Davenport firm assigns large book business amid town notices
Davenport based E. A. Day & Co. assigns assets. Muscatine veterans set grand encampment for Sept 22 23. First district Republican convention planned for Burlington Aug 18. Sioux City wholesale trade nears all prior half year totals. Multiple local crimes and deaths noted.
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Buckle on Great Writers List
Thomas Henry Buckle ranks Homer Plato Aristotle Dante Shakespeare Bacon Descartes Hobbes Grotius Locke Berkeley Kant Hegel Comte Mill Smith Malthus Ricardo as core writers. He excludes Virgil and Milton though admiring them, arguing they do not rise to the same epochal impact.
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Hegel
Comte
Mill
Smith
Malthus
Ricardo
von Quixote
Goethe
Virgil
Milton
Child Contemplates Cookie Heist in Quiet Kitchen Scene
A young girl eyes cookies inside stationary boxes near a baker’s cart while a nurse intervenes. The girl weighs moral duty against impulse and wonders if divine sanction could overlook a small theft.
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Foolish Hope Pays Off for Detroit Man
A Detroit man recalls his wife’s decade of illness and failed cures. He tried hop bitters after seeing a U. S. flag promotion and reports two bottles cured her for two dollars. The ad ends with the tag “m folly pays.”
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Vast 1880s News: Fires Epidemics Disasters Across Cities
A sweeping late news digest reports New Brunswick forest fires and yellow fever in New Orleans, plus heat waves and sunstroke deaths in Cincinnati. Census figures show Minneapolis 23, Springfield 19,768, and Sacrament County 52,993. It notes a Chicago glucose factory fire, a drowning of Isaac Atkinson near Chicago, Bradford oil-fire damage, and an earthquake in Memphis.
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Postmaster Arrested for Rifling Letters in New Mexico
J. D. J. Lopez the Anton Chico postmaster faces arrest for rifling registered letters. Gov Cornell of New York declines to intervene in Chas tine Cox’s case. Cox, condemned for Mrs Hull’s murder, was hanged at the Tombs July 16 in front of about 200. Basham, near Independence Missouri, arrested July 13 for Glendale robbery involvement. Authorities have
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New Mexico
Cornell
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Chastine Cox
Hull
Basham
Independence
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Public Meeting Protests Prince Imperial Statue in London
News from England reports a July 15 London gathering to protest Westminster Abbey statue plans for the Prince Imperial. The Irish party condemned Gladstone amendment restricting the compensation bill for tenants paying thirty pounds or less, warning it harms small tenants and encourages landlord consolidation. Parliament debated the statue proposal as Briggs’s motion was amended to remove phrasing about impairing good feeling.
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Major C J C Ball Shoots Porter in Lemars Affair
In Lemars on Sunday evening July 11 Major C J C Ball shot and dangerously wounded Dr. W B Porter. The confrontation arose from Ball’s role as prosecuting attorney in a rape case where Porter was defendant. Ball surrendered to the sheriff after the shooting. Porter, unarmed, is expected to recover.
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Atchison, Mo
Seth & Co
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Carroll County
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Scott County
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Preventive Kidney-Wort Ad Brings Digestion Relief
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Sixteen ounces of prevention in each box of Kidney-Wort. Try it. Kidney-Wort is the enemy of indigestion and biliousness. 2 sure to conquer them.
Our Unknown Empire and Alaska Prospects in Harper’s Magazine
Dr. Sheldon Jackson’s Alaska book argues the territory is fertile and temperate in parts and rich in resources. It highlights timber, coal, metals, fur bearing animals, and vast fisheries, with the Yukon river and extensive coastlines supporting commerce and travel. It calls Alaska a grand archipelago with glaciers and hot springs, offering opportunities for travel, pleasure, and enterprise.
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