Secretary Sherman to Speak in Columbus After Two Week Tour
Secretary Sherman left Washington for Mansfield Ohio for a two week absence and will deliver his first campaign speech in Columbus. A New York Third avenue car robbery report was denied by police as a drunken disturbance over unpaid fare. Knights of Pythias begin Supreme Lodge openings in St. Louis with Cleveland and New Orleans lodges among arrivals. The four and a half percent loan’s September interest totals 2,800,000 with Treasury checks soon to be distributed. Ouray’s illness endangers Ute treaty prospects as Ouray nears death in the Southern Ute Agency. News train collision near Long Branch injures three, engineer Erickson blamed for careless operations. May’s Landing verdict blames train crews for preventable accident. Freedmen’s Bank declares 10 percent dividend due September 1. Zechler case shocks Berks County as an insane man long confined in squalid, chained confinement is now housed in an asylum.
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British envoy denies harem strangling rumor
The British Ambassador at Constantinople contradicted rumors of the strangling of a lady of the Sultan s harem. In England twenty two thousand nail makers in Staffordshire and Worcestershire struck for higher wages. A gun burst on a Danish Government schooner at Copenhagen killed two and wounded eleven. The Anglo American Cable Company completed the Heart s Content to Valentia cable, begun on the 10th and finished on the 31st inst. In Havana forty deaths from yellow fever and four from smallpox last week. Ten people died this month from glanders. A mixed Anglo French commission will meet in Paris to discuss treatment of Indian coolies in Reunion Island.
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Fountain of Health Remedy Promoted by Dr Kennedy
A short colonial style ad touts Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a Fountain of Health from nature. It pitches cures for women's complaints and various pains, urging readers to mail a dollar for a bottle if unavailable locally. The piece evokes youth myths and promotes the Rondont address for orders.
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The Railroad Sandwich Critique in Transit Meals
A Philadelphia Times critique mocks railroad sandwiches sold on trains or boats. It describes monopolistic sellers timing sales for hunger, wrapping sandwiches in neat white paper claiming freshness and two daily makes, while omitting details on texture or quality. It notes the small portions and the ease of tossing scraps from open car windows.
President Lincoln Dream Haunting His Final Days
The article recounts President Lincoln reading scriptures on Sunday, sharing that he dreamed of his own assassination ten days before the 1805 death. He described a vision of stillness, weeping, and a corpse on a dais with a soldier saying the President died by the hand of an assassin. Mrs Lincoln later claimed the dream was prophetic.
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Piery Quips and Wisecracks From Aged Times
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