The Hustler Spirit in American Public Life
A critical look at the rise of the political hustler tied to presidential campaigns. The piece traces the hustler’s quick appearance, sale of campaign wares, and rapid fade after excitement subsides, noting his bias, methods, and ubiquity in Chestnut Street lore. It also recalls hustler wit and the Grant death period as moments used for profit.
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Jonah
Des
Salt River
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Chestnut Street
Gen. Grant
Nationalean
America
Philadelphia News
Hubert Collyer On Dyspepsia
Hubert Collyer recalls his father’s $4.50 weekly income to support a large family. He notes scarce cheap provisions and limited schooling, with mother keeping the family stable despite hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Collyer
Witty elders and learned parlor talk in a Boston Transcript excerpt
A bored youth endures an elderly gentleman’s pretentious trivia about Creser Semiramide and Peter the Hermit while young ladies giggle. The scene ends with the youth leaving in frustration as the old man rhapsodizes about knowledge. A second note from Dr Foote’s Health Monthly advises drinking plenty of water to prevent kidney and bladder stone formation and to keep bodily secretions balanced.
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Creser
Rubicon
Peter the Hermit
Semiramide
Civsar
Boston Transcript
The Borrowed Horse and the Friar’s Fearful Ride
Tachyhippodamia recounts a Mexico tale where a gentle horse is lent to a friar who, in disguise, is whipped into pretending the animal is possessed. The hoax spooks the friar into fleeing to church for holy water, while the horse stays calm. Another line notes the saying that a politician with a good cook strengthens his party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Cuernavaca
I. J. Pellow
The Kind He Wanted
A humorous court scene in which a drunken prisoner is fined $25 but asks for tobacco before leaving. The judge, amused, consents to a par ticular request and reduces the fine to $10 after the prisoner requests his preferred tobacco, a fine cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Medical ads praise cures and tonics in 19th century panoply
An amalgam of patent medicines and pamphlet offers promotes cancer cures, cod liver oil brands, bitters for travelers, and arthritis remedies. It touts World’s Dispensary Association, Caswell Haz ard, and Athlophoros with testimonials and prices, plus shoe stiffeners and catarrh remedies.
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World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Architect's Assistant Praises St Jacobs Oil For Rheumatism
Mr. Edward Sidel, chief assistant to the Exposition Buildings architect in New Orleans, states he used St Jacobs Oil with the best effect in a severe rheumatic case and recommends it as the quickest and most certain remedy for others similarly afflicted.
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Edward Sidel
New Orleans
Honor to Mothers and a Buffalo Medical Note
A nostalgic tribute urges honoring mothers with devotion as Beecher’s quote and family care. The Sun cites Mr. Wm Ryder of 87 Jefferson Street Buffalo New York who suffered long leg abscesses for twenty years and credits Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery with curing him.
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Ile
Henry Ward Beecher
Wm. Ryder
Jefferson Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Mr. Ryder
Inconsistent Bits From a Dark Corner
A hodgepodge of quips and ads shows snippets about a man abusing a mule to keep his hand in, a father praising his law-trained son-in-law, a tonic called Prickly Ash Bitters, a joke about an extended table, a skin cream, and a pitch for The Chicago Ledger with war memories and stories priced at $1.50 yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Ledger
Wranklin Street
Good for Man and Beast Army and Navy Liniment Ad
An advertisement touts Army and Navy Liniment as a fast cure for rheumatism neurakrin or croup and notes it is carried by all druggists with a reference to seeing the next issue for more details.
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Cincinnati Commercial
Jaen Star
Thade
Mark
Charles A. Vogeler
Baltimore
Maryland
Germay
Fom
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
New York
Boston Star
Boston Beacon
W. B. King
Lafayette
Indiana
Lyon’s
Perry Davis
C. E. DePuy
Ph. G
Detroit
Mich
HOS & Malt Bitters CO
Mick
Weaver Organ & Piano Coo
York, Pa
Elec Graphy Jaber
WriteValentine Bros
Jansville, Wis
P.O
National Co
N.Y Y
Riv
J.F. Seaman
Norwich
N.Y
Piso
Syracuse Bolt Company
Syracuse
Eainn Dee Macarmur
Newplan
Ussape
HOTTY
F&£ Co
State St
Chicago
Ella Smith
Foster Street
Springfield
Atitlophoros
Wall
York
Arene Renee
Titane
Is Courtey
Oor
Leaveny
Jpre
Sburg Vermors
Bear Lake Paul
A Atta Ie
Albert Lea
Iso
Avison
E.st Llouis
Rend, HeNally
A. Engrs, c
Chicaco
Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Atlantic
Pacific
Rock Island
Chitroliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peria
Geneseo
Moline
Ilinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Wiston
Fairfield Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
West Liberty
Iowa City
Des H’oines
Indianola
Winterset
Knoxville
Audubon
Harlan
Guthrie Centre
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Gallatin
Trenton
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworth and Atchison
Kansas
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Dakota
Euinte
Uion
Missouri River
Atchison
Estos
Interior
Seneca and
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lakers
United States
Canada
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
Sambo
Jis
Dr. Bage
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
ST. Louis
Viyscas
I. A. McDonald di
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Washington
Frazer
H. H. Green
Amos Te Vay
Jonny Sieder
Atlanta
M. VW
Dunehlam Wayne
du Page Co
France
Persheren
Rahce
Boo
Wayne, Ills
Chicago & North-Western
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Warren Paint Co
Warren
Ohio
ANTEC
Standard Silverware Co
Boston
Mass
ANSAS
Genelgrans
Grant
Rev
Drewman
Col.Burr
National Publishing Co
Chicago, DL
R. U. Aware
Lorillard’s Climast
Beart Ared
Lorillard
Nat Loans Navy gaCline Nee
Uality Sonata Aeanus
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