New York Senator Conkling Sketch and Tug of War at St Louis
A Cleveland Leader account narrates Senator Roscoe Conkling refusing a photograph but inviting a sketch, then Michigan lumber scene at St Croix Gorge shows log jam tug of war with Billy the Kid noted among workers, an urban fascination amid peril and spectacle.
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New York
Roscoe Conkling
Electoral Commission
Conkling
Senate
Senator Conkling
Congress
London News
London
Washington
Carp
Cleveland Leader
St. Croix
Kong
Billy the Kid
Alwas
Leander
Sve
Minnesota
Cor
Boston
First Gun Fire Civil War Linked to Star of the West
The first gun fired in the Civil War is attributed to Franklin J. Moses aboard the Star of the West during the 1861 Fort Sumter relief mission. Edmund Ruffin is said to have fired the first shot at Sumter. Postwar reports claim Moses became a convict in a Massachusetts penitentiary and that Ruffin reportedly killed himself after Sumter surrendered.
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America
Franklin J. Moses
Star of the West
Fort Sumter
Edmund Ruffin
Sumter
Moses
Massachusetts
Ruffin
Shiloh's Vitalizer Sold by J. H. Pickett Co
Digestive aid claims to relieve indigestion constipation dizziness and loss of appetite with yellow skin. Sold by J. H. Pickett and Co as a positive cure.
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Shiloh
J. H. Pickett & Co
Dinner at a Chinese restaurant stirs elite dinner talk
A New York dinner hosted by Commodore Thomas J. Falls at a Mott Street Chinese restaurant cost 2300 and drew twelve guests including six Chinese men. The menu featured birds nests, sharks fins, dried locusts, bamboo sprouts and smoked rats. Falls praised the rats with claims of expert Chinese farming, noting no puppies were served. The evening ended with rice rum and four guests facing a police court fine the next day.
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Mott Street
Thomas J. Falls
Imperial Arsenal
Tsin-Tsin
Commodore
New York Cor. Pioneer Press
The Cost of a Great Name in Art
A reflective piece on how a painter’s reputation grows from years of toil and hardship. It contrasts the starving garret days with a breakthrough that attracts dealers, wealthy patrons, and admiration, noting the value of skill developed through years. The Detroit Free Press quote underscores the cost of mastery.
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Detroit Free Press
Trying to Console Her Mamma
A Cincinnati woman with consumption lingers in agony and wishes for death. Her hopeful daughter offers a stark consolation that she might die tomorrow, a remark the mother misunderstands in the moment.
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Cincinnati
Sam
Cincinnati Times Star
Banana King of Fruits Dominates American Taste
The banana has become the king of fruits in America, displacing both orange and apple in popular esteem per the Boston Commercial Bulletin.
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America
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Bit of Advice on Catarrh Cure From Chicago Reader
Edward Silvey of Chicago reports twenty five years of catarrh trouble with six years of severe symptoms. After failing other remedies, Dr Streeter recommended Papillon Catarrh Cure which provided almost immediate relief and led to a long period of perceived cure. The product costs $1.00 and is sold prepaid by Papillon Company in Chicago with L M Bosworth listed as a local seller.
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Charlie
Streeter
Edward Silvey
Chicago
Dp. Papillon Company
L. M. Bosworth
Paris
Halles Centrales
Crystal Palace
Les Forts de la Halle
London
Shilohs Catarrh Remedy Promises Cure With Free Nasal Injector
The Rev George H Thayer of Bourbon Indiana praises Shilohs Consumption Care as life saving. Advertisement shows a gloomy man and describes a nasal injector free with each bottle priced at 50 cents, sold by J H Picket & Co.
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Geo. H. Thayer
Bourbon
Indiana
Shiloh
J. H. Pickett & Co
J. H. Picket & Co
Sheridan’s swift note to new publications
Acknowledging new works, Sheridan used a concise formula: "Dear Sir, I have received your exquisite work, and I have no doubt I shall be highly delighted after I have read it." This practiced line conveyed courtesy and anticipated appreciation.
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Sheridan
Papillon Skin Cure Claims Cure for Carbuncle
A testimonial from Wallace L. DeWolf states a carbuncle on the neck was cured by Papillon Skin Cure. The ad claims immediate relief from soreness and inflammation and offers the product for $1 per bottle or prepaid by mail from the Papillon Company in Chicago.
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Clark
Wallace L. DeWolf
Papillon Company
Chicago
L. M. Bosworth
Editor and Voice Confront a Quiet Year’s Shadow
An editor in a calm setting reflects on a stalled year and the missing boost of broader support. The exchange suggests reliance on the editor’s influence to keep business and growth alive, as the town falters without his activity.
How Polling Is Conducted In The Borough Hall
A detailed description of election day at a borough polling station outlines the layout with railings, the ballot box, and the process from voter check in to ballot casting. It notes the roles of presiding officers, clerks, and agents, plus handling of objections and secrecy.
Paul H. Hayne the Southern Poet Portrait
The narrator, a Cor. for the Atlanta Constitution, sketches Paul H. Hayne as slight, below average height, straight as an arrow with every gesture a poem. His pale smooth face, gray brown mustache, and bright brown eyes convey geniality and spiritual resolve amid life’s thorny path.
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Paul H. Hayne
Atlanta Constitution
All That Ilonev or Nothing Farce Snippet
A clipped dialogue scene shows a daughter confessing a burned money loss to her father and a startled reaction. The exchange mentions a first-class education and duties of a young woman amid a comical mishap.
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Jose
Father
Scott
Prisoners as villains and victims in a Detroit Free Press perspective
An ex convict reflects on prison life noting inmates who plot escapes are weak and frightened, while some prisoners face betrayal by spouses leading to frequent divorces. He argues most escape schemes fail and condemns criminals who seek glory in crime. He contrasts hard cases with those trapped by circumstance.
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Liberty
Detroit Free Press
Counterfeit notes and the eye of the treasury clerks
A treasury official recounts counterfeit tricks including a $10 note that fooled a bank teller, and a $100 note pattern copied from multiple banks. He notes how female clerks detect fakes by edge glimpses and corner turns, and explains splitting, piecing, and mutilated currency redemption rules.
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National Bank of the Republic
First National Bank
Witl
Seventh Regiment
New York
Method of Printing Postage Stamps
The article explains stamp printing using steel-engraved plates for 200 stamps per sheet with hand presses and gum applied by a vegetable-based mix. Sheets are cut into halves of 100, perforated, dried by steam, then counted. any flaw on a sheet ruins all 200. It notes higher destruction when machinery is used, and occasional losses of up to 500000 stamps per week.
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Iit
York Mail and Express
Detroit Free Press
A Piano Recital by Wire in 1877 Hoax
F W Jones of Cincinnati staged a wireless piano recital hoax in Porkopolis. Prominent locals were invited to hear a concert transmitted from Springfield two hundred forty miles away. In truth the line only reached the room above where a music box moved the diaphragm, started and stopped from below.
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F. W. Jones
Porkopolis
Cincinnati
Springfield
Spanish royal birth sparks mock ceremony gossip
The Cleveland Leader reports the birth of Alfonso of Spain as a small pale baby with blue eyes. Critics deride a royal custom of presenting the infant on a silver salver to dignitaries, noting the newborn screamed and a minister declared Alfonso would make a noise in the world.
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Spain
Alfonso
Cleveland
Red Sunsets Linked to Krakatoa Vapor Clouds
Eminent meteorologists conclude the red sunsets were caused primarily by masses of aqueous vapor expelled by the Krakatoa eruption, with investigators now in agreement on the mechanism behind the phenomenon.
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Krakatoa
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