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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1880
Page
4
The foreign affairs committee approved Neal's bill allowing US citizens who were naturalized as British subjects to regain US citizenship by renouncing British naturalization before a lawful court. The measure aims to restore citizenship to those who had become British.
In Paris the left demanded government course on unauthorized religious confraternities. Premier Dexfreycinet pledged to apply existing laws and sought confidence. A motion of confidence passed 338 to 147, with extreme left abstaining. Ferry education bill amended by the senate was adopted.
In Brooklyn on Sunday January 11 Rev Henry Ward Beecher spoke at Plymouth Church on the dangers of money as root of evil. He contrasted stock dealing with gambling and questioned church lotteries noting the Louisiana State lottery draw in New Orleans on March 9 for education and charity with prizes of thirty thousand dollars for two dollars.
A warning ad claims the Kaiser Celebrated German Elixir, advertised as harmless for children, killed thousands by curing croup with a deadly drug. It cites Vallejo Dixon Beaver Utah and other places, urging buyers to get only German Elixir with the Prussian coat and Dr Kaiser signature. Sold by wholesale druggists with Largo size offerings at 75 cents.
Bargain sale of 45 acres with house, good well and orchard four miles south of Willard. Price 825 dollars. Enquire of J. Miller in Plain City, Weber County. February bid list.
The Senate debated post office Star routes with contractor charges and trips. Bech and others argued over appropriations and discretion of the postmaster general while noting increased costs and new routes. Adjourned March 17 with legislative attention on service expansion and fiscal limits.
The New York Sun notes a iron and steel surge in 1879 with rising imports of pig iron rails and ores, driven by rapid railroad expansion and renewed agricultural prosperity. Domestic production climbed, while prices for foundry iron and rails shifted markedly as the industry accelerates.
A correspondent’s inquiry in the Inter Ocean explores theories on the dollar sign origin. Proposals include U S initials, a stylized eight, H S Roman units, and P with a b from the Spanish peso duro. The London Waltshall Review editor offered a dinner party origin hypothesis.
The table indicates rising stamp sales at several post offices with Ogden showing a decrease. The increase appears stronger than last year in Kansas City, and a hypothetical exhibit of Ogden would likely reveal a higher growth ratio than Kansas City.
A store window listing new arrivals includes ladies and gents ware boats shoes dry goods hats groceries hardware farming implements flour grain and feed all at bed rock prices. The sale date referenced is February 22.
Four speedy cures for catarrh diphtheria canker mouth and headache in SUILOLS CATARRIT REMEDY. A nasal injector free with each bottle. Sold by J W McNutt Co and D C Ormsby Logan Utah. October 21.
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