Wood's Household Magazine A January Showcase Of Quality
Wood's Household Magazine enters its fourteenth volume with a lavish array of first rate articles and a growing list of admirers. The publication now belongs to S. FE. Shutes, while Tr V Osborne remains editor directing each department. Priced at one dollar yearly with chromo Yosemite offered at one dollar and a half. Newburgh New York.
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S. FE. Shutes
Tr. V. Osborne
Tenoroon
Wool
Newburgh
N. Y
Lippincott's Magazine January highlights and features
The January issue offers rich engravings and illustrations, opening with Edward Strahan's seventh chapter of the New Hyperion, Seductions of Baden Baden. It includesMarie Howland's Trianon palaces sketch, Japanese Fox Myths by Griffis, and sketches of Charles Harding by Tiffany. Fictions include William Black's Princess of Thule and A Wife's Revenge. other pieces cover Monte Carlo, Christmas ball, Shakespeare statue, and Three French Marriages, with poems by Stoddart and Harney. Our Monthly Gossip is brief and entertaining.
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Edward Strahan
Baden Baden
Dore
Trianon
Versailles
Marie Howland
Petit Trianon
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
William E. Griffis
Osmond Tiffany
Charles Harding
William Black
Monte Carlo
Shakespeare
William R. O’donavan
Mary E. Blair
R. H. Stoddart
Will Wallace Harney
Florida
The American Gentleman of Leisure and the Lost Dog
A reflective meditation compares the American man of leisure to a lost dog in a great city, describing decay of purpose and self respect when detached from work. It contrasts European and American attitudes, noting elites like Vanderbilt or Stewart would fade without activity, then return to their pursuits to avoid social oblivion.
Leisure and labor in American society discussed by Dr. J G Holland
Dr J G Holland argues that vast numbers in America live on large estates or fixed incomes while many need to work to avoid social inferiority. He suggests leisure should not be idolized and praises Americans who belong to enterprises and charities. He warns against turning labor vulgar and desires more active civic involvement.
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J. G. Holland
Scribner's
Our Foreign Commerce and Cuba Trade Ideas
In the first century of the republic, America turned to home projects yet faces stagnating commerce with a heavy import surplus. The St Louis Democrat argues annexing Cuba could shift the trade balance, while prudence warns against war. The piece urges peaceable growth and a protective tariff to expand exports and industrial capacity.
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St. Louis Democrat
Cuba
Virginius
Spain
India
Robert Toombs
United States Senate
New York
Mexico
West Indies
Central America
South American
United States
Great Britain
Trade policy and tariffs for Mexico and South America
The author argues for special commercial treaties with Mexico and South America to expand free trade for exports actually produced there and not manufactured in Europe. Such treaties would protect and grow U S manufacturing, bypass tariff threats from European rivals, and require persistent diplomacy to secure. This shift aims to boost maritime commerce and national pre eminence over the next quarter century.
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Europe
Mexico
South America
Illinois Farmers Confront Political Missteps and Public Opinion
A Chicago Journal editorial attacks the Illinois Farmers Association for mixing grievances with partisan politics. It argues the group misframes issues, contrasts them with the nonpolitical Grangers, and warns such political entanglements threaten the agricultural interest and public support.
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Illinois Farmers’ Association
Iowa
Jacob
Esau
Episcopal Church
Nazareth
Grangers
Chicago Journal
Illinois Representatives to Committees Listed
The House arrangement shows Rice from the District of Columbia and Ward with Judiciary and Foreign Affairs, Farwell as Chairman on Manufactures and Banking, Hurlburt on Railways and Canals, Reform of Civil Service, Burchard on Ways and Means, Hawley on Claims and Military Affairs, Corwin on Pacific Railroad and Fort Territories, Barrere on Private Land Claims and Coinage, Weights and Measures, Ray on Agriculture and Mileage, Knapp on Revision of Law, Robinson on Foreign Affairs Expenditures in Interior Department, McNulta on Indian Affairs, Cannon on Post offices and Post roads, Eden on Claims Freedmen's Affairs, Martin on Invalid Pensions, Morrison on War Claims Expenditures in State Department, Clements on Patents, Marshall on Appropriations. The conservatives of Virginia have trapped themselves with a state law electing the judiciary for six years and delaying the Legislature until January, risking a midwinter interregnum with no Governor or executive head.
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House of Representatives
Rice
District of Columbia
Ward
Farwell
Hurlburt
Burchard
Hawley
Corwin—Pacific
Fort—Territories
Barrere
Ray
Knapp
Robinson
Interior Department
McNulta
Indian Affairs
Cannon
Eden—Claims
Martin
Morrison— War Claims
State Department
Clements—Patents
Marshall
Neff sells stock to Draper Co in Freeport Illinois
On November 15 1873 J W Neff announces the sale of his drug stock at 85 Stephenson Street Freeport Illinois to Dr N A Draper and Co. He endorses their business and notes they will meet patrons needs. A co partnership forms the same day to continue the drug business at the same address as N A Draper Co N A Craven J J M Ancear in Freeport Illinois.
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Stephenson Street
Freeport
Ill
N. A. Draper
J. W. Neff
Ilinois
N. A. Draper & Co
Fulton Street
Chicago
Fuller & Fuller
Lord, Smith & Co
van Schaack
Stevenson & Reid
Tolman & King
Burnham & Son
Hurlburt & Edsall
Ills
Centaur Liniment Promises Pain Relief For Humans And Animals
Advertises Centaur Liniment as a universal remedy for rheumatism neuralgia lameness and various injuries in humans and animals. Claims thousands of cures and offers circulars with certificates and the recipe. Also promotes Castoria as a safe child remedy with soothing effects and no drugs. Circulation from 1826 onward.
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J. B. Rosz & Co
Broadway
New York
Curtis & Brown
Fulton Street
Lyr
Harper's Magazine praised as best sustained work in the world
Critics from the Boston Globe and Brooklyn Eagle laud Harper's Magazine for widespread circulation its educational value and entertainment quality. They credit its variety enterprise artistic wealth and literary culture as influential in shaping public taste and mind.
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Boston Globe
Times
Brooklyn Eagle
Harper's Magazine Subscriptions and Prices 1874
Subscription details offer one year at 8 400 or 10 00 with Harper's Magazine Weekly and Bazar to one address. Extra copies via clubs, six copies for 2 000, back numbers available. Complete Harper's 47 volumes at 2 25 per volume, single volumes 3 00, cloth cases 58 cents. Postage 24 cents yearly. Address Harper and Brothers New York.
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U. S
Harper's
Harper & Brothers
New York
Harper’s Magazine
Bazar
Harper's Weekly
Express
Harper's Bazar
U.S
Harper’s
Harper’s Bazar
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