Centennial news notes broad exhibit plans and dignitaries
Siam ships goods to the Centennial via Liverpool and many royal figures expected at next year’s Exhibition. France seeks 6,000 more square feet in Machinery Hall. Steinways donate $1,000 to the Centennial. The Pope plans to exhibit two mosaics by Raphael and Gentile. Registrations for Machinery Hall reach 1,231 with many foreign exhibitors. Sweden to ship a school-house. Regiments from multiple states and cities pledge attendance. railroads will build a two story display hall for provisions from Kansas to Utah. A statue memorial to independence funded by France is planned, designed by Bartholdi, with a massive pedestal and 200 foot overall height.
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How Franklin Won a Seat in Early Politics
The article recounts Benjamin Franklin using keen perception of people to advance his aims. It cites a 1772 trip to Boston and Philadelphia where persistent questions about his name and business prompted him to preemptively answer interrogatories at future stops.
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Why has the democratic party met with this reverse
The piece argues the Democratic party failed in 1875 due to internal corruption and factions. It notes the ousting of Carl Schurz and the elevation of an ex-Confederate general, plus a shift toward conflicting financial doctrines. It warns of possible Cuba Spain war risk and Grant’s Domingo plan, with uncertainty about future party fortunes.
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Spain
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How James Nesbit Made His Will on a Sinking Ship
The Pacific wreck recalls the Brother Jonathan disaster of July 1865 when 152 aboard perished and only sixteen survived. James Nesbit editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin wrote his last will aboard the doomed steamer noting every item of property and requesting probate despite the fatal peril.
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Whisky Ring probes reveal funding traces to elections
Trial testimony links distillers and campaign funds to the 1872 Me ald controversy. Witnesses describe Joyce's and Maguire's roles, a 3 000 ward fund, and a planned 20 000 dollar campaign raise. Officials faced pressure to report market-driven price adjustments.
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Avery
Babcock
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Fitzroy
McKee
Maguire
Patrick Newcomb
Grosvenor
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Witness
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Tell Me Mary How to Woo Thee
Facetia humor piece with jokes about courtship and grammar lessons. A girl warns a suitor to limit visits after dark to protect health and the coal bill, while a child jokes through adjectives and a lawyer loses a case over witness testimony. A confectionery scene touches on wedding cake ambitions with showy frosting and extravagant cakes.
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Mary
A Close Call and Vivid Humorous Vignettes in Local Life
A Detroit boy asks his father if mother loves him then notes she is near sighted, a minister jokes about a churchwarden’s faith, and a child questions a moon cheese myth. The column then shifts to tales of elopement, rheumatism, and a bustling Iowa region with mining, railway progress, and small town mischief including peddler arrests in Dexter.
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Samanthy Agin
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Defiant remark echoes in household dispute
A sharp exchange echoes through a tense domestic scene as a speaker vows no entry except over the "dead body" of a defunct corpse, underscoring thwarted access and strained family tensions.
Old Masters and the Zachary Forgery Scheme
The article recounts Zachary a London impostor who copied famed Old Masters and used a smoke heated setup to age them into convincing antiquities. He shipped many copies across Europe while selling originals at high prices, deceiving buyers into believing they held genuine ancient works.
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