Maine Election Signals Shake-Up for Blaine and Reed
A Maine vote story notes Blaine did not register and thus could not vote, with his home city showing only 180 majority versus 500 previously. Ex-Speaker Reed loses Portland support, dropping from 1,527 to 176. The piece argues Maine’s results weaken Blaine’s campaign and hint at broader Republican weakness, while highlighting a surge in tobacco shed construction in Wisconsin and shifting growing practices.
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Maine
Philadelphia Times
Vermont
Blaine
New England
Reed
Portland
Harrison
A Plea for the Better Sanitation of Qur Town
A Durham Sun letter urges improved town sanitation amid Asiatic cholera fears in New York. It urges the Health Board to remove filth, ensure clean water, and curb nuisances as protection against potential epidemic spread in Durham.
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Boards of Health
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Creas Condi
Chetera
Europe
Jenkins
Bell
Philadelphia
Cotton and health tips in a North Carolina paper
The edition notes cotton gathering remains brisk with buyers busy while warnings about sanitation are issued. It highlights a green goods swindle case worth $400 and slower cotton shipments by rail. A medical ad touts Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier to strengthen the weak.
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Laurinburg Exchange
Labor Note from Texas Sittinga
In a Texas note a boy in a New York school asks about earning bread in the sweat of the brow. The dialogue shifts to observations of labor on a warm day and culminates with a boy learning his father is a walking delegate while his father bathes at Coney Island.
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Texas
Sittinga
New York
Copey Island
Conference of Third Party Leaders in Raleigh
In Raleigh a Sunday conference included Marion Butler W H Worth Otho Wilson W S Barnes J W Denmark and others with J C L Harris. They discussed withdrawing the State ticket but made no definite decision. The issue will be settled within fifteen days. John B Eaves and J J Mott arrived Monday and Eaves, chairman of the State Republican Committee, has just returned from New York. It is rumored he failed to raise money yet claims funds later from the National committee. A colored local says Eaves brought ten thousand dollars. Polls by Parnell and Devereux may gauge Wake County voters on the Republican State ticket, called the Dominecker ticket by Harris. Eaves plans state headquarters while Mott and Wilson confer on beating the Eaves ticket.
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Elgerton
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Marion Butler
W. H. Worth
Otho Wilson
W.S. Barnes
J. W Denmark
J. C. L. Harris
John B. Eaves
J. J. Mott
Eaves
Jno
B. Eaves
Republican Executive Committee
New York
National Committee
Nick Blount
Thomas R. Parnell
T. P. Devereux
Wake County
Blican
Lage Harris
Dominecker
Harris
Russell
Dr. Mott
President Harrison critiques local control of elections
The president questions any method that allows local authorities to conduct elections, implying such an approach would insult local officials unless it ensures a Republican victory. He attacks the idea of an “effective” election as defined by force bill advocacy.
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Harrison
Federal election law reform urged to curb abuses
In a message urging federal supervision of congressional elections, the speaker argues for an effective law to restrain local authorities from surrendering certification, claiming current statutes stop short of real reform and should be strengthened. The text also advertises Ayer's Pills as a safe, speedy remedy for constipation and stomach irregularities.
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House of Representatives
Ayer
Godeys Magazine Offers Free World’s Fair Picture
Godeys Magazine promotes a limited October issue with a free art supplement titled Godey’s Idea of the World’s Fair by W. Granville Smith. The ad touts a 7 by 29 inch colored plate, retail price 25 cents, included with subscriptions. mentions other patent remedies and advertisements for Electric Bitters and Syrup of Figs, with claims of health benefits and satisfaction guarantees.
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Godey’s
Europe
Godeys
Godey
W. Granville Smith
America
Royal Germeteur Promoted by North Carolina Auditor
One prominent citizen endorses King's Royal Germeteur as a remarkable medicine curing catarrh insomnia and digestive troubles. The testimonial claims nerve tonic benefits and public speaking stamina, with broad assertions of cures for rheumatism neuralgia indigestion and skin diseases. The ad cites King’s Royal Germeteur Co. of Atlanta selling at one dollar per bottle.
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California
Fig Syrup Co
Electric
R. Blackwall & Son
N. M. Johnson & Co
Durham
Georgia
Hawthorne
Hawthorne and
Henson
Anderlin
North Carolina
Deby
Kixo's Royal Geruerver Co
Atlanta
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