Indian policy and land laws highlighted in Interior report
A long Interior Department review discusses ending tribal status for many Indians, advancing settlement under equal protection of laws, and expanding public land for homes and farms. It also urges timber safeguards, expanded geological surveys, courthouse buildings, and educational funding to bolster western development and tax revenue.
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Victorio
Sitting Bull
Pier Nolstain
Werious Crisi
Public Land Commission
Congress
Geological Survey
Murus
Fea
Mississippi Valley
Secretary of the Interior
Milich
National Capitol
Treasury
State, Navy
War Department
Commissioner of Agriculture
Iunof
Europe
Asia
Great Britain
United States
Eyated Ng
States
Territories
District of Columbia
Board of Education
Sacha
Columbia
Iecermay
Caan
Perm
Hayes urges city growth plans and library building in 1880 message
The document urges future city growth, criticizes costly expedients, and calls Congress to address removal and railroads entering the city. It renews earlier recommendations for a district library building, completion of the Ashington Monument, and liberal funding for benevolent, reformatory, and penal institutions.
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Congress
Con—— Library
Ashington
Utherford B. Hayes
Birth of Durango A Flourishing San Juan Valley Town
Two prospectors in the San Juan country near Animas City, Colorado, sparked rapid growth by staking land and inspiring a new settlement named Durango. Miners from Silverton and Rico built the town, with over $30,000 in lots sold, brickyards and sawmills rising, and four blocks reserved for a town center as Durango eyes a railroad arrival.
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San Juan
Animas City
Colorado
Animas
Silverton
Rico
Durango
Animas and
Chinatown in San Francisco a city within a city in decline
A crowded Chinese quarter is described as a separate precinct with its own tribunals and laws. Whites fear contact, epidemics are linked to the area, and locals are deported for diseases. The piece contrasts health risks with the bustling New Year festivities and extensive cultural customs surrounding debts, feasts, and temple rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Peking
Emperium En Imperio
China
California
Meares
Joint Commission of Congress
Harper's Magazine
Chinatown
Middle Kingdom
Notable feud surfaces in Jones confession over Pingree
The speaker recalls a bitter quarrel with Pingree and admits memory gaps yet notes shaking hands with him the next day, highlighting personal enmity tempered by uneasy civility.
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Jones
Pingree
Hop Bitters Promoted As A Beneficial Beverage
An excerpt touts Hop Bitters as a popular medicine for the public, claiming it builds up the user and improves health. It notes it is less pleasant to taste than whisky and compares its effect to strong tea, reflecting early 20th century advertising language.
Mirage Confuses Anglers Off Watchapreague Inlet Va
In Watchapreague Inlet Accomack Va on a foggy morning about twenty fishing boats were at anchor. A sun rise revealed a mirage showing Chincoteague Island with a girl at a light keeper’s door and a boy driving sheep. The fog returned and the illusion vanished leaving crews shaken and no more fishing that day.
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Watchapreague Inlet
Accomack
Chincoteague
I.maginal
Babe
John Ford and Charles Burns Die in New York Explosion
Two men identified as John Ford and Charles Burns were killed in an explosion in New York City. Investigators surveyed the scene as authorities began inquiries into the blast’s cause and suspects.
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John Ford
Charles Burns
New Yo
Hamburg Drops praised as blood medicine by reader
A Toledo Blade reader stops reporters at Boody House to praise Hamburg Drops, calling it the best blood medicine in the country after personal use and that of friends. The paper notes this candid reader endorsement for its readers.
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Toledo Blade
Hamburg
Frret-Chase
Price Whitney & Holmes Organ CO
America
Remedy for Piles by Kidney Wort
A short note touts Kidney- Wort as an unfailing remedy for piles. It claims the medicine moves the bowels gently and removes the cause, suitable in either dry or invalid forms.
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R. H. Clark
South Hero
Nelson Fairchild
St. Sam
Hogabon
Berkshire
Kinney
WELLS
Richaldson & 10
Hurlington, Vt
Jam Machine Adapts Sewing to Heavy Belting Work
A giant sewing machine weighing four tons, built for Liverpool’s manufacturing firms, stitches thick belting up to an inch in layers. It uses two needles with two shuttles, nine inch rollers, and a toy feed for lighter work, all driven by steam.
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Liverpool
Rocking Stones Explained as Natural Formations
The British isles and elsewhere host rock masses called logan or rocking stones that move with slight pressure or wind. Earliest beliefs linked them to Druids and omens of guilt or innocence, but modern science attributes the motion to weathering, erosion, sand, or post glacial deposition making them natural formations.
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British Isles
Great Britain
Natu Agency
British Association
Grove
A Happy Matter. Knox and St Jacobs Oil Fame
Knox the New York hatter, famed from Broad Street, is happy after his wife Mrs Knox recovered from rheumatism using St Jacobs Oil. A retired St Paul druggist praises Dr Halliday's Blood Purifier for improving blood and kidneys and the nervous system after years in the trade and four years in Minnesota markets.
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Cleveland
Knox
New York
St. Jacobs Oil
Broadway
St. Paul
FE. B. Halliday
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Don’t Die on the Premises Get Rough on Rats Ad
An old advertisement urges customers to ask druggists for Rough on Rats for pest control. It claims the product clears rats bed-bugs and roaches and is priced at 15 cents per box.
Astonishing health claim about Green's A Flower remedy
An advice column extols Green's A Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and liver disease. It claims rapid relief with a 10 cent sample and praises Glenn's Sulphur Soap for skin conditions. Testimonials from Dr. Epson’s Baros and H. Dower of Franklin, Pa endorse the products sold by city druggists.
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Glenn
E. E.pson
H. Dower
Franklin
Pama
Chicago
Dubuque
Des Moines
Electric Bitters advertised for clear complexions
An advert touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for impure blood stomach liver and urinary issues. It claims to cure nervousness and intestinal ailments and guarantees success where others fail. Sold by druggists at fifty cents a bottle.
Hostetter's Stom ach Bitters praised as liver cure all
The passage extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to relieve liver pains, skin yellowing from chills, blood impurities, constipation, tongue coating, and bad breath. It claims quick pleasant relief, system regulation, and botanical ingredients with praise from the medical fraternity.
Teething Syrup Promises Quick Relief for Infants
A 19th century advertisement touts Dr Winchells Teething Syrup as a cure for cholera infantum croup colic and cramps in teething infants. The claim states one dose calms bowels steadies the system and relieves pain. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents a bottle.
Surgeons To Visit Nebraska City and Sioux City For Clinic
The Surgeons of The Western Local Institute will treat deformities and chronic diseases at Barnum House Nebraska City on Monday December 27 and Hubbard House Sioux City on Tuesday December 28. Consultation free. Afflicted urged to attend.
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Western Local Institute
Kansas City
Barnum House
Nebraska City
Neb
Hubbard House
Sioux City
Iowa
Humbled by Bitters and Uncle Sam’s Harness
A reader testifies to Hop Bitters curing his wife in two months and remaining well for eighteen months. The note appears in a Pioneer Press item. The piece also promotes Redding's Roset Salve and Uncle Sam's Harness Oil, claiming leather protection and durability. A brief child anecdote about Tommy fishing without permission ends with a quip about returning home I caught ros yesterday.
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H. T
St. Paul
Pioneer Press
Redding
Uncle Sam
Tommy
Duracg Rheumatic Remedy Endorsed by General Sherman
A promotional note claims General Sherman’s wife endorses Duracg Rheumatic Remedy, stating she buys it for friends with rheumatism and that it works for every user. The ad offers a free circular from R K Helpine in Washington DC and lists druggists selling the remedy.
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Irs
Sherman
U. S. Army
Duracg
R. K. Helpine
Washington, DC
Cape of Now Being Saved by Progressive Farmers
Fragmentary ad style prose describes yearly saving by farmers using Uncle Sam's Condition Powder in stock feed to restore the sick and promote growth. Mentions druggists and various remedies like Daylight pills. Improvised dialog about choosing a parasol shade ends fragment.
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Cape of
Uncle Sam
Pierce
Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure Ad
The Mother's Magazine promotes Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure as a remedy for women. It claims to cure headaches neuralgia disordered nerves weakness and mental shocks among other ailments. The notice emphasizes its effectiveness for female health concerns.
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Warner
Mother's Magazine
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Olympus
Affrica
Catherine BaLdwin
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J. M. Coffin
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
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Lyon
Jon Z
Aline
Lydia E. Pinkmamn
Western Avene
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A. Vogeler & CO
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Trey
Loomis
Nyman Tiffin
Ohio
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Vasey St
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St. Louis
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National Praisnine Co
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Rochester
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