Chinese Immigration Debate and School Incident
A discussion on Chinese immigration critiques Pacific coast policies and calls for federal review. It notes Meade's testimony on policing in San Francisco and concerns over morality laws, while urging better treatment of Chinese merchants and scholars and a new immigration department. Also recounted is a South Jamaica school incident where teacher Miss Annie Teller punished a disruptive student, aided by a large pupil’s father, leading trustees to back strong discipline to keep the school open.
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Cheyenne
Meade
Congress
Pacific Coast
Supreme Court
San Francisco
Pacific Slope
Sacramento
California
Puacific
China
Department of Immigration
South Jamaica
Annie Teller
Smith
Teller
This is the house that Sam built
Fragmented political rhyme catalog tracing allies and rivals from House to Electoral Commission with a running image of a malt, a mouse, a cat, and a cow amid a critical, satirical portrait of the era's Democratic landscape and public offices.
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Sam
The
Republic
Returning Board
Democratic Party
Farrow
House of Representatives
Senate
Electoral Commission
Cronin
Ohio message hints at high offices held by her sons
A quip notes that Ohio could feel superior as a mother with sons occupying four top posts: the presidency, the chief justice, the army chief, and the head of the treasury. It cites Waite, Sherman, and John Sherman as examples, implying pride in family influence across national power.
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Ohio
Tayes, Waite
W. T. Sherman
John Sherman
Tilden Retires After Record-Long Run Behind Curtains
Mr. Tilden steps into private life amid cheers, reflecting on his achievement as the longest run on record marks a historic sporting career.
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Mr. Tilden
A Novel Speech on Cronin Nose and Grover Cheek
A mock parliamentary speech rails at revolution and reform. The speaker lampoons Cronin nose and Grover’s cheek, mocks Gramercy Park leadership, and critiques a commission’s partisan decisions while praising unlikely political figures and aspirational prosperity.
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Achilles
Hectors
Ajax
Gramercy Park
Kentucky
White House
Egypt
Turkey
Tunis
France
Germany
England
Cronin
Tilden
Republic
Solomon
Gronin
Grover
End of an Era as South Regions Seek New Alliances
A historical reminiscence notes the campaign’s disappointments and misapprehensions. It laments political shifts, the collapse of party unity, and the fading influence of key figures. The speaker forecasts a revised Southern path toward constitutionality, harbor improvement, river deepening, commerce growth, and iron infrastructure reaching from coast to coast.
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Grover
Cronin
Hewitt
Palmer
Pelton
Tilden
Gobble
Reform
Sierras
The Leader faces gambler row and editor defiance
The Leader defends its anti gambling stance amid a Cheyenne dispute over recent shooting reports. Delegations threaten to confront the editor, while the paper recalls its fight against gaming licenses and condemns patrons who deserted it. Officials who passed the law are criticized as hypocritical.
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Cheyenne
Answers to Correspondents in a Wry Almanac Style
A collection of humorous Q and A snippets from various personas such as O K, Billy, Lucy, Jo, Miner, Wisdom, Bachelor, George, Scientific, Piety, and Horace. Each entry offers wry social commentary on topics from religion and marriage to daily life and manners. The piece reads as a playful, period voice column with brief, punchy lines.
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O. K
Billy
Lucy
California
George
Horace
Col. W. R. Steele to Return to Cheyenne as Lawyer
Col. W. R. Steele, former Delegate in Congress, plans to leave Washington today or tomorrow for Cheyenne to resume law practice. He will stop in Ohio for a few days and is expected to arrive here around the first of next month.
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Col. W. R. Steele
Congress
Washington
Cheyenne
Ohio
Banking and mining notes from Deadwood visit and moves
N R Pinney of Woolsey mine and mill arrives with ore samples. W R Stebbins of Stebbins Post Co plans to open a Deadwood branch bank, absent about two months. S N Wood of Colorado National Bank resigns to join Stebbins Post as partner and heads to Deadwood April 1. Denver will miss him.
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N. R. Pinney
Hsg
Woolsey
Deadwood
S. N. Wood
Colorado National Bank of Denver
Colorado
Wood
Black Hills
ElDorado
Stebbins, Post & Co
Denver
Hayes Luck on Fridays in a Presidential Tale
A historical note chronicles multible Hayes milestones tied to Fridays. It records nominations for governor and president on Fridays, the Electoral Commission formed on a Friday but signed on Monday, and state outcomes like Florida Louisiana Oregon all tying to subsequent Fridays. It concludes with Hayes’s election declaration and his Washington arrival on a Friday.
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Hayes
Ohio
Electoral Commission
Florida
Louisiana
Oregon
Washington
How They Raised a Dinner in Eureka's Early Days
Four New York cavalier owners of fine properties, short of cash, devise a plan to obtain beef and vegetables. One pins a steak to a victim's coat tail while others distract the butcher and provoke bystanders with potatoes and onions. The victim flees, mob pelts him with produce, and the quartet loot vegetables, then dine on beer stew, leaving the butcher amused yet exasperated.
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Eureka
New York
Cafton
Military Matters Leave and assignments in cavalry and infantry courts martial
One month leave granted to First Lieut. Oscar Elting and Second Lieut. George F. Chase as they serve on a general court martial at Fort D. A. Russell replacing Capt. Gerald Russell. Adams: the Fort Laramie court will adjourn sine die after trial. Second Lieut. Mason receives one month leave with possible three month extension. First Lieut. Leonard Way granted fifteen days. Major Thornburgh to remain at Sidney barracks to pay troops for February 28, 1877 and then travel to Camps Robinson and Sheridan to pay Sioux scouts on discharge. Major Verling K. Hart and Second Lieut. Charles H. Watts added to Fort McPherson court martial. First Lieut. John B. Babcock named judge advocate at Fort McPherson.
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Oscar Elting
Third Cavalry
George F. Chase
Fort D. A
Charles W. Mason
Fourth Infantry
Reno
Leonard Way
Ninth Infantry
T. T. Thornburgh
Sidney Barracks
Nebraska
Robinson
Sheridan
Verling K, Hart
Fifth Cavalry
Charles H. Watts
Fort McPherson
Neb
John B. Babcock
P. VY. Barnard
Young Kentucky boy meets President and Grant in Washington
A Lynchburg News correspondent in Washington describes a ten year old Kentucky lad, John Young Brown Jr., who, driven by pioneer Virginia blood, attended a National Theatre matinee alone. He entered the president’s box, introduced himself, was warmly received by General Grant, and invited to visit the president personally.
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Young Kentucky
Lynchburg
Washington
John Young Brown
Virginia
National Theatre
Republic
John Young Brown, Jr
Kentucky
Grant
Ate Father
Public mood on spring weather sparks mock duel in streets
In a Washington Union blurb the public quarrel over March weather features two men at the Post Office corner. One bets on warmth and predicts an early spring while the other demands heat and threatens with a punch if snow returns. The exchange ends with a cheer for strawberries and string beans.
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Growlers
Washington Union
Iceberg on the Delaware River a striking sight
A rock barrier opposite Atterbury's in the Delaware River trapped drifting ice from the recent breakup. Ice cakes piled into a mass twenty feet high and a quarter acre wide, forming an iceberg-like formation. It may take most of the summer to melt unless a freshet washes it away.
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Atterbury’s
Delaware River
Delaware
Trenton State
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John Chinaman
America
South
Lamar
Randall
Agamemnon
Delaware Icebery
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