President William Henry Harrison's grandson was adamant: "I am the grandson of nobody. I believe every man should stand on his own merits.” Benjamin Harrison may have had a famous name, but he started a law practice from scratch, volunteered to fight in the Civil War, and lost several elections before he climbed to the top of the Indiana Republican party and landed a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1888, his sterling reputation and his hailing from a critical swing state earned him the Republican presidential nomination. After unseating the incumbent Grover Cleveland, Harrison and a Republican-controlled Congress embarked on a more sweeping agenda than the nation had seen in decades. Four years later, Cleveland would return for an epic electoral rematch, but would the voters still be on Harrison's side?
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| Ozmanlis Oriental Sexual Pills – The Macomb Journal (Macomb, IL) – February 9, 1893 |
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| Mexican Mustang Liniment – The Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS) – September 6, 1892 |
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| Dr. H.B. Butts cures all rectal diseases – St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO) – September 10, 1889 |
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| Dr. H.B. Butts cures cancer – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889 |
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| John S. Low Bottling Works – The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA) – April 23, 1891 |
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| Joseph Fleming & Son, Druggists – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – April 8, 1890 |
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| Export Whiskey – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – March 6, 1890 |
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| Dr. Haines’s Golden Specific – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – February 1, 1890 |
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| Drunkenness cured – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889 |
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| Nothstein boys on the loose – The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, PA) – January 13, 1892 |
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| Reward for rapist – The Detective World (Topeka, KS) – October 1, 1890 |
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| Milk twice each day – The Daily Republican (Monongahela, PA) – June 4, 1890 |
