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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1881
Page
3
A crowded chronicle covers Chinese treaties outlined in rough form, a Boston area saloon brawl ending in fatal injuries, executions in Philadelphia and Missouri, and political moves in Oklahoma with colonists splitting into small squads. The report notes De Lesseps and naval action signals, plus a lurid account of a Baltimore murder attempt and related hangings.
Daily Junction reports the death of Mrs. John Russell Young and notes various political and international items including legislative sessions in multiple states, treaty deliveries in Washington, and ongoing European unrest. The broad sweep covers executions, resignations, and maritime losses among other midwinter news.
Prisoner John Ray, once with Daniel O Connell and part of his guard, is dead. Reports from Land League notes in Loxvon on January 6 say rumors of extra troops to Ireland are unfounded and government regards current forces as sufficient. A planned land league meeting at Tulley in Galway was banned, with Canon Fleming expected.
A January Harper's Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast sits John Ball in a New Year’s armchair. American symbols abound in his England, highlighting U S influence in finance industry and culture while critiquing old European manners. The piece uses humor to comment on two decades of global change and implies England’s fading rigidity against American modernization.
English agriculture shows limited progress as total cultivated area grows slightly while real tilled land remains stagnant. Cereals and pulses decline, wheat crops fall 18 percent since 1870, timber lands rise 10 percent since 1872. Sheep numbers drop due to disease, pork losses follow pork imports, horses steady with 1870 levels.
An advert claims White's Prairie Flower cures coated tongue and bad breath, relieving headaches and disturbances from dyspepsia or torpid liver. It touts instant pain relief, praises public demand, and notes Coannee Water & Co. as wholesale agents with trial sizes available at drugstores.
The article attacks anti Semitism in Germany and reviews Louise Michel and the Paris Commune of 1871. It contrasts Jewish virtues with persecution and condemns Prussian militarism and Kulturkampf while noting Germany's tariff policies and political autocracy. It critiques Bismarck and German leadership, warning against oppression and hypocrisy.
An advertisement endorses German cure for catarrh and specifies Brown’s Tey Troches for Saro Tres 1 and Hoareentas. The copy lists multiple remedies and urges use of these products.
Christmas and New Year bring half holiday for state workers from December 24 through January 2 in Oklahoma City. Public business continues December 23 to January 3 with talk focused on Garfield Blaine policy and patronage rumors and possible cabinet placements. An Oklahoma Colonists agent will stay on until the next session.
Reports from Washington in December 1880 discuss Senator Hamney and prospects of reelection, Maine’s influence, and Democratic doubt over Georgia’s electoral vote. The article notes constitutional questions about timing of electors and the possibility of counting Georgia’s vote, concluding with reflections from Kyweex Washington.
Sercou's Catanca Rene advertised as a panacea for catarrh diphtheria canker mouth and headache. Each bottle includes a nasal injector at no extra charge. Priced at 50 cents and sold by J. W. McNutt & Co Ogden and O C Ormsby Logan.
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