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Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1889
Page
2
Central America Unified Republics and Congress Outlook
The text notes the formation of a union of five Central American republics and mentions only seventeen contested cases in Congress. It adds a skeptical view of Bend versus Maud S. II. The Pan American Congress moves slowly, having only adopted rules for governance. Superintendent Porter seeks G A R cooperation with census enumerators to list war survivors.
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United States
Central America
Pan American Congress
Porter
Police Force in New York City to Reach 3384 Men in 1890
A New York journal notes the 1890 police force will total 3,384 officers with an annual expense of 4,500,000 dollars. The Kilrain case in Mississippi found him guilty of assault and battery, with a 200 dollar fine and two months in jail, an appeal followed. Kilrain’s sentence was lighter than Sullivan’s.
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New York City
Kilrain
Mississippi
Sullivan
Centennial Inauguration Celebration At Washington City
Washington marked the centennial of the inauguration with a gathering at Washington City attended by the President and his Cabinet Justices of the Supreme Court Members of Congress and the Diplomatic body Chief Justice Fuller delivered the oration and the event drew notable attendance.
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Washington
Washington City
Fuller
Supreme Court
Congress
South moves to fund Davis monument amid Grant monument delay
In the South there is an effort to raise funds for a Jefferson Davis memorial while a Grant monument remains unstarted. The text notes the contrast and predicts a possible stalemate or cold reception until the Davis monument is erected.
War on dangerous electric wires prompts reform call
The piece warns of many deaths and property losses due to electric wires and argues for legislative action. It predicts possible abolition of such systems if construction remains unsafe, urging stricter safety measures to protect people and property.
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Tts
Readership survey questions reach readers of a presidential message
A Vermont paper notes a sample of readers after publishing a president's message. Only 11 percent read the full message while 56 percent read portions. 26 percent did not read it at all and 5 percent did not notice it. Press comments drew 37 percent readership, with 17 percent not reading them. The piece suggests long winded productions are fading. Also reported is the funeral of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans with about 200,000 visitors and strong eulogies.
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Vermont
Jefferson Davis
New Orleans
Crescent City
Push to increase Supreme Court judges in Congress
The piece notes a legislative push to raise the number of U S Supreme Court justices from nine to eleven. It argues the Court is overburdened and unable to dispose of cases quickly, a condition likened to lower courts, and suggests expansion would help clear the docket and improve lawyers' prospects and pay.
Uncertain Brazil Faces Dictator Risk Amid Military Pressure
Observers split on Brazil's future as the Soldiery's encroachments spark civil rights concerns. Fonseca emerges as a potential leader but fears of a dictatorship grow, with a constitutional convention unresolved and possible dissolution or war. International reactions remain cautious as the new order unsettles neighbors.
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Brazil
Fonseca
Cronin trial verdict in Chicago returns murder findings
Jury convicts Coughlin O Sullivan and Burke of murder with life terms Kunze gets three years Begga found not guilty Burke the defendants face life imprisonment in the Cronin case A congressional resolution seeks probe into ballot box forgery in Ohio contest to uncover truth amid broad rumor spread
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Great Cronin
Chicago
Coughlin
O’sullivan
Burke
Kunze
Begga
Butterworth
Congress
Ohio
Influenza Epidemic Spreads From Russia To Europe
A Cincinnati paper notes a sneezing epidemic expanding from Russia to France and Berlin and warns it may reach the United States. It jokingly suggests stocking handkerchiefs and whisky and quips that the whisky should be taken as a tonic rather than applied externally.
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Europe
Russia
Berlin
United States
Cincinnati
France
Local notes and community updates from the town
The railroad stays about the same. A protracted meeting continues at the ME church. Schools will close Friday for a two week vacation. Mrs Mary A Morrison visits her sister Mrs Seth Michener. Pearl McCreary buys a half interest in Dr R H Henry's drugstore. Squire McBurney marries a couple from Elizabethtown last Wednesday. Thomas and George Smith own a top pony in the county. Merchants offer holiday goods at low prices. Town council grants Central District and Printing Co permission to erect telephone poles on South Street. Robinson Post GAR elects officers: John Struble Post Commander Charles Dugan Sr V Com J Betts Jr V Com 8S Clemens PD D D Develve O G J Woodburn Surgeon Robert Crawford Chaplain.
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Mary A Morrison
Seth Michener
Pearl McCreary
R H Henry
Squire McBurney
Elizabethtown
Thomas
George Smith
Central District and Printing Co
South Street
Robinson Post Gar
John Struble
Chas Dugan Sr
J Betts Jr
Clemens
D Develve
Woodburn
Robert Crawford
Revival meetings and local notices in Kimbolton area
Community items report pension increases for Eli Miller and Wm K Shaffer while John Dawson declines. David Little visits near Birmingham. Local markets list Eggs 20c Butter 15c Beef 5c Dressed pork 32.5c Rabbits 10c. UP congregation plans a new parsonage. Six sermons preached last Sabbath at multiple churches. Six revival sermons noted with praise for Salem's gospel reception. Kimbolton G A K Post officers elected for the year. Village residents comment on church manners. Lon Miller reports Minnesota cold and good crops.
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John Dawson
Eli Miller
Wm K Shaffer
David Little
Birmingham
M T Mathews
FE Snyder
William Pollock
Cambridge
Roy Baker
Wm Pollock
Mark Sanyder
Oregon
Joseph Proctor
Pennsylvania
U P Ang & P
Salem
G A K Post
Kimbolton
Jno Miller
Lon Miller
Minnesota
Miller
Protracted Meeting Lore City and Local Notices
Local items note Rev Forsythe holds annual meeting at Lore City. Peter Nelson and family moved in. Dee Trenner and Gleo Jackson visited Pt Pleasant. P O moved to new building near MP church. K of P mourn founder Rathbone. DS Burt’s horse injured. Wittin's hall dance held. Machinery at Farmer's mines repaired. ME church pulpit filled by Rev Misel from Scio College. Byesville Camp officers elected.
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Gleo Jackson
Pt Pleasant
Rev Forsythe
Lore City
Planing Mill
P O
MP Church
Ora M Wells
Cambridge
Rathbone
DS Burt
Wittin’s Hall
Misel
Scio College
Byesville
Sci
J W Ringer
A W Beach
C W
Nossett
W Beach
Reasoner
Henry Howell
W Nossett
F Lee
Pleasant County Cur Walks Near Completion
Pt. Pleasant notes discuss cur walks nearly finished, F A S paid and wife in Cambridge, last week. Services at the ME church last Sabbath led by Rev Piggott. William Young visited family over Sunday. Daniel Sigiefritz traveled to Cambridge on business last week. Clarence Secrest and sister visited Aquilla Spaid's over Sabbath. Richard Shriver and wife near Caldwell visited William Young's last Sabbath. OT Young and Maude Crow wed last Thursday evening at Glenwood, officiated by Roy Piggott.
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Cambridge
Rev Piggott
William Young
Daniel Sigiefritz
Clarence Secrest
Aquilla Spaid
Richard Shriver
Caldwell
Wm Young
OT Young
Miss Maude Crow
Roy Piggott
Glenwood
Local Notices And Social Updates From Area
Brady. Mrs Brice Barthalow is dangerously ill. Harry McCracken studies telegraphy. School will close for holidays. Friday this week C T Taylor of Dyson visits relatives here. H M McCracken hauled hogs here last week. Mrs Elijah Warne suffers inflammatory rheumatism. Many attend Baptist meetings at Clear Fork church near Birmingham. Rev Kahn to start protracted meeting at Allen's Chapel January 2 at 6 30 p m. A literary society formed at Special school house last Friday with Ross Jenkins as chairman.
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Brice Barthalow
Harry McCracken
C T Taylor
Dyson
H M McCracken
Elijah Warne
Clear Fork Church
Birmingham
Kahn
Allen’s Chapel
Ross Jenkins
Kentucky Writer Challenges Earth Population Figure
A Kentuckian in the Cincinnati Gazette questions a figure of six thousand years of human inhabitation. He argues using 900 million per generation and 50 year generations would require 3.7 billion years for the stated total and that the earth’s population could fit in Kentucky with minimal space.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Kentucky
The Two Worlds Look At the World Fair and Columbus
The Court Journal of London ponders America’s gifts to the Old World and asks if Columbus’ conduct benefited Europe. It highlights telegraph, telephone, railroads, wheat, and other inventions as enduring American contributions and notes plans for further blessings and P T Barnum visits to Europe.
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The
Court Journal of London
Old World
Pulman Palace
Atlantic
Columbus
P. T. Barnum
England
New York Sun
Poor Boy Becomes Millionaire Then Loses Fortune
George Sluthowr of New Philadelphia went West to seek wealth and recently earned 500000 dollars becoming a self made millionaire. In a bid to double his fortune he lost it all and was brought back to Ohio hopelessly insane.
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George Sluthowr
New
Philadelphia
Ohio
Court Confessions and Attachments Dominate Court Report
Court records show multiple confessions for 400 dollars and costs including Chas Jones v C A Jones and Otto Thallheimer v Henry Greenwold. Attachments ordered in Walter Zinn et al v Henry Greenwold, and Lucas cases involve new trials overruled, defauls and sale orders across several dockets.
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Walter Zinn
Ramsey
Wm M Lawrence
Ogier
Cambridge Light and Fuel Car Decree
J D Taylor
Lucinda Ogier
Maria Bonnell
Sarah B Leeper
Martha Leeper
Francis Barnes
AJ Warner Et
Mary
John W Barnes
Rothchild Bros
Geo Johnson
J F Stone
Adm'r
John T Rainey
Costa Nancy J. McCulley
Ruth A Cunningham
Chas Bond
Joseph Hughes
Joseph Temple
Margaret Mehaffey
John Ferguson
Harriet Mehaffey
John C Beckett
Bell Ramsey
Dr Ramsey
James A Lawrence
Plaintif
Macy the corn husker sets speed record in Hempstead
The champion husker Macy, of Hempstead New York, demonstrated an iron husking peg and husked 102 bushels in six hours twenty nine minutes forty seconds beating a world record. He claimed the ability to husk an ear every second for five minutes and offered to bet $100 to $500 on the challenge.
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Hempstead
N. Y
Macy
Mr. Duryea
United States
Electric Bitters restore health to many users
The ad credits Electric Bitters with ending long illnesses and restoring robust health. It claims relief for kidney liver or stomach diseases and promotes the tonic alleged to be a great alterative. Sold at 50c and 100c at D. M. Hawthorne's Drug Store.
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D. M. Hawthorne
Dilley the sewelers' shop near Brown Mouse
Local business notice places Dilley the sewer opposite the Brown Mouse in Hoge's building, dated 2t.
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Dilley
Sewler
Brown Mouse
Hoge
Brown House
First recorded US natural gas discovery and early use
The first gas well in the United States traces to 1815 in Charleston, D.C., with no use recorded. In 1821 a Fredonia, New York woman lit a lantern over a spring, releasing gas that was captured for lighting a mill and shops. Lafayette’s 1824 visit allegedly saw Taylor House lit by this gas. the well reportedly still produces in Fredonia.
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United States
Charleston
D. C
Fredonia
N.Y
Lafayette
Taylor House
Scientific American
New B Z rail timetable effective December fifteenth
A new timetable went into effect on the B Z rail line from December fifteenth with eastbound and westbound departures listed for Zanesville Chandlersville Cumberland Caldwell Summerfield Woodsfield and Bellaire. The schedule shows multiple daily departures and arrivals including trains that turn at a station and one that runs no further.
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B. Z
Zanesville
Chandlersville
Cumberland
Caldwell
Summerfield
Woodfield
Bellaire
Woodsfield
Nashville Doctor Prescribes Cough Syrup For Relief
A Nashville physician provides a remedy to a lady with neuralgia mentioning Dr Bull s Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil alongside a bonnet cashmere shawl gaiter boots. The narrative notes immediate recovery.
Women win in Rural New Yorker potato contest prize list
A national women’s potato contest organized by the Rural New Yorker awarded 200 premiums from 1,000 entrants. First prize went to Mrs Eliza Day of Johnson county Wyoming with 10154 bushels per acre, followed by Miss Mary Rusk of Madison county Illinois at 970.66, and Mrs Micovell of Erie county Ohio at 925. Other top finishers include Miss Emma Hissam Steele county Minnesota and Agnes C Cameron Texas county Missouri with 920 and 854 bushels per acre respectively.
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New Yorker
Eliza Day
Johnson County
Wyo
Mary Rusk
Madison County
III
Micovell
Erie County
Ohio
Emma Hissam
Steele County
Minn
Agnes C. Cameron
Texas County
Mary A. Warren
Fairfield County
Conn
Mary A. Presley
St. Clair County
Mich
Daniel Dunn
Algoma
Canada
Sarah A. Smith
St. Louis County
Mrs Geo P Smoote Credits Swift's Specific for Cure
In 1889 Mrs Geo P Smoote of Prescott Arkansas recounts a long illness from 1887 to 1888 with inflammation of eyes and stomach and liver distress. After failing with leading physicians she stopped medicines in May 1888 and used Swift's Specific S S S a few bottles that restored her health and kept her well through 1889.
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Geo. P. Smoote
Prescott, Ark
Iss
Swift
Swift's Specific credited with cure claim by Morgantown man
R L Womack of Morgantown North Carolina says health failed him years ago, but after five bottles of Swift's Specific S 8 8 38 he recovered fully. Claims supplement cured back liver and stomach pains and invites treatment details from The Swift Specific Co. Also mentions local jeweler Dilley and notes a separate ad for Pt. Pleasant planing mill offering lumber and timber services.
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Swift
R L. Womack
Morgantown
N. C
Holiday excursion tickets offered by multiple lines in Dec 1889
The Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh, the C M and Ry, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announce low round trip excursion fares for Christmas and New Year holidays. Tickets sold December 4 25 31 1889 and January 1 1890 good for return until January 8 1890. C M and Ry offers one and one third fare for pund trips with return by January 3 1890. B and O lists excursion fares west of the Ohio River and to Cincinnati and linked lines with return through January 3 1890.
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Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburgh
Midland Railroad Christmas Excursion Fares Announced
The Columbus and Cincinnati Midland Railroad will sell excursion tickets at one and one third fare for round trips between all stations on its line. Tickets apply to all points on the Baltimore and Ohio R R west of and including Pittsburg and to Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Washington and Baltimore Railroad. Dates: Dec 24 25 31 and Jan 1, return valid to Jan 8 1890.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio River
Wheeling
Washinton
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Columbus & Cincinnati Midland
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore
Columbus & Cincinnati Midland Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio RE R
Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad
One Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh Cure
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio advertise the remedy and claim its internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Local druggists, price 75 cents per bottle, 21 1mo.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
She & Traux
Ohio
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
E. H. van Hoesen
Toledo National Bank
Baltimore clergyman calculates vast heaven with rooms
The Rev. A. A. Dixon of Baltimore estimates heaven holds 5,759,750,000,000 rooms each measuring 19 by 16 feet, based on apocalyptic dimensions.
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A. A. Dixon
Baltimore
Pulpit and Stage Endorse Dr. King’s New Discovery
Rev F M Strout reports a dramatic lung recovery after using Dr Kings New Discovery claiming weight gain and survival. Arthur Love of Love's Fanny Folks backs the medicine as superior to all others after trials. Free trials offered at D M Hawthorne’s drug store with regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar.
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F M Strout
United Brethren Church
Blue Mound
Kan
Dr. King
Arthur Love
Love
D. M. Hawthorne
Trains Depart Cambridge on B and O R R Schedule
Beginning Sunday November 2 trains on the B and O R R from Cambridge include the Chicago Express at 6 02 pm daily except Sunday the Chicago Fast Express at 9 45 am daily and the Chicago Limited at 11 20 pm daily. Other services listed include the Day Express Night Express New York Fast Express Vestibuled Limited and more with Pullman Sleepers via Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia and a Pittsburgh Limited at 2 99 am and Wheeling Express at 7 15 am daily except Sunday. Tickets and sleeper information available from A B White Cambridge Ohio dec 5 4t.
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Bo &O.rrr
Cambridge
Chicago Express
Chicago
Chicago Limited
Columbus
Cincinnati
St. Louis
New York
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Limited
Wheeling
Callen
A. B. White
Ohio
Honest Salve Ad Promises Cure or Money Back
An advertisement touts the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by D. M. Hawthorne. (Dee 5 ' 9, ly)
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D. M. Hawthorne
Golden Specific Co. advertised cure for drunkenness
An advertisement touts a “Golden Specific” that can be given in tea or coffee without the drinker’s knowledge to cure intoxication. It claims thousands have recovered, promises no harm, guarantees cures, and invites readers to request a circular from Gold en Specific Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Golden Specific CO
Race St
Cincinnati
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