Making Big Guns at New Jersey Steelworks
The New York Herald reports on the Atha Illingworth plant along Passaic and Newark Bay where workers in Harrison and Newark turn out gun components. Casting furnaces glow as steel is refined into jackets tubes and hoops, with three heats daily and rapid tests shaping the modern gun. Finished assemblies require rough machining by the government at Washington, while casting, forging, and assembly stay with private shops to supply navy and coast defense needs. A curious two-foot tail fish with a checkerboard skin is also noted from Philadelphia.
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Passaic
Newark Bay
Newark
Anys
New York Herald
Benjamin Atha & Illingworth Company
Harrison
Navy
Meltar
Tate
Ordnance Works
Washington
Army
Joseph Evans
Thirteenth Street
Snyder Avenue
Evans
Mary Colman
Water in Cure For Indigestion
Mrs. A. T. Rorer urges water both inside and outside the body for indigestion in the Ladies Home Journal. She advises tepid morning baths followed by brisk rubbing, and recommends at least two quarts of water daily with specific hourly and meal-related intake.
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Mra
T. Rorer
Ladies’ Home Journal
Centennial celebrations mark four hundred year milestones
The year’s centennial observances include Vasco da Gama’s India voyage via the Cape of Good Hope observed in Lisbon in May, the burning of Savonarola in Florence, also in May, Holbein’s birth in Basel, Switzerland, Montpellier’s Comte anniversary, Ancona’s Leopardi birthplace near Recanati, and Paris’s Michelet commemoration.
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Vasco de Gama
India
Cape of Good Hope
Lisbon
Savonarola
Florence
Holbein
Basil
Switzerland
Montpellier
Auguste Comte
Ancona
Leopardi
Recanati
Paris
Michelet
Oldest Omaha bank in run down landmark
Nebraska tale notes the first bank of Omaha housed in a dilapidated building with tumbling porches and sparrow occupied doorways. It recalls Thomas H. Benton as president, Leroy Tuttle as cashier, and A N Wyman as teller, with doors closed during the 1857 panic and the structure often depicted by local artists.
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Ol Bank
Nebraska
Omaha
Territory of
Thomas H. Benton
Leroy Tuttle
A. N. Wyman Teller
Curious Odds and Ends From The Era Of Queen Victoria
A collection of curiosities and historical notes: Christmas cards adopting fashion in 1846, an orchid record price of 800 guineas in London, Americans buying a third of the Crown jewels, diamonds found in rock crevices, Kaffira opium habits in South Africa, and Chinese purveyors. Alaska’s coast length cited, a sculpture at Charing Cross noted, Dulwich tollgate, Bible collections in New Albany, English wheat versus nails in 1816, Edward Allen at hundredth birthday, a bishop spared by a tree, Peel family auction results, a butter fruit in India Africa, and royal groom positions with salaries and duties.
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London
South Africa
Alaska
United States
Great Britain
Charles T
Charing Cross
Parliament Street
Pa-ont-she
B. C
Dulwich
John H. Stotsenberg
New Albany
Tni
England
Scotland
Edward Allen
Tiverton
Devon
Church of England
Sodor
Man
Robert Peel
Drayton Manor
Oldest church in Europe told in old Washington Star tale
In a Washington Star excerpt, characters discuss a romance and reveal how Brown married the lady after years of pursuit. The piece shifts to claim St Pudenziana in Rome as Europe’s oldest church, detailing its early builders and baptism font linked to St Augustine.
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Smith
Jones
Ohan
Brown
Mr. Smith
Washington Star
Europe
St. Pudenziana
Rome
St. Paul
Achurah
Pudens
Canon Routledge
St. Martin's Church
Canterbury
Christendom
Ethelbert
St. Augustine
Bede
Sagasta Likely to Win Large Cortes Majority
Madrid dispatch reports elections for the popular branch of the cortes concluded largely without incident. Indications point to a government landslide for Senor Sagasta with about 800 of 402 seats, while Biboa fears disorder as polling stirred excitement.
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Spanteh Cortes Huld
Madrid
Cortes
Senor Sagasta
Congress
Biboa
Banking Bill Reported By Sub Committee on Banking and Currency
Washington dispatch notes the republican sub committee of the House Banking and Currency Commission laid its report before full committee members. The bill aims to strengthen public credit relieve the treasury and amend laws governing national banking associations.
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Commission , Banking and Currency
Washington Dispatch
Louse Commission
Bankin
United States Treasury
Flotilla Causes Apprehension at Havana Harbor
Naval personnel in Havana urge immediate U S action to stop the Spanish torpedo fleet from reaching Cuban waters near Key West or the Tortugas. They believe Washington officials favor prevention and expect decisive steps soon.
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Waamiyoros
Congress
Togue
Coxorass
Jim
Stara
Maine
Havana
Cuban
Maiin
Tannary
Madrid
Cuban Porte
United States
Pelyuary
Llt
Vesdels
Alphonso Nit
Ward Line
City of Washington
Cuba
Key Weat
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Atha & Mlingworth
Africa
Henry Lynoedoch Gardiner
Mkinleys
United States Naval Force
North Atlantic
Au Ag
Theron
Dio
William Mekbury
Senate
House
Sagasta
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