Scientific Chatter and Utility Experiments Highlight News
A collage of notes covers experiments in electricity cutting gas lamps in Albany and adding electric lights, iron wire tension to curb resonance, a Cape Horn magnetism observatory plan, nocturnal lightning observations in Africa, moth repellent floor strips, a new vine producing emberrous wine, and using cotton seed bulls as packing material for railcars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Cape Horn
Venus
Africa
M. d’Abbadie
M. Armand Desvignes
China
French Academy of Science
Wit and Wisdom and Fragments in The Paper
A collage of quips and anecdotes from multiple papers. Cartoonish lines about poems promising sequels, railroad delays, matrimony jokes, a railroad eating-house definition, a boiler blast tale, and a mountain trip joke about gaining weight. Includes dialogs and satirical asides.
Washington anecdotes on congressional living styles in past
An old resident recalls how thirty years ago congressmen often lived above stores. A sleek member named Baker ran a grand house, while his associate Cooper lived over a grocery. A note to Baker was misaddressed to George Augustus Baker above Foy livery stable.
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Washington
House of Congress
Congress
Baker
Ad Cooper
Mr. Goopas
Smith
Cooper
Eorge Augustus Baker
Foy Livery Stable
Washington Star
Here! The Roll Call After a Costly Battle
A battlefield poem recounts Corporal Green and Cyrus Drew missing, Herbert Kline and Hiram Kerr wounded or dead, Ephraim Deane carrying colors, and only twenty of a hundred men answering for their company as night falls. The scene contrasts victory with heavy losses.
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Cyrus Drew
Growth of the G A R in Ohio Is Remarkable
The Toledo Sunday Journal reports that seven months into Commander Kouitz’s term the Ohio Department of the Grand Army of the Republic added 122 Posts, with 112 new, four reorganized, and six restored. The effort runs on current receipts, with three mustering officers and broader state coverage, seen as a permanent, valuable civic force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Kouitz
Canfield
Earnshaw
Grand Army
Union
Toledo Sunday Journal
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
The advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an active cure for female complaints and claims it does more good than many doctors' medicines. It urges readers to head to Mrs Lydia E Pinkham for remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkham
Lydia FE. Pinkham
Lincoln type in Garfield seen by English readers
The Spectator praises President Garfield as a Lincoln type, a strong man with conscience and humor, noting English readers sense a shared identity with Americans. It contrasts Garfield with Madison and Grant and argues English loyalty favors Lincoln and Garfield over their own presidents or soldiers.
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England
Spectator
Garfield
Union
Lincoln
James A. Giarfield
Madison
Grant
Somerville Man credits Hall's Balsam for lung cure
William J. Coughlin of Somerville Massachusetts recounts a severe lung ailment from 1876 with a lung hole as large as a half dollar and years of illness. After taking Dr William Hall's Balsam for the Lungs he improves markedly and urges others with diseased lungs to try it, claiming it surpassed all prior medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Coughlin
Somerville
Mass
William Hall
The New Discovery and Other Notices From a 19th Century Page
The advertisement extols Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption with free trial bottles at J Dorr Druggist and lauds Captain Alfred F. Lee’s return from Germany. Also sells The Best Salve in the World for skin ailments and promotes Ayer's Cherry Pectoral to aid public speakers during cold seasons. It ends by noting dangers of alcohol and the effect on the voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
J. Dorr
Court House
Ayer
Hop Bitters Promises Cure for Various Ailments
Anadvertising claim states Hop Bitters defeats fevers constipation liver and kidney sluggishness nervousness and neuralgic pain by turning food into rich blood and restoring vigor to the aged and infirm. It condemns whisky as a cause of ruinous divorce.
Cough Syrup Ad Claims Dr. Sellers Cure
A vintage ad promotes Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup with bold claims that what everyone says must be true. It advertises the product as effective for coughs and colds and lists a price of 25.
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Nou
Chicago Tribune
New Haven Register
Austin
Texas
Oakland
Youghiogheny
Boston Post
Boston
St. Louis
Burlington
Corporal Green
Herbert Kline
Ezra Kerr
Hiram Kerr
Ephraim Deane
Ohio
Alfred F. Lee
Columbus
Frankfort
Germany
President Hayes
Bucklen
Pepera
Hop
Hirunkeanees
Eptamee
Seridthy Tug Vee Berivet Tieuls
the Bank OF Athens
United States
John Brown
J.D. Brows
Cashier
A. Norton
T. H. Sheldon
EE. H. Moone
First National Bank
Athens
the— State Bank of Ohio
Europe
Cbs
Southeast Cor
Washington & Congress Sts
Athens, Ohio
John Cornell
Fropeietar
Noor
Main Street
Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
True & Co
Augusta
Maine
H. Hsllerr & Co
Portland
W. Towsley
Atkinson
Warren House
Meat Market
John Ring
Jarren
Elmer Golden
Dresden Junction
Dresden
Zanesville
New Lexington Junction
Lancaster
Circleville - Washington Sabina
Wilmington
Morrow
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis
Cinccinnati
Wilmington Sabina
Washington Circleville
Junction City
New Lexington
Wresden
Wheeling
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Washington City
New Yor
Deanne Hee
Accom
Peete Ee Errr
Sabina
Philadelphia
New York
Arraaa
Tee
Xenia
Springfield
Dayton
Indianapolis
Chicago
Union Depot
Louisville
Indiananapolis
Northwest
Louis
W. L. Obrien
D. W. Caldwell
Chas .F.shutt
Prebatec
Washington St
Athe
Phaeton S
WVG
the People’s Paper
the Weekly Gazette
Dolllar A
Gazette
Weekly Gazette
Daily Gazette
It & Postag
The
Cazette CO
6Th and 7Th Streets
Cincinnati, C
M. HM. Davis, D. E. Bowers
Proprietors
Eas Tyson
Guysville
Athens County
N2s
L. D. Wilson
Aruens
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