The Fittest Survive As Nations Move Toward Peaceful Progress
J. W. Donovan argues that history shows a shift from brutal conquest to humane, cooperative progress. He cites England, America, Germany, and France as progressive powers shaping thought and science. The piece envisions a future union of Christian nations, commerce driven by friendship, and warfare transformed into trade and industry.
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Alexander
Grant
Egypt
Brooklyn Bridge
England
America
Germany
France
Orsar
Txple
J. W. Donovan
Minnesota Club House in St Paul Proclaims Western Boom
Special correspondence from St Paul describes the Minnesota club house, a three story red brick and brown sandstone building at Fourth and Cedar, cost 75000 with no debt. The 300 member limit aims to grant access to best society, with lavish interiors, Tiffany era monogrammed silver, Wilton carpets, and a fully equipped basement dining and banquet space. General Sibley remains president, with Stanford Newel as first vice president, reflecting a revival of the once-dissolved Minnesota club.
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Minnesota
St. Paul
Minnesota Club
Fourth
Cedar Streets
Minnesota Club House
Gen. Sibley
Sibley
Hancock
Best Society
Artistic Club
NM. C
W. H. Sibley
Stanford Newel
Old
Monroimer Waren
Compliments to Dr Warner on White Wine of Tar Syrup
A letter from Rev H D Groves of Clarksville Missouri thanks Dr C D Warner for a complimentary bottle of White Wine of Tar Syrup. He reports his six year old daughter’s sore throat and ulcers improved immediately with the medicine and that he will obtain more at winter’s start. The note also mentions sale by Crowder Reed. Itch and scratches cured in 15 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Sold by Marlow Robbins druggists Sullivan Indiana.
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H. D. Groves
M. E. Church
Clarksville, Mo
Crowder & Reed
Woolford
Marlow & Robbins
Sullivan, Ind
Price listings for farm commodities and livestock
WARKETS shows hay six dollars per ton delivered and wheat eighty three cents per bushel. Flour five fifty per barrel. Beef cattle fat thirty one and a quarter cents per lb. Cattle stock two and one fifth to three ets per lb. Hogs fat thirty one and a fourth to four ets per lb. Sheep two to two and three quarters ets per lb. Corn twenty five ets per bushel. Butter ten ets per lb. Eggs sixteen ets per dozen. Hens four ets per lb. Roosters two ets per lb. Turkeys five ets per lb. Feathers twenty to forty ets per lb. Ducks four ets per lb. Geese four dollars per dozen. Dried apples two ets per lb.
New Orleans World's Exposition Opens November 10
The second World’s Exposition at New Orleans opened November 10 and runs through March 31. Ohio and Mississippi Railway offers two daily express lines from Cincinnati via Odin and Cairo with parlor cars, sleepers, and direct Pullman service to New Orleans. Round trip tickets at low excursion rates available from Cincinnati offices. Also offered is Gilmore's Magnetic Elixir for throat and lungs, sold by Marlow & Robbins.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
Ohio & Mississippi Ba Y
Cincinnati
Odin
Cairo
C. W. Paris
Central
Ohio
Chicago Market Snapshot Mixes Prices Across Commodities
Chicago reports varied prices for cattle, hogs, corn, and oats with multiple markets and months listed. Notes include higher and lower price points, steady market signals, and regional price ranges from Wisconsin to Nebraska and Iowa, reflecting a broad trading picture.
Travi Bitters Compared To Liquor In Digestion Aid
The text argues liquor worsens digestion and turns many patients into drunkards while praising Brown's Travi Bitters as a nourishing tonic. It contends the bitters strengthen the body and relieve debility and dyspepsia, contrasting this with unsafe alcohol use. It also critiques presidential conduct with a populist railing against senate actions.
Dr Pierce Pill Pellets Sparked By Railroads Critique
A cautious broadside notes stages fading with railroads and Dr Pierce Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a sugar coated, compact remedy. Buffalo Medical College grads include Beautful Mountain Mohawk Indian eighteenth in class, with Burning Sky, London Ont uncle, amid suggestive talk of medicine men and frontier society.
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Dr. Piercé
Buffalo Medical College
Beautiful Mountain
Burning Sky
London
A Pennsylvania Philanthropist THOMAS STRUTHERS
A profile of Hon. Thomas Struthers of Western Pennsylvania detailing his birth in Trumble County Ohio on June 6 1808 and lifelong work as a financier railroad builder and public benefactor. It notes his roles in founding Corry National Bank aiding rail lines including the Philadelphia and Erie Corry to Titusville Cross Cut railroad and his donation of an $80000 public library. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature and remained active in state affairs.
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Pennsylvania
Thomas Struthers
Trumble
Wyoming) County
Jefferson College
Warren
Warren County
Williamsport
Sunbury and Erie
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
Struthers
Gen. Wilson
California
Sacramento
Folsome
Cincinnati
Des Moines River
Iowa
Titusville
Philadelphia and Erie
Corry
Mr. Struthers
Europe
Egypt
Holy Land
Dean Richmond
Cross Cut
Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia
Struthers, Wells & Co, Iron Works
Allegheny Valley
Grain Market Memo From Milwaukee Trading Desk
In Milwaukee Warat Lower notes March auctions with May prices. No. 2 oats firm at 83e, rye dull at 65.3, No. 2 white oats and rye prices indicate limited demand and unsettled outlook for the grain market.
Cincinnati From Fair Demand and Market Prices Text
Market notes show mixed demand with provisions and meats steady to higher in places, details on lard bacon and oats vary by location. Mentions Cincinnati and St Louis regions with price fragments for futures and cash bids, including pork products and grain bids.
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Atie, Conn
St, Louis
Wurat
Unclear OCR sports data from Baltimore edition
Fragmentary lines show numeric codes and partial terms like March May and oars, with scattered percentages and prices. No clear event, team, or outcome to identify a coherent news item. Preserve as a minimal record of unreadable segments.
Warning on counterfeit tonics and cure claims from Buffalo ads
An advertising block warns against imitators of Dr. Jones’ Red Clover Tonic sold by S A White claiming cures for dyspepsia, malaria and kidney liver disease. It offers a 50 cent remedy and a 10 cent pamphlet request, with address World's Dispensary Association Buffalo NY, plus Gilmore’s Aromatic Wine via Marlow & Robbins for female weakness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Inge
Iran
Rade
Dr. Jones
S. A. White
World’s Dispensary Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Gilmore
Marlow & Robbins
Beautify Your Home with Alabastine Coatings
An advertisement urges readers to finish walls and ceilings using Alabastine in white or twelve tints, calling it cheaper and better than paint or wallpaper, touting disinfection benefits and offering a free sample card and a $350 prize. Also mentions druggists and hardware dealers. A political tip laments needing another legislative branch. Mentions Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral praised for colds and coughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabastine Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
Publications Preview for Civil War Recollections Year
The text outlines forthcoming Civil War reminiscences by Grant, McGlefin, Buell, and others detailing battles such as Chattanooga, the Wilderness, Antietam, Shiloh, and the Second Bull Run. Naval accounts include the Kearsarge versus the Alabama. Also promised are humorous papers, serials, and foreign topics with illustrated features and special papers by Edward Eggleston and S. G. W. Benjamin, plus essays on Persia and sidereal astronomy.
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Grant
Chattanooga
Wilderness
McGlefian
Antietam
D. C. Buail
Shiloh
Pope
Longstreet
Kearsarge
Alabama
Rome
Pennell
Edward Eggleston
Persia
G. W. Benjamin
U.S
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Waterbury
Nahe Waterbury
Willyoin
Waterbury Watch Co
Couny
THE
TIMES
Sullivan
Ind
the Times
People's
Tandard
Smith & Wesson
Marlin Firearms Co
Standard
Buffalo, N.Y
DR. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Pierce
James Sullivan
Salem
Oregon
Jor
Gage-Downs Corset Co
Chicago
Aea
Scientific America
UNN 4 CO
Broadway
Munn & Co
Ee Eee
Patent Office
United States
Canada
Scientific American
Office
New York
Vick
Irs
Ishler
Seees
J. Rhodes
Safe Harbor
Mishler
E. A
E. L. ‘Thomas
Framingham
Mass
Ayers
W.P. Tlanvah
Gormley P. O
York Co
Ont
Ayer
C. D. Moore
Elin
Rachie
H.B. Scammell & CO
Bt. Louis
Rari Ak
Fle
Gswall & Co
Td Ty
New
John Riggs
Sullivan Strautt Court
Commodore P.riggs
T. Paul
General Markets
New Orleans Exposition
CIA
GEO. Bauer & Son
Sdigias
Gats
Provistays
Mess Park Lower
Dune
Lord—Lower
Cartrie
Woor
Wisconsin
Iinois
Michigan
Indiana
Maine
Barry
Nebraska
Dakota
Kansas
A. M. Knotts
West
Washington Street
Doors
Court Street
Ndiana
Senate
Milwaukee
Baltimore
P McEneney
Outhside
W.R. Bernard
Kangas City
Pimmons
Crenshaw
Tae Aera
Hreas
Wanner
Simmons
Hugg
Mivyceroft
JH Zeilin &Co
Philadelphia
Jus. W. Weld
Forest Hill St
Jamaica Plain
W.M. McDonald
Summer St
Boston
John McLellan
Cor
Bridge and Third
Lowell, Masu
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
U.S. A
Ayer & Son's
the War Papers
General Grant
W. D. Howells
Mary Gon Foote
George W. Cable
Frank R. Stockton
Helen Jackson
H. H
Mary Hallock Foote
Joel Chandler Harris
H. H. Boyesen
T. A. Janvier
Julian Hawthorne
Richard M. Johnston
Grant Beauregard
McClellan
J. E. Johnston
Lew Wallace
Admiral Porter
the Century Co
NEW Yok
National and Evangelical
New York Observer
Great Britain
Italy
India
China
Japan
Africa
Micronesia
the Independent
Brest
States
the Spectator
Independent
Colummans
P. O
New York City
N.Y
Pioneer Heroes
DeSoto
LaSalle
Standish
Boone
Kenton
Brady
Crockett
Bowie
Houston
Carson
Custer
California Joe
Wild Bill
Buffalo Birl
Miles
Crook
Standard Book CO
Pine St
St. Louis
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