Pundits and Pensions Across the Nation in 1883
Onondaga county orders indictments against newsdealers for obscene prints. A Washington correspondent notes Mrs Hayes portraits at the White House, while pension disbursements reach 60 million dollars a year. Reports contest polar climate, jury humor, national wealth estimates, labor shares, and a separatist plan for a colored territory as a separate state.
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Onondaga County
New York
Police
Washington
Shall the Races Separate in North and South
A column identifies rising numbers of educated African Americans who favor segregation and outlines the Separatists movement aiming to enforce racial separation as the solution after eighteen years of nominal freedom. It argues political and social progress is limited for blacks under current conditions and calls for policy change.
Pacific islands fate and U.S. options in Hawaii question
The article argues native Hawaiian depopulation proceeds without violence, urging the United States to block any transfer to European powers and to consider closer ties with King Kalakaua or eventual annexation, while also noting U.S. vigilance near the Southwest. It then reports on the Hennepin Canal campaign, naming organizers J. C. Dore, C. H. Deere, L. H. Helman, Edward Russell, and T. J. Robinson, advocating federal funding to connect St. Paul to Lake Michigan via several routes, urging action before opposition grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich Islands
Pacific Ocean
Union
Honolulu
United States of America
Kalakaua
Washington
South Pacific
Southwest
Illinois and Mississippi Canal and Improvement Commission
Michigan and Mississippi Canal Commission
J.C. Dore
Chicago
C. H. Deere
Moline
Ill
L. H. Helman
Newark
Edward Russell
Davenport
Iowa
T. J. Robinson
Rock Island
Great Britain
Africa
India
Ilinois
Hennepin Canal
Congress
Victoria
Bross
Northwest
W. H. H. Benguard
U. S
Meredosia
Watertown
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Mennepin
Hager Harrison
France
Germany
England
Minnesota
Dacota
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Cullom
Illinois River
Springer
House
Ilinois and Michigan Canal
Chicago & North
Western RailwAy
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Dakota
Manitoba
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
California
Oregon
Freshington Territory
British Columbia
China
Japan
Australia
New Zealand
Union Depo
West
North-Western
Council Bluffs
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
North
J.D. Layng
Marvin Hughitt
Alanaver
H. Stennett
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THE
Dixon Sun
W. M. Kennedy
Dixon, Illinois
United States
North Pole
Lieut
Ray
Point Barrow
Pole
Florida
Springfield
Gov. Palmer
United Kingdom
America
Republic
Sandwich Islands Possibilities
Ilinois and
Mississippi River Canal Improvement Commission
Chica
Hossery
Pui
Germantown
Saxony
Stern Bros
Opera Block
Dixon, Iut
Brubaker
Brubaker & Carpenter
North Dixon
Ramsey Brothers
City Bridge
B. B. Higgins
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