Washington Letter Sparks Debate Over Railways and Strikes
In a March Washington letter a columnist critiques strikes and rail monopolies, endorsing Thurber’s People’s Railway proposal to lower costs and spur wages. He warns against mass migrations from failed towns, condemns some strikers as brutal, and notes legal woes around Potter’s Hale while hinting at a costly land sale.
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Washingtow
F B. ‘Thurber
Lawrence
Mass
Grand Jury
Potter’s Hale
Rapix
Domestic Tyrant and the Itching Piles
Mrs Partington calls the average man a domestic tyrant. She blames him for irritability at home and jokes that he will neglect treatment for the Itching Piles. Swayne's Ointment is praised as an infallible cure for the condition.
Investigation of the Peru Chile affair and a Soldiers Home probe
March 31, 82 report on an inquiry into the Peru Chile matter with whispered links to a senator and missing letters. It notes irregularities at a soldiers home with supplies misappropriated, plus a dense stroll through old DC plantation names and tobacco tax debates, citing tax totals and tobacco usage trends of the era.
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Shephered
L Barnes
Macfeeley
Dunn
District of Columbia
Molly
Ketchall
Tom
Voice of the People claims Golden Medical Discovery cured lung disease
Judith Burnett of Hillsdale Michigan writes that after a physician failed to help her serious lung illness she began using Golden Medical Discovery and recovered. The item includes a market note about Heath store pricing and smallpox delay in Vincennes area.
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R V. Pierce
M. D
Buffalo
N. Y
Judith Burnett
Hillsdale
Mich
Garfield tragedy and Guiteau trial volumes released
Dr Ridpath, biographer of General Garfield, has completed a history of the assassins and added it to his Life and Work of Garfield. The work contrasts Garfield's grandeur with Guiteau's infamy. Published by Jones Brothers & Co. in multiple cities. A separate Life and Trial of Guiteau is available at a moderate price.
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Guitean
Ridpath
Garfield
Jones Brothers & Co
Cincinnati
Chicago
Kansas City
Guiteau
Crowder & Reed offer free trial bottle of Dr Kino New Discovery
All persons with coughs colds asthma bronchitis loss of voice or throat and lung affections are urged to call at Crowder Reed's drug store for a free trial bottle of Dr Kino New Discovery. The ad promises to prove its merits and shows what a regular dollar size bottle will do. Also soap starch and bluing available at Mason's.
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Crowder & Reed
Dr. Kino
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