Nasby on Democracy and gin mills in a heated polemic
Nasby rails at the Democratic party accusing it of courting gin mills and liquor interests to win votes. He denounces abolitionists and contrasts liquor profits with labor, claiming the party relies on the “three tenths” and immigrant crowds. He critiques religion, free trade, and the press while praising distillers and drinkers as political power.
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Prom
Toledo Blade
Virin
Amerika
Republikanism
York
Tlindis
Shecago
Republikans
New York
Boss ‘Tweed
Holt
Republikin
Interleck Uy
Thayallus
Suny Skool
Iheag
Peruorkune Venaso
Louisa Balcott
Hartford
Reagan Assails Democrats Over Dodging Key Issues
In a forceful critique, Reagan accuses Democrats of dodging tariff currency labor and other vital questions. He condemns party timidity duplicity and evasion, arguing Republicans stand for clear open firm policy while Democrats resort to disguise and half measures. St Louis Globe-Democrat reports.
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Cowrie
Reagan
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
A Democratic Reformer and a Curious Tree Tale
A Democratic Reformer is warned as a deceitful taxpayer, told through a parable of a rat blamed for cheese loss. The piece contrasts misdirected blame with the real damage, warning against trusting reformers with public funds. A Galveston man notes a pine tree with two trunks merging into one top and a mule for sale anecdote ends the clipping.
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Tom Wood
Irwina
Galveston
Houston
Fashion Notes Hint at Autumn Fashions Across North America
Fashion notes forecast autumn trends with lace capotes and opera bonnets, silk and satin rings, French redingotes and polonaises, and heavy silver jewelry. Braided jerseys over velvet or tweed, Thibet coats, Suisse vests, deep cuffs, and the Squire look mark a shift toward neater, more tailored styles. English and Canadian observations cite ebony switch canes with gold heads, joskey caps, and cropped hair as part of the new vogue, with bright buttons and elaborate basques shaping the silhouette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Gan
England
France
Directoire
Suisse
Oman
Canada
Post
Nursing the Lights on Delaware Avenues Poles
A Philadelphia Times report recounts a night inspector describing electric lamp maintenance high above street level. He explains causes of sputtering lights, risks to workers, and procedures for replacing carbons, with anecdotes of shocks and fires, including bridges to incidents in New York and at local venues.
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Delaware Avenue
Vine Street
New York
Gulf
Earth
Chestnut Stree
Tl Jor
Arch Street Opera House
Dime Museum
Richmond
Philadelphia Times
Dream incident yields missing life policies found in sleep
Dr D F Goodyear relates a Memphis tale of Deputy Sheriff Samuel Dreyfus who died September 2. A dream by Ben K Pullen led him to search the sheriff’s office where a bag of life insurance policies, including ten thousand dollars in Knights and Ladies of Honor papers, were found unseen months earlier. The report, in the Avalanche, is offered for readers to weigh the mystery.
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Avalanche
D. F. Goodyear
Samuel Dreyfus
Criminal Court
Exchange Street
Dr. Goodyear
Memphis
Order of the Knights and Ladies of Honor
Goodyear
Ben K. Pullen
Sheriffs Office
City Register
Sam Dreyfus
Mr. Pullen
Avdanche
Hout Delay
Mosquitoes as Factories of Pain and Water Witches in the West
A vivid, fragmented account describes the cruelty of mosquito and insect machinery metaphor in the Lower Mississippi region. It compares buzzing to a factory with lances, saws, and a pump used on a victim, followed by poison. Separate note cites a Colorado water diviner who uses a forked branch to locate wells for railroad builders.
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Corliss
Mississippi
Far West
Colorado
Denver
Our Young Readers Folly in a Cat Haunted Tea Time
Seven elderly ladies sit knitting and sipping tea when a tiny scratching startles a cat and a mouse. Panic spreads as the scene turns comic and eerie, ending with the question which dame is most frightened in this fanciful tale.
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Amtut
Manners Lesson Teaches Six Bad Habits at Barn Hall
In Barn Hall Superintendent Dick introduces Lecturer John Spicer who defines manners as ways of doing things and narrates six bad kinds illustrated by animal metaphors pig bear donkey post cocka doodle doo cow in the parlor plus interrupters. The talk blends humor with moral lesson as children imitate manners and discuss combining faults, quoted from Wide Awake.
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Barn Hall
John Spicer
Nell
Spicer
Preent
Cross
Coren
Jirs. A. ML. Diaz
The Mice and the Trap
A boy sets a two-hole trap for mice in a garret and earns pennies. Overnight the mice cheat him by triggering the trap from behind a barrel a larger mouse leads the group to steal cheese, revealing their cunning plan.
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Papa
Widow sightings at fair noted by officer at depot
Officer Button at Union Depot cataloged memoranda from a State fair visit describing numerous widows seen in cars, grounds, and stands. Entries recount attempts to woo or observe widows, with crude sketches of events, crowds, and a horse race, plus an incident where a woman struck a man with an umbrella at the depot. Also mentioned are Richard Whiteside and a Boston boy theft case ending with police returning youths to parents.
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Button
Union
Jaim
Tater
St Olce
Honey Hall
Eal
Chicago Times
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Norway
Fashion Notes
Mousl
Goden
Richard Whiteside
Ywood
Boston
West
Whiteside
Sas
Lynn
Boston Heras
DR. Schenck
J. H. Schenck & Son
Philadelphia
DANIEL F _BERTY
Winton
Joseph Fodaie
Elliott
Binghamton, N
A. A. Shelly
Smith & Shelly
Grass Lake
Mich
Dee Schenck
Henry Morgan Andon
Nek
Comscipe
Schenck
A. Foster
Putnam, Conn
Julius Werheam
Bay City
Joseph S. Lamb
Eightnth Street
M. . Church
Phila
A.W. White
White “House
Pekin
Ill
Dayton
Ohio
Frederick Trull
Hudson, Mass
Patsy Coco Ieee
Geo. C.redden
Transpota Loa Co
Albany
Benjamin Doug‘lass
Middletons
Conn
Kites
Sophia M. Lawson
Ann Street
Newburg
Nelson
Cedar Falla
Thomas Draper
Brooklyn
6Th Ave
28Th and
29Th Streets
Brook. 1
Senencks
Charles W. Plummer
Main Street
Springfield
Mas
J.D. Goodwin
Canaseraga
Allegheny Co
Schuck
Stephen Roese
American Baptist_ Publication Society
Maiden Rock
Wis
Belenck
Beneft
Heock
W.D. Duyckunge
Broadway
Cit Sage
van Antwerp
Daily Patriot
Jackson
Harley P. Hopkins
Providence
Howell Steer
Main St
Saga
Mr. Hocking
Scheeck
Conner
John & Benson
Tranapola
J, McGonigal
Empire House
Akron
Hubbell
Hawn
Ann Arbor
TorDre Te ‘Famil
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