Merrimack Spelling Triumph In House Debate
In a lively session on rivers and harbors, Massachusetts representative John Jacob Rogers pressed to fix the river’s name from Merrimac to Merrimack. The vote swung with cheers and a final division as 65 members supported adding the final k.
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Ashington
John Jacob Rogers
Massachusetts
House
Merrimack
John Jacob
Merrimac
Congress
Government Printing Office
Geographic Board
Sims
Tennessee
Mann
Simsen
Rogers
Nick Longworth
O. K
Longworth
Uncle Sam Sells Surplus Pelts at Public Auctions
The Department of Agriculture scales up auctions of surplus animal pelts from official hunts. Over four sales in four months 1399 pelts useful for fur were sold for 2552 dollars, including coyote and bobcat skins. Proceeds fund the treasury while museums receive few specimens. Notices go out about ten days before each sale.
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Department of Agriculture
Federal Treasury
The
Biological Survey
Elk Family of Yellowstone Exhibited at National Museum
A group of American elk from Yellowstone National Park is on display in the National Museum's west wing. The herd, prepared for the Panama Pacific Expo, shows elk in winter. Congress earmarked 50,000 dollars for an elk refuge near Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Yellowstone National Park
United States National Museum
Smithsonian
Interior Department
San Francisco
Palace of Agriculture
North America
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canada
Yellowstone
Congress
Jackson Hole
Jackson
Wyo
Yellowstone Park
United States
Children Beautifying Capital by Garden Work
More than 15,000 Washington schoolchildren are beautifying the capital through home garden efforts. They have used about 170,000 seed packets this year as the Youth Gardeners program expands. Miss Susan B. Sipe directs the work for the People's Gardens association in the District, urging continued involvement to foster a garden city future.
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Washington
Susan B. Sipe
People’s Gardens Association of
Miss Sipe
Worth Knowing From a Varied Field of Inventions and Facts
A survey of curiosities notes bananas resist pests and disease. The U.S. rail network shows 2 500 miles electrified. A German electrician claims a device to measure one ten millionth of a second. German coal shafts reveal 18 burning coal veins. A fatigue measure claims most obesity stems from giving in when tired, and fat people resist fatigue in good health. A water seal exit assists escape from steam or gas rooms.
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United States
Germany
Memorial day memories of flowers and veterans in a village
A middle aged woman recalls Memorial day rituals from her girlhood, describing the careful flower bouquets, the town hall decorations, and the G A R activities. She remembers the parade lineup with local officials, veterans in blue coats, and the story of German Charlie, the loyal newspaper man, as time wore on.
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Amy
Tor
Tom
Johnny
Will
Frank
Nell
Uncle Henry
Emily
Henry
Brown
Judge Smith
Daily News
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Antietam
Charlie
Decoration Day Tribute to Lincoln and Veterans
Poem celebrating Decoration Day with veterans, families, and children marching in memory of Lincoln. References a band, drums, pipes, flags, lilacs, and the laurel wreath as symbols of sacrifice and freedom. Attributed to Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi.
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Lincoln
Robin
Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Cheerfulness as Bright Weather of the Heart
A concise reflection on cheerfulness described as the bright weather of the heart, attributed to Samuel Smiles, emphasizing inner mood over external circumstance.
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Samuel
Memorial Day Reflections on Earlier War Sacrifices
Appalled by the slaughter in Europe, Americans of the present generation will approach Memorial Day with a deeper realization of the meaning of war and the sacrifices made by the men and women of the early sixties. The conflict demanded courage and endurance and left sorrows and suffering in its wake.
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Europe
Grand Army's Role in Saving the Republic
The speaker lauds the Grand Army as the force that saved the nation. The war ended fifty years ago, ending slavery and birthing a unified, prosperous republic. It emphasizes government of the people, by the people, for the people, and enduring national unity.
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Republic
America
Introduction to the Study of Maya Hieroglyphs
Smithsonian bureau releases a primer by Sylvanus Morley on Maya writing, time reckoning, and mathematics. It covers habitat, culture, calendar systems, and the evolving glyphs with plates, aiming at beginners and detailing ideographic and rebus aspects.
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Washington
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Atlantic Coast
Mexico
Central America
Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Morley
Yucatan
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
Guatemala
Honduras
New World
Mr. Morley
Merley
America
Ingram Will Seeks Left Leg Exhumation
Franklin H. Ingram requests in probate filings that his amputated left leg, taken after a pistol fight with bandit Harry Tracy, be exhumed from a field near the Oregon state penitentiary and moved to Santa Clara county for burial. He was serving a life term for his brother’s murder when pardoned for aiding guards in the Tracy fight.
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San Jose
Cal
Franklin H. Ingram
Harry Tracy
Oregon State Penitentiary
Santa Clara County
Tracy
Gasoline Jag Described By Oil Man In Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh a Oklahoma oil man describes gasoline inhalation as a local vice called a gasoline jag. He says inhaling vapor creates a whisky like effect, can lead to a habit, and may end in death as the blood breaks down. He cites Oklahoma as where prohibition compounds aridity driving the habit.
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Pittsburgh
Oklahoma
W. M. Daugherty
Johnsons observe seventy second wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Johnson of Mitchell South Dakota marked their seventy second wedding anniversary with a family dinner in which the ninety year old bride helped prepare the meal. The couple wed in Wilmington New York on April 14 1854. They have three living children one of whom is a Civil War veteran living with them.
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Mitchell
S. D
E. R. Johnson
Johnsons
Wilmington
N. Y
Birds Nest Found in Rural Mail Box
Bellefontaine Ohio reports a blue bird nest discovered in Jacob Troyer’s mailbox by a young rural mail carrier who handles mail carefully to avoid disturbing the nest.
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Bellebontaine, O
Jacob Troyer
Conflict over mastodon remains ends up in supreme court
Two Tennessee boys found mastodon bones on N. D. Salisbury’s farm near Ripley. The tusk weighed 98 pounds and 65 feet 8 inches long. the boys claim discovery grants ownership while Salisbury contends possession. Initial rulings favored Salisbury, Boone appealed, and the circuit court ruled Boone, now headed to the state supreme court.
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Ellis Boone
Salisbury
Boone
Supreme Court
Esquires Kinley
Dunavant
Circuit Court
Supreme Court of
State
T. C. Gordon
Dyersburg
W. C. Patten
Halls
W. N. Beasley
Mastodon
Find 20 Indian Skeletons Near Oregon City Basement Dig
In Oregon City Oregon men employed by Frank Busch uncovered a grave near the river bank containing twenty Indian skeletons arranged like spokes with skulls at the center. An arrowhead between bones suggests battlefield deaths and a leading chief’s skull was found separate early in the week.
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Oregon City
Ore
Frank Busch
Busch
Children in Society and Court Action on Castor Oil Diet
A Boston area caption shows Miss Lucy Foster Porter with her dog at a dog show, drawing attention. In Milwaukee a court orders Roy T Baxter to ten days on castor oil for abandoning his wife during motherhood, noting his smoking and liver issues and directing treatment to enable work and support.
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Washington
Lucy Foster Porter
S. G. Porter
Pennsylvania
Milwaukee
Wis
Roy T. Baxter
Roy
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