Washington Gossip and the 700 Excursionists in a Deep Snow
Special Correspondent reports from WassiIndex March 27 on Gen. Greely head of the weather bureau and the storm's impact. It covers the signal service, Washington disruption, a 700 person New York excursion stalled, Edward Eggleston and the Copyright League, Senator Palmer on immigration and crime, and profiles of Joseph E. McDonald and Edmund Clarence Stedman amid a Capitol winter.
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Senator Palmer
Edward Eggleston
Authors’ Copyright League
WassiIndex
Gen. Greely
Weather Bureau
Washington
United States
Signal Service
Signal Corps
Greely
Arctic
Signal Service Bureau
G Street
State, War and Navy Departments
War Department
Regular
Weather Service
Sherman
South
Allison
Iowa
Hawley
Copyright League
Senator Cullom
House
Senate
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Congress
White House
Capitol
Garfield
Guiteau
Richmond
St. Paul
Eggleston
Lake George
New York City
Tenth Street
Graysons
Century Magazine
Palmer
Portrait and Sketch of the New President of Ecuador
Special correspondence profiles Don Antonio Flores, minister to the United States, diplomat and author, now in Rome, son of Gen Juan Jose Flores. The piece recounts his military service from 1860 to the siege of Guayaquil, his oratory and parliamentary role, literary works on state policy, and his career representing Ecuador in Lima, Washington, Madrid, Berlin. It traces Ecuador’s history from Spanish rule to independence, civil wars, and the Flores family’s part in revolutions shaping the republic.
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Ecnador
New York
Don Antonio Flores
Ecuador
United States
France
Germany
Belgium
Rome
Juan Jose Flores
Republic of Ecuador
Guayaquil
Flores
Royal Spanish Academy
Lima
Santiago
Washington
Madrid
Berlin
Quito
Peru
Pichincha
Republic of Columbia
South America
Little Republic
Oil Springs in Ocean Report From March Hydrographic Office
The hydrographic office reports petroleum springs at sea bottom in March notes. One near Sabina Pass named Old Pond hosts small vessels in rough weather with smoother water due to rising oil. On the Pacific coast Coal Oil Point ten miles west of Santa Barbara shows bubbling oil and strong odor nauseating aboard ships.
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Hydrographic Office
Sabina Pass
Gulf Coast
Pacific Coast
Santa Barbara Cal
Chicago Herald
The Boys in Gray and Malvern Hill Tales
A veteran narrator recalls Confederate and Yankee camp life near Malvern Hill. He details food, clothing, and rough camp discipline, describes the Louisiana Tigers at the hill, and recounts a night battle under rain, with moral reflections and a saved Testament entrusted to a comrade.
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Louisiana Tigers
Malvern Hill
Johnston
Lees
Plunkett
Lee
Virginia
Brown
Richmond
Malvern Hall
Tagh
Maj. Wheat
Sean
Indiana
Sarge
Atlanta Constitution
From Wisconsin Lumber Regions to Shingle Edging
G Q Shields describes processes in a Wisconsin lumber region where slabs become lath and shingles. Girls and boys labor on moving rollers and saws, earning about $1 a day. Edgers sing hymns as the work continues amid loud machinery and the narrator reflects on child labor and schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Brown
G. Q. Shields
American Magazine
Public Speaker's Methods in Oral Delivery
John D. Long, in The Writer, compares methods for delivering set speeches. He notes manuscript reading dampens engagement, memorized repetition helps many, and others rely on outlines or extempore speech. He argues audience atmosphere and physical tension shape success and cautions against pre speech eating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Long
Bathing Pilgrims in India in Benares Letter Scene
Carter Harrison describes the Benares crowds at the sacred river steps. Pilgrims of all ages and conditions bathe, pray, and rinse themselves with reverent care while boatmen steer a broad keeled craft along the shore. Flowers are offered as prayers rise.
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India
Carter Harrison
Benares
Market Scene Echoes Hard Choices at Stalls
A family cluster at a market stall struggles to balance a slim purse with large needs. The patient salesman endures delays as the group buys a small item. After a sharp rebuke, the buyer explains the dilemma. To smooth tensions, the salesman discreetly adds eel pieces to the basket, a gesture that outshines his earlier coldness.
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Boston
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Horace Greeley
The
Tribune
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Joseph E. McDonald
Cleveland
Joe
McDonald
Wall Street
Western Union
Northern Pacific
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Thomas J Topp
Bon Antonio Flores
Wisconsin
W. T. Totten
St. Xorth
Tenth St
Philadelphia
J Wonderly
Montgomery Ave
Kaskine
Kaskine CO
Warren St
Ely
CATAR
Sr Enon
Y Bros. Druggists
Greenwich St
A. Masbeth & Co
Pittshure
Scher Mandrake
Ck’s
Pitts
Ell Dinggisth
J. A. Schenck & Son, Philed’a
Cain
BETT
TEIS
Association
Bil
Warren
Dolmar
Joan Anderson
J.B. Arnold
Chas
F. E. Ross
Kline
Wikkex Savings Bank
Warren, Pa
L. F. Watson
Prest
B. Nesmith
Preet
Hazeltine
Cashier
Geese National Bank
Myron Waters
Francis Wenury
D. L. Gerould
Cashion
Capital
Francis Henry
H. A. Jamieson
3. V. Davis
S.P. Johnson
A. S Hertzel
W.D. Brown
GN. Parmice
A. T. Scofield
Peuu
L. D. Wetmore
Prec
MM. Beecher
Cash
Warren County
England
Ireland
Scoreland
Europe
J. K. Ronne
Liberty Street
Postoffice
Lazuerma
Mason & Hamlin
Mazon & Uamlin
Fano
Tau
Free, Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Cosg
Hesselroth
Lawreme Mixselegta
Chicago Ave
Chicago
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