Long Service in Congress Highlights Veteran Leaders
Washington May 24. A study of aging in Congress notes 13 members 70 or older and many others in their sixties. It argues Congress has unusually low deaths, higher vitality, and strong health advantages for lawmakers, citing Voorhees, Morrill, and others, while detailing careers, resignations, and notable veterans such as Morrill, Macon, Adams, Sickles, and Holman.
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Washington
Senate
Holman
Ciancthen
Columbus
Voorhees
Covington
Ind
Morrill
Congress
House
Thomas Hart Bennion
Missouri
Nathaniel Macon
North Carolina
State Senate
John Quincy Adams
France
Morrilli
Morgan, Pugh
Palmer
Harris
Bate
Hunton
Judge Holman
Hezekiah
Bundy
Ohio
William H. Enochs
Secon
Thomas Dunn English
New Jersey
Daniel Edgar Sickles
General Sickles
General Palmer
Thomas J. Henderson
Illinois
John Henry Gear
Iowa
Moses T
Stevens
Massachusetts
Charles S. Randall
John Avery
Michigan
Galusha A. Grow
Pennsylvania
Charles E. Hooker
Mississippi
John Sherman
James L. Pugh
Tur
Capitol
Samuel A. Decker
Toledo
Ferdinand Page
Grand Rapids
Milk sterilization urged to ensure safety of drinking supply
Charles Applebee reports expert advice that most city milk contains bacteria and should be sterilized. He notes tubercle and typhoid bacilli can be present in milk, with even freshly drawn milk housing bacteria, and cites thermal death points and contamination evidence from Boston studies to argue for heating milk to 180 to 190 F for at least 20 minutes.
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Alfred §. Houghton
Department of Labor
Washington
New York
Carnegie Laboratory
New York City
Morton
Boston
Renk
Halle
Charles Applebee
Death Plot in Shanghai Exposes Korean Conspiracy
A sprawling Shanghai murder reveals a decade of Korean government intrigues to kill Kim of Seoul exile, with Li Hong Chang’s agents and Japanese asylum policies shaping a dangerous chase. The assassin Kwo Sho and a linked plot to kill another Korean reveal shifting Chinese Japanese stances and the fragile fate of refugees.
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Gaboriau
China
Shanghai
Kim O8
Kim
Seoul Palace
Japan
Li Hung Chang
Russia
Yuan
Korea
Kwo Sho
Peninsular Kingdom
Europe
Boku Ei Ko
Tokyo
Tai Gen
Li Iteu Shoku
Seoul
Boin
Bonin Islands
Iwata Shukaku
New York Telegram
Sudden Reformation at College Ends Hazing
A college year without hazing is announced by the president. A freshman, revealed as an ex cowboy, remains unnamed. The exchange records a lighthearted tone and a surprising twist in campus chatter.
The Engagement Ring Lesson From a Jewelry Salesman
A Philadelphia Press tale tells how a fashionably dressed mother and her daughter sought the true value of an engagement ring. The salesman, recognizing the ring, refrained from exposing the price, yet advised estimating value by tripling a pawnshop offer to reveal the ring’s intrinsic worth. The mother left in anger as daughter cried, and the store lost that patron.
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Legion
Mr. Blank
Philadelphia Press
Disappointed Banker Refuses Second Loan Distress
A Detroit youth borrows $10 from a wealthy man and repays on time. He asks for $50 for two weeks, but the old man refuses. He explains he only lent the first sum hoping not to be disappointed again.
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Detroit
Bullion
Chicago Tribune
Peculiar European Law in German Court Decree
Berlin Letter reports a decree disinheriting Baron Oscar von Ohlendorff by Baron Albert von Ohlendorff. The move, claimed to render the son’s property claims inoperative under Teutonic law, cites his extravagance and drunkenness. European custom requires court sanction for disinheritance except in criminal cases.
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Albert von Ohlendorff
Baron Oscar von Ohlendorff
Europe
Berlin
She Had the Toothache Cat Helps Dentist Find Tooth
A Philadelphia paper recounts a dentist whose cat watched surgeries and later yowled in distress. The vet discovered a swollen gum and an ulcerated incisor, which he removed, after which the cat seemed content. The tale suggests the cat instinctively sought relief in the dentist chair.
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Philadelphia
Ancient Telephone Found Between Two Temples in India
English officer Harrington reports a working telephone linking the two temples of Pauj about a mile apart in India. The system is claimed to have operated at Pauj for over 2000 years. Egyptologists note evidence of wire communications between early temple sites but the purpose is unclear.
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Harrington
India
Pauj
Tionesta Valley Railroad Time Table May 11 1891
Time table for southward and northward trains on the Tionesta Valley Railroad with stops at Garfield Tiona Sheffield Barnes Brookston and Wolf Run. Connections at Sheffield with P. and E.R.B. and at Sheffield Junction with P. and W.R.R. issued by Jerry Crary superintendent.
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Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad
Brrb, CO
A. m
P.M
Dunkirk
Nyc&btl
Wny&p Crossing Allio
Lily Dale
Jagsodaga
Alconer
Junction
Frewsburg
Fentonvil
Ackle
Russell
Orth Warren
Warren
Irvine
Youngsville
Pittsfeld
Garland
Torpedo
Newton
Grand Valle
Selkirk
East Titusville
Titusville
Ps Bdi AL Mjp
Mer Lourel
Fourth Streets
C.H. Ketcham
William Spa
Ticket Agt
Arren and
Farnswort
Gerfield
Vandergrift
Dunham’s Mills
TLE
Clarendon
Corwen
Underwood's
McCalmont
Wood's
East Branch
Garfield
Ridgwey
Erie
Vanderarift
4. D. Wood
Tiona
Sheffield
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
Wolf Run
Sheffield Tanetion
Shefield
Jerry Crary
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Cleveland
Carlisle
Supreme Bench
James G. Wilson
Trenton
James Watson
Conkling
Platt
John C. Calhoun
John Tyler
Roger Sherman
Connecticut
Felix Grundy
Tennessee
W. F. Fessenden
Charles Sumner
Zach Chandler
Claytons
Delaware
Stephen A. Douglas
Oliver P. Morton
Henry Anthony
David ©. Broderick
California
Terry
J. HL Beaduez
Engagement
A. Johnson
Johnson & CO
Mass
H.N. Richfield
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
F. H. Garrivno
Div
Pasa
Jamestown
N.Y
J. A
New York Pennsylvania
Kinzua
Bradford
Salamance
Olean
Irvinton
Tidioute
Tionesta
Oil City
Pittsburgh
Buffalo Express
Leffard
Leffard Agint. R. Bell, General Supt., J. A. Fellows, Gen’! Pags’r
Exchange &T
Buffalo, N. Y
Tionesta Valley Railroad
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