Francis W Cushman, Standpatter and Editor at Heart
Francis W Cushman born 1867 Wyoming toiled as cowboy and railroad hand before becoming a West Coast lawyer and influential congressman. The piece portrays him as an artist at heart, a fearless speaker and editor, a cynic of epigrams, and a stalwart standpatten in the 1890s Republican Congress.
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Cushman
Congress
Tom Darwin
S . Cox
F Procter Knott
Ea Marshall
United States Senate
Marshall
Old Henry Frote
California
Foote
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Gil
Old Country
Ed Marshall
Cussman
Ben Butler
Francis W. Cushman
Wyoming
Blackstone
Greenleaf
Storey
Stephens
Far West
Sandy
Nebraska
Tom Teed
Lord Beaconfield
Tacoma
Pacific Coast
Turbulent Speech References Cushman and Grosvenor
An excerpt from Cushman’s talk, with a jab at Grosvenor, praises the Ohio envoy’s political leverage in campaigns. The passage mocks reform rhetoric and extols party unity, citing Grovenor’s speeches as a shield in debates and a defense of capital. It recalls Bruce and Scotland while urging steadfast defense of party principles.
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Scotland
Bruce
Bis Republic
Cleveland's Friend Dead
From the New York Tribune, George L. Tichnor known as the Tyringham hermit and early fishing guide to Grover Cleveland died Friday night at Riverside Farm Berkshire County. He was seventy five, six feet two, with a cork disk over one eye and a patriarchal beard, a man of wild humor and mystery who once lived in a shanty near the Moore home and was visited by Richard Watson Gilder.
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The
New York Tribune
George L. Tichnor
Berkshire County
Tichnor
Sandisfield
Tyringham
L. B. Moore
Grover Cleveland
Richard Watson Gilder
Moore
Riverside Farm
Gilder
Moores
Empty Passengerless Train From Jersey City to Pittsburg
The New York American reports a Christmas Day run by the Pennsylvania Limited costing $125 with no passengers. The engine, baggage car, diner and three coaches carried only three Pennsylvania crew changes and the regular Pullman crew. No tickets or meals were served, no baggage handled, yet the run was on schedule. Managers and crew wasted time while cooks prepared meals for four waiters for passengers who did not come. Joseph Brown, Pennsylvania conductor, recalled no similar forty plus years in railroading.
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Cushman
Jericho
Charles H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Congress
Cam
Grosvenor
Frien
Jersey City
Pittsburg
New York American
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pullman Palace Car Company
Pennsylvania Limited
Pennsylvania
Pullman
George Pullman
Joseph Brown
Philadelphia
Girl's Chickens Win Prizes in New York Show
A Washington girl Miss Sophia Pitchlynn and her brother Lee raised a backyard poultry yard at 1104 Sixth Street Northwest housing 400 to 500 fowls. The Leghorn project, fed with careful infantlike care, won prizes at Madison Square Garden showing strong breeding and show stock.
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New York
Sixth Street Northwest
Sophia Pitchlynn
Lee Pitchlynn
Miss Pitchlynn
Charles Dickens
Mississippi
Congress
Miss Pitehlynn
Plymouth
Plymouth Rocks
Boston
Hub Furniture Co Remnants Sold by Yard in Quiet Sale
Southeast corner Seventh and D Streets items show 293 yards of medium length mattings sold as remnants. Prices ranged from 2c to 50c per yard in a quiet sale by Hub Furniture Co.
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HUB Furniture CO
Seventh and
D Streets
Slaves Sold to White Planters in Interior Islands
Harper's Magazine recounts a harrowing scene as enslaved women and girls are landed at a plantation after passage from Bihe. The account notes their fear of separation, the grim voyage, and the ongoing brutal labor awaiting them, including concubines for planters and the ultimate fate of being lashed and carried away.
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Harper's Magazine
Bihe
Frogs Respond To Ringing Bell At Hartford Pond
In Hartford Conran grade news a pond on Farmington avenue holds painted by Jewell the bullfrogs cling to mud and surface only on warm days. Trained by Mr Jewell the creatures answer to a cow bell swim toward sound and wait on bank for feeding. A neighbor’s boy once offered a mouse trap for a nickel claiming to catch mice and sparrows alive for five cents a head.
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Grover Cleveland
Jewell
Jowell
Tam
Hartford Conran
Tce
Farmington Avenue
Grover Cleve
Grandfather's Cure for Constipation
An old advertisement extols Cascarets as the safe daily bowel exercise. It contrasts active, natural work with chair sitting, touts ten cent boxes from Sterling Remedy Company for regular use, and promises a small token gift for sending the promo. It warns against purgatives and bulk sales, urging readers to carry the tablet in a vest pocket.
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Sterling Remedy Company
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