Elected President of the New York Canal Conference at Utica
Horatio Seymour wins the presidency as resolutions call for perpetual canal preservation and anti-discrimination laws by railroads. A mass labor meeting in New York cites long hours and low pay, demanding $15 weekly. Ship crew from John Gibson faces yellow fever quarantine in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio Seymour
New York Canal
Utica
New York
John Gibson
Eng Soa
National Association of ex-Union Prisoners of War
Philadelphia
Sullivan
Ryan
Marquis of Queensberry
D. J. Morrell
Iron and Steel Association
Johnstown
Bar Harbor
Alfred R. Conkling
Roscoe Conkling
Grant
Conkling
Adams
Framingham
Mass
BosToux
Dewey
Maxwell
Brooks
Preller
Boston
St. Louis
West
Mixed 19th Century Market Updates and Regional Incidents
Reports from Minneapolis reveal ongoing dullness in the flour market with weak wheat prices, low buyer activity, and rising ocean freights depressing export demand. Various regional items include hog packing totals, monument efforts near Fallen Timbers, a murder investigation, railroad earnings, arson and poisoning rumors, weather damage in Cincinnati, and Amalgamated mill activity.
Superintendent Overy Reports On Chilocco and Haskell Schools
Mr. Joan H. Overy, new Superintendent of Indian Schools, reports to the Secretary of the Interior on Chilocco Indian Industrial School in Indian Territory and Haskell Institute at Lawrence Kansas. Chilocco lists 176 pupils with two teachers. male pupils are taught farmwork and females receive instruction elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan H. Overy
Superintendent of Indian Schools
Secretary of the Interior
Chilocco Indian Industrial School
Indian Territory
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Kan
Chilocco
Oberly
Government policy seeks rapid settlement of Oklahoma lands
A confidential associate of the President indicates Oklahoma lands may be opened to settlement, with tribes considered for purchase. Daily, 15 to 20 replies arrive at the State Department from consuls on foreign industries, praising new markets for American goods. Treasury Superintendent Bell faces charges of illegal, extravagant spending on a Kansas City government building, with payments halted during investigation. The Treasury issues an order requiring trustees to name the beneficiary in bond assignments to reduce transfer delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma Lands
State Department
Ccnsuls
Bell
Treasury Department
Kansas City
Register of the Treasury
United States
Fusionists win at Cedar Rapids convention with key nominations
Iowa delegates nominate Greenback candidates for Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction. Charles E. Whiting for Governor and W. F. Brennan for Supreme Judge. Resolutions back Cleveland administration and liquor licensing reforms while opposing Auditor Brown's removal. Mississippi and Ohio conventions noted, with various nominations and endorsements. Kentucky race reports a Democratic Treasury winner by 67,597.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Charles E. Whiting
Monona County
W. F. Brennan
Muscatine County
Cleveland
Brown
Sherman
Jackson
Lowry
Lamar
Foullett
Cincinnati
Ohio
Columbus
Hoadly
Warwick
Grant
Elias Doty
Greenbackers
Iowa
Ohio Republican State Central Committee
Wm. T. Spear
Warren County
BisHor Keane
Richmond
Keiley
Kentucky
Lon Gneckenr Elected President of ex-Prisoners of War
John H Lon Gneckenr of Bedford Pennsylvania was chosen President of the National Association of ex Prisoners of War at a Philadelphia session. The next convention is set for Buffalo on August 20 1886.
First English arrest under criminal law amendment act
John Coulbertt of London is charged with abducting a girl under 13 for immoral purposes. He has been shadowed by detectives for eighteen months as authorities publicized the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
John Coulbertt
London
Coulbertt
Congo
Global clashes spark protests and shocks across Europe
A London Hyde Park gathering showcases mob morality zeal with speeches and resolutions backing criminal amendment enforcement. In France 40,000 protest Germans and Caroline Islands denouncement. Italy sees republican meetings in Milan demanding recall of its army from Egypt amid broad European tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Commission
Turner
Hyde Park
London
France
Madrid
Bismarck
Caroline Islands
Italy
Worl
Vatican
Russia
Zulficar Pass
Red Sea
Spa U
Samupo
Central Africa
Mohammed
Samuda
M. Nelidoff
Turkey
Henry Drummond Wolff
Porte
Albion
England
Kars
Bulgaria
Milan
Egypt
Storms, Cyclone Hit Cities and Railways Across Nation
Interior reports on southern Utes hunger relief after Miles inquiry. Boston and New England suffer a severe thunderstorm. British forces destroy Shinat village in the Red Sea region after Arab resistance. Chippewa Chief Hole-in-the-Day beaten on a Northern Pacific line. Charleston endures a cyclone with $1,000,000 damage. many structures unroofed. Minnesota census shows 1,118,486 population. Bicycle records fall in Washington race between Brooks and Woodside. Boston railroad ticket swindle uncovered involving Patrick Fitzgerald. Prohibitionist Barr Spangler named for Minnesota treasurer. Girtys Run freshet floods 23 houses, damages roads, livestock. no lives lost.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Tur Manmee Valley Monument Association
Turkey Foot Rock
Toledo
Fallen Timbers
Wayne
Northwest
Congress
St. Paul
Minneapolis and Manitoba
Art Springfield
I. L
Gardner
Camp
Gall
Gardiner
J. B. Walkup
Emporia
Kane
Maxwell
St.uis
Preller
Hugh Brooks
England
Brooks
W. A. Shaw
Philadelphia
Dakota
Cincinnati
Atlantic and Pacific
Powell Station
Arizona
Mahoning Valley
Amalgamated Association
Tur Current
Chicago
Edgar L. Wakeman
Northwest Territory
Minnesota
New Mexico
Miles
Colorado
Interior Department
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
New England
Boston
Suakim
Here
Red Sea
Shinat
Brainard
Northern Pacific
Charleston
South Carolina
St. Michael's
St. Mathew’'s
Citadel Square Baptist
Sullivans Island
New Ashby
Germany
Spain
Carolines
Secretary of State
United States
Isso
Washington
John Brooks
Pennsylvania
W. A Woodside
Patrick Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Barr Spangler
Marietta
Girtys
Evergreen
Chicaco
Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Atlantic
Pacific
Eest
Rock Island
Chic Joliet
Oceana
la Salle
Union
Missouri River
Kansas City
Albert Lea
Territories
Iowa
Interior
Seneca
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
Cincinnti
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Council Bluffs
Eess Hindon
Camasac
R. R. Cable
Grant's final days seen through Doctor Douglas notes
The article chronicles Dr. Douglas Fase’s 1860s witness of General Ulysses Grant’s illness from cancer in New York and Mount McGregor. It details Grant’s evolving speech loss, persistent writing on tablets, self-interpretation of his memoirs, and moments of hope and despair as he diaries his fight and need for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Douglas
Grant
Gen. Grant
Fort Donelson
Mmtes Gan Gesar
New York
Douglas
Woodstock
Bowen
The
Independent
Poweoe
Bis
Mount MacGregor
A. S. Grant
Soo Ames Ce
Stanton
Mr. A
J. T
Ste
Buck
General Grant’s final days tablet diary fragment
Albany Journal recounts a tablet diary by General Grant dated around July describing worsening illness, stomach weakness, feverish moments, sleep loss, pain and fatigue. He notes attempts to rest, drinking water, displeasure with medicine, and gifting further tablets to family before death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Grant
Bocter
Henry
Albany Journal
General Grant's Wisconsin Stock Seizure Incident
The Janesville Gazette recalls 1859 when young Ulysses S. Grant, clerk in his father’s store, aided a replevin against a fraudulent sale in Prairie du Chien. Grant, with Sheriff’s Deputy Boss Brunson and Hon. C. B. Thomas, forced entry after a standoff, aiding seizure of goods moved to Galena.
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Gen. Grant
Galena
Prairie du Caien
J. Famechon
Grant
Prairie
C. B. Thomas
Congress
Thomas
Boss” Brunson
Alfred Brunson
D. D
Brunson
Grants
Boss
Mr. Thomas
Deputy
General Grant
Wisconsin
Janesville Gazette
Grant on the Hudson and the American Man
A poem praising General Ulysses S. Grant and a contemporaneous tribute from the Albany Express declare him thoroughly American. The piece reflects on his military genius and the public’s affection for him as a relatable, nation shaping figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Albany Express
Notable quotes on leadership and fate from historical papers
A compilation of commented lines praising a leader's lasting fame, fatalism, and national character. Attributed fragments include praise from the St Louis Spectator and The Critic, with remarks about bearing faults and the role of leaders in American history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grmtral
Nevery Township
St. Louis
PI Bestan
The Rudder of a Nation and a Sailor’s Resolve
A mid ocean alarm claims the ship’s rudder is lost signaling helplessness as captain’s negligence is blamed for failing to preserve vigor. The text links to Warner’s Safe Cure promising restoration of kidneys and liver to sustain ambition and endurance on the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pewee
Hhis
Warner
Traveler
Actor Raymond recalls trains, baggage masters and a raw supper
In a Philadelphia Times feature, John T. Raymond recounts a late night on a Texas trail when a cold dining room plate and a pistol wallet forced politeness, and a dramatic Oil City baggage-master story shows why baggage handlers are an actor’s best friends on the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Raymond
Getleman
Texas
Iim
Raymond
Oil City
Hamfatter
Philadelphia Times
The Honest Lad and the Vanishing Diamond
A dapper guest loses a diamond valued over 2000 in a party. A stable boy finds and returns it after the hostler learns of the incident. The owner writes a note claiming many similar stones and cigars exist, revealing the lesson in generosity and irony.
Morality and mischief mix in a Sunday school tale
A Sunday school lesson on Moses and the rock prompts questions from the teacher. A small boy declares Moses was not blessed because he did not strike the rock for beer, delivering a humorous misinterpretation preserved in the Merchant Traveler column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Tommy
Five Giant Shoes From Nashville For Family Of Five
In a Washington street window Boston a display shows five pairs of shoes thirteen inches long by five wide made of pebble grain leather. The order came from Nashville Tennessee and is said to be for a mother and four daughters. A Coxsretict editor who had fought seven men in three years was met by a woman who knocked seven years' growth out of him with a rolling pin in four minutes.
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Dalton
Tom Neave
Reeves County
Texas
John Morris
New Orleans
Louisiana
Texarkana
Ark
Arlington Hotel
Post Office
Pacific and Southern Express
Western Union
Arkansas
Erasmus J. Shepherd
Laredo
Tex
Auldemorte
Fort Done
Grant
Fort Donelson
Washington Street
Boston
Nashville
Tennessee
Boston Advertizer
Cocaine Eye Drops and Early Medical Trials
The passage notes the risk of applying cocaine to the eye and compares it to historical experiments by Christison Toynbee Keller and Dr Keen. It highlights the ethical and legal concerns of testing dangerous substances, and how Keller conducted animal trials before human use, marking cocaine as a notable drug in modern times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christison
Toynbee
Flour From the Cotton Tree Envisions New Flour Source
A French botany student reports finding a nutritious material in cotton tree seed. Analysis suggests the seed is the richest known grain in nitrogenous substances, with potential to yield flour for human consumption. He believes cotton tree flour could become an important food staple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolvia
Alma cantar telescope aids celestial measurements
Professor Chandler devised the alma cantar in which a telescope floats in a bath of mercury to correct or verify observations. This year its work includes photo metric observations of Jupiter’s satellites, revising zone observations of stellar magnitudes, computing comet orbits, and observing star color and spectra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chandler
Jupiter
Cleveland
Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy Promises Relief
An ad urges readers troubled by offensive breath and foul smell from threats to use Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It claims the remedy will heal diseased mucous membranes and bring relief to the user and others, urging immediate use.
Print Cloth Consumption Declines with Price Drop
The article notes a sharp fall in print cloth use for dresses since twelve or fourteen years ago. Prints sold at 8 to 12 cents per yard then, now 3 to 4 cents, yet fewer women and children wear print goods in New England towns despite lower prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Golden Medical Discovery cited as liver disease cure
A French saying links liver disease to a cascade of ailments including blood disorders throat skin and even consumption if untreated. The text praises Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a fast acting alterative to heal incipient disease. An inn sign advertises good beer but warns not to take the landlord’s word for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce S “Golden
Yankee
Pecks Sun Sample Copy Offer and Gags
An odd mix of ad copy and jokes circulates with a request for a postal card to obtain a free sample from Lord, Milwaukee. A quip about borrowing money warns against relatives. An ad claims Juniper Hospital cures skin ailments by Caswell, Hazzard & Co. A farmer riddle asks when a sheep doubles up.
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Pever
America
Lord
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
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John H. Lon Gneckenr
Bedford
National Association of ex-Prisoners of War
Buffalo
Haddingtonshire
Liverpool
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Montreal
Bell Telere
Bankote Company
Middleton
Mexico
Chili
Blaine
South American Trade Commission
Republic
Whitney
Etruria
Queenstown
Sandy Hook
Nananeen
Dublin
Beaufort
Savannah
Greenock
Scotland
Bermudas
Breves
Wrera
Louis
Wea
Detroit
Warrat
Tate
Tessaetna
Julia
Grant On the Hudson
Hudson
George Alfred Townsend
Popular Opinion
St. Lewis Spectator
Christian Union
New York Tribune
Plutarch
Gibbon
Wilmington
Morning Star
Trose
Meghan
Albert Savarus
Ingleside
Moses In the Wilderness
Darky
Mistah Goodman
Sam
New York Sun
Jeremy Collier
G. E. Bryan
Putnam Street
Peck’s
Sun
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
Thos, Bass, Sr
Steelville
Ely
H. A. Smith
Clinton, Wis
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Curbull, Hamman
Newazzard & Co
Wm. Eta
Ely i
Pete
Ooees
Reo Star
Jaco l
Mark
Charles A. Vodeler Confasy
Onsers Ant
Baltimore
Barvland
Cas
Pricely Ash Bitters CO. Bote Proprietors
Weaver Organ & Piano Co
York, Pa
Matheria
C. E. DePry
Mich
Hops & Malt Bitters CO
Mick
U. S. Grant
Stan
H. H. Green
Jones Avenue
Atlanta
Morgiana
1841 Street
Genutas
Frazer’s
Gen
L Grant
BF. A. Burr
Newman
A.dress
R. U
Lorillard
Attys. Peat Ne
K. Schiffman
St. Peal
Regulato
Lemont
Centre
A. E. Davis & CO
Washington St
Bear Lake
Perry Davis
Pain Killer
Sil
E.st
E. ST. John
Hagan
Man and
Beast
Syracuse Bolt Company
Syracuse
Rene Sas
cSreas Ongbeyaeens
Reas Cinaspad Suspender Co
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