Published by Thursday, July 1, Chicago, 1880
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
22½" x 17½", pp. 8; 7 columns per page. Front page: "Another Horror. Burning of the Steamer Seawanhaka near New York City Yesterday" The steamboat Seawanhaka ran from Peck slip up the sound to Glen Cove, L.I. caught fire from an explosion. Of 500 persons aboard, 50 were believed to have perished; foreign news, criminal calendar, politics, the Chicago races, baseball, destructive hailstorms, the new counterfeits, three murderers hanged, religion and fashion, men's attire, recipes, veterinary news, money and stocks, usual adverts (some with cuts), and patent medicines.
Published by Tuesday, July 27, Chicago, 1886
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
23" x 17¾", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page.The Payne case, Senator Logan's speech in reply to his assailants in Ohio, the largest collection of wild rattle snakes, "The Hornets of Hornets' Nest" by E.P. Roe, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher's journey to England. Mrs. Henry M. Gougar travels among the Irish peasantry and describes them - everywhere squalor, poverty and heart-rendering suffering all laid to English misrule. Not a thrower -" woman's defiencies and eccentricities.anatomically considered". The wife of William Tell, "A Life" by Charles B. Barrett, one woman's experiment in making fruit preserves at home for profits, Geronimo negotiating with General Miles, and patent medicines.
Published by Tuesday, September 14, Chicago, 1886
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
23" x 17¾", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page. Special correspondence from N.H. bear-slayer, "Mr. and Mrs. Jake" by Sidney Luska, earthquake incidents, education of women, the republican party, notes on women, George William Curtis on the wife's vow of obedience in the marriage services: "we had supposed that this generation had emancipated itself from any idea that a woman ever acknowledged obedience to anything save her own sweet will, but conservatism is tenacious of existence and as long as the word "obey" remains in the orthodox marriage service some one may suppose that it means something.", women of the south and the work they are doing, national crop reports, British grain market, and the state of trade.