Maritime Museum at Exposition Draws Steady Visitor Interest
The Maritime exchange houses a museum with a diverse display. Highlights include an envelope from a world circumnavigation, a cane from Commodore Perry, a Confederate canister shot, a Great Eastern freight contract, Pompeii fragments, and a dagger from a Malay pirate. A butterfly collection from the Sunda straits and other relics draw praise from shipping men who seek world fair exposure.
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Maritime Exchange
Abiel Abbott
Commodore Perry
Lawrence
Savannah
Thomas S. Ball
Great Eastern
Pompeii
Palace of
Diomeda
St. Dommingo
Columbus
United States Treasury
Washington National Monument
Siam
Greely
Egypt
Straits of
Sunda
Desler
Lothair
Mexico at the Fair Shows Broad Mexican Exhibits
Lieut. Baker reports about ten thousand Mexicans expected to participate in the exposition. He traveled through Nueva Leon Tamaulipas Jalisco Vera Cruz Pueblo and Oaxaca detailing relics textiles woods hats onyx embroidery and agricultural mineral exhibits. Baker now heads the marine division of the transportation department after arriving in Chicago to assume his new post.
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Lieut
Baker
Lieut. Baker
Mexico
Republic
Neuvo Leon
Tamaulipas
Tampico
Elors
Jalisco
Vera Cruz
Pueblo
Oaxaca
Tos
Baler
Transportation Department
Chicago
Plans for Morison Tower taller than Eiffel at world fair
Engineer George Morison proposes a steel shaft nearly eleven hundred feet high for the exposition at Jackson Park. The plain structure could be erected in six weeks once material arrives, with an estimated cost of one million dollars. Morison aims to win eastern capitalists and tower reviews from large steel firms.
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George &. Morison
Jackson Park
Morison
Atwood
Silver Party of Nevada formation in Reno convention
On June 2 in Reno a Silver Party of Nevada convention chaired by Thomas Wren urged ending allegiance to the two major parties. The platform calls for remonetization of silver at sixteen to one and denounces recent coinage actions. The Silver League of Nevada gains the right to direct presidential electors. The group adopts the name Silver Party of Nevada and selects three presidential electors and twelve Omaha convention delegates.
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Reno
Nevada
Thomas Wren
Silver League
Silver Party of
Omaha
Weekly Miner offers cheap subs with free premiums
The Weekly Miner promotes two dollar yearly or one dollar six month subscriptions with a free premium choice. Readers may select dominoes, Lincoln home illustration, or American Statesman with autograph, plus two colored French pictures. Six months plus one dollar yields options. one year with two dollars adds both pictures. Address Mixex Postsuite Co. Butte City Montana.
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Daily
Enppore
Lincoln
Mixex Postsuite Co
Butte City
Montana
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