Washington Society to Display Itself This Winter
Correspondent notes Washington society will begin its season from New Year through Lent with Cabinet hosts facing heavy duties. Knox’s new pink drawing-room house on K Street is centerpiece, while Secretary Root will host President Roosevelt in the first cabinet dinner of the season. The Corcoran and Corbin mansions promise lavish entertainments as social leaders plan open-house afternoons on cabinet days.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Expressman
Paris
Hay
Adelbert
Secretary of the Navy
Long
Secretary of the Treasury
Vanity Fair
Knox
Cabinet Circle
George W. Childs
Philadelphia
Sixteenth
Senator Hale
Attorney General
Reot
Alfred E. Bates
Army
Eighteenth
West End
Secretary of War
Toas
Secretary of State
Root
Roosevelt
Chauncey Depew
Mortn
Cleveland
Garland
Mr. Cleveland
Sam
Secretine Hitchcock
Instan
Os Estete
Alger
Cabinet
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Daniel Webster
Webster
W. W. Corcoran
Corcoran
New York
Secret Service
Marquis de Montholon
Louis Napoleon
General Grant
Senator Brice
Ohio
Anton Seidl
Brices
Depew
Corbin
John Elfreth Watkins, JR
Gossip’s Corner recalls Senator Sewell and a Civil War badge of honor
The column reflects on Senator W J Sewell who died a week earlier and shares an anecdote from Gen Ed S Bragg about Sewell’s Civil War service and a scar from a bullet. It notes Sewell’s modesty and his choice to cover the scar with his front hair to avoid attention. The piece pivots to a jewel theft anecdote involving a forty four grain pearl linked to S Paul G Thebaud.
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W. J. Sewell
Legion
Ed S. Bragg
Wisconsin
Ebbitt House
Washington
Congress
Sewell
Chancellorsville
Hamlet
General Sewell
Gettysburg
S. Paul G. Thebaud
New York
Gotham
Dean Stubbs on Chicago and a Minster Garden
London columnist recounts Dean Stubbs Ely. he dislikes Chicago calling it a hateful, clanking wilderness yet notes its habit of digesting newcomers. A tale of Archdeacon Rushton in Chicago contrasts British and Canadian roots with a boy’s independence in war history class. Overall, the column praises the book.
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London
Mai
Dean Stubbs
Ely
Chicago
Elliot Stock
New World
Archdeacon Rushton
Maclaren
Reckless of Danger on Bridges Endangers Rail Workers
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes recurring fatalities as seasoned railroad workers stand atop freight cars near bridge undersides. Familiarity breeds contempt, yet trained men ignore the hazard and risk deadly collisions, prompting questions about safety and the need to abandon the perilous habit.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Americanism Quips From Senator Depew’s Fiancee Remark
The Baltimore Herald reports a light remark by Senator Depew’s fiancée claiming she would not exchange her future husband for all the tiles in France, highlighting a playful Americanism that amuses readers nationwide.
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Baltimore Herald
Depew
France
British Workman Denounces Press Campaign Against Trade Unions
Henry Tuckley reports on a national debate over British trade unions and output restrictions. The Times and other papers face charges of slander, while union leaders and workers defend labor rights, arguing that output changes, machinery disputes, and legal actions threaten workers' funds and prospects in a slow moving economy.
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Indianapolis Journal
London
Times
Daily News
England
Germany
United States
Operative Bricklayers’ Society
John Batchelor
Batchelor
Great Britain
W. G. Steadman
London County Council
Ben Tillet
Tom Mann
John Bruns
M. P
Lord Rosebery
Prince of Wales
Northampton
Taft Vale Railway Company
Taff Vale Railway Company
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants
Army Ordnance Department
Curse of Seaforth ends in a hooded lassie prophecy
London Letter recalls a Scottish legend tied to Brahan Castle and the Seaforth lineage. The article traces the Seaforth curse from Kenneth Mackenzie to Francis Humbertson Mackenzie, highlighting Lady Hood's role and the fates of Brahan, the Lewis, and Kintail.
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London
New York
Scotland
Arthur Acland Hood
Avalon
Sebastopol
Spain
Captain Cook
Sir Walter Scott
Charles II
Kenneth Mackenzie
Earl of Seaforth
Paris
Mackenzie
Brahan
Francis Humbertson Mackenzie
Barbadoes
France
Seaforths
Lord Seaforth
Sir Samuel Hood
Eust Indian Seas
Lady Hood
Leith Plier
Kintail
Scott
the Lewis
Sir James Matheson
Caroline Mackenzie
Miss Mackenzie
Seaforth
Grahan Castle
Julia Marchioness
Tweeddale
Jeune
Humphry Davy
Barbadors
Gairloch
Chisholm
Grant
MacLeod
Raasay
Varieties of Coal Show Wide Range of Quality
An Indianapolis coal dealer explains the vast diversity among coals beyond the common hard and soft labels. A printed card lists prices for Anthracite and several regional brands, highlighting slack quality and the practical uses of different coals from coking for blacksmithing to locomotives.
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Indianapolis
United States
Blossburg
Jackson
Kanawha
Pittsburg
Raymond
Winifrede
Luhrig
Hocking Valley
Brazil Block
Green County
Indiana
Brazil
Ohio
Pocahontas
Virginia
Cannerburg
Daviess County
The Conscience Fund Recalled in Ainslee’s Magazine
The article recalls the origin of the Conscience Fund in New York after a citizen anonymously donated to the Treasury to repent for defrauding the government. It notes the Fund’s revival after 1861 with a $6000 bond gift and its growth to substantial sums, reflecting a rare public act of repentance during a wartime era.
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H. E. Armstrong
Ainslee
New York
Treasury Department
Washington
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Conscience Fund
Sumter
United States
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Wilder Murphy
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Murphy
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San Francisco
Stripling
Wilder
Shenandoah
Hall Caine
Manchester
Labor Party
Henry Tuckley
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