Constitutional reforms urged by President Johnson era views
The article critiques President Johnson's push for constitutional changes, urging elective presidential and congressional selection and term limits for Supreme Court judges. It notes debates on succession, impeachment context, and cautions against centralizing power while supporting reform ideas. It also includes flood disaster recollections and rescue efforts in Millcott and Block Island reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
United States
Supreme Court
Congress
Jackson
Sobnson
Wade
Iy. Johnson
Pha
Impeachment Bid in House Provokes Severe Speaker Rebuke
Boston Advertiser reports the House debate over a new impeachment scheme led by Mr. Hamilton of Florida. He launched a lecture to the Speaker instead of presenting the measure, provoking a as severe rebuke from the Speaker. The impeachment resolution was buried in the Judiciary Committee by Gov. Boutwell.
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Sureacn- Ment
Boston Advertiser
Hamilton
Florida
Judiciary Committee
Boutwell
Octogenarian Farmers Stir Strenuous Summer Work
The Greenfield Gazette notes John Newton of Touam OLD Vergenans at 88 rises before dawn and works full days in the fields with younger laborers. Elijah Pulsifer of Conway, aged eighty, hoeing hay and hauling loads, travels four miles for field labor. Both endure the heat and stay productive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Touam
Greenfield Gazette
John Newton
Elijah Pulsifer
Conway
Prisoners Hanged by Masked Mob in Jackson County
Sparks Moorea and Jewell arrested in Malion Illinois were being transported to Jackson county sheriff in Seymour Indiana when about 150 masked armed men overtook the wagon and hanged the three prisoners. They had been questioned about local robberies but provided few details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luxenixa
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sparks
Moorea
Jewell
Malion
Illinois
Seymour
Indiana
Browntone
Jackson County
Banished Veteran Returns to Wales After Decades
Samuel Washburn, banished for life to Van Diemen's Land after the 1837 patriot war, arrives in Wales seeking relatives. A Hartford native who left Canada in 1835 at age 22, he endured two years of freedom with ten cent daily work to fund his voyage home following Victoria's manifest liberalization for conquered war victims.
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Sanuel Wardburne
van Dieman’s Land
Bai ‘Alo
Wales
Hartford
Canada
Queen Victoria
Washburne
Town
Touro Park
Atlantic
Ocean Houses
Fairyland
Newport News
Famine Ravages Marsulman Population Amid Harvest Failure
A dire famine in Mocovvo drives extreme hunger as harvests fail and imports fetch high prices. Deaths mount and roads fill with the dying and dead. The epidemic and starvation threaten one quarter of the population, while the rich struggle to help.
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Morocco
Mocovvo
Algeria
Honestity Rewarded Near Fitchburg Depot
A young lady found a pocket book containing $25 near the Fitchburg depot and located the owner, a lady, returning the money. The owner thanked her and then gave eight peppermints as a token of gratitude, saying she wanted to reward the honest deed.
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Fitchburg
Boston Journal
Flood Devastation Near Baltimore Claims Lives and Property
A flood near Baltimore Maryland on Friday destroyed an estimated three million dollars in property and cost several lives. Ellicott City suffered extensive damage with thirty houses swept away and whole families drowned. Several bodies were recovered near Relay House eight miles below Ellicott City.
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Baltimore
Ellicott City
Relay House
Fall River Minister Warns Burglars In Public Card
Rev. J. D. King, twice entered and ransacked by thieves, issues a public card stating he never leaves valuables in his house and urges burglars to desist from bootless attempts.
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J. D. King
Fall River
Thiever
Man Inhaled Ether Capsized Dramatics After Dentist Visit
In Port Byron a man went to a dentist for a tooth extraction and inhaled ether. The giddy patient capered from the office across the street to the National Hotel, mounted the stoop railing, and performed antics under normal circumstances he would not, before being restrained without injury.
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Port Byron
N. Y
National Hotel
Farm Talk and Practical Farming Advice From A Local Author
Brackett’s Colloquial Farm Talk introduces practical farming guidance in a low cost, readable tract. It explains the aim of the series to provide accessible, useful farming information, with examples of modern work habits and affordable publishing. It notes Boston publishers Lee & Shepard and prices. It also mentions a local anecdote about an elderly resident who rarely left his home until recently and references Woolen Company improvements for workers in Woonsocket.
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George E. Brackett
Belfast
Messrs. Lee &Shepard
Boston
Lee & Shepard
Washington St
National banks face new temporary loan certificates act
The President signs a bill authorizing the Treasury to issue up to 25 000 000 in temporary loan certificates at three percent, payable in lawful money on demand, to redeem compound interest notes, with banks allowed to hold them as part of their reserve under the 1867 act.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Mweavenly
Manalons Fair
Thease
Betts and others held on charges after steamer affray
Carrar Betts of the steamer Ella was adjudged probably guilty on Sheriff Holden s complaint and held to bail of 1000. Most others in the affray were held in 500 each.
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Carrar Betts
Ella
Holden
Abandoned naval station and a miscellany of 1860s items
A scattered collection notes New Orleans naval station abandonment, Kansas wheat yields, June in Australia fruit harvest, mass emigration from New York to California, Lynn shoe business value, a Texas accident, a Pittsburgh goose race, a Missouri giantess death, butter from sweet milk, sunstroke cases, a China treaty ratification, bankruptcy act changes, South Carolina judges, a New Bedford hen with 85 chicks, a nonagenarian near Snow ID, willow use in manufacturing, Ohio political partners, French trans Atlantic cables, London to New York express plan, Rhode Island tax total, bark Pacific voyage, smoke from Canadian fires, Exterra baby on a steamer, Ku Klux violence in Kentucky, a Chicago merchant altercation, Kilaua crater activity, Treasury employee cuts, Britain exporting women, sunstroke and lightning deaths, Dan Rice lion’s den joke, and a Columbus tax-on-temper anecdote.
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New Orleans
Kansas
Australia
New York
California
Lynn
Patrick Roum
Pittsburgh
Wiliam Jones
Omaha
Great Eastern
London
Valencia
St. John
Rhode
Thomas G. Turner
Pacific
New Bedford
Atlantic Ocean
Erie
Canada
Exterra
Providence
Wharast Woop
Monroe County
Kentucky
Chicago
Kilarea
Sandwich Islands
Hilo
Treasury Department
Enariand
Great Britain
Christian Co. Florida
Lion’s den
Dan Rice
Columbus
Ohio
Sunday Excursions and Moral Debate Near Providence
In Providence area last Sunday two acts of villainy caused alarm as excursion boats and cars carried crowds to nearby towns for leisure. A man named George Mountjoy was arrested for passing counterfeit ten dollar notes on a Bristol steamer from New York, with other fakes reported. The Bristol High School Reunion included a long poem by Abby D. Munro and reflections on memories, schooling, and honoring teachers and soldiers.
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New York
St. Louis
East
Gulf of Mexico
Providence
Rhode Island
George Mountjoy
Bristol
National Bank of
Red Hook
Jhil
Boston
Bristol High School
Abby D. Munro
Wanderer
Silk worm breeding and silk manufacture in California
The article notes silk worm breeding and silk making may become a major California industry. It states cocoon quality is high and compares France's cocoon production dropping from thirty five million pounds to nine million due to disease. It also estimates the Palsy flood may have claimed about 100 lives.
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California
France
Speer's Standard Wine Bitters and hair restorer ad note
An 1880s style classified notice promotes Speer's Standard Wine Bitters as a remedy boosting bodily functions. Also touts Mrs S A Allen's Improved Hair Restorer priced at one dollar. The Town Council and Court of Probate announce a regular meeting Monday at two o'clock in the Council Chamber.
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A. Allen
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Ternione Scexnek
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Millcott City
Owngs
MxaGuibbens
Owings
Himelf
Drowniea
Providence Journal
Block Island
Ball and Conley
Pady Adams
J. W. Conley
Luther Milliken
Walliam Hall
Amazon Littlefield
Tone
Mr. Littlefield
Conley
Littlefield
Oafiout
Lippitt Woolen Company
Woonsocket
Nashville Gazette
Snake
Tennessee
Triune
John P. Gordon
Franklin
Emerson Uran
Gordon
Uran
Aran
Seventieth
Eighth
Tenth Avenues
Board of Health
Dover
N.el
Taunton
the Gazette
City
Bernsteins
China
Senate
South Carolina
Atalanta Johnson
Snow Idi
Jocal Intelligence
Halcyon
Earth
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Speer
Boffinton & Weat
T. J. Griffin, Jr
N.C Bede
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