Pinchback for Congress amid turmoil in politics
The article items include Pinchback’s bid for Congress, Jeff Davis in Washington, and various political chatter. It notes Cox’s decline, Potter and Butler politics, and reactions to the Berlin congress, with references to Cuba, Bessarabia, and estimates of war costs. It preserves a broad snapshot of late 19th century political discourse.
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Pinchback
Congress
IGEN
Jeff. C. Davis
Washington
J. D. Cox
Ohio
Cox
Jenks
Potter
Butler
Gen. Butler
Boston
Massachusetts
Spain
Cuba
Indians Battle Brings Severe Defeat in John Day Valley
Reports from San Francisco and Portland describe savage depredations across the John Day valley with four thousand square miles involved. Generals Howard Throckmorton and Bernard push a multi-column assault driving hostiles from heights, with heavy fire and losses for both sides, while civilians flee and seek safety.
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San Francisco
Silver City
John Day Valley
Cafion City
Howard
Birch Creek
Butter Creek
Throckmorton
Bernard
Robbins
Missionary Ridge
Blue Ridge
Grande Ronde
Portland
E. Humason
Tygh Valley
Dalles
Oak Grove
Paynette
Oregon City
Humason
Wheaton
Columbia River
Kress
Umatilla
Wilkinson
Worth
Chadwick
la Grande
Terry
Pendleton
Blue Mountain
Burch
McKay Creeks
Meacham
Helena
Mont
Solar Eclipse Observers Arrive From Washington
Professors TI M Paul and H Pritchett of the United States Eclipse Expedition arrived by special car from Washington as advance observers for the solar eclipse on the 29th. They report preparations underway and expect to move equipment to the western Territory and proceed to Colorado with their observation gear.
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Pueblo
Las Animas
Congress
John Rodgers
United States Naval Observatory
Messrs
Paul and Pritchett
Wyoming
Denver
Kansas Pacific Road
North
Texas
W. Sampson
T. W. Veery
C. W. Bowman
Naval Academy
E. W. Sturdy
Naval Observatory
Newcombe
Sampson
C. G. Bowman
John Meier
Creston
la Junta
Arizona
A. Hall
J. A. Rogers
A. W. Wright
W. 3
Gardner
B. Wheeler
Rawlins
William Harkness
W. Sturdy
A. M. Skinner
Messrs. L. &. Walker
A. G. Clark
O. H. Robinson
Col
J. R. Eastman
Lewis Ross
Central City
Ormond Stone
Cincinnati
Winslow Upton
Cambridge
Colorado
Col. Myers
Able
Signal Office
Langley
Pittsburg
Pike’s Peak
United States
TI. M. Paul
Pritchett
Washington
Europe
Messrs. Paul and Pritchett
Glenn's Sulphur Soap and Swayne's Cherry Syrup Ad
An old newspaper ad extols Glenn's Sulphur Soap to remove facial blemishes and whiten the skin. It promotes Dr Swayne's Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry as a cure for coughs bronchitis and lung ailments with trial bottles and wholesale availability in Cheyenne.
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Glenn
Hill
Sreayne
Special Notices for Youthful Errors and Weaknesses
An advertisement promises a remedy for nervous weakness and loss of manhood. It claims the treatment was developed by a missionary in South America and instructs readers to send a self addressed envelope to Rev. Joseph Inman at Bible House, New York, for details.
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Tom
Arkansas
United States
United States Treasury
Potter
President Hayes
John Sherman
James Anderson
D. A. Weber
Judge Levisee
Villian
Anti-Slavery Society of
Great Britain
Prince Bismarck
Congress
Cuba
Africa
Waterloo
William Rowan
John Collins
Ravel Ny
South America
Joseph ‘Dy
INMAN
Btation
Bible House
New Rhe
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conkling
Frederick William
Prussia
Maysor M. A. Reno
St. Paul
Battle of
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Secretary of War
Department of Dakota
Fitz John Porter
Gen. Hunter
Porter
Louisville
Ten Broeck
Mollie McCarthy
McCarthy
California
Harkaway
Bessarabia
Russia
Gortschakoff
Turkey
Buehitesty
Paris
Moldavia
Akerman
Black Sea
San Stefano
Austria
England
Roumania
Servia
Montenegro
New York
Spencer
Alabama
Senate
Joan Bur
House of Commons
Schuyler Colfrax
Pottsville
Iowa
America
Mr. Bryant
Fannie Eush&r
Gun. Butler
Greenback Party
Thurman
Maine
Portenr
Brigham Young
Ann Eliza
Henry Ward Beecher
Peekskill
Heaven
Kentucky
Tim Democratic
Tilden
Mr. Stanley
Niagara
Republic
Common Council
Anderson
Indiana
Prince of Wales
Mrs. Langtry
Mr. Langtry
Walt Whitman
WueEn
Eli Perkins
Ananias
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Department of Agriculture
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Michigan
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Ilinois
Missouri
European Congress
International European Congress
Berlin
Constantinople
Germany
Bismarck
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