Campaign Oratory In Congress Delays Real Work At The Hall
A Washington Letter notes national lawmaking largely done, but campaign speeches flood the House and Senate while revenue and appropriation bills are debated. The vice president’s limited floor role contrasted with the powerful presiding officer pro tempore. Historical examples and personal anecdotes illustrate the backstage dynamics shaping legislation and memory.
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National House ] of Representatives
Congress
House of Representatives
Jawa
Government Printing Office
Ww-cress
United States
Senate
House
Hayes
Frye
White House
Hendricks
Cleveland
Adlai Stevenson
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. Hendricks
New York
Indiana
Garrett A. Hobart
McKinley
Roosevelt
Beneficial To The Eyes Advocates Parks For Vision
A Canal Street optician from the New Orleans Times-Democrat argues that color glare and limited sight range injure vision. He urges long avenues and extensive parks to give the eye rest and broad range, reducing the need for spectacles and promoting healthier eyesight.
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Canal Street
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Wrong Diagnosis and Water Refusal Legend
A Chicago Daily News excerpt recounts a wife confronting her sick husband outside, debating his stomach trouble. The physician offers medicine while the wife insists water is unnecessary, claiming he has not tasted water in ten years, highlighting a comic misdiagnosis exchange.
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Docetor
Chicago Daily News
Plank Roads in Chicago a Forgotten 19th Century Venture
The Chicago Record-Herald recalls plank roads laid out to rural areas in 1844 intended to rival railroads for boosting trade. The once ambitious network, a historical memory, formed part of Chicago’s early transportation experiments and subsequently faded from use as rail and other systems emerged.
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Chicago
Chicago Record-Herald
Mountain Skies and Kingsley Echoes of Awe and Contemplation
The narrator contemplates sublime views from lofty heights and free skies, linking mountain vistas to spiritual reflection. References to Dickens blesses Joe Willett and John Briggs while Kingsley’s writings inspire wonder at Snowdon and vast horizons beyond mist and sea.
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Dickens
Joe Willett
Charles Kingsley
John Briggs
Snowdon
Earth
Heaven
Kingsleyt
Pen
Kingsley
Pope letter cited as urging peace in civil war
Special correspondence recalls a Des Moines protest against a claim that the pope supported secession. Daniel Ford cites a papal letter to Davis urging peace and reconciliation, noting the pope’s calls for end to the Civil War and unity in charity across America.
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Des Moines
Rome
Daniel Ford
Church of Rome
Ford
Jefferson Davis
Davis
America
Brethers
Metric system debate urged by Sac City professor
Prof D J McDaid of Sac City urges Congress to adopt a metric system based on the true meter of about 40 inches rather than the French standard 39.37079 inches. He argues the arc length measure is only approximate and that using a natural approximate unit would keep the decimal scale intact while simplifying adoption.
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D. J. McDaid
Sac City
Lot Thomas
Congress
Faithful Servant Miss Glotfelty Reaches Notable Record
Miss Lillian Glotfelty, 19, serves the Hampton Iowa rural route in Franklin County. She earns praise as one of the first rural mail carriers and posts the best money order record in the rural system. Her brother Charles also holds a similar position, with farmers expressing warm regard for both.
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Lillian Glotfelty
Hampton
Franklin County
Uncle Sam
Iowa
Miss Glotfelty
Eldora
Charles Glotfelty
St Louis exposition panel to meet in Des Moines
The governor calls the St Louis exposition commission to meet at ten a m on Tuesday July 1 at the capitol executive offices. They will select a permanent chairman and a secretary if not a permanent secretary. The commission likely seeks legislature action to raise Iowa’s appropriation for the St Louis fair to match the state’s dignity.
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Des Moines
Capitol
Iowa
St. Louis
Dr. Bullock and others donate skin grafts to save girl
In Cushing, Little Ethel Bennett suffered severe burns. Doctors say grafting skin from donors including her family and the Bullocks and the Lymans would be necessary to save her life. Over 100 pieces of cuticle were attached, and she is expected to live.
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Ethel Bennett
Cushing
Bullock
Bert Lyman
Pythian Grand Lodge Arrives in Des Moines October
Local Knights of Pythias members raise several thousand dollars to entertain visiting grand lodge officers in Des Moines in October. Deputy State Treasurer John McQuiston serves as treasurer for the local fund and leads a pledging campaign.
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Pythien Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias Grand
Des Moines
John §. McQuiston
P S and Q S Lesson for Children in verse
A verse by Elizabeth Lincoln Gould from Youth's Companion explores the letters P and Q. It contrasts their positive qualities such as promptness politeness and patience with negative associations like pestering quarrel and quicksand. The poem uses playful examples including quince quarts and queen to teach letter awareness.
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Elizabeth Lincoln Gould
Curious Bird Nesting In Hornets Nest Observed
Charles C. Abbott describes wrens occupying a hornets nest in a porch, adapting the site with a new entrance and twig platform. The birds remained fearless during construction and brooding, scolding while carrying prey, and the narrator notes their tameness and bold behavior as they reared their young.
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Nowise
Charles C. Abbott, M. D
St. Nicholas
How to Cue In Tra Ing It A Threag
A murky instructional fragment describes a method involving a sealed bottle and thread. It outlines using a reading glass or window to focus light on a thread to make a cork move, enabling a hidden opening demonstration. It mentions color absorption of heat and target details for the experiment.
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Cork
Boston
What He Was Waiting For
Dr Storrs a Brooklyn divine, on a purchasing tour in Manhattan, encounters a friend in a big store. He replies that he will endure the business methods of modern department stores, quoting Job 14 14 about waiting until change comes.
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Dr. Storrs
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Dr. Storre
Tiny human bun Italian swaddling cradle and pigeons fire tale
A jumble of notes describes Italian infants swaddled in cloth and capped with lace, with arms kept straight. It also recounts a fire caused by smoke from a pigeons’ enclosure, damaging a residence but harming no inmates. A jury acquitted a Globe proprietor of a crime in Bartorcoat.
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India
Italy
Delphin
Bartorcoat
Propriett i Globe
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