Inaugural Invitation and Electric Lighting Evolution
A clipped recount blends the Garfield memorial invitation with notes on early electric lighting. It covers the invitation design and signatures by Sherman and McKinley, then shifts to how electric light conceptions transformed street illumination and city life, citing gas opposition, gaslights, and eventual coal and gas history.
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Ospital
James G Blaine
House of Representatives
Sherman
William McKinley
Asm
Mittaa
Dany
Pearth
Boston
Brush Company
Qlondor
Paris
London
Savons
Murdock
Golden Medical Discovery Praised By Letter From Boston
A letter from Hreswx Warrine in Boston thanks Dr. BR. V. Pierce of Buffalo for the Golden Medical Discovery curing a two year favor sore. The same issue notes Cincinnati's smallpox toll last week with 31 deaths and 75 new cases, 150 patients under treatment.
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Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
BR. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Cincinnati
Brown's Iron Bitters Promoted As Liver Cure
The piece argues against purgative pills for liver and dyspepsia, urging Brown's Iron Bitters as a true medicinal tonic that strengthens digestive organs and heals stomach and liver tissues, claiming it will provide a permanent cure. It warns against continuing poor health and implies personal responsibility.
Illiteracy and school funding debate across states
The Chicago Tribune notes many states lack funds to begin school systems while slaveholding states show illiteracy. Russia is the only nation with a similar gap. The Boston Herald warns against overvaluing poets over established figures. A Louisville jury awarded Mike McCay $7,500 for railroad injuries.
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Lagan
Russia
Chicago Tribune
Louisville
Mike McCay
Fontsville & Nashville Railroad
Wisconsin Congressman Pounds Proposes Pension Review Board
Special to the Globe Democrat reports Congressman Pound of Wisconsin plans a populi measure creating a four member board of review with discretionary powers to hear rejected or incomplete pension cases. The Commissioner of Pensions becomes the fifth member and presides, serving as an appellate court for denied pensions. If the board favors the claimant, the Interior Secretary issues the pension warrant.
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Globe- Democrat
Pound
Wisconsin
Congress
Commissioner of Pensions
Mak
Board of Review
Secretary of the Interior
A True Blue Arkansas Story
A fragment recounts a North State journey where a hunter explains raising pork for market while a tin pot and fruit tree advice appear. The narrator urges planting fruit trees and nut gardens to provide year round bounty of apples peaches pears cherries plums strawberries gooseberries currants and grapes for a healthy home table.
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Old North
Blir Arkansan
Ile Laerymae
Tommy
Funer
Nothi
A Difference Between Civil Service Reform and Machine Politics
The New York Commercial Advertiser contrasts civil service reformers with machine politics quoting Hoar and Corling on patronage. It notes a schoolboy description of a kitten and reports on Senate probes into a French finance contract with an American bank, plus commentary on Russia under German influence and autocracy.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Corling
Hays
Garfield
Senate
United States
Paris
Chicago Times
Land in Butler County Kansas For Trape 2400 Acres
2400 acres in Butler County Kansas offered for Sullivan County property. Description says land is well located in a thickly settled area near churches railroads and mail service. Butler County is cited as the state’s largest prized county and a top agricultural area. For particulars and prices contact TQNY DODT with W G Yours.
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Butler County
Kans
Sullivan County
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