Tariff reform clash as free trade bill faces scrutiny
The administration tariff measure aims to cut government revenue through lower duties, except for sugar. Critics warn wool and textiles would suffer, raising imports and depressing American wages while aiding English industry and harming farmers. A casual column notes wagers on taste testing drinks and various brief notes on industry and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Mills
Ways and Means Committee
England
Congress
Rattlesnakes and Pills in a Patchwork Tale
A brief historical note contrasts harsh political rhetoric with health remedies. It recalls Perry Davis of Fall River who became a major patent medicine entrepreneur after leaving carpentry to market his Pain Killer. The piece promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for liver stomach and bowels derangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Fall River
Mass
Perry Davis
Providence
R. I
Advert for Salve Cure All Skin Ailments 25 Cents
A 19th century advertisement proclaims a salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with guaranteed effect or money back. Price 25 cents per box and sold by Henderson and Minear.
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Henderson & Minear
Mock marriage ends in playful divorce at children's party
A New York Journal item notes that at a children's party a mock marriage between Master Bobby and Miss Charlotte was celebrated. Bobby promptly declared, We must be divorced, signaling the playful ending to the staged ceremony.
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Master Bobby
Miss Charlotte
Bobby
New York Journal
Castoria
Man Sentenced to Life in State Prison
A condemned man argues his life sentence with his lawyer while a New York rescuer who rescued a drowning person is robbed of his discarded overcoat. A garbled closing line touts Dr Cough Syrup as a cure.
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New York
East River
Peculiar Illustrations and Galaxy of Facts
John Jarret offers a quirky view on Adam receiving a $25 000 yearly salary for garden care while Adam’s era would still not match William H Vanderbilt’s fortune at death. Dr Lewis Swift says the 1843 comet had a tail 200 million miles long, a statistic calming a man prone to stepping on train gowns.
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John Jarret
Adam
William H. Vanderbilt
Lewis Swift
Warner Observatory
Rochester
Red tape delays tug hired to aid burning vessel
United States Marshal McMahon faced official delay guidance from Washington after hiring a tug for relief of a burning U S vessel. He was told to advertise in newspapers for a set number of days before hiring.
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Washington
United States
McMahon
Ghe
Schoolmaster Abroad in Georgia Noted by Official
A custom-house officer in Atlanta reports a rare scene in an U.S. court room with a full jury able to write their own names, a condition unseen for five years.
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Georgia
Atlanta
United States
Harlem Family With Distinctive Features Draws Curiosity
A Harlem woman is described as having a double row of teeth while one son has no teeth. A daughter sports hair split black and red on opposite sides. The family guard dog has an artificial eye and was born without a tail, creating a striking, unusual household portrait.
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Cincinnati Times Star
Harlem
Physical training for girls ends after glove size grows
A Boston girl reports that gym work enlarged her hand by a glove size, prompting her to quit training quickly. Florida cabbage claims are cited as absurd, with produce weights noted as five feet across and twenty five pounds, a potato of twenty seven pounds, and a ten pound turnip.
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Boston
Florida Papers
Brits Praise and Poke at American Town Names
Matthew Arnold vents frustration at American place names like Griggsville Briggsville and Triggsville faulting American taste but praises colonial poetry while noting many towns bear odd epithets such as Hard Scrabble Poverty Flat and Hell's Half Acre. He mocks the burden of local nomenclature as tedious yet foreign sensibilities clash with frontier naming. Enos Thompson from Sealby advertises himself as sexton builder undertaker painter and many trades in one listing.
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Matthew Arnold
America
Griggsville
Briggsville
Triggsville
Mr. Arnold
Griggs
Briggs
Triggs
Poverty Flat
Jackass Corners
Hell’s Half-Acre
Devil’s Kitchen
Yuba Dam
Enos Thompson
Sealby
Scarboro
England
Hood's Sarsaparilla and a tale of misused car tickets
A fragmentary pair of quotes features Hood's Sarsaparilla praised as pure and effective with promises of appetite restoration and health. The text notes a land agent inviting relocation, a question about Brigsby frozen in a blizzard, and a remark on car tickets piling up due to Galveston coin shortages, enabling years of rides.
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Hood
Brigsby
Galveston
Tex
Detroit barber chair prank and Jamaica ginger note
A Detroit man recalls a barber shop joke where a barber charged ten cents for a shave and kicked him out for not paying. The tale sits among a miscellany of clippings about prohibition Jamaica ginger, local ordinances, and distant curiosities.
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Michigan Avenue
Feller
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Mirage Fades from Western Kansas Skies
The mirage once common in Western Kansas skies is fading as the country settles into calmer conditions.
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Kansas
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W. Blakeley, M. D
A. B. Frame
Athens
Ohio
Amuel
Knowles
C.S. Welch
E Knowles
Felch
Ownsend & Edgerton, Pownsend
J. H. Edgerton
Pvelch & Welch
Attorneys Atlaw
John Welch
Welch
J.M. Welch
Tlimnlpion
Comrades
ROWN
W. W. Watkins
Athens, Ohio
EAT Market
John Ring
J. S. Basom, D. D. S
J. E. Edmundson
Phoenix Block
G A. Dille
OHNIO
Uly
HE Bank OF Athens
Jvernment Bonde
Qoupone and
Com
Ptes Boughton Favorble Terme
Asis
Priveip
John Brown,d. Brown
Cashier
Athens County
Iso
Stinson & O
Portland, Me
Maine
Bery
Thermes
Philadelphia Times
Pythias Lodge
Live Oak Lodge
Oakland
Cal
Quitman
Roberts
Pennsylvania
Harris
Northern Pacific
Adams
Union Pacific
Strong
Atchinson
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Burlington & Quency
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago Wool Journal
Bricklen’s
Arnica
Port: Au Prince
Solomon
Gonwenmrernr
Acker
B. Ome
Baltimore
Io Hood
Jamaica
Dansville
Texas
YxEs
Pompua
Omaha
Kansas City
Geo. Westinghouse
Homewood
Pittsburg
Congo Free State
Congo
Philadelphia
Wateata
Bronenome
All Druggiete
Ota
L. Hood
Saale Gane
M. V. Bayano
Atlantic City
Cb Hood
Lowell
E. A. Phillips
Notary Public
Epwin M. Phillusre
Great West
E. A. Phillips & CO
Bird City
Cheyenne Co
Kaweas
Golden
Golden’s Female Elixir Co
Columbus
Henderson
Athena
Nature
Nature’s Aid
Rs. B
Nature’s Aid Pills
Yale
ENT
Hb. J. Reilly & Oe
Pearl Breet
New York Processon
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