Tilden cipher saga and royal rumblings across nations
A stream of diverse notes covers Tilden’s presidential trail jokes and cipher talk, Greek quarantine against plague, Balkan politics, the U S Supreme Court whisky cases date, and reform debates. It notes Butler in Massachusetts, Trieste Italians, and a ship captain’s prayer debate aboard a stormtossed vessel.
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B. 5
Butler
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Triestm
Austria
Italy
Potter Committee
Republican Party
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Washington
Chicago
Chicago Journal
St. Patrick’s
Ivrelands
Supreme Court
Kate Kellock
San Francisco
Mersey
Board of Trade
Omaha Herald
Caleb Cushing
Jefferson Davis
Pierce
Robert McClelland
London
Liverpool
Edmunds Resolution Passes Senate Amid Election Controversy
The Edmunds resolutions, pushed through by a strict party vote, define party stances on election frauds and violence in the south. Democrats largely opposed while Republicans claimed full commitment, with some democrats dodging the vote.
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Senate
United States
Union
Congress
Executive Department
Committee On the Judiciary
Democrats
Edmunds
Sidmunds
Judge Davis
Army Reorganization Scheme Passed With Modest Cuts
The Banning army re organization plan attached to the army appropriation bill trims infantry regiments from twenty five to eighteen and removes 136 line officers. Cavalry drops to eight regiments with an added battalion, artillery stays five regiments with 15 officer cuts. The bill also reshapes the reserved and retired officer lists, shifts some officers to instructors or pension work, and reduces the pay department and staff budgets.
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Congress
Quartermaster General
Army
Fashionable Finer Things Dominate The Season
Feminine frivolities sweep the season with muffs veils and hats in white satin and fur robes in dark hues. Bridal dress styling features tulle veils, satin ribbons, cream gloves, and matching lace trims. Men wear rough gray ulsters, fur-lined coats, and boating brooches across oars.
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Paris
Floating Fun and Found Garbles in a Sunday Sermon
A humorous collection of brief vignettes from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper. The Rev Mr Colfelt jokes on religious zeal and public life in Brooklyn and Augusta while a grocer riffs on Sunday milk sales. A snowball incident exposes a boy’s innocence and a Maine chaplain jokes about legislators. A jealous Massachusetts widow blocks burial beside her late husband.
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Illinois
Chicago
New York Sunday Times
Tilden
Colfelt
Brooklyn
Talmage’s
Augusta
Maine
Ife
Massachusetts
Jim
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Toe
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Troy
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Rothschild
Prince Labanoff
Constantinople
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Florida
Judah P. Benjamin
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Brother Talmage
Committee of Investigation
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Cutler
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Randall
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