Party delegates shift as Watson nomination breaks deadlock
In Venango and surrounding counties, Smiley withdraws after delegates vote for Watson on the first ballot. Emery’s stance and Smiley’s past positions influence the result as Cameron and Venango delegates back Watson. The editorial notes Moody’s defeat and calls for harmony among districts and supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smiley
Watson
Pucey
Emery
Venango
Phil. Times
the Ledger
Hulings
E. E. Clapp
Colbert
Allegheny Mountains
Billingsley
Cameron
Warren
Ed Clapp
Mr. Emery
Col. Watson
McKean
Bradford
Erie Observer
New York Republicans Pick At Large Delegates in Buffalo
The New York State Republican convention held in Buffalo elected Frank Hiscock Warner Miller Chauncey M Depew and Thomas C Platt as delegates at large to the National Convention. They adopted resolutions favoring protection for labor agriculture and manufactures and opposing the Mills bill and Cleveland's free trade stance. A tribute was adopted for Roscoe Conkling. The crowd cheered Blaine over Depew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
Buffalo
Frank Hiscock
Warner Miller
Chauncey M. Depew
Thomas C. Platt
Cleveland
Roscoe Conkling
Cleveland Kinship and Free Trade Speech Spark Debate
Congressman Scott spoke in the House on Free Trade and Mrs. Cleveland listened with noted patience. The text suggests Scott donated $20,000 to assist Cleveland and hints at another large contribution to aid her father figure, labeling her as the clever Cleveland in the family.
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Scott
Cleveland
Blaine Leads With 389 Votes in Chicago Convention
The New York World reports Blaine has 389 first ballot votes in Chicago, 22 short of nomination, with Depew Harrison Phelps Allison Stanford and much of Sherman’s strength drawn from Blaine and set to rebound when needed. We shall see.
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New York World
Blaine
Chicago
Depew
Harrison
Phelps
Allison
Stanford
Sherman
Who Wrote Scott Tariff Speech Questioned
The Ledger notes 400000 copies of Scott tariff speech ordered from the House folding room and asks who authored the speech. The fragment hints at questions about authorship amid the distribution of the document.
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Scott
Derrick
Ledger
Col Watson Praised as Able Congressman by Erie Observer
The Erie Observer asserts Col Watson was an able congressman for this district and notes the people want him returned for faithful service. The statement frames public support as appreciation for his past performance and continued representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic
Erie
Col. Watson
Prohibition Party Aligns With Democrats on Tariffs
Neat Dow asserts the Prohibition party will back the Democrats on tariff policy and questions what issues would split their alliance. The remark frames them as consistently allied with Democratic interests.
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Neat Dow
Prohibition Party
Death of Auditor General Norris in Philadelphia
The death of Auditor General Norris occurred yesterday morning in Philadelphia on May 21. He was 42 years old. His successor will be elected next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
Philadelphia
Tuer Ledger Names New Head From Binghamton Call
The Tuer Ledger appoints a new editor sourced from its preferred Binghamton Call exchange. Readers doubt the switch improves the paper.
Cleveland solid in New York and Midwest floods
A Democratic paper extols Cleveland strength in New York while noting widespread weather issues. A 250 pound man is described as solid, and the upper Mississippi valley is flooded with six inches of snow reported in Michigan last week.
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Cleveland
New York
Mississippi Valley
Michigan
Republican State Convention of New Jersey backs protection
The convention declares for protection of industries with a tariff aimed at that goal. It denounces the Mills bill as pursuing the destruction of most American industries.
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New Jersey
Hon Joan Parton Reminds of Census Copy Obligation
Honorable Joan Parton M D states citizens are required to obtain a copy of the 10th U S Census and fulfill duties tied to the federal enumeration. The message emphasizes public access to census data and civic responsibilities.
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Joan Parton
M. D
U.S
Discriminating Man Rebukes False Statement
In a Pittsburg Times comment a speaker named Scott defends his choice of wording. He insists the claim is false not merely in taste but in exact expression calling it false as hell and asserts his familiarity with the place discussed.
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Scott
Pittsburg
Rail Line Sells One Fare Round Trip Tickets to Major Conventions
The Pennsylvania R R Co will sell tickets at one fare for round trips to Indianapolis for the Prohibition Convention on May 30, to St. Louis for the Democratic Convention on June 5, to Cincinnati for the R of P Supreme Lodge on June 12, and to Chicago for the Republican Convention on June 19. For full information apply to ticket agents at Warren and other stations.
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Pennsylvania R. R. Co
Indianapolis
St. Louis
R. of P. Supreme Lodge
Cincinnati
Chicago
Warren
The Morck Drug Store Sales Pitch for Salve
A medicinal salve offer promises to treat cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with a guaranteed cure or money back. Priced at 25 cents per box and sold at Morck Drug Store.
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Morck Drug Store
Republican advertisement for cheap collectors notices
An offer promotes Every Republican should take the Mail and Phila. Weekly Press for $1.75 and notes Collector's Notices for sale at the Matiz office at a cheap price.
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Mail
Phila
Matiz
As Viewed by Warren Co Tourists Ep Mart
On April 23 John A. Jackson and W. J. Mead left Youngsville for a western trip buying tickets to Grainfield Kansas via Chicago and Kansas City. They visited Russell where Ed Shutt runs a hardware business and later noted Kansas development and irrigation prospects as Western Kansas sees heavy spring rains. They planned to reach Grainfield but weather delayed travel with snow and sleet on April 28.
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John A. Jackson
W. J. Mead
Youngsville
Grainfield
Gore Co
Kansas
Chicago
Kansas City
Ed. Shutt
Brokenstraw
Russell
Trego Co
U. P
Colorado
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Republican
Arkansas
Topeka
Graiitfield
J. B. White
Suppression of gift and lottery schemes in food sales
A call for merchants and consumers to unite against gift and lottery promotions tied to merchandise and food. The piece highlights alum baking powders as dangerous, urging enforcement, health safeguards, and potential new legislation to punish sellers and advertisers and protect the public health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
State Board of Health
Peterson's Magazine Promises New Volume With Fashion and Lit
Peterson's Magazine offers summer fashion coverage engravings and literary content. The first volume of the year closes with praise and a better promise for the new volume. Subscriptions are two dollars annually with club discounts and premiums. Sample copies available at 306 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Pa.
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Peterson
Peterson’s Magazine
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Special Pullman Cars to St Louis for Democratic Convention
The Pullman Car Co will run special cars from Salamanca on the Napano railroad to St Louis on Sunday June 3 to accommodate all attending the Democratic Convention June 5. For rates address F H Garfield Div Passgr Agent Jamestown NY.
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Pullman Car Co
Salamanca
Napano
St. Louis
F.H. Garfield
Passgr
Jamestown
N. Y
See A. A. Davis Co Curtain Poles Ad
A. A. Davis & Co promotes its fine line of curtain poles highlighting quality finishes and sturdy hardware for home decor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. A. Davis & Co
Emperor Frederick’s first postre lapse outing noted
A miscellaneous 19th century clippings summary notes Emperor Frederick’s return drive last Saturday and various political and social items. It references Hainsworth steel gun shipment to Washington from Pittsburgh, Michigan Local-option law struck down, a 10 year old girl elected as Iowa House page, and other political opinions and incidents across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hainsworth
Washington
Pittsburg
Supreme Court
Michigan
Gospel Temperance meetings open in Library Hall week
The W C T U announces a week of Gospel Temperance meetings at Library Hall starting Thursday led by Burdict. A funeral is noted for Clemence Sophia Lozier M D at Central M E church on Sunday. Lozier, dean of New York Medical College for Women, died in her 70s after a career shaping women in medicine and suffrage.
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Burdict
Library Hall
National Woman Suffrage Association
New York City Suffrage League
City Ladies’ Suffray Committee
Universal Peace Union
New York Abolitionists’ Reunion
American Female Guardian Society
Moral Education Society
Lozier
Elizabeth Blackwell
Syracuse College
Wm. Harned
N. Y
N. Y. University
Ezra Cornell
N. Y. City
Charlotte Lozier
A. W. Lozier
Washington
Hayes on Comradeship and the Nation's Debt to Soldiers
Ex President Hayes at the Loyal Legion banquet in Cincinnati recalls the lasting comradeship forged in war. He urges the nation to remember and look after veterans who sacrificed youth and opportunities, noting their debt to the country and the duties owed to them.
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Loyal Legion
Cincinnati
Hayes
Great Mississippi Floods Threaten Quincy Level and Crops
The Mississippi flood reaches record height except 1851 as of May 18. A breach in the Say levee near Hannibal creates a vast inland lake submerging 250000 acres of fields valued with losses around 3 million dollars. Farmers camped upland without food or shelter while livestock starve. Hundreds gather on embankments and buffs in desolate conditions across 40 by 5 miles of flooded valley.
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Mississippi
Quincy
Ill
Say
Hannibal
Mississippi Valley
Seafaring life and a trusted remedy for voyage woes
The piece extols Atlantic travel as stormy yet vital, urging seamen and tourists to brave the sea. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and remedy against seasickness, colicky pains, dyspepsia, liver and kidney troubles, and malaria among emigrants heading west.
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Atlantic
Hostetter
Far West
Dr. Hepburn Opens Warren Medical Office
Dr. Hepburn physician and surgeon formerly of Lewisburg PA has permanently located in Warren. Office at 229 Liberty Street near Third from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM daily or after hours at residence corner of Third and East Streets Southeast.
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Lewisburg
Warren
Hepburn
Liberty Street
Third
S. E. Corner
Third and
East Sts
Warren County Court Clears Liquor Licenses in Boroughs
At June sessions 1888 in Warren county Pennsylvania the Court of Quarter Sessions issued retail and wholesale liquor licenses for Warren Borough Youngsville Borough and Clarendon Borough. Appointments include C W King Carver House George H Leonhart Exchange Hotel Frank Metzgar Revere House Wilhelmina Schwing Eating House John Schmutz Eating House George B Williams Eating House K T Valentine wholesale M Mead wholesale Wade House Edwin Coleman Fairmount House K C Campbell Central House Frank H Cauley Henry House.
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Warren County
Pennsylvania
Warren
C. W. King
Carver House
George H. Leonhart
Exchange Hotel
Frank Metzgar
Revere House
Wilhelmina Schwing
John Schmutz
George B. Williams
K. T. F. Valentine
S&s M. Mead
Youngsville
KE. M. Wade
Wade House
Edwin Coleman
Fairmount House
Court of Common Pleas
Warren Co
Borough of
Pine Grove Township
J. B. Wood
Ivington
Usta
Abel Edick
H. W.J Lane
A. G. Lane
Avery
H. W. Lane
Holland Land Company
John Crippen
Libbey Or Crippen
M. A. York
Samuel Vickers
John Cooney
John F. Vickers
Nherife
Mead
J. M. Clapp
M. D. Archibald
B. F. McClure
G. W. Hardenburg
Recorder’s Office
C. C. Joy
M. Finco
A. Munroe
Mills Warse
Philadelphia and Erie
John Siffin
M. Ruslander
Ruslander
J. W. Porter
H. G. Tinker
James B. Berry
Robert G. Lamberton
J. A. Ritchey
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Warren Mail
James T. Mitchell
Congress
Lewis F. Watson
Assembly
C. C. Thompson
Henry Fuellhart
Tidioute
D. A. Arird
Warren Academy
P. M. Garcelon
Spring Creek
Sterling Green
Kinzua
Cox
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Custom House
United States
England
House of Lords
Ireland
MR. Mason
Hell
Satan
Samuel Sullivan Cox
King
Allen
Sugar Trust
Mills Bill
Blue
Bucklen
Frederick
Iowa House of Representatives
Lebanon Courier
Indiana
Presbyterian General Assembly
Supreme Ecclesiastical Court of the Presbyterian Church In
Union
Dominion
Thomas A. Edison
United States Electric Light Company
Wm. M. Evarts
United States Circuit Court
Walton
Methodist Church
Geauga County
Borneo
Temperance Department
The
Woc. T. U
B. Mayer
Arch St
Johnson’s Exchange
H. Johnson
Davis
Drue Strore
DR. Hepburn
Clarendon Borough
K. C
CG. Campbell
Central House
Frank H. Cauley
Henry House
Columbus Borough
C. A. Blakeslee
Columbus House
J. C. Nuttail
Junction House
Conewango
David Riddlesperger
Corydon Township
Joseph H. Hale
Corydon Hotel
Kinzua Township
T. W. Dempsey
Kinzua House
A. G. Shope
Maple Shade
Pine Grove
Eben Dean
Lane House
Pittsfield Township
William Hathway
Garland Hotel
Sheffield
Jos. Clinton
Lee House
Charles Shaw
Forest House
Do. A. Arird
Proby’s
Manufac
Nished
Seneca St
Buffalo, N. Y
G. B. Webber
Borough of Columbus
Penn
Curtis D. Webber
Corry
Eric Co
John C. Edmondson
Titusville
Crawford Co
J. Dastent
Variety Hall
Warren, Ps
Grand Army of the Republic
Keystone Clothing Company
Clothiers
Taitors
de A
Orphans’ Court
Andrew Johnson
Wm. D. Newman
W. W. Hodges
Thomas Slone
Perry D. Clark
Walter
Alice
Emma Chapman
Margaret Chapman
D. A. Swanson
A. P. Swanson
A. H. McKelvy
Fred H. Brown
Henry W. Brown
C. G. Babcock
G. A. Jackson
O. C. Babcock
H. Briggs
Register. Register’s
R. A. Love
Sheriff's
Heriff
Court House
Columbus
County of
State of
Sample
John Sample
William Sample
David Sample
Webber
Michael Flaherty
Sheriff's Office
Warren, Pa
Brown Brothe
Rochester
N.Y
Albert Eugene Bentley
Warren Co. Libellant, Common Pleas
Alice Bentley
County Court of Common Pleas
R. A. Love, Sheriff
Henry H. Stilson
Libellant
Emily F. Stilson
Sheriff’s Office
W. H. Copeland
First National Bank
Herifef
Sugar Grove Township
William Waters
Loudy MecKelvy
Thos. Thorpe
Aost
Jno
Broughton
James Rookmire
Brookmire
L. McKelvy
Faichney
8. Cottell
E. Barrett
Jos. Kidd
D. Thorpe
James Faichney
Elsie Faichney
James Catlin
May LA
Spirinnnners
Peckham
WM. Spinner
Water St
Diamond Block
Mail Order Department
Boggs&buhl
Federal St
Allegheny, PA
Christian Smitie
Oppositsy First National Bank
Tohn B. Cable
Cable Brother
Travelers Insurance CO
Hartford, Conn
Life and Accident Insurance
Hoffman Block
Warren Savings Bank
F. W. Cook
Fisher Block
T. H. Bines
Stoneham, Pa
L. D. Wetmore
Cashier
Moses
Savings Banke
Scotland
Europe
National Line
Liverpool
Neenstown
Antwerp
Hamburg
Bremenavre
Paris
Gothenburg
Christinia
Copenhagen
Mecher
H. S. Thomas
Wood & Thomas
Third Street
Liberty
Warren, la
Chandler’s Valley
First National Bank of
Benjamin Ellis
Chandier’s Val
Ley
Lee of Frewsburg Chautauqua County
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