Resignation of Postmaster General Creswell and successors
The article details Creswell resigning as Postmaster General with President Grant accepting and naming Eugene Hale of Maine as possible successor. It also notes nominations to Alabama Claims Commissioners and other cabinet and Senate actions, plus domestic incidents and political maneuvers across Congress.
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James G. Blaine
House of Representatives
Maine
Wm. M. Tweed
County Court House
New York
W.M. Tweed, Jr
Grant
Senate
Alexander R. Shepherd
District of Columbia
Wm. A. Denison
Ohio
J. and
Henry T. Blow
Missouri
Congress
Sterward
Benzasil
Shepherd
Alg
Cattell
United States Agantor
New Jersey
National Grange
United States
State Grange
Wisconsin
Creswell
Eugene Hale
President Grant
Alabama
Hezekiah Wells
Michigan
Martin Ryerson
Kenneth ‘Raynor
Mississippi
George W. Woodward
Pennsylvania
Caleb Badwin
Towe
John Davis
Massachusetts
Com‘missioners
Theodore Tilton
Jong Art
Rehiting
Beecher
Plymouth Churelis
Rhode Island Adjourns Without Selecting United States Senator
The Rhode Island Legislature adjourned on January 4411 without electing a United States Senator. The last ballot listed Dixon and Barstow with counts, while Vermont conventions named Governor candidates and favored repeal of prohibitory laws. Oregon official vote shows Ladow Democrat 6642, Williams Republican 9340, Davenport Independent 6850.
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Rhode Island
United States
Iaarauide
B. J Dixon
Barstow
Scatt
Os Fermont
Montpelier
Whh
IL ‘Bingham
Henry_ Chase
Otis Chamberlin
Democratic‘party
Caughnawaga Canal
Oregon
Ladow
Williams
Davenport
Congress Adjourns After Civil Service Reform Talks
In the House on the 23d conference reports for River and Harbor and Sundry Civil Appropriation bills were agreed to Senators amendments to related measures passed. Senate bills extend land redemption and direct tax deadlines and authorize committees to meet during the recess to study civil service expenditure reforms. The President had no further communication. the forty third Congress adjourned.
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St. Louis
Congress
Territories
Unitedtyrough
Central
Union Pacific Railway Company
United States
Supreme Court
National Savings Depository
Postoffice
Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company
Pembina
Tariff
Internal Revenue
New Mexico
Colorado
Ates
Tiie
Senate
Maine
Portland
Joseph A.titcomb
West Wisconsin Railway
Friends of
Wisconsin Railway
Auburn
N.Y
D. Myron
Clarkland
Court of Appeals
Daniel Walford
Dubuque
Ocera
David Morgan
Mahaska
J. W. Fang
J. W. Barnes
Des Moines
J. T. Keatley
Pottawatomie
Geo. W. Ball
Polk
J. M. Weart
Buchanan
Register of the State Land Office
M. Rodarine
Story
House
Evenin
Butler
Mesars
Foster
Roberts
Tremain
Select Committee On Transportation
Commissioner of Education
Lafayette
Gen. Washington
Civ. Service Commission
United States District Court
New York
Conference
Alabama
District of Columbia
Judiciary Committee
Busteed
Yeas
Arkansas Valley
Naval Academy
Mackinac Island
Mich
United States District
Conference Committee
Beote County
Kansan
Utah
Kansas
Carpenter
Koen *Penter
Indian
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Vast mix of odd stats and railway speeds noted in era
The clipping lists strawber ries shipped from Delaware to the North, Michigan fruit imports, counts of counties named for Washington, a Reading Pennsylvania hat maker output, a drop in marriage rates, and fast trains including Great Western express and New York Philadelphia newspaper service. It also details world mileage measures, precious metal yields by region, and unit conversions for miles and boxes.
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Athde i “S
Delaware
Waingle
Oh Froni
Michigan
Fter
Reading
Great Western Railroad
London
Abantée Staton
Swindon Junction
Pacific Coast
California
Nevada
Utah
Montana
Idaho
Colorado
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia
Arizona
America
New York
Philadelphia
Jersey City
West Philadelphia
New Brunswick
Trenton
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Aidjbarnindal
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Levser Mere
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Thirteem Fersons
Ats Tee
Yorkshire
Diplomatic Congress On International Rights
Brussels
Sea of Marmora
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Pernambuco
Agricultural Union
Leamington
England
Canada
Porto
Turkey
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France
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India
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Bulletin Snys
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Central Baptist Church
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Monroevillé
Ind
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Insane Hospital
China
Masonic Fraternity
Aft
Oshkosh
Wis) Board of Trade
Fox
Col-C, D-Robinson
Green- Bay
A. J. Turner
Portage
Curtis Redd
Menasha
Taylor
West Wisconsin Railroad Company
Hammond
Wis
Lincoln
Neb
Elvina Blazier
Henry
Avard Beecher
Plymouth Church
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Lyman, K
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Henry L." Dawes
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