Merchants Bank Ad Promotes Low Prices and Services
An old bank advertisement by Lamberton and Co highlights low prices on biveraide, bran, shorts, and middle at wholesale, with no charge for delivery. It touts general banking services, stock and bond dealings, government securities, exchange, collections, and customer satisfaction assurances.
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Meather
Aviandad
Translcta
General Baoklig
Forsigo Exchange
Lamberton
Phe Merchants’ Bank
Gath Tells How He Managed His Northern Pacific Scheme
New York report recounts how Villard built and financed the Northern Pacific venture through a secret circular to investors, expanding rail lines and land holdings, while reshaping company leadership. It notes critics and contemporaries, including Jay Cooke rivals, and praises Mrs. Willard for her role in promoting the project.
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Gath
New York
Villard
Norther
Pacifé
Pacific Coast
Steam Navigation and Transportation
Bea
Northern Pacific
Cooke
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon
Bismarck
Jay Cooke
Dar
Washington ‘City
Samuel Wilkeson
New York Tribune
Horace White
Chicago Tribune
Henry, Willard
Chicago Tribunes
Earl of Clarendon
Charles II
Joe Medill
White, Willard & Co
Willard
de Villard
Evening Post
Gen. Schurz
Carl Schurz
Pacific
Union
Central Pacific
Southern Pacific
Texas Pacific
Atchison & Santa Fe
Atlantic & Pacific
Burlington & Pacific
Stanford
Huntington
the Crockers
Dr. Durant
Gen. Fremont
Thomas A. Scott
Gregory Smith
Defendants Describe Alibi in Emma Bond Case
The Hillsboro trial details show P Clementi claiming he slept in a wagon in Widow Pettis yard from 2:30 to 6:00 PM while Lee Pettis and others say he and John C Montgomery were at Mrs Pettis home. Lee Pettis testifies he heard Emma Bond was outraged by two tramps and helped escort her home. Pettis and Clementi deny Moyers testimony and assert they were not involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Hillsboro
Tll
P. Clementi
Emma . Bond
Clementi
Lee Pettis
John C. Montgomery
Miss Bond
Swack
Heinlein
Montgomery
Pettis
Moyers
Frynours
Ind
Charles Moussell
John Wise
Moussell
Youngsters Steal, Drunk, and Face Arrests in Portsnana
A gang of five boys aged 2 to 16 robbed a wholesale tobacco store with an inside job. They looted cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, snuff, moulds, knives, and pipes valued around 350 dollars. One worker, John Forest, confessed leading the scheme to avoid being fired.
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Portsnana
John Forest
Whiting's Son Fined for Prize Fight Style Assault
In Northampton district court a Williston seminary student, son of Congressman Whiting, was fined 57 dollars for breaking the nose of fellow student Osgood after a demand for a treat led to a disputed encounter. Whiting fell on Osgood in his room and the clash continued in fighting terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Whiting
Williston Seminary
East Hampton
Northampton
Osgood
Reception for General Hancock in San Francisco
A grand reception at the Pavilion honored Gen. Hancock with a large turnout. He was escorted by Gen. Stoneman, Mayor Bartlett, state and federal officers, and a militia detachment from the Palace hotel. Five thousand invitations were issued and the crowd rose in cheers as he entered.
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San Francisco
Hancock
Spotters ready to discharge Panhandle conductors in Indy
Indianapolis December 22. General discharge of conductors on the Panhandle is hourly expected. Spotters have long worked, and findings will lead to removing experienced men on the Indianapolis and Richmond division. Two have already been relieved and several have resigned in disgust at current management devices and traps.
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Indianapolis
Panhandle
Indianapolis & Richmond
The Week's Failures Reported by Dun & Co
The past seven days show 23 business failures in the United States and 42 in Canada and the provinces, as telegraphed to R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile agency. The figures reflect renewed financial strain across North America.
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New Yong
Telegraph
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Provinces
Drexel and Morgan Deny Northern Pacific Stock Movement
New York December 22. Drexel and Morgan deny any involvement in a plan to bear Northern Pacific stock as claimed by a former official in a St Paul dispatch.
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New York
Messrs
Drexel and Morgan
Northern Pacific
Ina
St. Paul
Death on the Rail Causes Heavy Losses and Injuries
A Burlington to Gladstone railroad crash near Gladstone Illinois and a related Alabama Great Southern derailment in Akron Alabama left multiple fatalities and many injured. Richard Somers, dining car head of the CB&Q, was killed and a Pullman car destroyed by fire. Other victims and injured passengers are hospitalized. Damages run about $50,000. In Illinois the wreck caused severe burns and crush injuries. in Alabama a broken rail derailed a northbound express, killing one man and injuring several. The incidents prompt discussions on police power and liquor regulation in state legislation.
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Vincennes
Ind
Kockley
James Sommers
M. E. Sanders
Gullivan
Indiana
McBride
Officer Hall
Summers
Rootley
James Hart
John Kilferl
Kilferl
Hart
Sullivan County
Sanders
Burlnetor
Laws
Chicago, Burlington &Quincy
Gladstone
Richard Somers
Chicago, Burlngton & Quincy Railway
Chicago
Gladstood
Elby
W. W. Baldwin
Burlington
Burlington “Ek Quincy Railroad
Wvife
Burteh
Farmington
Chattanooga
Alabama ‘& Great Southern
Akron
Alabama
James Lynch
Congressmen Go Home for Holidays In Washington Gossip
Congressmen left Washington for holiday recess while a few will stay to handle committee posts. Speaker’s list for Ways and Means sees Morrian Hewitt Hurd Blackburn Herbert Jones Mills Blount as possible majority reps, but revisions loom. Legislation totals show 2650 bills and 99 joint resolutions pending across houses. Grand jury indictments target pension agents Fitzgerald and Webb for mail fraud. D Auphin sues postmaster general. Douglass, Bruce, and Murrill elected to national committee. convention set in Richmond then Chicago.
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House
Washington
Yale
Morrian
Hewitt
Hurd
Blackburn
Herbert
Jones
Arkansas
Mills
Blount
Grand
Ne. OW. Fitzgerald
Andrew E. Webb
United States
Brewster
Assistaints
New Orleans
M. A. Dauphin
Louisiana State Lottery
Richmond
Frederick Douglass
Register of the Treasury
Blanche E. Bruce
District of Columbia
William Murrill
Maryland
National Committee
High license law question raised in Monro county
Springfield report notes a new point in applying the Harper high license law. The attorney for Monro county asked whether Barpy may be barred from the Special abt tn. The inquiry centers on enforcement and scope of the act.
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Springfield
Harper
Monro County
Logan and Filley Reach Negotiated Agreement in 48 Hours
Reports from Washington City claim Senator Logan and Chauncey Filley reached an understanding within the last forty eight hours to form a Logan delegation from Missouri at the national convention. Filley seeks the St Louis post office and may break with Arthur if his claims are not recognized. Details of the terms remain unclear.
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Washington City
Logan
Chauncey
Filley
Filey
St. Louis
Arthur
Sara Bernhardt scandals and the lash told in Paris card
From Paris on December 22 a curious card by Sara Bernhardt claims she chastised Marie Colombier for deceiving her. She describes bringing Colombier to America, giving profits and gold, then calling her vile and ungrateful. The note, signed Sara Bernhardt, weighs the accusations and refers to Barnum and Jumbo in a sensational tone.
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the Bernhardt
Paris
Sara Bernhardt
Marie Colombier
America
Cainanir
Sara. Barnum
Colombier
Sara
German crown prince departs Rome to lecture on land reform
A dense update lists global events from Rome to Ireland and the U.S. headlines. It notes the crown prince leaving Rome to lecture on land nationalization, Turks killing Christians in Crete, and an Irish informer Kerrigan being shot. Other items include bank failures, insolvencies, a congressman’s funeral, a bridge opening, storms, a jail sentence, and a dramatic shooting at Wilderman Station.
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Rome
Henry George
England
Crete
Norman T. Gassette
Chicago
Battery D Armory
George W. Woolfolk
Cotton Factor
Columbus
Kerrigan
Cong
Ireland
Donald Gordon
Rochester
N. C
D. E. Haskell
Lawrence
Kaw
Jones
Depere
Wis ) Bank
A. E. Thurber
Springfield
Mass
Stafford County
Kan
Staunton
Donkards
Twenty-third Ohio
Cleveland
Hoffman
United States’ Court
San Francisco
America
Niagara River
S. D. Hungerford
Lakes
Wilderman Station
Belleville
Heary
Pabst
Mary Hammer
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Talenhare
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Butwern
Winona, Minn
Sark Wieleon
Mr. Berry
QEO
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Tims
Forest National Bank
Wenona
Minn
Porter
Portre
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Atte
Jay Landon
Asa'l Cashier
Europe
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GGQ
Second National ‘Bank Ke
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Loweat
Prentiss
John B. Kirch
ST. Charles
H.C. Parrott & Co
Alyon&healy
State & Monroe Sts
Winona Republica
Joe Meditd
Pottis
OSB
Ralivras
Eras Towa
Dee
Clarence Burtich
Subi Enon
Samuel Bortich
J. L. Green
Claarfield
Browheis
Aurel
Algothos
Biariich
Schwachow
Supreme Court of Ilinois
Attorney-General
Cal
Northwest
Territory
Selssora
Grafton
W.va
Carter Smith
G B McDaniels
National Capital
Harper Liquor Law
Hoxstein
Henry Clay
J. Haesly
Key West
Winona
Kylea— Toy &Wings
Sparta Nurgery
Doud & Thomas
Glothina
Minnesota
Eivery
Grand Rapids
Jon Bhadi
Claus
Rogers
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Castora
Ntajorica
J. Marsdladnd
East Third St
C. Heintz & Bro
Second Street
Mues
Maes’s
DW. Fuels
Duce
Gigars
Iehore
Puhle
Eoansaranel
G. C. Boynton’s
SONS
Center Street
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