Tilden Replies to Democratic Convention Message
Ex Gov Samuel J Tilden replies to the Democratic National Convention committee with a call for reform and a Democratic win in the presidency. He argues the Republican party is driven by selfish interests and urges voters to support Cleveland and the Democratic ticket. The letter cites trade, tariffs and the need for balanced policy to protect all industries.
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Tariff question shadows Europe as defense of agriculture urged
Horatio Seymour writes that protectionist tariff talk by Republicans risks provoking European retaliation and harming farms, dairies, and crafts. He warns against stoking sectional tensions as population and new territories grow, urging broader national interests and warning that duties on imports could backfire economically.
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Horatio Seymour
National Democratic Committee Today
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Freeman’s Journal
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Otsego County
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Maine Prison Labor Plans Aimed at Self Support and Revenue
Avaulta Maine October 7 1858 report by James G Blaine on prison reform proposes three labor systems and endorses contracting convicts to private labor at forty cents a day. He argues location near manufacturing centers and suggests jails become houses of correction to reduce county costs while boosting state revenue.
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Chicago News
Emery Sanborn
Joseph A. Sanborn
Blaine
Little Rock
Mr. Blaine
Mr. Sanborn
Maine
Sanborn
H. F. Sanborn
Iowa Falls
Sioux City
Little Rock & Fort Smith Bonds
Mr. Sanburn
Avaustta
Maine Staite
Lot M. Morritt
James G. Blaine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Ilaine
Thomaston
Pete
Peter
Portland
Biddeford
Lewiston
They Smothered Him Bees Beeline Tragic Tale Told by Passenger
A Chicago Herald piece recounted a West Coast bee swarm nightmare. A man and partner faced a towering honey-bearing danger as bees swarmed, trapping and smothering a worker while the other escaped when bees dropped to the plains.
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Chicago Herald
California
Dave Johnston
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Ballet Dancer Stowaway From Hamburg Lands In New York
A 19 year old German dancer Anna Schiller was found hiding aboard the French steamer St Laurent at sea and landed at Castle Garden. She fled harsh home life to seek stage work in America and may be sent back to Germany after authorities contact her parents.
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New York Herald
Castle Garden
St. Laurent
Havre
America
Anna Schiller
Haamburg
Germany
Sleepless 98-Year-Old Beggar Defies Justice
Ann Donovan a widow aged 98 told Justice McCafferty she has never slept in ninety years while facing a vagrancy charge after being seen begging at the Cathedral doorway. Policeman Chick testified she sleeps in doorways and is a perpetual destitute. The exchange noted her worn garments and frail frame as she denied being a vagrant.
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Tam
Ann Donovan
Teaden
Chick
House of Industry
At a Negro Revival in Oxford Mississippi
At a revival meeting in Oxford a buxom negro woman jumped to the front amid loud applause and shouted that she cooked and knew who stole Brother Neilin’s shoat. Her admission sparked a public scene as her husband confessed to stealing the shoat and expressed deep remorse amid the uproar.
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Water wagon on Wabash Covington built by a lone inventor
The Chicago Times describes a queer experimental craft on the Wabash at Covington dubbed a water wagon. A solitary builder constructs a 10 by 15 foot frame with twelve empty coal oil barrels, three per side, linked by rods to a paddled wheel at the rear for propulsion.
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Chicago Times
Covington
Prohibition Speakings and a Beecher Sermon on New Testament
A Beecher sermon in Brooklyn argues against a national prohibition policy while affirming the New Testament's universal presence of God. He outlines conversion as a staged ascent from moral reform to spiritual life, stressing self denial, personal experience, and the evolution of theology across ages.
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Kenry Ward Beecher
John P. St. John
Kansas
Clermont Avenue ‘Temple
St. John
Mr. Beecher
Peter
Kingdom of Heaven
God
Jackson
Lee
Grant
Eaven
Measuring machine impresses crowds at mechanics fair
The world’s only instance of a leather measurement machine drew visitors as rural press delegates toured the exhibition. It processes a leather strip by pushing wheels that record on a dial, yielding a complete measurement of a leather square and even indicates losses from edge cuts. Attendance reached 4600, the largest yet.
Editor’s Baby Provokes Mock Mail Prank in Local Paper
The Rockland Courier Gazette laments being flooded with rubber rattles and seasonally themed items from rival presses. The editorial voice jokes about sleepless nights and the strain of running a drug store, noting the prank inflamed emotions while defending press parity.
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Rockland Courier Gazette
Richmond Kee
Mall
Remarkable cure advertisement offers free medical relief
The notice claims a quick permanent cure for men of all ages without medical expense. It touts a new simple method approved by patients and physicians and urges immediate application to the Anti Medical Bureau at 9 Dey Street New York, enclosing a stamped self addressed envelope.
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Anti-Medical Bureau
Dey Street
New Yorke
Reinterment ceremony for Red Jacket and Six Nations chiefs
Buffalo hosts an extensive procession and interment at Forest Lawn for Red Jacket and other famed Iroquois leaders. Chiefs from the Six Nations bearctes carry cedar caskets to six graves as onlookers, including General Parker and Judge Sheldon, observe in ceremonial regalia.
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Red Jacket
Forest Lawn Association
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Historical Society
Levi Jonathan
Benjamin Carpenter
Henry Clinch
John Fraser
Moses Hill
Andrew Snow
John Buck
Joseph Porter
Thomas Isaac
Peter Powless
Young King
David Hill
John Hill
Robert Davin
Rey
Zachariah Jamison
Thomas Lay
William Jones
Jona Jacket
Little Billy
Nicholas Barker
John Mountpleasant
Thomas David
Thomas Jamison
Peter
William C. Bryant
Sheldon
Brant
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Grant
Caroline Mountpleasant
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Nicholas Parker
Tonawanda Reservation
Cattaraugus Reservation
Jamison
Bryant
Six Nations
Mr. Bryant
John Jacket
Mr. Anthony
Pecces W. Clinton
Forest Lawn Cemetery Association
George W. Clinton
New York Sun
Old physician offers free remedy recipe cure all diseases
Retired doctor claims a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis asthma and nervous debility and will send free full directions in German French or English to anyone desiring the recipe after testing the powers in thousands of cases the appeal ends with a note of relief for suffering readers.
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