Honored by Women for Fifty Years of Reform Work
A profile of Susan B. Anthony on her eighty third birthday outlines decades of leadership in woman suffrage and abolition, detailing her early life, teaching career, organizing campaigns, and role as a founder of the Revolution newspaper and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. It notes her international lectures, coauthorship of The History of Woman Suffrage, and lifelong dedication to securing legal equality and political rights for women. The piece closes with a brief note on Canary Bird handlers and Canary export figures to multiple countries.
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Susan Brownell Anthony
South Adams
Miss ‘Anthony
West Philadelphia
Battenville
Anthony
Rochester
Woman's ‘Temperance Society
N. Y
Women's National Legal League
the Revolution
America
England
National Woman Suffrage Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Susan B. Anthony
Ida Husted Harper
James R Garfield Named Commissioner of Corporations
James R Garfield son of the late President Garfield and a prominent lawyer is chosen as commissioner of corporations in the new department of commerce and labor. He will lead diligent investigations into organizations within interstate and foreign commerce and publish data to aid regulatory legislation. the role carries a $5,000 yearly salary and awaits senate confirmation.
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James R. Garfield
Department of Commerce and Labor
Garfield
Civil Service Commission
Helen Newell
Chicago
Lake Shore Road
United States
Congress
Jenks
Cornell
Cortelyou
Senate
Department of Commerce
Emperor of China and the regents in troubled times
The emperor Tung-Chih born 1872 and chosen to succeed his cousin, with empress dowager as regent until 1889. After radical reforms in 1898 the empress dowager led a crackdown on foreigners. In 1900 legations and Tientsin were attacked, allied forces later relieved the capital. The court fled then returned to Pekin in 1902 amid ongoing instability.
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China
Tung-Chih
Kwangs
Pekin
Tientsin
Work of Jefferson Memorial Fund Appeal Heads to Washington
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association led by Admiral Dewey appeals to Americans to fund a memorial in Washington. The plan avoids Congress funding, relying on voluntary gifts. Proponents note Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase as a key expansion, with a memorial in the capital seen as overdue and fitting for the third president.
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Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
University of Virginia
Monticello
Jefferson
Louisiana
Admiral Dewey
Dewey
United States
Canada
Washington
New York
Adams
Philadelphia
National
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Nightlife remark sparks odd chain in White House visit
A Washington reporter described a White House room as a nightmare in yellow and blue. An attendant, offended by the remark, gave him a ton ed cigar on his next visit and he passed it to a tramp.
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Washington
White House
Dalton
Waller
Boston Transcript
Detroit Free Press
Joy
Mlint
Glasgow
Evening ‘Times
Alaska boundary commission named with three top officials
Secretary Root and Senators Lodge and Turner were chosen by the president as Alaska boundary commissioners. Root, a former U S attorney and noted lawyer, was appointed by McKinley in 1899. Lodge, Boston born in 1850, Harvard educated, and Attorney General and writer, backs expansion. Turner, a scholarly Washington lawyer and expert in international law, rose from Missouri roots to district attorney and the territorial supreme court before serving in the Senate after 1896 fusion.
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Root
Lodge
Turner
Alaska Boundary
McKinley
United States
New York
Arthur
New England
Boston
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Washington
Missouri
Mabama
Territorial Supreme Court
Republican Party
Senate
Washington Pistol Quest Tangles Washington Relics Ownership
Two flintlock pistols once owned by George Washington are at the center of a Prince William county Virginia estate dispute. Miss Monnie Marsteller of Washington D C holds the pistols, which descended from Samuel Marsteller, father of Monnie. A circuit court suit seeks to force sale of the estate weapons amid competing claims by other relatives.
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George Washington
Prince William County
Virginia
New York
Merald
Monnie Marsteller
Washington
E Street
N. Y
Samuel
Circuit Court
Incentive to Politeness in London Stores
London department stores employ numerous professional shop patrons who pose as customers. A firm with over a thousand attendants uses female spotters to test service by causing trouble and sometimes leaving without buying after examining much of the merchandise.
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London
Miscellany Of Science Trade and Industry Notes This Month
In a roundup of global industry and science news, butter and cheese production totals in the British Isles are cited, while Germany is noted for lead pencils and American firms for rubber erasers. Aluminum sharpening edges excite wonder, Galveston inventors test a gasoline engine under submarine air loss, Persian Gulf pearl divers harvest a record season, an Arab merchant eyes Bombay markets for vast jewel sales, and United States railway earnings distribution highlights wages, operating costs, interest, taxes, improvements, dividends, and reserves.
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British Isles
United States
Montreal
Germany
Galveston
Tex
Persian Gulf
Iast
Sheik Mohamed bin Abdul- Wahab
Darien
Bombay
Pungent Paraphrase Buzzing From Vintage Jokes
A collage of humorous quotes and captions from various papers mocks etiquette wit and social banter. It catalogs quips about bears monks robberies music teachers and photographers with playful wordplay and satirical tone across multiple publications.
Women Accidents and Trolley Cars by Luke Stapleson
This excerpt outlines that fewer than five or six percent of trolley car accidents involve women, noting that women’s caution keeps them safer. It describes how common injuries arise from backward skirt twists when alighting cars and discusses attorney tactics and verdict trends in railroad negligence cases.
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Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
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Emperor OF China
Hin
Emperor OF
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Wily
Papea
Papua
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Pacific
Alaska Commission
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Washington Pistols
Hrother Jonath
Minneapolis Journal
John Ball
Jonathan—F' Pen
Frien
Science and Industry
Interstate Commerce Commission
Luke B. Stapleton
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
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