Reminiscences of Public Men and Senate Oddities
A historical sketch recounts Secretary Stanton’s inflexible authority and a overturned court martial decision after Senator Trumbull pressed the War Office. It describes Senator Brown, Judge Blair, and Senator McDougall, plus a spring 1876 wave of congressional investigations into Belknap, Emma Mine, Credit Mobilier, and naval affairs. It notes Booth-like scandal talk, and a public debate about gender work ends abruptly with a Brooklyn Times vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanton
Althouch
War Office
Senator Trumbull
Trumbull
Montgomery Blair
Congress
South
Senator Brown
Mississippi
School of the Supreme Court
Hall
Senate
Brown
James S. Rollins
Missouri
Salsbury
Delaware
Blair
Buchanan
Lincoln
Senator McDougall
California
Willard
Don Quixote
Belknap
Post
Emma Mine
Credit Mobilier
Oskes Ames
Washington Asylum
Naval Affairs
Robeson
Washington
Western Union Telegraph Office
Ancient Calix Measured Rome Water Supply Tradition
The piece explains Rome’s calix as a fixed length and diameter measuring water flow in aqueduct pipes. It notes every resident had a legal water quota, measured precisely to control cubic feet per time, and references a mock dialogue about doctors and wares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Henrico
Andromeda
Yala Gazette
Epidemic of Crime and Its Explanations
A Rochester Democrat excerpt discusses crime waves including murders and suicides, attributing causes to insanity heredity and alcohol. Medical authorities link brain fire to digestion and blood purity, urging preventive measures. Warner’s Safe Cure is endorsed as a sovereign remedy by authorities and doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Reeve
Indiana
Ner
Dio Lewis
Rochester
Bold Riders and Relays Across the Frontier
The article recalls famed riders Archibald Forbes and Condie Stephens and highlights Joe Rankin of Rawlins Wyoming Territory, who last rode 160 miles in 24 hours during the Meeker era. Rankin’s endurance ride is framed as a swift, life risking courier feat worthy of royal or London newsrooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Union
America
Archibald Forbes
Ulundi
Condie Stephens
Meshed
Kransnovodsk
London
Forbes
Stephens
Joe Rankin
Rawlins
Major Thornburgh
Meeker
Colorado
Rawins
Carbon County
Wyoming Territory
Misunderstanding About Importing Celery in Texas
Col Spilkins asks why celery must be imported from the North and Gus de Smith jokes about lacking cellars. The exchange turns on purchases and sells, hinting at business sense, with Spilkins unaware he framed a good joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Spilkins
Gus de Smith
Texas Siftings
Red Star Cough Cure Praised By San Francisco Architect
Mr W W Armitage architectural draughtsman of 402 Montgomery Street San Francisco reports a severe cough cured after taking Red Star Cough Cure He says his family also recovered and urges its use in every household drawing on his positive experience as proof of its effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Armitage
Montgomery Street
San Francisco
California
Root Hog or Die Moral From a Windy Tale
A Texas Siftings note recounts a hog with sixth sense foreseeing a cyclone. He built a dug-out quickly and crawled inside to survive the storm, later declaring he would rather be delivered as a whole hog than as sausage scattered by the wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Old Fritz Aphorisms and Patent Medicines Parade
A fragmentary 19th century advertorial collage cites Frederick the Great on facts and parrots claims for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a liver vitalizer curing various ailments. It mentions Grand Union Hotel deals, universal tonics like Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir, and promotional quips about blood impurity, digestions, and salacious mints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great
Pierce
Purveyor of Quack Cures Promises Safe Remedies
An excerpt listing patent medicines and tonics claims to cure biliousness dyspepsia and constipation with Dr Warxner’s Vinegar Bitters and Pleasant Purgative Pellets. It attacks salivation cures from calomel and touts vegetable formulas, urging readers to rely on these remedies rather than dubious treatments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ce’s
Warxzer
Prickly Ash Bitters
Prickly As! Bitters CO
T Louis
Kansas City
Good for Man and Beast Liniment Ad
An advertisement touts Army and Navy Liniment as a fast cure for rheumatism neuralgia or croup and notes sale by all druggists with a note to see the advertisement in the next issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaco
Rock Island & Pacific
Amd
Sandda
Atlantic
Worthwest
Chicoliet
Ottawa
Lae
Peoria
Geneseo
Moline
Rock d
Ilino
Davenport
Uscatine
Aul Gton
Fairfiel Ottumwa
Kkaloosa
Westberry
Lowa
Des Moines
Indianola
Wintersettle
Knoxville
Iennon
Harlan
Guthrie Centre
Council Bus
Ows
Trenton
Cameron
Kansas City
Missouri
Leavenworton
Kansas
Albert Lea
Cotats
Union
Chicago
Basgpurt
Cagoan City
Atchison
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Bush
Iowa
Meansta
Orisis
Interior
Dakota
Seneca
Kankakee
Newport News
Richmond
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Council Bluffs
United States
Canada
R. R. Cable
Hay Fever Relief Promoted by Ely's Dream Balm
Ainsworth and others report Ely's Dream Balm as a preventive for hay fever. A baggage master states it cured him for seven years of symptoms. The note cites a real case of braysin and muscle in a mule from the Boston Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Frank B. Ainsworth
F. B. Ainsworth & CO
Indianapolis
Ind
Ll &S8til RR
Terre Haute
Boston Star
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Ben.perley Poore
James
Robinson Crusoe
Brooks Fenderson
Brooklyn Times
Speirs
J. Black
Mr. , Black
John
Modern Architecture
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Messenger
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
New York
Lowell
Mass
Perry Davis
Deuggists
Dr. Sage
Dr. Sag
York
Boston Post
Mark Star
Charles A. Vogeler
Ole Owners and Manufacturers
Balmore
Maryland
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
DGER
Frankin Street
Ill
Pany
Inie Hegeing Em Inc. G, Hoitt
de Yraguse Boltt Company
Syracuse
Nealens
Warren Paint Co
Warren
Ohio
Wabbren Paint Co
Warren, O
MR. Bitters
Blake
Walt
Flat Rock
Hops & Wal
Bond
Anedhele
Weaver
H. H. Green
Leas
Ace
P. O. Box
Chicago, Ill
Ackuage
Stillwater
Wate Vile Albert K Lea
Green
E. ST. John
Chicagos
Phere 5
Pisnington
Mee Tool PA
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wis
ANS
St.Louis Rand
Ffra Burr
Ube
Rev
Newman
Gra
National Publishing Co
R. U
Plog
Pearin Rilards
Rillard’s
N. U
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