Global curiosities on crafts and coinage in old times
The excerpt surveys diverse topics from Mexican wagon building traditions to violin making in Saxony, an Tyrolean rail project, and a thermometer glass resistant to 1000 degrees. It notes Chineses emperors minting from mulberry bark, ancient death penalties for coin fraud, and coinage reforms by Queen Elizabeth including a reduced standard for Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Markneukirchen
Saxony
Tyrolese
Riva
Pinzolo
France
Belgium
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Greece
Austria
Reid
Georgia
Bechtlers
North Carolina
Mormons
Utah
California
Elizabeth
Ireland
Hood's Sarsaparilla Calendar Ad and Remedies
An 1894 advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's calendar as aids for health and vitality. It promotes blood purification, debility relief, and disease prevention with testimonials, alongside Brown's Iron Fingers tonic claims and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It emphasizes a big production facility, nationwide reach, and the calendar’s appeal featuring a sixteenth birthday girl image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Hood
Notig
Praetors
Hall
J. Cueney & Co
Props
Toledo
Price Tic
Congress in Regular Session Tracks Tariff Debates
The Fifty Third Congress convened with higher attendance as the House opened three hour debates on the Wilson tariff bill. Sugar and coal schedules dominated, with sugar moving to free list and coal kept free after amendments. several amendments and veto mentions occurred as the session progressed. In the Senate, remonstrances against the tariff bill and civil service reform considerations opened the week, followed by Hawaii annexation debates and a rail bridge measure with executive session and adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOUSE
Famay
Wilson
Johnson
Ohio
Henderson
Iowa
Messrs. Hopkins
Illinois
Hull
Springer
Ilinois
Sareepay
McRae
Vickery
Pruden
New York
New Jersey
Oates
Wepsers Bay
Alabama
Senate
Call
Civil Service
Berry
Cockrell
Peffer
Kansas
Secretary of the Treasury
Committee On Foreign Relations
Warner
Yeas
Wennerspar
Allison
Coke
Texas
Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railroad Company
Neches
Sabine
Louisiana
West
Cleveland
Calumet River
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
Secretary of the Interior
Fort Cummings
Marietta Chair Co resumes work. 600 employed
The Marietta Ohio chair factory restarted operations Monday morning with 600 workers, who will be paid for eight hours for a ten hour shift. The return to production comes as industrial activity resumes after a pause.
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Marietta
New York and New England Railroad
Dunn
Chicago
Harry Hill
Atlanta
Hill
Atgeld
Mexico City
N. M
Prince Torrez
Prince
Durango
Martinez Aurora
Colian of
Lordon
Vancouver
B. C
Hong Cow
David B. Hill
Democratic Association of
Senator Hill
Waite
Syracuse
N. Y
Katherine Germaine
Germaine
H. W. Robseborn
Rainmaker of
Syria
Miss Germaine
William Manor
Columbian Celebration Company
Steele Mackay
Mackay
Chihuahua Falls to Rebels Amid Surprise Assault
A Friday dispatch from El Paso reports Chihuahua captured by rebels after a two-front move. A federal detachment attacked from the west, rebels struck the east, and Santa Fe supporters offered no resistance as locals swayed with the insurgents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chihuahua
el Paso
Texas
Santa Prez
Lillian Weds Again at New York Altar
Lillian Rus sell, once dubbed Airy Fairy, renewed vows in New York on a Sunday ceremony. She promised to love honor and obey her future lord and master John Hatterton whose stage name is Senior Peruris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian
Lillian Russell
Distress in Ohio coal regions prompts violence reports
A Wheeling dispatch notes deep distress in the Hocking valley and other Ohio coal districts with idle miners and reports of violence. Other items include Jim Morrison still at large after a Pratt mines dynamite attack and deputy sheriff Dexter’s death, divers’ Rome to Montgomery wager, and rail, mine, and public works news across Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Hocking Valley
Ohio
Birmingham
Jim Morrison
Pratt Mines
Dexter
Gadsden
Als
Sorcho
Rome
Montgomery
Ala
Coosa
Pike County
Kolb
United States Court
Sheffield, Ala
Land, Coal and Iron Company
Sheffield and Birmingham
Huntsville
J. H. Noble
Kidd & Shackelford
Newnan
William Kidd
Oscar Herring
Kidd
Mississippi Senate
Messrs. E. and
8. Virden
Jackson
Millsap’s College
Illinois Central Railroad
Telephone Exchange
Louisville
Gifford
Savannah
W. W. Gordon
Fifth Georgia Cavalry
Northern
Georgia
James T. Bell
Nashville
J. E. Gilmer
Winston
N. C
Edward Lilly
John D. Williams
Fayetteville
North State Improvement Company
Knoxville, Tenn
Henry Gibson
Grand Army
Adams
Gibson
Hooker
Knoxville
Williamson Iron and Furnace Company
Birmingham Iron
United Electric Railway Company
W. H. Jackson
Alabama
Greensboro
N. Y
Graves
Dr. Lash
Cape Fear
Cape Fears and Yadkin Valley RR Plan Revealed
The report outlines the company’s liabilities at 335,000 dollars and assets estimated at 1,500,000 dollars amid construction of the Cape Fears and Yadkin Valley railroad project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Fears and Yadkin Valley
the Doctor
Trade Improves Says Dan Co Weekly Review
Dan & Co reports a week of economic shifts with 350 million in US 5 percent ten year bonds offered. The gold reserve recovery aims to restore confidence though wages fall and iron, textile sectors cut pay. Textile, iron and steel firms resume or reduce output. sales volumes drop as prices ease.
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Dan & Co
R.G. Dan & Co
United States
Congress
Boston
Jesa
Pittsburg
New York
London
Canada
Judge Call Grants Injunction In Corbett Mitchell Fight
Jacksonville judge Rhydon M. Call halted Sheriff Broward from interfering with the Corbett Mitchell boxing match. He ruled glove contests do not violate Florida law banning fighting by previous appointment. Courtroom erupted in cheers as fans celebrated the ruling.
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Call
Jacksonville
Rhydon M. Call
Duval Athletic Club
Florida
Broward
James J. Corbett
Charles Mitchell
Cali
Train Robbers Caught in Indian Territory After Busy Raid
A gang led by Rogers was located asleep at his Big Creek home twenty miles from Vinita I T and captured. Dynamite Jack was taken unharmed while his brother Kiowa was killed and Willis Brown severely wounded. Officers suffered no injuries. The gang is believed responsible for a recent Kansas and Arkansas Valley train robbery at Seminole and an earlier failed Missouri Kevens and Texas attempt.
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Indian Territory
Rogers
Big Creek
Vinita
I. T
Dynamite Jack
Dynamite
Kiowa
Willis Brown
Kansas and
Arkansas Valley
Seminole
Missouri
Kevens
Texas
Queen plans arbitration over damages claim
A San Francisco report from Tuesday via the steamer Australia says the deposed queen has given up the contest and will sue the United States for damages tied to the provisional government era. Parker, prime minister for the ex-queen, Telegrams denial and says the queen has submitted to U S arbitration and awaits verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Australia
United States
Parker
Gresham
Government Sparks and Tax Debates in 1895 Era
The notes discuss Wheeler H. Peckham's nomination to the Supreme Court, coal on the free list, sugar bounty repeal, and a tariff bill. It also covers Key West labor debates, a two percent income tax proposal effective 1895, and corporate tax provisions with explicit rates and filing duties.
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Wheeler H. Peckham
New York
Supreme Court
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Carlisle
Treasury Department
Tillman
Joe Caroina
House Committee On the Judiciary
Latimer
South Carolina
House
Wilson
Plug Tobacco and Cigar Manufacturers
Virginia
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
J. N. Boyd
Richmond
Olney
Stump
Key West
Fla
Pery
Port
Brown
Hichenberg
Rubens
Cuba
United States
Reverend G F B Howard Sentenced to Prison in Columbus
Rev G F B Howard, a noted swindler in foreign claims, is transported to Columbus Ohio prison under Deputy Marshal E D Collier and J M Compton. At 1 45 Wednesday afternoon he was taken to Union Depot and boarded the Illinois Central. Brockway, jailed for perjury, confessed late Wednesday night detailing the scheme.
Women World and Notable Obituary Highlights
A mixed column notes child labor concerns in America and a tariff failure impact. It mentions German empress tableaux by children, London women typewriters joining civil service with pensions, and New York charity figure Mrs Eliza Hall Sayre dying at 71 or 72, survived by a daughter and son Dr Reginald H Sayre.
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America
London
Treasury Department
Civil Service
New York
Eliza Hall Sayre
Charles H. Hall
Tompkins’ Square
Lewis A. Sayre
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
Reginald H. Sayre
No Long Leases Says Builder To Home Seeker
A builder laughs off a five year lease proposal saying the house just finished will be dry enough to live in in half that time. The exchange highlights a cautious stance on long-term rental commitments.
Fragmented Advice and The Truth in Narrow Exchanges
A jumbled page segment mixes a professed lovers’ quarrel with ads about laxatives and seeds. It mentions proposals to widows, warns against false health claims, and touts Salzer seed catalogues with sample packages and Beecham’s pills, all reflecting late 19th or early 20th century small notices.
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A. M. Lamb
Penn
R. Bey
Cal
Frank Close
Minn
A. Hahn
Wis
Frank Winter
Montana
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
le Crosse
Catalogus Alote
Beecham
The Place for Him A Tramp at the Back Door
A crusty cook finds a tramp at the back door with his hand stuck and an urgent plea for food. She refuses, snapping that he cannot have it, and warns that this isn’t the place for him. The man laments he has nothing for days as she slams the door.
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Dpelre Free Press
A Chance Lost
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph excerpt portrays a witty exchange where a man refuses Miss Hellefied’s offer of a penny for thoughts claiming he could not collect his thoughts and thus could not gather the cash, described in light humorous slang.
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Hostett
Hr. D. Webster
Baker York
South Penn St
York, Pa
Rod
Alter Baker & CO
World's Columbian
Rex Ben & 400
Dorchester
San Antonio
Kansas and Texas
San Marcos
Ed Binding
City
J. O. Heidelheimer
Austin
Southern
Lil
Wovernment
The
Royal Bar
Royal Baking Powder CO
Wall ST
New-York
California Fig Syrup Co
G. G. Green
Woonstey
N. I
An Mars
SS. S
Jno
McLean St
Mt. Adama
Cincinnati
John Mallon
Twen
Scott
Andeng
Maclean, Curtis & Walker
Olsen
m+ Universal Atlas
feNally
Nort Adams, Maas
Yne
Ripans
Ripans Chemical Company
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