Prospects of steady trade across major cities described
Across several cities on August 11 reports show mixed but generally steady business. Baltimore sees a promising outlook with heavy crops supporting trade, Philadelphia notes firmer prices and exporting grain, Chicago reports improved money flow and activity, while Milwaukee describes a dull market but solid general prospects as harvests approach.
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Allegheny Valley
Pennsylvania‘’Railway Company
Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
PurLaperpaia
acaGo
Boston
Board of Trade
Milwaukee
Wis
Destructive Catlettsburg Fire Leaves Town in Ruins
A early Sunday blaze tore through Catlettsburg causing multiple deaths and injuries. Several residents were rescued in critical condition while others were believed buried under the wreckage. Total losses reach about 75000 dollars with 44000 dollars insured across Patton Bros Wellman Prudichard N P Andrews and others.
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Catlettsburg
Bob Miller
John Graham
David Kinner
James McKenzie
Sam Kelly
John Berger
Charles Haler
Patton Bros
Wellman & Prichard
C. Prichard
N. P. Andrews
D. H. Carpenter
C. A. Wellman
Vinson
Gable & Prichard
Explosion at Atlantic Oil Refinery damages 5000 dollars
A steam still at the Atlantic Oil Refinery in Parapetpara exploded Sunday, releasing 1200 barrels of oil and causing 5000 dollars in damage. The oil ignited but the internal fire brigade and city department prevented spread to nearby buildings.
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Parapetpara
Atlantic Oil
Riley-Haleas forfeit in row race set for Aug 20
Troy New York August 11 Jas H Riley has withdrawn a challenge to TenEyeek for a match race to be rowed in this city on August 20.
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TenEyek
Troy
N. Y
Jas. H. Riley Hachelas
Machinery in America May Sell in China
The Chinese embassy secretary says many U S articles made by machinery could find a market in China. He cites petroleum cotton goods carpenters sewing and tin machines silverware and even chopsticks as products that could be machine made. He notes Chinese methods remain like those of twenty centuries ago and expects machinery to boost productivity fivefold.
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Chicago Herald
America
China
British Ironclad Failures and Cheaper Thames Model
The piece notes the Ajax and Agamemnon of the British navy took eight years to build and cost about 5.5 million dollars and are deemed failures. In contrast a private Thames firm built a 6,000 ton ironclad in two years for a foreign government, embodying improvements and costing only a quarter of the Ajax’s price.
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Chicago Journal
Thames
English politics and society swirl as tensions rise
London dispatch surveys Conservative and Liberal postures ahead of elections, Lord Randolph Churchill’s influence, Egypt policy debates, and near unanimous press critique of Gladstone. It notes the Versailles convention shock, radical misfires, peerage talk, regatta frivolities at Cowes, royal wills and fortunes, and implied volatility in Diaz era Mexican policy.
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London
Lord Randolph Churchill
Michael Hicks-Beach
National Conservative Committee
Lord Salisbury
House of Commons
House of Lords
Egypt
Gordon
England
Lord Northbrook
Gladstone
France
Germany
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Monsieur Andrie
Wilfred Lawson
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Gilbert A. Beckett
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Southey
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Scotland
Miss Behan
Outlaws Executed in Mexico Amid Government Struggles
Reports detail the executions of bandits in Jalisco Michoacan and Yucatan after capture. Do mando Juarez and Vasquez leaders were shot following arrest. Mexico’s finances suffer with limited public works until the new president takes office. A railway project and a bridge are noted as ongoing.
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Michoacan
Yucatan
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Tollentino
Domingo Juarez
Vasquez
Jimniz
San Juan de Ulloa
Camperley
Yazayaha
Captain Perez
Twenty-second Cavalry
Monitor Republicans
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Lagos
Tuxpan
Navajo
Emma Bond Appears Quietly At Sunday School Gathering
In Monwrgva Illinois on August 11 Emma Bond sits in a carriage at a large Christian County Sunday school gathering. Reporters note her fair face garnet silk dress and modest white hat as she chats with her mother and a friend while reporters confirm her identity and discuss her condition and prospects for teaching. Bond speaks of sympathy, her friend Prof Sue M D Fry, and the public sale of her photographs while noting her limp and crippled gait.
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Monwrgva
Christian County
Emma Bond
Miss Bond
Sue M. D. Fry
Blooomington
Fires devastate Seymour business district and Green flour mill
Seymour Iowa reports twenty three buildings, west half of the business section, burned Saturday night with losses around 80 000 dollars and insurance details unclear. In Green a flouring mill owned by Dillinger burned Sunday with losses about 25 000 dollars and insured for 13 000.
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Seymour
Iowa
Green
Dillinger’s
Imagination and its powerful medical influence
A St Louis Globe-Democrat discussion notes how focused attention can alter sensation and breathing, and how emotions sway bodily functions. It cites doctor overestimation, faith, and sensational cures as examples, arguing outcomes often hinge on constitution, belief, or bedside manner rather than pure science.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Readers of London and New York weeklies reveal class spread
A historical note analyzes who reads popular literary weeklies. It questions assumed readers and shows investigations found the audience mainly within the middle class, especially the lower half, with surprisingly many readers above the median line.
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New York
London
Culinary Department of Letters
Inside a Paris wine empire Calvet cellars and tasting rooms
An observer tours the vast M. Calvet & Co. wine cellars in Paris. He passes through offices, a tasting room, and down into earth vaults storing about 1.25 million bottles and 24,000 barrels. The regisseur demonstrates cellar methods as buyers sample wines by smell and small mouthfuls, spitting to avoid overindulgence.
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M. Calvet & Co
Cour de Medoc
Sakal
Regisseur
M. Calvet, Jr
Nasion
M. Calvert
Cheapest Millinery at Mrs E B Christians on Second Street
Advertises Mrs E B Christians millinery shop on Second street opposite court house in E L May building as the cheapest place to buy millinery goods.
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E. B. Christian
Second Street
Court House
E. L. May
Zoa-Phora Sells Nicely Says Farquhar Bros
A Brerros Ohio letter dated Oct 8 1883 from R Pengelly and Co requests more books and reports Zoa-Phora selling well with good results. One lady calls it the first helpful discovery in 25 years, others praise it. Colby Scott sell it.
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Brerros
Ohio
R. Pengelly & Co
Zoa-Phora
Farquhar Bros
Colby & Scott
Athlophoros relief praised for neuralgia claim
The author cites neuralgia and rheumatism as twin pains and asserts Athlophoros cures both. J E Reed of Los Angeles, California reports severe facial pain easing after following directions, claiming the pain never returned after completing the bottle.
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J. E. Reed
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