National Drill to be Washington's big 1887 spectacle
From Washington Regular Correspondent Aprilst 1887. The National Drill to be held late May will be the greatest massed display of civic military companies ever seen. Nine days of contests at the White Lot near the White House will feature infantry artillery cavalry and zouave tactics with crews from across the country. Prizes total 26500 with color stands medals and plate trophies. The drill runs May 25 to Decoration Day and will include grand parades and illuminated grounds each evening. Washington promises a lasting citywide attraction and potential permanent national drill status attracted by its monuments and nearby historic sites.
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Castine
San Diego
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America
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Georgetown
Bladensburg
Arlington
Potomac
Harper’s Ferry
Chesapeake
The New Rule: Inter-State Commerce changes on tickets
The Fort Wayne Journal reports the Pennsylvan ia company's local agent received the new Inter State Commerce circular effective April 1, restoring full tariff rates and discharging sub agents. It abolishes special reduced rates for many groups and withdraws mileage tickets, while continuing some ministerial two cent per mile tickets and 30 day round trips.
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Fort Wayne Journal
Pennsylvania Company
Sisters of Charity
Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company
Stone quarrying services and a broad mail order ad
The item advertises I J Weaver's Lewisburg quarry offering rough and dressed stone for orders from window sills to bridges and streets. It includes another large block of a mail order sales pitch with heavily discounted jewelry and household items from The Empire News Co. Syracuse and ends with an ad for Dr Ball's Cough Syrup.
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Lewisburg
Preble County
van Wert
I. J. Weaver
Ohio
Enjoy Life and the lure of popular patent cures
A collage of booster claims for Green's August Flower and assorted patent remedies from the Indiana Chemical Co and Ixprana Chemical Co along with Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and Boschee's German Syrup. The pieces tout quick cures for dyspepsia liver complaints rheumatic pain cough and throat lung diseases with sample bottles offered and broad assurances of satisfaction refunds.
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Boschee
United States
Canada
Simmons Liver Regulator promoted as pure vegetable family medicine
The advertisement touts Simmons Liver Regulator as entirely vegetable and the purest family remedy. It claims no administration errors, no exposure risk, and no time lost. It promotes preventive use and claims quick cures across ordinary diseases.
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Simmons Liver Regulator
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