Self binder experience from Illinois harvest of 1876
J L Cerro Gordo Illinois on April 29 recounts opening with W A Wood machine troubles in tangled straw and high effort for driver. He switches to a McCormick self binder, praises ease, speed, and reliability across wheat oats timothy flax, notes wire binding cost 30 to 50 cents per acre and stock safety, ends with hurrah for self binder and independence from harvest hands.
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Stewardson
McCormick
J. W. IL
J. L. Cerro Gordo
Ill
Indiana Platform Declares Greenbacks as Legal Tender Policy
A historic Indiana platform calls for government issued treasury notes, full legal tender status for United States notes, and restrictions on debt funding. It advocates six percent interest, silver coinage revival, and tax on US notes. The document also attacks political corruption and supports miners, schools, and pensions for veterans.
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Indiana
Treasury
United States
Congress
Democratic Party
Circuit Courts
Republican Party
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas A. Hendricks
No Idle Men in This World We Must Be Up and Doing
Motivational poem urging constant labor and duty. Emphasizes no room for idleness in life and work, warning of ruin from choosing pleasure over effort. Calls readers to seize the moment, renew strength, and pursue noble aims before old age and death.
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Iabor
Tor
Vise
A Gentle Word Is Never Lost Poem Fragment
Poem fragment extols gentle words as healing and uplifting. It urges sharing compassion with a fallen brother and delivering comfort quickly, noting a smile and graceful speech can replace harsh tones and drive away shadow. The verses reflect solace through kind communication and love.
Titles of the Czar and Queen Victoria's Titles
The Nashville American notes the Czar’s many titles from the San Stefano manifesto versus Queen Victoria’s lengthy but non Empress of India style titles. The piece contrasts imperial pomp with British regality in a wry observation on monarchical titulature.
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Treaty of San Stefano
Alexander
Pan
Rus
Sian
Moncovite
Klevian
Valdimirian
Novgorodian
Kazan
Antrokon
Siberian
Chersonesus
Gosudar
Pakof
Smolensk
Lithuania
Victoria
Great Britain and
Eagland
India
Nashville
Wappy Thoughts by Eli Perkins
A series of quips attributed to Eli Perkins presents humorous happy thoughts on military discipline aging mirrors trains and a double burial. The sketches depict a private scolded for lateness an old maid reacting to aging faces a Brooklyn girl praising the moon and the sun a pair of Mississippi river darkies encountering cars a sick man craving bread and a widower joking about two buried wives.
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Eli Perkins
Seventh Regiment
Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn
Happy
Asaman
Quirky Courtroom Excerpt and Auctioneer Anecdotes
An Americanized citizen called as witness in a motioned case raised both hands and declared he would refrain from speaking plainly if he hoped to die quickly. A jokey auctioneer bragged the horse was a fearless war steed likely to outspan a rider. A man who recently knocked down an elephant a lion and a rhinoceros was identified as an auctioneer.
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We ‘Aman
Wrong Man Abducts Woman by Mistake on Train
A New Hampshire man, boarding with friends, grabs and forces a woman onto a moving train in a rushed mix up. He realizes the error as his wife screams, the conductor ejects him, and a sheriff cuffs him. He returns home to find his partner with his wife, exposing a treacherous betrayal.
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New Hampshire
King William IV Prohibits Water at Windsor Table
A historical anecdote recalls William IV sparring with Leopold I during a Windsor visit. When Leopold requested water, William questioned it and urged wine instead, declaring no one should drink water at his table. Leopold left the same evening.
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William IV
England
Leopold I
Windsor
Leopold
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Morton Hall
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Morton
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Mr. Morton
Tam
Tuevoy
Walter
Young Jieroy
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Norton
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Ile
Peni
Czar
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