Presidential Possibilities In The Senate Debates
A Washington correspondent notes fierce private ambitions among U S senators as potential presidential contenders. Ben Harrison MacDonald Edmunds Allison Bayard Pendleton are analyzed for strength, temperament, and prospects, with Voorhees, McDonald, and Edmunds under scrutiny as the next national leaders.
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Springfield Republican
Washington
Senate
Thoes
Fortune
White House
Colvex
Dezan
Ben Harrison
Benate
Harrison
Emile Iz
Pumpa Hire
Elze
Dan Voorheen
Indiana
McDonald
Spain
MacDonald
Joe
George W
Allence
Bitp
Dan Voorhees
Ewys
Banda
Jaek MacDonald
Slytg
Ekamunde
Edmunds
Geo. F. Edmonds
Edmund
A Tale Fifty Thousand Feet Long
A long report describes Buffalo Exp work on the Brown Block for the Western Union Telegraph Company. It details 1,100 wires on the roof and 150,000 holes bored three-eighths inch through four inch thick cleats to carry lines through the building. The nine-mile bore is noted as a single continuous hole and a separate contract exists for this task. The piece also notes other local curiosities and a North Carolina gold discovery.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Buffalo
Young Lady Miners in Nevada Prospect Claim
In Como District, Nevada, Ely sisters aged sixteen and fourteen locate the Weedblue and Daffodil mining claim several months ago. They have sunk an eight foot shaft, twelve by six feet, doing all work with their own hands and tools. They foresee value as a rival to the Consolidated Virginia California. Friends wish them success.
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Como
Nevada
Ely
Virginia
California Benants
What Tripe Is and Its Unpalatable Allure
A narrator describes tripe as indigestible and unappealing food. A man who orders tripe appears hard and self-reproachful, trying to seem to enjoy it while rejecting the discomfort. The piece notes pickled tripe resembles dirty clothes and tasting oil, with a hotel table scene likened to an explorer dining on boots. A woman is said never to eat tripe.
Tripe as Food and Fable Across Time
A quirky column argues tripe has odd uses beyond eating, noting it fuels stomach tricks, Turkish baths, and superstition among butchers. The piece sketches imaginative roles from burglary safes to car bumpers, then playfully condemns tripe as food yet hints at its cultural curiosity and misfit as dinner.
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Trips
Attractive Romes and Gardens Enhance Homes
In this excerpt, Rural Messenger extols beauty in home exteriors through small plantings. Even modest flowers and shrubs temper rugged surroundings, creating inviting paths and decorative landscaping that convey endearing messages to visitors and passers-by. The piece urges planting grave ornamentals, curving walkways, stone mounds, and flowering shrubs for visual appeal.
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Rurat
How Bismarck Saved a Soldier
A long anecdote recalls young Otto von Bismarck in 1823 with the Potedem battalion of garde Jaegers. When a comrade in the second rank killed a stork, Bismarck whispered to him to shift blame by hiding the weapon, preserving the rear’s integrity while exposing no fault.
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Potedem
Garde Jaegers
Second Jasgera
Eldon
Comia
Pomerania
Griefswald
Steke
Wandering Turk Family Sparks Circus Turmoil in Augusta
A wandering Turk family sets up a camp on Houston Street Augusta between Reynolds and the river. Children visit the tent where a collared rat terrier brawls with a dog, a monkey scampers, and a fall of the central pole injures several people. The bear mauls the trainer during a performance and fights erupt.
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Auguste
Augusta
Houston Street
Reynolds
Turk
Tit for Tat in Chambers Journal
A thin gentleman recounts meeting a well-dressed stranger who praises his wheat and then steals a large slice from the farmer. The tale shifts as the visitor boasts of liking ramps and the farmer silently reveals a concealed pocketknife, prompting a dramatic reaction.
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Indies
Experience bought with a vengeance remarks on wheat and cloth
A speaker recalls a quarrel over sampling cloth and wheat, noting his wife was greatly interested in the cloth samples and asserting no one has the right to take his wheat as if taking his coat. He urges the public to remember this truth.
Cow Dies After Ingesting Hone Sbee Nails
A.Cow's Diet of Borscahoe Nail, Blackamits Kirk of Locuar Valley LI owned a galantie cow. Four days after falling ill before the doctor arrived the cow died. Postmortem examination revealed four handfuls of hone sbee-naila in the stomach with one nail driven about an inch into the organ.
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Borscahoe Nail
Blackamits Kirk
Locuar
Valley, LI
Gras Bay Route News Item
Gras Bay Winona St Paul Rettroad listed as the shortest and vast route to St Paul and Minneapolis via Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific networks. Details reference new Northwestern pods and connections, highlighting transport links and regional rail options.
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Minneapolis
Northern Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Cy ‘Teer
New Northwestern
PODGS
Oband
Papids
Wisconsin Valley
Chicese
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St Pau
Winona
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Crratal Pali
Trou
Norkkern Michizan
Riso Milwaukee
Chiespa
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