Blaine Addresses Nomination Acceptance From Augusta
The text presents Blaine’s July 15 1884 letter accepting the Republican presidential nomination. It covers tariff and protectionist policy, national revenue, employment, internal and foreign commerce, agriculture, labor, and civil service reform, with emphasis on maintaining protection, expanding the home market, and fair arbitration in foreign affairs.
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Augusta
John B. Henderson
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Congress
House of Representatives
United States
America
Lincoln
New York
Europe
Alexander Hamilton
Treasury Department
Free Labor of
China
Republic
List of successful and unsuccessful presidential candidates
The document lists candidates across states with success status. It includes John Adams, Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James A. Garfield, Franklin Pierce, Thomas Jefferson, John C. Fremont, Stephen A. Douglas, Winfield Scott, Horatio Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden, and others, noting terms and regions such as Massachusetts New York Ohio Virginia Tennessee and Illinois. It reflects historic party listings and election outcomes for multiple races.
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Drew Jackson
Crawford
Henry Clay
Adams
Keh.tucky
von H. Hayris¢in
Martin van Buren
New York
Michigan
Winfield Scott
John C. Fremont
South Carolina
von E. Be'l
John C. Breckinridge
Kentucky
Stephen A. Doug
Illinois
George B. McClella
New Jersey
Bornie Greeley
Nic Horatio Seymour
Samuel J. Tilden
W. 8. Hancock
Pensylvania
Defaulter Pedder Under Embezzlement Rumors at Arnolds Onstable
New York telegram reports alleged embezzlements by confidant Henry C. Pedder of Arnolds Onstable & Co. Pedder, recently arrived from Hyrope aboard the Servia, is said to have shifted firm members and built a lavish Llewellyn Park New Jersey home valued at $200,000 with $75,000 interior spend. defalcation estimates range from $200,000 to $600,000.
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New York Telegram
Arnoldsonstable & Co
Henry C. Pedda
Busi
Fedder
Peder
Hyrope
Servia
Llewellyn Park
N. J
Pedder
Taai
Mourain
Hutch
Ager
Rare HASE SPRAGUE Mystery Reported in Paris and New York
Fragmentary clippings mention an alleged figure named Hase Sprague in Paris with pain and a fink label, a reference to a free ice water tank in New York, and vague notes about 1200 pounds of ice and a 10000 dollar parure of diamonds. Other garbled items reference the Grand Duke Sergis and Milo/Bilton without clear context.
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Paris
New York
Englishman survives brutal ride after ranch abuse
Henry Burbank, a 34 year old Englishman, recounts being captured by Thomas Wilson in Northwestern Nebraska. Bound naked on a bronco and lashed for seven days, he endured extreme hardship before rescue. Burbank plans retaliation with support from M. Byussaud and local cattle interests.
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Omfha
Chicago Herald
M. Byussaud
Nebraska
Boussaud
Omaha
Henry Burbank
Falmouth
England
Thomas Wilson
America
Wilson
Burbank
Land
Ogallala Tand‘and Cattle Company
Boiler Explosion Kills and Injures Mill Workers
A boiler explosion at a mill near Arrodsburg in Bloomington County Ohio instantly killed Wesley Cater head engineer and severely injured several others including his son Billy, John Reed, Billy Graves and John Foddrill. Neighbors heard the blast and rushed to the scene as heavy timbers and boiler fragments scattered for hundreds of feet.
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Bloomington
Ind
Arrodsburg
Stally
Wesley Cater
Carter
Billy Graves
John Reed
Collins
John Foddrill
Calahan
Mob Attacks Owensboro Jail Executes Hanging After Outrage
An armed mob overran the County Jail in Owensboro Kentucky killing jailer W J Lucas and hanging Richard May a Black man in the courthouse yard. The assault left the jail badly damaged and sparked fear of further mob action against Miss Kelly’s family.
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Owensboro
W. J. Lucas
Thomas
Lucas
Tom Lucas
May
Court House Yard
Indiana
Court House
Kelly
Patchy News Snippets Across Regions
The item lists varied notes from Cleveland Presbyterians to Delaware peach crops and a New York theater worker’s low production rate. It mentions an English debate over the American term mugwump and a Chinese gambler in Portland who died leaving 15000 dollars and a will for a grand funeral in the old country. A Calaveras claim of a horned fish with rattles closes the fragment.
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Cleveland
Delaware
Portland
Ore
Old Country
New York
Cholera Cases Spike Across Europe and London
A Paris dispatch reports three cholera cases yesterday with one fatality as heat drives deserted streets. Marseilles records seventy-two deaths in 24 hours amid rising virulence. Toulon mayor struck by the plague. authorities quarantine ports and seek Swiss exclusion measures. London and Washington dispatches outline stricter health checks and refusal of clean bills of health for ships from affected ports.
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Paris
Toulon
Marseilles
Koch
Berne
Switzerland
Austria
Porte
Turkey
Odessa
Russia
Mediterranean
London
Edwin A. Merritt
United States
Liverpool
Washington Dispatch
Frelinghuysen
Havre
Bordeaux
Bremen
Hamburg
Oddities and notices from scattered places
Clippings describe a Pittsburg ordinance against hand-organs, California ostrich eggs at 1200 a dozen, Dublin's Lord Mayor as a saloon keeper, Staten Island turtle battles, a hailstorm in Tiflis with large stones, Horty lives lost and 70 houses ruined, Chilean papers noting Don Jose Miguel Herrera's 122nd birthday claim, a Greenwood Maine woman teething for the fourth time.
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Pittsburgh
California
Dublin
Staten Island
Tiflis
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Blaine
Reese
Ferce
Manhattan
Massachusetts
Iowa
New Jereey
West
South
India
Western Hemisphere
North
South America
Garfield
Goa
Hamerican
Queliches
Civitaervign
Siti
Executive Department
Dea
West Point
Department of
Bia
Legisla
Blaini
Washington
John
Alias Et J Saxon, Vir
Mymas Jefferson
Virginia
Maske
Soar
Main van Siren
Eenreer Behetcae Eee
Pve
Harriabn
Janes Polk
Tennés- Bavary
Ilingis
Abraham Lincoln
Tilinois
Ulysses
Grant
James A. Garfield
Oho
Thomas Jeffersio
John Adams
Charles C. Pificka
Charles C. Pinckiig
Witt Clinton
Rufus ii
York
New Orleans
Ex Logi
Sergis
Fie
Joba
Milton Ee
Pel Dat
Milo
P Biilton
Owensboro, Ky
France
Jose Miguel Herrera
Talca
Santiago
Greenwood
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