Financial outlook and military reports shape postwar policy
The piece discusses McCulloch’s aims to shrink debt and move toward specie payments, noting rapid debt reduction but persistent currency issues due to treasury notes and national bank money. It also reviews Grant era dispatches on rebel states, calling southern governance unreliable and outlining the freedmen’s vulnerable conditions and political backsliding.
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Congress
Treasury
McCulloch
Hhis
Waterhouse heirs to fortune after Idaho verdict
Freeman Waterhouse deserted wife in Poland Maine. He died in Tolabo Territory leaving 20 000 to 24 000 in gold and no heirs. Judge Luce of Auburn traced facts, widow in Brunswick to gain about 6 000 in gold. children inherit remainder. Idaho probate action ends with full property to rightful heirs. Judge Luce already secured 3 200 in gold dust for the widow.
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Lewiston
Freeman Wterhouse
Poland
Waterhouse
Idaho
Maine
Luce
Brunswick
Limiting Presidential Tenure and Delegated Powers Debate
A Raleigh editorial critiques Senator Wade who proposed amending the Constitution to bar re election for the President. It notes Confederate precedent favors a six year term, while Wade would keep four years. The piece argues public officials’ shifting power is a problem and cites naval academy and Muskegon lumber statistics for context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wade
Johnson
N.Y
Temperance progress in Massachusetts gains momentum
The temperance movement in Massachusetts gains optimism with expected statewide support. Taunton leads efforts with prominent locals pushing suppression of intemperance and broader help for the movement. A Philadelphia group funds a home for young needy women and job seekers arriving in the city. A marines detail aboard a New York Portsmouth steamer sees a marine leap overboard after a tremor. The Rothschild firm is named in historic loan negotiations with large deposits. Henry Ward Beecher is paid ten thousand dollars for an upcoming Ledger novel. A New Hampshire editor receives a potato shaped like a human head and shoulders.
Richmond Times cites a temperate, well written state paper
A long, mixed summary notes murder in Francilinia New Hampshire with $several thousand stolen, steamboat safety circles, and varied items from Boston business growth to fires in Santiago and repairs in Danvers. It reports on notable gifts, trials, political moves, and local improvements with many named places and people.
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The
Richmond Times
Sava
Pressis
Ephesus
Local Improvements and Removals Transform Early Towne Section
In compact town areas over recent weeks, numerous changes reshape Hope Wardwell and surrounding blocks. The Mount Hope House property on Hope Street receives a major two story addition for YMCA use, while tenement and office spaces expand in the renovated main building. Multiple parcels on High Street Wardwell and Constitution streets move or are rebuilt, including cottages and shops, with new dwellings, offices, and stores rising as carpenters and developers repurpose former structures. The Reynolds Manufacturing property is converted from vestry and school use to a tenement building after alteration.
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Hope and
Wardwell Streets
Mount Hope House
Charles Sherry, Jr
Hope Street
B Y.M.C Association
William JD Powell
Benjamin Fosterbrooks
High Street
Church
Hope
Barton Streets
John Wing Munro
Wardwell Street
Edward Colt
Constitution
James H Gladding
Charles H. Tilley
Wood and
Catherine Streets
High and
Marmaduke Mason
Constitution Streets
Franklin Street
High
Wood Streets
William Allen Manchester
Constitution Street
Thames
Loton High Street
Church and
Benjamin Easterbrooks
Patrick Himmel
State Street
Allyn's
Ann McLoughlin
Allyn
Bourn’s Avenue
Messrs. Pearce & Lawless
Thames Streets
James Anderson
Thames Street
State
Bradford Streets
Reynold's Manufacturing Company
Court Streets
Methodist Church
The North and the South: Reconstruction Reconsidered by Wendell Phillips
The third Association Course lecture by Wendell Phillips on The North and the South argues for a true reconstruction of government. Phillips wields strong oratory to shape audience belief, though lay readers may dispute practicality. His ideas are presented as weighty and aimed at all American citizens to ponder.
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North Carolina
Holden
North
South
Johnson
Association
Wendell Phillips
Greece
Rome
Patrick Henry
Continental Congress
Tere
Sins of Malta Inflicting on Hope Street Sidewalks
Town council urged to curb the Sins of Malta amid obstructed Hope street sidewalks. Barn destruction reported on Olivar street near Manchester. A Fort Casco fortification unearthed an Indian grave site, with bones indicating a very tall subject. Sidewalk improvements near the late William Fales estate noted.
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Malta
Hope Street
Fort Casco
William Fales
Holiday goods at Griffin’s store attract wide shoppers
We are daily reminded of the near holidays by the extensive preparations at Mr. T. J. Griffin’s store. His stock exceeds any previous effort in this town with hundreds of splendid presents for friends. Prices suit every pocket as Christmas and New Year gifts are displayed in a vast, tempting assortment.
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T. J. Griffin
Donations to the Y M C A Board for new rooms total 570 dollars
The Board of Managers of the Y M C A gratefully acknowledges donations for furnishing their new rooms and other purposes. Contributors include John R. Gardner Robert Ropera Reynold's Manufacturing Co Camp Brunsen Sherry National Rubber Co Elisha Hathaway D C H R Doringh Joseph C Skaden Willard Struthers C H Dabney D Berrien George Robertson I Heinemann Henry C Murphy and others, totaling 570 dollars with more to follow.
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BY. M. C. Association
John R. Gardner
Robert Ropera
Reynold’s Manufacturing Co
Richmond Manufacturing Co
Camp, Brunsen & Sherry
National Rubber Co
Elisha Hathaway
C. H. R. Doringh
Joseph C. Skaden
N. York City
Willard & Struthers
C.H. Dabney
D. Berrien
George Robertson
I. Heinemann
Henry C. Murphy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Burglar Foiled at Hope Street Home by Wary Inmates
An attempted break in at the house of Mrs. Colt on Hope street occurred last Saturday between three and four in the morning. A would be thief woke the resident dog with his activity, and one occupant fired a pistol as the intruder fled, with his legs carried him away from the area.
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Palestine
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
God
Blond ix
Hellingford
United States
Somerville
Mara
Wm Kinaman
Ipswich
Mase
Tiverton
Borrep
Henry Rhodes
Manchester
Olivar Street
Hope
High Streets
Tobias
Simpson I.tobias
Hiram Woodruff
Col
Philo. P. Bush
Jerome Race Course
Yorkham
New York
Navivete
Notable Lecture to Be Delivered by Rev Henry W Bellows
The tenth lecture of the course will be given by Rev Henry W Bellows D D of New York on Friday evening next at the venue.
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Gov Ward
New Jersey
National Republican Central Committee
Washington
Henry W. Bellows
D. D
New York
Joan
Ea The Farm and Fireside Weekly Debuts
A weekly paper titled Ea The Farm and Fireside will begin on January 8 and focus on agricultural interests horticultural intelligence stock raising rural architecture and related topics. The periodical is published by 8. 8. Foss Esq publisher of the Woonsocket Patriot.
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Foss
Woonsocket Patriot
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