Kansas Chinch Bugs and Local Real Estate Boom
A Kansas correspondence discusses drought easing with rains, crop prospects, chinch bugs harming wheat and oats, and hail damage in places like Topeka Wichita and Newton. It notes a Kansas city real estate boom, liquor-Prohibition battles, and remarks on domestic happiness and maternal sympathy in farming families.
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Kax
Nowritwass
Kansas
Nash
Woodens
Ohio
Topeka
Wichita
Hutchinson
Newton
Tris Farm
Iota
District of Columbia
Kansan
Fragmented OCR Note on Lung Ailment Remedies
A damaged OCR fragment mentions treatments for lung illness and a product called New Discov for consumption and coughs. It references a drug store and directions, with garbled text about weighing and dosing, and notes warmth and nagging symptoms without clear claims or outcomes.
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Peich
Washington Letter on Justice Appointment and Gloomy Politics
A July 1887 Washington letter discusses a prospective Supreme Court seat, noting the new justice cannot sit until Senate confirmation and questioning whether a December Congress rush is likely. It covers Cleveland's St Louis visit withdrawal, Grand Army reactions, a pending investigation into department finances, civil rights complaints, railroads earnings, Oscar Barney’s forgery arrest, Mrs. Pickett’s Gettysburg reception, and sensational War Records reporting disputes involving Secretary Endicott.
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Woods
United States Senate
Congress
St. Loula
Ingre Ee Ae White
Cleveland
St. Louis
Nider
Grand Army of the Republic
Lynn
Mas
White House
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Cie
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Toter-state Commission
Grand High Court of Complaints
Treasury
Oscar J. Barney
Seco
Dana
Becailis
Harvey
Pickett
Gettysburg
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Washington
Republica
New York
Clinton
Wie
Endicott
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Mysterious Death Linked to Field Rats in Michigan
An inquest in Fletcher Kalkaska County reveals a severely mutilated body found in the woods. The jury reports the death likely from scalp and body wounds, possibly caused by rats or other animals, with late verdicts noting the corpse deteriorated to a point where identification failed. A witness, Davia, claimed a rat attack on the spot, saying the rodents swarmed and killed the man, prompting talk of a survival effort.
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Mich
Fletcher
Kalkaska
Davia
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