Coast Defense Schemes and International Tensions
Washington reports discuss a new coast defense plan amid German interference and Samoa questions. Other items note bribery claims in Minnesota politics, sugar bounty amendments, and a push for territorial admission bills for Arizona Idaho and Wyoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Senate
London
Phelps
Colon
United States
Germany
Morton
Alex Graham Bell
Washington
Supreme Court
United States District Court
Balimore
State Department
Berlin
Zanzibar
Madagascar
Congress
Old Libby Prison to Chicago Detailing removal in Richmond Virginia
Libby prison is to go to Chicago. The work of taking apart the old structure is underway in Richmond and bricks are numbered to allow reassembly. The interior will become a war museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libby
Chicago
Richmond
Virginia
Albany
Chung Lee
Phillip O'Brien
San Francisco
Phillip
Barney Rowengrave
Pacific Coast Report Highlights Prisoner Rights and Local News
A wide array of items from the Pacific Coast era covers prison conditions in a local institution, Langtry's California ranch acquisitions, rail and waterway planning, and notable arrests. Reports include murders in Minnesota and Oregon, Chinese inspector appointments, and ongoing railroad and land surveys across Arizona, Montana, and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Pacific
San Diego
Ocean Beach
Delmar
Arizona
Charles Lumsteller
Port Townsend
Minnesota
Prescott
Phenix
Territorial Council
W. B. Reynolds
Healdsburg
Langtry
California
Reclaiming Pear and Peach Trees and Barnyard Practices
Agricultural notes cover reclaiming dying pear and peach trees by trenching with soda and lime, whitewash, pruning, and winter care. It warns against pepper in fowl feed, cites bisulphide of carbon as an antiseptic, discusses barnyard design, feed variety, and warming water for stock during cold weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iquique
Peru
J. Mille Jenkin
Garfield
Wilkeshoro
Penn
Sydney
Olga
King
Samoa
Marshall Islands
William Pierce
New York
New Marlborough
Mara
Canadian Knights of Labor
Joaquin Miller
Pittsburg
Germany
Prussia
Friends' Pacific Academy Opens Near Portland
Friends' Pacific Academy at Newberg in Yamhill county Oregon started with 19 pupils in 1885. By 1887 the enrollment reached 110 in winter term while the academy building and dormitory facilities expanded. Address Edwin Morrison, principal, or E H Woodward, board president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends’ Pacific Academy
Newberg
Yamhill County
Oregon
Portland and Willamette Valley
Portland
Rogers’ Landing
Willamette River
Edwin Morrison
E. H. Woodward
Oddities and musings from a scattered era review
A mosaic of trivia and quotes covers art bans in Japan, Paris exiles’ excess, morphine in France, London shopping societies, race track photo finishes, bread prices near borders, river dredging near the Thames, marital prudence, happiness as manna, a Michigan well surprise, Europe’s armed powers, Dijon’s old poplar, fashion in Naples skirts, deaf schools and visual language, Kentucky Bible knowledge, and female education debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Paris
American Academy of Medicine
France
International Hygienic Society of London
England
Michigan
Frances
Naples
Kentucky 19
Scottsville Sentinel
Arthur Gilman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Willard
Gurymas
Mexico
Sonora
Springer
Idaho
Wyoming
House
Blair
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Secretary of the Interior
Washington Territory
Morrow
Malietoa
Great Lakes
Canada
Ohio
Boston
General Payne
Russia
Mississippi
Imperial Palace
Peking
Utah
Florida
Mahli
General Gordon
Whitechapel
Jamaica
Sabaret Valley
Asia Minor
Lord Byron
Paria
DeLessepe
Kansas House
Oklahoma
Nebraska
St. Lawrence
Montreal
James G. Blaine, Jr
Fall River
Mass
Frank Shepley
Helena
John Cronin
Missoula
Cronin
George Gretzengar
Pacific Coast
Mia Langtry
Lake Washington Canal
Survey of Reservations
Register of
New Mexico
Arlee
Spokane Falls
Destruction Island
Hillsboro
John T. Black
Virginia City
Montana
Lake Washington
Sound
Nellie Reach
Colton
William Johnson
Grand Jury
Elko County
Nevada
Elko
North Yakima
Pullman Place Oal Company
Wagner
Vanderbilt
San Rafael
Otay
San Diego County
Green
Land Department
Blackfoot
Fort Belknap
Fort Peek Indian Reservations
the Union of
Walla Walla
Multnomah
Morris Johnon
William Ashton
Dick Rogers
Agnes Woodward
Cunningham
Arminta Gardner
Union County
Salem
Wiggins
Jacob Wilkerson
San Quentin
Honolulu
Prievon
Waterman
Wilkerson
Agricultural
Pacifico Academy
William Penn
Board OF Trustees
E. H. Woodwarp
Jesse Epwards
George W. Mircue
B.C. Mines
Epwin Morriison
E. Mines
A. B
Anya E. Bent
Thames River
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