Lodge bill mischaracterized as force bill in Democratic press
The piece defends Henry Cabot Lodge’s bill titled An act to supplement and amend the elections laws of the United States. It argues federal election supervisors will protect voters without opposing state inspectors. It rejects claims of military use at polls and urges readers to seek a fair synopsis while condemning Democratic opposition as brazen lying and aligned with anti black rights. It cites historical Democratic opposition to wartime measures and reconstruction. It also presents Georgia political figures and farmer advocacy, urging justice and equity for rural voters amid national disputes.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
House of Representatives
Massachusetts
United States
Posse Comitatus
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Republic
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Southeast
Thasef Ananias
N. Y
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Toledo
Barnum
Peoria Transcript
Iowa State Journal
Appomattox
South
Arkansas
James G. Blaine
Grant
Arthur
Cleveland Leader
North
Indianapolis Journal
Marsh” Cook
Mississippi
Chicago Journal
Lawless Democrats and the Lodge Election Bill
A New York Tribune correspondent argues the Lodge federal election bill is needed by Southern voters amid South Carolina elite pressure on Tillman and Livingston. The piece notes threats and inflammatory rhetoric, cites reactions from Chicago papers, and contrasts Northern and Southern attitudes toward federal oversight and party power.
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New York Tribune
United States Senate
South Carolina
Benjamin Tillman
Colquitt, Brown and Gordon
Leonidas F. Livingston
Conyers
Rockdale County
Georgia State Farmers’ Alliance
Tillman
Congress
Livingston
John D Stewart
Georgia
Breckinridge Ousted in Arkansas Election Controversy
The House Elections Committee reports that C. R. Breckinridge was not duly elected to Arkansas’s Second District and that John M. Clayton, the actual winner, was murdered amid efforts to conceal ballot-box thefts. Four additional murders followed as investigators probed the fraud, with calls for safeguards while critics decry force bills as a cover for political violence.
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House Committee On Elections
C. R. Breckinridge
Arkansas
John M. Clayton
Breckinridge
Clayton
Congress
Smith
George Bentley
Benjamin
Second
Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Waiter Girl A Romance From Real Life
A middle aged gentleman at a metropolitan station leaves a pocket-book after a brief drink. A pretty waitress keeps it safe and verifies its contents. He offers schooling and marriage, and the pair wed, living happily ever after.
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Walbrook
Ice Man Killed by Sudden Shock in Detroit Office
The Detroit Free Press reports a dramatic incident at an ice office where a man, confronted with a claim of overcharged ice, collapsed and died from the shock. The article depicts a heated exchange over supposed deficits and inflated weights, ending with the ice man’s fatal collapse.
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Detroit
Mackeral
Detroit Free Press
Proverbial Straw Ends in Tragic Domestic Scene
A tearful woman rushes into an uptown station house describing that her husband cut his throat in a newly furnished parlor, his blood staining the Moquette carpet. she vents at the end that it would have been better if he had chosen the garret. Judge.
What Clara's Caller Stole
A dialogue scene from the Boston Herald features Clara and Bobby at the breakfast table debating whether Mr. Spooner took umbrellas or hats from the hall last night. Bobby recalls his suspicion after hearing a remark about stealing one item as he left.
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Clara
Bobby
Beggs and Foggs Joke From Myngs Weekly
A quip notes Mrs Jaggs blocking her husband employing a female typewriter operator. Foggs counters that she was his former operator, implying workplace irony in a Myngs Weekly styled joke.
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Beggs
Instantaneous Butter-Maker by Dr De Laval to Save Butter
The London Agricultural Gazette reports Sweden's Dr De Laval unveils an Instantaneous Butter-Maker at the Plymouth Royal Agricultural Society meeting. The device combines a Laval steam turbine separator with a churn, producing granular butter with minimal buttermilk and automatic operation using steam power.
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London Agricultural Gazette
de’ Laval
Sweden
Plymouth
Royal Agricultural Society
Dairy Supply Company, Limited
Museum Street
London
Laval
British Dairy Farmers’ Association
Royal Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society
Domestic tips and home remedies from historic periodicals
A collection of household hints covers stain removal with lemon salts, preserving butter odorless in fridges, and disinfecting sinks with washing soda. It also describes a veterinary sweating box, simple recipes like Cocoanut Jumbles and Chicken Cream Soup, and notes on decorating with pictures.
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Boston
Boston Globe
Among the Aristocracy and Royal Estates Detailed
The article notes Princess Victoria of Prussia’s wedding rail being crafted at Silesian lace schools in Hirschberger Thal. It claims Czar Alexander II owns 50,000,000 acres in Russia, a land area rivaling France, and Kaiser Wilhelm II bought an estate near Metz to connect annexed provinces with old German families. BisMarck’s bedroom is stark with three items, a washstand, camp bed, bootjack, and formerly hair brushes.
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Prussia
Hirschberger Thal
Silesia
Russia
Alexander Iit
France
Wililiam
Germany
Metz
Malaria antidote praised by Rochester man
Letter from W W Monros of Rochester Pennsylvania lauds A T Shallenberger’s malaria antidote. He claims it cured his son after malaria and outperformed more than five hundred dollars of other medicines. He also notes a neighbor was cured quickly.
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A. T. Shallenberger
Rochester
Florida
W. W. Monros
The Counterfeiter Who Copies Uncle Sam’s Notes Revealed
A writer in Farm and Fireside extols heavy mulching and ground maturation for orchard vitality while a Washington Star report details the era’s most elusive counterfeiter. The pen drawn forgeries appear as fifties or twenties, produced every six months, traveling to new cities to avoid detection, baffling Secret Service agents.
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Duchess of Oldenburg
Washington Star
United States Secret Service
Treasury
Secret Service Bureau
Living Microscope Helps Birmingham Man See Life
John Thomas Helsop of Birmingham, England, is famed as a living microscope for his unusual sight and ability to discern animal life in water. He reportedly avoids drinking water due to his exceptional vision.
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John Thomas Helsop
Birmingham
Eng
Ben Johnsons Pun Suggests Health Debate
The item contrasts life and illness with a double-edged pun referencing Ben Johnson. It extols Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a mild, painless remedy that strengthens the system, noting one pellet suffices though a vial costs 25 cents.
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Ben Johnson
Mallock
Mild Catarrh Remedy Ad by Dr Sage
An old time advertisement promotes Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy described as mild gentle soothing and healing offered for sale at fifty cents.
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Broysov
Bronson Chemical CO
Providence
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