Curiosities and News Bits From Late June 1887
A compilation of brief notes notes include Philadelphia railway crossing death estimates, a growing Mansfield Vermont Grant monument where visitors add a stone, and Lincoln’s law profits reportedly reaching sixty thousand yearly. Also mention plans for Duxbury Massachusetts two hundred fiftieth anniversary, Holland king’s relic-hobby, Rev Tone’s Sunday Chinese temple exhortations, and political marriages of Senators Chandler and Hale. Additionally brief items cover Dawitzer Sixon’s Indian prince revolution attempt, Mrs Froks Adams Daggin’s Claims Court win over fifty thousand, Haggard childhood doll origin, pensioners abroad funded by US, fraud risks in foreign pensions, and a DC code clause on Sabbath breakers with corporal penalties.
Lawrence Fourth Celebrations and Political Grumbles
A harsh mix of local Fourth of July plans and national politics. Lawrence touts a festive afternoon trades display and grand evening fireworks, while editorials mock English tax jubilee amid Irish evictions. Commentary targets the Times office, state penitentiary costs, and Democratic reforms versus crank reforms, with remarks on Loyalist flags, revival schemes, and the New York Tribune’s alleged sectional bias.
Kansas War on Prohibition Shifts Public Drinking Norms
A Kansas debate on cider and alcohol escalates into a broader combat on temperance with authorities vowing to curb all intoxicants. The column critiques anti liquor campaigns, notes rising Missouri liquor profits, and laments partisan attacks on reform leaders while warning of sweeping prohibition risks. It also mentions Bill Chandler returning to the Senate and critiques of political rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Eider
Kansas City
Missouri
Notorious corruptionist election seethes in New Hampshire
The Chicago Herald denounces the rebels of a generation ago, labeling them foes of national peace. It argues that in New Hampshire men electing a known corruptionist to the senate and others vilifying the president are the real threats to good government, actions that demonize the state of politics today.
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Copperhead
New Hampshire
Senate
United States
Chicago Herald
Sonal
Ereclo
New Orleans
West
The Republican Boom Claims Local Industry Exit
A historical letter argues the Republican administration harmed local manufacturing by suppressing cider and driving spiked products out of town. It claims a large cider plant and a barrel factory will move to Kansas City, removing jobs and farmers’ income, and asks how residents view this “Republican boom.”
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Our
Erty
Republican Patty
Kansas City
July Magazines atlanic and St Nicholas feature notices
The July Atlantic includes George Woodberry's My Country and pieces by Louise Imogen Guiney Abby Richardson and Agnes Heppner among others plus Tolstoi and classica in schools while St Nicholas offers Fourth of July patriotic fare with sketches by Jesale C. Glaser Lilian Dynevor Rice and stock serials continuing with Winning a Commission and Bead and Wire plays plus photographs by Alexander Black and other verse and reviews.
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Atlantic
Geo. KE. Woodberry
Louise Imogen Guiney
Portamouth
Portsmouth
Ta'creeka
Abby ®. Richardson
Kentucky
Patty B. Semple
Agnes Heppner
W. A. Crafts
Isabel F.hapgood
Count Tolstoi
Horace E. Scudder
H. C. Bunner
Schuman
Julie K. Wetherell
ST. Nicholas
Mies Jesale C. Glaser
Kemble
Lilian Dynevor Rice
Betty
Birch
Frank E. Stockton
Parsons
Fenn
H. H. Boyesen
George W. Edwards
Alexander Black
Juan
Joanne
Miss Baylor
James Otis
Jennie
Chas. G. Leland
Mrs. Bellows
Margaret Vandegrift
B. P. Babcock
F. D. Sherman
Geo. Cooper
Henry Tell
Anna M. Pritt
Clara
Scribner's Magazine July issue highlights and features
The July issue presents Charles King on Cadet Life at West Point with illustrations by Zograum, Joseph Thomson’s entertaining Central Sudan Town, and Rebecca Harding Davis in Here and There in the South with Gibron’s photos. It opens with D. A. Sargent on The Physical Proportions of the Typical Man, and includes Napoleon and His Times illustrations by John C. Ropes, Thackeray letters, Kiliza Southgate Brown selections, French Traits by W. C. Brownell, a Maine summer resort tale, A Great Patience by Edward I Stevenson, A Perilous Incognito, Seth's Brother's Wife, poetry by Edith M Thomas, Ellen Burroughs, Louise Chandler Moulton, and Charles Lotin Hildreth.
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Charles King
Weat Point
Zograum
Joseph ‘Thomson
Sondap
South
Rebecca Harding Davis
Gulf States
Gibron
Washington
Montgomery
Alabama
April Hopes
W. D. Howells
Mias Grace King
Bayou L’ombre
Annie Trumbull Sjveson
Charles D. Warner
Morelia
Patzcuaro
Scribner’s. Scribner's Magazine
Profesor D. A. Sargent
M. D
Harvard College
John C. Ropes
Napoleon
Tilsi
Thackeray
New York
New England
Kiliza Southgate Brown
W. C. Brownell
Maine
Edward I. Stevenson
H. H. Boyesen
Seth
Central
Edith M.thomas
Elien Burroughs
Louse Chandler Moulton
Charles Lotin Hildreth
Splendid offers and local ads fill county pages
An aggregation of offers and notices from the Douglas county area. Includes subscription deals for capital city papers, patent medicines such as English Spavin Liniment, loan services from Gleason and Whitman with Eastern capitalists, lubricants and sewing items, and miscellaneous sales of farm equipment and real estate. Also lists dairy, hay, grain ranches and land for sale, plus local shop notices and stepladders at Woodward's.
How Wheat Corners Collapsed In Chicago Market Scene
Caicaco June 26 A vast wheat corner collapsed when 8,000,000 bushels were bought cash for over three million dollars to seize control of the market. The scheme relied on cash wheat and margin bets while bears added storage pressure. The failure wiped out millions and warns against future corners.
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Caicaco
Chicago
Clique
Cincinnati
Smithville
Cliqué
Michigan Creek
Chicago Board
Bears
Cincinnati Bank
5. P. Hutchinson
Butch
John B. Lyon
Jack
Cook County
Jim Kesme
F D. Arn
Peter McGeoch
Milwaukee
Truman B. Handy
Handy
Armour
St. Paul
Warren Wettmas
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Philadelphia
Tve
General Grant
Mansfield
Roseer
Plainfield
N. J
Electric Light Company
Duxbury
Mass
Ames
Holland
Mn. Tone
Chinatown
San Francisco
William E. Chandler
John P. Hale
Eugene Hale
Zachariah Chandler
Michigan
Dawitzer Sixon
Cairo
Froks Adams Dagiinc
Court of Claims
Congress
Wuewn H. Rider Haggard
Germany
District of Columbia
Maryland
Lawrence
England
Ireland
Victoria
Leavenworth
Anthony
Times
Haskell Institute
Gov. Robinson
Los Angeles
Papus Simut
Kansan
Geo. W. Glick
New York ‘Tribune
New York Tribune
Cleveland
Republican Party
Bill Chandler
United ‘States
Republic
The
United
Villians
Des Moines
July Magazines
Harper's
Harper's Magazine
Capital and Partners’ Journal
the Gazette
Capital
Farmers’ Journal
TRE Gazette
Barber Bros
3. W. Wooward
Reni Lawrence
Kas
Gale
Nichols
Shepard Go
Bate
J. Pau
Durango
la Plata Co
Cole
Woodward's
Bram
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