Historic Washington houses tied to presidents and statesmen
The piece tours Lafayette Square and nearby streets detailing houses tied to Garfield Lincoln Sumner Hay Adams Slidell Webster Beale Madison Dolly Madison and other figures. It notes tablets marking historic sites from Lincoln's death to Decatur's duel and praises the district's presidential associations.
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Lucile
H Street
Sumner
Lafayette Square
Senator Pomeroy
Freeman
Matthew St. Clair Clarke
House of Representatives
Bulwer Lytton
Owen Meredith
Sixteenth Street
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Court Church
Madison
Lincoln
Webster
Brice
John Hay
St. John’s
Henry Adams
Adams
Slidell
Lamont
Senator Slidell
Corcoran
Daniel Webster
William Corcoran
Connecticut Avenue
Dr. Clymer
Navy
E. F. Beale
Commodore Decatur
Bladensburg
Henry Clay
van Buren
Jackson
Howard Livingston
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Dolly’’ Madison
Dolly Madison
Cosmos Club
Scientific and Literary Club of
Woodbury
John
Colfax
Daniel Sickles
Commodore Morris
Robert G. Ingersoll
Paulding
Calhoun
Seward
James G. Blaine
Carl Schofield
Iowa State Semi Centenn ial Burlington Celebration Schedule
Iowa marks fifty years with a Burlington centennial week from October 1 to 9 featuring Governor Drake and state officials on Governor's Day Old Settlers Day with James Harlan presiding Educational Day overseen by Sabin Sunday program with a national sermon and sacred concert Republican Day political rallies Woman's Day with women speakers Musical Day parade of secret societies grand chorus festival and a Democratic Day. Firework river carnival and other attractions accompany the events.
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Drake
James Harlan
Sabin
Polk Wells Dies in Prison at Anamosa
Anamosa Iowa September 18 Polk Wells the most noted Iowa criminal died in the state penitentiary yesterday from consumption. Wells whose criminal career began at age twelve engaged in highway robberies train and stage hold ups across the country. He was sentenced to ten years for highway robbery in Fremont County in 1879 and later escaped with a partner after chloroforming a guard. the guard died and Wells was captured receiving a life sentence.
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Polk Wells
Anamosa
Iowa
Wells
Fremont County
Campaign swing opens in Waprello with Drake Gear and Clark
Governor Drake Senator Gear and Congressman Clark opened the campaign in Wapreto Ia addressing a large audience. Meetings were held in the afternoon and evening.
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Drake
Clark
Gear
Wapretto
Receivers Authorized to Pay Interest on Bonds
New York Sept. 15 The Union Pacific receivers win permission from Judge Sanborn to pay coupons due Feb 1 1896 on Oregon Short Line first mortgage 6 percent bonds and 6 percent interest from default period plus interest on Union Pacific Coal company first mortgage 5 percent bonds for Nov 1895 and May 1896. Payment of Jan 1 1896 interest on Union Pacific first mortgage 6 percent bonds is expected to be soon authorized.
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New York
Union Pacific
Sanborn
Oregon Short Line
Union Pacific Coal Company
Nood's Pills Advertised as Purely Vegetable Remedy
An old ad promotes Nood's Pills as a purely vegetable remedy and claims they do not purge pain or gripe. The copy notes the pills are available from druggists at 25 cents. It adds a moral line about travel being safe for those guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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Nood
Before Sea Voyage Take Ayers Pills for Comfort
Before going on a sea voyage or into the country, place a box of Ayers Pills in your valise. They relieve constipation biliousness and nausea and are easy to take. A trusted World’s best lauded remedy.
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Ayers
Ayer
Simmons Liver Regulator
Simmons Liver
Antisquirrel convention to be held in Spokane
A Spokane event on May 15 invites attendees to discuss local antisquirrel themes. The text also touts Ayer's Sar saparilla as a blood purifier with claims it does not disrupt labor or diet, urging consideration of these recommendations.
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Spokane
Washington
Ayer
Small Greenland birch tree and patent medicine claims
The article lists the Greenland birch as under three feet tall with a two to three foot spread. It promotes Hall's Hair Renewer Hood's Sarsaparilla and Simmons Liver Regulator with testimonials and medicine ads, including DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a cure-all.
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Greenland
Hood's Pills Case Nausea and Indigestion Ad
An old advertisement notes Hood's Pills for nausea headaches indigestion and biliousness with Ali druggists selling them for 25 cents.
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Hood’s
Ali
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve touted as best pile cure
An vintage ad asserts the salve quickly heals ulcers and open sores and claims the product is the best cure for piles. It notes availability from D. D. Bales and promotes Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re for hair vitality and beauty.
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DeWitt
D. D. Bales
Betting Beans and Bridal Envelopes Stir Local Gossip
A Boston clergyman, paid in beans for a wedding, found beans sold but later enjoyed a more lucrative wedding fee exchange. A Vermont bride worries after hearing of a minister trading a wedding fee envelope for a watermelon containing a 3 cent piece. Toll bridges dot the upper Connecticut with tales of small payments, like a 2 cent toll ticket in another ceremony. A Budapest festival jokes about hymen as a key rite and offers a week’s entertainment for couples who publically wed amid peasant customs.
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Kansas
Boston
Vermont
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Budapest
Cincinnati Enquirer
Woman blamed as car carries on with freight unload
A Cleveland streetcar scene shows a woman left on a curb as the vehicle departs after unloading a freight car. The conductor says the stop was long enough while male passengers smirk at the clash.
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Prospect Street
Case Avenue
Goodby
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Traveling Philosopher Preacher Accepts Life Without Complaints
A Georgia itinerant Methodist preacher, praised for his optimism, faces a friend’s teasing question about how the world treats him. He replies in lighthearted detail that minor fundraisers for church improvements ran small deficits while a parsonage fire occurred weeks later, ending with a playful praise of the Lord.
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Georgia
Brother Brown
Frank L. Stanton
Chicago Times- Herald
Santa Fe Sells Coal Fields In Kansas Purchase
C J Devlin manager of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe coal properties buys all Kansas Santa Fe mines Osage Cherokee and Crawford counties. He will take possession October 1 and also owns Marceline Missouri and Toluca Illinois mines feeding the railroad. The sale closes Santa Fe coal property holdings. Price not stated.
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Topeka, Kan
C. J. Devlin
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Kansas
Santa Fe
Osage
Cherokee
Crawford Counties
Marceline
Toluca
Inls
National Democrats Ratify Nominations in Nashville
National Democrats will ratify Palmer and Buckner nominations in Nashville tonight. General Buckner and Colonel John R. Fellows of New York will speak at the event.
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Nashville
Palmer and Buckner
Buckner
John R. Fellows
New York
Nonunion Miner Beaten on Street in Leapville
E. C. Terry, a nonunion miner, was severely beaten by several unknown men on the street at an early hour today in Leapville Colorado, authorities report.
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Leapville
Colo
E. C. Terry
Woman fires on deputy during pursuit in Missouri
Butter, Mo., Sept. 15. Yesterday a group moving through the country were accused of stealing from George Rains near Pleasant Gap. Constable Settles and Victor Compton overtook them. one woman shot Compton with a Winchester, fatally wounding him. The sheriff and posse pursue the assailants. Grain and Provisions Market reports note sharp foreign market advances lifting grain prices with wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, and ribs futures higher.
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Butter
George Rains
Pleasant Gap
Charles Settles
Victor Compton
Compton
Winchester
Live Stock Prices and Receipts From Cui1cano Market
Hog receipts reached 42 000 with prices down about five cents. Heavy and light hogs varied from 2.45 to 3.55 with mixed hogs 2.75 to 3.55. Cattle receipts totaled 20 000 with most grades down ten cents except top beeves 3.10 to 5.00. Cows and heifers moved 1.10 to 3.70, Texas steers 2.25 to 5.00, westerns 2.71 to 8.85, stockers and feeders 2.87 to ? though.
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Texas
One Minute Cough Cure and Other Remedies Ad
Cosmetic ads note One Minute Cough Cure from D. D. Bales and DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for indigestion headaches and stomach troubles. Sawyer’s Family Cure pills come with a guarantee. Also promotes DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure for summer complaints and dysentery. Diamond glass cutters’ tips included.
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DeWitt
D. D. Bales
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Senator Hill
Garfield
Tenth Street
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Sumner
Capitol
T. de Witt Talmage
Vermont Avenue
William L. Marey
Polk
Pierce
Lewis Cass
Buchanan
Iowa State
Burlington
Hall
Hood
A. P. Sawyer
Bills
Decatur St
Decatur
Ilinois
Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mase
Dr. Sawyer
DeWitt’s
Just
Jno
Theo
DeGork
Che
Opera House
Cash Store
Deavy
Rnit
Duck Coats
Childs
Yours
J. Jacobs
Prop
the Fates
Ames
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