Office seekers crowd Washington for consul posts and piteous pleas
The piece depicts chaotic Washington scenes as hopeful office seekers travel from New York and the West to lobby President Cleveland. They plead for consulships and foreign posts, many years of income, while hotels and the State Department corridors fill with plans, tears, and shifting allegiances in a vivid chorus of ambition.
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Cleveland
White House
Fivo
Arlington Hotel
Washington
Traany & Man
State Department
Ori
Consular Bureau
Moses
Executive Mansion
Tamatav
Madagascar
Elsmer Hotel
Palmer
Water Wellman
Interview with General Eckert of Western Union Telegraph
New Work March 20 Special correspondence profiles General Thas T Eckert newly elected president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The article traces his Civil War service, rise from operator to superintendent, and his pivotal role in building telegraph networks and the company’s growth. It notes early wages, war work, development of money orders, and Eckert’s long tenure in civil life as a telegraph leader.
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theWestern Union Telegraph Company
Spondence
Thas T. Eckert
Western Union Telegraph Pany
Ecuer T. Unionrmy
McClellan
Stanton
Columbiana
Ohio
Cert
Eckert
United States
Western Union
General Eckert
Ghi
Coursi
Orse
Wooster
Telegraph Company
Mississippi
Pittsburg
Chicago
North
Emory Cobb
Epward N. Vallandigham
Remedy Promises Cure for Kidney Disease Warning
A medical notice urges citizens to heed warning signs of kidney disease and promote Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a cure. It cites back pain, poor blood circulation, and urine sediment as symptoms and claims the remedy purges poison from blood to restore kidney function. The piece notes Oscar Lambert of Jerico as a recovered case featured in newspapers.
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Nature
David Kennedy
Oscar Lambert
Jerico
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Menb Forse
Address Seed Co
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Saiiza Warren Pa
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Brown & Friend
Henry Friend
A. Weiss
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Warren, Pa
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A. F. Sawhill
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Patent Office
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