Christmas Reflections and Cuban Policy Debate
A poetic Christmas message calls for peace and charity while wrestling with government power over Congress. The piece links Christmas spirit to concern for the poor and a broader call for constitutional checks as the Cameron Cuba independence resolution faces Senate and House scrutiny amid Olney and Cleveland positions. The article notes bills for Tennessee Centennial funding, a Federal building, travel work, and Pacific Railroad funding, with a holiday recess set for December 2 to January 5.
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Olney
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Cameron
Cuba
Press Association
Congress
Cleveland
Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
Senate Foreign Committee
Sherman
Obio
Frye
Maine
Lortye
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Davis
Minnesota
Callum
Illinois
Girsy
Delaware
Turpie
Indiana
Mills
Texas
Morgan
Alabama
Daniel
Virginia
House
Gen. Henderson
Iowa
Washington
Senate Committee
Mr. Cleveland
Whch
Spain
Bertelary Olney
Pein
Tribusta
McKinley
Pacific Railroad
Dee
Archbishop Ireland Letter on Money Question Denied by Vatican
In the final days of a political campaign a temperate patriotic letter by Archbishop Ireland of St Paul on the money issue is recalled. The pope’s supposed rebuke is dismissed as gossip. Ireland asserts no Vatican contact or sanction, questioning the motives of those spreading false reports.
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Archbishop Ireland
St. Paul
Rey Pr
Pontus
Ireland
Vatican
Rome
Europe
America
Truth Versus Gossip in Civic Life
An editorial urges readers to value truth over idle gossip, warning that spreading or listening to rumors harms character. It argues the honest citizen should seek verifiable facts, buy the truth, and refrain from engaging with scandal mongers.
Your Vitality and the Fire Within
A fragment discussing vitality as the essence of force powering breath, heart action, and movement. It links vitality to flesh, taste power, disease resistance, and mentions Estene as a supposed enhancer, then devolves into garbled text about nutrition and health products.
Christmas Charity Customs Across English Parishes
The article catalogs historic Christmas charity practices in places like Drayton Beanchamy Bucking bemphire North Clifton and Cumnor Berkshire including bread cheese ale malt and payments to the poor. It notes a shift from tables to money gifts and describes a Paddington church bread and bean distribution from steeple throws once linked to two needy elders.
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Tyne
Drayton
Buckingbemphire
St Stephen's
Great Barr
Staffordshire
North Clifton
Cumnor
Berkshire
Paddington
London
Christmas Letter Craft and Relic Lore From France
Ornamental Christmas letters crafted with cotton fluff on pasteboard and gilded edges. Techniques include using mica, velveteen cloth, or popcorn edging on dark or light backgrounds. Then shifts to the Three Magi relics in Cologne and French holiday dishes with liver puddings and Languedoc stew ingredients and method.
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God Colora
France
Columbia
St Hacon
New Discovery Cures Consumption Fearful Cases
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Japerson City TL was told she had consumption with little hope but two bottles of Dr Kings New Discovery cured her and saved her life. Mr Thos Mygers of 130 Florida St San Francisco was near ruin from a dreadful cold, yet one bottle of this remedy cured him in five weeks and he is thankful. Free trial bottles at W T Drakes drug store. A tired stomach needs relief and the Shaker Digestive Cordial is offered as a digestible food aid, with samples at 10 cents from druggists.
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Phoebe Thomas
Japerson City
W.T. Drake
Depend on 77 for coughs and grip remedies
A compact old advertisement touts Dr Humphrey homeopathic pellets 77 and 77 as fast acting, safe, portable cures for grip colds and sore throats. It also promotes Mr Lut’s American tonics and Bitter electric sitters for digestion and vitality. The notice lists drugstores and tax collection details with local shop mentions in Eckford and Willard Reed.
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Humphrey
Humphrey’s Medicine Co
Cor
William and
John Stus
New York
Fredonia Township Tax Collection Sat in December
Fredonia Township to hold tax collection at Graceros store every Saturday in December and twice in January with Joseen Hercrens as Township Treasurer. Wanted a refined saleslady for The Elect Insufflator, a home cure for female diseases. Dr Pratt, registered physician, at the Royal on Dec 26 to explain the instrument and offer free consultations. Address The Insuffintor Co. 82 and 272 Coulter Block Aurora IL.
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Fredonia
Tasesa
Graceros
Joseen Hercrens
Treas
Pratt
Royal
Insuffintor Co
Coulter Block
Aurora
Spoiled the Party at the Joneses
A humorous dialogue recounts a failed social gathering where guests arrived late or missed activities. The girl in a brown cape explains she could not attend, while others note the dull evening as pianists were absent and conversations faltered. A side exchange about anatomy adds comic relief.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Dr Miles Nervine Restores Health Claims
An advertisement extols Dr Miles nervous system tonic Nervine promising relief from sleeplessness irritability and anxiety. A testimonial from Mrs Eugen Searles of Bloomington Indiana asserts previous physicians failed to help and that memory and daily functioning improved after using Nervine.
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Miles
Eugens Searles
MD Binenton Bt
Elhart, Ind
Calhoun County Liquor Tax Report Drafted by Treasurer
Fragment shows Calhoun County liquor tax duties and the county treasurer's office outlining the year ending December 2 and the duties of manufacturing selling or keeping for sale distilled spirits. It references Act 413 and reporting requirements for county treasurers.
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Calhoun County
Treasurrer
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