Gambling and Russian Barbarities Stir Readers Across Regions
The weekly notes opposition to gambling schemes like futures options and the Louisiana Lottery, praising the Butterworth bill as a curb. It also reports on Russian barbarities, citing Madame Sigida’s Siberian flogging and calls for diplomatic protests led by the United States.
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New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Nashville Christian Advocate
Beauregard and
Early
Beauregard
Eame
Kenna
Russia
Atic
Herod Herod
Madame Sigida
United States
Nashville
Sigida
Siberia
London Lancet
Physicians urged to unite for Degart University rescue
The Independent reports that Russia moves to dismantle the University of Degart in the Baltic provinces. Three imperial decrees strip self governance and faculty control, replacing selection with Imperial Curator oversight and substituting a Russian faculty for the law department. Attendance last term reached 1,627 students including 234 theologians.
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University of
Degart
St. Petersburg
Letter from a Black Louisiana adventurer family and wage note
A dated letter from April 23 1800 from Epps Store Louisiana describes Black families from Wilmington settling in swampy La place. It notes high water blocking travel between plantations, wages for women and men and mandatory board costs, with concerns about migration and local labor conditions. It mentions Mer Juhn Richardson, John P Richardson and White overseers and includes unrelated ad text about Beaxrep Lams and Ayer Cherry Pectoral.
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Epps’ Store
Lessie Lamb
Wilmington
Fannie Harris
Mary Eliza Fewkirk
Sarah McNeil
Frank Johnson
John P. Richardson
Louisiana
Mer Juhn &. Richardson
North Carolina
Beaxrep Lams
Jackson Ready to Fight Sath Curcaco
Paraon Davies reports that Peter Jackson telegrammed from Mt. Clemens Michigan that the Australian would accept the California Athletic Club offer to fight Sullivan for twenty thousand dollars.
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Curcaco
Paraon Davies
Peter Jackson
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Californian Athletic Club
Sullivan
Ad ministration and entangling alliances with the Prince of Darkness
A Louisville Courier-Journal note condemns an administration for forming alliances with evil forces and failing to hold public officers to account for misdeeds, labeled as a sad fact of political conduct.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Prince of Darkness
A Small Man in a Large Place
A letter laments Mr. Harrison as a small man in a large office. The writer accuses his party of arrogance and urges farmers to reject lies and ignorance, promising that the Republican faction will not support the alleged fabric of deceit.
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Harrison
Dacifi
Phiadelphia
Banjo Incident Highlights Talents of Local Man
A Williamsport Gazette item notes a man testified before the New York Superior Court about a superfluous mother-in-law and an energetic banjo performance. The reporter suggests if he had tried a cornet it would have shown genius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsport Gazette
Superior Court of
New York
A Word to Mr. Cleveland
Ex president Cleveland is not attacked personally with the severity faced by Jefferson and Jackson. The public’s favorable view of both Jefferson and Jackson rose despite opposition, offering Cleveland a consolation in that pattern of history.
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Cleveland
Jon Herald
Jefferson
Jackson
Rates for unveiling Lee monument rail trips in 1890
Richmond to various points offers round trip fares for the Lee Monument unveiling from Charlotte Salisbury Greensboro Durham Henderson Oxford Raleigh Selma and Winston Salem with military and veteran group discounts for twenty or more on a single ticket. Return validity runs through June 4.
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Lee Monument
Richmond
Richmond and Danuyile
Charlotte
Salisbury
Greenboro
Durham
Henderson
Oxford
Raleigh
Selma
Winston-Salen
Challotte
Greensbro
Kaleizh
Sema
Goldeboro
Winston Salem
Rye protection and convention travel notices in 1890 edition
The piece notes a 10 percent rye tariff protection and cites last year’s imports and revenue. It then advertises a State Convention of Kings Daughters in Greensboro and round trip rail fares from various cities, offering Butterick patterns and Metropolitan fashion sheets for distribution.
20th May Celebration and Firemen Tournament Charlotte
The Richmond Danville Railroad offers round trip tickets to Charlotte for attendees of the 20th May Celebration and Firemen Tournament on May 18 19 20. Fares from Durham 4.30 GobLinees 5.65 Greensboro 3.15 Henderson 5.60 Raleigh 4.70 Selma 5.15 Winston Salem 3.85. Rates from intermediate points in same proportion.
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United States
King’s Daughters
Greensboro
N. C
Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company
Kings Daughters
Charlotte
Durham
Goldsburg
Selma
Raleigh
Winston-Salem
Henderson
Richmond & Danville
Hood’s Sareoparilla Praised as Standard Medicine
A prominent physician states Hood's Sareoparilla has risen beyond patent remedies and deserves status as a standard medicine. He notes its undoubted merit and record of remarkable cures as both alterative and tonic, unmatched by others.
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Hood
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