Coming Session of Congress and Key Committee Leaders
The piece outlines the congress agenda and the chairmen guiding major bills in labor commerce and immigration. It notes Senate and House leaders like Frye Hanna Hepburn and Hepburn committee on insurance, with focus on ship subsidy antitrust Cuban reciprocity and military and territorial measures.
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Frye
Commerce Committee
Hanna
Renate Iqat
Grosvenor
House
Suneeittee
Pise
Ale
Nelson
Department of Commerce
Hepburn
Payne
Pratt
Connecticut
Committee On
Cuba
Cullom
Root
Tegtala Hem
Hawdey
Senate
Charman Hull
House Committee
Proctor
Vermont
Allison
Representative Cannon
Hull
Wadsworth
Hawley
Hale
Gallinger
Mason
Distiled Notoriety in Brief Self-Defense Vexes Reporter
A curious exchange unfolds as a self confessed subject interacts with a newspaper reporter. The man hesitantly provides a typewritten sheet and a portrait while expressing distaste for publicity. He offers to supply a photograph and promises to approve limited copies of the future print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Homemade Meteorites Fraud Exposed by Corsican Dealers
A group of Corsican counterfeiters, selling forged meteorites to museums and collectors, were captured after investigators uncovered methods to mimic genuine meteors. They burned rocks and coated them with lamp black in molten sulphur to create the black crust typical of true meteorites. In a separate note, Liverpool ports reported arrivals of fourteen steamers with large cattle and sheep consignments and beef quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thin Hand
Liverpool
United States
Millionaires Who Do Things in Science and Industry
A profile of Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor highlighting their innovation and public-spirited work. Astor funded and improved military and mechanical efforts including a turbine engine patent and a mountain battery for the Philippines. Vanderbilt, after Yale and early railroad work, invented locomotive improvements and a turbine-related project, while pursuing leadership roles and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelis Vanderbilt
John Jacob Astor
Colonel Astor
Mr. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Edinon
Bell
Cremation On The Rise Worldwide Since Antiquity
The piece notes cremation rebuilding in modern times after an ancient practice. It cites 1874 London as the birth of the cremation society, with early facilities in Milan and Lodi, then Gotha, spreading to many lands. By an early era the United States had 26 crematories and 2,685 bodies cremated in a cited year, contrasting with 46 in New York as a point of reference.
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London
Milan
Lodi
Italy
Gotha
Germany
United States
New York
Man proves cricket skill in village mishap tale
The incident in EnEA village sees a farm laborer pressed into service. A ball caromed toward the cubberter and the man made a surprising catch. The editor later reports the note from a reader joking about the event and keeper Bill Wiggins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
En Enea
Priors Dream Warns Of Death At Etchowe
War correspondent Mr Melton Priors dreamt of his own death and funeral while en route to Zulu conflict aboard a Union Company vessel the German. A letter from his mother echoed the omen urging caution before the Etchowe relief mission. Priors later sent an artist to replace him who was soon among the first to fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melton
Mr. Prior Manerts
Shorty
Durban
Mr. Price
Etchowe
Prior
Chinese Prince Confuses Anthem Tale at Brussels
In Brussels the Chinese prince Imperial was met with a repeated marching tune played by military bands. He asked what it was and learned a tourist had invented a so called Chinese national anthem for entertainments, charging performers to play it. The tale mocks a hoax anthem with tomtom accompaniment and a man profiting from it.
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Brussels
Prince Imperial
Surprim
Prince Chen
China
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Congress
Coe
Sena
Tee
Brite
Committee On Labor
Sysien
Dee Lo
Cherie
Attheney General
Knox
Dende
Hiert Cilmman
Jenkins
Lissefeld
Maine
Bath
Fanalor
New Mexico
Arizona
Alaska
Mis Werhusetts
Chiaree
Mawell
Cowper
Wisconvin
Porakers
Pacific Islands
Burts Riva
Bonutor Mitchell
Immigration and Labor
Commerce Committees
London Dock
Pill
Colombia
Army Legislation
Arthur W. Dunn
Washington
Huuer
Pesrupo Hae
Shattuo
Lcongresspian
CANNE
Cevener
New Jersey
SHORT
Johny
Mr. Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Waldorf
Thirty-third Street
Firth Avenue
Astor
Cornelive Vandervilt
Staten Island
New York City
Miss Witton
Corneliun
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Alfred
Cornelius
Hat Saine
Tae
Yale
Young Vanderbilt
New York Central and
Hudsne River Railroad
Boen
England
National Guard
State of
City of
Truman L. Elton
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Bill Wiggins
Hetek
River Nile
Egypt
Nile
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