Strawberry Festival Delights at Funk's Hall in Corydon
Women of Corydon organized a rapid impromptu Strawberry Festival at Funk's Hall raising about sixty eight dollars and fifty cents. Miss Had S Maggie S Kate M Annie V Fanny D Ellen P and Mrs Sallie H led candy edibles flowers lemonade and more as proceeds go to fund church improvements. County buildings receive repairs as commissioners push economical work. A sharp practice tale from Corydon notes a clerk collected divorce costs via a marriage license scheme.
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Grant Colfax Across Nation Debates Tariffs and Debt
The Philadelphia Press attacks Colfax for favoring high tariffs and gold payments on five-twenty bonds, aligned with bondholders and New England interests. It contrasts Grant's military record and political support with Pendleton's financial plan to retire debt using greenbacks, arguing for immediate debt relief and cheaper borrowing.
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Extravagant public spending cited in Lincoln memorial volume
Indianapolis Sentinel denounces Congress overtaxation and wasteful costs. It cites a 940 page Lincoln memorial volume priced at 100000 and bound in soft style as a symbol of reckless public spending. The piece notes a Georgia Senate race with a contested election over a felon Bradley and another jailed black member-elect.
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