Lincoln Portraits and Fleet Movements Highlight Late February
A February issue of McClure’s Magazine will feature historical Lincoln life portraits showing his features at key career epochs. The Henry Republican notesAmid Euro Navy buildup sixteenths of ships assemble off Florida under Admiral Sicard with 337 officers and 3834 men capable of shelling from seventy eight guns. The piece also covers Senate amendments to interstate commerce bills and comments on loan markets in the Midwest and a vivid scene of return travel from Los Angeles to Chicago with mixed farewells and luggage chaos.
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McClure
Lincoln
Florida
Sicard
Henry Repupite
Peoria
Nolens Yo
Marth
Los
Angelex
Blue Island
Curio Desler
Mexico
Lung‘ P
Invik
Neten
Dicker
Bride by death and other tales from distant times
The piece recounts a wedding journey ending in tragedy with a bride dying en route to her Hoosier home. It also cautions on costly funeral practices and rail shipping of bodies. A pest outbreak in orange groves is described with a danger of annihilating trees until a parasite is introduced.
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Indiana
California
Hoosier
Aghe
Alice
Ohio
Oslifornis
Creely & Gay
Australia
Poli
Mimi
Afd
Mus
Miraculous Interposition Affects Orange Industry Draws Buyers
A fragmentary poem and notes describe a Pacific coast invasion and a surge of speculative buying. It recalls warnings from pastors and teachers about financial risk and urges quick purchases of land and ocean frontage. The piece hints at republishing and regional reactions, with a cue to Riverside and Los Angeles readers.
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Rand
Los Angeles
Gov Tanner’s Outing at Hot Springs Wins Shooting Match
Governor and Mrs Tanner vacationed at Hot Springs Arkansas with friends. During the stay he excelled in a four cornered live-bird shooting event with Gates Elwood Drake and himself tallying 165 birds. Tanner shot 16 straight, then 17 straight after two birds escaped. His Springfield friend called the result pleasing and joked about newspapers.
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Gov Tanner
Tanner
Hot ‘Springs
Ark
Gover ‘Mor
Springfield
Gates
Elwood
Drake
Self
Corn Bushel Marvel: 2 Billion Bushels In 1897
Fitraman's Cord Talk reports El Paso speaker Fursman at Livingstone County Farmers Institute describing US corn production. He cites 2,000,000,000 bushels in 1897 and dramatic freight-car and railroad-scale comparisons to illustrate the vast harvest.
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Fitraman
Fursman
el Paso
Livingstone County
Europe
United States
San Francisco
New York
Chicago
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertised without Mercury
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It claims no mercury is used and that the remedy taken internally cleanses the blood and mucous surfaces. Warns buyers to ensure genuine product from Cheney Co and to consult reputable physicians.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney
Toledo
Toles
Ohio
B. J
Cheney & Co
Monstrous steamboat tale and local notices from 19th century Toluca region
Fragmentary 1828 river steamboat anecdote near Kingston and Fort Clark recalls Indians fleeing to timbered hills as a monster boat arrives. The piece then shifts to ads for Dr Caldwell’s Pepsin, bankrupt stock warnings, and a Toluca Star editor’s mother’s funeral in Minonk with brief local condolences.
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Illinois
Kingston
Jegse Eggman
Hugh Warr
Gan
Dog
Mt RC
Tharp
Gabriel
Stark
Fort Clark
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Attorney AT Law
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W. B. Kirkpatrick
Rockford Ins. CO
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Vain & Bear
Noury Township
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