Grant's World Tour and Bid for Third Term in 1880
A historical sketch recounts Ulysses S. Grant's 1877 world tour, his 1880 Republican convention defeat, and his later New York banking venture with Ward. It notes his cancer diagnosis, revival of his rank in 1885, death at Mount McGregor aged 63, and public farewell, plus the era's political aims to boost party prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Grant & Ward
New York
Congress
Mt. McGregor
White House
Nellie Sartoris
Exigtond
James Russell Lowell
Hig
Sontea
Tokyo
Napoleon
Wall Street
Grant and Ward Collapse and Memoirs Enduring Century
A historical tale recounts a banker’s collapse and revival through loan borrowing from Vanderbilt, Grant’s personal memoirs born of debt, cancer ending his narrative, and the perseverance of a man who penned remarkable volumes as his health failed. It closes with Everest’s unmapped ascent standing as a distant dream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Wittlam FL. Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue Palace
Grant & Ward
Grant
Ader
Flo
Simon Bolivar Tuckner
Weat
Feman
Fort Denaldeon
Nortand
Alma locals host visitors and endowment banquet
Hugo Braun and Mildred Carrer visited Alma from Saginaw and Saginaw friends respectively while Oscar Vibber and Reginald McClinton conducted business in Sheen and Shepherd. Attendees at the Alma College endowment drive included Jotham Allen and Charles Watson. Wright Hall hosted the opening banquet with ministers and residents from Breckenridge Ithaca and Baltimore mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo Braun
Saginaw
Oscar Vibber
Sheen
Roy Willert
Ithaca
Reginald McClinton
Shepherd
Ralph Chisholm
Breckenridge
A. Osborn
The
Sea
Jack Robson
Alfred Cohoon
Florida
Lester Allen
A. C
Alma
Patenis
Jotham Allen
Frank Convis
Alma College
Wright Hall
Charles Watson
Guetiot
Joseph Greene
Mt. Pleasant
Fred W. Goodes
Baltimore
Republic
Local visitors and college drive notes
Mr and Mrs Romaine Clark of St Louis stayed with Mr and Mrs William Strong on Allen avenue on Sunday. W W Tanner of Saginaw visited Alma on Friday to discuss the college endowment drive where he is chairman. Uptimimie isbugne. Good temper is tie a sunny day. I sheds Ite brightness op everything.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romaine Clark
St. Louis
William Strong
Allen Avenue
W. W. Tanner
Saginaw
Tanner
Roman Idea Concerning Oysters Medical Note
An ancient Roman doctor claims oysters have medicinal virtues. He asserts living oysters nourish and promote sleep, with eight to twelve raw oysters eaten before meals healing a weak stomach better than any apothecary’s medicine.
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James Morgan
Mount
Everest
Himalayas
Ulysses
Mildred Carrer
Charles H. Goggin
W. C. Hammond
H. J. Brown
Los Angeles
California
Charles Bentley
Gratiot
S. L. Bennett Fire Insurance
East Side Greenhouse
East Superior Street
Little Rock Coal & Lumber Co
Earl C. Clapp Hardmare
Michigan Sugar Co
Newew Home
Pandellca
Scott
Richard. Lodewyk
New
Bostonian
Oxfords
Good Shoes
Central Michigan Light & Power Co
Home Lumber & Fuel Co
Alma, Mich
Phane
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