Weekly Leader item from August 8 1878 Washington telegraph
Washington dispatches report Treasury orders resuming paper, Hayes impeachment push, and public land funding cuts. Other items cover Rio Grande raids, Mexican company formations, and cabinet notes. Western and eastern briefs include trials, labor strikes, shipyard crimes, and western town incidents with multiple named places and figures.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Springer
Potter Committee
Hayes
House
Congress
Secretary of War
Rio Grande
United States
Mexico
Ord
New York
Buffalo
Rarus
Splan
Barus
Sherman
Burnside
Walter HH. Shupe
Advocate
Potter Investigating
McVeagh Commission
C. H. Stone
Hale
West Thirtyfourth Street
John Christopher
Preventing Chinese Labor Across Nations and Parliaments
The piece argues Chinese labor undercuts white workers by underbidding wages and saving profits abroad. It cites Australia’s resolution condemning Chinese government contracts and denying responsibility for such labor in government work, calling it a strong precedent for white labor interests likely to influence Congress.
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Babel
Cuba
Brazil
Peru
Central America
Mexico
Australia
United States
Congress
North Carolina Votes Democratic in DOTS AND DASHES
The report notes North Carolina has swung to the Democratic side. The Imperial Bank of Germany reports a rise in specie holdings by 176000 marks.
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North Carolina
Imperial Bank of Germany
New York Money and Stock Market Highlights
New York on August 6 reports gold closing at 100. Silver bars at 1103 greenbacks 51143 gold. Easy money at 25. Stocks and governments firm. Quicksilver 12, Pacific 184, Wells Fargo 90, New York Central 108, Erie 174, Union Pacific 664, U BP bonds 1104, Central Pacific bonds 1054.
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New York
Greenbacks
Western Union
Quicksilver
Pacific
Mariposa
Wells-Fargo
New York Central
Erie
Panama
Union Pacific
U. BP. Bonds
Central Pacific Bonds
Livestock Market Report Cuscano August 6
Receipts at 2,800 cattle with market mixed. Natives and bulls to 3.60 to 4.40 for cattle, cows 9.40 to 5.25, bulls 1.70 to 2.10, light steers 2.90 to 8.50. Western Texan cattle abundant, Texas cows to Colorado natives 2.00 to 3.15. Sheep receipts 370, shipments 360, market weak at 2.80 to 8.30.
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Texas
Colorado
Lasting Peace Debate Over Berlin Treaty Promise
The essay questions Beaconsfield’s claim of lasting peace after the Berlin Treaty. It notes Turkish unrest, Rhodes and Scio gains, Albanian arming, and Montenegrin and Bosnian fighting amid European powers’ shifting influence. It argues the treaty may merely alter the eastern question, not resolve it, and calls for revision.
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Beaconsfield
Turkey
Bosnia
Mostara
England
Berlin
Gladstone
Poland
Allan's Anti Fat advertised as vegetable remedy
An 19th century ad touts Allan's Anti Fat as a safe vegetable cure for corpulency claiming a loss of three to six pounds per week. It references a doctor questioning dropsy and compares the outcome to Othello, noting the medicine is sold by druggists in Geodaw.
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Juniper Lake Country
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Stein Mountains
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Owyhee River
Lemhi
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Big Bottom
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Carter
Smith
Hanson
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White Bird
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Debreczin
Perth
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Porte
Moster
Herzegovina
Cyprus
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Garnet Wolsely
Todleben
Schouvaloff
Paris
France
Denain
Department of Nord
Arkansas
Allan
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