Love Funds for the District Pushes Senate Budget Up
The District pushes back against anti growth sentiment as the Senate restores 1100.98 of House cuts to the District budget. The committee applies a half share principle to playgrounds and increases funds for Willow Tree alley reclamation Cabin John bridge education and street improvements. The education budget shows a modest rise, while the Senate carries a total 12,309,306 for the appropriation bill about 2000 below the estimates. The House is expected to resist but the final total will likely align more with the Senate’s figure.
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House
Treelon
Lee Belf
Willow ‘Tree Alley
Anacost
Hock Creek
Gooatreet
John Henge
House of Representatives
Crumpacker
Committee On Census
Housee
Census Committee
Yeas
Naas
Campbell
Middle West
Austin
Tennessee
Langley
Kentucky
South
Congress
Republican Party
Canada
New England
Middle States
Mountain States
Pacific Coast
Extra Session Prospect in Tariff and Reciprocity Debate
The piece argues the reciprocity alliance is divided over Canada free trade versus tariff reduction. It predicts a likely extra session to push tariff reform, weaken reciprocity, and stresses party disintegration and insurrectionist defections. It notes economic aims tied to Asia market access and American industrial expansion abroad.
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Oid
Ivcrprocity
Lala
Fs Agrudlle
Tariff Board
Compensating the Injured and Fortifications in Policy
Discussion urges Congress to remove government exemptions in employer liability for injuries to workers and to adopt a government wage protection similar to private firms. It also argues for fortifying the Panama Canal, rebuking pacifist views, and notes seat increases in the House under the Crumpacker plan while commenting on partisan dynamics and broader political satire.
Perata's Call to Americans on Persian Financial Reform
The Persian government hires several financial experts to reorganize imperial finances and modernize the treasury. A Washingtonian leads Persia’s financial advisory board as treasurer general, aiming to transform the country akin to Cyrus Camyses and Darius in ancient times.
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Perata
America
Cyrus
Cambyses
Darius
Bar- Yarlam
Persia
Quat
Spiked gates bar suffragettes at Belmont house
New York tussle over suffragette activity near 149 East Thirty Fourth Street as Carl Damschinsky installs tall iron gates and a window circle to block nightly doorbell ringing and visitor traffic. Mrs Donnelly and Miss Donnelly appeal for restraint amid editor Edwin Slosson’s incident.
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Damschinsky
Edwin Slosson
The
Independent
Ile
Damszhinsky
Mr. Slosson
Miss Donnelly
Radium Seen In Metal Form By Curie Team
The New York Herald reports that radium has finally been observed in metallic form by Mme Curie after years of painstaking analysis of pitchblende ore. The feat marks a crowning achievement in modern science, with Curie’s isolation of metal from radium bromide noted as the final phase of the long research.
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New York Herald
Mme. Curie
Prof
Curie
London Standard
Austria
Curle
Paris
Prairie dog extermination contracted in Potter County Texas
After Prairie Dog in New York Sun Potter County Texas pays 23515 for prairie dog extermination. County commissioners view it as a bargain if work is well done. Dissenting conservationist scoffs at the joke, while Tama Jim’s figures exaggerate the animals’ impact. The prairie dog faces removal from Texas towns, as in Oklahoma and Kansas. Four named figures appear in the debate.
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New York Sun
Potter County
Tex
Tama Jim
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Sermon by the Deacon and maple syrup remark
A Deacon Palmer sermon quotes a girl described as a girly whose grandmothers boiled maple syrup or soft soap outdoors. The quote jokes about roasting a marshmallow in a chafing dish as an example of mischief or activity.
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The
Atlanta Constitution
Deacon Palmer
Bonaparte Cause Feeble in France
A Paris memorial for Napoleon III shows Bonapartism fading as Prince Victor Napoleon and Clementine marriage fails to revive support. The article recaps the 1873 chloral incident, prior restoration schemes, and a debated medical cause of the emperor’s death, detailing plans for a covert return and the political mood of the era.
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Victor Napoleon
Clementine
Belgium
Napoleon III
Church of St. Augustine
Paris
Lugenic
William Gull
Sedan
Chislehurst
Napoleon
England
Ostend
Cologne
Basle
Nyon
Switzerland
Annecy
Lyons
Bourbaki
Mme. le Breton
Eugenie
Napoleon T
Elba
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Versailles
St. Cloud
Legisla Jrs
M.de Keratry
Marshal Mac- Mahon
Gen
Fluery
Prince Bismarck
Empress Augusta
Berlin
Count Beust
Francis Joseph
Prince Imperial
Henry Thompson
Hugenne
Henry
Marquise DE Fointendy
Copsright
Brentwood Company
Heard on a Street Car. A Boston Transcript remark
A streetcar exchange quotes a man denying belief in women's suffrage and clarifying that his stance stems from being a mother rather than an anti suffrage position. The item captures a social attitude dialogue from the era.
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The
Boston Transcript
Manuel's English Home Opens for King Manuel at Richmond
London correspondence reports King Manuel will reside at Abercon in Richmond in a house built by Grahame, later owned by Sir Harry Maclean. The 4 acre grounds feature two tennis courts, a croquet lawn, gardens and a circular entrance hall. Four Portuguese servants are arriving. no redecorations planned. A growing Portuguese community forms as Longe and others secure housing nearby.
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London
New York Tribune
Manuel
Richmond
Harry Maclean
Grahame
New Zealand
Becker
Morocco
Abercon
Manuel'g
Amele
W. J
A. Long
Abercorn
Marquis de Lavradio
King Manuel
Sussex House
Abercarn
Count
Countries de Figuerio
Iduy-in
Amelie
Queens Road
Richmond Hill
Tradition Of Creation From Arapaho Myth And Odd Notices
Moses Friday recalls Arapaho world creation with Great Spirit, pipe, duck, turtle, and beaver. A fragile land forms, sun and moon rise, then humans and sacred pipe set rules. Also a rustic Hudson Valley scene with an ice cake duck deer and real eagles greets estate guests. Harper's Weekly note on February pugilists and February-August marriage economics.
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Moses Friday
New York Herald
Hudson Valley
Hastings
Hudson
Frederick E. Zinosser
Croton
Zinosser Estate
Fox Drowns Hound in Ice River Chase Tale
A CT fox named Ola Lucifer outwits a foxhound Caesar on a frozen Broad River scene. After a day of pursuit the fox leapt between moving ice cakes and, cunningly, caused Caesar to crash through and drown. Owner John Marshall watched helplessly as the fox returned to the woods. The trick, though brutal, is blamed on the famed local fox tribe elder.
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Norwalk
New York Herald
Broad River
Connecticut
Caesar
Nestor
John Marshall
The Gentle Angler and Other Pieces in Verse and Prose
A kaleidoscopic trimming of poems and prose vignettes. The verse toys with fishing imagery and fate, while other snippets lampoon love, marriage, and social foibles with wry humor. Notable lines and diverse voices mingle from the Cornhill and Cleveland Pisin Center to Chicago News and beyond.
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Cleveland
Mr. Popper
Miss Cumming
Papa
Reflections of a Bachelor from the New York Press
A dated humor piece argues a man must be taught and a woman learns finer life, noting coat bills as a discount on domestic happiness. It jokes that wedding gifts feel like getting ten cents back, and winning money can cost other joys, while a party reveals a woman’s best time even at the cost of lost sleep.
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Central Asia
America
W. Morgan Shuster
Asia
Minor
Persia
Russia
England
Tersia
Asia Minor
State Department
Persian Gulf
Forts
Senator Money
Mississippi
Panama Canal
Money
Leigh Hhunt
Thomas Carlyle
New York Press
Aula
Interviews with Capitals Visitors Reflect on Democratic Prospects
Gen T C Catchings of Vicksburg Mississippi, a sixteen year House veteran, visits Raleigh and predicts a likely Democratic President if the party avoids missteps. He recalls the AcKinley tariff fight and praises Gen Hooker, noting the enduring wit of the old Confederate era lawmakers.
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T. C. Catchings
Vicksburg
Miss
Congress
Washington
Catchings
Gen. Catchings
Raleigh
Jasy
Maj. Butterworth
Ohio
House of Representatives
Gen. Charles
House
Gen. Hooker
Jackson
Misa
New Mexico Statehood Hint Fanned By Governor Mills
Governor Mills arrives in Washington with a copy of the New Mexico constitution and optimism that Congress will report the measure favorably. He cites strong support from House Territories committee, confident Senate action soon, and notes the state’s population growth and irrigation projects.
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New Mexico
Congress
Gov. Mills
Washington
Mills
House Committee On
Territories
House
Dillingham
Senate
Shoreham
Taft
Southwest
Elephant Butte
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Pecos Valley
Oysters Fail to Identify at Church Supper
Two oysters sit in a pot of milk for stew and wonder where they are. One asks the other where they are and the reply comes that they are at a church supper. The punchline has the oyster asking why they are needed in pairs.
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Thomas
Adam
Cyclopedia
Harper's Weekly
Hackman
Milwaukee Ree Fe
Faith and folly mix in a Rambling Tatler moment
A grimly comic exchange portrays faith as rumor and economic hope in a child’s Sunday school question. The Tatler sketch pivots on a singer’s boast about a hit song and a crowd’s tearful reaction, revealing a wry, period humor about art and audience.
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