Local Advertising Rates and Agents Notice
An aggregated advertisement rate notice for THE LEADER lists per line charges for various ad types and durations. It names multiple authorized advertising agents across New York, St. Louis, Chicago and Philadelphia, including Park Row offices and Sansom Street offices. The fragment notes different rates such as 10 cents per line for transient ads and 25 cents for first insertions, with longer commitments discounted.
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Lyader
Bourgeois
Wrergy Drader
Cheyenne
Dun
Ist
Fh. Glafcke
Leader
New York
M. Patten HL & Co
Park Row
Gee
P. Rowell & Co
St. Louis
Rowell & Chesman
Third
Chestnut Streets
Ae Slrate Publishing
Chica
C.H. Chandler
South Clark Street
Philadelphia
Political notes on Hayes and Democratic sentiment
The Tribune notes rising Hayes support. Augusta Constitutionalist praises bummers calling themselves Boys in Blue. A Macon Democrat testifies for Trayes, Vermont Democrats report Tilden Reform songs moved back. Vermont Democrats stump for New Hampshire Copperheads, Soldiers' Voting bill cited. Louisville Courier reflects that Goy, Tilden, and Hendricks did not denounce Southerners in war.
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The
Tribune
Hayes
Tilden
Augusta
Macon
Trayes
Vermont
Boston
New Hampshire Copperhead
New Hampshire Regiment
Case of Representatives
House
Sitting Bull's Next Move Reported by Officials
Canadian authorities signalBlackfeet protection plans amid fear of Sioux raids. Blackfeet may arm 2000 of their people to defend homes if Sitting Bull’s followers advance. US government to seek surrender if pursued into British territory. Sioux movement northward suggests Sitting Bull will appear in the British Possessions soon.
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Sitting Bull
United States
Plains
Crook
Terry
Reminiscence of Lincoln in Early War Days
A reminiscence recalls a Chicagoan's White House visit to Lincoln during the early war period. The caller urged adoption of a captured and exchanged regiment to be reorganized, amid a nation still weighing the Seward plan and a 75,000 man army concept. The text references the Spring proclamation quotas for troops.
Lincoln and McClellan discussed a wartime regiment
An anecdote recounts Lincoln anxious about funds and morale as a regiment, captured at Lexington by Price, with questions whether prisoners of war could end the unit’s service. He defers to McClellan, referencing corn-fed and mash-fed hogs to decide the point. McClellan rules that the regiment remained in service from its muster date, later losing Colonel Mulligan at Kernstown in 1864.
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Lincoln
Jingo
Lexington
Price
Illinois
McClellan
West Point
Mulligan
Kerns
Town
Fish Prank Ends With Cotton Stuffing At Round Lake
A Round Lake gathering ended in laughter after a young man discovered a staged fish delivery. The St. Lawrence catch was allegedly sent to his cottage for tea, but the fish proved to be stuffed with cotton and painted. Guests mocked the prank. the recipient likely won’t be the trickster again this year.
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Round Lake
St. Lawrence
Hilman
D. 3
Chew
Troy Press
Conviction in Mountain Meadow Massacre Case Reopened
A Utah conviction tied to the Mountain Meadow massacre from nineteen years ago is highlighted as a firm example of retribution for crime. The piece notes the ongoing pursuit of accountability and the enduring pursuit of justice for the historic atrocity.
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Lee
Utah
Mountain Meadow
Pencil Branding Promises Quality From Ends
A Council Bluffs dealer touts Tilden and Tendricks lead pencils as strong at both ends. The copy contrasts this with a pencil that is hard on one end and soft on the other and not valuable at either end, implying better balance and usefulness.
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Council Bluffs
Tilden and Tendricks
Colorado election to choose legislature and state officers
The October 10 election in Colorado will choose the Legislature and two United States Senators, plus Presidential Electors and a Governor with other state offices. The statewide canvass is actively underway as the new state undergoes this pivotal ballot.
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Colorado
United States
Times proprietor notes Yellowstone as strong agricultural district
The Times reporter toured Yellowstone last week and observed Farrell's ranch crop yields. Oats reach eighty bushels per acre and corn ears reach fifty bushels per acre. The valley proves excellent for farming, not just pastoral use.
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Times
Yellowstone
Farrell
Bozeman
MM. T
Newspaper as window on world events and knowledge
A reflective passage extols newspapers as a window to world events and an unfolding encyclopedia. It urges readers to value and pay for their home paper to stay in sympathy with current history and avoid isolation.
Never run in debt say the young man in 19th century advert
The text extols debt avoidance during hard times. It argues happiness comes from being debt free, warns of mortgage ruin and loss of wealth, and urges youths to adopt a strict rule never to incur debt regardless of wealth. It stresses personal peace over financial risk.
Disappearance to Return With Severe Injuries
A Norristown Herald report says a young man vanished from home last spring and reappeared yesterday severely injured with a broken nose four bent fingers a damaged ear a missing eye and a crutch under his arm. His mother feared a nitro explosion at first before he spoke of coming home at last in a distressed tone.
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Norristown Herald
Traveling with a Pro Baseball Club
The narrator realizes the man had been traveling with a professional baseball club and chooses not to question him, refraining from further inquiry.
Changes in Piute Life Blamed on White Settlement
The Virginia City Chronicle recalls how Piutes once supplied wood to settlers, while now they come into the city to beg or steal wood and return to hills to pack it away. It notes that whites and later Chinese settlers have stripped the hills of fuel, leaving Piutes unable to heat or cook.
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Virginia City
Watterson's Son Elected to Congress for One Day
The presiding officer at the National Democratic Convention in St Louis, Henry Watterson of Louisville Courier Journal fame, was elected to fill a vacancy in Congress last session. He served a single day, occupying a House chair for two hours, and brought in a bill of 418 dollars audited by Indiana reformer Blue Jeans Williams. The episode is cited as proof of hypocrisy in Democratic retrenchment claims.
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St. Louis
Ienry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Watterson
Congress
Blue Jeans Williams
Indiana
Dalrymple farm wheat harvest at Casselton Territory
The Dalrymple farm in Casselton Dakota Territory covers 80 000 acres with 1800 sown to wheat this season. Harvesting occurred in a week using nine self binders and twelve men. cost per acre for sowing reaping threshing and marketing is 9 dollars, yield averages 17 bushels per acre, giving an estimated profit of 7000 dollars. Next year 9000 acres will be sown to wheat. One hundred teams are used during breaking, furrows six miles long.
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Dalrymple
Casselton
Dakota Territory
Washington
Channel Blasting Nears Completion For Free Passage
On Sunday the rocks at Gate are to be blown to pieces and the channel opened. Work has progressed admirably with credit due to the managers. The opening will aid the coasting trade and local steamboat lines, reducing wrecks and heavy property loss. The completed free channel is valued higher than the East River bridge.
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Fell Gate
East River
Subterranean Lake Yields Eyeless Straights and Corn
In the Dickinson place near Six-Mile station a ten acre subterranean pond under a crust of soil supports a corn field and eyeless scaleless fish. The ground is black marl, marshy around, with brackish yet seeming fresh water. The field is worked by hand due to soil strength. The writer calls for local inquiry.
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Dickinson Place
Bullard Creek
Six-Mile Station
Second Aiken county massacre sparks fresh outrage
A letter from Hambur g SC reports a second massacre in Aiken county where six Black people were killed and one white man wounded after a July style riot. The piece condemns racial violence and cites a quoted remark by Col Ingersoll about supposed benevolence toward Black people, contrasting it with deadly attacks on Black communities.
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Aiken County
South Carolina
Hamburg
Ingersoll
Indignation Over Southern Democracy On Negro Rights
The orator’s humor fades to solemnity as the writer condemns the Democracy of the South for racist doctrine. They cite the Holly Springs Reporter claiming Negroes belong only in fields, not in politics, juries, or legislatures. The piece argues such views provoke perpetual agitation and massacres against Black people.
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South
Holly Springs
Mass
Tilden and Hendricks
Death of a Confederate Hero in St. Joseph
Gen. M. Jeff Thompson died in his room at the Pacific house at 3:21 PM after a four or five month illness with consumption. Born in Harper's Ferry Va in 1827, Thompson moved from Virginia to Missouri, helped build the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, served as St. Joseph city engineer and mayor, and led Missouri Confederate forces in the Civil War including Shelby's brigade. He was captured in 1862, exchanged, and became chief engineer of Louisiana in 1867 before his death in St. Joseph.
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Jeff Thompson
Pacific House
Mississippi River
Gen
M. Jeff Thompson
Harper's Ferry
Charleston
Philadelphia
Missouri
Liberty
Clay County
St. Joseph
Middleton & Riley
Hannibal and St. Joseph Road
St Joseph
Tle
Guy. R. M. Stewart
Denver City
Troy
Kan
I Hannibal and St. Joseph Company
Jos. Warbine
Missouri State Guards
Johnson’s Island
Port Delaware
D. C
Shelby
Price
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans
Warmoth
St. Joseph Therald
Astonished Stranger Causes Sodas and Stumbles in Store
A man enters a New Orleans drug store asks for sody not syrup and bursts in fright as the soda water explodes from the faucet. He knocks over a perfume stand, shatters marble, then rushes out and collides with a policeman thinking the store has exploded. The scene ends with his exclamation about a supposed explosion.
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New Orleans
Jerusalem
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Wisaily Reader
H. Glafors
Edisor & Proprietor
Wyoming
National Republican Ticket
Rutherford DR. Wayes
Ohio
POR
William A. Wheeler
Louisville Courier- Journal
Goy
Hendricks
Riett
Dohantan
Nile
Mar
Tarrant
Seltzer
N.Y
Wall St
L. Jones & Co
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TW Dyer
M. D
Washington Ave
Detroit
Mich
R.S. Mar Chicago
Washington St
Centennial Grounds
American News Co
Frank M. Allen
Deadwood
Black Hills
ER. U. Sighl
Col
Thames
D&w
Fort Fetterman
Medicine Bow
My. Wetterman
Pioneer Pony Express CO
Mail & Express
Cara ‘Pioneer Pony Express CO
Fort Laramie
Otter & Ingalls
E. W. Whitaker
Ageal
UN St
Tygads Co
U.S. Treasury Dept
Washingston, D.C
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Horse Creek
Cheyenn
Fort
M. F. Facan Proprirtor
Bear Springs
This Ranch
Fort Laramie and
Black Ffilla
Joseph Armijo
Pole Creek Ranch
Fred. Schwartze
Hank
Tam
Bard's Ranch
Little Betr
Hore Crack
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Inaac Bard
John Phillips
Prop
Black Vulla
Cheyenne City
Denver Colon
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Gold Country
Rio
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