John Allen Story Starts Gossipers
The Mississippi veteran John M. Allen recalls Grover Cleveland era patronage versus Wilson while recounting a Tupelo chancery delay tale. A former colleague asks how Woodrow handles offices, prompting Allen to tell his famous homecourt anecdote about delayed settlement and creditors.
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Washington
John” Allen
National
John M. Allen
Mississippi
Congress
Cleveland
Wilson
John
Woodrow
Grover
Tupelo
John Allen
Chancery Court
Business Men's Lunch 25 at DeBriere's Cafe
Advertising a lunch special from 12 to 2 30 p m featuring quick service and top-quality market fare. Promotes DeBriere's Famous Java Coffee at five cents and claims the best cooks in the city.
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DeBriere
Debriere’s Cafe
South Royal ST
Tuskegee Normal Commencement and Related Events
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute begins commencement May 26 with Dr. John B. White delivering the sermon. The Phelps Hall Bible Training School marks its eighteenth anniversary May 26. May 29 features the main address by Dr. Robert E. Jones with graduates Tacitus E. Gaillard and Ethelred Campbell. Visitors can tour the campus. special railroad rates available.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Booker T. Washington
John B. White
Second Baptist Church
White
Avlanta
Phelps Hall Bible Training School
Institute
Savannah
Ethelred Campbell
Black River
Jamaica
British West Indies
Notable Cabinet Nominations Mark Early Cleveland Era
The article traces cabinet and top federal nominations in March 1885 under President Cleveland. It lists nominees for pensions, interior, revenue, postmaster general, patents, and envoys to Great Britain France and Germany, noting changes occurred before the first senate adjournment.
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Allen
Congress
Cleveland
Wilson
Senate
John C. Black
Illinois
Edward D. Clark
Mississippi
Interior
Josephs. Miller
West Virginia
Internal Revenue
Malcolm Hay
Pennsylvania
M. V. Montgomery
Michigan
E. J. Phelps
Vermont
Great Britain
Robert E. McLane
Maryland
France
George H. Pendleton
Ohio
Germany
James D. Porter
Tennessee
Daniel McConville
Princess Chimay Sues Rigo for $100000
New York May 17 A suit by Mme. Riccardi formerly Princess Chimay seeks the return of 100000 she says she loaned to Janzi Rigo the Gypsy violinist during their elopement years ago. Rigo calls the claim a ruse by his former wife to win him back from his current wife in New York.
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New York
Mme. Riccardi
Janzi Rigo
Mme
Riccardi
Chimay
Nominations Sweep Through Two Cleveland Administrations
The article lists extensive nominations in 1893 across the Wilson and Cleveland eras, naming ministers to Turkey Russia Greece Sweden and others, consuls at London Vienna Hamburg Athens and more, plus key officials in the treasury interior and post office departments as part of early and extraordinary sessions. It notes a slower pace of Democratic patronage despite many offices, with speculation on tariff and banking policy influences.
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Post Office Department
S. Cox
New York
Turkey
Alexander R. Lawton
Georgia
A. M. Keily
Virginia
R. B. Anderson
Wisconsin
Thomas J. Jarvis
North Carolina
Isaac Bell
Rhode Island
E. P. C. Lewis
R. Magee
Minnesota
George W. Merrill
Nevada
Russia
Italy
Brazil
Denmark
Netherlands
Portugal
Norway
Sweden
Hawaiian Islands
Frank Raine
Maryland
Berlin
Thomas M. Waller
Connecticut
London
Edward Jessup
Illinois
Vienna
Evan P. Howell
Manchester
England
A. H. Gross
Pennsylvania
Athens
Greece
William R. Roberts
Chill
C. W. Buck
Kentucky
Peru
R. B. Hubbard
Texas
Japan
C. W. Russell
Liverpool
W.W. W. Long
Hamburg
Norman J. Coleman
Missouri
Agriculture
A. Leo Knott
Cleveland
Navy
Department of State
Treasury Department
Horace H. Lurton
Tennessee
United States Supreme Court
Sixth Circuit
Howell E. Jackson
Interior
Interior Department
John S. Hall
Thomas F. Bayard
Great Britain
P. M. B. Young
Guatemala
Honduras
United States
The
Treasury
Switzerland
Austria-Hungary
J. M. Dobbs
Valparaiso
Belgium
Mexico
Rio Janeiro
Hannis Taylor
Alabama
Spain
James B. Eustis
Louisiana
France
Senate
Alexander Vs Terrell
Executive Service
Servie Wilson
Cabinet
Interstate Commerce Commissoners
Peter J. Hamilton
Porto Rico
Commerce
Internal Revenue
Customs
Interor Department
General Land Office
War Department
Labor Statistics
State Departments
Fish and Fisheries
the Treasury
Court of Claims
Mc Wilson
Wilson
Use of Tobacco Sends Boy to Bad
International News Service reports Prof. M O Shea warning at the National Congress of Mothers that tobacco acts as a social suggestion pulling boys toward lower impulses. He links urban life and over stimulation to early ripening and loss of nervous poise, noting tobacco may not harm physically but harms simplicity and practicality.
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International News Service
Boston
M. O'Shea
National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers’ Association
Prof. O'Shea
Jaiil
O'Shea
Valuable Paintings Burned With Building In Linden
The home of Hon. J. M. Miller in Linden Alabama burned early Friday morning. Fire likely incendiary. Entire household lost including paintings valued at least 3000 dollars. Total loss about 7000 with 3700 insurance. Miller’s young daughter hospitalized in Selma, condition critical.
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Linden
Ala
J. M. Miller
Salvadoreans Protest Gulf of Fonseca Deal
Public protest in San Salvador over Nicaragua and United States talks to sell canal rights and a U S naval station in the Gulf of Fonseca. Deputies and citizens denounce the action as affecting Salvador and Honduran rights and criticize Nicaragua’s diplomacy in Washington.
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San Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Nicaragua
United States
Gulf of Fonseca
Salvador
Honduras
Washington
Democrats Endure in 1893 Pur chase Clause Clash
The passage recalls 1893 when Cleveland faced a purge over the Sherman act repeal and patronage disputes. It notes an extra session of Congress and sharp divisions among Democrats. Senator Morgan mocked zealous administration supporters as cuckoos, yet Democrats remained patient and hopeful for Wilson era success.
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Cleveland
Congress
Morgan
Alabama
White House
Wilson
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