Progress of the South shows rapid industrial growth
The Philadelphia Times reports a surge in Southern industry with nine month new enterprises and expanded plants totaling capital investment around 252.39 million dollars led by Kentucky then West Virginia Maryland and Alabama. Rail mileage up since 1879, coal iron and cotton sectors expanding, signaling war healing progress and prosperity across the region.
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South
Kentucks
West Virginia
Maryland
Alabama
A SENATORIAL OPPOSITION TO POSTMASTERS REMOVEKS
A long critique of Republican Senators opposing presidential postmaster removals argues the effort will be swamped by December as hundreds of cases await scrutiny. The piece questions party loyalty, damning past Southern policy under Republicans and urging Democrats to press for reform and fair trustee selection. It also notes regional population density and land value contrasts between Wisconsin and Alabama.
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Congress
Senate
Cleveland
Spose
Ie Moreasim
Hoar
Conger
Cullum
United States
FSS
New Met
Irving
Faris
Wisconsin
Alabama
Ciicag
The President Stands by His Party Against Mugwumps
The Graphic defends President Cleveland against mugwump accusations. It argues the majority must rule, the president should align with his party, and warns that labeling him a mugwump insults both him and the democratic process. The piece laments unwarranted opposition and upholds party loyalty as essential to government.
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Btie Graphic
Cleveland
Postal agents under fire as calls to purge civil service grow
A critique urges removing heads of the railway mail service to curb partisan manipulation and voter pressure on agents. The piece cites Democratic appointees facing blocked promotions, with calls for decisive action by the executive axe. It also comments on Grant's last words urging peace and critiques Sherman and Foraker for politicizing Southern voting in 1853.
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Swan
Department of the Civil Service
Tostal
Fowler
Jameson
Democratc
Herrisburg
Grant
Buckner
Sherman
Foraker
Shermans
Forakers
South
N. VY. Graphic
Notable Anecdotes From Historic Papers
A compendium of quirky past notices includes Prof Turner’s lucrative anatomy chair in Edinburgh earning twenty thousand dollars yearly, Caroline Jackson’s thunder-fleeing confession from Albany county house, Nilsson’s Swedish concert brother in attendance, a photo‑mania Alabama girl fleeced by her father, Jones disputing monuments to Greene and Pulaski, Clark Foss’s death linked to a prior fatal coach overturn, and a centenarian death foretold moments before it happened with unshaken routines and woodworking on the eve.
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Turner
Edinburgh
Whch
Caroline Jackson
Albany
Altany Journal
Nilsson
Sweden
Alabama
St Louis Moet
Charles C. Jones, Jr
Augusta
Nathaniel Greene
Count Pulaski
Clark Foss
California
Chicago Tribne
Troy
Market Reports From St Louis Provisions and Grain Trends
Market notes from St Louis on November 7 show dull and unchanged provisions with mixed futures. cash bids mixed across meats and fats, hogs and cattle steady to higher in spots. Grain prices slip for wheat and corn while soybeans hold. receipts noted for beef, pork, and lamb with overall market activity steady to firm in parts.
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St. Lowa
Baneey
Catrle—Ste
Butch Enim Steck
Kanntes
York Butchers
Chicago
T. Fuoun
Wisconsin
Michigan
Bob Cu Mota
Mars
Texas
Western Rangers
New Yon
St. Louis
Colorado
Borres—Creamers
Famey
Atte
Isc
Catile—Recelpte
LSU
Origin of the Inch and Ounce in Ancient measuring systems
London Staniford explains how Roman and other ancient measures used base twelve divisions. He argues the ounce is a twelfth part of a unit, not a separate idea from the inch, and details how twelfths, halves, thirds, and quarters underpinned weight and length concepts.
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Europe
London
Staniford
Samuel Bradburn and Wesley Expository Note Passage
Excerpt recalls John Wesley aiding Samuel Bradburn in hardship with a five pound note and Scripture quote. Bradburn replies with gratitude and praise for Wesley. Also mentions Rev Thomas Harrison, the Boy Preacher, resting after overwork in Dorchester Massachusetts and his thousands of converts.
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John Wesley
Samuel Bradburn
Wesley
Sammy
Dolin Wesley
Sam
Bradburn
Christian Mason
Thomas Harrison
Dorchester
Mass
Harr
Boston Globe
Fate of Governors Echoes McClellan Deaths and Heart Warnings
An editorial style piece links the deaths of General McClellan and six New York governors to heart disease tied to renal issues. It argues heart trouble is often secondary, caused by Bright's disease, and promotes Warner's safe cure as a remedy, urging public awareness and medical frankness.
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Mac
George B. McClellan
New York Sun
DeWitt Clinton
Silas Wright
William L. Marcy
Lanton
New York State
Marcy
Cowper
Roberts
Bright
Warner
B. F. Jarrabee, Esq
Boston
A Good Investment Plan by Which Banker Saved Eighteen Dollars
A sparse man visits a banker in Austin proposing a scheme to profit from others despair. He suggests a staged death with a charitable fund drive, offering the banker a commission of ten percent to trigger a donation flow of eighteen dollars, enabling the man to profit without investment. The tale unfolds with sharp social satire.
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Austin
Texas Siftings
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Brown's Little Joke and Medical Advertisements
A fragmented column notes a witticism about coats, then promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Discovery for fever and lung ailments. It mentions Evecran-Vorraic Bett devices for nerve loss and vigor, a catarrh remedy with a $900 injury payoff, and a strange line about transforming a horse into a pasture.
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Woaker
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Wye
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Marathon Independent
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Troy Times
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Miss Elsie
Philadaphia Cail
N. ¥. Herald
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Derrick
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Wayne, du Page Co
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France
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Pam
America
Stoge
North-Westernity
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Draggiste
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B.D. Lambert
Swirt Specific Co
Atlanta
Gay
Oriss
W. Zul Street
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Lawson Card Co
Boston, Mase
B. H. Douglass & Sons
Imae Rugs
Falingention
Rotta Reyes
Nuit
Cardia
Me Manin Chcmne
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Iperenee
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NEW Laws Oiteece Virtvets Cation
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