Republican Platform Embraces Reform and Currency Policy Iowa
The Iowa Republican platform urges national banking with free access and sound currency, strict anti extortion and fair rail regulation, equal rights for all citizens, government retrenchment, direct presidential vote, patent law reforms, civil service integrity, and constitutional amendments on suffrage for women. It advocates state commerce regulation and improved internal waterways, aligned with 1872- era Republican principles.
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Towa
Republican Party
Iowa
Avery
Ofr
Tya
United States of Oil
United States
Congress
Assad
Cnoral Assembly
Alwog
Fifteenth General Assembly
Republican Party Faces Internal Strains Over Corruption
Analysis notes that Republican officials have been exposed in corruption cases, with calls for the party to step back and consider its stance. The text, though fragmentary, suggests factional debate over responsibility and reform within the party.
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Republican Party
Jis
Party
Republican Party Praised for Reform and Public Spirit
The Indiana State Convention lauds the Republican party for exposing official delinquencies and combating corruption. It cites investigations into salary grabs the Moiety system and Sanborn contracts, claiming commitment to public justice and equal rights.
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Pary
Jnt
Republican Party
Indiana
Democratic Party
T Han
Tts
Credit Mobiier
Ita
District of Columbia
Ito
Zoledo Blade
Smuggler’s Narrative Ends With Informer Twist at Dieppe
A narrator recounts aiding a smuggler by declaring a secret on a Dieppe coast path. He identifies a woman with contraband lace, helps bring her to a searching house, and pays her fine after confiscating the goods. He then offers the recovered lace as a reconciliation gesture and explains his informer role to her.
Strange Robbery in Louisville Affects Young Woman
A Louisville woman awoke to find her window open and one of her two braided long hair sections cut off. She noticed no other traces. the burglar entered through the window and fled unseen, leaving no clue to his identity.
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Louisville
Stein
Dentists and Pain Relief From Cotton Sat Solution
A 19th century correspondent notes that a small amount of cotton soaked in a strong diammonia solution applied to a painful tooth or neuralgia can quickly end the pain. The remedy sometimes causes a brief nervous laughter before relief.
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Tor
Ame
Jean
Practical Home Remedies and Cooking Tips From a 19th Century Table
A collection of kitchen suggestions and agricultural notes including recipes for mint sauce and pineapple preserves, methods to deter cabbage pests, charcoal for fowl health, tips on beefsteak cooking, and advice on weed control through summer fallowing and repeated plowing.
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Lowige
Manure value and weed discipline in rural areas
The piece questions city farming advantages for manure and cost of labor versus manure rich land. It notes weeds outrunning spring work, the potential benefit of weed laws, and how wet seasons let weeds surge before cultivation.
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Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Craftsmen's
Tife Assurance Company
Boston
Profitable Waste Vegetable Matter Cure by Composting
RADA TRIS and ex workers describe collecting coarse weeds and vegetable scraps for compost. A three week effort by one man costs about thirty dollars, yielding at least one hundred dollars in manure value, with many finding waste matter a profitable improvement for gardens and farms.
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Rada
Tris
Horney
Weekly Press
Bread Making With Potato Yeast By Lucy Hood
Lucy Hood explains potato yeast bread making with tepid water salt and flour to form a stiff dough. After kneading rise bake two loaf batches in covered tins, using buttered crust and cloth wraps. She notes potato yeast moistness helps white bread and other baked goods but does not keep well in hot weather.
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Lucy C. Hoods
Eoping
Preservation of the Teeth in Dental Decay Studies
The Lancet notes that acids weaken enamel and dentine and fungi in the mouth accelerate caries. Cleaning methods fail to remove these parasites, while soapy water can destroy them. Emphasis is on keeping the mouth clean and using slightly alkaline rinses with a touch of soap.
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Leber
Rottenstein
Intelligent Brutes in Medieval Courts
A Appletons' Journal article recounts medieval cases where animals were judged and punished as if rational agents. Hogs and other beasts faced court, with executions and public penalties including mutilation and even burning for alleged misdeeds.
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Appletons’ Journal
Filaise
France
Eeenares
Bey Iy
Abyzs
Switzerland
Basle magistrates and medieval beliefs about animals and crime
The fragment recalls Basle magistrates in the late 15th century condemning humans for dreadful iniquities while animals faced legal defenses and acquittals. It notes a famed lawyer who profited from defending a colony of rats and contrasts Western civilization with Eastern regimes still holding medieval views of creatures.
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Basle
France
Mark Twain Hosts Persistent Book Agent in Gentle Garden Encounter
A book agent visited Mark Twain at his home to pitch a subscription for a new work. Twain, hoeing in the garden, greeted the man kindly and discussed the book and its author before inviting him inside. The agent endured a long, hunger-gnawing wait without a subscription offer and departed around 6 p.m., vowing never to return.
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Mark Twain
Mr. Twain
Twain
Measles alters girl’s hair in Danbury transformation
A Danbury girl, three years into a changeable appearance, now wears celestial blue eyes and raven hair after a severe measles attack. Her hair was shaved due to the illness, ending the auburn shade.
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Danbury
Be Protruding Toe Not a Pightly Health Comfort
A garbled sale note advertises Silver tipped shoes with claims of durability. The fragment mentions vendors and a price line, but readable details are limited.
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