President Cleveland banks on hard money policy prompt
Washington gears to a hard money stance as President Cleveland drafts a crucial letter to Congress. In Newburg New York Mrs Anna B Krempf sues Metropolitan Traction for 50000 arguing conspiracy by defendants. Knights of Labor assemble in New Orleans seek world union of labor groups.
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Washington
Cleveland
Congress
Anna B. Krempf
Metropolitan Traction Company
Newburg
N. Y
Knights of Labor General Assembly
New Orleans
Waller
Democratic Party
Saxton
Anna Diggs
Kansas
Potomac
Alex McDowell
Sharon
Francis Kossuth
Louis Kossuth
Maurice Jokai
Hungary
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
la Porte
Ind
Jerry Simpson
Indiana
Japan
America
China
Sylvan Grove
Kan
Frisco
Monett
Petersburg
England
Senate
Roast chickens butter basted to browning perfection
A St Louis Republic method prescribes two chickens four to five months old split along the back, salted, peppered, then roasted in a shallow pan with water and eight tablespoonfuls of butter. The birds are cooked about 1 1/4 hours, basted with butter, and served hot on a platter with extra butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Thanksgiving Dinner Reflections With Family and Friends
After a health meeting most attendees stayed for dinner with invited friends. The meal lasted an hour and featured dip toast, cold fowl, cranberry sauce, preserves, cakes, and pies. A quiet evening of social talk followed with prayers and the Thanksgiving observance concluding.
Old World Dressing With Chestnuts And Herbs
A recipe details grinding stale bread to fine crumbs and mixing with boiled chestnuts, onions, and spices. It instructs to moisten with four ounces of melted butter and forbids adding water, producing a rich traditional stuffing.
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New York News
Thanksgiving Celebration Program Outline
A simple program proposes a First Song The Breaking Waves Dashed High to music by Mrs Hemans with Miss Browne. A second Prayer follows. A reading of the Mayflower compact is next. A Fifth Reading Then American Hymn by Keller and That Gray Cold Christmas Day dated Dec 25 1620 is read during the exchange.
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Hemans
Miss Browne
Arkwright
Keller
Rew Murder Mystery Deepened by Officials
Ithaca officials say the Rew disappearance theory is revised as a Cornell student in Danby identified as not Rew. Ladd states he was in South Danby on Sept 25 with a gun, visited a farmhouse for milk, and did other routine tasks. Rew left his boardinghouse on Sept 25 and has not been seen since. The investigators now believe Rew may still be alive.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Rew
South Dank
Offica
Danby
Cornell
Ladd
South Danby
Young Rew
Will Leaves Immense Fortune to Heir, Spares Husband
New York isd. The will of Josephine L Peyton files for probate leaving 3 100 000 to trustees and others. It revokes provisions for her husband William K Peyton for improper conduct and appoints lawyer Edward P Schell as executor and trustee for her daughter Mabel R Sherman.
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New York
Josephine L. Peyton
Willian K. Peyton
Mabel R. Sherman
Edward P. Schell
Mr. Peyton
Electrician Shoots Landlady Then Kills Himself in Chicago
In CuicaGco on November 17 J. J. Higgins an electrician shot and killed his landlady Mrs. Kate Mc Laughlin and then shot himself in the head dying almost instantly. Higgins had rented a room at McLaughlin's house for some time and faced eviction after falling behind on rent.
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CuicaGco
J. J. Higgins
Kate McLaughlin
Higgins
McLaughlin
The Markets: New York Money Market and Bonds
New York money market reports 1 per cent. prime mercantile paper 2 3/4 to 4 percent. Sterling exchange shows bankers bills at about 4.874 for demand and 4.864 for 60 days. posted figures 4.87 4.874 and 4.88 4.585. Government bonds list United States 3s reissued at $1.13, 4s coupon at $1.14, 4ds at 95 1/4. Pacific 6s of 1895 trading around $1.20. Silver at 64 cents bid.
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Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Pacific
New York Produce Market Prices Across Flour to Potatoes
Market report lists FLOUR from City mills with several patent and winter grades, Minnesota lines, Southern flour, rye flour, buckwheat, cornmeal and oats. Includes wheat spot and futures, corn, oats, hay, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, and various regional potato prices.
World Markets Report Wheat and Grain Prices Nov 19 Burraro
Reported prices list wheat varying by grade with No 1 hard old at 71c and new at 6754c, No 1 northern old 693g and new 56% C, No 2 red 59c. corn No 2 yellow 7c. oats No 2 white 5644c. rye No 2 54c. barley No 1 western 6la-ce, Minnesota 60 Slc and Canada 4 55c. Flour prices for spring and winter wheat ranges from $8.80 per barrel to $3.50. butter quotes State creamery 2 26e. cheese full cream 11 114e, choice 10 104c.
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City Mills
Minnesota
Jersey
Milwaukee
Canada
Hay—Shipping
Western Dairy
Do Factory
Elgins
State
Do Creamery
Pennsylvania
Long Island
New York
Burraro
Graham
East Buffalo Market Report Prices for Cattle Sheep and Hogs
East Buffalo on November 19 reports export steers at 5.25 and 4.85 for good to choice, heavy butchers 2.90 to 3.85, light handy 3.25 to 3.60, cows and heifers 2.50 to 3.25, calves 2.50 to 2.75, veals 6.50 to 7.25. Sheep and lambs show welter to extra weth ers 2.85 to 3.10, good to choice 2.00 to 2.25, common 1.25 to 1.75, spring lambs 3.34 to 3.50, hogs f.o.b 4.70 to 4.75, midrange 4.00 to 4.15, Yorkers 4.40 to 4.45.
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East Buffal
Hindoo Jugglery and the Mind Behind Miracles
Dr Hensoldt in Chicago Record notes Hindu adepts perform rope and mango tree feats in broad daylight before crowds. He doubts the physical reality, suggesting hypnotism and mind over mind explain the illusions. He praises Hindu beliefs on death, fate, and life’s mysteries over European material progress.
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Arishi
Buddha
Europe
America
Schopenhauer
Dr. Hensoldt
Chicago
A Simple Rope and Ring Measuring Tool for Acres
Farmers often misjudge field sizes. A six seven foot cotton rope with rings sixty six feet apart aids one person to measure fields accurately, saving money on plowing and contracts. Soak rope in tar to prevent shrinkage and use stakes to hold it while stretched.
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Baltimore American
Moments of Leisure in a Fragmented Tale
A water dwelling spider shelters in empty snail shells. The Yue Railway Conductors' Insurance fund paid over 1,000,000 dollars to widows and orphans and 150,000 dollars to disabled conductors. President Perier’s tour was by carriage high enough to deter a dagger. A. B. Grant buys five acres in Sweet Water valley California to build immediately. James Hoe, son of Ettrick Shepherd, died in Edinburg having spent much of life in India. William A. Stanley of Attleboro stitched 146 skeins into a silk table spread, despite his eighty years. Miss Sarah Norcross, millworker in Lowell, died after fifty-two years of generosity. A four-year-old tramp from Astoria to Woodside is the youngest on record, walking five days for scraps.
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Yue Railway Conductors’ Insurance Association
Perier
France
A. 8
Grant
Sweet Water Valley
California
James Hoe
Edinburg
Ettrick Shepherd
India
Willliam A. Stanley
Attleboro
Sarah Norcross
Lowell
Mass
Astoria
Ore
Woodside
Odd Bird Facts and Feats from the Animal World
The ostrich uses a forward kick with great force and cannot kick backward. Young doves rely on a pup produced by the parent for sustenance. Owls cannot move their eyes but compensate with neck movements. Eagles drive away their young when they can fly. Hummingbirds protect nests by pecking at intruders eyes. Crows can go blind from a hummingbird bill. Some birds follow livestock to feed on disturbed insects. Flocks of witp ducks cranes swallows discuss migration.
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Eacles
Notable Notices and Verbal Quips From Various Figures
Mrs LEE Monror, a Kansas lawyer, and her husband, a district judge, are noted. JupeE O W Holmes, son of Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, received a condolence letter from the prince of Wales via the secretary of state. C J MAYNARD cites the crow’s song as beautiful but not an edible luxury. Senator WEST of Missouri playfully bets he is not a millionaire, while President CLEVELAND is likened to J Lawrence GARDNER, a Democratic campaign official, in appearance.
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P. J. Gibbons
Syracuse
Flower
Wilson
Auburn
Ella Cooney
Cato
N. Y
Hart
Tiffany & Co
John Y. McKane
Gravesend
S. 1
St. Petersburg
Newfoundland
Settrakov
John Karel
Chicago
Charles Jonas
Wisconsin
Prague
Governor Flower
Tenement House
New York
C. E. Rogers
Nicaragua
Bluefields
Cleveland
St. Louis
Carlisle
Willie Johnson
Maud Cooper
Clearfield
Pennsylvania
Allison
Nashville
W. J. Fitzgerald
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice
London
Hill
Morton
Wheeler
Washington
North Carolina
Ransom
John Shaw
Lake Huron
John Washburn
Sing Sing
Debs
American Railway Union
Genral Olney
Reading Railway
Hugh J. Grant
England
National Grange
Springfield
Zionsville
Ind
Joseph Conrad
John Martz
Horace R. Bigelow
St. Paul
Albert F. Wright
Susquehanna
Corea
Italy
Sicily
Miles
Department of the East
Moller
Denver
Parkhurst
Tom Platt
Albany
Baltimore
Carteret
N. J
Houtenville
Alabama
Vicksburg
Miss
Tien Tsin
Port Arthur
Pekin
East Liverpool
Lombok
Russia
Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul
Liddle
the Times
Preston
Congress
Lee Monror
Kansas
Jupee O. W. Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Prince of Wales
C. J. Maynard
Boston Scientific Society
Senator West
Missouri
United States Senate
J. Lawrence Gardner
Washington, D. C
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Gardner
Names and origins of major American water bodies
The article traces how Lake Champlain, Delaware River, Chemung River, Brandywine, Columbia River, and Rio de St. Roque got their names. It notes Champlain's discoverer, de la War’s voyage with Argal, Chemung meaning Horn in the Water, Brandywine from a Dutch distillery, and Columbia named for the Boston ship Columbia and Captain Robert Gray.
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Lake Champlain
Samuel de Champlain
Delaware River
Bay
Lord de la War
Samuel Argall
Chemung River
New York
Tur
Columbia River
Columbia
Robert Gray
Rio de St. Roque
Ancient prices list from the medieval and ancient world
Miscellaneous historical price notes across eras and regions. Examples include a cloak in 72 AD at 60 cents, a ton of brass in 1480 at 14 dollars, paper in 1431 at 25 cents a quire, razors in 10th century at 30 cents, and coronation robes for Napoleon at four thousand dollars.
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A. D
Charlemagne
Rome
B. C
Athens
Julius Caesar
France
Pericles
Venice
England
Paris
Napoleon
Louis IX
Amsterdam
An Old Teutonic Pluck Quote from Holmes
A firm note on luck and resolve highlights Teutonic pluck and steadfast aim. The passage urges not consistency but truth and action, with lines about resilience, awakening, and leaving past deeds for future tasks.
Our Country and the Sacred Ground She Made
A compact poetic fragment recalls a nation formed on sacred soil and graves. It evokes reverent landmarks, ancestral memory, and a journey marked by faith and enduring courage.
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Wm. Moran
Corner Water and
Bridge Streets
Warren
Gilbert F. McNitt
Bird Street
W. Dunkle, J
Warren, Pa
Warren Savings Bank
Gosteeen
Geo. Ball's
Pe & McCalmont
Attorneys At Law
Judge Scofield
Liberty Street
J. UH. Donly
H. R. M’calmont
Llen & Sons
Allen Block
Corner Second and
Liberty Streets
Samuel G. Allen
Orren C. Allen
Harrison Allen
F. W. Whitcomb
Third Street
Spee M. E
G. Ball
Hoffman Block
Room
Chas. Dinsmoor
Chas. A. Peterson
T. Donly J
Diamond St
Pritrsburg
Courts of Allegheny Co
U. S. District and Supreme Courts
Allegheny
Co * T. Danforth
Second
S. Perry
Water Street
Woodard & Lesser
J Norman Davies
M. D
A C. McAlpin
RE. W. Stuart
Wilbur & Schnur
Hazeltine Building
W. W. Wilbur
WM. Schnuk
W W. Freeman
Hazeltine
Greaves
BA & Thompson
Beaty Block
D. I. Ball, c
C. Thompson
Lindsey & Parmlee
Johnson’s Exchange
W. M. Lindsey
J. O. Parmlee
West Deer Park Printing Ink Co
New Reade St
J. K. Ronne
Wanamaker & Brown
Hickory St
Toen
P. Harrison & Co
Clerk N
Columbua
Uc Rapid Loisa
Vitalis Pho
Calumet Remedy Company
Sifgfried & Co
HE Mail and
Philadelphia Weekly Press
Citizens Nat’l Bank
Capital
MyRron Waters
K. T. Hazeltine
David L. Gerould
L. W. Dennison
M. Waters
P. J. Bayer
C. A. Corwen
S. P. Hall
E. T. Hazeltine
C. F. Hoffman
J. M. Siegfried
W. Parshall
N. Greenland
New York Weekly Tribune
Matt, Warren
Geo. W. Best
Tribune Building
New York City
News OF the
Washington Courthouse
Colonel Coit
Cook
Irwin
Pittsburg
William K. Peyton
Blanc
Shirley Onderdonk
Williams
Women’s Club of
Kansas City
Sovereign
The
Knights of Labor
General Assembly
Prudente Moraes
Brazil
House For Representatives
Albert H. Kent
Hartford, Conn
F. RB. Hubbell
James W. Clift
Bowery
Winnipeg
Man
St. Albans
Indian Territory
Bill Cook
Elam Muscott
Grand Lodge
Mich
Colorado
Charles W. Mowbray
Emma Goldman
Marie Louise
Herr Most
Central Park
Dr. Parkhurst
John C. Wright
Mount Vernon
Stuart W. Cowan
William C. Endicott, Jr
Fifth Avenue
Civil Service
Internal Revenue Service
Robert C. Winthrop
Daniel Webster
Boston
Armenia
Langtry
Taunton
Sydney Grundy
Esther Sandraz
Berlin
Hohenlohe
J. P. Gibbons
Mayell
Brooklyn
Long Island College Hospital
Wei
Duchess of Montrose
Andrew Carnegie
Braddock
Mercury
Gio
Hyde
Stephenson
Elan“Sillscott
Michian
Ewes
McEnepvy
Second St
Liberty
Short Street
Arrcuher
M.D
Oxford St
Dantos Martyn
D. D
Castoria
Epwin F. Parver
125Th Street
7Th Ave
Centaur Company
Murray Street
New
JST Vigor
Wal Brace
Coveland
Siegfried & CO
WM Spinner
Diamond
Turkey
Pitcher’s Castorta
Batialo
East Buffalo
Hood
Paul M. Weber
North Tenth Street
Reading
Hindoo Jugglery
Pitcher’s Castoria
Powe
U. S. Gov’t
Pap
Griggsby Station
Wiggenses
Shallow Ford
Jones
Laury
Merindy
Emanuel
John
Katy
James Whitcomb Riley
GEMS
Rene
Julia Ward Howe
Buffalo Express
Mrs. Browning
Rowe
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