Revenue Statistics From the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
The annual report shows a $125,000 consolidation gain and $120 million in total receipts for the year. First quarter revenue down $7.93 million. Calls for general amnesty for illicit distillers and shorter prosecution periods. Indiana Territory enforcement referred to Secretary Folger. Stamps issued: 1,082,774,500 worth $162,657,114. Tobacco production up over 9 million. cigars up 186 million. cigarettes up 95 million. Tobacco tax reduction of at least $25 million. rebates claimed $3,725,913, allowed $3,624,167, rejected $1,787, remainder amended. Distilleries active: 5,120, grain usage 18,644,787 bu. Spirits produced down ~2 million gal. exports 5,426,427 gal. warehouse transfers 203,908. leakage 2,201,018. warehouse stock June 50, 1883 total 60,449,003, seven-tenths bourbon. In warehouse Get 1, 1583, 738,405,961 gal. Exports first quarter $52,0?0 gal. Total U S distilled spirits around 116,000,000 gal Oct 1 1885. Recommends removing the alcoholic separations in vinegar production. Additional material covers policy points from the Commissioner's July letter.
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Wassuxetoun
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Congress
Indiana Territory
Folger
United States
Public Lands and Commissioner McFarland Annual Report
Commissioner McFarland reports 19,030,769 acres of public lands disposed in the year plus 99,235 Indian lands, with total receipts of 1.714.85 and 11,088,474 from public and Indian land sales. He notes rise in entries, urges repeal of preemption law, suggests six months proof after settlement, calls for timber culture repeal, reports 1,210 miles of hand grant railroads, and asks for a $5,000 salary with raises for top staff.
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McFarland
General Land Office
Fassix
Postal Union Statistics Show Global Rankings and Volumes
A survey by Superintendent Blackfan compares world postal systems, listing the United States with 44,572 post offices and leading in letters, newspapers, and dispatched items, followed by Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and others. It covers offices per population, inland and international mail, routes, revenue, and contrasts with Russia and Spain. mentions Thomas Carlyle’s Chelsea house being purchased by a Glasgow club.
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Wasminetox
Blackfan
Foreign Mail Service
United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Japan
Switzerland
Norway
Austria
Italy
Russia
Spain
Amuiles
Smuggling Opium Rings Exposed in Sandwich Islands
A San Francisco Chronicle report details a wide opium smuggling operation in the Sandwich Islands where the drug fetched eighty to ninety dollars per ounce. Methods included safe theft from bonded warehouses, laundering opium in Pacific Mail steamers linen, hollow sewing machine legs, fruit cans, bamboo pipes, and bored stone wood shipments, with vast quantities ultimately seized by officers.
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Cabuansea
Sandwich Islands
Pacific Mail
Honolulu
Islands
San Francisco
Faithful Unto Death on a Lonely Salt Lake House
A Salt Lake City resident, a fifty-year-old Norwegian Mormon, lives in a two story whitewashed house on Third South Street. The eccentric home is decked with plaster figures and bright curtains signaling a singular occupant who vows never to remarry, a promise tied to a deathbed marriage. He has no wife and keeps to solitude, despite bishops urging him toward remarriage.
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Third South Street
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Tribune
Snake in New Haven garden draws grave reaction
A New Haven woman found a four foot snake in her garden last week and screamed. A nearby gentleman killed the reptile, said to be a rare variety. The German physician’s wife nearby mourned the loss of her “pet snake” with grief before growing calmer. A separate note tells of a young man’s yearlong labor contract with a farmer’s daughter for a shotgun as reward. Also a St Jacobs Oil cure claim from Senor Sta ven in Vaitaraiso Vallparaiso.
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Chapel Street
New Haven
New Haven Register
Abbeville
Alst
St. Louis Post
A Human Fire and the Fire Within the Blood
A historical mining fire analogy compares a coal mine fire to the burning blood within the body. It argues poisonous acids from the liver and kidneys fuel inflammatory rheumatism and neuralgia, and extols Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure as the sole means to extinguish both flames by cutting off the blood supply. The piece warns of severe health consequences and touts the treatment's proven standing and claimed cure rate.
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Pennsylvania
Theo
Warner
H. H. Warner & Co
Rochester
N. Y
Hubert A. Gunn
United States Medical College
New York
Pioneer History of America volumes advertised and praised
An advertisement review extols a 1032 page Pioneer History of America from Jones Bros. & Co. St Louis, highlighting vivid engravings and dramatic narration. It quotes praise from Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Toronto Globe, and includes other medical and humorous snippets from various papers.
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Jones Bros. & Co
St. Mo
Ridpath
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Toronto Globe
Buffalo Express
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Chelsea
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Queer Pet
Little Model Republic
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Senor
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St. Jacobs Oil
Kansas City
Apes
Missouri
New
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Dr. Pierce
Woxrip
Medical Asso
Buffalo
Toledo
Ely
Peck Bros
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Grand Rapids
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Philadelphia
J. L. Dexwanp
Perry, Ga
Detroit Post
Cuutsville
Ala
W. Carter
Darren (O
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Brown
Tris
Russware
A. Page
Swift
Jon
Tiscaen
U.S. Cavalry
Burlington Free Press
Isaac Thompson
Irs
Davis
Iry
Chicago
Kamaas Orr
Ritery
New Mexico
Enbtur
Coin of
Kansas
Journal of Missouri
Nebraska
Great Southwest
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America
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Hive
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Goeth
Ingelow
Lueile
Milton
Scoope
Proctor
Rose
Dillip Vail Arterald
Arnold
Edwin
Dryden
Herbert
Homer
Poe
Speare
Shelley
Paylor
Iowa
SND Agriculturist
Kansas City, Mo
Hale
Pike
Chicago Journal
Charles A. Voreler
A. Voreler
Baltimore
Stetters
Asts
Norally
Monarch
Mertes Weeme
Oxeet Bastee
Linetrate
Baer
Owego
N.Y
Ely Brothers
Rally
Gene
Christ
Deta
Cleveland
Send
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E. E. Mendes & CO
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GAY Bros. & Co
P.o
Ill
Rothchild & ‘Ue Stepmex
New Brunswick
Canada
Bryant & 71
EGE
St Louis
NEV
Sanitay
Nt Pha
Aly Thoayrar
Fes
Ateines
Asss
DR. Horne
Ir Horne
Is & Wares
B.C. Strehl
Kate Agents
Foroutit Comczx & Newman P— Co
Deo Tinsnasa Co
403
Orth Fourth Street
ST. Louis
UAW
Ana A
Johnson
Anakesis
Einai
S &A. P. Lacry
Paten
P Attorness
Washington, D. C
Saeed
Tina & Co
Standare
Meee OU Crx Co
Peart St
New Yorx
Toba Sers
Merown Hallett & Town
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