Apples and early signs of autumn in September market
The column notes plentiful good apples offered at reasonable prices and hints at September stirring in town. It also reports on weather cooling after rain, a new Bowen’s Mills post office with W J Bowen postmaster, and the death of Josiah McCaskey in Colby, Taylor County, reflecting local life and obituaries with a Burns quote in a private letter.
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Bowen's Mills
W. J. Bowen
Bowens Mills
Rockbridge
Josiah McCaskey
Colby
Taylor County
McCaskey
Tre Aerostican
Burns
Is Your Life Worth 16 Comtat Sickness Prevails
A historical advertorial touts Green's August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia liver complaint and related ailments. It urges readers to ask D L Downs & Co. for a sample bottle at ten cents with claims of relief and cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L Downs & Co
Rise of Ku Klux Klan Plot Revealed in Northern Press
The New York Times prints sharp attack on Republicans and Grant era abuses. It accuses mob violence, fraud, and extravagance while warning against arming state politics. Editorials describe an upcoming December Congress and uneasy northern public mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Gene
Herman
Ananias
Hays
Hester
Perrie
Ku-Klux
Grant, Cameron & Co
Kilpatrick Letter to Hayes Reveals Indiana Campaign Fears
The New York World excerpt publishes Gen. Kilpatrick's intercepted letter to Governor Hayes. Kilpatrick warns Indiana politics include a rising Independent bloc, urging a Bloody Shirt financial campaign to defeat Harrison, and calls for National Committee action to save the party in October. The document, dated August 21, 1876, outlines strategy and concern over party funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geano
Tuaranapolis
Indiana
Harrison
Indiate
National Committee
J. Kitpatsick
R. B. Hayes
Cooney family roots for Hendricks in Iowa after war voting
In Muscatine County Iowa a Cooney family of seven, all veterans who voted for Grant in 1868 and 1872, announce they will switch seven votes to Hendricks this year. They believed the war ended with peace and now oppose demagogues reviving Civil War memories to stay in power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Cooney
Muscatine County
Towa
Grant
Hendricks
Wisconsin District Leaders Eye Democratic Victory Nomination
Milwaukee correspondent analyzes congressional prospects in Wisconsin with focus on Senator Krouskop a banking executive and railroad president born in Ohio. His long service in the State Senate and local influence make him a favored leader amid calls to curb ring corruption and push river and railroad improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Chicago Timer
Bovey
Great County
George Wey
George
Richland County
Ortem
Lake
Matt
Dultata
Sid
Weet
Kirvutkeg
Ruty
Krouskop
Ohio
Wisconsin
Pine River Valley
Stevens Point
Lone Rock
Richland Center
State Senate
Kreuskep
The New Issue on Campaign Enthusiasm and Speech
The piece argues that the presidential campaign lacks genuine excitement yet remains lively in spirit. It critiques wild speeches and incendiary rhetoric about a bloody shirt, noting workers frustrated by unemployment distrust grand eloquence and rebel rhetoric that calls for forming something new.
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Tone Rock Pilot
Fuller
TOUAL
Bair
Remmesbee
Gaia
M. P. Lindsley
Order of 1. OQ. of
O. F
Sextonville School
The
New York
Tlon
Brute Forse
Triomyph
North
Congress
New York World
WAL Matters
Nebraska
B &M Railroad Cor
Ooumity
Amer
Cal
Premeaie
Improvementa
Aero x
N. E3
W.G. James
Vienna
Wilson Sewing Machine CO
Cakeago
New Orleans
St-Loule
Hiram Freeman
Richland, Grant, Crawford and
Vernon Counties
Granger
Chas. W. Towsley
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