Free trade and tariff debates reach Henry Republican pages
Henry Republican on May 17 1893 prints opinions from Chicago Tribune and Ocean that Republicans defend protection while some call for revision. Also features Bonham memoir Fifty Years Recollections and farm measurement guidance from The American Farmer including rod and acre calculations for land surveyors.
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Chicago Tribune
Omaha
Republican Party
Ths
Chicago
United States
Canada
England
France
Germany
Congress
House
Insanity Figures Rise Across U S In 1880 Census
analysis of the 1880 census details insanity counts by gender race and native status. it notes 91 997 insane, 44 408 male and 47 689 female, 65 651 natives vs 26 846 foreign, 86 840 white and 6 167 colored, with foreigners showing a striking column of insanity. the piece questions lines between sanity and insanity and discusses migration and social factors affecting mental illness.
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Atlc
Guitesu
Gompel
Census Bureau
Atlantic
Pacific
Consus
Boston
United States
Prigonera
Prigohs
Peoria Cardinal and Archbishop Honored by Rome
The Peoria Democrat reports Bishop Spalding of Peoria has risen to cardinal and archbishop and will soon return from Rome. The paper urges Peoria residents to plan a grand welcome and notes he has raised 2,000,000 in Europe to fund a major ecclesiastical education plan to train priests, hoping Peoria secures the school’s location with concerted effort.
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Peoria Democrat
Bishoppalding
Rome
Spalding
Europe
Peoria
Des Meinos Iowa Reports I I and I Railroad Plans
Des Meinos sources note extensions from Streator to Oskaloosa and connections with the Chicago Burlington and Pacific, now Central Iowa, toward Kalthaburg Peoria and Toledo. The line aims to be a grand transcontinental railway with a June move anticipated for those interested in the project.
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Adiepatoh
Tribune
Des Meinos
Iowa
Btreator Free Press
Free Sample Box Promises Cure For Axnegade Disease
A dubious remedy announced by Dre Doming offers a free sample box via a calling card claiming healing powers. The ad includes a calendar showing monthly starts on Sundays or Mondays by date and urges readers to paste the note in a hat to recall the day of the month, implying a gimmick rather than medical legitimacy.
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Dre Doming
Dr Powell
Culver
Mabyn
Lnvd
Addrasa
Culverwell Medical CO
New York
Postoffics
Arnica Salve Promises Rapid Skin Cure All Ailments
Backlen's Arnica Salve touted as the greatest medical wonder capable of healing burns bruises cuts ulcers salt rheum fever sores cancers piles chilblains burns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold for 25 cents per box by J E & F A Powell. Also notes amended internal revenue law taking effect May on tobacco cigars and taxed goods with stamp tax repeal delayed until July 1.
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Backlen
J.E
F.a.powell
Faith Defined By A Sunday School Boy In Boston Tale
A bright Sunday school boy offered a definition of faith as a feeling of certainty with nothing backing it. The article notes a Massachusetts appearance where a "reformed actor" held meetings in Boston assisted by various reformers and ex-convicts including bodice keepers, plumbers, and heat specialists, described as Weather prophets.
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Nistaauhar
Massachusetts
Boston
Billingsgate Market and its Thames River Trade
The article describes Billingsgate as London’s sole fish market, tracing its origins to Belin King of the Brittons and detailing its location near the Custom House since 1699. It covers the bustling landing, floating stage, vast fish throughput, and the labor of porters, along with criticisms of the market’s access, congestion, and alleged legal monopoly implications.
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Jedifcey
Monmouth
Belin
S. Watergate
B.C
London
Bunning
North Sea
Shell Me
Billingsgate
Thames Street
Epenest Walpole
Home Office
Lillingsgate
N.Y. World
Sugar sample from country store found vile compound
A Weslern Rural correspondent sent a sample of sugar from a country store for analysis. It contained about fifty percent grape sugar made from corn and worth about four cents a pound and large quantities of sulfur. The chemist labels it a vile compound.
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Weslern
Potato Growing Tips And Horticultural Notes
A New York farmer reports that Hubbard squash fattening yields more pork than corn on the same acre. Western New York Horticultural Society discusses weather, pests, and the 1882 crop failures. Deep drains aid soil nutrition by slow water percolation. Also includes economical rice pudding and a custard sauce recipe with eggs, milk, sugar, and vanilla.
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New York
Hubbard
Western New York Horticultural Society
Jester
Chicago Journal
New England
Quality of Eyes and Eggs From Fowl Diets
A Victorian era note on egg and flesh flavoring from fowl diet. It argues eggs vary in quality based on feed and environment. Clean housing, wholesome food, greens, and clean water improve eggs and meat. Summer foraging, winter prepared greens, and occasional animal scraps are suggested. Observes onions and fish flavors transfer via diet.
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V. Y
Monkey Heist at the Saloon Trains Jury of Laughs
Nicholas Langdon recalls a comic incident in an Third Avenue beer saloon where a trained monkey allegedly extorted a quarter and then dispensed $2.50 in change. Langdon and companions debated the trick as the bartender blamed the animal for the missing money.
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Nicholas Langdon
Eighteenth-Ward
Third Avenue
Monk
Joh
Arsenic Eating Fetish Warned In Old Tale
An anecdotal dialogue in a Cleveland Herald piece discusses arsenic use by women to enhance beauty, warning that long term consumption causes ghastly skin and death. It cites white water and Fowler's solution, notes six weeks of unbroken dosing can suffice, and includes a cynical physician’s caution and a story of a pig fed arsenic cherries as a grim aside.
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Aessgyis Talbot
Cleveland
Talbot
Jennie Cramer
Fowler
Esculapius
Parker
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