Garland Vindication and Cleveland’s Telephone Scandal
A 1911 reminiscence recounts President Cleveland’s defense of Attorney General Augustus Garland amid a rumored telephone company scandal. Cleveland distrusted the allegations, sought a public denial, and ultimately destroyed secret garland papers to avert a taint on his administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telephone Co
Cleveland
Augustus H. Garland
Arkansas
Alexander Graham Sell
United States Senate
Thomas F. Bayard
L. Q. C. Lamar
Interior
Senator Garland
West
Missouri
Garland
Senate
Mr. Garland
George F. Parker
E. J. Edwards
Portici Murder by Rent Dispute Ends in Tragedy
In Portici Italy Giannetti a tenant killed her landlady after a rent hike. Armed with a bread knife she blinded the woman with cinders then stabbed her. She fled to Naples and surrendered to police saying repeated rent raises ruined her family of three children.
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Portici
Italy
Giannetti
Naples
Daniel Voorhees of Indiana a tall sycamore in Senate
Daniel Voorhees, the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash, entered the U S Senate in 1877 succeeding Oliver Morton, known as Indiana's leading Democrat and a prominent former governor. A massive man with a solemn style, he avoided humor in public yet teased friends in private, shaping a career defined by discipline and caution in debates.
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Daniel W. Voorhees
Wabash
Federal
Senate
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
Washington
Congress
Voorhees
Daniel Webster Voorhees
Woolsey
Treasury Department
Indianapolis
United States District Attorney
Buchanan
Dan
Senator
Senator Voorhees
Department
E. J. Edwards
Sign That Maj Charles De Lane Hine in Washington Plan
Major Charles De Lane Hine of Virginia proposed reorganizing Washington departments to prevent clerks from signing for superiors. He aimed to require each officer to read and sign his own documents. Robert Wynne recounted a mass of papers and the habit of clerks prompting him to sign “thar” without reading.
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Charles de Lane Hine
Virginia
West Point
Julius Kruttschnitt
Union Pacific Railroad System
Washington
Hine
White House
Major Hine
Robert J. Wynne
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Wynner
Charles Foster
the Treasury
Harrison
Wynne
E. J. Edwards
Church Lighted by Wind At Cosely Church Near Birmingham
A wind powered lighting system at Cosely church uses a 60 foot steel tower with a windmill and a coal mine tailings site nearby. An electric generator powers 27 church lamps 2 chapel lamps 2 vestry lamps organ pumping motor 30 rector lamps and a rectory storage battery as part of the plant.
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Cosely
Birmingham
England
Pitiful eczema case shows Cuticura healing infant
Mrs. T. B. Rosser of Mill Hall Pa reports in 1911 that her newborn suffered extensive eczema over head to feet. After eight weeks of bandaging and standard treatment, Cuticura Soap and Ointment rapidly improved the child’s condition, restoring hair and curing within four weeks, prompting her to recommend the products and request free samples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Rosser
Mill Hall
Right to a Dot Niagara Water Exchange Quote
A brief quotation from Christian Advocate features a man claiming he can measure water from Niagara Falls by the quart. He asks a woman how much and answers two pints, illustrating a humorous or pointed exchange about measurement and perception.
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Niagara Falls
Grove's Tasteless Chinchona Tonic and Capudine Ads
Old advertisements tout Grove's Tasteless Ton ic with quinine and iron as a malaria remedy and tonic while Hicks Capudine promises quick relief for headaches from colds or nerves in a pleasant liquid form. Also includes a Marcus Aurelius quote about uprightness and a remark on the scarcity of good men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Grove
Capudine
Tetterine Cures Itching Piles and More
A historical ad fragment promotes Tetterine for itching piles eczema ring worm boils and scalp skin diseases. It mentions 50c Tetterine and 2c Soap with mail orders from The Shuptrine Co Savannah Ga and includes other remedies and quotations from various sources.
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Scott
Kansas
N. J. Kipp
Shuptrine Co
Savannah
Shuptrine
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Ruggles
Ee Hix
Dix
Eczema
Marcus Aurelius
Dr. Pierce
Roche
the Centaur Company
J New York
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Castoria
Elmen
Comte
Alee
St. Augustine's School
Normal
Episcopal Church
A. B. Hunter
Raleigh
N. C
G. C
Speaiies
Eal Realiees
U.S
Southern
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Southern Oil & Ink CO
N. U
Charlotte
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Props
Buffalo
N. Y
Semple
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
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