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The Abilene Reflector

Location

Abilene, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1886

Page

4

Tribute to Honesty at Harvard for President Cleveland

An account of President Cleveland's Boston reception at Harvard with praise for his honesty, duty, and public service. The piece notes Harvard scholars and graduates honoring him, discusses his impact on American citizenship, and analyzes political implications for the 1882 1886 era elections including New York and the Democratic Party's prospects in the next Congress.

Cleveland Harvard Boston America New England Mr. Lowell de. Holmes Mr. Cleveland United States Alan Astvand Dhirine Duitech Clavmand Bisine Commonwealth Republican Party Democratic Party New York Democratic Unitedites House of Representatives Cowen Sones Siebet Pressivar Jackson van Buren Pierce Buchanan Braoklyn Eagle

Political rhetoric from Lamar and Whine on postwar era

Southern Secretary Lamar tours the Southwest praising the United States as a fair place to live while envisioning unity across the nation. Opponent Whine travels Pennsylvania and New Jersey stirring old antebellum sentiment, denouncing Northern oppression and white supremacy amid charged orations.

Lamar Southwest United States Mbsic Union Whine Pennsylvania New Jersey Jashes Wildus Hisine

Democratic Triumph in Senate reshapes party power

The piece argues the Democratic Party gains from the latest elections promise to erase the Republican majority in the U S Senate by March. It notes Minnesota California and Colorado turning blue while Iowa and Ohio tilt Democratic and speculates on broader shifts in state legislatures and rhetoric on race and party reconciliation amid Blaine and Conkling talk.

Minnesota California Colorado Iowa Ohio United States Senate Harrisburg Patriot

Art, religion and education in the press mix

A collection of notes from Massachusetts art schools to church and temple matters. Mentions include sixty art schools and eleven thousand art students in Massachusetts, First Colored Baptist Church of Nashville with 3100 members, Wittenberg Synod backing temperance education, Rev Robert Cushman’s 1621 New England sermon, Dr Deems on Sabbath rest, Ner man Cohn and writing tablet arguments, an editor's call for clerical summer resorts, growth of Catholic parochial schools with 500000 pupils, and thirteen Boston missionaries heading to Turkey, India, Japan, and Central Turkey, with several women among them.

Massachusetts First Colored Baptist Church of Nashville Tenn Wittenberg Synod Springfield Cleveland Robert Cushman New England New Plymouth London America Boston Deems Nermann Cohn Breslau Steffen Cuisa Indianapolis Clerghtmen Newport United States Chicago Journal Foreign Lawis Maggie S Webb Grace Greenough Marion E. Shadon Julia Bissell

African Savages of the Congo Wear Cloth Burials and Fetish Beliefs

A Science notes from Walcke's Congo return describe lower river tribes brutalized by liquor, interior groups resisting demoralization, and upper river Basundes dressing hair, polygamy, and elaborate funeral cloth bales. Death rituals center on wealth display, sorcery tests, and fetichist protections against dangers as muskets fire over graves.

Rople Congo Walcke

Intubation of the Larynx and medical notes

A discussion on replacing tracheotomy with laryngeal intubation for membranous croup and diphtheria. The tube through the mouth may ease treatment, reduce cutting surgery, and reportedly save more lives, with medical journals supporting the claim.

Disease and nostrums fill a noisy ad page

A jumble of vintage medical claims and humorous quips promotes treatments like Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Brown's Buccuiar, with references to cures for ruptures, piles, fistulas, and sore eyes. The ad column mixes product pitches from Dr. Isaac Thompson and Piso's Cure for Consumption, cataloging various cures and OTC items in a chaotic, period voice.

Isaac Thompson National Weekly

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