Publication details and political notes from a 19th century paper
Editor C F Crutchfield notes subscription rates and publication offices. Elections loom in twelve states next Tuesday while Baltimore council shifts to a Democratic majority. Supreme Court halts Chicago anarchists appeal. Illinois governor’s intervention may hang seven men. Heroic train crew rewards total $5,000. Piedmont exposition draws 186,000 attendees and $80,000 in gate receipts. Atlanta votes on prohibition next Saturday with active campaigns. Confederate star figurehead raised in Greenwood and gifted to Richmond group. Notorious hangman George B Maliden tallies 52 murders—executions on the same gallows. Maine governor admits prohibition enforcement failures amid long-running reform efforts.
Washington society set to dominate Capitol season
News from the Capitol notes Washington awakens from summer with a social season to rival Congress. Powerful society leaders plan a span of entertainments that will pull lawmakers from duties, promising new gowns, gossip, and grand events from December into Lent. The President prepares the annual message focusing on tariff, surplus, and Civil Service Reform.
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Capitol
Correspondence Enterprise
Washington
Congress
House of Representatives
So-and-So
Vanity Fair
National Legislature
New Pocket Atlas of the World hailed for quality and price
An advertisement notes the New Pocket Atlas of the World by Ivison Blakeman & Co published in New York. It includes ninety one maps, updated boundaries, and a compact gazetteer of the globe for fifty cents, mail order available. The rest of the item covers various local notices on murder, corn culture debates, root pruning theories, and a farmer’s death in Durham County.
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Ivison, Blakeman &Co
Broadway
New York
E. E. Mendenhall
W. G. Barbee
Joel Anderson
W. W. Andrews
Green's August Flower Promises Health and Happiness
In a promotional piece set in Bief and To The Point style, the text laments widespread dyspepsia caused by greasy and bad meals and urges Green's August Flower as a remedy. It claims the product reforms digestion, restores happiness, and advises readers to ask druggists for a bottle priced at seventy five cents.
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Green
August Flower
The Best Salve For Skin Ailments Sale Ad
An old advertisement touts a salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions and promises refund if not satisfied It offers five 25 cent boxes and lists Moffitt and Bradshaw as sellers.
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Moffitt & Bradshaw
What is this Disease that is Coming Upon Us
An 19th century medical pitch describes a chronic dyspepsia and constipation as a widespread disease. It cites symptoms such as chest pain, bad morning taste, fatigue, indigestion, yellowing eyes, scanty dark urine, and nervousness. The piece claims Shaker Extract of Roots or Seigel's Syrup cures all stages and includes testimonials and a sales pitch.
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John C. Hemptinstall
Chulafirmee
Cleburn Co
Ala
Seigel
Texas
S.E. Barton
Warner, Ripley Co
J. J. McGuire
M. E Tindey
Bovier Muhlenburg Co
A. J. White, Limited
Warren St
New York
Pullman Buffet Sleepers on Key Rail Routes
Pullman Buffet Sleeper service listed for trains 50 and 51 between Atlanta and New York and trains 52 and 53 between Washington and Montgomery Washington and Aikin. Also Sleeper services between Richmond and Greensboro and Greensboro and Raleigh. Through tickets sold at principal stations. For rates contact company agents or Sol Haas Jas L Taylor Traffic Manager Gen Pass Agt.
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Atlanta
New York
Washington
Montgomery
Aikin
Pullman
Richmond
Greensboro
Raleigh
Sol. Haas Jas. L. Taylor
Trafic
Gen
Pass, Ag’t
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