Vanderbilt offers to settle General Grant loan with property
W H Vanderbilt writes Mrs Grant offering to assign mortgages and judgment to cover the 150000 loan to General Grant. He plans to present the swords medals and art as historic property to government after the General dies. Julia D Grant replies she cannot accept the munificence, calling it a final decision.
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Vanderbilt
Grant
Ulysses
W. H. Vanderbilt
Gen. Grant
Europe
Uberty
Geneva
United States
The
Wa. H. Vanderbilt
Capital Briefs Summary of Agriculture Yields and Postmaster Nominations
Capital briefs report Admiral Powell is dead and list nominations for postmasters James Lynn Carrollton J Daniel A Lopy Lasalle J Herman C Colbaugh Hamburg Iowa. Agriculture department figures show 1884 corn 1 795 billion bushels wheat 512 million oats 583 million largest on record with yields 5.8 13 and 27.4 percent. Senators Wilson and Mitchell push pension increases to 12 dollars monthly for widows and minor children of soldiers and sailors with muster evidence. Crittenden testifies on lease bill and Indian affairs hears of Osage and Raw Indians leasing about 850000 acres to seven Jesse s for ten years at 3 to 4 cents per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lynn
Carrollton
Daniel A. Lopy
Lasalle
Herman C. Colbaugh
Hamburg
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Mitchell
United States
Crittenden
Cherokee Council
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Milon
Raw
Kansas
Chicago markets show irregular cattle and steady to firm prices
The cattle market remained irregular with shipping stock starting strong but wavering demand. Later buyers returned and prices firmed with good droves advancing. Sheep receipts swamped the market as prices fell from 2.6 to 4.60 for common to choice.
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Chicago Review
SEA BS Wugoger
Socnsenecessone
Omaha
Burrer
Enee
Eeemeeer
Doz
Lemoxs
Esas
New York
Chicago
Buchel
ST. Louis
Eeennee
Kansas City
His Malady Accounted For
A Philadelphia Call excerpt depicts a plumber's wife in velvet jewels asking about her husband Algernon's illness. The doctor explains his shaking right hand is due to scrivener's palsy from writing bills day and night for four months, while noting the patient is financially well off.
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Philadelphia
Scrivener
Algernon
Nme
Brown's Iron Bitters Promises Relief and Cheer
An advertisement extols Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic that cures dyspepsia nervous prostration and debility. It claims the medicine tones you up banishes gloom improves appetite and mood and brings cheer to meals and family life with druggists selling it widely.
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Mensman
Aswell, Hazanp & Co
New York
Hostetter
Lynn
Mass
Jur Saleaut Druggists
Lessons From Adam Bede On Speech And Mercy
One lesson says a woman rarely learns is not to talk to an angry or a drunken man. We pity the brutish who love us more than the women who love us. Death as reconciler corrects our severity, imagination trespasses, and beauty’s odors lure men into folly in many forms.
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Adam Bede
New Zealand Songstress Praises St Jacob Oil Relief
Madame Marie Carandini, a Wellington-based musical artist, reports to the Christchurch Telegraph that she has used St Jacobs Oil and found much relief for rheumatism and neuralgic pains. She endorses the medicine based on her personal experience.
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Marie Carandini
Wellington
N. Z
Christchurch
New Zealand
St. Jacobs
Arkansas Traveler Umbrella Dialogue Tale
A brief scene unfolds with two walkers under a small umbrella. Fannie questions Charlie about sharing space as Sean offers to carry the umbrella. Charlie worries his arm blocks one side, while Fannie notes Gus Clarke’s known cleverness with Mary Martin.
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Arkansas
Charlie
Fannie
Sean
Gus Clarke
Mary Martin
Mary
Morpha and Opium Cough Cure Praised amid Dailies
Dr Samuel K Cox reports Red Star Cough Cure free from opiates and poisons and effective for quick relief. Charles A Vogeler Co sells and manufactures the remedy in Baltimore. Health official Dr James A Steuart endorses it as superior to other mixtures. The piece also notes European street cars, perfume trends, relics factories, rising Philadelphia divorces, Chicago docket strain, a crying parrot on a streetcar, and long journeys to court in Aroostook County Maine.
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Yale College
Samuel K. Cox
D. D
Washington,d. C
Charles A. Vogeler
Baltimore
Maryland
Baltimore Health Department
James A. Steuart
America
Liverpool
Zurich
Philadelphia
Chicago
Dr Pierce's Medicine Promises Quick Cure and Health Boost
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a radical cure for delicate health, poor appetite, and insomnia, claiming it can restore vigor and save from lingering diseases. A Lancaster street banjoist seeks exchanges and lives in newspaper for disguise, sleeping in barrels with $800 in bank.
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Lancaster
The Old Timey Patent Medicines and Local Notices
A jumble of ad notices and snippets mentions Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets and other tonics, soapbox cures, and patent medicines, plus legal and civic notes. It references a Virginia suit, an injunction in Ohio over homeopathy, subscription promos from Omaha papers, and a note on the czar of Russia’s aging.
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Virginia
Mutual Insurance
Richmond
Xenia
Prominent Butter Makers Endorse Superior Color of Wells Butter
A. W. Cheever of Massachusetts E. D. Mason of Vermont and Francis A. Hoffman of Wisconsin back Wells Richardson Co the Burlington Vermont improved butter color as the world’s best. A Missouri resident praises Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters for his family’s health and urges others to try it. A wry note ends with poets and icicles.
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Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington
A. W. Cheever
Massachusetts
E. D. Mason
Vermont
Francis A. Hoffman
Wisconsin
J. H. Carter
Phelps County
No Safer Remedy for Doug and Colds in This Era
A dime museum scene shows a living skeleton man asked about his residence while a sales pitch touts Brown's Bronchial Traches priced 25 cents to 35 cents per box as a remedy for throat troubles.
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Doug
Brown
the Dime Museum
Grand Union Hotel promises comfort and value in New York
Advert reads a hotel promotion noting central location near Union depot, 600 new rooms costing one million dollars, European plan and elevator, restaurant, horse cars and elevated transport to depots. Claims families can save money at the Grand Union Hotel versus other first class hotels in the city. Mentions camphor trees thriving at Quincy Florida and plants sourced from Washington.
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New York City
Central
Baggage
Rand Union
Grand Union Hotel
Free catarrh cure promise posted to New York reader
A garbled ad tale offers a free curing receipt for youthful indiscretions and nerve issues from a South American missionary figure. It touts Ely’s Cream Balm for catarrh and deafness with testimonial claims, urging purchase of 50 cent bottles from Ely Brothers in Owego New York.
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South America
Kky
Josuva T. InMan
New York
Patrongeismisi
Givaexpress
P O.addess
T. A. Slocum
New “York
My wife gains old timed beauty with compound interest
A humorous note from C. esean Bevtsvile of Prince rate Co. May 1ob, praising Hop Bitters for restoring his wife’s beauty and inviting brother farmers to similar success. The fragment reflects sales chatter and rustic branding common in period notices.
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C. Esean Bevtsvile
Prince Rate Co
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Capital Briefs
Powell
George Eliot
Aroostook County
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Omaha Weekly Bee
Oral
Nebraska
Bee
Smith
Neb
Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
Russia
Alabama
Frelinghuysen
North Carolina
Stretch
Snohomish County
Wyoming Territory
Rockford
U.S. Coast Survey
U. S. Naval
L Eading Terrclers
Quincy
Fla
Washington
Dr. Isaac
Dakota
Ely
Ely Bros
Owego
N. Y
A. E. Newman
Grayling
Campbell Coslick
Great Britain
Jestels
France
Germany
San Luis Park
Col
Cotorando Loax & Trust Co
Denver
Colo
Seattle
Cuakles A. Vogeler CO
A. Vogeler&co
Ballimore
U.S. A
Tod
T. Batcom
Shirley
Homl
J. V. AL Poovoroet
Hood
C.L Wood & CY. Apolivens
Lowell, Mars
Iran
Brown Chemical
Lydia E. Pinkham
ST. Paul, Minn.cy
Drugetst & Chemist
Dinouist
Gatean St
U.S
Linguist
J.B. French &Co
New Orleans
Prise List
Trench & CO
R. U
Lorillard
Steaur
J. Worth
Lll
Louis
Journal Free
Laws Business College
Georyce & Pricues
Des Melaen
C. Reser
Abnese
Fowls
P. C. Swine
Ones
the National CO
Dey Street
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wie
Opiuk
de. J. Stephens
Lebanon
Oho
Whiting
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
Louis and
Henderson
Kwyandelle Street
Rko
Prcor
Stampa
Waryland, Wy “Waryland
Uute
Toolistah
Ose Wrights Indian
Wright
and the Higher Schools
Emetrox
W.O. Pensins
B. Towsze
CIA
L. O. Emerson
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditson & CO
Boston
Omaha Weekly Republican
Republican
A. J. Tower
John A. ‘Salzer
la Crewe
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