Remarkable longevity of famous statesmen across eras
The Youth's Companion notes statesmen who served into advanced age. Palmerston, Guizot, Lyndhurst, Brougham, Lansdowne, and Wellington remained active past 80 or 83. Earlier leaders like the Marquis of Winchester served near 97, while John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 after signing the Declaration.
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Lord Palmerton
England
House of Commons
Guizot
Lord Lyndhurst
House of Lords
Lord Brougham
Marquis of Lansdowne
Henry Petty
All the Talents
Charles James Fox
Duke of Wellington
Marquis of
Winchester
Edward IV
York
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Adams
Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Madison
Parisians Flock to Jardin de Paris For Fatma’s Tunisian Beauty
Boston Herald correspondence describes crowds at Jardin de Paris drawn to the Tunisian performer La Belle Fatma. She is tall and elegant in rose brocade, with heavy gaze and vivid features, as a chorus of dancers and musicians including a fat man and a eunuch perform. Fatma insists on collecting extra fees before her enthroned sequence.
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Boston Herald
Jardin de Paris
Fatma
Daniel Lambert
Tambor ‘Unis
Paris
Itates
No Sentiment in Business Says New Zealand Correspondent
A London Ironmonger correspondent writes from New Zealand that sentiment has no place in business. Builders prefer American and locally made fasteners over English brands due to better fit and ease of use, with English bolts, nuts, and tools deemed inferior and time consuming compared to American makes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
The
London Ironmonger
Mathers
Epondent
Origin of a Famous Saying in Carpenter's Letter
John Randolph told of Phidias and a shoemaker to argue that a craftsman should stick to his trade. Randolph used the story to lampoon his colleague Sheffey. The piece ends with a sales pitch for Red Star Cough Cure claiming to drive away summer coughs and colds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phidias
Randolph
Rail workers demand 40 percent wage rise or strike
Brakemen on the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad have demanded a 40 percent wage increase. They warn that failure to meet the demand will lead to a strike.
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New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad
Rheumatism relief for editor in Corsicana
G P Miller editor of the Corsicana Observer suffered a severe rheumatic attack in his left knee, became unable to walk stairs, and reports the pain vanished after several applications of St Jacob's Oil, with the knee returning to normal. Sir Thomas Brassy in the Times compares yachts Mayflower and Galatea, blaming Galatea's defeat on helm form and noting English yacht building under constraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corsicana, Tex
Observer
G. P. Miller
Thomas Brassy
the Times
Sir Charles Dilke to Join London News Service as Volunteer
Sir Charles Dilke planned entry into journalism not in an editorial role but as an unpaid volunteer with a major London news service, possibly starting in December, choosing service over money.
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Charles Dilke
Press Noies
London
Senator Brace Returns From Successful Lecture Tour
Eix Senator Brace has come back to Washington after a very successful winter lecture circuit. He reports all engagements for the season are filled and ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eix
Brace
Washington
Dr. Fell detest and patent pills cited in 19th century ad
The note ridicules Dr. Fell and touts Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a sugar coated cure for liver and stomach disorders. It also reports that the Manitoban refutes a massacre claim and advertises surgical cures for lower bowel diseases and hemorrhoids. A request for a 10 cent stamp to send a book to the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
Rawson Suit Filed in Chicago Superior Court
Mrs. America Rawson files a bill for ore maintenance against her husband 8. W. Rawson president of the Union Trust Company in the Chicago Superior Court seeking support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court of Chicago
America Rawson
8. W. Rawson
The
Union Trust Company
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for Women’s ailments praised
The text states the medicine is not a cure-all but a potent specific for chronic weaknesses in women. It notes a 160 page treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Women available for ten cents in stamps, from the World's Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Preference for honorably discharged soldiers in civil service
The proposed regulation aims to grant those honorably discharged from the military a preferred status in civil service hiring as mandated by law. The measure is described as the most important addition among new rules.
McCaine's Saint Paul Chemical Oil Endorsed
Joseph Guion a district court janitor in St Paul says forty years of rheumatism and neuralgia troubled him until six months of use of McCaine's St Paul Chemical Oil. He claims the remedy removed his former trouble and calls it invaluable. Sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Guion
Court
St. Paul
McCaine
Vacancies for Commissioners to Fill at Presidential Post Offices
The coming session of Congress will see 308 vacancies for commissioners in presidential post offices. Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers promises permanent color in one application. We have used Ayer's Ague Cure and found it effective for malarial troubles.
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Buckingham
Ayer
Sumter captain completes second tramp to Boston
Capt. Robert Andrews of Sumter DC has finished his second tramp from that place to Boston. He is ninety six years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Andrews
Sumter
D. C
Boston
Rheumatism Remedy Promoted By Bitters Sellout
In this plea for medicines the piece extols Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a safe and effective treatment for rheumatism and related ailments. It claims early use halts disease, purges rheumatic virus from blood, and benefits neuralgia liver digestion chills fever and kidney bladder inactivity. It also notes ten missionaries sail from New York on October 2 bound for the Congo River mission led by Bishop William Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mhostetter
New York
William Taylor
Congo River Mission
Apples Grow Large Enough to Wake a Boy and Pain Killer Ad
Notice touts Perry Davis Pain Killer as an efficient stomach remedy. Mentions Howard Snelling & Co. Boston coal dealers failing with liabilities of 152,112 and assets 44,000. Warns against inferior grease Frazer Axle Grease and urges purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Davis
Howard Snelling & Co
Boston
Safe of New York Produce Exchange building robbed
A safe at the New York Produce Exchange was opened and 2500 dollars in cash taken. The report notes immediate relief and acute issues following the theft. The text includes several ads and misread lines about remedies and products from Caswell, Hazanp & Co.
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New York Produce Exchange
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World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
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Delmar Junction, Vt
Caswell, Hazanp & Co
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Gouraud
Pullman Palace Car Co
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Don
Ecan
Freer, NT CO
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Mass
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Camden
N. J
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Bill
Cago Magnetic Shield CO
Central Music
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Usand
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Aes Wits
Howe
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Ill
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America
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T. K Gardner
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Palace Building
Holexa
Prof. Moody
Prof Moody
Cinelanati
Tamors and
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Aise Wainanoti
Marsh
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Technicon
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Zion
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Vances
Genuin
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Bray
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