Dvorak’s American Music Vision and Streetcar Outlook
National Music column cites Anton Dvorak praising American resolve and urging rich patrons to fund public concert halls and schools while recognizing nascent American styles from negro melodies and Indian chants. The Street Railway Review notes electric lines rising, trolley business limits, and calls for arbitration to curb strikes amid broader labor tensions and municipal improvements.
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Anton Dvorak
Tlarper
America
United States
New York
Professor Dvorak
Dvorak
Fay Miusic
Europe
Philadelphia Stock Suspicions Cloud Public Trust
The piece notes Philadelphia suspicions about stock exchanges involving the telephone company, with references to William Penn, Ben Franklin, and John Wanamaker, alongside a curious aside about cheese. It also covers Diaz’s peace remark to Mexican students, changes in North Carolina Senate seats, labor wage-Book transparency resolutions, and French political turnover efficiency.
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Philadelphia
William Porn
City
New York
Willian Poon
Ben Franklin
John Wanamaker
Boothiack
Hog combine city government ripg Low
City government action labeled as Hog combine draws criticism over budget and pace. Officials from local administration face scrutiny as residents demand clearer plans and accountability. Community groups press for reforms and timely transparency.
The Flush Times of California and the Argonauts
Reminiscences recount the California gold rush era with focus on perils of sea and land routes in 1849. Accounts cite crowded crowds, shipwrecks, and improvised distilling to survive long voyages around Cape Horn. Observers compare the journey to a hellish gold fever and note economic impacts on prices and imports.
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Buffalo
California
Atlantic
Panama
Paradise
Muany
Lower
San Francisco
Black Sea
Cape Horn
Realejo
Bells of the Past in Bret Harte's Verse
A reflective poem recounts a coastward vision of Spanish glory and Mission life with bells, galleons, and soldiers. The speaker calls the sun setting on rock and wave while recalling Portola and the old fort. The piece closes with bells breaking into twilight and a lingering, consecrated sound.
Militia Use in Labor Strife Through the 1890s
The piece traces the rise of militia deployment to suppress strikes from 1877 through the 1890s, noting repeated use by state troops in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado, and elsewhere. It comments on public attitudes toward the militia, mentions the Pullman crisis and railway conflicts, and cites the 1895 Brooklyn trolley strike. It also discusses labor reform topics, crime, Alaska sealing policy, and emerging notes on the African American population.
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Tate
PSO
Ces
Brooklyn
Board of Supervisors
Isings County
Dhiad
National Guard
California
Pittsburg
Colorado
Knights of Labor
Missouri
Southwest
Texas
Arkansas
New York Central Road
Pennsylvania
Coke
Carnegie Works
Alleghany County
Lehigh Valley
Buffalo
New York
Cripple Creek
Colo
Maryland
Indiana
Hinots
Ohio
Alabama
American Railway Union
Cleveland
United States Regular Army
Chicago
United States
Henry Gannett
Africa
Reo
Ian
Gulf States
South Atlantic
Adulteration in foods and aiding cures for epilepsy urged
The piece argues for government study of food and medicine adulteration and describes New York’s plan to establish an epileptic colony with housing, schooling, and medical research. It notes English authors profit from copyright and warns against lottery-prize disclosures while criticizing corruption in China and New York City.
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Europe
New York
Livingston County
China
New York City
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Weekly Review
National Music
American Woolen Manufactures
Boston
National Association of Wool Mannufacturers
Theodore
Search
Tin
Prince Or Potentata
Colbert
Franco
Oour Republic
Ah Deestas
Ela
John A. Cockerill
Japan
New York Herald
Cockerill
Bularia
Cincinnati Manquirer
Charles A. Dana
Adnan
Cincinnati
W. B. Barnett
Barnett
Hawaiian Islands
South Pacific
New York State
Government Banking
New York Sun
United
Tressury Island
Ienerad Dicestson
Stowas
Byler
Poarty
Vuvcan
Peru
Beunday
Colombia
Amazon River
Venezuela
Menador
New Guamada
Spain
Breckinridge
House
Hawaii
Som Reed
Mesieo
Diaz
Marion Butler
Jeter CL Pritchard
North Carolina
Vance
Ransuim
United States Congress
Josip
Republic of France
France
Maurice Vignauxn
Frank
Ives
Maurice Vignares
Niy Soon
Vignaux
Jack Selucter
Wizard
Vinaux
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N. Y
Ives & Courier
California Ward
Sosannah
Rogers. Baldwin, Jr
the Angelus
Bret Harte
Portala
Ike
Dingley
Paris Arbitration Tribunal
Secretary of the Treasury
Idaho
Burton Harrison
Century Company
Jujuy
Bolivia
Argentine Republic
Alaska
Terra del Fuego
Agricultural Department
Postoffice Department
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