National Senate and state officers list in The Telegraph Directory
The page catalogs national government figures and Nebraska state offices including Governor Sus Allolcomb Lieutenant Governor Robert B Moore Secretary of State Joel A Piper Attorney General Arthur Churchill Superintendent Henry Corbett and other officials. It also lists local legislators judges sheriffs clerks surveyors and teachers across districts and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sus Allolcomb
Robert B. Moore
Joel A. Piper
Eugene Moore
Joseph. S. Battle
Arthur
Churchill
Henry, R. Corbett
Henry Russell
Methodist and Catholic Church Services and Local Lodges
Local church notices list services at Methodist Episcopal Church and Catholic Church with times, Sunday school, and prayer meetings. Also includes extensive rostered society and fraternal group meeting schedules such as AF&A M, I.O.O.F, K of P, U.R.K., G.A.R., W.R.C., A.O.U.V., A.M.A., and other orders with meeting nights and officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. J. Osborn
Gupt
Epworth League
Allen Kenworthy
Episcopal Church
A Little Dutch Garden Poem Fragment
A verse recalls a garden where flowers and vegetables bloom side by side. Gretchen, a fair favorite, is described among blue flag blooms and curly roses as the speaker’s heart lingers in that little Dutch garden.
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Gretchen
Hattie Whitney
Boston
California fortunes in wills reveal widespread penniless heirs
A San Francisco probate record details 63 wills totaling 175 million dollars. About half the heirs became penniless, while a few fortunes produced large, persistent legacies. Notable estates include Crocker, Stanford, and Hearst families, with varied distributions among many heirs.
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California
San Francisco
Florence Blythe
Kate Johnson
Thomas Blythe
Florence
Maria Coleman
Charles Crocker
Mary Ann Crocker
Peter Donahue
Theresa Fair
Charles L. Fair
Virginia Fair
Hermuys Oelrichs
William P. Fuller
Emanuel Goldstein
George Hearst
Walter S. Hobart
Walter Hobart
Ella Hobart
Winthrop Lester
Mary Hopkins
Robert O. Johnson
Lick
Stanford
James Lick
Charles McLaughlin
Alexander Montgomery
Daniel T. Murphy
William S. O’brien
James Phelan
A. J. Pope
Washington Ryer
Leland Stanford
University
Denver Field
Sophy and Paulines Talk About Fleetwood Engagements
Dialogue hints at Fleetwood’s reputed sensitivity after multiple rejections. A separate note discusses racial color change in African children, detailing a mucous-m membrane process from pale yellow to glossy black as they age.
Great New York Fire of 1885 and Early Tobacco Exports
The 1885 New York great fire destroyed property valued at about 16 million dollars. The United States first grew tobacco for export in 1616, marking an early epoch in colonial agriculture and trade.
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New York
Colors in Battle and Rain Drops In Air
Scarlet uniforms defend soldiers by visibility and heat management, with rapid fire ranges around 600 to 800 yards supporting bulk in decisive assaults. The other article explains rain formation, noting cooling of warm air drives condensation and drop growth before rainfall.
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Strand Magazine
St. Louis Republic
Hole Making in Glass by Localized Heating Method
The article describes a technique for boring strong glass plates by filling rotating brass tubes with water and pulverized emerg to assist cooling. A clay disk creates a hole, molten lead poured in, causing a quick circular crack, enabling precise perforation.
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New York Ledger
A Well Lighted Street on Fifth Avenue Lamps
New York Letter reports Fifth Avenue now lit with bronze and gold lamp posts. Each lamp stands a foot square with white ground glass face and eight inch high street name letters in deep red.
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Fifth Avenue
Long Street
New York
Telegraphers Tales A Newfoundland That Kept Watch
Telegraph operators recount odd nights at lonely stations with a watchful Newfoundland dog guarding the premises. A second tale recalls 1888 New Jersey blizzard hunger driving a night worker to catch muskrats for food and to cook one on a makeshift broiler, ending with a wary reflection on luck and meals.
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Knights of the Key
Gil Bradley
Texas and Pacific
Gordon
Billy Marshall
New Jersey
New York Sun
The Smile History traces to primeval hunger and greed
The New York Journal piece notes Edward Cuyer says smiles began as hunger-driven displays of teeth for food. Civilization shifted the gesture to encompass pleasure and social harmony as hosts welcome guests, a survival of early predatory cues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Cuyer
Paris
Societe d'Anthropologie
New York Journal
Capitalist admits backing a comic opera company
In dialogue described by the Indianapolis Journal a rotund man with dark circles defends himself as a capitalist and insists he is a producer, stating he has supported a comic opera company for two months.
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Sophy
Charles Fleetwood
Indianapolis Journal
Dickens Quote In Bleak House Chapter One
A Boston Tree script notes the novel Bleak House 1852 contains a quoted line about every chancellor being in it for someone when he was counsel at the bar.
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Ber
Boston
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Jon
Thurston Omaha
William V. Allen Madison
Kem Keaken
U.S. Land Office
John M. Adams
P A.griffith
Legislature
JS. Hoagland
North Plate
Hith
Morgan
Chappell
M. Grimes
North Platte
A Pease
Sidney
Daniel McAleese
Bullock
Lodge Poleudge
W.R Woods
Weyerts
AW. Atkins
J.W Harper
Bronson
Echqol Board and Teachers
A. Pouse
Crinith
T. B. Daw
Gev
F. Blanchard
John Baker
James J Mcintosh
Chas. Doran
Minnie Chase
Whitehead
Villiage Trustees
Aetapoat
J. Effort
HW. T. Doran
W.E Bassett
J. Pantenburg Oean
H. EB. Gupen
YP Sanders
Sand
Ogallala
McCarthy
Frank Welch Lodge
Af&a M
Leslie Neubauer
Sec'y
Stewitts
Sidney Lodge
O. F
A. K. Greenlee
Sec’y
Muthorpe
N.G
Rebecca Degree
Wm. Chowins
Lily Chowtns
Valiant Lodge
K.of P
F. H. DeCastro
K. R
J. J McIntosh
C. C
Pierre Sanders
D. F. McKee
Col. Joseph
Conrad Garrison
Regular Army and Navy Union of the
E. V. Summer
J. W. Nelson
A. Ricker
Adj
Henry A. Morrow
P.R Borgquist
Wm. Ottoman
E. V. Sumner
Washburn
E. P. Osgood
Sidney Camp
M. W. of A
Jas. McMullan
L. Fitch
W.G
W. M. Th. A. Armstrong
A.O. Il
V. Sanders
BR. R
R. Forrest
Jas. McConaughey
H. J. Snyder
R. R
Providence
O. E
Masonic Hall
Chas. P. Davis
Ellen Davis
W. M
Sidney Lodge No
P. Hall
Second
Myrtle Streets
Many Griffith
H. Ressie Brennas
Recorter
Phrenological Journal
Phrenological
Fowler & Wells CO
Lanaw
Rosy
BIG California Fortunes
Colors of
George Seads
Cincinnati Enquirer
Telegraphers
Newfoundland
Blackwell’s
Durham
Blackwell
Durham Tobacco
Ot the West
Chicago Times
Herald
Times-Hero
Times-Herald
Times-Trerald
Atlantic
Pacific
Lakes
Gulf
America
All
Chicago
General Merchandise
Chas. Vernon
United States
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Telegraph
the Telegraph
Gee. W. Best
Tribare Siding
New York City
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