15 May 1880
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Newspaper
Chester Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1880
Page
1
The shop announces twenty four cases of the latest Paris novelties in millinery for ladies and children. Features include Bonnets Round Hats fancy braids French chip English Dunstables Tuscan and Sailor hats plus Paris Flowers Ostrich feathers ribbons and silks in new shades.
Eight hundred brickmakers on the west and south sides of Chicago demand two dollars daily, a 25 percent rise, while north side workers already receive the higher rate. Forest fires rage in New Jersey and Milford Pennsylvania with extensive lumber loss and homes destroyed. In Montana and Idaho, native nations sell large tracts of land to the Government for annual sums over multi year terms. Mil ton and surrounding areas in Pennsylvania suffer major fires destroying hotels churches banks and shops, leaving hundreds homeless and feared dead. National party delegate tallies show Grant leads the Chicago Republican convention with broad regional support, while Democratic delegates favor Tilden Hancock and Thurman with a two thirds rule looming for nomination.
IREIGH NOTES, William Lang, Jr., & Co., leading manufacturers of Glasgow, Scotland, have failed with liabilities estimated at £40,000. London Standard Berlin correspondent says English Cabinet seeks a European conference to resolve Berlin Treaty points. Roubaix riot report warns of further disturbances. Glasgow dispatch notes Clyde emigrants increasing as Devonia sails to New York with 500 steerage passengers. Blackburn weavers may return to work. Darwin weavers strike for three pence per room amid possible half-time operations.
Daily letters from grateful readers report great benefits from Dr. David Kennedy of Rondout New York. Sufferers travel long distances to meet him in person, shake his hand, and praise him as a trusted friend, deepening public interest in his treatment.
A Providence Advertiser style note rails against ad cheats, urging plain talk on Hop Bitters merits. The item mentions seven new open girls teaching in Guatemala City, and a short quip about a child asking where Washington is buried, with a response about reading the Bible.
A college youth once pure and respected drinks at a party night and is led to ruin. He abandons study, joins revellers, and dies in a drunkard's grave. Friends vow never to touch liquor again. A young lady who offered him the first glass bears lifelong reckoning. The piece warns against tempting others with alcohol.
An elderly Fairfield Connecticut church leader with partial deafness caused a comic moment at a Sunday service. He misinterpreted the baptism announcement and offered to supply children with Sunday School books for twenty five cents to anyone who lacked children.
The Lime Kiln Club debates the question but cannot agree on a rule of conduct when meeting a policeman at a late hour. The committee declines to lay down any set axiom due to varying circumstances and unseen factors. Also notes Peterson's Magazine June issue with fashion plates, short stories, poems, editor's notes, puzzles, and new illustrated articles. Club terms available from publisher Charles J. Peterson, 308 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
An item warns against popular bitters containing alcohol, noting they reel in drinkers while offering only temporary relief. Dr Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is advertised as alcohol free and purporting to cure cravings. The notice promotes child reading material and cites Memphis fear of infection leading to clothing burns and preservation of ten dollar bills found on a deceased person.
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