Temperance Reading Shows Liquor Cost Outsizes Nation’s Rail and War
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece by Rev Wyland D Ball argues liquor expenditure dwarfs railroads and Civil War costs. It calculates 1867 liquor bills at billions, compares them to industrial and government outlays, and urges wealth redirected to relief and moral reform. The author highlights unemployment, poverty, and calls for temperance as a path to national improvement.
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Hhnough
Chicago Inter Ocean
Wyland D. Ball
McPherson
Kansas
Mr. Ball
David A. Wells
Treasury Department
Thssum C. KH. Fower
Mia Cone
United States
al Tiera Iwoy Systems
Consitutine
Acticn
Commercal
Labor Ng
Unon
Whisky Union
Iss
Strres
Starvaton
Walker
Boston
Polites
Unitead Stes
Sues Enormous de
Sis
Snail
Cincinnati
Scotland Embraces Temperance Reform Echoing Guthrie
A preacher named Guthrie warned temperance was a national curse and shame. Scots now take up the cry, confessing the reformer was right about the vice destroying bodies and souls and breaking families more than others.
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Dr. Guthrie
Scotland
A Monkey With More Sense Than Many Men
An Irish World item recounts a Maryland man with a valuable monkey who refused second whisky after an initial drunken episode. The owner tried guns and force, but the clever monkey escaped, hid in a chimney flue, and never tasted alcohol again.
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Jack
Zjrish
A Fitting Rebuttal by a Clergyman Over Wine
A temperance clash between a New Jersey bishop and a devout abstaining clergyman is recounted from Youth's Companion. The clergyman repeatedly quotes scripture to refuse alcohol at dinner, until the bishop finally yields. The tale underscores the power of steadfast principle in religious circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Wendell Phillips
Temperance News Shows Bans and Protests Across Lands
A temperance survey notes Missouri counties ban saloons, Edinburgh congregations adopt unfermented wine, and debates on liquor rise in Britain. Accounts quote clergy and reformers on the social costs, infant mortality, wages spent on drink, and calls to curb the “Moloch” of intoxication.
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Missouri
Edinburgh
Scotland
Tury
Massachusetts Society
Congressional Society
England
Westminster
London
Dean Bradley
Jr. Liarrison
Branth- Ware
Japanese Bank in New York City Run by Orient Gentlemen
The article describes a Japanese bank operating in New York City with native Japanese directors and English speaking staff. It notes its connections to Yokohama and a London branch, its purpose to facilitate Japan trade, and details capital reserves and profits reported as of December 31, 1884. The bank’s agents and key officers are listed.
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New York
the Orient
Japan
China
Yokohama
Mi Nami Nakadori Gocome
Bishopsgate Street
London
England
Whch
Europe
Rokuro Hara
Nagatene Soma
Rizemon Kimura
Tsunejiro Sakurai
R. Kimura
T. Sakurai
Teisaku Tahaki
N. ¥. World
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Atlantic
Pacific
Rock Island
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peoria
Geneseo
Moline
Innois
Davenport
Muscatine
Washington
Fairfield
Ottumwa
Oskala
West Liberty
Iowa City
Des Moines
Indianola
Winterset
Oxville
Audubon
Harlan
Guthrie Centre
Council Biuffe
Iowa
Gallatin Trenton
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth and Atchison
Kansas
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
Union
Missouri River
Aitchison
Fast Oaimmer
Minnesota
Forde i 1
R. R. Cable
St. Paul
Territories
Dakota
Seneca
Kankakee
Port News
Richmond
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
United States
Canada
Conditions of Supplies Reaching besieged Chattanooga
The narrative notes Rosecrans’ forces were fed from Nashville with rail control contested by Bragg. The Lookout and Raccoon Mountain line blocked rail and river routes, forcing a 60 mile plus circuit to supply troops, many of whom faced half rations, exhausted cattle, and scarce shoes. Fuel was scarce, trees had to be cut north of the river and floated south for transport. General Grant is cited in Century.
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Rosecrans
Nashville
Bridgeport
Tennessee River
Bragg
Chattanooga
Anniilis Jes
General Grant
Potato Introduction and Spread in Germany Highlighted
A Saxon Economical Society meeting in Dresden reviewed a paper on how potatoes entered Germany from Italy in 1585 and spread through Saxony by 1717. By 1882 Germany cultivated over 9 million acres yielding about 23 million tons. Also noted are linguistic quips, curiosities about the verb am, and assorted brief items.
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Dresden
Germany
Italy
Saxony
Landgrave of Hesse
Leipsic
Brabant
N. Y. Graphic
Counterfeiting Fear and Warner Formula Fraud Exposed
A cautious critique questions heavy government pursuit of counterfeiters while condemning fraudsters who imitate Warner's Safe Cure. The piece describes a New York man’s rise from cure to large-scale production, then warns against imitators, counterfeiters, and questionable publishers selling spurious formulas.
An Important Arrest and a Cure Mentioned
An advertisement extols arrests in crime and disease catching danger early. It likens a detective’s arrest to halting pulmonary consumption, claiming Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery can arrest and permanently cure. Sold by druggists.
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Pierce
Curious notes and ads from a bygone paper
The fragment listsBASE-BALL curiosities and umpire duties, pay roles for cashiers, and veterans with lost legs. It includes an ad for Demorest's Monthly patterns and a cough remedy, Boater and Piso’s Cure for Consumption, urging rest and health.
Rebuking the Politicians and a Rheumatic Remedy
President Cleveland rebukes a prominent politician who endorsed a candidate and protested the appointment in private. The piece then promotes Athlophoros with testimonials from Ohio and Cincinnati readers praising relief from rheumatism and neuralgia, including Mrs. Evham of Akron and others.
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Cleveland
Athlophoros
Ohio
John T. Hearn
The
Valley Sentinel
Sidney, O
Maxwell P. Gaddis
Dayton
J. J. W. Rabbe
Main Street
Cincinnati
John 2. Miller
Kerr Street
Columbus
Margaret Evham
East Exchange Street
Akron
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Price
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Marshall
Mich
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Demorest
Armnormon
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Wall Street
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Chicago & North-Western
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Standard Silverware Co
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A. W. McCormick & Son
Business College
Buffalo
N.Y
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Atty
Washington, D.C
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Raia
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14Th St
Radway
Wson
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All Humane Remedy CO
Ind
Peterman
Onto
Happy Card CO
Westfiel
FEN
Appomattox
St.Louis
Seling
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Detroit, Mnion
Valentine Ros
Janesville, Wis
Pas Business College
Philadelphia
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Douglass & Sons
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U.S
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Rochester
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Valley Railway
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