Mr Tildens Michigan Rag Money Exposed in 1860s Shin Plaster
From the Detroit Tribune the Lansing Republican compiles official records on Mr Samuel J Tilden and the Iron Cliffs Mining Company. It details stock ownership, huge profits, and a scheme issuing shin plasters resembling currency used to pay labor and creditors, plus tax avoidance and legal counsels including Tilden.
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Detroit Tribune, Ltd
Lansing Republican
Tilden
Upper Peninsula
Articles of Association
Iron Cliffs Mining Company
Wallace
United States
New York City
Michigan
Iron Cliffs Company
O’grady
Iron Cliffs
Marquette County
Republican ticket praised by Bristow in centennial year
General Bristow commends the Republican ticket as patriotic and trustworthy while urging united effort to defeat rivals. He calls for erasing sectional lines and uniting old Whigs and Douglas Democrats in this Centennial year to support the Cincinnati platform and nominees.
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General Bristow
Republican Party
Henry Clay
Douglas Democrats
South
Cincinnati
Twelve Reasons the Republican Party Is Preferred
A political pamphlet lists twelve points praising the Republican Party for intelligence, education, labor rights, preservation of the Union, emancipation, handling of Southern states, border and debts, banking, transcontinental railroad, and trade gains. It also detours to derisive nicknames for Tilden such as Slippery Sam and Sammy the Psalmist.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tilden
New York
Republican Party
Republic
Union
San Juan
England
Alabama
Centennial pork barrels and odd quotes spark state law talk
Ohio lawmakers debated a 19th century anesthesia law while Durham New Hampshire bragged of a centuries old pork barrel tradition holding over five hundred pounds and a narrator in Tennille quoted a colored man about a mule.
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Durham
New Hampshire
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Soar
Oakes Ames
Hoar
Samuel J. Tilden
Hat Brirstow
E. A. Walrath
Syracuse
Canal Ring
Canal Board
Dr. Payne
U. W. University
Delaware
Gov. Hayes
Ohio
New England
Ironton
Sam
Shinplaster
Sammy
Soapy
Samuel
T.M. D. Pilcher & CO
Aliso
Union Street
M. & C. Depot
Kessinger Building
Court Street
Athens
K. L.walker
Che
Ooff
General Assembly of
Charles Selby
Carder
Mr. Selby
Yarn Knowles
Torch, Ohio
Torch
Athens County
Feltons & Co
A.C
Duane
St. N.Y
C. A. Cregg
N. Y
Messenaer
Messenceree Press
D. B. Stewart
J. E. Edmundson
N. B
Dr. Edmundson
F. Y. Batchelor
Chas, Regnier
Geo
W. Keye
Walnut Street
Bet
W. H. Hatch
Nel
Carver Forge
Carver
Ave
W. M. Henry
H. K., Blackstone, T
A. Beaton
T. J. Herrold
W. B. Brooks
Ayer
Dr. J. C. Ayer & CO
Lowell, Mass
Practical and Analytical Chemists
R. Sheldon
Mary G. Cripas
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