New Advertisements and Assignee Notices Listing
A compiled slate of notices names W Printing Publishing Assoc and Leading Magazines with C B Bentley as assignee plus 8. C Buckman Mira Mutualive Insurance Company FOO Miller Bouts Shors Murphy Williams Williams and Crution to Buyer Note details.
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W. Printing & Publishing Association
C. B. Bentley
C. Buckman
Mlinoa Mutualive Insurance Company
FOO. Miller
Bouts & Shors
Murphy, Williams & Williams
Tragic Chester girl dies from tight lacing tale
A Chester Virginia girl died from tight lacing after a post mortem showed displaced ribs pressing the breast bone onto a lung, depriving it of use. The report notes the deadly risk of extreme corsetry and warns readers.
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Chester
Postmaster General Reports January Mail Throughput
The Postmaster General states that January returns from 454 post offices show 687,900 free letters with postage $117,400 avoided and 346,000 pounds of printed matter costing $42,800 sent via the mails. He estimates franked matter would exceed $200,000 for the last month and $2,409,000 for the year. Stamp and stamped envelope sales for January rise by $311,880 from 1869.
Open Competitive Exams for West Point and Naval School
Discussion grows on appointing cadets by competitive exams open to all youths in each Congressional District. Some Congressmen support the plan. Sons of soldiers eligible candidates should have priority, followed by the brightest applicants seeking to serve in the army or navy.
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West Point
Naval School
Uncle Sam
Specie Redemption to Revive Trade and Prosperity
Estimates place the prewar gold and silver in U S coin at 200 million dollars. Restoration of specie payments will release existing coin and inflows from western mines, increasing money in circulation. When payments resume, values settle, trade activity should revive, signaling a new era of prosperity.
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United States
Let ters from the People column policy explained
The paper states it does not endorse reader opinions but will publish letters from bonafide correspondents who sign their names and take responsibility for their content. Short local articles are also solicited, and pieces with differing views may be published or declined at the editors’ discretion with possible critique.
Political parties and corruption in Grant Johnson era debate
A critical overview contrasts Republican probes of corruption with Democratic failures, railing at New York Democratic bosses and Tweed era schemes. It then compares Treasury receipts and debt under Johnson versus Grant, claiming Grant cut debt and saved funds through stricter internal revenue collection, amid sharp partisan rhetoric.
General Grant Urges Fiscal Restraint in New Hampshire
General Grant addresses New Hampshire residents with a message of national encouragement and pledges that during his administration there will be no rising level of public expenditures. He promises that any possible dollar cut will be identified and enacted, praising Grant as a man of action who fulfills his words.
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Congress
Republican Party
City of
New York
Democracy
Tammany
Arie
Sweeny
Tweed
Barnard
General Grant
New Hampshire
Logan Declines Congressman at Large Nomination
A Illinois Republican column argues Gen John A Logan will decline a United States House seat, praising his eminent ability and criticizing those who push retirement. The piece mocks Southern Illinois candidates and rails at local sentiment for a memorial monument on Court House Square, questioning who opposes it and calling out selfish motives.
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John A. Logan
Republican Party of
Ilinois
Logan
Egypt
United States
Supreme Court
State House
Decline in gold linked to treasury sales and policy
The decline in gold is due to Administration and Congress wisdom. Secretary Boutwell sold idle gold to buy bonds, sending metal back to market for importers to pay duties. Senate firmness against inflation and favorable European trade lift confidence in American securities and prospects for resumption of specie payments.
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Congress
Boutwell
Treasury
Senate
Letters on soil nitre and sugar beet quality
A reader reports Chatsworth beet growers face soil nitre issues that absorb into beets and reduce sugar yield. The writer requests Gymno cladus or other correspondents to share views on nitre in soil and its effect on producing high quality sugar beet.
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Enitor Freefort
Gymnocladus
Chatsworth
Freeport Agricultural Society Rights and Stock Debate
A letters section urges life members to clarify whether life memberships will convert to stock and who bears expenses. The writer warns that debt unpaid could let life members cancel obligations and questions privileging life members over stockholders. Calls for attendance at the March 31 meeting, 1870, KM Suepner.
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Freeport Journal
Ma. Evivor
Agricultural Society
Life
Suepner
Freeport Citizens Urge Retention of Soldiers' Monument
A letter expresses strong effort by Freeport residents to remove the Soldiers' Monument, arguing it would be unjust to those who contributed to the monument and noting heightened awareness of the issue at the time.
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Por the
Freeport: Journal
Freeport
Why is a lean dog like a man in hard study
A long compilation of diverse historical notes from Weston Missouri to Moscow New York and Chicago documents a string of anecdotes dates and figures. It mentions a man hanged in Weston for horse stealing to raise funds for a grave stone and notes on wine by the bottle on a Missouri railroad. It reports a mineral spring near Saratoga a new glass works in New Albany and straw prices. It covers Governor Seward in New York cholera in Moscow and a New York legal reform. It includes Sickles correspondence and Cuba policy notes and Blaine on expenditures. A Chicago movement to enforce the Sunday liquor law dominates the piece with calls to the mayor to uphold the law.
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Weston
Missouri Railroad
Saratoga
N. Y
Iceland
California
New Albany
Chicago
Farewell Hall
Treasury letter on debt shows net US decrease over eleven months
Secretary Boutwell reports to Senator Cragin that as of February 1870 the direct public debt fell by 80 million while Pacific railroad liabilities rose by about 10.5 million, yielding an overall reduction of roughly 70 million in total debt and contingent liabilities since March 1869. The figures come from Treasury records and are deemed unrebuttable.
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General Grant
Johnson
Treasury
Wis
Pod Gan
Whider
Grant
Wye Gee
Chidh
Hywall
Weberat Honest and Veonomteaadtudissten
Friends of General Grant
Alouse
Representatives
Wasingeron
D. C
My Dear Sr
Gen. Grant
Treasury Department
House of Representatives
Dawes
Boutwell
J. G. Buntage
Hastie Dentamex
New Hampshire
A. HT
Cragin
Secretary of the Treasury
Tarasoay
Pacific Railroad
United States
Congress
A. N. Cragin
United States Senate
Washington, D. C
It Costs More Than a Bread
A New York Post comment alleges three glasses of liquor are consumed for every loaf of bread eaten in the city. It estimates yearly bread costs from flour amounts for families and highlights thousands of liquor outlets earning substantial daily sums, arguing strong drink drives up expenses against bread.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York Post
Gold conspiracy likelier than impeachment fiasco
The text asserts the gold conspiracy may rival the impeachment corruption case in scale, hints Butterfield faces possible implication, and criticizes congressional smelting committees as stale and contemptible.
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Butterfield
Anid
Gorn Decaxe Prices Seen Falling Toward 10 Premium
Cold conditions ease gradually and gold prices are expected to drop to at least 10 premium. Each decline helps reduce living costs, lowers labor and material costs, and pushes down general prices, aiding industrial stability and business confidence recovery.
Proportions of the human figure in ancient sculpture
The text cites a six to one ratio for body parts, noting beauty in proportion. It states the face height from hairline to chin is one tenth of stature and the hand length matches this. It also lists chest to forehead as one seventh, with facial thirds marking eyebrow and nostril positions. It ends noting height equals arm span.
Tariff Criticism by Cincinnati Chamber Sparks Outcry
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce denounces the tariff as oppressive and unjust to the people, warning it fosters monopolies and will not be tolerated by enlightened voters. It condemns the current tariff bill for renewing discriminating features and mocking relief from taxation.
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Cincinnatti Chamber of Commerce
West
Treasury
Cincinnati Chamber
Ways and Means Committee
Whittemore, expelled congressman from South Carolina
B F Whittemore, once in Congress for South Carolina, native of Malden Mass, born forty six years ago, a former mercantile man turned Methodist minister, served as chaplain in the 53d and 30th Massachusetts, edited the first Reconstruction journal in SC, chaired the SC delegation at Chicago for Grant, elected to the Fortieth and reelected to the Forty first Congress. He resigned amid a cadet bribery inquiry and the House censured him. A call to a convention in Pittsburgh March third urges a constitutional amendment to declare the United States a Christian nation, signed by notable clergymen and officials including Gov McClurg Missouri and Bishop Huntington New York.
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B. F. Whittemore
South Carolina
Malden
Mass
Methodist Episcopal Church
Massachusetts
Chicago
Grant
Congress
United States Military Academy
West Point
House
United States
God
Jesus Christ
National Association
Pittsburgh
Gov. McClurg
Missouri
McCandless
United States District Court
France
England
Minis
Committee of Finance
Chang
Peo
Sherman
London
Atsterda
Sherman, Butler & Co
Davros
Dayton
New York Star
Racine Basket Factory touted as Western leader in oak splint baskets
The Racine Basket Factory, led by Messrs Elliott and Wethrell, has grown from a small operation to a major producer of oak splint baskets. Over a year they expanded capacity to about five dozen daily, with plans to reach one hundred dozen as orders from Chicago St Louis and regional towns pour in. The article praises quality materials, steam driven machinery, and the shop's openness to visitors as proof of its rising prominence in the Northwest manufacturing scene.
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Elliott and Wethrell
Elliott
Wethrel
Chi St. Louis
Great Northwest
Nctors
Racine Basket Factory
Vermont tariff debates stir national stock concerns
A Chicago Post summary notes Vermont delegations press for Canada lumber imports and marble protection while warning such arguments serve local interests. It criticizes the currency plan and Senate finance moves, warns of market muddle, and cites Sherman and Butler in a critique of federal finance policy.
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Douglas
Vermont
Chicago
Washington
Canada
Lington
New England
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Maine
Indus
Ways and Means Committee
Chicago Post
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C. B. Galukha
Rockford
Carroll County
Court House Square
Board of Supervisors
Wile, Whinois
Seward
New York City
Moscow
Boyle Roche
Jasper County
Ind
Mr. Seward
Alaska
Mexico
West Indies
N. B
City Council of
Sallie
Hern
Towser
Creamer
Sickles
Ife
Cuba
Fish
Blaine
Alaine
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