Real estate coup near Ft Louis changes hands after Grant era
Captain Luther W. Conn, a former Confederate, takes possession of a celebrated 7 acre grant farm west of the St. Louis courthouse. The sale price is about $60,000, transferring the historic Dent homestead tract for the first time in over fifty years and partially easing Grant Ward’s past mishaps.
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Dent
Mrs Cleveland Needs New Gloves at White House
A Chicago Head notes that since Mrs Cleveland became First Lady she must wear gloves two sizes larger, due to swelling in her right hand from official duties. He suggests the President may also have changed hands but men’s gloves fit looser, so the difference may go unnoticed.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Presidential tickets and age gaps in late 19th century nominations
The Washington Star notes how parties nominate young presidents with older veteran vice presidents and cites historical examples. It contrasts cases where presidents were older than their running mates with rare exceptions, suggesting American voters preferred illogical pairings.
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Wilson
Hays
Wheeler
Garfield
Arthur
Hancock
English
Blaine
Logan
Cleveland
Hendricks
Thurman
Harrison
Morton
Colfax
Seymour
Blair
Greeley
Brown
Tilden
Frisco as a Friction in California Place Names
A California reader tells a St Louis reporter that Easterners overly shorten San Francisco to Frisco. He argues the nickname is wrong and unbefitting the city, noting San Francisco’s full name is more euphonious and proper than the abbreviated form. He mentions a California town named Frisco as a namesake anomaly.
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California
St. Lou's
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
California Hills
Monuments for Presidents Placed Across the Nation
The New York Graphic notes that with Benjamin Harrison a presidential candidate a bill may pass for a memorial monument to William Henry Harrison at North Bend Ohio. It lists burial places of many presidents from Washington to Arthur across sites in Virginia Kentucky New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Illinois and Ohio.
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Benjamin Harrison
Ohio
William Henry Harrison
United States
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North Bend
Cincinnati
Washington
Mount Vernon
Adamses
Quincy
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Hermitage
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Polk
Nashville, Tenn
Taylor
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Fillmore
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Buffalo
Pierce
Concord
Springfield
Johnson
Greenville
Tend
Garfield
Cleveland
Grant
Riverside
Arthur
Albany
Senate and House Fail to Concur in Army Appropriation Amendments
In Washington the House discussed Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill and moved toward a new 6 million dollar heavy guns appropriation and gun factory. The Senate reported the Union Pacific refunding bill and debated the sundry civil appropriation, adjourned at 5 p.m. with several public works bills passed and the Call Confederate property recovery amendment laid on the table.
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Pacific Railroads
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Hooker
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Butterworth
Tom Reid
Maine
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Alabama
Tracy
New York
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Townshend
Illinois
Brazos River
Texas
Jackson
Mich
Kentucky Rock Gas Company
Ohio and
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
House and Senate Debates On Tariff Deficiency and Fisheries Treaty
The House debated the deficit bill as well as the payment for French spoliation claims and authorized wartime rental dues for South Carolina. Senators clashed over the fisheries treaty with Great Britain and Canada with opposition from Riddlehofer and Teller. The Senate approved a Wyoming associate justice and adjourned after discussing immigration and inter state commerce concerns.
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South Carolina
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Mc Dockery
Missouri
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Washington Notes Vetoes Leatherbury Relief Bill
President vetoes House relief bill for P A Leatherbury while Congress is not in session. Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Folsom arrive in Washington and head to Oakview. Senator Platt predicts Senate action on tariff this session amid Confederate reunion coverage involving Senators Vance and Ransom in North Carolina.
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Cleveland
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Oakview
Platt
Connecticut
Senate
Vance
Ransom
North Carolina
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Morehead City
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Pittsboro
Fire and violence span North to Arizona thresholds
Terrible ravages from grasshoppers near Ottawa and fires destroy mills in Evanaville Indiana and Lockland Ohio. A dramatic river jump and a royal murder case unfold while telegraph rate wars end and Apache tension rises in San Carlos Arizona.
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Little & Croft Lumber Company
George Friends
Lockland
Ohio
Southern Railway and Steamship Association
Southern Freight Pool
Bartley Campbell
Maggie Jones
Foreign Notes on Trials Frontiers and Imperial Meetings
Jury trials in Austria and Hungary suspended for a year. The German Russian and Austrian sovereigns to meet on the Austrian frontier in autumn. Emperor William to meet Queen Victoria on September 30 at Baden. Mount Liwabassi eruption devastates Iwassenura. about 400 buried with thirty houses destroyed. fifteen visitors at local hot springs among the dead.
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Two Deputies Shot in Arkansas Farmstead Action
Deputy Sheriff Witt attempted to arrest Fred Conway eighteen miles northeast of Conway Ark. Conway stabbed Witt with a knife as his wife and two sons attacked. Witt fired, hitting Deputy Lloyd in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. Witt exhausted and unlikely to survive.
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Conway
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Witt
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Canyon on sled runners are employed by the Russian
A cryptic line notes that canyon landscapes are linked to Russian sled runners in a terse, puzzling snippet. The fragment hints at a frontier or expedition motif without clear context or names.
Railroad News and Developments Across Southern Lines
Reports detail railroad company formations and car orders in Florida and Virginia, consolidation of Mobile Alabama Mississippi lines, and a Richmond and Danville contract for 500 cars. Earnings for Southern roads in May 1888 and half-year totals are given, plus lines opening Ashland to Maysville and graded sections toward North Carolina. Fuel use for locomotives and recent division appointments are outlined.
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Southern Roads
Forest Fires Beset Ottawa Region Causing Havoc
Terrible fires sweep parts of Ontario with Bt. Joseph and Ghaugiere Junction area under full control. Aylema threatened as dry season fuels devastation. Estimated losses reach at least 50 million dollars with many families fleeing for safety.
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Ontario
Joeseph
Telegraph
Ghaugiere Junction
Canadian Pacific Railway
Aylema
The Cotton Movement Week Overview
The cotton movement summary shows interior town receipts of 4 123 bales vs 1 263 last year and shipments of 7 666 bales vs 2 567 last year. Port receipts reach 8 211 bales and plantation deliveries total 4 668 bales. Total deliveries since September 15 reach 5 505 494 bales, with the crop in sight at 3 798 265 bales.
Tragedy at Sangamon Street Home Ends in Double Death
Chicago officers at Desplains Street Station found Henry Hush, a retired saloon keeper, and his wife dead on the second floor of 150 South Sangamon Street. Neighbors recalled a happy couple seen Saturday evening. Hush killed his wife with a butcher knife and then hanged himself.
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Chicago
South Sangamon Street
Henry Hush
Saturda
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Death by self harm and disasters reported in North Carolina
The Mecklenburg County Bible Society met at Amity church. Miles Borders, colored, killed himself Tuesday morning in Gaston by severing his throat. A Farmers Alliance picnic occurred in Steel Creek township with speeches by Capt. 8. B. Alexander, R. EB. Hunter, and Rev. P. R. Law. A boiler explosion at J F Arrowood’s Plaining Mill in Rutherfordton wrecked building and engine house. Arrowood and John Carson escaped. Captain Banks of the Ranger drowned at Nag's Head after calling for help.
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Miles Borders
Gaston
Farmers’ Alliance
Steel Creek Township
B. Alexander
R. EB. Hunter
P. R. Law
J. F. Arrowood
Rutherfordton
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John Carson
Captain Banks
Ranger
Hamilton
Nag’s Head
Foran predicts GOP gain in next House by ten to fifteen
Representative Foran, a Democrat, estimates the next House will lean Republican by about ten to fifteen majority. Miss Fannie Wyatt, an inmate of Bishop Duncan's family at Spartanburg, died Friday aged about seventy seven. Camp Anderson at Greenville was abandoned by the Sumter Guards who had lingered in tents before marching to Tryon NC. Greenville county candidates, numbering forty three, began a tour to meetings ordered by the executive committee.
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Political turmoil across states as campaigns shift
Wisconsin congressman Stevenson declines renomination while Prohibition candidate Brooks tours Indiana. Missouri and Tennessee races see new nominations. Debates in North Carolina and Pennsylvania reflect party struggles. A violent Charleston mass meeting sparks chaos as voters flee in panic.
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Stevenson
Wisconsin
John A. Brooks
Prohibition
Indiana
Fire and weather notes from Alexandria and region
The Friendship Fire company celebrated its 14th anniversary with a torchlight procession. A fire at Culpeper damaged a dwelling owned by John Henry and CF Chelf Co. insured. Blackstone saw the destruction of the Southern warehouse and hotel, with losses around 30000 dollars and 12500 dollars insured. A rain ended a drought in Danville bright tobacco region, reviving crops. A German ball at Yellow Sulphur Springs honored Miss Winnie Davis with Generals Earley Beauregard and Lomax among guests.
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Alexandria
George Washington
Mondy
Culpepper
John Henry
Chelf & Co
Blackstone
Norfolk and Western
Southern
Richmond
Danville
Yellow Sulphur Springs
Winnie Davis
J. A. Earley
G. T. Beauregard
L. L. Lomax
Tennessee Topics and Election Returns Report
The governor receives a telegram from Hayward county sheriff seeking help against an alleged attack of negroes. Chickasaw Guards prepare to depart for Brownsville. Chattanooga population totals 40,672 within and 6,500 in suburbs, 47,472 overall, up 9,000. Election returns show East Tennessee with one Republican majority, Democrats gain in Middle and West Tennessee. vote light.
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Brownsville
Chattanooga
East Tennessee
Middle
West Tennessee
Ruined Texas City Noted Near Molpais Lava Flow
The Kansas City El Paso and Mexican Railroad surveys report a lava flow called Molpais stretching forty miles with ten to twelve foot ridges and white ash depths. North of the flow, Gran Guivera ruins lie forty miles from water, with vast stone structures and evidence of past dense population. No local legends explain its destruction or abandonment, though one engineer links it to a volcanic eruption.
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Gran Guivera
Palenque
Central America
Socorro
White Oaks
Engineering and Mining Journal
Wonderful Stone Masons and Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
The writer praises ancient Egyptian builders noting massive stones in pyramids far heavier than the London embankment obelisk. They cite a 40 ton stone and 30 foot long blocks that fit so tightly a penknife cannot pass between. No mortar or modern machinery could replicate such precision.
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London Embankment
London
Norwegian ship owners use old hulls to gain timber profits
Norwegian ship owners tow unfit wooden vessels to the Jutland coast where they anchor offshore. During gales the seas break up the hulks and carry timber ashore for collection and sale at good prices. Dozens of useless hulks have been disposed of this way recently.
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Jutland
Buttermilk Cure Promises Simple Remedies for Health
The Philadelphia Ledger reports that lactic acid from buttermilk is aiding peptic issues and that dietary treatment may relieve liver troubles. It suggests many, especially the elderly, could benefit from buttermilk as a health aid rather than waiting for a doctor’s prescription.
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Sheridan
Philadelphia Ledger
Scientific and Industrial News Tides Through Diverse Findings
Mercury fulminate used for percussion caps and 417 San Francisco earthquakes in 80 years are cited alongside paraldehyde as a sleep aid. Steamship costs, France’s coastline sinking, Rothschild telescope funding, equatorial day length, gelatine alcohol separation, and canal projects mix with rifle bore twists, medical tongue observations, star scintillations, cotton pulp for paper, gum acacia substitutes, and insane hospital overwork stats.
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Fue Insurance
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Paris
Albert Rothschild
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Liverpool and Manchester Ship Canal
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Howship Dickinson
Atlanta Constitution
Superior Court
Trojanowski
Germany
Schumann
Insane Hospital of
Westboro
The Fatalistic Moors and a Moorish Fable
A Commercial Advertiser remark on Moorish fatalism notes the phrase it is written as a comfort that removes personal responsibility. It cites Mustapha a young Moor who refuses to crush oats for a sick horse claiming if Allah meant horses to eat crushed oats they would have grown crushed.
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Mustapha
Allah
Verbenas and distant travels in a whaler’s wife memoir
A wife of a Yankee whaler recalls travels through Cave Town Peru Rio Janeiro and Peru with notes on flora. She describes the wealth of Verbenas observed around a resting husband and reflects on early voyage days and memories from the first voyage.
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Cave Town
Dr. Livingston
Ile
Rio Janeiro
His Unconscious Eloquence in a Boston Sermon
The late Henry Ware of Boston faced a memory lapse during a sermon and paused. He feared the talk failed, yet a listener praised the pause as sublime, calling the sermon the best Ware had ever preached.
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Henry Ware
Boston
Sulphur Springs Incubator Used by California Citizen
A Sulphur Springs incubator story from Elsinore California describes a resident using local warm sulphur springs at 102 degrees to hatch chicks in three weeks. The spring maintains temperature, requiring no further attention to eggs.
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Cal
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