Pension grants and a noted wedding in cabinet circles
The document traces a widow’s pension after multiple marriages and federal pension benefits tied to her first husband’s war service. It notes government floral distribution tensions, Washington carpetbag pressures, and a planned wedding in the Cabinet family, with related exports and naval pension statistics across 1896 97. Including US horse aid aims and aid to foreign markets contingent on grain and grass surpluses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Ad Sen
Washington
Boss
Frances Alger
Secretary of War
Charles Pike
Chicago
Cabit
Paris Slums Offer Rooms for 40 Cents Weekly Price
A fragment notes Paris slums feature a miserable room at 40 cents a week while Berlin plans 17 million for gas and water works. It mentions 34 storms in 1896 forewarned by meteorological office and 246,989 Germans condemned for crimes, 44,312 under 18. Reichstag is touted as Europe’s cheapest parliament with expenses around 170,000. An 18th century fire life estimate by Finklerburg is cited, plus a 30,000-signator threshold for a petition against sailways governance and a Berlin hospital feature for respiratory patients. Italy associated with immigration ends fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Berlin
Igs
Meteorological Aflice
Europe
Finklerburg
Bonn
Sritzerland
Balding Im
Italy
Sai
When Sue Glanced Behind the Window Blinds
A nostalgic reminiscence recalls a girl named Sue from youth as the speaker laments aging and changing tastes. The piece muses on art progress, old fashioned virtue, and a single remembered glance that brightens a weary heart despite time and distance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Tona
Sue
Ruth
Toulay
The Daughter of a Carew Love Lost in Time
Dick Tremayne, a lieutenant and heir to a title, falls for Joyce Cardew, a governess, during leave in England. Years later he returns as a captain to find Joyce married to Sir Edward Carew, exposing his past folly and his unrequited love.
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Dick Tremayne
Stretton
Dick Tremayine
Joyce Cardew
India
Tremayne
Miss Cardew
England
Dick ‘Tramagneus
Jorce
Joyce
Ted
Sir Edward Carew
Sir John
Which? Pingrey and the Winkle Proposal Dilemma
Dialogue fragment and joke exchange feature a unsure suitor pondering proposing to Miss Winkle and a burglar plan joke. The excerpt mirrors comic banter and wordplay about safety, jumping to conclusions, and mistaken identity in a newspaper page snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pingrey
Miss Winkle
Fogg
Boston Transcript
Captain Lachmund the only woman steamboat captain on Mississippi
Ida Lachmund, captain of the Robert Dodds, based in Clinton Iowa, runs timber towing on the Mississippi employing twenty one crew and handling over half a million dollars worth of logs each season. She owns the vessel, sources fares and fuel, and keeps mills supplied along a route up to 500 miles south. The article profiles her as a respected, capable leader and describes her family, home life, and status as a professional river captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Moore Lachm Thund
Robert Dodds
Clinton
Iowa
Patterson
Philadelphia
Mississippi
Gates
Bickel
Worth
Paquin
Denver
Elizabeth Collins
Bessie
Jessie Corztys
Collins
North Denver
Plum puddings and kitchen utensil notes
The article describes a detailed plum pudding recipe using beef marrow, Malaga raisins, sultanas and currants, breadcrumbs, a spice mix, lemon rind, candied citrus peels, sugar, rum a and sherry, with optional almonds and extra bread crumbs if needed. It also highlights a detachable handle kitchen butter kettle with a pour and a strainer, praising English invention and ease of use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaga
Household Tips For Food Prep And Cleaning
Practical kitchen notes offer tips on mixing stove blacklug with vinegar for better stick and polish, cooling cooked dishes quickly with cold water, washing lamp chimneys with dry salt for glass shine, refrigerating frosted greens in cold water soak, salting coffee to enhance flavor, and preserving parsley color by tying, boiling briefly, then chopping into sauce.
Filling for Fic Cake and Renovating Fabrics Tips
A century tone guide covers cake filling with figs cut to lima bean size simmered in water with sugar, and celery salad with cabbage, celery, vinegar, eggs, mustard and cream. It also provides fabric care like starching with coffee water, removing yellow spots, and washing delicate fabrics with salt, soap, or ox gall.
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Secretaary Wilson
Charles E. Stubbs
Wilson
United States
Congress
White House
McKinley
Great Britain
Germany
Acte Sem
Bureau of Pensions
Ging Information Toa
Union Pacific
Chicago Times-Herald
Jorcal
Lady Tremaine
Maggie
Toyce
Roger Temple
Indead
Emple
Saree
Grace
Gordon Dunlop
America
Paris 2
Gamin
Fronder
Diana
Sierras
Cornie Chittenden
Cummings
Cal
Miss Chittenden
Miss Chittendon
California
Lola M. Coulter
Fornia
Tuolumne County
Engineer Brown
Brown
Philadelphia Times
Ida
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