Winter Advertisements from December 16 1869
A compact ad list includes John F. Smith Wrenés Hog, Stine & Bro Winter Clothing, H M Backman & Co Bil liard Hall, A Cosgrove & Co Want Agents, I F Brown Rating house, Adam Wilson Bankrupt Notice, TP Barton Trustee's Sales, C Rohker Saloon, C H Packard Jewelry for Holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrearenes Ag
John F. Smith
Stine & Bro
H. M. Backman & Co
Billiard Hall
A. Cosgrove & Co
I. FE. Brown—Rating House
Adam Wilson
Barton
Trustee's Sales Best
Morgan—verything
C. Rohker
C. H. Packard
Convention in disarray over temporary chairmen in Springfield
From Springfield the Constitutional Convention began to organize on Monday but is currently split over temporary leadership. Dement of Dixon and Carey of Galena each claim the chair and attempt to act as chairman, prompting frustration among Republicans seeking stable control.
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Springfield
Dement
Dixon
Carey
Galena
President Grant's Message Receives Cautious Review
The editorial endorses the President's Message while scrutinizing Reconstruction policy in Georgia and Congress. It supports tax cuts on incomes, calls for tariff reductions on coal and salt, and favors gradual specie resumption. The piece notes a desire for stricter constitutional adherence and warns against destabilizing bondholder policies.
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Capitol
Washington
den. Grant
Ile
Congress
Georgia
Tennessee
Thad Stevens
Henry Winter Davis
Pendleton
Grant
Gen. Grant
Hog cholera fears sweep parts of Kentucky and Milliais
Reports from across the country warn of hog cholera decimating hog herds in Kentucky and southern Milliais. The piece notes no local cases in the author’s area and urges mixed feeding to prevent disease. It also mentions a Spanish civil unrest update with a potential coup by General Jim.
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Kentucky
Milliais
Jrim
Spain
Siete Pal
Tepublicanicin
Supreme Court should stay out of war and politics
A 19th century urging that the U S Supreme Court remain separate from war and political questions. The piece cites Taney on Dred Scott, defends States Rights settled by battlefield logic, and argues fencing the court from war duties while Congress handles politics. It also notes General Cespedes’s Cuba proclamations and mocks Cuban wartime bravado.
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Trumbull
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
Supreme Court
Taney
Dred Scott
Supreme Bench
Congress
Judge Trumbull
Census Bill debate calls for new officers in each district
In Congress, Butler backs census by current officers under internal revenue. critics argue new district officers ensure fuller data and public cooperation. The piece also reviews Harper's Weekly on British resumption of specie payments, urging cautious timing tied to specie accumulation and gradual contraction.
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Congress
Ben Butler
Internal Revenue Bureau
Revenue
Butler
Pension Agents oppose attorneys drawing pensions
The United States Pension Agents press Washington to ban attorneys from collecting pensions. We urge Congress to slow this move. Currently agents keep clerks acting as attorneys to draw pensions, filling out sworn blanks for pensioners often too illiterate to sign. Abolishing attorneys entirely would unfairly hand a monopoly to in-office lawyers.
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United States
Washington
Pension Committee
Congress
Coburn bills to sell idle Treasury gold in Congress
Hon John Coburn of Indiana has introduced a bill to authorize selling all gold in the Treasury not needed for interest and other payments. The Nation knew General Coburn as a plain go ahead man, and this proposal asks to set idle gold afloat rather than remain unused.
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John Coburn
Congress
Indiana
Coburn
Thirtythird
Demorest's Magazine offers Pic-Nic on the Fourth premium
Publishers announce a premium engraving The Pic-Nic on the Fourth of July to accompany Demorest's Monthly. The elaborate illustrated monthly aids fashion and literature and adds a stylish parlor ornament for subscribers.
Dick & Frazcerato Publish Cooking and Etiquette Guides
New York publishers Dick & Frazcerato send How to Cook and How to Carve with plain directions for cooking and serving every dish from simple to complex. They also issue Laws and By-Laws of American Society a witty treatise on cliquette. The first is instructive, the second amusing.
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Dick & Frazcerato, Book Publishers
New York
Court of Claims praised as wise Congress act
Parton in December Atlantic lauds the Court of Claims as a forward step in government noting its ability to let citizens claim rights before a tribunal without endless lobbying. It explains how the court reduces wasteful proceedings, guides bureaus, and even transfers awards to the Treasury. It also discusses salaries and temptations facing judges.
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Congress
Court of Claims
Sir Frederick Bruce
Washington
America
Nott
Samuel H. Huntington
Committee On Claims
Secretary of the Treasury
Supreme Court
Parton
Atlantic
Specie Payments urged by Treasury Secretary Boutwell
The report argues against resuming specie payments while five twenty bonds dominate debt held by European bankers and merchants. It warns of potential panic and bank suspensions, favors withdrawing most five-twenty bonds, substituting safer ones, and gradually reducing paper currency to ease a future resumption.
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Geo. S. Boutwell
the Treasury
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Pope decrees cardinal-only papal succession rule
A Rome telegram reports the Pope in his infallibility has issued a decree stating that if he dies the Ecumenical Council will be dissolved and only Cardinals may participate in electing his successor. The Spanish gun boats built in New York and previously held by the President have been transferred to the Spanish Minister.
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Cespedes
Cuba
New York City
Rome
New York
Military Governors Recommend Restoring Civil Order in Georgia
Major General Terry urges resuming military control and forming a Provisional Legislature excluding ineligible members to restore order in Georgia. Halleck advises Congress to decide on military district status, while Ames reports violence and juror protections. Reynolds notes limited civil machinery with military aid. Mower credits militia action and Governor Clayton with restoring quiet in Arkansas.
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Lotthy
Terry
Georgia
Adjutant General’s
Third Military District
Florida
Alabama
Halleck
South
Congress
Albert D. Ames
Mississippi
Vicksburg
J.G. Crane
J. J. Reynolds
District of Texas
United States
James A. Mower
Arkansas
Clayton
Infidelity debate fails to shake Bible claim in Davis
In Davis New Limerick December 6 189, Mr Underwood of Boston lectured to oppose the Bible but offered no argument to overthrow scripture. The writer defends the Bible as tested and universal, praising its power and the spread of its truth.
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Underwood
Boston
Mass
Davis
France
Davis, NL
Havana Predicts Brown Sugar Hits Forty Cents
The Havana papers forecast sugar prices rising to forty cents per pound within a year. They project tighter markets and higher costs for consumers as brown sugar gains value in the coming months.
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Havana
General Sheridan on the Amendment at Cincinnati
Sheridan proclaims belief in equal voting rights for the black and white man, arguing loyalty and courage matter beyond race. He recalls Civil War comrades, rejects race as barrier to citizenship, and emphasizes that the man worthy to fight beside him is worthy to vote. He frames his creed as simple: the good man stands with me.
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General Sheridan
Cincinnati
Heney
America
Northwest Railway Moves Into Monroe Region
A revived railroad push in Monroe County centers on a potential Northwestern Company drive toward Monroe and Calamine. Reports claim the Platte Calamine line may be bought and extended via Freeport, Warren, and Dubuque routes, reshaping grain tariffs and freight flows toward Illinois Central and river outlets. Local observers note possible links from Monroe to Calamine and Platteville to Dubuque, with plans to push iron and track progress toward Riverside and beyond.
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Monroe
Northwestern Company
Platte Calamine
Th Western
Freeport
Dubuque
Chicago
Illinois
Freepar
Reasory
Warren
Northwestern
Lena
Illinois Central Company
Freeps
Platteville
Cals
N. W. Co
Calam
N. W
Ville
Calamine
Illinois Centre Mineral Paint
Mineral Point
Point
Pineries
Wisconsin
The
Ranaan
Warren Sentinel
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U. S. Supreme Court
Harper’s Weekly
Bank of England
England
Amiens
House of Commons
Robert Peel
Peel
Patent Office
Freeport Weekly Journal
Infidelity
Vox Popunt
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