Navy Yards Showcase American Iron and Heritage
Washington July 5 Special Correspondence tours the navy yard amid the calm of huge guns and silent workshops. Visitors, especially interior tourists, marvel at rifled cannon machinery, huge tram cars, and historic avenues named for naval heroes, with relics like Captain Reid’s battle saber praised as national memory.
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Navy Yard
Pennsylvania Avenue
East Eighth Street
Uncle Sam
Navy Yards
Norfolk
Brooklyn
Mare Island
San Francisco
League Island
Philadelphia
Portsmouth
N. H
Boston
New London
William McAdoo
McAdoo
United States
Great Britain
Barbary Coast
Algerines
John A. Dahlgren
Lewis Warrington
Charles Morris
Commodore Hull
Thomas Tingey
Beverly Kennon
Harrison
Princeton
Franklin Buchanan
Dahlgren
J. A. Howell
Mosquito Misery and Odd Remedies From Jersey Bayonne
Special correspondence from Bayonne, New Jersey on July 5 outlines home remedies for mosquito bites and prevention ideas. It notes experimental drainage and creosote wash to kill larvae, explains female mosquitoes bite for blood, and advocates dragonfly propagation as a natural control, while urging entomologists to explore practical marsh solutions.
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Bayonne
N. J
New York
Jersey
Long Island
Artificial Fruit Sugar Promises New Beet Sugar Product
Special Correspondence from Wasurxetos July 5 describes an inversion process on beet sugar to yield artificial fruit sugar a dense liquid high in sugar that remains fluid and preserves fruit aromas better than cane sugar It is praised by chemists and connoisseurs as superior for preserving cherries strawberries peaches and other fruits and is already used in Europe for wines and liquors with potential in the United States James Connolly reports this new sweetener could transform fruit preserving.
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Frankfort
Frank H. Mason
Europe
United States
James Connolly
Dream Tryst by Francis Thompson Poem Card
A lyric meditation on love and memory. The speaker recalls a past kiss with a beloved, praising enduring eyes and heart. Images of night and dawn, Lyra, and dream chambers convey a timeless, ethereal romance. The poem celebrates connection and desire with celestial, first-person emotion.
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House of Dreams
Francis Thompson
English Birds of Song Chiefly England's 25 Singers
A literary survey ranks England's top song birds led by the nightingale with notes on its 16 known motives and soft beginnings. It highlights the sky lark woodlark titlark and finches, then the blackbird thrush white throat reed warbler and robin, noting the blackcap surpasses all except the nightingale. A Quiver note adds, the piece ends with ghost stories in Spare Moments.
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England
A Rising Reputation for Joseph H Choate in New York Bar
Special correspondence from New York notes Joseph H Choate's growing public stature near the end of the state constitutional convention. The piece highlights his wit, perceived harmless mischief, and a quip about Colonel John J McCook regarding the Briggs Presbyterian case. It also describes his round, friendly features and a youthful daguerreotype kept by a family allied to Choate.
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Joseph H. Choate
New York
New York City
Mr. Evarts
Bar Association
Choate
John J. McCook
McCook
Professor Briggs
Presbyterian
Briggs
General Assembly
Northern Presbyterian Church
Colonel McCook
Mr. Choate
Presbyterian Church
BN. Vatianpianam
Queer snail breathes through side mouth and tongue of teeth
Snails breathe via a side mouth on the foot, lacking lungs and expelling air through the same opening. The mouth holds a tongue with hundreds of fine teeth. Cleopatra died by poisoning her husband, widely blamed for family discord tied to Antony and Caesar. Antony sacrificed for Cleopatra, described as ivory skin, yellow hair, blue eyes. A boy swallowed a revolver cartridge, prompting his mother to refrain from punishing him for fear of explosion.
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St. Louis Republic
Cleopatra
Cesar
Antony
Rome
Philadelphia Times
London
Tionesta Valley Railroad Time Table May 11 1891
Time table for southward and northward trains on the Tionesta Valley Railroad, effective May 11 1891, listing departures and arrivals among Garfield Tiona Sheffield Barnes Brookston Wolf Run and Sheffield Junction, with connections to P and B and P and W networks. Jerry Crary, Superintendent.
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Arren
Farnswort
Garfield
Vander, Illand
Dunham
Kohrth
A. M
Clarendon
Tnderywood
Wood
Ridgway
Erie
Vanderarift
Dunham's Mill
Sheffield
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
SheMeld Junction
Wolf Run
Jerry Crary
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Navy Department
Annapolis Naval Academy
Samuel Chester Reid
Armstrong
Fayal
Azores
Reid
Rota
Lafayette
Samuel C. Reid
Voorhees
Committee On the Library
Academy
New Orleans
Jackson
Cooper
West
Constellation
Newport
Jamestown
Hampton Roads
J. H. Brapis
BR. W. Franci
Lyra
Hope
Walter
Barker
Dean Son
FatTon
A. Johnson
Juilnson & CO
Maag
H. N. Richfield
Warren
Atta
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
F. el
Garrieth
N.Y
J. A. Beatty
OU City
Western
En Ren VN
War‘en
Kinzua
Bradford
Salamanca
Jlean
Clean Express
Dunkirk
Dlations
Fredonia
Irvine
Pittsfield
Garland
Tornedo
Lewton
Grand Wall
Selkirk
Titusvil
Titusville
H. Nod
At & Jrotr
Daly
Casadaga
Airville
Gerri
Ross
Falconer
Rewsbure
Fentoayv
Ackle
Russell
Wai Ten
Laurel and
Fourntreet
A. Ketcham
Su Eru
William Spare
Tionesta Valley Railroad
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