West recalls Hampton Roads meeting in Confederate peace bid
Missouri Senator (Mr West) recounts a legendary 1861 conference at Hampton Roads involving President Lincoln and Confederate leaders. He asserts Lincoln offered only unconditional surrender and denies claims of a Confederate peace paper. West says the account is his account of Stephens and Hunter and aims to preserve history from falsification.
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Washington
Senate
Dolliver
Lowa
Carrick
Tennessee
Gould
Mer. Dolliver
Cormack
Teu
Oit
Veat
Stephens
Hunter
Confederacy
Reagan
Vest
Hampton Roads
Seward
Lincoln
Richmond
West
Confederate States of America
Mr. West
Hanver
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. Taken internally it targets blood and mucous surfaces. It offers 100 dollars to any case it cannot cure and provides testimonials upon request from F J Canney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists.
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Hall
Lily
F. J. Cuaney & Co
Toledo
Druegls
Salmon Salad Poisoning Hits Mexican Wedding Guests
One hundred guests at a Monte Morelos wedding feast near Monterey, Mexico, were poisoned by salmon salad after cans were opened earlier. About 100 Illnesses reported. no deaths yet. The event linked to Antonio G. Canta and Lenora Canta wedding. Prominent detail includes local travel and the Monteny & Mexican Gulf railroad. Bullard's Snow Liniment ad copy appears in the text.
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San Antonio
Tex
Monte Morelos
Monterey
Mexico
Dany
Monteny & Mexican Gulf
Antonio G. Canta
Lenora Canta
Chaffee Heads to Mindanao Mission with Moros Talks
General Chaffee sailed from Manila on the Ingalls for Mindanao to meet the Moros. General Davis telegraphed that a military governor's presence could help, and Chaffee replied by proceeding to Mindanao to arrange a conference with leading sultans and dattos.
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Manila
Chaffee
Ingalls
Lanao
Mindanao
Davis
Philippines
White's Cream Vermifuge promotion targetting children
An 19th century advertisement claims weak fretful children can become strong and healthy after a few doses of White's Cream Vermifuge. It asserts benefits like rosy cheeks and bright eyes and mentions a 25 cent price, attributed to H. L. Tucker.
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H. L. Tucker
Governor Davis Pardons Andrew Thompson for Massachusetts Citizenship
Little Rock May 6 Governor Jefferson Davis pardoned Andrew Thompson a negro on condition he move to Massachusetts within thirty days to seek state citizenship. Thompson had been convicted of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The pardon notes sympathy for Massachusets’ oppressed negroes and aims to allow reform of part of the southern negro population.
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Little Rock
Ark
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Thompson
Thompson
Massachusetts
Arkansas
British Dragnet Catches 288 Boers Near Lindley
London May 7 Advices from South Africa report 288 Boers captured and 10 killed near Lindley Orange River Colony. British troops left the Prankfort Heilbron Vredefort line at dawn, moved south to Kroonstad Lindley area. British casualties were nil. O'Ukiep relieved by Colonel Cooper. concordia district cleared of Boers.
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London
South Africa
Lindley
Orange River Colony
Lord Kitchener
Prankfort
Heilbron
Vredefort
Kroonstad
O'Ukiep
Western Cape
Voloney
Transvaal
Smuts
Cooper
O'Okiep
Concordia
Cape Colony
Vitalizing Herbine Promises Strengthening Tonic
Bold advertisement extolls Herbine as a life giving stimulant. Claims to boost weak constitutions with regenerative power in every drop. Presented by H. H. Tacker, price 50 cents.
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Tacker
Twine From Kansas Penitentiary Offered To Farmers
The Kansas state penitentiary will offer binding twine for sale to farmers and dealers in the state. Estimated production this season is about one million pounds. Price is ten cents per pound in 5 000 pound lots, or ten and a half cents for any amount under 5 000 pounds. Wholesale carload price nearby is 11 cents per pound for Missouri river shipments. It is estimated 7 to 8 million pounds are needed to meet Kansas farmer demand in a normal season.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas State Penitentiary
Missouri River
Kansas
Trustee's Sufe Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure in Missouri
Notice of default on a trust deed dated January 10 in Missouri notes totaling fifty and ninety dollars with interest, describing the secured real estate in section one township 40 range 29. The legal holder requests foreclosure as the debt has become due and unpaid.
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Samuel W. Gilliiand
Hates
Missouri
Mates
Saig
Truai
Trun
State OF Missouri
Jes
Bates
Circuit Court of Hates
Couuty
Hae
Susiek K. Waliom
Wm. H. Walton
Plawatt
Wheeler
Helen A. Wheeler
Nellie C. Shedd
Pee Wheeler
Bede
Ward A. Shedd
F. J Tygard
BG. Wheeler
Heles le Wheeler
Nellie A.shedd
W. M. Waiton
Bates State of Missouri
Willems
Kut
Ming
Sai Ka
Binding affair in New Jersey vows three year single life
Lemuel Charles Meekins of Park view New Jersey and Miss Laura Morgenson of Granton publicly vowed to remain unmarried for three years and six months and to refrain from contact with other matches while Meekins enlists in the Philippines for three years. They signed formal agreements before Justice of the Peace George F Seymour in Hoboken. Morgenson, about 20, is a telegraph operator in New York City. Meekins, 25, plans to resign from a New York department store job to enlist.
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Lenvel Meekins
Pakrview
N. J
Philippines
Justice of the
George F. Seymour
Hoboken
Laura Morgenson
Granton
Miss Morgenson
New York City
Mookins
New York
Lemuel Charles Meekins
Attentons
United States
Laven Amelia Morgenson
Love Leads to Disaster in Cincinnati Train Crash
The Ohio Supreme Court affirms the Cincinnati Superior Court judgment for Mrs. John G. Vince, seeking $10,000 damages after her engineer husband died in a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio line. Price, known for kissing his wife at train passes, caused a distraction that led to a fatal derailment near his home, with several killed and many injured.
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Supreme Court of Ohio
Superior Court of Cincinnati
John G. Vince
Altimore & Ohio
Price
Vanderbilt
Cincinnati
German journalism school proposed in central city
The leading press associations are forming to assess feasibility of a journalism school in Germany. Frankfurt or Dresden are suggested as a base. Curriculum excludes stenography and mechanics and focuses on leader writing, editing, telegraph, padding, foreign press methods, news layout, and business of journalism. Two year course with three terms yearly. Vanderbilt Jr plans a Europe trip by automobile, health permitting, with Mrs. Vanderbilt accompanying. They will travel via London and Paris to Calnstatt, Germany, where the touring machine is ready.
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Germany
Frankfurt -on-the-Main
Dresden
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Europe
Man who boxed ears for cutting up in church gallery
A man who once boxed J. Morgan's ears for misbehavior in a church gallery is alive and may win public affection. The item references The Griffon as the first vessel on the lakes, noting it as the era’s inaugural craft, and mentions De Grott in passing.
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J. Morgan
The
Chicago Record-Herald
de Grott Rheor
Horse Breeding Notice at Cooper County Stable
A stallion Elamo ln coal brick stands at Cooper Co stable near Montrose to sire foals for a fee due upon foal acceptance. Imported Spanish Jack sire, Buck Knight dam line, 1200 pound progeny, insured colt to stand and suck. Breeders urged to attend and note insurance forfeiture for noncompliance.
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My Barn
Hintler
Montrose
Butler Road
Elamo
Jack
Spain
Cooper Co
Charles Leonard
Elano
Buck Knight
A. Felger
Clarkaburg Mo
A Liberal Offer For Farmers Club The Live Stock Indicator Poultry Farmer
A four publication club offer includes The Live Stock Indicator The Poultry Farmer and The Special Farmers Institute Editions along with this paper for one year at 1 25. The offer touts superior reading matter for farm homes and urges quick action with office sample viewing.
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Farmers’ Institute
West
Southwest
The St Louis Mirror Prospectus and Offer
The St Louis Mirror is a twenty eight page weekly review edited by William Marion Reedy with a staff of leading writers. It covers social religious scientific financial literary and artistic topics and promises reviews and poetry for merchants teachers professionals students politicians women and homes. An offer invites readers to send 10 cents and receive ten weeks by mail from The Minron St Louis Mo.
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St. Louis
THE
Minron
Administrator's Notice on Will and Appointment
The notice announces letters of administration issued near On April 7 in Bales County. It mentions a pacer signed by Og and a will enmamed. The fragmented text specifies probate actions and official designation of an administrator.
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Pacer
Tie Poceaey Ooett
Bales County
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