Hayes Era Restores Order and Civil Service Reform
A condensed portrait of President Rutherford B. Hayes detailing his early challenges, the disputed 1876 election, withdrawal of federal troops from the South, and a push for civil service reform. It covers his cabinet picks, the Louisiana and South Carolina crises, the 1877 withdrawal of bayonets, labor strikes, and the push to resume specie payments amid disputed silver legislation.
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Hayes
Union
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohio
Cincinnati
Congress
William Allen
William A. Wheeler
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Louisiana
Florida
South Carolina
Wheeler
Electoral Commission
Supreme Court
William M. Evarts
the Treasury
John Sherman
David M. Key
Tennessee
Charles Devens
Massachusetts
Carl Schurz
George W. McCreary
Iowa
Richard W. Thomason
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Brown
United States
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
President Hayes
Civl
Secretary of the Treasury
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
Civilization of
Indians
House
Treasury
Hayes Adminstration and Civil Service Reform Era
A retrospective review of President Rutherford B. Hayes's administration notes the 1878 79 period including the resumption of specie payments on January 1 1879 and a push for civil service reform. It covers cabinet firings party friction veto battles over immigration and election supervision and highlights the tragic Ponca removal and its toll. It closes praising Hayes’s leadership amid wartime debt repayment and economic stability while acknowledging criticisms and lasting reforms.
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Tilden
Hayes
Electoral Commission
Treasury
United States
New York City
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Alonzo B. Cornell
St. Louis
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New York
China
Congress
Senate
House
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Sherman
James A. Garfield
Winfield
Hancock
South Ameria
Soutern
Lucy W. Hayes
White House
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Ards
Indian Territory
Interior Department
Massachusetts
Ballin’s Bay
Washington
Interior
Glencoe
Actin
Straton
George A. Marden
Lowell
James A. Gartied
Ep. Grobe
Summer in Washington and the President in the Stable
The author, Edgar W. Nye, recounts a summer visit to Washington with several statesmen, noting the heat and humidity, and reflecting on the city, politics, and fame. He describes conversations with President Cleveland, memories of boyhood, and muses on legacy and mortality, ending with plans to travel to New York on Staten Island.
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America
Lydia E. Pinkham
New York
Staten Island
The Biter Bit Poker Game in Boston Saloon
A Providence party roped in a young Stuyvesant from New York for a poker stunt. The fake dealers exploited his bluffing weakness, raise after raise, until Stuyvesant exposed a straight flush with a queen top and walked off with the Providence men’s money.
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Providence
Jeunesse Doree
Rhode Island
Beantown
Tin
Stuyvesant
Harvey
Boston
Greenhorn
Mr. Stuyvesant
Ivo
Weill
Sonstead
Married or Single Saving Money by Strict Economy
A Boston reader recounts two men living on modest wages to show how savings are possible through strict budgeting. The first, a single clerk earning 12 a week, details annual clothing costs and living expenses, concluding about 132.60 yearly savings. The second, a married man with three children on 30 weekly, itemizes clothing for wife and kids, plus rent, provisions, and incidentals, totaling 1,281.86 yearly. after expenses he saves about 6.32 weekly, or roughly 325 yearly, to illustrate that a family can live on 30 a week with thrift and sacrifice.
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Lamont
New York
Boston
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Minneapolis
Tur Sunpay Grone
Tor Groner
Maine
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New York Mills
Ulana
Dorchester
Grover
Sveess
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Pon Cpse
L. Ty
Adam
Nic
Apollo
Adams
Weil
Freaaensis
Popnardi
Sandwich
Chocorua
Moultonboro
Tese
Isaac Adams
Eccentric Isaac Adams and the Adams press tale
A Rennebec Journal scribe discusses genius and wealth with a citizen near the famed Adams press. The piece recounts Isaac Adams fate and a local eccentric, his granite wall garden statues and the impact of invention on wealth and memory.
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fRennebec Journal
Adams
Journal
World of
Howe
Webb
Bell
Department of Life
Isaac Adams
Mena
Sandwich
Fang Sa
Fight Against Rastisig Rooms Reported in Savannah
In Savannah a dispute over Rastisig rooms is noted with prices listed at 4 to 8 cents each. The brief item highlights the ongoing conflict as reported in local news.
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