GREAT MEN AT CARDS. Capitol card games in Washington
Special Correspondence from Washington details card playing among lawmakers and diplomats. It chronicles whist, poker, and seven up amid figures like Justice Bradley, Senators Sherman and Edmunds, and ex Minister Schenck. Stories recount Clay, Gallatin, and others, plus small ante games and private rooms.
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Washington
United States
Supreme Court
Sherman
Edmunds
Justice Bradkey
Miller
Gray
Senator Thurman
Stanley Matthews
Schenck
Capitol
Wintersmith
Texas
Col. Wintersmith
Congress
Powor
Bodisco’s
Pendleton
New Yor
Baltimore
Humphrey Marshall
China
Henry Clay
Carl Schurz
John Quincy Adams
Ghent
Adams
Clay
Hancock’s
Hancock's
Jefferson Davis
John C. Calhoun
Webster
Senate
Kentucky
Senator Beck
House of Lords
Joe Blackburn
Carlisle
Frank Pierce
George Washington
Cleveland
White House
State Department
Forv
Minister Schenck
Statesman
London
England
Poker
A Post Route in Russia
George Kennan in The Century notes that Russia lacks fixed stage coach schedules. Travelers use post horses and sleighs, riding at will without clocked departures, with relays of horses and postal orders enabling rapid, flexible journeys across the empire.
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Russia
George Kennan
Editors Dana and Dana Receive Royalty from American Cyclopedia
Editor Dana earns six and a quarter percent royalty from the American Cyclopedia with a large volume sold and over $160,000 realized from this source. The Home Journal notes the French government plans a competitive machine exhibition in August in Paris with 30,000 francs allocated.
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Dana
Charles A. Dana
Home Journal
Paris
Silk Worm Culture in America Aims and Methods
Special correspondence from DeLand Florida notes the United States as a major silk producer with a short six week season. It details rearing, feeding, molting, and cocoon harvesting, with costs for eggs and cocoons, mulberry and Multicaulis as host plants, and step by step setup of a cocoonery, feeding routines, and steam stifling of cocoons prior to reeling into moths and egg collection.
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America
Deelanco
Fla
United States
Department of Agriculture
Lucy M
Fox
Bowles on the Witness Stand in Burlington Dynamite Case
John Alexander Bowles testified as the first afternoon witness in the Burlington dynamite case. He described buying dynamite in Noblesville and Chicago, delivering it near Aurora, and a later explosion. Defense counsel clashed with prosecutors, and Bowles admitted lying in jail but not under oath. The prosecution rested its case and the day adjourned.
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Bowles
Chicado
John Alexander Bowles
Squesler
Burlington
Donahue
Bausreisen
Goding
Witcces
Chicago
Noblesville
Ind
Hoge
Bauereisen
Galesburg
Clark
Kelly
Fowler
Aurora
Donohue
Castleton
Bowies
Window Glass Manufacturers Meet in New York
The American Association of Window Glass Manufacturers met at the Fifth Avenue hotel with fifty members present and others represented. President F. L. Bodine of Philadelphia presided and old officers were re elected. Bodine reported 2,750,000 boxes produced last year, 25,000 fewer than prior year, imports 1,175,000, up 133,000. Prices were very low, new furnaces erected, Mills bill would cut tariff on glass from 20 to 25 cents a box. The report was adopted and a Mills bill committee named. Blasts timing for furnaces discussed and deferred to the wage committee. Meeting adjourned.
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American Association of Window Glass Manufacturers
Fifth Avenue
F. L. Bodine
Philadelphia
Bodine
Bodime
American Miller Deceives Halifax Yacht Owner. Leaves With Cash
An American named Miller, posing as a co owner of the steam yacht Electra, lived in Halifax and ordered $1,300 worth of liquors and groceries from James Scott & Co. He paid with a $2,000 check that bounced, then vanished with two Halifax girls to St John. The remaining $700 in cash and the check on New York are worthless.
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Halifax
Hallifax
N. S
Miller
Electra
James Scott & Co
St. John
New York
Lands for sale in Pittsfield and Farmington Pa with options
For sale fifty seven acre farm in Farmington Warren County Pa near Terrie Well with water and good buildings. Also one hundred fifteen acres in Pittsfield township near post office and Dunkirk depot with flexible down payment options. Listings include small farm near schoolhouse eight acres of orchard and several additional local items for sale.
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Pittsfield Township
Post Office
Dunkirk Depot
Pittfield Hotel
Junta A. Acocks
Farmington
Warren Co
School House
Pennsylvania
U. Pown
Busti
N.Y
Old Reliable Companies
John Sin& Son
Exchange Block
Water Street
Warren
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Goss Sheppard
Sheppard
Senator Chaffee
Colorado
Tom Robinson
South Carolina
Jim Nesmith
Oregon
Fernando Wood
Boyd Winchester
Switzerland
Winchester
Sodoj
Petuliar
Tom
the Statesman
Europe
Stager
Ohio
Indiana
West
Beck
Lexington
Transylvania University
Albert Gallatin
Gallatin
Thomas J. Topp
Philip
Tam
Jack
Charley
Bright
Phil
Sears
Joseph Lippincott
Edson Phonograph Company
Edson
Nashville
Tenn
Samuel W. Hawkins
Carroll County
Bleir
Beranrton
Kinney
Ridgeway
Feeney
Fanny Davenport
Fanny Davenport Price
Edwin H. Price
Justice Barratt
Republican
Republican National Committees
No. 91
R. D. McDonald Drug Co
Washington St
Jesse Jones
High Street
Public Way
L. G. Noyes
la Pierre
A. Ruhlman
Wyman & Davis
Cal
M.ston
S. di Tf
Wendlebue's
Mice Labs
Dace Bennets
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