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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1879
Page
3
Nov 18 The Army of the Cumberland held a forenoon business meeting on the platform Gov Matthews and generals Hartranft Butterfield and Kimball attended General James A Garfield presided due to General Sheridan's illness Committees were named to nominate officers decide on next meeting time and place and select an orator.
The Italian premier Signor Cateoli has submitted the entire cabinet’s resignations to the King, though acceptance is not yet reported. Separate dispatches note Russian officers on leave must rejoin their regiments, and alarm over Polish troop concentrations is deemed exaggerated. A Constantinople correspondent says Russia favors prompt reform under the Berlin treaty, while St. Petersburg’s Novoe Vremya foresees a looming great struggle but no immediate war due to the empire’s finances.
A Paria dispatch reports the Seine prefecture council voided Umbert's municipal council seat. A Yorkshire gallery collapse at a political meeting killed two and wounded thirty. Madrid telegram says Martinez Campos will resume premiership and lead 13,000 troops to Cuba to quell unrest. A Galveston fire destroyed BR Davia & Bro furniture warehouse and three adjacent brick buildings with $150,000 in losses.
In Lumberton and Bladen County an elderly Black woman, 63, known as Fannie Baker, is reported to lead a band of forty to fifty respected Black men who treat her as possessing supernatural power. They fear her threats and claim she controls heaven and hell keys, enforcing obedience and political loyalty to past and current Democratic figures.
Nov 19 Washington ceremony for General Thomas statue along Pennsylvania Avenue. Vast crowds, decorated streets, and a 1500 seat speaker platform framed by flags, cannons, and panels naming Cumberland Army officers. Stanley Matthews delivered the oration as Hayes accepted the nation’s gift.
A dialogue in which Cetewayo critiques missionary claims and the claims of civilization, contrasting biblical conquest with colonial violence, famine, polygamy, and social ills, while praising John Dunn for banning missionaries and resisting foreign meddling.
The writer recalls a parlor reception for John B Gough on his return from a British lecturing tour. Attendees include William E Dodge, Chief Justice Noah Davis, Dr Taylor and Dr Newman, with praise for Gough’s temperance work and his astonishing lecturing run through Europe, ending with a crowded revival in Liverpool.
Catalog notice for Shilow's Catarrh Remedy touts a nasal injector included with each lot for treating catarrh diphtheria canker mouth and related ailments. Sold by J. W. McNait & Co with wholesale and retail divisions, Logan and SuteBely.
Town vendors advertise Shilohs Vitalizer to ease indigestion sour stomach and constipation. Offered at 75 cents by W. W. McNutt Co and O. C. Ormsby Logan.
A dense listing describes gold and silver sleeve buttons rings brooches chains and pins with engravings crystals and cameos. Prices range from fractions to several dollars and mail order is offered on purchases of 60 cents to 3 dollars with promised free shipping.
The text promotes an Inventors Agency offering watches and gold jewelry to agents for a fee, with sensational claims of expensive gifts. It urges readers to send orders, lists several watch types, cites Chicago newspapers, and names dubious endorsers to inflate credibility.
Public warning about a fake German Elixir for consumption and throat lung diseases. Claims of harmlessness for children contradicted by reports of deaths from quack medicines. Genuine German Elixir bears the prussian arms and Kaiser signature. Sample at drug stores. wholesale agents Cras Lancrery & Co.
We challenge the world to prove that Shilohs Consumption Cure is the best Jang Medicine for common or chronic coughs. It claims to cure asthma bronchitis whooping cough croup and more in half the time with pleasant use and a guarantee. Price ten cents twenty cents and one dollar. Sold by J W McNult Co and O Ormsby Logan at wholesale and retail druggists.
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