Republican platform reports twenty one years of Union victory
Zar Wert Bulletin summarizes Republican success since 1860s war. It credits suppressing rebellion, ending slavery, stabilizing currency and debt, expanding railways and trade, and paying pensions. It outlines principles for preserving liberty, federal power, education, religion, labor, immigration, and civil service reform under Hayes.
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Republican Party
U. S
Congress
The
Confederate States
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Maine
United States
Hayes
Legislative
Executive Department
Republican Conventions Resolutions Endorse Education and Security
A compilation of Republican Party resolutions urging national public school expansion funded by general taxation, protection of citizen rights, and defense of election integrity. It praises Hayes and John Sherman, calls for sound currency, and supports Sherman’s presidential nomination at Chicago.
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United States
Congress
Democratic Party
John Sherman
Republican Party
Ohio
South
Republican Arty
Reblican Party
Republican Convention
Chicago
President Hayes
Kodae
Repugans
The Gambler and a Ring of Fate
Leadville Chronicle recounts a renowned gambler who quits after a fateful night at a high stakes game. A young stranger loses heavily, offers a diamond ring and a watch chain, then dies amid his reverses. The ring, given by the boy's deceased mother, is revealed in court as a moral turning point.
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Leadville
Col
Pacific Coast
West
Tve
Chestnut cultivation urged to boost Ohio crop value
The Ohio State Journal touts the chestnut as vital to Ohio agriculture, noting its comparison to wheat, a potential $60,000 Ohio crop value, and a plan to expand to $20,000,000 within twenty years. It explains soil suitability, ideal planting methods, and vermin protection to grow groves effectively.
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Ohio State Journal
Italy
Spain
Europe
Asia
Ohio
Acre
Coughing Wit Scoffs At Pain In Sleep
An exchange describes Hood’s health with a quip about coughs and sleepless practice. A Brooklyn teacher asks about the patriarchal job, and a boy answers calmly that he is dead, noting no appeal was made.
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Brooklyn
Kentucky Picnic From the New York Times
A dispatch follows Kentucky’s bloody record with a Kentucky picnic where youths armed with revolvers shoot during a gathering. Two killed and several wounded follow a shooting match, while Sadie White’s suicide near Richmond shocks the state. The piece contrasts regional views of “picnic” meaning violence and frames Kentucky as endlessly violent.
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New York Times
Kentucky
Republic
Sadie White
Richmond
Teieram
Blue Grass
Inventions by Boys Shape Steam and Loom Progress
Extracts recount how a boy improved steam engine valve control leading to automatic operation and a self-made loom from a farm boy’s jackknife. Wade Hampton's 1875 speech urges Southern duty, education for future generations, and a push to publish Confederate history.
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Watts
New York Dispatch Reports Journalists and Political Talks
The writer cites Mr. Murphy an Irish Catholic Republican who prefers Hancock but will vote Garfield to avoid reopening old questions. He notes a tariff threat against Hancock and a 20 cent paper duty dispute with England underselling U S paper mills. General Ketchum praises New York moving toward a Republican turnout before a presidential election.
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New York Dispatch
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dem
Murphy
Hancock
Garfield
Congress
South
England
Ketchum
Poughkeepsie
New York
Fresh European Baron Takes Erie Bride to Run Butcher Shop
A 24-year-old baron from German nobility arrived in Erie Pennsylvania with an American friend after Europe. He returned with thalers and parental consent to marry a local belle. The wedding nears as the couple plans to stay in Erie and open a first-class butcher shop with the bride’s brother.
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Erie
Europe
Old Country
Eric
Circus Shooting Ends Officer at Lancaster
A circus in Lancaster Kentucky featured an Indian scene when many pistols discharged. A young man rose, fired, and killed a policeman. authorities report no clear motive beyond excitement.
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Lancaster
Butler’s Cincinnati Speech Calls for Hanging Rebels
General Butler declared in Cincinnati in 1866 that Southern states and people had no right in the Union except the right to be hanged for their crimes. He urged the President to begin executions and warned to signal when to stop, praising Butler as a reformer.
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the Republic
The
Historical Society
General Butler
Cincinnati
Southern
Union
Butler
Lincoln and Lee echoed on dead soldiers in 1863 and 1880
The report cites Lincoln at Gettysburg in 1863 urging that Union dead not die in vain and Fitzhugh Lee in Portsmouth in 1880 urging voters to honor Confederate dead by backing the Democratic ticket, tying a future victory to their sacrifices.
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Prussia
France
Napoleon
Jena
Frederick
Europe
Waterloo
Paris
Tilsit
Hungary
Austria
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
Fitzhugh Lee
Portsmouth
Maine man reads Globe for thirty six years
A Maine resident has reportedly received and read every issue of the Congressional Globe and Record for thirty six years, earning the description of a walking waste basket due to his habit.
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Maine
Congressional Globe and Record
Climax Salve Promises Quick Healing for Many Ailments
An old ad touts Climax Salve as a 25 cent remedy by Climax, C2es, and Family Blessing that heals sores, ulcers, scrofula, fever sores, eczema, burns, cuts, and other skin diseases on people and animals. It claims twenty five years of use with no failures and features Arnica plus extracts. Sold by druggists nationwide.
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Congress
Republic
Pacific
Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters Promote Health
Advertises Moffat’s Life Pills and Phenix Bitters as world renowned remedies since 1835. Claims pureness of vegetable ingredients, liver and stomach regulation, and cures for malarial diseases, dyspepsia, jaundice, nervous disorders, and fever. Certificates of efficacy cited. products sold by J P Mills at 85 Liberty Street New York and by druggists nationwide.
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Hoffat
J. P. Mills
Liberty Street
New York
Robert J. Culer Well
Culverwell Faedical
Ann St
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Carter
Carter Medicine CO
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Webster & Wise
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