Progress Washington News Clippings Reflect National Debate
A mosaic of brief items from The Progress Washington News covers marriage schemes, warship torpedo tests, juror selection, pardons, and New York crime trials. It notes Indian army disbandments at Fort Sill, looming Armenian troubles, Japan China depictions, and ongoing Senate debates on Hawaii, canal, and currency bills with references to public officials and policy moves.
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Fort Sill
Indian Territory
Hood's 1895 Calendar a Mammoth Lowell Edition
Hood's calendar for 1895 is a heart shaped design by Maud Humphrey with Winter and Summer faces. The piece required extensive machinery and 162 workers at the Lowell laboratory to produce up to 140,000 per day, totaling 10,500,000 calendars. The publication doubles as advertising for Hood's Sarsaparilla and related products, with dealers urged to obtain copies or order by mail.
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Lowell
Musa
Morning Mail
Hood
Misa Maud Humphrey
C. I. Hood & Co
New York
Liverpool
C. L Hood & Co
Mass
Carlisle Secretaries and Bankers Report Denied
Rumor spreads that Pierrepont Morgan and another banker conferred with the president over Secretary Carlisle’s conduct. Officials deny the report, with the president not having seen the banker named Mergenty sory and Carlisle declining to comment.
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Wasuineros
Pierrepont Morgan
Carlisle
Treasury
Tts
Mergenty Sory
Sana J
Senate Resolves Inquiry On Foster China Visit
Wasinextos Jan 3 The senate passes a resolution asking the secretary of state to state whether John W Foster has any official link to US visits in China during peace talks with Japan. Washington Jan 4 Democratic leaders remain undecided on timing of amendments to the urgency deficiency bill for tariff corrections amid Republican calls for changes. The tariff war with Europe deepens as Austria's Hengelmuller lodges a protest over a sugar schedule act that adds a one tenth of 1 percent duty on sugar from certain exporting nations.
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Jorome Tar AW Brigte Wasuixcarox
Senate Committees On Appropriations
Wastiseros
Ahadmin Wilson
Germany
Praitice
Renmark
Belgium
Atl
Senate
Stewart
John W. Foster
United States
China
Japan
Wasiinetos
Washington
Europe
Associated Press
Henglemuller
Dying Economite Society Attracts Royal Interest In 1885
The Economics Society, a declining sect, was flourishing when Duke of Saxe-Welmer visited about 1885. Elder Rapp, a 70 year old leader, commanded 700 followers as priest and prophet. Few marriages and births occurred. the duke noted flowers on every machine and sixty girls singing hymns used by Rapp and his followers.
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Duke of
Saxe-Welmer
Rapp
W Hale
Paris Personal Crisis Reports 1893 Self Mutilation Statistics
Official statistics for Paris in 1893 record 93 total self death cases. Of these 251 drowned themselves, 113 used guns and revolvers, 98 shots to the head, 71 stabbed, 62 by poison or asphyxiation, 77 leapt from high places. Remainder classified as unidentified or unclassified in a businesslike accounting.
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Paris
Chinese Not In It How a British officer compares Chinese forces
A British officer states that it would be as reasonable to pit Chinese troops against Japanese as to pit modern Japanese against Chinese, arguing natives and colonial troops fall behind modern powers. He praises Ghoorkas and Japanese discipline while claiming the Chinese are two centuries behind the times.
African Pigmies and Dr Franz Stuhlman View Pygmies
Dr Franz Stuhlman who accompanied Emin Pasha into Africa describes the Pygmies as remnants of a primeval race once spanning tropical Africa and southern Asia. He notes they lost their language and were encroached by surrounding tribes, leaving scattered remnants and no trace of degeneracy.
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Franz Stuhlman
Emin Pasha
Africa
Asia
Srite
Louisiana News Roundup From Alexandria To New Orleans
Louisiana items report a land extension proposal near Alexandria to extend the examination of 175,000 acres in St Landry and nearby parishes funded by a Chinese capitalist. A series of violent incidents, political notes, railroad progress, robberies, courtroom actions, and local developments across cities including New Orleans, Shreveport, Monroe, and Gretna are summarized with notable names and places.
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Red River
Atchafalaya
Bayou Loouf
Alexandria
Mareh Po
Woywiles
St. Landry
China
New Orleans
Eye Lyons
Lyon
Chestnuth Adolphi
Pardoci
Carrollton Road
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Washington News
P. Hicks
Shreveport
Tses
Tre
Otsego County
N. Ol
Georgia
Sing Sing
Bess McKane
Gravesend
Morton
Russia
Great Britain
Turkey
Constantinople
Balkan
Persian Gulf
Gordon
Wasiserox
Loose West
Jay
Indian ‘Territory
Misecagee
Vinita
McAlester
Chicasha
Ardmore
Fortsmith
Wasnixnon
Lodge
Massachusetts
Hawaiian
Moran
the Supreme Court
Washington, Jan
Supreme Court
California
Hooper
White
Brewer, Klarlan
Jackson
Wasumurox
Dan
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Wasniscios
Congress
Ecavens
Wasuincrox
Spain
the Lodge
Wasiineros
Jan
Mr. Lodge
Wasnixetox
Woasilveros
House
Crisp
Committee On Rules
Ln CW
Greeniacks
Vie Bill
Kanaan
Peo Tein Wasiq
Tex
Carris Win
Cox
Gorman
Ransom, Demorrag
North Carolina
Morrill
Runesom
Tennessee
al Harris
Mannerson
Nebraska
Wasminoros
Hil
Hill
Wasatxuron
Vankers
the Economics Society
Louisiana
Vatican State
Youemile
Rapides Parish
Wink Burton
RB. T. Vinson
McCarty
Vinson
W. A. Thompson
Charley Mitchell
Haniling & Pure Food How
Mary Fisher
Bayou Sura
Nelson
Claiborne and
Common Streets
James Cook
Charles Hudnall
Gov. Foster
J. Bs Phillips
Fourth Ward
St. Tammany Parish
A. Verrett
John G. Wenzeil
Fifth Ward
W. A. Fountleroy
Avoyelles, St. Louis and Southwestern
Bunkie
Rayne Station
W. W. Lyong
Sylvester Ayrshire
A. W. Alton
Jeruselim
Texas
Cleveland
Capital City Railway and Lighting Company
Bank of Baton Rouge
Lakeside
C.F. White
J.T. Coslett
Tallulah
Avoyelles
Rapides
Iowa Station
Winnsboro
Calcasieu
Thibodaux
Monroe
Foster
W. J. Gill
Bt. Landry
North Island
Uamjeroo Parish
Prairie Gregg
Cameron Parish
Gretna
T Tucas County
Franke J. Carrey
J Cunney & Co
Toledo
Hanl
Frank J. Cheney
A.W. Gleason
Hall
F. J. Cheney & UC
Lanres
Ry A.whiff
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Reogy
McElrees
LNW Ten
Desler
Ferry
D. M. Ferry &O
Detroit
Mich
Wkinney
Franklin .T
Kilby St
Yiewis
U.S
Ad. MH
B. Jones
el Paso
Holloway & CO
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