Washington Press Club history and grand rooms described
A letter traces the rise of the National Capital Press Club in Washington, noting 150 local and national newspaper writers, close camaraderie, and a shift from gambling rooms to a refined club. It recalls elegant quarters near Pennsylvania Avenue, and a glimpse of a professional ethos among editors, reporters, and leaders.
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Warner Miller Discusses Isthmian Nicaragua Canal Trip
Ex Senator Warner Miller spoke in New York about his voyage to the Isthmus in support of the Nicaragua canal. He noted a banquet in Greytown after the wreck rescue, estimated only twenty nine miles needing excavation, and predicted completion in six years with route via San Juan river. Secretary Tracy stressed the canal as a national necessity to avoid maintaining dual navies.
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Women Clean Wade Street After Petition Delays
Cincinnati on May 11 reports women on Wade street gathered to scrub the thoroughfare after officials ignored petitions. They used brooms rakes and hoses to clean the street and even warned officials of public works to act. Later that day the city approved an additional ten thousand dollars for street work.
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Bloodpurifier claims and household remedy taint
A fragment touts Blood’s Sareaperilla as the best blue purifier for impurities in nine months of confinement and poor ventilation. It alleges universal use, a dollar for 100 doses, and cites Cambridge University history to bolster credibility, urging housewives to buy Ball Blue.
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L.W English
Montgomery City
Ayer
Dressy Trifles for the Evening Wardrobe Suits
A period column describes elegant wrappers gowns and basques for women, detailing dark blue sateen robes with turquois red trim, variations in fabrics for colder weather, and accessories like chiffon caps and lace trims. It highlights economical ways to appear stylish for sick rooms and social events.
Movement of Silver Coins through Government Melting
New York May 8 Government redemption of trade dollars left 70 000 coins. About half went to the assay office in New York to be melted into bars and the rest to the Philadelphia mint for the same purpose. The process accelerates as the treasury works to convert silver into bullion.
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Silver Found in Paying Quantities on Local Farm
Excitement rose as silver was reported in paying quantities on the C. H Loveder farm near Hennetta, about 20 miles south. Quartz surfaced by Mr Snyder yielded higher silver content than expected, about forty ounces per ton, and a company is planned to work the deposit.
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Hero Engineer Saves Train From Escaping Car
Charles Battenschlage, in charge of the Dead wow Central engine, faced a runaway freight car on a steep grade a mile above Deapwoop. He reversed the engine and jumped clear as the crash struck the tender and cab, then controlled the engine to save many lives though severely scalded.
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Lungs of Diseased Cows Forwarded for Washington Inquiry
Lungs from two cows landed at Deptford last month were sent to Washington to verify pleuro pneumonia. Shippers deny the disease claim, while British farmers push for stricter inspections.
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Baltimore
O Malley Details Career and Hennessy Case View
Dominick O Malley, a longtime New Orleans detective, issues a lengthy press statement recounting his life since 1878 with several employers. He defends his role in state detective work and reiterates the innocence of five Italians in the Hennessy murder trial while calling for a fair, direct evidence backed trial. He also claims threats to his life and dismisses links to the Hennessy case.
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Hennessy
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Unity of Man and Wife Declared Obsolete By Judge
A New York court ruling rejects the old unity of husband and wife as a legal fiction. The decision holds that spouses are two persons in important matters, affecting witness fees and property rules. It notes modern legislation recognizes separate rights and duties for married individuals.
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England
Typhoid Fever Spreads in Chicago County Hospital
Typhoid fever is prevalent in Chicago with nearly 20 more patients than planned at the County hospital. Most overflow affects the city’s poor, the illness not yet highly virulent but fears grow if spread continues.
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CuicaGco
County Hospital
Anti-Kidnapping League Claims Hundreds Illegally Confined
New York May 11 Albert Bach lawyer for the Anti-Kidnapping league rebuts a Washington convention of asylum superintendents claim that no sane person is unlawfully imprisoned. He cites Lathrop Dickinson and Beach cases as proof and says hundreds more are in records and under investigation in asylums.
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Fifty Six Convicts Confirmed at Ohio Penitentiary
At the Ohio penitentiary in Cotusmus on May 11 Bishop John A. Watterson confirmed fifty six convicts including three women Mamie Hall Mary Scurry and Lizzie Edington a life prisoner. The Catholic chapel was decorated and the 11 am sermon drew over 2000 listeners including 1600 convicts with a forceful rebuke to unbelievers.
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Cotton Seed Oil Mills in the South Grow Yet Faced by Changes
A Baltimore May report lists 194 cotton seed oil mills in the South with capital surpassing 79 million dollars. Forty mills run fertilizer plants using cotton seed meal, a sign of growing industrialization. Old mills decline as better equipped plants consolidate under a cotton oil trust policy.
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