17 Apr 1880
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1880
Page
1
A distorted advert outlines a bankrupt auction plan selling jewelry at wholesale prices with mail order. It lists rings bracelets chains and cameos offered postpaid and via list, claiming deep discounts and stock from Chicago and abroad to clear shelf space.
Advert appears to promise watches in exchange for a $16 order of jewelry and mentions several named watch types and chains with prices and a $220,000 claim. It references The Inventors Agency at 116 Washington Street Chicago and cites press endorsements and other Chicago lists.
An illustration of a mail order catalog lists payment terms for sums over 51.00 with options like Register, Money Order, or Draft on New York or Chicago. It states delivery limits, refund policy, free illustrated catalog, and agents wanted, under J A Rinman Proprietor at 116 E Washington Chicago.
Chicago reports a surge in European emigrants with 2,300 arriving at Baltimore and 35,825 at New York since January. March arrivals totaled 21,658, far exceeding last year. Immigrants noted as a better the good start in life amid broad cross country coverage.
In the foreign note from Lowpox on April 12, liberal triumphs are hailed as political morality while Tory circles circulate unfounded claims of Russian bribery. The Tory camp is in upheaval as experts warn of national decline, and analysis cites a liberal majority, imperial weariness, and calls for England to assert influence abroad amid the queen’s absence.
XLVI Congress reports several measures with widespread implications. Vance introduces a bill to limit Page’s patent usage and affect the issuing laws. Berry explains land grant acts to California. Whitaker seeks a navy yard site on the northwest coast. Goode calls for securing fueling stations along Atlantic and Pacific routes. The president’s Chinese immigration report is transmitted. The House spends three hours on the army bill while a Senate bill funds frontier posts and census statistics shift to a special agent.
The bulletin lists a flurry of events: Prince Gortechakoff gravely ill. Spanish and British politics in flux. yellow fever in Vera Cruz. German army bill spurring emigration. extreme cold in New Hampshire. heavy snowfall in Montreal. deaths of Odier Gudin and Bishop Brown. a fatal railway crash near Moscow. a major fire in New Haven. Labour and legal notes from New York to Constantinople. ambassorial conferences and naval movements. and early reports on Pampas rice and Missouri Pacific court rulings.
J Gomes, agent, wholesale and retail, advertises Linsey sheeting and related textile items at the Constitution Building Salt Lake City including flannel, washboards, brooms, blankets, yarns, batting, and brushes.
A playful poem blends geology and romance, imagining love transforming the beloved like minerals and rocks. The speaker likens emotions to carboniferous terms and volcanic heat, dreaming of a wedding amid crystalline imagery and prehistoric rocks.
The column lists comical postal tips and regulations with mock warnings. It jokes about forwarding mail without postage, licking stamps, dangerous items like nitroglycerine, and odd rules such as ducks and babies in the mail. It mocks root absurdities and aims for light satire.
S M Prushai, the Territorys only professional undertaker, dedicates full attention to the business. Office open day and night in Canfields Block on Main Street Ogden.
A new and second hand furniture store opens on Ee Stronet Street, operated by J. Hf and EOChEs, proprietors. The shop promises affordable pieces and quick turnover to serve local residents seeking budget furniture options.
The document details the by laws governing water use and governance for the Plain City Irrigating Company. It covers speaking limits at meetings, water pricing by land and crop, liability for damaged banks and ditches, headgate regulation, tax payment, capital stock requirements, penalties for canal damage, and annual by law readings. It also records amendments from trustees meetings and notes broader agricultural news and commentary.
A New York correspondent writes a florid tribute to a Maine girl describing her as a splendid housewife with rosy face hazel eyes and long silky hair. He extols her laughter simplicity and charm while praising her baking and marriage prospects inviting strangers to remember her at wedding bells.
Ladiegs and Gentlonen offer a fine stock of boots and shoes and dry goods at Wiccixpotiam ca's store on Weber Mills street. The assortment includes hats caps groceries hardware farming implements flour grain and feed all priced at bed rock rates with February edition placeholder text.
A fragment from Oakland shows a parent asserting a ten year old boy in Kassaya has suffered a scrofulous swelling since infancy. The note claims six bottles of a tonic cured him though no doctors helped.
An elderly citizen and local minister, Reverend Geo H. Thayer, testifies in a store visit that he and his wife owe their lives to Shiloh’s Consumptive Cure. The message, dated May 13, 1878, is attributed to Bourbon, Indiana, with local distributors J. W. McNutt & Co. and O C. Ormeby, Logan.
A farm of 45 acres with house, good wet and orchard is for sale four miles south of Willard. Price 823 dollars. Inquire J. S. Miller Plain City Weber County. February 1st, sale on demand.
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