ABSOLUTELY PURE Cough Medicine Ad and Political Opinion
An advertisement touts ABSOLUTELY PURE Shilohs Consumption Cure as a universal remedy for cough croup bronchitis and consumption with a price range 10c 50c and 1. A regional ad also notes a Porous Plaster from Boldby R Buackwalls Son. The text shifts to a political endorsement of Grover Cleveland as a trusted public leader and ends with a quip about coal’s potent energy per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
Pride
Boldby R Buackwalls & Son
Fusion schemes across parties threaten Democrats and Republicans
The Norfolk Ledger notes party fragmentation, with Democrats and Third parties allying in the West to peel electoral votes from Republicans, while in the South Republicans seek presidential electors in exchange for Third party state gains. Powell Clayton advocates fusion, signaling a year of strategic realignments that threaten the Harrison administration and national stability.
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Norfolk Ledger
South
Arkansas
Powell Clayton
Harrison
Not One Sore Now Baby Afflicted with Bad Sores
During the summer of 1640 the writer's eighteen months with intent suffered eruptions unrelieved by domestic remedies. The text claims permanent cure by the Cutiura. The fragment ends mid-sentence, noting an ereming track.
Waist Down Shay and Corcrna Reflections in Paducah
A fragment from QUALLS of Paducah Kentucky recalls a past event or personal recollection. The incomplete text hints at a wartime or wartime era sentiment with phrases about a wallet, greetings, love, and a reference to what seems a person or nickname. The piece preserves a local voice and place.
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Hie
John Word
Durham
Norfolk
Bob Burruss
Mr. Ward
Willard Street
Fragmented Notice on Remedies and Odd Facts From Era
A jumbled snippet mentions Cuticura remedies for babies and various odd facts about costs and demographics. It notes tax or production figures for a $1 bill, Albany capitol cost, German residents, beer prices in Chicago, and longhand writing pace, with a stray line about political nominations on the first ballot and upcoming November outcomes.
Carnegie Labor Strife in Braddock and Homestead Explains
The piece argues Carnegie's Braddock and Homestead labor conflicts fueled by foreign labor and wage suppression, recounting 1888-1892 clashes, Pinkerton use, and local boycotts, with accounts of superintendent Jones and workers' hunger driven defeats. It also notes Scots immigrant origins and a social critique of Carnegie's factory policies.
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East Main St
Jones
Durham
N.C
Ees
Carnegie Company
Pennsylvania
Frick Soeapens
America
Europe
Carnegie Works
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Carnegie
Knights of Labor
Andrew Carnegie
Braddock
Homestead
Illinois Steel Company
Joliet Steel Company
Jones Down
Scotland
Damferiine
United States
Sady
Gibson
Pinkerton
Riter & Conley
Pittsburg
Raddock
Sloa
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U.S. Gov’t
Royal
Grover Cleveland
Castoria
WA Ancusa
M.D
Oxford
Brooklyn
Thas
Eer Eee Winthrop
Birect
Cana
New York
Caty
Monnay Staxer
W. L. Douglas
Gene
Rene
Hatiroad
Beary
Durhm Suply Company
Foute
Higgys
Bavid & Poute
W. M. Yrarby Druggist
W. C
Spain
The
Jacksonville (Ill
Institute For Deaf Mutes
R. Blscknall
O. Dorhatt
Saturn
Lecropone
Washington, D
Charleston ,.C
Atlanta, Ga
Cuticura
Bott
Price
Collarma
Acs
Uy Eo
Babys Speen
Albany
Muller
Germany
Chicago
China
Tuts
Iacan
Democratic
Prohibi
Pile
Sophie
Nessons
Albert A. Pope
Kago Exposition
Selim H. Peabody
Det Liberal Arts
Ag Wep
Pope
Hsle
First Baptist Sunday School
Col. J. 8. Carr
Col. Carr
M. E. McCown
Igentemen
W.c. Tyare
W. A. Slater
E. 8. Mippeton
Durham Sun
Soekahatti
Orange Factory
Jess
Lockahatti
Mesdames
W. Holman
C. A. Jordan
J. A. Robinson
Lillie Lockhart
Annie Link
Bessie
Alice Holman
Annie
Pauline Ramsey
Marian Stone
Lancas Mass
W. M. Yearby
R. C
King
T. B
Philadelphia Record
Somerville Journal
Harlem
Texas Siftings
Sherman
Congress
New England
Asheville
Durham Corner
Western Road
Frank O. Donnell
State Firemen’s Association
J.W. Griffith
Greensboro
National Firemen’s Association
T. A. Green
Newbern
Geo
Powell
J. D. McNeill
Fayetteville
J. W. Griffith
E. G. Parmele
Wil- Wilmington
Association
Wilmington
D. W. Whitaker
Washington
Mr. Whitaker
Whitaker
Minnie Sparrow
Nannie W. Dickson
Houges
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