Birds and people mingle in a rambling old composition
A fragmented excerpt blends fanciful talk about Coomes and geese with a mock classroom piece about American vitality. It shifts to an anecdotal note on a San Francisco examiner style composition and ends with a brief description of Piute Indians in Nevada driving rabbits into a circle for slaughter.
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Salmon
Jack Brily
Ned
Billy
Johnny
San Francisco
Examier
Nevada
Ohio Centennial Exposition plans outlined for Columbus
The Ohio Centennial Exposition, to run Sept 4 to Oct 19 in Columbus, is organized with sixteen departments and skilled commissioners. The board aims to make Ohio's Centennial event second only to the 1876 American celebration, with full details available from The Ohio Centennial in Columbus. Ely's Cream Balm advertised as a remedy for cold in the head, catarrh, and hay fever with claims of preventing symptom progression when used early.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ely
Debt policy risks national business and crisis
The 1886 debt statement shows a treasury total of 451,068,033 with a surplus available for debt reduction of 217,288,315. During the year 53,482,182 has been withdrawn from circulation and locked in the treasury, threatening serious injury to business and potential industrial crisis if the policy continues.
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Treasury
Fall River Mars Builds Finest High School Room
The article praises a Fall River Mars high school building as the finest in the world with a $500,000 cost, a fine gymnasium, a large telescope, and a $50,000 library endowment donated by Mrs. Young. It notes a joke about medical know how and promotes Laxador. It mentions Canadian press calling Mr. Chamberlain a Jonah.
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Fall River
Mars
Young
Remarkable 73-Year-Old credits Electric Bitters for renewed health
Mrs Phoebe Chesley of Clay County Iowa aged 73 says kidney trouble and lameness vanished after using Electric Bitters, enabling her to do housework. A 50 cent bottle is sold by H K Dorr's drug Store. Also mentions Boston Courier on pigs tails and a salve claim by Henderson and Minear. Rain falls on just and unjust, even when umbrellas are mislaid.
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Phoebe Chesley
Peterson
Clay County
Iowa
H. K. Dorr
Big Rap
Ohio
Athens
Henderson & Minear
E. Gard
Marietta, O
Grant offered colonelship after long pursuit in Illinois story
Corowa reports a Chicago Tribune sourced tale of General Ulysses Grant in the early career moment when Illinois Governor Yates offered him a colonel’s commission. Grant, visiting Lafayette with R. R. Hitt’s father in law, initially doubted his fitness for command, while Congressman Hitt verified the account to Col. Babcock.
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Corowa
A.C. Bancock
Chicago Tribune
Grant
Illinois
Indiana
Mortone
Lafayette
Ind
R. R. Hitt
Ilinois
Yates
Galena
Hitt
Springfield
Col. Babcock
Congressman Hitt
Dyspepsia woes and cures crown a chaotic item
In brief items the column touts Green's August Flower for dyspepsia and health, a western town suicide by suspenders joke, Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy claims for Bright's disease, and Harper the Fidelity Bank wrecker on trial with assets and liabilities cited, plus a quip about baseball and Genesis.
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Harper
Fidelity Bank
United States
Cincinnati
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Welch
Townsend
ATLAW
Wex & Welch
Attorneys AT Law
Supreme
U.S
John Welch
J.M. Welch
Acpavtson
Comrades
W. W. Watkins
Athens, Ohio
John Bring
Basom, D. D.S
J. E. Edmundson
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Ohilo
A. Dille
Athens ,Ohio
Perkins Block
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Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Spruce St
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Washington
U. S. Patent Office
A. Know & CO
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Washington, D.C
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AL. Woodruff
South America
Josepit T. Inman
New York City
Pitts
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Athens County
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GEO. A. Macbeth & CO
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Addleman’s Photograph Rooms
Court Street
West Side
India
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G. W. Blakeley, M. D
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Ohto
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Athens Gas
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Petersburg Index Appeal
Virginia
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Jobn Minturn
Kate Terry
Thomas A. Scott
John Jacob Astor
Sscomco
Edwin Steven
Hetty Green
Robert Goelet
Jayne
Marshall O. Roberts
Martin Bates
Joseph Harrison
Russia
Jane Brown
Josephine M. Ayer
N. Y
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August Flower
David Kennedy
Bright
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Burg Hill
Texas Siftings
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Laird, Josten & CO
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Walnut Staget
Gibson House
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Ars
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Bird City
Cheyenne Co
Kansas
Golden
Golden’s Female Elixir CO
Columbus, Ohio
Henderson
Nature
Nature’s Aid
Mrs. B
J. W
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Nature’s Aid Pills
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Peant Street
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