Monday, September 5, 2022

24 Grover Cleveland (Pt 2)

Four years after being defeated for reelection, ex-President Grover Cleveland secured the Democratic nomination and, in an epic rematch, took down incumbent Benjamin Harrison to win an unprecedented non-consecutive term. Our 22nd president became our 24th president, but Cleveland's second term would unfortunately coincide with the Panic of 1893, a four-year economic depression the likes of which the nation had not yet seen. While his young wife gave birth to a growing family and he underwent secret surgery to remove a secret cancerous growth, President Cleveland would tackle financial crises, massive labor unrest, and growing pressure for the United States to assert itself as an imperialist power.

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A.E. Young has live quail – The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA) – November 18, 1894

Mrs. Dr. Bell treats ladies in trouble – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – March 19, 1893

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – May 12, 1894

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – January 15, 1896

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – January 3, 1894

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – August 10, 1895

Emma Bust Developer – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – September 16, 1894

Santa Claus Soap – Sterling Standard (Sterling, IL) – August 16, 1894

Santa Claus Soap – The St. Paul Globe (St. Paul, MN) – May 31, 1895

Santa Claus Soap – Logansport Reporter (Logansport, IN) – September 18, 1896

Divorce specialists – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – November 11, 1893

Man seeks lady of stout build – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) – February 10, 1897

One-eyed widow seeks husband – The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) – November 18, 1894

Dr. Durand’s Heart Tablets – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – December 9, 1894


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Monday, August 29, 2022

PWF #7 - World War III

The Presidential Wrestling Federation goes international in its latest pay-per-view spectacular, featuring:
  • Zachary Taylor vs. Santa Anna
  • Richard Nixon & Ronald Reagan vs. Nikita Khrushchev & Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Barack Obama & Joe Biden vs. Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong Un
  • The Bushes vs. Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden
  • John Adams vs. King George III
  • FDR, Churchill & Stalin vs. Hitler, Mussolini & Hirohito  

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Monday, August 22, 2022

Presidential War #18 - Murdered by the Clintons?

On the latest Presidential War, discover how James Buchanan and Warren Harding turn out to be winning cards while Abraham Lincoln ignominiously shits the bed. Also: one of the illustrious hosts of the Dead Presidents Podcast might not live to the end of the episode after he offends the wrong First Family.     

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Monday, August 15, 2022

Top 5 Most Accomplished Presidential Daughters

We count down the top five most accomplished presidential daughters!   

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, Seizes Barron Trump's Stash of "Tall Pills"

By James J. Hamilton
PALM BEACH—The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into the former president's 16-year-old son Barron. Federal agents have long suspected that Barron's growth to the towering height of 6 feet 7 inches has involved the use of controlled substances. People familiar with the matter say that the FBI seized a large stash of so-called "Tall Pills," which are not FDA-approved and are manufactured in an unknown foreign country. Importation of unapproved drugs is a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and legal experts say that Barron could face a term of incarceration in a juvenile detention facility, where is likely to face many entreaties to join the basketball team.
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Monday, August 8, 2022

23 Benjamin Harrison

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

Mexican Mustang Liniment – The Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS) – September 6, 1892

Dr. H.B. Butts cures all rectal diseases – St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO) – September 10, 1889

Dr. H.B. Butts cures cancer – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889

John S. Low Bottling Works – The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA) – April 23, 1891

Joseph Fleming & Son, Druggists – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – April 8, 1890

Export Whiskey – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – March 6, 1890

Dr. Haines’s Golden Specific – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – February 1, 1890

Drunkenness cured – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889

Nothstein boys on the loose – The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, PA) – January 13, 1892

Reward for rapist – The Detective World (Topeka, KS) – October 1, 1890

Milk twice each day – The Daily Republican (Monongahela, PA) – June 4, 1890


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Monday, August 1, 2022

PWF #6 - Era of Bad Feelings

The Presidential Wrestling Federation is live from the RCA Dome in Indianapolis with a card full of electrifying matches:
  • Theodore Roosevelt v. William Howard Taft
  • Woodrow Wilson v. Barack Obama
  • PWF Tag Team Championship Match: The Bushes v. JFK and LBJ
  • Handicap match: Andrew Jackson v. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
  • PWF Championship Match: Donald Trump v. Jimmy Carter 

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