Domestic Service and Labor Reform Debate in 1890s America
The article surveys Robert Grant’s critique of European class systems in domestic service and argues that advances in machinery electricity and cooperative housekeeping could end the traditional servant model. It notes tensions with women clerks and details innovations like artificial limbs and electric urban transit. It also reports Representative Thomas W Phillips proposed a national labor commission and his plan to fund salaries to reduce government costs.
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Lerimer
Robert Grant
United States
Europe
America
Grant
Anadoats
Thomas W. Phillips
Congress
Pennsylvania
Phillips
National Labor Commission
Ho Dhusa
Phis
Bhese
Sea of Rabor
Typewriters and Trotters Show Speed Advances Across Eras
The article notes rapid progress in both trotting and typewriter speeds over the past decade. It cites Flora Temple, Nancy Hanks, Alix, and Robert J as landmarks in trotting times, while highlighting 16 to 160 words per minute rates in typing. It attributes gains to improved machines and operators.
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Nfove
Flora Temple
Nancy Hanks
Alix
Robert J
Magnetic Cannon Demonstration Draws Military Interest
Colonel King of the United States Army at Willett’s Point on Long Island wraps a 17 foot cannon in 10 miles of insulated copper wire and runs current through it. The magnet pulls a paired cannon to hold 48,000 pounds and bends a distant magnetic needle, drawing a crowbar and suspending cannonballs at the muzzle. A neutral point exists where iron is not held by the magnet.
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King
Unites States Army
Willett’s Point
Long Island
Sound
Commercial Retaliation and the 1890 Trade Power
The piece notes the 1890 meat and food inspection act grants the president power to retaliate against foreign discrimination. It recalls past urges to act toward Germany over pork and Spain over flour, but credits restraint and patience in allowing foreign governments to adjust. The author suggests the president could issue a proclamation if injustices persist.
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United States
Germany
Cleveland
Spain
Congress
Trade law shields U S goods from Europa imports
The piece argues a strong protective tariff will keep Europa products out of the United States and boost domestic industry. It notes crime and labor unrest in 1894 with high murder, lynching, and embezzlement rates, suggesting hard times fuel violence and honesty declines.
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Georgia
United States
Greater Gold Production Across Africa Boosts Golden Age Talk
The piece weighs prospects of Africa’s goldfields with claims of rising output and steady advancement in mining, citing expert forecasts of 200 million dollars annually. It also adds a brief history of the New York Commercial Advertiser, noting its founders and early editors.
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M. Jacques Siegfried
California
WGGO
Baltimore Tun nel Solves City Transit Ahead of New York
Baltimore reports a seven mile tunnel under the busiest city area, built in three years, navigating gas pipes water mains and sewers with little disruption to streets or damage to buildings along the route.
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London Streets
Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Premonitions About Trilby and a Windfall
The author could have earned a large royalty instead of a lump sum for Trilby. It is said the publishers offered extra compensation to offset what some call sins of the deal. The Harpers are reportedly paying this extra sum.
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du Maurier
Trilby
Harpers
Early American thoughts on building plans and perfection
The author muses that in America there is a growing sense that someone is needed to plan any building. Even today the ideal structure whether hotel public building or private home remains far from realization.
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America
Supreme Court affirms city taxing power on cable poles
The court rules that when a cable company places wires and poles in a city's streets the municipality may tax those facilities for local purposes. This decision reinforces city authority to fund municipal services through private infrastructure within its borders.
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United States Supreme Court
Populist Presence in State Legislatures Cited
The passage notes that 887 Populists exist across 36 state legislatures in the Union, highlighting their notable presence in regional government and party representation.
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Union
San Francisco Argonauts Tale of Beard and Winn
In a Bay Area reminiscence General Winn leads San Francisco labor efforts while Beard of Mission San Jose stands as a bold early entrepreneur. The tale recalls Beard and Ellsworth connections to Fremont, a mission garden, a famed orange miracle on a desert trek, and Beard’s public spirit shown when he patronizes a village buss amid hardships of the 1840s California rush.
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California
Bay of
San Francisco
Oakland
General Winn
Alameda County
Beard
Mission San Jose
Beard & Ellsworth
Mission Garden
Paradise
Ellsworth
Washington
National Capital
Fremont
Jesse Beaton
Mexico
Accapulco
Guaymas
Mr. Beard
Winn
Mind Cure Paradise Proposed at Halifax Florida
A column discusses Mrs. Helen Wilmans's plan for a Halifax Florida colony based on mind cure. It touts heaven on earth via spiritual ascent, claims work avoidance and wealth will come through faith, but notes Halifax will only offer winter tourist accommodations, requiring money to visit the paradise.
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Halifax
Ila
Helen Wilmans
Mind
Mrs. Wilmans
Pope’s Message Faces American Journalists Visit
The pope plans to speak with truth about a matter and will visit America in person to shape impressions with journalists known to us. The move signals direct engagement as part of a broader effort to convey clarity.
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Amelican Joule
America
Cleaning kid gloves ribbons and laces preparation
A period note advises a solvent wash for delicate items. Mix deodorized benzine with ether chloroform and alcohol in a bowl then wash the gloves and ribbons as if in water, rewringing in a fresh solution to keep them in prime condition.
The Lecture Age and the Lyceum’s Rise and Fall
Rev. E P Powell reflects in The New England Magazine on the bygone lecture age. He notes speakers now abound locally earning far less than the old stars and recalls Emerson and other giants. The lyceum’s power faded in a quarter century yet helped end slavery elevate culture and advance equality.
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E. P. Powell
New England
Mr. Powell
Ralph Waldo
Mr. Emerson
Lyceum
New England Conference
Theodore Parker
William Lloyd Garrison
Richard 8. Storrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Sumner
Wendling
Ingalls
Wilson
Gordon
Women push for Chicago free public baths
A Municipal Order league committee urges the Chicago city council to fund public baths to improve health and reduce crime. They argue clean bodies lead to clean souls and that poor tenement residents lack private bathing facilities. Senator Voorhees predicts revenue law effects in 60 days.
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Municipal Order League of Chicago
Union
Voorhees
Mrs Lease's Idea on Civilization and Colonization
The article reviews Mary Elizabeth Lease's book The Problem of Civilization Solved. It argues she calls for thinning the poor in cities and colonizing tropical lands with fertile, cultivated areas. Lease advocates shared profits from labor saving machinery among capitalists workers and consumers.
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Lease
Leaso
Kansas
Prairies
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Globe
Belgium
England
New England
Africa
Central
South America
New Valentine Fashion Focuses on Kindness and Remembrance
The piece cheers a shift from crude comic valentines to thoughtful gifts like flowers and bonbons. It lauds Abraham Lincoln, noting Illinois legalizing his Feb 12 birthday as a holiday and a Gettysburg medallion will bear his address text.
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Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Gettysburg Battleground
Lincoln
Opposite of Europe on US debt and a biting mockery
The piece argues against a large US gold loan urged by European moneyed interests. It mentions England and the London Standard, Colorado fruit grower Captain Rockefellow, Japan’s poverty, and America’s desire for the Nicaragua canal and an ocean telegraph to Hawaii. It ends by ridiculing Detroit Mayor Pingreys as winter entertainment.
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United States
Europe
England
London Standard
Nicaragua
Hawaii
Congress
Case of Heredity in Chilmark Deaf Mutes Colony
A New York World correspondent reports a Chilmark Martha's Vineyard settlement of 146 natives with 64 deaf and dumb, all born deaf. Intermarriage has spread deafness through the population, traced to two early deaf mutés from 250 years ago, though residents remain physically healthy and long-lived.
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New York World
Chilmark
Martha’s Vineyard
Childwark
Martha’s
Coast Defenders Rush Navy Build Up With New Vessels
A new naval bill authorizes three coast defense battleships at up to 4 million dollars each and 12 torpedo boats averaging 170 thousand dollars. Vessels range 200 to 300 tons and should take three to four years, barring war. Four Ericsson monitors, ordered 20 years ago, are under construction. Terror and Puritan near completion in Brooklyn, Amphitrite at Norfolk, Monadnock at Mare Island.
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Ericsson
Congress
Terror
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Norfolk Yard
San Francisco
Mare Island Works
Steamboat Safety Record of 1894 Notably Harsh on Crew
American steamboats carried at least 600 million passengers in 1894 with only 96 passenger deaths from accidents. However officers and crew faced higher losses, as 159 officers and workers died in steamboat casualties that year.
Cotton cloth used to stabilize roads in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts roadbuilding commission reports that cheap cotton cloth laid over shifting sands forms a firm roadbed for laying broken stone. Sandbags provided the best breastworks during war, and cloth helps bind sand in sandy districts to support highway construction.
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Massachusetts
Bryan joint resolution on presidential eligibility reported by committee
The text notes a House committee favoring Mr. Bryan's joint resolution to bar a president from immediate reelection. It discusses constitutional amendments, proposing a six year term if submitted, and reflects on American literature and press ethics as viewed by Dana. It includes Andrew Carnegie's Union College address warning against overreaching bargains and benefiting both sides.
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Bryan
House
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Union College
Gold Drain From U S Reaches 250 Million In One Year
The United States loses 250 million dollars in gold to Europe within a year. The winter of 1895 records an unusual blizzard in Oklahoma. The Globe Democrat notes that political larceny yields poor long term results.
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United States
Europe
Oklahoma
the Globe- Democrat
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Commercial Advertiser
Alexander Hamilton
Thurlaw Weed
Commercial Ad
Grant Eby
Grant. Eby
Alfred de Oro
Springfield
Ohio
the Flush Times OF
William Halley
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Detroit
Coast Defenders
Dana
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