norseman
O'Keefe
Connors
Fentow
Penlow
Fenlow
Pentow
John W. Fentow
New Orleans
Purely Old Time Cures Push Dreadful Purgation
An advertisement fragment extolsBaassociated purgatives for headache and dyspepsia claiming weight gain and relief after weeks of use. It warns against mercury containing ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Brown's Bronchial Troches as reputable remedies. Also notes a Kentucky minister appointment and a nursery company ad from Sherwood Hall.
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William FE. Rockwell
West 57Th Street
New York
Baasorern
Hall
F J. Cheney & Co
Edo
Toy Baylag
Toledo
F. J. Choeney & Co
Secuimenial
Madison Avenue Mistress Sets Strict House Schedule
A servant newly engaged by a Madison avenue mistress is told the household will run on strict times with rising at 6, dining at noon, and retiring at 10. The servant replies that the place will suit if nothing else is required. The New York Evening Sun notes this exchange. Sicilian women centuries ago excelled in drawn work embroideries creating lace-like patterns on linen.
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Madison Avenue
New York Evening Sun
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Washington, D. C
Lifeli
Geneva
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Vaaieriees
Sherwood Hall Nursery CO
Sansome & Clay Sts
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Wincon
Spartanburg
C.c
Swift Srucivic Co
Atlanta
William McKeekan
Bloomingdale
Mich
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Olds & King
Portland, Or
Hambred
A.B. Steinbagh & CO
Striet'y
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Baiies
ASONS
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Wwe
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Fyre
Ollee
Vteowte
Kissing Goodby
Klas
Lillian Mankett
San Francisco
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Morocco
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Minree
Kelly Ve. Fenlow
Bobie
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Peru
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Boston
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Mt. Vernon, Wash
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Washington
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Market Street
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Scott
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North Pacific
Manquam Building
Portland
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Bossako
Mitadelphia
Maryphine Mabit
Eure
Lebanon
Ona
H. T. Hudson Arms CO
First St
Gunn
Losasnko
Philadelphia
Org
W. A. Schrock
Axlerease
Hercules
Catalcote
Palmer & Rey
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Cal
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A. Schoen
San Jove
Wraenty
Evame Cot
Rennigest
Loox Out
Ron Ne Bicycles
Vitors
Rambiers
Clevelands
Paloiahs
Rudzes
Sylphs
Western Wheel Works
Eric
Fred T. Merrill
Washington Street
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