Report on Fessenden Treasury Crisis and Gold Market Strains
The Dubuque Herald analyzes Secretary Fessenden’s report detailing Treasury difficulties, rising debt, and heavy borrowing. It notes limited tax yields, reliance on loans through June 1866, and potential currency expansion or bank-note shifts to avert danger. It emphasizes uncertain gold reserves, income from customs, and the perilous path for government finances amid ongoing war expenditures.
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Fessenden
Vensanden
Anather
Fesnanden
Mr.Chase
Ravenden
Lero
Losansara
Custoria
Chase
Wall St
Feasenden
The Ladies of Franklin Meet the Battle at Franklin Field
During the Franklin battle, the ladies of Franklin defied danger to aid wounded soldiers from both sides. They ministered with care, nursing the injured amid smoke and shellfire, earning enduring remembrance for courage and mercy in a scene of war.
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Ladies of Franklin
Franklin
Sparta
Danver
Navy
Wranklin
Jonisville
Caution Against Coal Oil Stock Schemes Warned
The article warns rural residents about coal oil stock speculation. Farmers invest large sums after persuasive agents promise guaranteed returns and secrecy. Many schemes promise riches from wells, but investors risk losses when wells yield no oil and partners profit.
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Jacor
Wheel Bang Oil Company
Mapa
Riak
Pennsylvania
Arrest of a Prussian Refugee in Troy Counts as Sensational Crime
The Troy Times reports a sensational case of Louin Goldenfauss alias Louis Geraud, a Prussian banker who forged bills and embezzled about $85,000. He was arrested in Troy with a $50,000 gold cache and extradited to New York as authorities claim he confessed. The affair stirred local excitement as friends seek to recover the safe and challenge the confession.
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Troy Times
United States
Germany
Cologne
Louin Goldenfauss
Indors
Prussia
New York
Troy
Louis Geraud
Wall Street
Pittstown
Blanerbasset
Marahal Jarvis
Hurlbut
Pictstone
Golden House
Geraud
M. J. Townsend
2. H. Baerman
Cyclone Devastates Calcutta Region Drowning Thousands
A Calcutta daily reports a cyclone causing at least five thousand deaths in the Diamond Harbour area and surrounding districts. Relief efforts are underway with medicines blankets rice and water shipped to survivors. Shipping suffered unprecedented losses across Calcutta with 19 inland steamers wrecked and 13 seriously damaged while 10 tug steamers were destroyed.
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Calcutta
Diamond Llarbor
Diamond Harbor
Auterbs
Reveley
Puckah
Katcha
Dito
Bengal
Darjverling
Calcut Ia
Death of Rebel General Cleburne In Franklin Battle
The Rebel General Patrick Br. Cleburne, known as the Big Thig Rebel, died at Franklin while leading his old division. Born March 17 1828 in Ireland, he immigrated to Arkansas and rose from private to major general. He fought at Shiloh Perryville Murfreesboro Chickamauga Missionary Ridge and Jonesboro. He was praised for leadership and popularity among troops.
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Cleburne
Patrick BR. Cleburne
Queenatown
Ireland
Helens
Arkansas
Slanly
Shiloh
Perryville
Hardee
Murfreesboro
Chickamauga
Afission Ridge
Congress
Ringgold Gap
Jonesboro
Toad
Franklin
Claburne
Census shows states leading in major crops in 1860
Illinois led in wheat and Indian corn with 23 337 023 bushels of wheat and 115 174 777 bushels of corn. Pennsylvania topped rye and buckwheat. New York had oats potatoes hay butter and cheese. Ohio led wool and wine. Virginia and Kentucky led tobacco and cotton. South Carolina rice, Georgia next, Louisiana sugar and molasses.
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Ilinois
Union
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Up Salt River Democratic Market Prices Missing
A fragment from Up Salt River dated three days after the election mocks wartime burdens and describes a fictional Democratic currency and market prices. It lists absurd, garbled prices for tobacco bacon whiskey and other goods, satirizing postwar inflation and political rhetoric.
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Salt River
Poudel
Ee ‘Paapea
Printers Strike in Boston Spurs Wide Volunteer Efforts
The Boston printers strike draws broad support from other trades. Six journals lack compository but most papers run normally. Editors, reporters, and even a Supreme Judicial Court judge offer to help with proofreading and editing. A bank cashier volunteers prepay to aid the proprietors. Lawyers and former typesetters join efforts to sustain publication.
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Boston
New England
Traveler
Herald
Supremé Bench of
Massachusetts
Ben
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