Ark of the Covenant as Ballot Box Metaphor in Campaign Rhetoric
A fiery 19th century orator extols the ballot box as the ark of the American covenant. He denounces bribery, intimidation, and defamation, calls for voter education, and urges law and moral reform to preserve free republican government. He links historic faith, national destiny, and public virtue to the act of voting on election day.
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Redona
Athens
Italy
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Dallas
Bence
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Pioa
Allegheny Mountains
Ohio
United
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England
Regisication
Brooklyn
Mahioree
United States
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Holt
New York
Aucunin
Jagin Modagsio
Albany
Washington
Wraxbington
Thomas Paine
George Washington
John Quincy Adams
John Adams
Hood
Martis van Bures
Thomas. Benton
Amos Kendall
Pictoris
United State Bank
Thomas Jefferson
Boston
Adams
Hamilton
Knox
Pickering
McHenry
Marshall
Stoddard
Andrew Jackson
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Kentucky
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Costly Indoor Gowns Inspires Chicago Woman's Taste
An article notes expensive indoor gowns by Vetie Design attracting attention in Chicago's fashion scene. It contrasts affordable options with high priced pieces at $1,300 and discusses how a plain, pretty, or youthful woman can look charming at home in silk robes.
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Vetie Design
Chicago
Fashion notes on tea gowns and fall wardrobe trends
A survey of Indoors gowns with rich brocades and Yeddo style robes highlights the season. Butterflies and floral embroidery adornments, velvet and moire fabrics appear in evening and traveling wear while wild striped textiles gain prominence.
Fashion Notes on Braids Colors and Paris Style
The article notes trends in braids and colors including gold and silver, race red, Venetian red and gosstrs bine as fashionable. It mentions sleeves with twenty wraps, two fabrics in dressy gowns, and Marie Teresa long cloaks as a current favorite in Paris. It highlights turquoise and emerald accents, round toques with high crowns, fox fur trims returning to fashion, and Ceaxtes cloth in a woolen fleating for young girls.
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Tex Bonne
Marie-Teresa Iongeloak
Paris
Tobacco, Regret, and Departure in a Norfolk Cottage
In a Virginia inspired New England scene, Jemima Buxton quarrels over tobacco money with Eben Buxton as Ellen Dennison helps. Jemima burns with guilt after Ellen sells the prized Virginia tobacco to fund Eben’s habit. The family tears apart and Ellen leaves with Jemima for a distant grant, beginning a market garden struggle.
Poisoned Blood Elixir Promises Cure For Serofolegs
The advertisement claims the first symptoms of death include tiredness dull headache pains and feverishness and asserts Acker's English Blood Elixir removes syphilitic poisons. It is offered under a positive guarantee by Williamson & Brown druggists.
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Willison On
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Williamson & Brown
Driggists
Parents Criminally Liable for Child Deaths Warned
An appeal asserts that parents bear criminal liability for child deaths under six, noting high mortality among young children and praising Acker's English Baby Soother as a preventive aid. It compares English child mortality to higher rates and urges purchase from Williamson & Prowa druggists.
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Acker
Williamson & Prowa
Tale of Olcott Lansing and the tobacco fortune
A Belford's Magazine vignette follows Olcott Lansing who recalls buying tobacco from a frail old woman in Harmony. He finds a tin with four hundred dollars, returns it, and reflects on Ebenezer's planned inheritance while Ellen forgives and consorts with him. A Detroit Free Press excerpt then shifts to a physician describing the so called tennis skin among young women and contrasts it with Turkish bath skin.
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Ellen
Lore
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Etlen
Olcott Lansing
Harmony
Olcott
Jemima
Tobscco
Andi
Michigan
Miss Brxton
Olcott Lensing
Zota
Ebenezer
Annat Jemims
Ines
Ebenzer
Olear
Belford’s
Detroit Free Press
Dan Lamont Character Noted in Washington Gossip
Washington letters describe Col Dan Lamont as a wily, popular figure close to Tilden and Cleveland. His charm and unofficial influence are highlighted along with personal access to the President and social ease with reporters.
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Tilden
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Lamont
Iand
Cleveland
Iakes Lamont
Lemont
Presidents Cottage
Chicago Times
Washington Etter
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