Congress Debates Amendments and Resolutions in Quiet Session
The Senate considers a proposed constitutional amendment on gender suffrage with support from National Woman's Suffrage Association leaders. Debates over treasury disclosures and post routes subsidies continue as factions push for conference on key bills. Adjournment faces delays amid political questions and procedural motions.
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House acts on war claims and revenue equity
The House debated saving the sugar bill as a special order on Wednesday with Banka opposing. Fulier asked a study on equalizing internal revenue tax across states. The body moved to committee of the whole on private calendar. Bragg opposed most war claim bills. The committee reported 112 private bills passed. Banning proposed a substitute for army organization, Taylor headed an extension of privileges to Cincinnati. House recessed.
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Bragg
Banning
Army Organization
Taylor
Cincinnati
Nomination Report Delays Stir Louisiana Ballot Choice
The Renate committee on nominations reports adversely on New York nominations. In the Louisiana Legislature the Democratic censuses reach the fifth ballot as Eustice, aged 37, remains necessary to a choice at 53.
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Louisiana
Eustice
Foreign Notes and International Dispatches Outline Crises
Reports from London Paris and Vienna on Prussia Afghanistan and Bulgarian matters. Debates in Prussia reject motions on parliamentary discipline while liberal factions insist on constitutional rights as basis for conduct. Russia Turkey delays and Bulgarian assembly timing cited with plague measures and Afghan policy notes.
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International Sanitary Commission
Russia
Reno Case and national notes mixed in January dispatches
The report surveys a Reno case testimony with Dr Porter and Captain Moylan, Bayard Taylor probate hints in Chester County, a Stewart's Marble Palace hotel plan, and a compulsory education bill. It also covers Fort Rosixson casualties, Sharon railroad critique in Nevada, a fatal pistol street fight in Austin, and various Congress and district updates including land claims and Connecticut notes.
Innocent Females Astonied Platts Mouthed Encounter
An anxious scene unfolds as a woman purchases shoes at Merges' while Peter wrinkles French chalk to ease an elip. Su is noticed, and Bho slinks toward the door declaring he will not be chloroformed again, ending with the woman leaving without the shoes.
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Columbus to Get Cotton-seed Oil Factory Tax Exemption
News notes report Columbus planned cotton-seed oil factory with ten year tax exemption. Weather across the state remains frigid with extensive crop losses. A U S Marshal appoints FLO Horn to lead Cheyenne penitentiary. Coaches shift between Bozeman and Mills City in four days. Helena reports over 50 thousand in new buildings, including Odd Fellows and an Episcopal church. Tramps occupy Baton Rouge grounds as New Orleans rail project expands toward Plaquemine. Sugar planters face low prices despite large yields. Tangipapain River survey for navigation planned. The Sabine River mouth will be deepened to twenty feet to boost timber lands. Indians White Owl and Quit.
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Sabine River
Anecdote of the Late Dr Wells at Boston Dinner
The piece recalls Dr. Pr Wells who died December 1 1878 in Boston at eighty five. He abstained from meat on Fridays and once delays a steak moral dilemma at breakfast with Dr Francis elder and younger. Wells wins mercy as steak is hidden by his hosts then revealed.
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New York
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Apostle
What Johnny caught
Johnny, who attends a crack school, went fishing. He proudly declares he caught an Anguilly bostoniensis, four fine Mala copterygious fish, and his mother confirms the details of the catch in a brief dialogue scene.
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Juhmny
Capital officer granted unlimited leave to visit Europe
The Capital, Washington, reports Col. Freak Grant has unlimited leave to visit his father in Europe. Rumors suggest possible royal connections in Bulgaria. The note laments whisky prices and references supply and demand concerns amid the discussion.
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Freak Grant
Europe
Prince
Bulgaria
Farewell to the Forest sung by New Orleans quartet
A New Orleans concert program notes Farewell to the Forest would be performed by a male quartet. The item signals a vocal grouping for the program and reflects period entertainment practice in the city.
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New Orleans
Reflections on Time and Learning for Rural Readers
The essay laments wasted time and urges advancing knowledge through reading. It contrasts idle rural leisure with the need to cultivate intellect, citing Seneca Blair Addison and Goldsmith. It encourages sustainable study and quotes Virgil while urging persistent self-improvement.
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Mejast
Prince of Wales Home at Sandringham in Norfolk Estate Tour
Vanity Fair describes the Prince of Wales country house Sandringham in Norfolk two miles from Wolverton. The tour covers The Folly, gate entry via Norwich Gates, the hall set for tea with the royal family, Christmas decorations, the autograph book and the weigh-in game, drawing rooms, gardens, the dairy, kennels, stables, and a recurring guest list with occasional foreign visitors. The piece highlights the dining, music, and entertaining routine in the royal residence.
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Rea
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Lilliard-room
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Life and Laughter in a Genteel Village
A humorous caricature scene where a mother explains angels to a child amid a chatty governess and a strained household. The dialogue mocks pretentious literature and penny-pinching urban life as the narrator riffs on a "Life of Se tre..." and a poet.
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