Pestilence Fears Fueled by Emigration and Liquor Networks
A long critique warns that fresh yeast products and an expansive railroad system near emigration ports could spread deadly pestilence across the United States. It urges strict quarantine, higher internal revenue taxes on intoxicants, and tariffs on imported liquor. The piece cites Dr Hagan and Dr Ball on contagion theories and notes a British India famine blamed on poverty and opulence.
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Atlantic
United States
Old World
Hagan
Cambridge
Mass
Ball
Prusia
Geo. B. Wood
Philadelphia
British India
Her
Burglars Escaped After Dakota Store Breakin
A Dakota town report notes burglars escaped after breaking into Mr Young’s store. An incident near Febr’s Mill left Mr Duck badly hurt by a reaper accident. his daughters aged 11 and 17 aided him. Jonathan Matter, Dakota Township, received a pension for disability incurred while serving as a Volunteer, dating back years. Local editorials speculate on Fourth of July mischief and caution youths about reckless behavior. An English dispatch mocks Lord Beaconsfield’s farming focus. A lengthy critique targets General Hancock, detailing appearances, residence, and political consequences if elected. A public notice mentions inflammatory rheumatism relief and local medical endorsements.
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Mr. Young
Duck
Febr's
Umder
Ilis
Jonathan Matter
Dakota Township
Barnum
Solid South
Hancock
Petaluma man dies after dream of death on May Day
Amasa Way of Petaluma California dreamed of dying on May 1 1860. He joined three life insurance societies to provide for his wife and later died of heart disease before a celebratory dinner. The piece also promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a remedy for rheumatic pains lung ailments and many other maladies.
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Amasa Way
Petaluma
Cal
Lhe
Thomas
A Happy Thought for Street Children in St Nicholas August
The August St Nicholas features the Hvening Post Fresh Air Excursions led by Mr Willard Parsons with farm family help bringing city children to the country for a summer fortnight. It includes Alcott and Brooks serial installments, several short stories such as Marjorie’s Peril The Fox and the Stork The Black Cat Winked and Coral tte plus illustrations and a Major’s B Talk Stories segment and various departments for young readers totaling eighty pages.
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Marjorie
McCutcheon
Zuzuland
Sheppard
Susan Coolidge
Brennan
Hopkins
Ernest Ingersoll
J. Harrison Mills
Atlantic August issues contrasts in prose and verse
The August Atlantic presents Aldrich's Stillwater Tragedy chapters and poems by Dr Holmes, Burroughs, Monti, Twain, and others. It includes reviews by Grant White, Underwood on Moses, and pieces on politics and hospitality, with fiction Sylvia's Suitors and notes on St Julien’s trotting record and Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil.
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Atlantic
Mr. Aldrich
Stillwater
Dr. Holmes
Gil Blas
John Burroughs
Luigi Monti
Longfellow
Mark Twain
Edward Mills
George Genton
F. D. Miller
Hunt
Mrs. Wallace
Lew. Wallace
New Mexico
F. H. Underwood
Moses
Richard Grant White
New England
Sylvia
Louise Stockton
Or. Higginson
Susan Coolidge
California
St. Julien
Barus
Thomas
Water-Mill Poem Leads August Ballow's Illustrated Issue
In the August issue of Ballow's Monthly Magazine the centerpiece is the Water-Mill poem, published at readers’ request for a lasting form. The issue also features ivory illustrations of a yachter’s Cornwall visit, Madras, India, and a summer story Sir Him by John A. Peters, plus various other items and notices.
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Ballow
Water-Mill
Cornwall
England
Madras
India
John A. Peters
Ww. NI. Macy
Nantucket
Tory
James Franklin Fitts
Anna C. Swasey
Our Victure
Thames & Talbot
Hawley Street
Boston
Mass
New Hymn and Tune Book for Sunday Schools by Chas S Rob inson
Publication promotes a spiritual songs series for Sunday schools. Notes concern the need for wholesome, engaging songs to train taste and virtue among youth. Offers mail order to pastors and choristers for twenty five cents from Scribner & Co at Broadway, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas S. Robinson
Sciool
Scribner & Co
Broadway
New York
Scribners Midsummer number features Savonarola frontispiece
The August Scribner issue opens with a Savonarola frontispiece by Cole and includes The Plain Story of Savonarola's Life, illustrations of the life and death by Van Shaick, and Richard Henry Dana's Sketch of American Diplomacy. It surveys art features, essays, fiction, poetry, and notices, with frontispieces and images highlighted.
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Cole
Savonarola
Fra Bartolomeo
Vilaria
Savonarolo
van Shaick
Florence
Richard Henry Dana
Madame Adam
Juliette Larber
la Nouvelle Revue
Revue Des Deux Mondes
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Seymour Haden
Hetchings
Solomon Spaulding
Nellie G. Cone
E. C. Phelps
Albert Rhodes
Rideing
Brennan
Principal Grant
Canada
Mr. Schuyler
Peter the Great
Mr. Cabble
Dr. Holland
Uncle Esek
Eric-a-Brac
Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil touted as emergency antidote
A fragment claims Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is a prompt medicine for emergencies and pain relief. It also notes George Jenkins of Barbour County Alabama killed a rattlesnake weighing forty two pounds with fourteen rattles.
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Thomas
George Jenkins
Barbour County
Alabma
A New Kind of a Watch Case Promoted in 1878
A 1878 testimonial from Manspenh, PA, touts Bosas Patent Case as superior. It claims the case lasts longer, uses five solid gold plates, offers a written guarantee, and outperforms electro gilding. The note urges readers to ask their jeweler for the illustrated catalogue.
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Manspleln
R.B
Jas
Boss
Doss
The Journal Pledges Courageous Partisan Local Reporting
The Journal declares its aim as a reliable local record and staunch Republican voice. It vows to seek truth, expose evils, and advocate for the greater good, while remaining willing to name corruption in any party.
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Iam
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