News of the Week Foreign and Domestic Highlights
A wide range of 1872 signals include Cuba combat reports, Geneva arbitration notes on the Alabama claims, British counter case, and German French tension. Also covered are domestic storms, political moves, cyclone damage in the Carolinas, and New York political demonstrations.
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Thei
Tichborne
Lora
Bovell
Central Department of
Cuba
Eduardo A. Gramout
Geneva
Great Britain
The
United States
Lord Tenterden
Messrs. Taylor and Bernard
J. Bancroft Davis
Caleb Cushing
Charles C. Beaman
London
New York World
England
Cushing
Board of Arbitration
Jlor Majesty
Tenterden
Earl Granville
House of Lords
Doyle
United—States
Washington
Metz
Paria
Kingston
Jamaica
Edgar Stuart
Bismark
Germany
America
Azores
Berlin
London Daily News
Daily Telegraph
London Telegraph
France
Willam
Funeral of Erastus Corning Largely Attended in Albany
The late Erastus Corning's funeral in Albany drew vast crowds as businesses closed and bells tolled. The ceremony followed mourning customs with flags at half mast and draped offices. Memorial events for Professor Morse and Senate nominations on the 15th are noted alongside other civic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erastus Corning
Albany
N. Y
Senate
Robert McCune
Toledo
Ohio
L. M. Bayless
Internal Revenue
Dakota
George F. Townsend
St. Anthony Falls
Minn
Charles H. Lord
Tucson
Arizona
Hulburd
New York
Professor Mforse
Senate actions and measures on bills and memorials
The Senate on the 16th passed bills for interment in national cemeteries and a bridge across the Mississippi at Quincy. Resolutions from San Francisco seek mail steamship service to Pacific islands and increased San Francisco China Japan mail. Memorials opposed Wilcox sewing machine patent renewal. debates on exactions for the Omaha Council Bluffs railroad and New York post office land sale. Amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill discussed. Wednesday set for interrogations on outrages and habeas corpus writ. Adjourned.
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Senate
Misslesippi River
Quincy
San Francisco
Omaha
Council
City of
New York
New York Chamber of Commerce
Joint
Select Committee
D. C. Abbott
North Carolina
Hiagent
Large legislative activity reported in Congress rotation
The article details House and Senate actions over several days, including land grants, road bills, and investigations into arms sales, plus proclamations on taxes and public works. It notes executive sessions, adjournments, and a coroner’s case in Chicago about a boy's death from overwork at a school. London population projection cited.
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Day
Florida
Reed
Cooper Institute
New York City
Mfsissrs
Trumbull
Schurz
Sickles
Wilson
Morton
Grant
North Carolina
Raleigh
Lith
Caldwell
Connecticut
Jewell
Rhode Island
City of
New York
Albany
Board of Aldermen
Department of Public Works, Parks, Charities and Finance
Department of Public Safety
Memphis
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Franciscus
Twelfth Street
Newbury Avenue
Chicago Journal
Elastic Truss Ad Promises Pain Free Cure
An advertisement claims RuProrE can be cured without suffering and promotes Elastic Trusses as superior. It invites readers to send for a descriptive circular from the Elastic Truss Co at 683 Broadway, New York.
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Broadway
N. Y
Ladies Book contains fashion plates and a new Marion Harland story
The issue presents a handsome steel plate rural scene of fording a mare, a fashion plate, a grand scene of Misa Lollipop's ballroom, a colored netting square, and an extension sheet with designs. A new Marion Harland story begins in this number.
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Liam
Meg
Maggie
Misa Lollipop
Marion Harland
School Feature Magazine for Exhibitions and Public Days
Teachers and parents urged to provide The School Feattray Quarterly Magazine for school exhibitions and public days. Edited by Mr Howell of The Little Corporal fame, with Mia Slade and others. The April issue includes a May Queen coronation exercise and other items. Severin, Chicago, 11 price seventy five cents yearly. sample copy twenty cents.
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Howell
Little Corporal
Mia. Slade
Aurnep L. Severin
Chicago
Digestive cures and horse liniments highlighted in old ads
An old newspaper ad section touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and related ailments, praising its tonic quality over purgatives. It also extols Mustang Liniment for horses and livestock, Davis Pain Killer, leather shoes with silver tips, and the ABLE SCREW WIRE Beets Shoes, with agent circulars and seed stock inquiries.
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New?York
Occarius
Advisory Board
the Civil Service
Hamilton Fisit
Supreme Court of Michigan
Tiffin
Kansas and Missouri
Leavenworth
Kansas
Coffeyville
Ness
South Carolina
House
Akerman
Spartanburg
York
Chester
Union
Laurensonburg
Fairfield
Lancaster
Chesterfield
Jawa
Congress
Department of Justice
Ku-Klux Klan
A. S. Gran
Cheater
Columbia
Warren
Barstow
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Lloyd
Tenry
Congressional
Port Huron
Lake Michigan
Texas
Wiliams
Secretary of War
Ams
Ordnance
Treasury
Jicena
Montana
Mississippi
Ways and Means
St Croix and
Lake Superior
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Iowa
Middle Island
Saginaw River
Michigan
Military Academy
Houge
Ohio River
Big Sandy
Georgetown
District of Columbia
Niagara River
Buffalo
Great Salt Lake & Colorado
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
Secretary of the Treasury
South Carolinas
Asura
Beck
Cox and Roberts
Dickey
Meeware
Committee On
Ann Hs
Horee
Pam Emven
Davis
Agzentts
G. A. Dzirz
Chambersburg
Newew York
Detroit
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