Reminiscences of Public Men and Early Weather Reports
A collage of 19th century reminiscences detailing Tor Moore’s Washington visit with Jefferson era figures, Henry Sanford’s Florida ventures and diplomacy, and the origin of daily weather reports led by Gov. A. H. Stephens and Prof. Espy. The piece notes early impressions of the United States, diplomatic anecdotes, and the evolution of meteorological communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor Moore
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ireland
Washington
Mr. Merry
Jefferson
Gen. Dearborn
Connemara
Moore
Iso
Olds
Ohio
Kossuth
Gov. Powell
Kentucky
Jones
Col. Powell
Henry 8. Sanford
Legation
Belgium
Senate
Minnesota
Florida
Sanford
Signal Service
A. H. Stephens
Georgia
Henry
Smithsonian Institution
Paris
Gov. Stephens
Espy
Stephens
Col. Seaton
National Intelligencer
New Orleans
Chicago
Meyer
Warner’s Safe Cure praised amid other achievements
A Rochester inventor, H. H. Warner, is famed for a $100,000 observatory and $4,000 to $5,000 in prizes, but critics argue his greatest public benefit would be proving Warner’s Safe Cure can cure kidney and uric acid disorders. Public sentiment supports the remedy as a medical breakthrough, with manufacturers urged to back their claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Warner
Rochester
N. Y
Warner
Candor
Premature Deaths Weigh On Civil War Generals
Chicago Journal notes most great Civil War generals and sailors died young. Grant Logan Hancock McClellan Meade Thomas and others died early, often from brain or nervous complications or brief illnesses. Sherman and Farragut lived longer, but cancer marked Grants end amidst heavy mental strain of command. The piece argues wartime burdens shortened lifespans across officers and soldiers alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Gen. Logan
Gen. Hancock
Gen. McClellan
Gen. Halleck
George G. Meade
George H. Thomas
W.T. Sherman
Farragut
Logan
Hancock
McClellan
Meade
Thomas
Chicago Journal
Problems in Women's Suffrage and San Francisco Millionaires
Col Higginson discusses early effects of woman suffrage including doubled early voting, growing independence over time, and shifted election dynamics influenced by weather and candidate appeals. Quaker-like protest voting and Ruskin quotes frame the debate as a national impulse. California's 1850 admission noted with San Francisco boasting 104 millionaires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Higginson
James Freeman Clarke
Sir Henry Taylor
Philip van Artevelde
Philip
Clara
Mariners
California
San Francisco
Pawnshop scene sparks police call and old world chatter
A Detroit pawnbroker questions a freckled country youth with a family watch, suspects a theft, and invites police. The tale shifts to Tory and humorous clippings about emigration to the United States, Chaucer on hash, the Grand Union Hotel in New York, Professor Kate Sanborn on Smith College life, and an advertisement for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters claiming cures for biliousness and related ailments.
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Detroit
Dot
Dad
Ever Thus From Boy to Man in Spring Labor
A reflective piece contrasts statesmen and youth with spring gardening. It notes boys balk at garden chores, grows into men who repeat the cycle with their own children, and ends with an ad urging others to mail ten cents for a medical book from World’s Dispensary, Buffalo.
Daughter of the gods Makes Entrance in Small German Set
A bright young girl and a companion notice a tall handsome woman who enters a room. The speaker calls her a daughter of the gods, while the companion doubts the label, remarking the gods are not in their set. The scene unfolds in a social room reported by the New York World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Health boards back Red Star Cough Cure remedy
The boards of health endorse Red Star Cough Cure as a fast and reliable cough and cold remedy. Scientists declare it entirely vegetable and free from opiates. Price is twenty-five cents a bottle. A green turtle reportedly can live six weeks without food, while the editor of the brute creation comments. St Jacobs Oil relieves biting pains and Dr R Butler of Cambridge University England claims it acts like magic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Health
R. Butler
Cambridge University
England
Old Blank heirs seek crazy will witness in court
A New York broker recounts a scheme to prove the old man insane to seize the will. The titled heirs aim to force him to testify about a $10,000 investment, but the broker never goes to court. The piece ends with a dubious medical ad praising Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for liver cleansing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Old Blank
Wall Street News
Pierce
Carpet production by federal contracts and room imagery
A Washington correspondent describes the federal carpet room model where the Treasury oversees all carpet production for government offices nationwide. The piece notes the shift from per-official purchases to contract-based supply and contrasts the room’s vast, organized chaos with a city council hall. Also mentions Mr Prexce’s Favorite Prescription and various health tonics and remedies, ending with Rough on products for rats, corns, toothache, and coughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Customs
Cleveland
Treasury of
United States
Washington Cor
Beatitude humor and sermon memory in Harper’s Magazine
A passage from a religious newspapermocks sermon etymology and memory tests. It recounts a Connecticut clergyman tale of a listener who cannot recall the sermon’s text but recalls its impact, ending with a quip about theology and religion. Dr Haut quips that morning walks fatally affect coffins.
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Connecticut
Harper’s Magazine
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Ben
Perley Poorf
John Ruskin
der Boleece
The
Toronto Globe
Ontario
Chaucer
Hash
Yonkers
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Kate Sanborn
Smith College
Boston
America
Prof. Sanborn
Vassar
Wellesley
Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Hostetter
World's Dispensary Agin Associaton
Main Street
Buffalo
National Carpet House
Prexce
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Hartford Journal
Mensman
Casswell, Hazard & Co
Proprietors
Ew York
Druggista
Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
Dr. Harter
P180
PIA
Meda
Europe
Miuree
Lenon
Tarthera
Gogebe
Stowes
G. Cor &Tth
Milwaukee
Tron
Jaceson
Jeffersonville
Ind
Saya
van Veeuren
M. D
New London
AEG
Hood
C. Anena
Emerald Avenue
Ill
H. D. Wiyans
East Mason Street
Jackson
Mich
Peoria
KE K
Indianapolis
Rew M. Mraniecers
Cincinnati & Louisville Mail Line Co
Cincinnati
C.1. Hood & CO
Lowell, Mans
C. 1
Hood &O
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Storrs & Harrison CO
Painesville
Prise
Miwaukee Mining Exchange
Wis
Iby Mail
Stowell & Os
Nasiestown
B.S
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D.C
Inet
Drc
J. Weatherby
Kanew City
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Sen
Wowen
Ald Street
Milwauker
Win
Peru
Irs
Dollar
Weas
KR. H, Shumway
Rockford
Tansill
A. L. Millard
Ellisburg
W. D. Cxats
Deuggist, Aledo
R. W. Tansile & CO
Adon Reweter
Brewster
Anc
Kinzie &T
Wisconsin
Ilu
Conumpton
Darvrevine, WN. J
K. T. Hazel
Warren, Pa
Port Jervis
Franx McKenvy
Procter & Gamble
Randolph St
Richmond
Rothers
MONEY
Celicarie Anr Co
Milwaukee, Wis
South Dakota
Mitehell
Dakota
James River Valley
LC 1
88 & Co
D Dakota
N. U
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