Red in Illinois. Whitelaw Reid at Springfield
Whitelaw Reid, Republican vice presidential candidate, spoke at the Illinois Republican League Clubs convention in Springfield on August 18. He urged support for the party’s tariff policy, attacked the Democratic platform, and urged voters to hold Democrats to their stated principles while praising McKinley era prosperity and Republican governance.
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Washington
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Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Jett
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Cawus
Havre
France
State Department
Salmon P. Chase
Nations
Thompson
Chicago
Burrows
Dolliver
Sherman
Atlanta
Sheridan
Buttered Deck Defeats Pirates at Sea
A Liverpool bound carrier, Capt. Davis, uses a clever trick to thwart pursuing pirates. He scatters butter across a battered deck after pirates board, making the surface slick and sending the attackers slipping, tumbling, and retreating in disarray, while Davis safely reaches port with minimal losses.
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Ireland
Deel
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Nomstead affair wages and loans spark delayed report
The Iowa State Register notes the Democratic House did not publish its Nomstead investigation report before adjournment. Chairman Oates says wages were high, company loans funded homes at low interest, mortgages not foreclosed, and some strikers acted in high-handed defiance of law, yet the report was postponed.
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Democratic House
Nomstead
House
Oates
Iowa State Register
Panic programme of democracy sparks tariff debate
A Washington DC piece cites the Chicago convention's platform as a panic plan to abolish national banks, push free silver, scrap tariffs, and impose an income tax, while critics warn local issues cannot decide a presidential race. The dime shows partisan commentary from the New York Mail and Express and National Bulletin.
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Chicago
N. Y. Mailand Express
Congress
National Bulletin
Illinois Secrets of a Pecatonica Marriage Surface
The Illinois State News reports Flo Shimmin of Pecatonica and traveling man BE. M. Fans ther secretly wed two years prior at Avon Wisconsin, officiated by Justice BF. Waller who kept quiet until now. Flo returns to normal social life while investigations reveal more regional incidents and deaths.
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Pecatonica
BE. M. Fansther
Rockford
Avon
Wis
BF. Waller
Miss Shimmin
Father
Ernest Classen
Laclede Township
Neldon
Adamson
Steinhauer
Harrisburg
Classen
Joseph Tucker
Pingree Grove
Mary B. Willard
Frances FE
Willard
Evanston
Hancock County
Justice A. J. Storey
Rockford Piano Company
A. Wolff
Kenosha
Edward Brooks
Herald
Charleston
August Englund
Alschuler & Co
Mattson
Joseph D. Stevens
Darwin
Edward Tate
P. I. Tate
Richville
Stall Koosa
Ernest Sachs
Galena
Illinois Volunteers
Ashland
Patrick Burns
Wabash Road
Danville
George Harvey
Effingham
Fred Hennewig
Elburn
Greene County
Chicago
State Holiness Association
Shelbyville
J. A. Wood
California
John Plummer
O'ney
Arcola
Lightnig
Mics Wilkinson
Charles Slifer
Bunker Hill
George Berryman
Market National Bank
A. F. Seeberger
Seymour Walton
Peoria
A Call for Gifts and Songs in Harper’s Young People
A fragment from Harper’s Young People asks for a down payment of a song pot and other items like a glove and bat, as mothers and siblings send love. Other excerpts present light verse, a Civil War battlefields travel note, and public notices about rail specials and encampments.
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Express
Mamma
Baby
Bess
Cloud-by
Harper's Young People
A Red Letter Day in Old Plymouth and Nearby Narratives
Frances A. Humphrey presents a vivid portrait of Old Plymouth and Plymouth Rock seen through the eyes of young tourists in A Red Letter Day. The issue also features G. W. Bensjamin on Our Lighthouses and Light ships, Sophie Swett's school and cricket tale, and Mary Hartwell Catherwood's Taf ferton of New York. Other pieces include Sophie May’s Patient Kysie, Theron Brown’s Salem Witchcraft centennial tale John Alden's Peril, and Alice Williams Brotherton's poem My Princess. Prices and purchase details for subscriptions are given, along with advertisements for Harvest Excursions and various remedies.
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Old Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
G. W. Bensjamin
Sophie Swett
Tafferton
New York
Christyann
D. Loriner Company, Publishers
Boston
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Rockford Shoe Company
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Boolkeeper
Prof. Baldwin
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Rock Island & Pacific
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Moes
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Butter Western Creamery
Hutehire Storrs
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Binghamton Republican
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Amans
Boston Transcript
Tuart Davis
Rau
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
Sam Hamilton
Montgomery City
Bravingly ReGulator Co
Oder
the Ladies' Home Journal
Philadelphia
Smee St
Oregon
Board of Trade
Ted Pam
Ames Pyle
LL. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
A Crisine
Anne
W. L. Douglis
Brockton, Maas
Dr. Sage
C. H. Dear
Washington House
Washington, Va
Althia
Ford
Chicabo
Lyon & Healy
ARION
Turco Pyatory
Onnoe Sr
Soren
Ketcons Newsraren Co
Dearborn St
Chicago Athenaeum
Piso
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