Platform of Illinois Republicans 1874 endorse civil rights and sound money
The Illinois Republican platform declares emancipation and civil rights protected by amendments, opposes canceling Treasury notes, supports universal bank charter access, favors specie payments, backs inter state transport improvements, advocates direct presidential election, upholds citizens' rights regardless of nativity or creed, and demands fair railroad charges while maintaining property rights. Delegates applaud as resolutions are adopted.
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F. W. Palmer
Cook
Committee On
Reublican Party
Illinois
United States
Treasury
National Republican Convention
Congress
Mississippi River
Llege
Republican Party
Congress ends long session with adjournment
The text notes a six o'clock adjournment on the first Tuesday closing a long session. It mentions French detectives in England pursuing Henri Rochefort and Evansville Indiana planning a monument for Mrs Lincoln. Also cites warmest June week, Iowa rail rate law, US France postal treaty, Rio cable work, and Eugene Hale becoming Postmaster General on July 1.
Sterling and Creswell Resignations Linked to House Policy
The piece reports support for Jon H. O. Burchure as congressman from the district. Postmaster General Creswell resigns, accepted by President Grant. Eugene Hale of Maine offered the postmaster general role. Creswell reportedly resigns over friction with Congress on franking, newspaper postage, and straw-bid contracts.
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Tle Sterling
Whiteside County
Standard
Jon
H. O. Burchure
Llouse
Creswell
Grant
Eugene Male
Congress
Maine
Washington
Creswe
R. Creswell
General Shermian Returns to Washington with Army HQ Move
General Shermian arrives in Washington from St. Louis after arranging the transfer of the army headquarters to Washington on October first. His staff accompanies him except for Maj Poe who stays to forward maps. Granger from Morris writes that Mr. Burchard has earned enviable reputation and honest integrity in Congress from their district.
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Shermian
Washington
St. Louis
Poe
Granger
Morris
Ole County Reporter
Burchard
Congressma
Ditrict
National Council
Chaarles Hardy
Charles Graves
Graves
J. Rue
Aue
John Reeder
Dulcina
Hale Named Postmaster General Then Hinged on Hale
The Chicago Journal notes Hon Eugene Hale, newly appointed Postmaster General, is under 40, a Maine lawyer who began as Hancock County Attorney in 1853. He served in Congress since 1868, admired for steady principles, and recently married a senator's daughter. The piece praises his ally Blaine and endorses representative Horatio C Burchard for continued support.
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Eugene Hale
Chicago Journal
Hancock County
Maine
Congress
Asaman
United States
Chandler
Michigan
Blaine
Libel Reward Headlines Rockford Times Case
The Rockford Gazette reprints the Rockford Times libel dispute with a $3,000 reward for identifying the forger of a Chicago Times May 27 slanderous piece about Miss Alice Early and others. Names, amounts, and dates listed show local citizens pledging to unmask the culprit. The report cites Rockford June 21 1874 and notes Catholic Church tensions affecting Patrons of Husbandry.
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Rockford Gazette
Rockford-Times
Gazette
Chicago Times
Story
Rockford
Alice Early
R. F. Crawford
John Early
Forbidden Fruit
John Barly Vie
Woodruff
R. P. Lane
Henry Knowles
Horace Brown
John Spafford
John Badlong
Reese
A. Q. Spafford
Wim
T. Wallis
Frank Leonard
Seely Perry
Ae Lanig
Israel Sovereign
Briggs & Enoch Aber Etree
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Chicago Journal
Distress from famine in India eases and other 1900s items
Excerpts note famine relief diminishing across India while Springfield, Massachusetts records Hugh Donahue's 7,000 mile walk in 1,000 hours. Reports cover a 25 million franc indemnity in France, losses from a New Brunswick gale, banter on Ohio Granges, Hoar declining a 1900 fall run, vetoed Massachusetts license law, Cuba's slave tax decree, teacher certs at Princeton and Sterling, a Japanese embassy tour report, a Davenport to Council Bluffs police squad, Forepaugh tents damaged in Port Washington, Milwaukee's wild man, a death and fire in Athens, Brussels International law meeting, Britain’s objections, Ohio and Michigan temperance unions, Crawford County fire with two girls burned, Iroquois chief Black Eagle killed, a German worker decapitation in Indiana, academia leaders joining Syracuse University, Mattoon Odd Fellows celebration invite and Schuyler Colfax to speak.
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Springfield
Mass
Hugh Donahue
New Brunswick
Ohio
Concha
Cuba
Princeton
Ill
Sterling
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Port Washington
Wis
Milwaukee
Canterbury bill threatens ritualist split in church
Letters from London warn Archbishop Canterbury’s bill to regulate churches could trigger mass secessions and the formation of a separate church. The unrest follows rumors of royal backing to curb ritualistic practices, alarming both clergy and laity.
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England
New York
London
Canterbury
Bartle Frera
Royal Geographical Society
Henry C. Rawlingon
Congress praised for restraint and honesty in conduct
The article lauds the Forty-third Congress for frugality and integrity, noting big retrenchments, repeal of salary increases, and rejection of lobbyist schemes. It argues for keeping good members and cautious handling of the current finance question, with mixed views on delaying resolution to the next session. Local notes report grasshoppers diminishing near Worthington and Mountain Lake, plus a long motion for a new trial in the Wintermute case in Yankton, D T.
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Capitol
Sanborn
Congress
Wintermute
McCook
Shannon
Yankton
D. T
Cuban Barbarism
A Havana letter reports a Cuban capture of a convoy of 400 men and forty cartloads of provisions in Santiago de Cuba with 400 Spaniards shot in retaliation. The de Diario notes 60,000 Spanish troops in the field, 40,000 guarding cultivated districts, 19,000 on the sick list, and 10,000 in active pursuit, insufficient to chase 6,000 to 8,000 seasoned Cuban fighters.
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New York
Havana
Santiago de Cuba
de Diario
Freeport Public Schools Annual Examinations 1874 Report
The Freeport Public Schools report outlines annual examinations and promotions with standards set at seventy percent for Primary and Intermediate and seventy five percent for Grammar and High School divisions. It lists per grade numbers examined, promoted, and class averages, naming top pupils and teachers across Lincoln Avenue, Union, Third Ward schools and various divisions.
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Freeport, Illn
Board of Education GrstLexen
Freeport
F. E. Sumner
Carrie Zeigler
Philip Molter
Belle Galloway
Harry Hineline
Anna Dreyer
Julia Molter
Frank Becker
L. S. Sumner
Emma Sutter
John Rotz
Frank Knepley
John Taylor
E. M. Sawyer
Althia Johnson
John Potter
Mary Fotherby
Hattie Zeigler
C. Lincoln Avenue School
E. L. Darling
James Richards
August Shand
A. S. Brigham
Emma Curry
Fanny Blanchard
M. A. Martin
Frankie Bright
Hattie Burbank
Etoile Bollman
Gertie Dewalt
George Munn
Cora Diffenbaugh
Misa
Papi
Ignett
Bertie de Armit
Estella Goodhue
Harry Smith
Wi Kuehner
Dari
Mra
BE. V. Keever
Josphy
Jerusha Mitchall
Mary Baker
Ida Byera
Ly Byers
Third Ward
F. C. Porter
L. Moulton
Lena Hoffman
Lucy Barker
A. E. Moulton
Pupi
Myrtle Hoover
J Lidia Clark
F. G. Alvord
Maggie Jungh
Louis Jungkunz
Florence Warner
Jennie Stanton
K. F. Howard
Mary Waltz
Lehman
Alice Carl
Draper
L. M. Russel
Lena Collman
Willie Fry
Ida Long
Fry
River Grammar School
Misses Rosebrugh and Hudson
Minnie Sutter
J Miller
Libbie Oxley
Ford
Ubi
Third Ward Grammar School
Judson and
Lease
Willie Jungkunz
Alice Ford
Ella Figely
Osler Potter
Ella Heminway
Viola Danel
Laura Gemmill
Lelia Perkins
Belle Fry
Rosa Collman
Mary Wilson
Alice Sanborn
Carrie Snow
Ward
Ella Dame Boyd Hill
Bell Rhodes
Ella Wright
Ned Fitch
John Milner
Christine Newcomer
Bell Martin
Harry Black
Otto Schulte
Ella Snow
James Knapp
Arthur Fowler
Frank Chapin
Ella Smith
Lizzie Hershey
Ettie Grimes
Lesta Newton Bi Ward
Will Green
Hattie Stine
Willie Swentzell
Tillie Frick
Hollis Parks
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D. D
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Zabala
Senor
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Russia
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Lena
McHatherons Hall
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Lena National Cornet Band
J. W. Tresler
Glee Club
E. S. Taylor
Chicago
Lena Band
Phensis
W. P. Naramore
D. W. Frisby
Jacob Gable
F. A. Darling
Col
Levi Robey
John Wales
Lyman Montague
Thomas Hughes
E. Stevens
Joseph Moore
George Justice
Marshal
A. L. Wilkinson
Jennie Coates
McEathron’s Hall
Maggie
Freeport Public Schools
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