New Debates and Reforms Weighed in Congress
National measures fill the week as the Porter relief bill faces party lines in the Senate. House actions include Civil Service reforms, railroad regulation, and pensions. A wide array of bills on commerce, education funding, and foreign affairs are introduced or debated, with discussions stretching across finance, military, and domestic policy.
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The Cheater Kit Morrer Cagstell Tragic Account
Special to the Chicago Three of the 91h presents a summarized account of the baarlite tragedy recently enacted, detailing events, participants, and immediate aftermath with emphasis on impacted communities and civic response.
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Kit
Morrer
Cagstell
Chicago
Impregnable Democratic Party in a Changing Union
A Boston Post analysis argues the Democratic party remains solid and majority across the union despite Republican efforts. It credits extensive campaign involvement by officials, huge campaign contributions from banks and monopolies, and long-standing northern control, while urging unity to sustain constitutional principles and a people’s government.
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Davenport
New York
Beecher
Bob Ingersoll
Grant
George W. Cartin
Staten Island
Kelly
Grand Old
Democratic Party
Murs
Republicas Party
South
Garfield
Blaine
Mr. Conkling
Republican Party
Party of
People
Jiostoz Post
Garfield Nominated by Conkling Pact Amid Campaign Strife
The piece analyzes how Conkling, Grant, Cameron and Logan met at Mentor and Pittsburgh to seal Garfield’s nomination as a compromise against Blaine and Sherman. It argues the arrangement bound Garfield to the third-term faction and shaped the campaign, detailing the power dynamics, negotiations, and strategic moves within the Republican factions and national committee.
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Cameron
Logan
Garfield
Mentor
Chicare
Blaine
Sherman
Washington
Lincoln
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Alaine
Arthur
Genehan
Spettle
Congress
Simon Cameron
Hartisburg
Pittsburgh
New York
Jewell
Fifth Avenue Hotel
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Conklin
Pate
Con‘trol
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Allen
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Conkline
Accessi
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Garfeld
Sun
Free Ballots and Election Fairness Debate
A Feoria Democrat opinion argues over ballot types noting colored ballots used by workers and white ballots for leaders. The piece calls for discussion on what constitutes a free ballot and free elections, urging scrutiny of party influence in manufacturing centers and voting practices.
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Republican Party
Democratic Party
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Torture through the ages and a playful judge on the street
An essay contrasts medieval torture as a grim science with modern cruelty and revival attempts by surgeons. It then recounts a Detroit scene where a railway manager and a judge cavorted with snowballing children, prompting reflection on public duty versus leisure and the gift of time for family amid urban life.
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Crittenden
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Vanderbilt
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Chicago
Decrease of Marriages in Massachusetts
The Boston Traveller notes a ten year drop in Massachusetts marriages. In 1800 the rate was one in 33.54 of the population, in 1875 one in 60.19, with white marriages one in 60.94 of white residents. Wealthier classes show decline, while men say they cannot support a family. Puritan birthrates lag. physicians report few children among natives, especially where means allow large families. The reluctance to marry may reflect a desire to migrate for fortune, reducing binding ties. The Traveller cannot fully explain the falling rate.
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Grammar dispute ends with boots and taxes in tale
A humorous vignette shows two young heirs arguing over proper grammar and resolving by arbitration with the family elder as judge. The scene shifts to Edward Mayer, a French ophthalmologist, who removed a cataract from the Baroness Rothsemid in twenty seconds, earning 31,600.
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Tventy
Baroness Rothsemid
Personal and Literary Notes From A Wide World
A collage of literary and personal notes mentions Stuart Rossos the actor’s Senate page, a White House family link, poetess Anna Lewis, and Edgar Allan Poe. It covers publishers and scholars, a Cambridge anniversary poem, and a European stipend contrast, plus remarks on Tennyson, Scott and Byron, and a Chippewa inspired sculptor Miss Epuenta Lewis.
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Garfield
White House
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Anna Lewis
London
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Edgar Allen
Caantes Dickens
Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Batstate
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Scotland
Oliver Wexpert Homwes
Cambridge
Mass
Noesson
Europe
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Ig Ree
Burgeois
Graystone
Tennyson
Disraeli
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Scott
Pope
Byron
Kate Fiena
London Times
Epuenta Lewis
United States
Humorous miscellany quotes and satirical quips
A collage of dated quotations from various papers lampooning society, credit, fashion, poetry, economics, and publishers. Notable lines compare debts to crying creditors, praise modesty over riches, and joke about almanacs and inflation of value in oddities.
The State-Driver's Story of a Railway Race
A stage driver narrates a wild chase beside a speeding railway freight line. A mirror lures a mare into mistaking her reflection for another horse, driving her to race at near ninety five miles an hour. The train crashes after a dramatic lead, 17 killed and 199 wounded, as the narrator recalls selling the match months later for 360000.
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Presence of Mind in a Dog at Pennsylvania Depot
A dog at a Pennsylvania Railroad depot framed between two fast trains cunningly froze on the tracks. Observers say the animal stretched flat, nose between paws, remaining motionless until the locomotives passed safely. The report notes witnesses and attribution from Now Drunsmick Pradinian. The piece also mentions electric light as an effective insect trap attracting flies and moths.
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