Addressing Coast Defenses and Indian Policy in 1880s
The message details coast fortifications and modernization calls, urges exam requirements for officers, reviews Apaches surrender and confinement, notes Postal Service finances and postage reforms, and calls for federal judicial reform and Indian landlegislation to drive assimilation and resolve reservation issues. Major entities include the Board on Fortifications, General Crook, Fort Pickens, Fort Marion, Postmaster General, and Indian tribes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geronimo
Arzona
Crook
Fort Pickens
Fort Marion
Public Lands Policy and Pension Excerpts
The report urges repeal of pre emption and timber culture acts and reform of homestead laws to secure five years of residence and cultivation. It also calls to curb desert land abuses. Pensions figures show 365,78 current pensioners, 1,018,735 applications since 1861, 621,751 allowances, and $808,24,811.57 paid.
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Con
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Bureau
Bureau
Hamed
Sesson
Congress
Pension Reform and Civil Service in a Shared Nation
A broad message urges Congress to enact relief for worthy pension claims failing due to proof gaps, warning against overreliance on sympathy. It covers Patent Office efficiency, Pacific railroad debt planning, labor capital relations, agriculture, civil service reform, and District of Columbia governance needs.
Tonsils Not Distinct Organs Say Bellevue Professor
Dr Bosworth of Bellevue Medical College New York argues tonsils are not separate organs with a special function but result from diseased action. He explains lower pharynx glands swell from colds, may form white patches, and chronic enlargement can occur in youth but often harmless unless breathing or sleep is affected. Removal advised only when necessary and rarely dangerous in children.
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Bosworth
Bellevue Medical College
New York
Swindling Bride from Connecticut Earns $1500, Hartford Post Says
Hattie Davis, twenty four, lured Connecticut men by posing as an engaged prospect. She selected towns, gained proposals, arranged early weddings, then fled with the money. In eight months she executed three jobs across New Jersey and Connecticut, earning about $1,500, described by the Hartford Post as innocent and neat in her schemes.
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Hattie Davis
Connecticut
Newark
Hartford Post
Presuming Party Presses Prominent Texas Citizen
A forceful visitor pressed a well known Texas town figure with a hello and insistence on recognition. The citizen replied he did not know the caller and mocked the repeated newspaper mentions, noting he never reads police reports and suspects the man uses an alias.
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Texas
France, England wine trade noted by French maker
A French manufacturer states England is the leading drinking country, sending over 1,000,000 bottles yearly while total consumption reaches at least 5,000,000 bottles. He notes French consumption is unclassifiable by PETROL officials and observes Germany, the United States, and Russia as strong markets.
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England
France
Germany
United States
Russia
Coal mines on Great Kanawha river capacity rise
The text notes thirty eight coal mines tributary to the Great Kanawha river in Virginia with a current capacity of six million tons annually and growing. At two dollars per ton the output would be worth twelve million dollars at the mines.
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Great Kanawha River
Virginia
Sylvanus Bro Atvan Clarke
Kixe Humsert
Cleveland
Dante
P Manuel
Pri
Lake Erie
North Dakota
Bers
American Instituti
Amsterdam
California
Ord Street
London
Chicago Tribune
Yellow fever germs carried by mosquitoes, says Dr Finlay
Dr Finlay, a West Indies physiologist, reports that germs of yellow fever and other contagious diseases are carried by mosquitoes, accounting for the rapid spread of such calamities in his view.
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Finlay
West Indies
Eight m'Hion Umbrellas Used Up Each Year Report
The Lewell Courier notes a humorous stat claiming eight m'Hion umbrellas are consumed annually in this country, highlighting a lighthearted take on everyday items and consumption.
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Lewell Courier
Farm and Household Tips From 19th Century Newspapers
A collection of practical notes on cooking pestos and poultry diets includes fresh fish salted before cooking for better flavor, hen egg production patterns by month, and avoiding fences. It covers cheese pudding, scarfs for furniture, and cream candy with nuts or candied fruit. It also offers poultry feeding guidance, buttered potatoes, molasses cake, and a resin and kerosene rust-preventive surface treatment for tools.
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Cincinnati Times
Boston
Detroit Tribune
Chicago Journal
Feminine Gossip on Dress and Home Fashions Note Choices
A compact feature lists late fashion fancies in dress, furs, jewelry, and house decorations. It highlights seal fur trends, hat shapes, pale pink veils, bead portieres, coral accessories, and updated menswear like the three button cutaway coat. It also notes shifts toward broader shoe toes and away from crowding rooms with bric a brac.
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London
Packing Fowls Coops for Express Shipment
Instructions for building fowl coops for live poultry shipment emphasize sturdy, well vented packing. Includes coop dimensions, construction with cheese cloth sides, top slats spacing to prevent injury, and caution against improper top placement. Encourages neat packing to attract orders and avoid damaged stock. advises avoiding inferior boxes.
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Express
Bry Lome
The Markets Across Cities and Commodities
Market notes for oats, hay, tobacco, pork, butter, lard, flour, and wheat show mixed prices across Cincinnati Louisville and Chicago. Entries list No 2 red wheat, mixed oats, various flour grades, pork mess and hogs, with leaf tobacco grades and butter quality noted.
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Wisconsin
Senees
Louisville
Sacass
State and Western
Chicago
Eeeseet
The Volcanoes of Japan by Milne of Tokio
The Seismological Society of Japan memoir details 129 mapped volcanoes with 51 active, 233 eruptions recorded, many in February and April. Fuji is highlighted, with Milne estimating Mt Fuji’s height between 12 400 and 12 450 feet.
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Seismological Society of Japan
Milne
Tokio
Olcanoes
Japan
Gentle Sidelights and Inventions Amid Daily Life
A Cincinnati servant-girl was struck by a suddenly opened door knob causing a skull fracture and four months in hospital. The piece suggests inventing a soft rubber door knob for homes employing female help. Includes quips from Josh Billings on life’s difficulties and local notes on a Maine woman winning mushroom fame for a painted toadstool and a Rochester Post-Express item. Dr Morsz endorses Red Star Cough Cure and St Jacobs Oil is praised for rheumatism and neuralgia. Minister Gosnet of France says he is no tumbler.
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Cincinnati
Morsz
Marine Hospital
Baltimore
St. Jacobs
Gosnet
France
Rochester Post-Express
Fragmented 19th century remedies ad snippets and quips
A garbled collection of medical advertisements and quips from period newspapers. It touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, Brown's Bronchial Troches, Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike's Toothache Drops, and Dr Geppert's cures. Also includes humorous lines about learning to read and a stray note on a circular saw.
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Hale
Pike
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Riverand
Navy Department
Army
Board On Fortifications
Thor
Ana
Secretary of War
THE
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Public Land Service
Republic
Dan
Pensions
Cesa
Spoecia Vocate
Patent Office
Saptcet
Department OF Agriculture
Civil Service
Ple
Bfgga
Earl
Con Ress
District OF Columbia
Brdged
Cy Sta
Potomac
Washinngton
LN Gonclusion
Peples
T.c
Grover Cleveland
Washington
Aretha
Dianapolis
the Volcanoes of
Josh Billings
Aktin
Maine
Norristown Herald
Poe
Pierce
Boston Post
Hartford Times
Dr. E
Geppert
Cincinnati,o
Y. World
Cyrus W. Sarr
Justice of the Peace
Caltimore Ua
Florence Abbott
Massac Ave
Washington, D. C
Red Star
Penjamin Szold
Oheb Shalom
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore, Did
Charles A
A. von
Driggiste
Lydia
Pinkham
Americano
Te Og
Oe Et Merand Poy Cyclopedia Farm Cyclopedia
Ietary
Gentenese
Benson’s
Seabury & Johnson
Kein Et Aolla
Ebster
C. Merriam & CO
Spain
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Cockle
Crittenton
Der
Wm. Hall
Joan. F. Henry &,Co
Idaho
Oregon
Lowrice
Ad Nog Sas
B. Lambomary Agre Et Casewd Fork
Mapa
Minnesota
Dakota
Monta
Binghamton
Bayer
DR. c . Sherman
Lapor
Orrick
Broadway
Bill Rye
Arthur
the Post
Arthur & Son
Philadelphia
Lyon & Healy
St. Curiaco
En Hare
Popham & CO
Pension Milo B
Correspo of
Milo B
D.C
Chicago, Ill
Eveland
Ohio
Istroit
Mich
Wilson
Agen M TS
Obio
Seeman
Fred “Zooas Sap Silverware CO
Hass
Ares
Ha’ Addres
James River
Yes River
Va. A
Claremont Farms
St Mancha
Stremenl
Alex
Woonington
Ind
Sosa
Valentine
Brewster Safety Rein Molder CO
Holly
A.N.K
Radway
King Winter
Emerson
Leo Lewis
Ditson
Oliver Ditson & CO
C. H. Ditson & Co
Has Bena Ioe
Ties Caioges
Ress
Dunham, Wayne
DuPage Cos
Ilinolge
Walter
Louisiana
Lehigh County
Monu
Arthur Parsons
H Ting
Deadwood
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