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Newspaper

Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1889

Page

8

Montana Abundance Describes Northwest Climate and Growth

Descriptive letter from Great Falls Montana in 1889 extols mild winters, rich soils, and rapid settlement. Details vast rivers and plains, coal and mineral wealth, and rail links from St Paul to western markets. Highlights Montana as a future agricultural and industrial hub with growing cities and livestock prospects.

Sesom Northwest Montana Great Facus Chicago Mississippi Rocky Mountains Pacific Coast New York Lewis and Clarke Missouri Manitoba New England Dakota Arctic Atlantic Europe Britain Norway Sweden Edinburgh St. Petersburg Stockholm Christiana Sitka Alaska Great Falls Gulf of Mexico England Japan Asia Pacific Ocean Arctic Circle British Columbia Washington Oregon United States Omaha Russia Globe Grand Forks Red River Lake Winnipeg Saskatchewan Lake Traverse Big Storm Lake Minnesota Hudson’s Bay Lake Superior Columbia Republic Colorado Denver Sacramento Great Britain Chateau Dawson Iowa Milk Marias Sun Teton Frost Lands The Montana Wool Grower Fort Benton Mounted Police British Dominion United States Army Quartermaster General St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Mississippi River Missouri River St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Plains Helena Gulf London St. Paul Niagara Behring Strait Minneapolis Lowell Nature Montana Central Neihart Valley Union Pacific Butte Washington Territory California

Not on His Knee, Though in a Bus Scene

A bus crowd holds silence as Mrs Tompkins declines and then sits on her husband Tompkins at home, prompting no formal relief from the conductor who had offered an outside seating option.

Tompkins Mrs. Tompkins

Capital Pot Pourri: tariff fights and social glare

Washington dispatch reports Congress wrestling with a tariff bill from Mills committee. Key issues include revenue origin rules, South Dakota and North Dakota admissions by proclamation, and Panama protection funding. Elliott seated in the House triggers riotlike scenes. Cabinet jockeying and social life in Washington dominate the rest.

WaAsurinoton D. C House Mills Senate House of Representatives McKinley House Appropriations Committee Cowles McMillin South Dakota Sioux Falls North Dakota Ontana Washington Territory New Mexico Conference Oberly Northwest Commissioner of Indian Affairs Vilas Gregory Harrison Congress Panama Elliott Johnson Indiana Crisp Smalls Oates United States Olymphia Brown Department of Agriculture Norman J. Colman Blaine Rusk Wanamaker Thomas’ Boom Secretary of the Navy Chandler Thomas Perry Belmont Madrid Belmont Curry Seville State Department A. EK. Stevenson Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Colman Stevenson Committee On Judiciary District Court George F. Edmunds Judiciary Committee Glarensee Whch Fuller

Statue of Gen. Cass Unveiled in Washington D C

Michigan's first Statuary Hall contribution Lewis Cass is depicted delivering an address. The seven foot statue rests on Tennessee marble with Michigan coat of arms and bears only the name Cass. Cass born 1782 Exeter N H. long public career including governor, senator, secretary of state and Civil War era sympathies with Union.

Washington Washington, D. C Michigan Statuary Hall Lewis Cass Gen. Cass United States Tennessee Exeter N. H Procter Battle of the Thames Canada Detroit Harrison Northwest United States Senate Taylor Senate Im Lsi Gen Cass Buchanan Wight Maj Anderson Fort Sumter

Edgerton’s Tart Talk Accuses Cleveland of Mugwump Tactics

Judge A P Edgerton, recently removed as Civil Service Commissioner, writes an open letter to President accusing Grover Cleveland of pandering to mugwumps to win with Democrats. He blasts Cleveland’s leadership, defends civil service reform, and details alleged political manipulation and personal distrust within the commission.

Civil Service Cleveland Washington Special Telegram A. P. Edgerton Civil Service Commissioner Acee Thompson Maugwump Ope Juvenal Democratic Party Mr. Thompson Sun Barnes Missouri Congress House of Representatives Benjamin Harrison United States Grover Cleveland Edgerton Agene New York Boston West

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