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Newspaper
Springfield Globe Republic
Location
Springfield, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1885
Page
1
The piece contrasts old haggle culture with modern shopping in which reliable houses offer fixed prices and warranties. It notes the shift toward confidence, direct pricing, and manufacturer-backed quality, claiming only one local store leverages wholesale pricing via ample cash capital.
Owen Bros Mammo Branch at 25 and 2% West Male Street promotes a wide range of men youths bags and children's clothing and men furnishings including shirts collars curls underwear neckwear gloves and more. It claims to manufacture its own clothing stock and to offer best garments for every price with wholesale pricing for retail customers and emphasizes confidence and profit on purchases.
London to Brighton tale of a mistaken identity ends with Miss Dash and Mrs Malcolm torn over a wedding that never fully united. A butcher named James Malcolm, claimed as Captain Macdonald, and local witnesses clash as evidence splits and the jury disagrees.
The Chronicle Telegraph details Dr K E Rosen’s ferroline discovery linked to obsidian mirrors for telescopes. Americas Ferroline Company, Limited, will manufacture ferroline mirrors in Rochester PA with capital from Pittsburg and Beaver County investors led by Chas J F McKenn. Dr Rosen to supervise. natural gas furnaces ready. factory premises secured. London notes Lady Randolph Churchill’s Woodstock election influence and a Primrose League preface on aiding the Conservative Party.
A sprawling miscellany reports a Chicago bakery collapse with $50,000 loss, a Montana insane asylum fire killing three, Dr. Hamilton to remain at Marine Hospital, Major Davis pursues Apaches, and McQueen begins salt at Findlay. Alaska and New York political notes follow with jail escapes, postmastership accusations, and campaign fund efforts.
Mrs Katherine Keesler, wife of Philip Kealer, while four miles from Mayetteville, dreamed her aged father Mathes Nerk in Newasthe Iowa died during his last illness. On visiting town she learned via two letters that the father had fallen ill and then died, a tale Keasler recounts as a remarkable premonition.
A derelict schooner from Somer's Point New Jersey named Twenty-one Friends has sailed into the Gulf Stream drifting toward the New York to Liverpool route. The vessel, loaded with lumber, sprang a leak and was abandoned near Fortress Monroe last spring. The Hydrographic Office seeks Treasury permission to wreck the wreck to prevent danger to steamer traffic as it drifts north and east about 00 miles off the Irish coast.
United States consul reports an American wife of Italian rank was confined in an asylum after a troubled marriage. She spoke of illicit restraint and hospital care while her husband corresponded with her parents. She was freed after consul intervention and returned home.
The racing card on the second day in Cincinnati features Mike Wilkes and J. G. Douglass winning by multiple heats. Don Carlos and Almont Gift are scratched, five starters remain including King Almont Westmont Pilot Knox Montgomery and King Wilkes. Pilot Knox goes off as favorite. outcomes show Pilot Knox fading to defeat with firm results across the day at Mystic Park and other regional tracks including Cheater Park and Reicuros Beach.
In Washington on September 10 a well dressed northern New York woman visited the president and urged that she would like to see Mrs. Cleveland in six months at the White House. The president smiled and asked for more time to make such selection. The lady insisted there should be Mrs. Cleveland in the house and said she would visit again. The exchange amused other attendees.
A Springfield reporter quotes a prominent Democrat saying the city favors temperance and will not elect a whisky candidate. The piece contrasts temperance pressure with a wider Illinois scheme to trade off votes for prohibition and to undermine the Republican party. A separate note reports drama receipts for the Siddons Dramatic Co. and a fatal freight wreck near Indianapolis involving Conductor Frank Kite, with several trains colliding and damages estimated.
An heir seeks to sell the clothing worn by George Washington at his inauguration. The ad notes autographs of General Washington and pins the provenance to a relative in Washington. The text mocks heirs of presidents, citing Jefferson’s granddaughter and Tyler’s son in gov't service, suggesting widespread poverty among descendants.
Morning Edition reports Governor Hoadly, under fire from Republicans over a proposed joint debate, grows visibly rattled. He dodges a direct answer, snubs an Eastern Democrat’s interview, and frantically seeks to evade scrutiny while claiming to have no time.
A convoluted story from Conny Pennsylvania recounts Wilbur Merritt a strong athlete arrested in Oswantiqua County New York for highway robbery. An escape and capture followed a governor requisition but Merritt again escaped from custody in the city jail and is charged with jail breaking along with highway robbery. In other notes, artillery near Printion wad Dinkera signals Turkish and Aryanis clashes in Eastern Roumelin, and an old Merling Scotland resident knew the entire Bible by heart.
A violent riot breaks out as 184 small pox deaths reported in four days. Rioting arrests include Alphonso Morais and Wm Hoote sentenced to four months. Lumber firm forces vaccination or job loss. forty workers strike after refusing. Police detachments repelled by crowd. city under military protection with calm at 11 90 p.m.
Morning edition reports the state convention of Virginia colored men selecting J B Syphas as temporary chair and adopting resolutions that renounce allegiance to the Republican party while urging colored Virginians to be politically independent. They hope federal aid will ease state finances and improve race relations.
A scrambled paste of 19th century items reports Samuel J. Tilden’s readers, a Grand Army of the Republic post at Lowell, the death of Rev. Father James O Reilly of Toledo, a resignation at St Pauls School, and various society and political notices. References include A T Stewart’s New York reception, Haesian minister visits, and a Kentucky commissioner to the New Orleans Exposition with uncertain acceptance.
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