Secrets of the Lobbyists and the 1891 Congress Trade
An in depth profile of professional lobbyists in Washington as they prepare for the 1891 congressional session. The piece explains sizing up lawmakers, the cost of access, how cigars and social calls aid persuasion, and how backers and patrons influence votes beyond direct bribes. It details methods to identify friends and enemies, and how a lobbyist negotiates access to both the House and Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Washington
Capitol
House
Western Railway
Havana
Handall
Holman
Congress Jan
New England
Hachman
Robert Graves
Sleeplessness Remedy Suggestion from Hall's Journal of Health
Advice for sleeplessness recommends wetting half a towel and placing it on the back of the neck with the dry half folded over to cool the brain. Warm water preferred to cold, aiming to slow exhalation and induce sleep. Describes rapid, pleasant, cooling effect and notes usefulness for overwork or anxiety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Journal of Health
Wives of the Czars Biographies Draw Interest
The Grand Duchess Serge of Russia and Princess Elizabeth of Hesse are compiling biographies of the empresses of the present century. They note the earlier wives of emperors led more exciting lives but would require a lengthy court absence in Siberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serge
Russia
Elizabeth of Hesse
Alexander I
Nicolas
Alexander II
Siberia
Pitteburg Bulletin
Atypical American boy becomes Speaker of the House
A detailed portrait traces Galusha A Grow from Susquehanna county beginnings to his rise as a youthful congressman and later Speaker. The piece covers his early education, law career, alliance with Wilmot and Lowrey, homestead and Pacific Railroad advocacy, and leadership during critical pre Civil War and Civil War years, highlighting his bold, combative debating style and lasting influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
New York
Galusha Aurou
Fis Cy
Aap
COMEY
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County
Galicia
Thomas Jefferson
Wilmot
House of Representatives
United States
Polk
Mexico
Galusha A. Grow
Towanda
David Wilmot
Free Soil
James Lowrey
John ©. Adams
Lowrey
Washington
Congress
Kansas
Homestead
Pacific
Banks
John Charles Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
Grow
House
Yeoman
Connecticut
Trumbull
Geary Clay
Lincoln
Bull Run
Ohio
Mississippi
Potomac
Galusha 4
Hiim
California
Oregon
British Columbia
International and Great Northern Railroad
Texas
Houston
Russia
Grant
Left Legged Humanity Excerpt on Handedness and Walking
Pall Mall Gazette reports on Bail's Le Duadisme Cerebral suggesting humans are right handed and tend to bear to the right while walking. Observations include crowd behavior, riding steps, and Darwinian tests with foot size data showing left feet sometimes longer but right feet often larger, with gender differences noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Bail
le Duadisme
Tropp
GO. Darwin
Historic St Pauls Church and Rectory in Norwalk
Norwalk letter describes the rectory beside St Pauls Church as a spacious historic home with diamond paned windows and mossy churchyard stones. It notes old books in the library including a 1700s Bible and 1770 prayer book with updated litany, plus a 1795 prayer book. Ancestors of Gen William T Sherman and Senator John Sherman worshiped there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Church
Norwalk
Cann
Charlotte
George II
America
Gen
William T. Sherman
United States
John Sherman
St. Paul’s
New York
Photoe Wood Engraving Method From Russia
A new direct on wood photo engraving method from Russia uses copper sulphate boil and soda carbonate fill to make insoluble copper carbonate in pores. After varnishing and bichromated gelatine coating, printing then develops with warm water. The block is etched with acids and finished to print from.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
New York Telegram
Car chase by famed society man ends on streetcar
In a late night dash on Olive street, a well known society gentleman hired a cab to overtake a streetcar. The cab closed the distance to Twenty third street where the rider, identified as Steve von Phul, alighted, paid the cabbie a nickel, and explained he had pursued the car from Eighth street with a dollar reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Street
Seventeenth Street
Twentieth Street
Twenty-third Street
Eighth Street
Steve von Phul
St. Louis Republic
What He Was Paid For
A stylish young woman with golden hair narrowly escaped a cable car at the junction. A special policeman grabbed her to safety on the sidewalk, witnessed by hundreds. A muscular onlooker thanked the officer but was told to move along.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Kansas City Times
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Ayer
John W. Benson
Lawrence St
Lowell
Mass
Carrie Adams
Holly Springs
Taron
Fernandina
Sarsaparilla
T. J. Wiley
Chambers St
New York City
Leo
Augusta A. Furbush
Haverhill
J. C. Ayer & Con
REA
E. C. West
Purchiser
Johnson & Siegfried
Waren
Ally
Orcan and Piano Co
Boston
Chicago
Mason
Hamlin Pianos
Mason & Hamlin
Macon & Hamlin
Scott
Scott & Bowne
East India
W. A. Noyes
Power's
Rochester
Y Y
Newark
N. 5
Mis AL K. Fleld
D. Be. Hand
Johnson & Seefried
Give
Davis
Murek Drug Store
L. ci. Noyes
Solton
American Fishes
North
Avcehead
Brown
Paulkner & Allan
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Faulkner & Vian
Philadelpha
Frankeslie
Merck Drug Store
Morris & Mollen
Mous & Mullen
Scafield Blowk
Warren
Island
Warren, PA
G. Koebley
Tionesta Valley R. R. Co
Parersy
AT. Ols Tae
Sheffeld
Sheffield
Tionesla Valley
Garfield
Fransworth
Tions
Markham
Marckham
Terry Crary
J.B. Cranle & CO
Liano
Washington, D. C
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