Indian Lands and Rail Grants in Cleveland Address 1885
President Cleveland outlines policy on allotment of Indian lands, surveys, and protection of settlers. He denounces railroad land grants diverted to private uses, calls for reform, and cites pension, civil service, and district library needs with focus on governance and national integrity.
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Vite Mountain
Arizona
Mexico
Sean
Winnebago
Crow Creek
United States
New York
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Alassysippi River
United State
Taesiic Ocean
Polar Sea
Ion
Alaska
Secreta Interior
UN Pyeitie
Freud
Old-Time Southern Supper Brings Reminiscences of Generals Circle
At a southern supper, a group aged 35 to 70 shared memories of General Jackson's era. Four had been neighbors or intimate friends of Jackson, praising his mud-wounded wife. One relative had a role in Jackson’s duel, and another attended a Hickory marriage ceremony. A veteran woman, Kalo, in her eighties, claims second sight and wide reading.
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Jackson
Hickory
Kalo
Public auction nets ten dollars in receiver’s certificates
A road repair project funded through certificates was sold at public auction for ten dollars, paid not in cash but in receiver’s certificates bought at a discount. The piece also notes a story about a quarrel at home ending with a drunken husband’s arrest scare, reported by the Detroit Free Press.
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Arkansas Central Railroad Company
Sanpmient
Soptlar Science Monthly
Farm DeceptionPloy Echoes Family Strife
A man named William pressures his aging father to deed half the farm and plans to move his parents in with him and Sally. The father pretends weakness, hinting at a deed handover only when he nears the poor house. William muses whether Sally is mortally injured or crippled as the convention ends.
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An & Train
Extel
Cook
Ist
Europe
Asia
Africa
Bourogna
Paris
Urals
Johnny
George
Area Country
Gwade
J. Lindedle
William
Sally
N. Y
Jailhouse Tavern in New Nebraska Frontier Tale
An anonymous traveler visits a frontier jail tavern where the sheriff greets him kindly. Patrons joke about jail life as the owner insists no jail “locks” and warns inmates must not burden the host, while the traveler questions how order is kept. The piece frames rough frontier justice and informal governance.
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Nebraska
Jim
Jita
Pertickler
New York Sun
Seance Intrigue Disrupts Brother at Boston House
An amused account from the Boston Record describes Prof Jacques famed for psychical research and his curious family. His brother visits, but is met at every turn by voices urging quiet to avoid disturbing a trance, a seance, and a sleeping baby.
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Jacques
Honss
Boston Record
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Commssioner of Pensions
Army
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Alese
Daren
Promer
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Utah
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Epernthem
Lown
Clellservice
Kod
Havin
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Atian
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Congress
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Tex
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Marshall
Adonis
Dames
Washington
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St. James
Choy
Harriet Ano
Douglas
Weller
McClellan
Prince of Wales
San Francisco
Jost
Anloriey
Uckets
Dhe Orchpstra
Los Avila
Central Station
Gratiot
Frabble Avenue
Detroit Tree Press
Vic
Satches
Vtewelry
Brooke & Anderson
Mr. Brooke
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