Jeffersons Grief and Damp House Dangers Highlighted
Parton recounts Thomas Jefferson's loss of his wife at Monticello and the enduring sorrow of his family. The article then warns that living in damp houses endangers health, linking habitation to tuberculosis and other ailments with citations of medical authorities and urban mortality.
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Jefferson
Mr. Parton
Marquis de Chastellux
Monticello
Thomas
Martha Jefferson
Mrs. Carr
Ile
Martha
Pittsburg
R. HE. Register
Antiquity in North America Unearthed Through Ancient Mounds
Readable text surveys mound-builders in Michigan Ohio Illinois Wisconsin Nebraska and beyond. It cites copper and stone artifacts, pottery, textiles, and mining remnants, arguing ancient Americans were sophisticated and connected across continents.
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America
Baldwin
Solomon
Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel
Solon
Michigan
Ohio
Finois
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Gulf of Mexico
Missouri River
Mexico
Central America
Adams County
Northwest
Lake Superior
Eas
Grant’s Civil Service Progress and National Recovery Praise
The piece lauds General Grant’s administration noting an efficient civil service, reduced taxes, debt payments, peaceful foreign policy saving frontier costs, and efforts toward reconstruction and national harmony. It asserts these achievements form a solid basis for trust and lasting success despite occasional appointments.
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Grant
Work for Republicans in Van Wert County
The article calls for intense Republican mobilization two working days before the October 8 election. It urges getting out every Republican and anti Greeley voter in Van Wert to ensure a solid turnout, warns Democrats may doubt, and emphasizes not counting on the rival side’s activity.
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Voice of
Ohio
van Wert
Get Out Every Voter in Van Wert County Election
A call urges Republican supporters in Van Wert County to mobilize for the next election. It emphasizes selecting reliable committees in each school district to ensure every Republican vote is counted. The message stresses vigilance and action on the second Tuesday of October.
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McGaffy
van Wert
Greeley Quote Sparks Pro Disunion Talk in 1872 Campaign
The speaker in Pittsburg on September 19 1872 declared I will consent to disunion if the South asks for it. A Stonewall Greeley Club forms in Richmond Virginia. Gratz Brown Temperance Society planned next. Five Kentucky districts show Democratic races. Mississippi county pledges 300 Democrats against Greeley. Maine Liberal candidates all defeated.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Horace Greeley
South
Greeley
Stonewall-Greeley Club
Richmond
Gratz Brown Temperance Society
Chicago Court Tightens Grounds for Divorce
A Circuit Court ruling in Chicago limits divorces to serious causes. The case involved alleged cruelty, but the judge held that mere scolding or pinching without proof of repeated extreme cruelty does not justify divorce. The decision emphasizes that marriage is not etiquette and requires substantial grounds despite human faults.
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Chicago
Circuit Court
Barclay Perkins Brewery Dominates London Market
The Barclay Perkins & Co brewery in London consumes 18 000 bales of hops yearly and produces over 1 000 000 barrels of ale. The site covers twelve acres, valued at 324 000 000 per acre, with 9 000 pounds of hops and 12 500 bushels of malt used daily. The plant holds 172 large tubs and seven seven sisters casks of 3600 barrels each, plus 160 plus 19 hand horses worth seven hundred each.
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Barclay, Perkins & Co
London
Woman Offers Husband for Sewing Machine Swap During Strike
A woman in an English newspaper advertises trading her husband during his strike. She says he is no use to her, that money goes to beer, and that she will swap him for a sewing machine while he remains on strike. The notice mixes humor with marital hardship and labour unrest context.
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Uncle Tom
Tom
Winston Noble
Virginia
Fogland
Fremont
London coffee dealer prosecuted as nuisance in 1657
In 1657 a man was prosecuted in London for selling coffee after it had been introduced, charged as a nuisance and prejudice to the neighborhood. The case reflects early English conflict over new beverage trades and public nuisance claims.
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London
Jewish Times on Palestine Faith and Emigration Trends
The Jewish Times reports waning belief in immediate Zionist pilgrimage among Jews in Palestine. It notes real estate investment rising, sixteen thousand Jews in Palestine with limited means, and a call from four hundred rabbis to omit prayers for the Messiah and temple restoration, as an act of faith denial.
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Palestine
Professor Gratz
J. Levy
Potzin
Gottschalk
Holy Land
the Times
Europe
Israel
Lost husband returns after years to claim his wife
A Lucas County Ohio widow, long believed her husband dead after he vanished eighteen years earlier in Philadelphia, remarries a wealthy neighbor. Her first husband later reappears, reveals a West India voyage and multiple continents, dies in her arms in Newcastle Pennsylvania, and leaves his estate to her children.
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Lucas County
Ohio
Toledo Blade
Philadelphia
Newcastle Pennsylvania
England
Brazil
Globe
Enoch Arden
The Zulu Wives Payable In Cows Law And Customs
A historical notice describes Zulu practices where wives are bought with cows and a government law caps the price at ten cows. It notes past abuses by wealthy traders who bought many young women and forced high payments, and cites a law to prevent such exploitation while courts enforce fair play.
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South Africa
Ee Awry
London English and American words contrasted by a correspondent
A London correspondent notes differences in vocabulary between Britain and America. She lists terms such as railways stations stokers shops tavern porter lager washing mangling haricots corn corn flour tramways jugs and other everyday words that vary by country.
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London
America
England
Uncle Tom origin tale and other varied items
The article recalls the Indiana origin of a figure linked to Uncle Tom and recounts the Noble family’s emancipation tale in Virginia, details a Fremont campaign joke using Uncle Tom’s cabin, and notes unrelated items including a Niagara Falls liquor ad stunt, Sweden’s falling population discussion, a Boston temperance bid, a philosopher’s quip on virtue, and a witty remark about a legal clerk.
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Niagara Falls
In Earnest, Was He Tententively Denying?
A garbled quote references Horace Greeley and a claim about Democrats and horse thieves. The fragment hints at a political jibe without clear context or dates. No verifiable names beyond Greeley are readable.
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Horace Greevey
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James M. Barr
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Frans Sessler
Price & Shissler
SS AT Law
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W. J. Beers
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J. 5. Brumbach
J. Alonzo Gleason
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Horace EB. Wells
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Alonzo W. Baker
Julius A. Gleason
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George W. Alexander
Samuel Miller
Thomas A. Alban
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Labethards & Son
W. A. Buckingham
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Arcade Brock
Bethards & Son
B. F. Shoop
John Strandler
Harness & Saddles
Shoop
Swineford’s
B. E
Shoop’s
Perry Davis
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