Wool Growers Rally to Restore 1867 Tariff Policy
The National wool growers mass meeting in Chicago urges Congress to restore the 1867 wool tariff, arguing protection sustains domestic wool and woolen goods, supports farmers, navy, and national security, and opposes free raw wool. The report calls for electing lawmakers who back protective duties and endorses united action in the 1884 presidential canvass.
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Cmcaco
United States
Chicago
Congress
America
Europe
Unite States
Senate Committee Review of Postal Telegraph and Western Union
The Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads completes a report on the postal telegraph, exposing Western Union’s inflated capitalization and stock dividends funded by other lines. It argues for a government postal line to cut rates, curb monopoly power, and reduce telegram charges nationwide. It also notes potential censorship risks and the bill’s aim to lower costs while expanding competition in news transmission.
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Senate
Western Union
Senate Committee
Senator Hill
Western Union Company
Secon ix
Associated Press
Ines
Telegraph Company
Westen Union
General Interest Briefs From Across the U S
A roundup of curious news notes from Nantucket to Augusta, with a benefactor paying Nantucket debt, Adam Bede dramatized in England and America, a Paterson boy rescued from the Passaic Falls, a biddy roasted by lightning in Augusta, and a New York bootblack with twelve lives saved. Also: timber from a South Carolina pine, a Raleigh church built from a single Pigeon River tree, a hotel keeper’s death in Boston, and vast fortunes among New York millionaires led by Vanderbilts.
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Nantucket
Mass
George Elliot
Adam Bede
England
America
Paterson
N. J
Passaic River
Augusta
Oscar Wille
New York
Yimes
Chester County
S. C
Walker & Ferguson
Raleigh
N. G. Guscuillone
Haywood County
Pigeon River
Dennis T. Caddigan
Oveevant House
Boston
Philadelphia
San Francisco
St. Nicholas
Herald
Wm. H. Vander
Hill
Emily Faithful
Buffalo Express
Berrien County
Georgia
Germany
France
Louisville Courier- Journal
A. Heaton Robertson
New Haven
Conn
Abram Heaton
Liverpool
Hartford
Market Reports Grain and Provisions May 24
St Louis market report shows WHEAT prices mixed with No 2 red cash at 1.12 and May at 1.13 in steady to dull trading. Provisions and eggs hold steady to firm levels with packing lard and meats quoted. Texans and stockers show variable prices. Chicago and Kansas City notes reflect lower wheat, weaker cash bids, and limited futures activity across No 2 red, No 2 white, and corn contracts.
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St. Louis
Jane
Kansas City
Sic
Chatoe
New York
Syea
A Banquet of Odd Delicacies From Shanghai Customs
The Shanghai Corresponder describes a banquet where male guests in satin and silk are introduced to a long dining hall with many pearl-inlaid tables. Seventeen courses follow in a reversed order, including shark fin and aged eggs, varnanished duck, water lily nuts, and alligator soup, with guests politely serving each other and bowing after each course.
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Zis Zia
Shanghai
Qualifications for a Governess in 19th Century Society
A governess must speak several languages and excel in advanced female education, combining firmness with amiability and a natural ability to govern children. While beauty is not essential, comeliness helps. Salaries range from ten to eighty dollars monthly with board, but top pay is rare. The piece notes social fashion drives demand, with many households employing governesses to refine language and manners, even among the wealthy and less refined. It includes quotes from a long-tenured governess about varied treatment by families and the challenges of managing difficult children, ending with a reflection on aging out of the role and the need for younger replacements.
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Mr. Star
Modern Algiers Heights and Harbor Describe City
A Hartford Times correspondent extols Algiers from sea approach to Kasba and forts. Whitewashed houses crown hills with French and Hebrew villas. Engi neighbors and Moorish villas dot the surrounding bay. The harbor, lighthouse, and fortress create a grand, perpetual springlike climate noted by open windows and year round bloom.
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Algiers
Old Fort
Hartford Times
A Great Day in History on April Nineteenth
A historical note recounts April 19 as a day marking events across England and the world. It cites the 1529 Diet of Spires protest, the first shot of the American Revolution in 1775 at Lexington, and the deaths of figures such as Byron and Melanchthon, plus the 1012 murder of St. Alphege by Danes.
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Lord Beaconsfield
England
Spires
Lexington
Byron
Disraeli
Lord Cadarcis
Christian of
Sweden
Melanchthon
Thomas Sackville
Earl of
Dorset
Lord Besconsfield
Braet
Plant Lice Remedies for Gardeners and Greenhouse Tips
A compact guide to aphides on various plants. Roots of apple trees suffer in light soils, but wood ashes or lime can cure. heavily infested cases require digging, washing roots, replanting with ashes or lime. Tobacco smoke under glass, pyrethrum, and white hellebore kill green flies. Chrysanthemums and German asters respond to snuff dusting. thorough washing and ashes help. Josiah Hoopes, in New York.
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Josiah Hoopes
N. Y. Ne
Allcock’s Plasters Prompt Lumbago and Stiff Neck Cure
An 1884 Brooklyn reader testifies that Allcock’s Plasters relieved back pain in three hours and cured a stiff neck in four hours, after years of torment. The notice also mentions Swift’s Specific for cancer, Braconera’s pills, and other patent remedies, with various testimonials and promotional quips typical of the era.
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Brooklyn
N.Y
Allcoce
Iako
Alicoce
Semurr
N. Nec Vonee
Lambago
Allcock
Braxonera
M. Vaertaxp
W. R Dayisboro
Swift
Aea
Swirt
Atlanta
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