Sketch of Thomas Alva Edison
A portrait of Thomas Alva Edison tracing his early life from birth in 1847 at Milan Ohio to youth in Port Huron Michigan and his rise as a telegraph operator inventor in Ohio Michigan Indiana New York New Jersey and Philadelphia. It highlights his tenacity, early experiments, first patents, and key inventions including the duplex telegraph carbon telephone and phonograph.
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Milan
Erie County
Ohio
Massachusetts
Canada
Edison
Port Huron
Michigan
England
Gibbon
Rome
Detroit
Grand Trunk Herald
Mount Clemens
Solera H
Stratford
Adrian
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Memphs
Louisville
New Orleans
Looney
Boston
Fiat
New York
Tom Edison
Mr. Edison
Gold and Stock Company
Newark
New Jersey
Iis
Moule Park
Pennsylvania
Mr. Rollson
Herbert Spencer
Victor, Hugo
Edgar A. Poe
Crown of Knoll
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Prof. Barker
University of Pennsylvania
Dot
Dash
Atonta
Gray
Mr. Gray
Mr. Bell
Popular Science Monthly
Costs of Jay Cooke estate bankruptcy rise to 287000
The voluminous report to creditors by Trustee Lewis details estate expenses through September 1878. Major items include lawyers fees totaling over 287 thousand dollars, with John Bullit and Richard L. Ashhurst each at 20 thousand, and litigation costs near 38 thousand.
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Jay Cooke
Lewis
John ©. Bullit
Richard L. Ashhurst
Samuel Dickson
Theodore Culver
Henry Wharton
Edwin M. Lewis
Committee of
Joseph Mason
Iran
United States
Marshall Kerns
The Corners Bankers Inflation Riot and Taxing Ideals
A satirical expose from Nasty Petroleum portrays a town in chaos as banks issue their own notes, wheat soars and prices rise while locals press for legal tender. Citizens threaten punishment for those who refuse the currency and push for unified author ity to back a flood of money. The piece ends with a quivering note on national politics and treason.
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Kmntucky
Unlimited Confidence Land Trust Company
Mackey and Burns
Mackey
Burns
Kevin Mackey
Squire Pettus
Gedney
Blessings Diffusion Bank of
North Amerika
Parkins
Barney
Ekitable and
Butts
Bustere
Bankin
Labor Stimyoplatin Company
I. Butts
Wuntz
Whareas
Jehial Perkins
Bascom
Ohio
Pennsylvany
Weareas
Kevin
P.s—Bascombez
Direkters
Émenidin Ml
United States
Jef
Davis
God Save the Republic
New Republic
The Programme What the Democracy Will Do
Under the heading Oko Iowa Miss states anticipate a Democratic win in 1881. The piece argues a Democratic president will urge a fully Democratic Congress and seeks a sweeping shift to states rights, erasing New England ideas and Hamiltonian national powers, with Calhounite secession and a destruction of federal authority.
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White House
Senate
Republic
Commonwealths
Federal Union
Jeff Davis
A Remedy for Poison Ivy Effects
Dr. A. Brown of the U S N reports a specific cure for poison oak and ivy eruptions. He advocates bromine dissolved in olive oil or similar carriers at 10 to 20 drops per ounce, applied three to four times daily with renewal each day. In over forty cases the eruption abates after the first thorough application and vanishes within a day if continued.
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8. A. Brown
Post Office Plans to Extend Registry to Third Class Mail
Hazen signals broadening the registry system to include third class mail matter as part of the regular postal service. He notes profit in first class registry and sees potential profitability for third class as well.
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Hazen
Get Hazen
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Dunn Edge Tool Company
Waterville
Metropolittan
Albert Barnes
At Rosa Presbyterian Church
Philiphia
Prague
Auburn
Fanny Eilsler
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