Post Office rate reform eyed amid surplus gains
The message urges postal rate reductions based on historical precedents, arguing a growing surplus in the Post Office and potential revenues for the government. It outlines proposed cuts in first class letters and compares past reforms in 1845 and 1851, with predicted short term deficits weathered by increased mail volume and possible merchandise charges.
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Post- Minasterdie
Tam
Post-office Department
Neress
Department OF Justice
Mar Reute
Supreme Court of
Congress
Interior Department
Secretary of the Interior
Forcily
Address by President Arthur on unity and prosperity 1882
In his year end address President Arthur lauds national harmony and growing wealth. He notes improved foreign relations reduced sectional tensions and strong harvests and mining outputs. He urges prudence patriotism and economy guiding Congress and the Executive toward united measures. Washington December 4 1882.
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Congress
Civil Service
Great Britain
Executive
Senate
Garfield
Army
Navy
Chester A. Arthur
Washington
Repartee and Bathos in the Supreme Court
A Century Magazine remark on court rhetoric cites a flamboyant brief opening that mixed poetry and praise of national symbols. It contrasts terse, direct advocacy with florid eloquence that provoked amused, impatient reactions from Justices.
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Repartee
Bathos
Supreme Court
Marshall
Maine
Vallombrosa
A Thousand Million Suns
Astronomical estimates of the sun's distance grow as star positions are measured. Telescopes reveal vast numbers of stars. Galileo and Herschel expanded visible heavens. Proctor notes a thousand million suns could be seen with complete celestial examination, underscoring immense cosmic grandeur.
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Sirius
Vega
Canopus
Galileo
Herschel
Prof
Proctor
Belgravia
Weights of Women Vary, Exposition Finds Average
A Detroit Free Press note reports in Boston the average woman weighs 124 pounds while at the Cincinnati Exposition the figures rise to 183 pounds across Ohio Indiana and Kentucky. The piece mocks the contrast as a hominy against the bean diet.
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Boston
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Cincinnati Exposition
Detroit
Venomous Beasts and the British Bull as Field Hazard
In this Pall Mall Gazette piece the author mocks tropical dangers while highlighting England’s own pestilential foes. Harvest bugs, mosquitoes, and wasps torment naturalists, yet the domestic bull becomes the enduring menace, capable of wrecking field work and crime penalties alike. The essay blends humor with a wary look at safe and risky encounters in Britain.
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Fangland
Deponent
Tropics
British Isles
England
West Indies
Africa
Middlesex
British Islands
Pall Mall Gazette
Trinidad Cocoanuts and East Coast Trade Surges
A Trinidad correspondent describes booming cocoanut production in British West Indies, shipping routes from Port of Spain to England and Barbadoes, and new local plantations. The piece notes rising yields, pricing, and the shift away from sending entire nuts to the United States while detailing shipment mechanics and a 1,850,118 nut count for Feb 1 to Aug 14.
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Bsand
Trinidad
British West Indies
Oil and Paint Review
Port of Spain
Barbadoes
England
United States
Trinidadj
New York
Philadelphia
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Inerior
Alaska
Commissioner of Agriculture
District OF Columbia
Louisiana
Smalley
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