TERSE, TART AND TIMELY THE GOSSIP OF NATIONAL POLITICS
A compact roundup of political bluster and scandals. Demagogues capitalize on industrial discontent. Gen. Weaver seeks Iowa Congress seat. reports of ex-Czar Reed courting the silver issue for campaign gain. Rainmakers seek Mor ton endorsement amid prior administration experiments. El Paso regulates female dress, a divided skirt ban. Goulds eye England for extravagant living, Foster accepts Fourth of July speech. Brady elected Virginia village mayor. forefathers' burdens recalled. Kissing as disease risk noted by Orange NJ Board of Health. Chinese keep pace with modernity. Washington laundryman advertises. Herald foments religious controversy over Zola. Senate panel debated right to compel source disclosure. A P Henrets named Western PA bank examiner over W B Stewart. Dunkirk bars risk Sunday sale. a Chicago store funds a daily school for cash girls. Epwards and Schriser refuse to name sources in Sugar Trust tale.
Standard Oil plot exposed and political backlash urged
The New York World reveals detailed evidence of Standard Oil to crush rivals and monopolize world petroleum trade with Russian refiners. Critics blame a favorable Washington climate, while editorial comment calls for dissolution and accountability amid broader political and economic themes. The Port Allegheny Reporter celebrates two decades serving the Democratic cause and highlights Ackley Chipps Co offerings in Warren Pa with new wallpaper and painting services.
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New York World
Standard Oil Company
New York
Richard Oxzy
Washington
Whiskey Trust
National Law Department
Corry Mayor vetoes Sunday closing repeal ordinance
Corry mayor Hon. A. B. Osborn vetoed the repeal of the Sunday closing ordinance citing Supreme Court rulings that Sunday is a state institution and opposing any move that would remove distinctions between Sunday and other days. He argued the repeal would enlarge liberty to license while the existing ordinance restrains it. Miss Jennie Johnson left for Clarion to attend school.
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A. B. Osborn
Corry
Supreme Court
County Convention to Nominate Warren County Democrats
Warren county Democrats meet at the Court House Warren Pa on June 12 1894 at 1 30 p m to nominate candidates for Representative in Congress Senator in General Assembly Representative in General Assembly Sheriff Prothonotary and three delegates to the State Convention. Precincts receive delegate numbers and rules amendments are set for primary and county committee actions before the June 8 voting window.
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Warren
Democratic County Committee
Warren County
Court House
Congress
General Assembly
Youngsville Boro
Columbus Boro
Tidioute Boro
Clarendon Boro
Sugar Grove
Boro
Bear Lake Boro
Brokenstraw
Conewango
Pleasant
Pittsfield
Spring Creek
Sheffield
South West
Sehen Triumph
Watson
Vigilance Committee Names Sought by Precinct Democrats
W R Dawson chairman states that the voting precinct will name ten Democrats as a vigilance committee as soon as practicable and forward the names to the county chairman. If the district fails to elect a member, delegates to the county convention may appoint.
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W.R. Dawson
Political Ashes and Verse Fragments Light Up The Week
Hastings drawing support among some peers as a potential winner for office while others seek top posts in the Commonwealth administration. Riots and violence plague coal miners amid reform upheavals, and a satirical verse section mocks political plots and colonial titles alongside a Chicago physician’s defense of open night air.
King of Belgiums Bodyguard
The king of Belgium is guarded by a valet who, under the constitution, reports to parliament for royal safety. At night the valet locks himself in the antechamber after turning the outer door key, meaning any attacker must first breach the antechamber door and overpower the valet before reaching the king.
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Belgium
Pearson
Salle A Concher
Royal Chamber
London
Remarkable case of a widow swallowing her husband’s ashes
The St. Louis Republic reports a rare incident where a disconsolate widow allegedly swallowed the ashes of her dead husband mixed in wine. The tale names a brother and sister who were also husband and wife, related to Mausolus, king of Caria about 800 BC, whose ashes were disposed after death.
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Artemesia
Mansolus
Mausolus
Caria
Christ
St. Louis Republic
The Chinese in American Cities Say They Belong to Iron Age
A Boston Gazette quotation notes that Chinese people are very ancient and belong to the iron age, claiming their presence in American cities reflects long historic roots and enduring contribution.
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Amercan
Boston Gazette
Coolness and contrast guide the ideal in brief musings
The fragment discusses aesthetic coolness as a principle for both genders, notes concept of coffin wood from Tonquin trees buried in sand, and comments on Mongolia with no hotels but many monasteries that accommodate travelers.
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Tonquin
Mongolia
Asia
Superstitious Postal Clerks Seek Red Mail Sack Luck
Railway postal clerks arriving from a run at Pennsylvania Station discuss a superstition about red mail sacks kept from accidents. They believe the red sack brings luck and try to keep it handy, while acknowledging the danger of mail cars and the odd tradition surrounding dyed sacks.
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Pennsylvania Station
Poe
Cub
Pat Nancy
Washington News
German Bath Habits and Beer Affects Health
The article contrasts German bathing customs with English views, noting rare use of private baths, cautious medical advice against baths, and a belief that beer and infancy drinking influence health. It cites public behavior at railways and a home corkscrew anecdote, ending with a bricklayer’s method to open a corked bottle.
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Germany
Boston Transcript
Louis Globe-Democrat
Coughing Advice From a Family Magazine
A passage explains coughing harms healing as a wound on the body. It recommends controlled breathing to calm airways, noting that holding a long breath warms and soothes air cells. Nitrogen refined in this way acts as an analgesic to the mucous membrane, easing the urge to cough for recovery.
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Family Magazine
Whales Classified In Two Main Families
The Philadelphia Press notes true whales are mammals adapted to aquatic life and fall into two families the spermaceti whale with teeth in the lower jaw and the whalebone whale with none. The spermaceti species cachalot and sperm reach 70 to 80 feet when mature, and capture is more dangerous due to the formidable teeth.
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Philadelphia Press
Lincoln Jokes Distract Visitor in White House Visit
A Lewis era anecdote from Chicago Tribune recounts Owen Lovejoy and Colonel Clark E. Carr meeting Abraham Lincoln at the White House. Lincoln, in an odd garment, shows a smallpox mark while Lovejoy jokes about infection certificates. Lincoln had varioloid, not smallpox.
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White House
Clark E. Carr
Galesburg
Denmark
Harrison
Washington
Lincoln
Abe
Owen Lovejoy
Carr
Treasury Building
Jerry Simpson
Jerry
Illinois
Lovejoy
Clark
Abe Lincoln
Chicago Tribune
A Warning Wave of the Hand on Broadway
Four boys perched on a big four horse truck near Broadway escape injury as the gripman signals and the cable car behind closes in. The piece explains how horses once buffered riders but cable cars offer less protection, risking severe injury to any legs snagged between truck end and car frame.
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Broadway
Gripman
New York
San
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