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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1884
Page
8
A Cincinnati mob attacked the jail after a murder verdict, firing on police and militia. The courthouse, a carriage factory, and Powell's gun store burned as casualties mounted, with reports of dead and wounded and a city in chaos through dawn.
Police report quiet streets by noon after a riot with firing at 8 p m leaving three wounded and many jailed. Notable detainee Peggy Warren linked to gun store raids. militia relief ongoing and U S regulars placed on standby to protect property. List of killed includes James Condon Fritz Havenmeyer and others with families. Sixty wounded. four unidentified bodies.
A reader notes immediate relief from headache after using Piso's Remedy for Catarrb. The brief item attributes the relief to the remedy and references its use for catarrh.
A Marshfield anecdote recalls Daniel Webster urging Judge Doty to wear his English court dress for a fishing trip. Doty feared spoiling the fine suit, but Webster insisted the dress be used, leading Doty to fish in the apparel and preserve his own clothes.
The Des Moines Register recounts Kansas Sedgewick County opening its granaries and loading thirty ears of corn for Ohio Valley flood victims. A decorated freight train carried the grain, symbolizing charity returned after earlier help to Kansas during grasshopper ravages.
McPherson Kansas stockmen and nearby counties held a mass meeting to endorse their senators in seeking government cooperation to stamp out the cattle scourge. They praised Governor Glick for calling the legislature into session and urged congressional representatives to back any effective measures.
A Rochester firm repeats a standing offer of 5000 for any genuine care statement about Warner's Safe Cure. The letter excerpts praise cures from kidney disease to heart and dropsy, claimed across readers from Petaluma to Chicago.
The article describes the speaker’s marble pulpit desk with Mr. Carlisle guiding议 orderly sessions. It notes Sam Cox delivering forceful gavels, one breaking and a lighter touch by Carlisle. Sam Randall kept retired gavels as trophies, including a hundred and ten piece hickory crafted piece from Georgia.
Travel notices promote the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 600 rooms, elevator, and restaurant at one dollar per day and up. It claims families can live better for less money than other first class hotels in New York City. Omaha travelers are urged to take the Streetcar Bus to the Metropolitan Hotel with a comparable daily rate.
A dense page itemizes grain per bushel prices for wheat corn and oats, cattle and sheep market notes, and hog Packers. It includes various product ads for patent medicines and tonics, fashion notes, and medical cures with claims from readers and druggists.
From Dayton Indiana an ailment remedy advertisement notes Druggist EK W offers Allen’s Lung Jana for sale with claimed satisfaction. The copy touts past years of use and various cures, asserting reliable relief though the text is garbled and difficult to parse.
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