Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-22

From the general tenor of our
advice from Europe, nothing GER
tain can be collected respecting a
general peace" That sounds like it
might be an Associated Press dis
patch bearing date line of Deem
Der q, 1918. But it is not. 1t is the
lead lines in and editorial in the
Commercial Advertiser, New York
City, October 2. 1877.
The Omaha Bee recently received
fac smile copy of the first issue of
the Commercial Advertiser from
which the above quotation is taken.
That paper eventually changed its
name to The Globe, which today is
one of the great daily newspapers
of the country.
War in Europe.
In 1877, as in 1918, Europe was in
turmoil of war In the CONNER
cial Advertiser of October 2. 1877,
we're three columns of European
news" under the heading --latest
European Intelligence" These news
items carried date lines of July and
August as in those days trans-At-
lantic cables were beyond the wild
est dream of the human mind
Under dates of July'22, from Milan,
Italy news item said "Bonaparte
is still here and it is supposed will
not 60 to Udine." There is another
item from Paris giving the speech
of the president of the French
directory in which he said: "On this
day, five years ago, the thunder fell
upon the throne. Its splendor was
extinguished and its foundation
shattered and annillilated." Also
under date of August |, General
Bonaparte, from his headquarters
at Milan, issues proclamation to the
commander and chief of the Ex-
ecutive directory.
Ad Columns Interesting.
But the news dispatches, most of
which ate history today, are. no
more interesting than the advertis-
ing columns of the Commercial Ad-
vertiser of over l2l years ago. True
to its name the Commercial Adj
vertiser, which was four-page, five
column paper carried y columns
OF advertising and eight columns of
news and editorial. The mode OF
living of our forefathers in the year
of 1877 is tersely told in these QUART
advertisements in this old newspa-
per. Most of the ads were an
nouncements of the arrival of car
goes of merchandise under the head
ings, Landing" This day will be
landed" Now landing at Browns
wharf" etc. Many of the ads stated
that the goods were from Madeiras,
Cape Francois, Hamburg, Liverpool
or other foreign ports.
St. Croix Rum, Holland gin, var
ious brands of wines in hogsheads,
barrels and gallons, comprised
large part of many of the cargoes,
with tobacco tea, coffee, sugar a.i
broadcloths running close second.
No Reed Amendment Then.
A few of those quaint old ads
will be of interest to the reader, es-
pecially in the bone dry state of Ne
braska. The reader will bear in
mind that in 1897 there was no Reed
amendment prohibiting the inter-
state shipment of liquor, or the sale
thereof, as will be seen by the fol-
lowing advertisements:
RUM AND SUGAR.
9 puncheons Jamaica Rum.
4 hogsheads, Jamaica Sugar, Just |
received from Jamaica. For sale ty |
Henry Sadler & Co.
Another advertisement reads:
NOW LANDING.
From OIL board the Brig Herriett
from Oporto: 20 hhds,, 10 pipes,
40 at. casks excellent quality port |
wine. For sale by Curtain & Co.,
No. u Stone street.
One Temperance Merchant.
James Arnold, 40 Water street,
was apparently the one temperance
man i'll the city, for out of the 81
advertisements on the front page he
was practically the only one who did
not list liquor with his other items
of merchandise, His ad announced
for sale" hats, broadcloths hard