Well-to-Do Riders Steal Fares for Pure Thrill on Streetcars
A Chicago Times article recounts conductors describing fare-cheating on West Madison Street cars. It profiles a well-dressed man who insists he already paid, a self-satisfied old maid who maligned a conductor, and a fleet of fare-dodgers from stout figures to a clever young girl who feigns payment with blue eyes and a wallet of thick greenbacks. The piece argues many riders ride for excitement rather than need, while workers fear complaints and job loss if they punish offenders.
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Madison
Ada Street
Ann Street
Chicago Times
True History of the Brave Boy with a Plum Plunder
A Troy Times tale recounts a Boston‑developed method to prevent boiler explosions by keeping water cool. The legendary Jack Horner is linked to a monastery deed heist while delivering a pie to London. The piece questions whether he earned the nursery’s good boy title and notes the boiler cooling claim in the same column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Horner
Henry VIII
Mel
Horner
London
Mells Abbey
Jack
Troy Times
Boston
Stealing a State How Bourbons Took WV Governorship
A Sioux City Journal critique alleging Democratic manipulation, fraud, and a legislative conspiracy to overturn General Goff’s election as West Virginia governor. The piece argues the scheme involved a joint ballot majority, a counting commission, and vote suppression across counties, concluding with calls for West Virginia to become a Republican state and a warning of a Solid South split.
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West Virginia
General Goff
Democratic Party
Goff
Sioux City
Mahone and Foraker Two Great 1889 Campaigns
The piece argues that General Mahone in Virginia and Governor Foraker in Ohio will lead decisive 1889 political fights. It highlights Mahone’s platform of fair ballots, debt settlement, public schools, and industrial growth, and notes Ohio’s clear path for a Republican win and a Republican Legislature to choose a successor to Senator Payne, with broader implications for national party strength.
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New South
David B. Hill
Virginia
Ohio
General Mahone
Foraker
Cleveland
Rep. Dem. Maj
Mahone
Payne
Ohio Legislature Contest Shapes Presidential Vote
The Ohio Legislature battle returns, influential but quiet power plays shift control after a presidential contest. A United States Senate seat emerges as a central factor, drawing public attention to its impact on the election and the lawmakers involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
United States
N. Y
Pensions for Veterans Call for Union in G A R
In his annual address Commander-in-Chief Major Warner urges a liberal pension policy for Grand Army of the Republic veterans. He calls for unity to push pension and legislation, predicts service pensions and broad coverage for disabled veterans and widows. He argues fiscal gratitude and equal claims with bondholders. The Minneapolis Tribune notes his stance.
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Warner
Union of Action
Grand Army of the Republic
Union Army
Navy
Minneapolis Tribune
Pension Commissioner Tanner Endorsed by Grand Army
The National encampment of the Grand Army unanimously expressed confidence in James Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions. They endorsed the administration, Tanner’s integrity, and his efforts to uphold veterans’ laws, while calling for a full investigation of the Pension Bureau. Democratic critics were urged to abandon attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army
Corporal Tanner
Tanner
Harrison
James Tanner
Pension Bureau
Carpers
Chicago Inter Ocean
Notes and Comments on Political Feels and Pensions
A compilation of editorial comments from various newspapers critiquing Democratic hopes in Montana and national politics. It includes shots at the ballot law, officer appointments, soldiers’ pensions, and partisan stances from the St Louis Globe-Democrat Chicago Journal Boston Traveller and others, with references to Virginia Ohio and national unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Chicago Journal
Boston
keThe
Virginia
Ohio
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Tanner
Lincoln
Stanton
Grant
Minneapolis Tribune
The Mississippi Republicans in Jackson Convention
The Mississippi Republicans boast that the Jackson convention was the largest and most public-spirited in years. Despite a large Republican majority, Democrats say no state nominations have been allowed for eight years. The piece urges nominations this fall as a protest against injustice, fraud, and violence and argues Republicans should fight rather than abandon the field.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Chicago Tribune
Inscribed Legends On Elkhart Soldier's Monument
The sides of Elkhart Indiana's new soldiers' monument bear quotes from Lincoln Garfield Grant Logan Morgan and others. The lines praise unity service duty and national destiny with mentions of God Washing ton and a noble citizen soldier as ideals.
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Elkhart
Ind
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
James A. Garfield
United States
Ulysses S. Grant
Oliver P. Mogron
John A. Logan
Minneapolis Journal
Empress Tsze Chi's Quiet Power Reshapes China
Saturday Review lauds Empress Tsze Chi for stabilizing the realm and modernizing China. It notes reduced chaos from famine and revolt, a stronger treasury, disciplined militia, and a Kashgar province under Chinese rule, with ambassadors respected in Europe, while Europe remains unaware of her name.
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Mantheon
China
Tsze Chi
Mussulman
Kashgar
Russia
Kaldja
France
Tonquin
Europe
Pekin
Far East
Saturday Review
Essentials for a well stocked toilet table from Hall's Journal of Health
A sensible girl should keep glass bottles of alcohol alum camphor borax ammonia and glycerine or vaseline. Camphor water cleanses mouth. Alum soothes fever sores. Alcohol treats skin eruptions. Tepid alumin relieves sweaty hands and feet with traces of sulphuric acid. Prefer glycerine or honey soap and white castile for hair washing. borax or ammonia can be harsh.
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Hall
Journal of Health
Pigs Killed by a Turtle Near Beatrice Neb
A Beatrice Nebraska paper reports a huge turtle killed thirty pigs along Indian creek four miles north of Beatrice. The beast, nearly two feet across the back with a head as large as a man’s, was seen by a hired hand carrying a pig. the pig was killed and eaten before the creature was slain.
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Beatrice
F. M. Pethoud
Indian Creek
London Saloonkeepers andClosing Hours Enforcement
A summary of London’s closing hour enforcement describes police patrols and the call of Time at the hour, with cafes and saloons stopping service by 11 30 pm on Saturdays to avoid transgression. It notes Baltimore Vermont as a small town perched on Hawks Nest, with 76 residents in 1880 and only about a dozen voters, plus a Kansas woman in Trenton who seized four neighbors’ children.
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London
Baltimore
United States
Hawks’ Nest
Cavendish
Home and Farm Tips From a Historic Agrarian Page
Rural advice on setting fruit trees for yard free range poultry, preserving apples, stewed cucumbers with ham fat on toast, and opinions favoring draft horses for market. Cultivation tips stress early plowing, manure incorporation, soil drainage, and insect control with caterpillars threatening orchard profitability.
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Hamilton
Use of Manures A Vigorous Protest on Fertilizers
A Breeders' Gazette excerpt quotes Prof. Roberts of the Cornell Experiment Station arguing for fall spreading of barnyard manure. He cautions against washing away fertilizer and urges thorough, seasonal use to renew exhausted soils in both East and West. He warns that soil fertility declines with continual cropping and stresses manure as the profitable remedy.
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P. Roberts
Cornell Experiment Station
Nature
Roberts
Tamping Fence Posts for Efficient Fence Building
A Farmers' Review correspondent argues tamping all posts is largely unnecessary. He describes a method using a slanted front hole and solid bottom setting, with the post deemed firm after drainage and seasonal thaw. He claims one third less time is required and similar stability results.
Glazing Butter for Market Aids Freshness in Germany
A German technique called glazing coats butter with a sugar water glaze after washing and resting. Butter is formed into pounds, moistened with sugar syrup, then brushed on to form a protective, airproof surface. It may preserve freshness, though risk to stock remains if overused.
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Germany
Dairymaan
Monon Route to Feature Velvet Vestibule Sleepers
Pullman Reed. to outfit Chicago and Cincinnati line with new velvet vestibule sleepers finished in mahogany and pale blue plush. The Monon will run four solid trains with dining and drawing room sleepers starting October 1, all lit by electricity from storage batteries and heated by steam to prevent fires. From September 1 Chicago rates: Louisville or New Albany single $4.00, round trip $7.60. From September 2 Cincinnati rate $4.00, round trip $7.00. Tickets at 74 Clark Street and other Chicago depots. Also notes colleges needing millions despite recent gifts.
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Monon
Pullman Reed
Chicago
Cincinnati
Pullman
Coeeruiee
Pullman Company
Chicago & Cincinnati
Louisville
New Albany
Clark Street
Palmer House
Grand Pacific
Depot
Dearborn Station
Faces of Fortune and New Car Lighting Advances
A faded portrait of a once beautiful woman urged Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for relief from a common female ailment. The piece notes a guarantee and druggist sales. It then surveys railway progress with gas lighting in passenger cars, praising Wagner Palace Car Company and New York Central. An Austrian botanist links double flowers to mite parasites.
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Wagner Palace Car Company
New York Central & Hudson Iver Railroad Company
New York City
New York
Chicago
Rome
N. Y
Sentinel
Vigor, soap, and curiosities in an 1890s column
A collage of health quackery and household tips cites Hostetter’s Bitters as a tonic for endurance, notes Dotson’s Electric Soap instructions, mentions Beeswax use in lathing, warns about careful heating, and records oddities such as a gooseberry bush and a Georgia hen’s gizzard contents. The piece blends ads and miscellany with dated references.
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Tempora Mutantur
Ladd
Belle
Walter
Lippincott's
Ee Mahone and
Pensions For Veterans
Tanner Indorsed
The
Mississippi Republicans
Empress Tsze Chi
Celestial Kingdom
Trenton
Kas
Rumpf
TuHerm
Paris
Yale College
Harvard
Columbia College
Dr. Pierce
India
Prof
Peyritsch
Monroe County
Cautrornia
Georgia
North Carolina
Carter
Johnsbury, VI
Court House Yard
Glenn
Hill
Callifornia
Louisville & Nashville Road Company
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississip Morida
Connectin
C. P. Atmore
Gen'l Pass
Cross
N. W
Clarts Street
Saranpartita
Bradfields
Spain
Ghent Vancer
Deed Reguia TR
Atlanta
L’art de la Mide
NEW _ FORK
Morse
East 19Th &T
Tutt
Missouri
J. M. Sander
Goodlet
Springfield
Wu Guopter
Billings
Groner
Purdy
Frost
Caile
J Seamas
Iroffville
Gatarrh
ELY Bros
Warren
Agres Land
Minaissippi
Fielk
Aamalm F Yst CO
the & Ohio R. R
G. W. King
ALG. Psalm
Mobile
Ala
Tnlon College of Law
Chicaum
Wall
Porctremiar
Booth
Tail
Circe Taneece Wayvant
Buffalo
X.Y
Bkos
Janesville
Wis
Sidi
Main St
Richmond
Vaise
Siamp
P.O
Phila
Bouton
Mans
Ron Ticulars
Sam
Struette
Our Secret
Gran van
BurbeauCo
Arceade
Cir Sincinnati
Figarre
Johnstown
W. T. Pitzard
Washington, D.C
No Knife, Book Co
Drs. Gratignay & Bush
Elm Street
N.Y
Reet 'Ewis
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