Through Car Service Opens Toledo to Gostras' Connection
The road now enables through car service from Toledo to Cambridge and Marietta, linking with the Pennsylvania System for all points East. Service extends to Bowerston and provides connections to Akron, Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. Schedules show westward and eastward runs with stops at Massillon Orrville New Cumberland Cambridge Canal Dover and Marietta among others, with daily operations and crew notices.
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A. m
Orrville
Massillon
Valley Junction
New Cumberland
Bo Sherrodsville
Beeville
Si Ces
Bowerston
Canal Dover
BS Cas
New Comerstown
Cambridge
Marietta
Pe Ocia Cde
Westward
Mariettas
Gore Macksburg
New Comerston
Boweteorls
Cacsissen
Sherrodsville
Rmossor
Wcdensss -Lv
Wellington
Norwalk
Tance
Monroeyille
Ta Bellevue
Fremont
Oak Harbor
M. Ae
M. Am. P
Fries Landing
Milda
Aig
Svorwalk
Toledo
Gostras
Pennsylvania
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Woodford
James M. Hall
Gen
Congress Daily Legislative Roundup March 16 19 1886
Senate reports adverse on tobacco drawbacks bill and notes pending reports on government scientific bureaus. House considers pensions for soldiers widows and various telegraph and savings bank bills. Senate passes Electoral Count bill and debates Edmunds resolutions. House addresses direct tax accounts and urgent deficiency funds, adjourns after Indian appropriation work.
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Senate
Morrill
Commttee
Allison
Joint Commission of Congress
Cullom
Edmunds
Messrs
Maxey
Morey
Dolph
Houst
Call of States
Anderson
McComas
Maryland
Post Offee Department
van Wyck
Committee On Public Lands
Pavile
Ridmunds
House
Caswell
Judiciary Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Committee On Appropriations
Grant
Hancock
Virginia
General Grant
Unite States
W. P. Randall
Navy
Cumberland
Merrimac
Spooner
Carlise Beng
Crisp
Georgia
Interior secretary ruling on ex parte Brittin case
The Interior Department reverses a 1885 General Land Office ruling that a pre-emption right could not be converted to a cash entry. The decision clarifies rights under revised statutes and ends the prior limitation on second exercises of the same right.
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Secretary of the Interior
James Brittin
Commissioner of the
General Land Office
Bell Telephone Company
Columbus
United States
Senate
O. Howard
Pope
Patrick B. Garman
St. Cloud
Minn
D. F. McDermott
Benson
Berlin
Auttichan
Silesia
House Committee On Elections
Frank Hurd
Jacob Romeis
Tenth
Ohio
Reading railroad trustees approve 100 million mortgage plan
At Philadelphia meeting on the 16th trustees approved a reconstruction plan creating a new fifty year general mortgage at four percent for 100,000,000 dollars. Other items include a Corning mill blast in Hazardville for which Charles Luce died, Oregon wreck salvage of mail bags, and local incidents from Beaver County caveat hearings to Bern tragedy.
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Reading Railroad
Philadelphia
Corning
Hazardville
Conn
Charles Luce
Oregon
Register
Beaver County
Harmonist Society
George Rapp
Rapp
Harmonists
Wurtemberg
Germany
Laura A. Miller
Buffalo
N. Y
Gas light explosion fuels fatal injuries in party
A gas explosion after a match lit a gas light left five party members fatally injured. News items report grants, deaths, strikes, a New York gas incident, a train wreck near Hawley, and other 19th century events including a veteran widow’s donation after a failure, a Mass heroine’s death, and labor actions.
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General Grant
Corbin
Grant
National Tube Works
McKeesport
Ith
Knights of Labor
New York
Hamilton Cole
George C. Holt
Ferdinand Ward
William 8. Warner
Eleventh Street
Thomas Jackson
Martin O'Shaughnessy
Iith
Jackson
Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad
Hawley
Fred Smith
O'Hara
The
Fourth District
Dubois
United States
Canada
Handson
Tamaqua
Wth
Boston Dispatch
Oregon
Hudson
Philadelphia
Boston
Maria Beck
Frederick
Avenue C
Multiple 1877 events reported in Memphis and surrounding areas
News from Memphis Tennessee and nearby states summarizing varied incidents. Emma Norman’s fatal shooting in Memphis. Archer vigilantes in Orange County. death of railroad executive General Devereux in Cleveland. Harlan P. Tracy’s insolvency in Illinois. cattle poisoned near Pyrmont, Ohio. embezzlement arrest in Detroit. Grand Rapids adopts eight hour day. Cannon bail forfeited in Salt Lake City. Regal Well struck near Piqua. Zigler linked to Canton murder. Pat Hickey’s accidental killing in Atlanta. Milwaukee adopts eight hour day. Cincinnati trench collapse. Massillon fire loss. Chicago tobacco firm adopts eight hour day. Louisiana election set. Powderly on Gould strike. oyster packers meeting in Baltimore.
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Memphis
Tenn
Emma Norman
Henry Arnold
Kidder Smith
Orange County
Ind
J. H. Devereux
Cleveland
United States
Virginia
Bee Line
Harlan P. Tracy
Elmwood
Ill
J. SL. Jordan
Pyrmont
Montgomery County
Paris Green
Lewis Benditt
N. K. Fairbank & Co
Chicago
Detroit
Widllecomb Furniture
Grand Rapids
Mich
Knights of Labor
George Q. Cannon
Salt Lake City
Utah
Regal
Piqua
Henry Zigler
St. Louis
Reuben Cooper
Canton
Zigler
Pat Hickey
Atlanta
Iith
Will Pinion
Pinion
Major Waliher
Milwaukee
Frank Bauer
William Myers
Buckeye Street
Cincinnati
Patrick Surke
Massillon
C. W. Allen Tobacco Company
Louisiana
Michael Hahn
Workman Powderly
Associated Press
Kansas City
Balti
Earthquakes and unrest ripple across Europe and Canada
A sequence of calamities and headlines from mid June reports includes a midnight earthquake in Weisbaden and a seven second tremor in Granada Spain. Silesia endures heavy snow burying villages and freezing children en route to school. In Britain, ministers resignations surface while public aid grows. Canada seizes 2500 copies of Endymion over copyright. Paris hosts a Pasteur banquet with US minister presiding. A Jewish scholar Leopold Zuny dies at ninety two. A Silesian peasant woman is jailed for poisoning four husbands. A Liege unemployed socialist parade ends in riot with cafes wrecked and shops sacked. many rioters wounded and hundreds arrested.
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Weisbaden
Silesia
Prussia
London
Joseph Chamberlain
Trevelyan
Scotland
Gladstone
Granada
Spain
Dominion
Ottawa
Lord Beaconsfield
Endymion
Harper Bros
Leopold Zuny
Liege
Belgium
Leopold
Lauer guilty of manslaughter in Omaha tragedy
Trial of John W. Lauer ends in verdict of manslaughter for the murder of his wife in Omaha Nebraska. Defense claimed killing by mistake for a burglar. Punishment ranges one to ten years. The case drew wide attention due to Lauer's prominence.
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John W. Lauer
Omaha
Neb
Lauer
Hamilton County
Cincinnati Infirmary
Apisparen
Marshfield
Ore
Beda
Cape Perpetua
Healey
J. H. Devereaux
Cleveland, C
Ohio Legislature Passes Various Bills in House and Senate
Ohio General Assembly acts on birth of bills and amendments. Senate approves measures on court time, health, and liquor laws, while House debates appropriation totals, school books, and labor restraint. Governor taps appointees. attendance light with adjournments and investigations into state institutions ongoing.
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House
Senate
John W. Watkins
Delaware
Girls’ Industrial School
Miami University
Intermediate
Xenia Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphan Home
Circuit and Common Pleas Court
Wilson
Lindsey
Ohio
Congress
Flouse
Mr. Brown
Cleveland
Mr. McBride
Barrett
Toledo
State Board of Health
General Revenue Fund
Dow
Henry B. Perkins
Ohio State University
Robert M. Round
George S. Poetry
Jlouse
McBride
Committee On Labor
Parrar
Cope
Lenate
Cameron
Albaugh
Green
Remarkable Paris Sale Picture Alleges Mahdi Campaign Scene
London Truth reports a striking Paris Sale item described as an episode of the English campaign in the Sudan. It allegedly shows the Mahdi seated in his tent receiving chiefs bearing a load of freshly decapitated British soldiers' heads as homage.
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Paris
London
Soudon
Why are people poor and who is to blame
A writer questions the causes of poverty. The author admits limited study and offers a tentative guess that wealth acquisition ability largely explains poverty, while acknowledging uncertainty and proposing that the issue requires deeper investigation.
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Senator Stanford
California
New York Graphic
Chicago
Stanford
Y. Sun
Take a Drink Not For Me
A short verse condemns drinking by noting water is free and unbonding. The speaker declines a drink, contrasting others who waste money and lose essentials to alcohol, portraying water as a pure, costless alternative.
The Responsibility of Social and Fashionable World Against Whisky
A column argues Knights of Labor ban profits from liquor and press for active battle against rum. It criticizes wealthy patrons and fashion as enablers of drinking, urges expulsions of drinkers and boycotts of rum traffic to protect workers and society. It recalls a Worcester temperance pledge and the transformative moment of Edward Gough’s public conversion.
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Organization of Knights of Labor
Hien
Order
Rum
Seir
Toledo Blade
Old Town Hall
City Hall
Worcester
Town Hall
Gough
Harrington Corner
Imported toilet soaps from Franege use peanut oil
The readable fragment notes that some of the finest toilet soaps are imported from Franege and manufactured from peanut oil, indicating a unique ingredient source and origin.
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Franege
Faithful Records Of A Drunkard’s Diary
A fragment from At. Lewis Presbyterian presents a mock diary of a tavern keeper logging daily sales and patrons for whisky and beer. It lists Monday through Sunday entries, noting purchases, vows, and the speaker’s cynical reflections on vice and respectability.
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Ragged Bill
Charlie Piper
Dick Plaster
Johnny Slogan
P. Ss
Phil Carter
Sam Chap
N. G
Lewis Presbyterian
Petition Plan Aims for Two Million Women's Signatures
Frances Willard proposes a world petition drive to ban liquor and opium, sending experienced women to circulate the petition and return names to Chicago. The push seeks global government action from the US Congress to parliaments worldwide, backed by local Women’s Christian Temperance Unions with small annual dues. The appeal stresses harm from alcohol and opium and urges total prohibition across governments' territories.
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Frances E. Willard
Union Signal Office
Chicago
United States Congress
Miss Willard
Christian ‘Temperance Unions
Ohio Masonry Resolution Bans Alcohol for Initiation
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio adopts a resolution stating that selling intoxicating drinks should disqualify a person from initiation or affiliation with any lodge. The action frames a moral stance on conduct and membership eligibility within the organization.
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Masonic Grand Lodge of
Ohio
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