Office seekers crowd Secretary Gresham in Washington
Walter Wellman recalls a bustling morning in Secretary Gresham's outer office where ministers aspirants, envoys, and hopefuls wait in lines and on sofas for a chance to present themselves. The scene highlights decorum, delay, and the toll on officials and lawmakers as they face daily troubles from cabinet rooms to the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Grant
Hayes
Gantlet
Wasnmerex
Treasury Department
General Post Office
Interior Department
Daniel Lamont
War Office
Department of Justice
Agriculture
Secretary of State
Gresham
Georgia
Sam
Cleveland
Mr. Vilan
Voorhees
Vilas
Senate
General Grant
General Hayes
Washington
Corbin
Army
Mix
House of Representatives
United States Senate
White House
Fortress Monroe
New York
Walter Wellmay
World’s Fair Receipts Forecast Across Sunday Attendance
The fair’s managers project 18 to 20 million visitors paying 50 cents each for admission, assuming the event runs on Sundays. Major days highlighted include Mlinors day, Indiana day, Wisconsin day, and Michigan or Missouri day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mlinors
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Missouri
A Fortune In Music Balfe Works Profit Stories
The publisher’s earnings from Balfe’s works are revealed. The Bohemian Girl generated about 40000 dollars in profit, similar sums came from When Other Lips and I Dreamt That I Dwelt In Marble Halls, and The Heart Bowed Down yielded about 25000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balfe
Mrs Jones Mistake Jumps To Hasty Conclusion
In a humorous Detroit Free Press item, Mrs Jones misreads Hank Smith’s burial as a literal death, while Jeptha teases with wry phrases about being buried in thought. The exchange centers on a butter knife and Mrs Hank Smith’s imagined widowhood.
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Hank Smith
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Jeptha
Hank
Mr. Sterling
Detroit Free Press
Lynching Parade Over an Old Fashioned Winter Wish
A crowd in masks and armed men drags a bound man to a lynching. When asked the reason, the leader coldly says the man “expressed a wish for an old fashioned winter,” and the procession continues.
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Hno
Pittsburg
Objectionable Kindling Burns at Home Morning
A man struggles with fire making on a cold morning as his wife waits in warmth. He battles stubborn fireproof kindling, swears softly, and asks his wife to fetch more of the fireproof material, muttering about burglars and continuing the futile effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Sarah
Stuck on the Girls Practice and Preaching
A Chicago News Record snippet shows Maud and Mabel debating honesty over societal conventions with a knock at the door and a servant remark about a gentleman seeking Maud. The brief exchange highlights themes of truthfulness and social propriety in a light, gossipy scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Mabel
Jeames
Unidentified engagement and witty verse snippets
A fragment notes a young woman declaring engagement with an unnamed suitor, tracing the proposer to a Dasvsons meeting where he was described as lovely and accepted in one evening. The piece includes brief humorous exchanges about city and country life and a quip from Charlie on piano duets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie
Dasvsons
Harper’s Bazar
Charlie
Boston
Announcement on goods removed and poetry composed in London shop window
A London Tit-Bits item notes a shop window in an obscure area displaying a quirky notice promising to remove goods take messages beat carpets and compose poetry on any subject. A humorous exchange from Chicago Inter Ocean shows a child promising to break slang habits with a witty reply to a mother.
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London
The Proper Thing in Fall Suit Sketch
A brief editorial quips about an unnamed fool who plans to shoot Niagara in his fall suit, calling the plan the proper thing for the moment and critiquing the imprudent boast with a biting, era-specific tone.
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Philadelphia Record
Unexpected Off Occurs Inspiring A Maid To Deflect Blame
A playful verse tale recounts a fair maid weaving a net around a favored suitor and anticipating his eventual surrender to temptation. She steels herself for the moment when the truth emerges and she must admit the unexpected turn in fate.
Margaret Sidney and The Wayside Home of Hawthorne
Special correspondence from Coxcorp Massachusetts highlights Margaret Sidney alias Mrs Daniel Lothrop of Boston and her Wayside home. The article describes How Hawthorne Alcott and Emerson figures frequented the property and the Summer School of Philosophy hosted guests, with note on The Light of Asia being read aloud and republished due to Alcott influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Coxcorp
Mass
Avich
Daniel Lothrop
Margaret Sidney
Alcott and Hawthorne
Lothrops
Hawthorne
Italy
Hawsthorne
Hawthorn
Orchard
Alcotts
Alcott
School of Philosophy
Emerson
T. W. Higginson
Ednah D. Cheney
Sir Edwina Arnold
Asia
Aix
Channing
Dr. Channing
Sir Edwin
Buddha
Buddha. It Was Through Mr. Alcott
America
Oldest American clock found in New Haven home
Special Correspondence from New Haven reports Mr. A. J. Edwards owns America's oldest extant clock, made by Gideon Roberts of Bristol before 1800. The hall clock stands over six feet, bears number seven, and remains in surprisingly good condition after recent cleaning.
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New Haven
A. J. Edwards
Garret
Gideon Roberts
Bristol
Conn
America
Roberts
Historical Society
Unionville
A. F
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Greshaws
Gilleland
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Business Directory
W. K. Yates
Warren Savings Bank
L. G. Noyes & Co
Warren, Pa
Bee & Thompson, Attorneys AT Law
Beary Block
A. A. Davis & Co
D. Y. Ball
C. C. Thompson
Posetoek & Peterson
Attorneys AT Law
Offce
New Savings Bank
Chag
Dimemoque
Has, A. Peterso
N Norman Davies, MD
Likerteduia and
General Ori Street
W W. Freeman
Hazeltine
Perry
Justice OF the Peace
Warren
Water Street
Gen. Ball
A. McAlpis, the
RW. Stuant
Third St. Warren, Pa
Frank W. Whitcomb
Third Street
Near
Eost
Aly
W A
Greaves
Episcopal Church
Kosere
Warren Lodge Hall
Q Sats
First National Bank
Second Street
Golden Horse Shoe
H. Meacham
Esquire
Cornelius
L. Gleason
P.&e
D.A.V
W.N.Y
P.R.R
Bete
Kodak
Geo. Ball’s
American Tobacco
Pany’s
Cornell
YALE
Marbury Bros. Pickings
Richmond
Oxford Hash
LA Perigne
Princess Royal
Picadilly
Monte Cristo
Birds Eye
Pehlman
Davis
Mullen
Morris & Mullen
Ch. Bartsch
Diamond
Warre
Kopf & Henry
Water St. Warren, Pa
Wyman
Wyman & Davis
Natiral Bank
M. Waters
E T. Hazeltine
D. L. Gerould
L. D. Dennison
MI Waters
E. T. Hazeltine
P. Hall
John M. Siegfried
O. F. Hofman
P. J. Bayer
C. A. Cornen
L. W. Dennison
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