Utah bill debate resumes with pension increase proposal
Lawmakers reviewed bills on pensions for total disability, public buildings in multiple cities, tax reforms, statehood admissions for Dakota and Washington, coinage policy, canal construction, commerce department creation, railroad regulation, postal telegraph, and reduced drop letter postage. Senate considered Utah bill with a new incest clause. Plumb and Wilson introduced measures on land payments to Delaware Indians and banning lottery ads in newspapers. House sent no session, Senate discussed Lincoln Grant monuments, silver, and river improvements. numerous postmasters nominated in Minnesota and Dakota appointments noted.
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Hovss
Huntington
W. Va
Oskosh
Milwaukee
Superior
Eau Claire
Wis
Las Vegas
Albuquerque
N. M
Helena
Mont J Cheyenne
Wyo
Bay City
Mich
Pueblo
Colo
Fremont
Neb
Kalamazoo
Dakota
Washington Territories
Hennepin Canal
Department of Commerce
Senate
Blair
Hampton
Vance
Cll
Hoar
Gibson
Morgan
Plumb
Secretary of the Treasury
Wilson
Iowa
Committee On Post Offices and Postroads
House
Harrison
Committee On Territories
Butler
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Gen. Grant
Pugh
United States
Lincoln
Treasury
Nelson
Minnesota
White Earth
Turtle Mountain
Red Lake
Henderson
N.C
Committee On
Internal Revenue
Senate Actions Include Nominations and Silver Debate
Senate and House proceedings feature Sherman excused, Beck silver resolution heated, patents act and public documents bureau discussed, commissions reports sent to Central and South American states, and a long list of executive nominations including interior and treasury posts. House passes a revised criminal procedure provision and debates silver coinage suspension. Northwestern and postmaster appointments noted.
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Sherman
Hawley
Beck
Pugh
Vance
Interior Department
George A. Jenks
Interior
Henry L. Muldrow
A. M. Melane
James E. Bartlett
Robert V. Nance
James W. Wheliley
New York
United States
W. E. Smith
Treasury
Conrad N. Jordan
New Jersey
John Gibbon
Col
A. Baird
Henry J. Farnsworth
Francis B. Jones
Sidney E. Stuart
Ordnance Department
C. A. Dougherty
Pennsylvania
Rome
House
Messrs
Singleton
Wilson
Helps
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
Caldwell
Judiciary Committee
Hammond
Seagan
French cabinet announced in Official Gazette of the Suh
The new French cabinet lists M Freycinet as president of the council and foreign affairs minister, with Sarrien interior minister and Sadi Carnot finance minister. Others include Goblet public instruction and Develle agriculture. The lineup draws little enthusiasm and may be short lived.
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Suh
M. de Freycinet
M. Sarrien
Interior
M. Sadi-Carnot
Finance
M. Oa
M. Demole
Justice
M. Develle
Fen. Boulanger
M. Aubre
Marine
The
Carolines
M. Bai
Madagascar
France
Charles de Freycinet
Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarriep
Gambetta
President Cleveland declines Columbus Jackson club reunion invite
In a January 4 1886 letter from the Executive Mansion Cleveland thanks Hon. Allen G Thurman for the invitation to the Jackson club reunion in Columbus but says official duties prevent attendance. He expresses approval of the club's purposes and notes the Democratic party's principles as vital to public welfare and American institutions.
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Cleveland
Executive
Washington, D. C
Allen G. Thurman
Jackson Club
City of Columbus
Friends of Good Government
Democratic Party
Foreclosure sales and receiverships hit 1885 railway debt
The Railway Age records 22 U S railways in 1885 sold under foreclosure with 156 miles of main line and about 275.5 million dollars in bonded debt and capital. Over ten years 328 railways, 2,900 miles, 1.778 billion dollars in stock and debt, faced default, receivership, forced sale, and new securities.
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Railway Age
United States
Washington Pension Circulars Hit by Swindle Scheme
A fraud scheme by pension attorneys promises $100 bounties to troops who enlisted before July 22, 1861. The second controller denied such bonuses and warned against circulars seeking names and addresses. Numerous deceptive letters urged early replies and claimed entitlement under disputed dates.
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Washington
Des Moines Judge Smith Rumored to Lose Mind
Seward Smith, a federal judge for the Dakota Territory, was removed from office weeks ago and soon after became a candidate for U S senator. Reports say sleep deprivation and overwork have unsettled him, with delusions of wealth. He ordered art store pictures and gave a hospital secretary a bad check, prompting concern from friends who mourn his distress.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Seward Smith
Territory
Dakota
United States
Judge Smith
Third Street
Cottage Hospital
Trichiniasis Strikes Du Fresne Family Near Wilson Wisconsin
Florence Wisconsin special reports Anthony Du Fresne and family of Wilson seven members suffer severe trichiniasis after eating raw pork from a barrel. William the oldest son worst afflicted and near death while others, including a 11 year old girl, gradually improve. Also notes political and local items: Judge Moody in Washington, Dr Henry Perkins sent to asylum, severe storm on cattle ranges, Lieut Col Reynolds seeks retirement to Vancouver.
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Florence
Wis
Anthony du Fresne
Wilson
John
Judge Moody
Washington
South Dakota
Henry Perkins
Dodgeville
Col. Reynolds
Vancouver
If She Tries to Sulk I’d Catch My Darling on the Sly
A playful verse about winning back a love by surprise roses. The speaker vows to pursue affection despite moods, promising a romantic gesture to win reconciliation with flowers and cherishing sentiment.
The Gentle Stranger Comes Home to Dorothy Milton
In a Hudson River mansion Dorothy Milton and Guy Carleton circle old legends and a ghostly tale of a broken window. The arrival of James Milton, a living memory from Dorothy’s ancestor, unsettles Dolly as she navigates love, duty, and a shifting life between past reverie and present affection. The aged house echoes with a vanished century while Dolly confronts a choice between Guy’s distant future and a haunting connection to a youthful suitor who will not forget.
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Springfield Republican
Dorothy Milton
Guy Carleton
Hudson
Miss Dolly
Guy
Dolly
Washington
China Seas
Sweet Dolly
Dorothy
Helen
Miltons
James Milton
Miss Milton
Birket
Dolly Milton
Milton
Dolly Shuddana
Doroth
Master James
Ares
the Hudson
Borneo
Two Dorothys and a secret letter’s reveal in dusk
In a misty October tale, James Milton clings to a lost love Dorothy while Dolly tends him. A hidden grandfather’s will, found in a gilded frame, shows Dorothy kept the secret and waited. In sunset light, the old man passes, leaving Dolly and Guy to a single Dorothy.
The Bookkeeper’s Unaccounted Error Revealed by Dream
A head bookkeeper at a major sewing machine maker recalls an $5 discrepancy that eluded five assistants over a week. On the third Sunday he unknowingly walked to the office, opened the safe, selected a specific book, and found the missing $5 in the column. He slept until Monday then confirmed the find in the book. The tale ends with uncertainty he was dreaming.
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Union Square
New York Tribune
How to Make Winter Evenings Profitable
The piece urges using long winter evenings for self improvement and training in handwriting stenography typewriting and mechanical drawing. It cites successful self taught draughtsmen and inventors like a Chicago patent holder for a moving belt and a moving belt for drying eggs, noting wealth from clever inventions and the open field for all ages and sexes.
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Chicago
William Wirt and the reform of a nation's lawyer
A Cleveland Leader essay recounts William Wirt, famed US attorney general from 1800 to 1834, once deeply dissipated. After a sobering moment in Richmond in the sun, a passerby woman wipes his face with a handkerchief, leads to identity, and the future Mrs. Wirt inspires his reform and notable future contributions.
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Carp
Cleveland
William Wirt
United States
Richmond
Wirt
Marriages in Berlin Show Diverse Matches and Big Numbers
Berlin saw 13314 marriages last year including 561 widows and 229 divorced women. One man wed a divorcee who had been divorced three times. Cousin marriages numbered 95, and there were cases of uncle and niece and nephew and aunt unions. Ages ranged widely with several large gaps between spouses. The peak marriage months were March April May September October and November.
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Berlin
Cure for rupture and female weaknesses offered by medical association
Advertisements claim Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures female weaknesses and restores youth, with the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo offering a book of particulars for 10 cents in stamps. Also noted is a gas discovery in Tiffin, Ohio and De Hot house strawberries selling in New York at $4 per box, with Pleasant Purgative Pellets praised for gentle bowel movement.
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Pierce
Tiffin
Ohio
New York
Duces Brown
Don’t You Do It For Rheumatism Relief
Health ad copy fragment promoting Kidney-Wort and other tonics with multiple testimonials. Mentions West Bath Maine Elbridge Malcolm, Governor Robinson of Massachusetts, John Sherman caucus nomination, Ely’s Dream Balm and Cream Balm, Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic, and assorted medical products and patent remedies. Narrative unreliable OCR bundle with varied product pitches and personal anecdotes.
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Nigarest Drug Store
Elbridge Malcolm
West Bath
Maine
Dr. Jones
Asa Thompson
Logan
Ohio
Commodity prices and grain markets across regions
Market notes from CuicaGo Minneapolis and Dunutan report varied grain and livestock prices. Wheat and corn values shown for No. 1 hard and No. 2, along with oats rye and barley. butter eggs lard and pork prices listed. Milwaukee figures include pork lard butter cheese and eggs with regional price differentials.
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Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Rheumatism Cure Claim For Col. Williamson
Col. D. J. Williamson, Quarter-Master U. S. A. and former U. S. Consul at Callao Peru, spent twenty thousand dollars in eight years seeking relief from rheumatism. He reports that all efforts failed until using St. Jacobs Oil, which cured him.
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D. J. Williamson
U. S
Callao
Peru
St. Jacobs
Government warns of imminent Indian outbreak in Northwest
A Montreal special reports army officers and priests warning that Blackfeet Bloods and Crees plan renewed violence. They claim ammunition is plentiful, reserves confining natives provoke them, and a large force is needed to avert a bloody uprising. Merchant J Clinskill travels to Ottawa to urge precautions after executions.
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Northwest
Riel
J. Clinskill
Battleford
Ottawa
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Harvey M. Brown
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Menasha
Adolph Penneng
Manitowoc
R. P. Hitchcock
Tomah
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Depere
H. N. Cronkrite
Clinton
William Brown
Lake Geneva
H. 8. Howell
Watertown
Nelson Bruett
Jefferson
A. P. Cramer
Avoca
E. Thayer
P. Sheldon
Ames
Munich
Villiem
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Manchester
J. W. Sherman
Osceola
T. H. Edwards
Waterloo
A. D. Tinsley
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Francis Bansen
New Ulm
Minn
Charles J. Strunk
Shakopee
John R. Parshall
Fariboult
B. FP. McCall
Moorhead
Curtin
Grover Cleveland
Raw Park
the Gentle Stranger
Ames Milton
Mater
Yorth
Joaquin Miller
Marshal Denny
Gov. Robinson
Massachusetts
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington
John Sherman
Plattsburg
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Ely Lrow
Owego
N.Y
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Green Post Office
Ala
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Montana
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Seattle University
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William Rett
Pittsburg
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Elizabeth McLean
Worthington, Minn
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Greenville, Mich
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St. Paul
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Duluth
Hall
Ayer
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Cent
N. Y
Saskatchewan
W. J. Abernethy
Lyon
Mensman
Caswell, Hazard & Co
J. H. Shaffer
Madison, Wis
Reo Star
Jato
Charles
DRU
A. Yodeler CO
Baltimore
Ella Smith
N. Foster Cook
Springfield
Bettie
Athlophoros CO
Wall St
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New York World
Red Star
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Tutt
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Rybody
Isellit
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Russia
Coxent Co
Gloucester
Mass
Papean
Mis
B. H. Merrill & Co
Uticura
Oman
Dancraft
Porris Davcamp Chemical Co
Bostor
Rei
Walter A.taylor
Atlanta
Atree
Salzer
Il Crosse, Wis
Ba. J. Stkruens
Lebanon
Chio
Te Canite
Peat
F. Zandane
Aundry
Minneapolia
Tess
J. KE
Acme Music CO
Ill
Pioneer
Manitoba
Wellman, Prazee Crry
Bex
Wat Fae D. Leer Co. Minn
Particuars Co
Boston
Adiness
Fife Seed Wheat
Wellman
Frazee City
Er Co
Seaied Partic
Imedy CO
Lafayette
Ind
H. G. Root
Pearl St
Drs. Whittier
Tt Street
Waiter Express
UIS
Bio
Loomis & Nyman Tiffin
Montgomery Ward & CO
Webash Avenue
England
Nottingham Hospital
America
Noosevelt
Swift
L. Fred Halford
New York City
Savannah
Dax Leavy
Jersey City
N. J
Thegenorecific Co
Atlanta, Ga
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Northern Grove
Doves All Ag
John 4. Salzer
LaCrosse
Seddie
Roney
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