Washington Cranks and the Coxey Fad in 19th Century Capital
Special Correspondent surveys Washington's crank scene as reformers, panics, and oddities shape Congress. Describes figures like Redstone, the stuffed man, and others, noting the era’s shift from wild schemes to labor reform and the lingering anxiety over social disruption.
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Dunlap
Georgetown
Heidelberg
Parker
Cleveland
Potomac Flats
Congress
Committee On Education and Labor
Washington
Victoria Woodhull
Senate Judiciary Committee
Theodore Tilton
Xosane
Plata
Ation
Martin Luther
Pope
Storch
Munzer
Coxey
Storytelling at teatime and a juror's strange verdicts
A child asks for one more tale as dusk settles by chrysanthemum light. The tale recalls a mother and old legends. A Western jury delivers a famed misjudgment labeling a killing as drunkenness and later as manslaughter, while another note examines the cost of formal court dress in London and Covent Garden shops.
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H. Hallett & CO
Portland
Maine
Covent Garden
Witra
Hosting Horse tale and scattered era curiosities
A London Spectator nips a bolting horse tale from a sale and notes a humorous giver who lent the animal to a fire engine. The snippet also surveys glee over love, betrayal, etiquette musings, and varied odds and ends from period journals, including music copying, abdication, and lessons in fruit husbandry.
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London Spectator
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