Fragmented notes on shipping, war, and science glimpsed in period text
The text sketches diverse topics from postal mail totals and grain shipping to a Georgia monument and a Whitney memory. It mentions Kansas shipping plans for flour to Europe, a New York warship York, and a European military-political snapshot alongside astronomy notes and a tale of a Boston railroad president encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Ako
China
New York
Weccacoe Square
Bartram Gardens
Germantown
McPherson
Eixa Cren
New York City
Boston
Frank Jones
Boston & Maine Railroad
Maverick Bank
Postal Service Annual Report Highlights Reforms and Telephony
The Postmaster General Wanamaker’s annual report urges one cent postage, rural free delivery, postal telegraph and savings system. It notes lottery mail decline, outlines merit promotions, proposes a postal district system, and supports telephone integration with the postal service. It also backs postal savings and expanded money order use while calling for fair pay and reduced workloads for clerks and carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Wasurmaron
Postmaster General
Congress
Wanamaker
San Francisco
Sdio
Rollea
Pacific Coast States
Chicago
Bop
Post ‘Office Department
Na Osaxosa
Wis
Wisconsin Central
Lake Shore
Medina Junction
Ole F. Anderson
Ogdensburg
Philadelphia
United States
Yaru
Cramp Ship Building Company
New York
United States Flng
Famine Relief Shipload Proposed for Russia
Minneapolia reports a national effort to aid famine stricken Russia by sending a four shipload of provisions by January. The plan involves 5,000 merchant millers and a cargo of 3,000 tons valued at 100000 to 125000 dollars. Railroads offer transport. Russia's Washington minister has been informed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vhan
Minxzarouis
Minn
Russia
Minneapolia
America
Washington
New York
Minnesota
Iowa
Des Moines
State Board of Election
Supreme Court
Kinne
Weaver
Kinney
Knoepfier
Sabin
Dey
Campbell
Rep
Treasury figures show 1890 revenues and bank conditions
The article reports on government finances for the last fiscal year with revenues of 592,612,447 dollars and a decreased surplus of 37,239,762 dollars, plus postal receipts of 65,762,908 dollars. It details debt reduction, monetary circulation changes, and the year’s treasury balance. It also covers the Comptroller’s forthcoming bank survey, noting new banks, liquidations, solvencies, and calls for stronger director duties and loan restrictions.
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Wasumorons
E. H. Nebeler
United States
Department
Treasury
National Bank
Lacy
Minor news items under week ending December heavy mix
A roundup of small items reports Edward M. Field imprisoned in an in-patient asylum, J. V. Cotta elected president of the Illinois Horticultural Society, and several local incidents including miner deaths in Sombrerese Mexico, a dynamite blast near Owosso Michigan, an earthquake shock in Cincinnati, a cremation fire in Liberty Center Indiana, and various national and regional notes ranging from banking suspensions to a church blast, famine relief efforts, and influenza widespread in Berlin.
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Edward M. Field
J. V. Cotta
Ilinoia Horticultural Society
Dixon
Sombrerese
Mex
Landis
Stafford County
Kan
Owosso
Mich
Cincinnati
Newr Liberty Center
Levi Mills
Muncie
Indiana
Wall collapse at St Paul building kills workers
Disaster at Farwell Ozman Kirk building on Washington Street leaves mangled bodies at the morgue. Eight to ten workmen unaccounted as bricks and debris trap several others. A motorboat accident and other storms are reported in the same dispatch.
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Artifinia
St. Paul
Minn
St. Pawl
Dec
Washington Street
Farwell, Ozman & Kirk
John Wollfinger
Bomb blast harms Sage broker as madman dies in street
A dynamite bomb exploded in Russell Sage's Empire Building office, injuring Sage and several staff. The bomber, later identified as Hiram D Wilson, died from the blast, while Sage received minor injuries and was helped to a drugstore. Police and investigators described a chaotic scene as the safe was blown open and debris scattered.
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New York
Russell Sedge
Empire Building
Bage
Metropolis
Wall Street
Lower Broadway
Sage
Rector Street
O'Connell
Broadway
A. P. Munn
Day Gould
H D. Wilson
Mr. Sage
Benjamin F. Morton
Chambers Street Hospital
Far Rocksway
Slocum
G. Calhoun
Dean Street
Brooklyn
W.R Laidlaw
Gaye
Robertson
Bergen Point N. J
FG Morrises
Russell Sage
Apany
Hiram D Wilson
Clens Falls
Warren County
Wilson
Middletown
Bolton House
Lake George
Adirondacks
Miscellany of oddities and short items from a 19th century page
A collage of quirky notes and jokes from Detroit and Indiana: a firehouse menagerie in Madison with a dog and rodents. comic exchanges about rings and manners. a 1829 US recognition of island independence. a beehive in a goddess statue at Austin. a toad found in ice and a mispronounced Burmese place on maps. Also notes on a Dresden knitting machine, Zimabwe ruins, and odd town names in several states.
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Madison
Indiana
Conan
George
Ly Finger
Islands
England
Detroit Free Press
Texsa
Austin
Gorham Gray
Waller
Azre
Patar
Flahrweste
Pater
Savage
Laos
Burmah
Chineg Mai
Dresden
Theodore Bent
Zimimbwe
South Africa
Berlin
Krieger
Brieger
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Birvex
Kansas
Europe
Orleans
Georgia
Whitney
Massachusetts
Mara
Uranus
Sayne
Tward Arnold
Fuji San
Japan
Daowis G. Boner
Long Island
I Institution
Atet Bis Farm
Baron Hiruch
South America
Brazil
Algeria
Spain
Wally
Speer
Fulton
Orae
Jupiter
Neptune
Venus
Saturn
Choate
Old Colony Railroad
Busiens
Chonte
Russell
Germany
Ponte
North Sea
Army Richter
the Postal Service
Loxnox
Foreign Office
Pekin
Curcaco
Woodman
Damaniscotta
Elizabeth Dodge
McManus
Mayamensing
John McManus
Eugene McGinnia
McGinnis
Will
ST. Louis
Missouri
Milwawnee
Schilling
People's Party National Committee
St Louis
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
The
Farmers’ National Alliance
Citizens’ Industrial Alliance
Citizens’ National Alliance
Knights of Labor
Vancouver
B. C
Stemmer
Yokohama
Brussels
Mme
Caroline Popp
Bruges
Journal de
Paris
Washinerton
Bureau of American Republics
Aquiles
Buenos Ayres
Bolivia
Peru
Colombia
Central America
Mexico
Canada
Alaska
San Antonio
Tex
the Ordnance Bureau
Jackson
Miss
Wiley P. Harris
Crestox
Jasper Mans
Pexniserox
N. J
Baltimore Isc
Uncle Sam
Nebeler
Mananoy City
Henry
Frank Zimmers
William Crane
New Boston
Froen
Winaires
Man
de Lorainee
John Peddie
Michigan Federation of Labor
Bay City
W. A. Taylor
Detroit
Muskegon
Wasumnotox
Ilinois
Albion
Golconda
Greenfield
Oakland
Dartville
Staunton
Rome
East Tennessee
Virginia
Georgia Road
Denver
Col
George Marlin
Argentine
Benim
Argentine Republic
Baron Hirsch
Nebraska
Owana
Neb
Dev
Blair
Galesburg
James Sanderson
Fort Bumner
N. M
Frank Palmer
Tremaine
Fort Sully, & C
Bonham
First National Bank of
S. M. Fry
Miss Bye Payne
Indy
Felix Roan
Caswell County
N. Y
John W. Stephen
Admiral Walker
Priday
South Atlantic
Atlanta
Bennington
Delmonico's
Lyons County
Evans
Yorktown
Valparaiso
Chile
Score
Berges
Hudson
Croton Point
Haverstraw
Townsend
Michigan
Muskegaon
Kelly Bros
St. Pavol
Hornersvitur
Pope & Pulley
Curtis Long
William and Lee Clark
Counc
Buurrs
Board of Supervisors
J. Buchler
Mount Vernon
Charles M. Seaton
Lewis Channel
Joplin
Seaton
Dick Taylor
Cutcaco
Dee
Eamua
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Warren Avenue
Pratxrterno
Boyce
East Tompson
Conn
New York & New England
Australia
Graves
Metporist
Standard Bank
Wight
Graves- Barnaby
Pennsylvania
Stumptown
North
Caroling
Maryland
Ohio
Wisconsin
Winter J
G.G. Green
Woodbery
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