Illinois Campaign Outlook Debate in Dunham's View
A New York interview quotes Congressman elect Dunham arguing that Illinois will heavily back the Republican presidential candidate. The piece contrasts past election results from 1876 to 1882 and analyzes Logan as a potential Illinois favorite, noting party discipline, patronage, and the need for fair dealing to sustain Republican unity.
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Scunter Login
Fron
Chicago Times
Duntem
New York
Tllinois
Tilden
Hayes
Garfield
Hancock
Conkling
Grant
Stawlarta
Br Dorsey
Dow
Dunham
Republican Party
Logan
Illinois
Ale Dealre
General Grant
Iianoia
Maols
Logan Haa
Senate
Illnois
Ilinoia
Tyler
Fillmore
Johnson
Arthur
Edmunds
Harrison
Sherman
Dudham
Personal Politics and faction within the Republican Party
The Ottawa Republican laments factionalism within the Republican Party driven by personal ambition in New York and Pennsylvania. It urges leaders to ensure fair primary meetings and conventions, and to stop preordering outcomes by stacking state delegations, arguing faction weakens party perpetuity.
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Republican Party
Ite
Ottawa Republican
New York
Pennsylvania
Description of Jefferson Barracks and Cemetery History
A letter to The Henry Republican describes Jefferson Barracks Missouri as a long standing military post since 1827 with stone three story barracks on a bluff ten miles from St. Louis. The cemetery began interments in 1828 and currently holds about 2000 Confederate graves treated with care alongside Union dead. The writer praises Lookout Mountain Post and its ladies, and notes fraud concerns in pension statistics contrasted with star route frauds. Closing signs off as F.O.&L. B.F. Baken.
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Jefferson Barracks
Henry Republican
Jefferson Barracks Cemetery
Lookout Mountain Post
Capt Townsend
St. Loula
Tiet Gate
F.o&l
B.F. BakEn
Continuous 24 hour time system eyed by railways
The Cleveland Akron and Columbia Railroad adopts a 24 hour timetable replacing AM PM with a 1 to 24 hour count. The scheme avoids confusion between 7 and 19 o clock and can be read by any clock. A storekeeper anecdote introduces a German market scene with humorous misinterpretation.
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Cleveland, Akron, and Columbia Railroad Company
Aoutheastern
Europe
Tornado Safety Advice From Sergeant Finley
Kansas City signal service officer Sergeant John P. Finley offers practical tornado guidance. He recommends rapid movement away from the path, building underground dugouts with thick roofs, and staying clear of the northeast corner. If trapped, lie face down with head to the east and protect it, or seek the west room away from heavy furnishings.
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John P. Finley
Kansas City
Finley
Fortune
Poem Comments on Jealousy and Digestion
A satirical critique cites poets and declares jealousy worsened by indigestion. It mockingly links musical imagery to medical pills and advertises Taraxine and Dr Powell's City Drug Store as remedies for a deranged liver and bowel troubles.
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Gale
Dr Powell
City
Whitefield Nuptials Honor Mr Will Stringer and Miss Addie
Neighbors gathered at 8. P. Hill a Henry’s Whitefield home last Thursday to toast the marriage of Will Stringer and Addie Stringer of Whitefield, celebrated after a quick trip to Palmyra Mo. The evening featured a social hour, a bountiful dining room display, and many useful and ornamental presents. The couple will start a new business at the Hill homestead. Mrs Hill and daughters assisted with hospitality. A novelty arnica salve advertisement completes the notice.
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Henry Republican
P. Hill
Henry
Will. Will
Addie Stringer
Palmyra
Rubicon
Rome
Hill
Webber
Mra Divilbiss
Hill Homestead
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Illinois Senate Passes Three Criminal Code Amendments
The Illinois senate approved three bills altering penalties for crimes. One makes fraudulent entering a felony with imprisonment from one to five years. Another increases penalties on second and third convictions for burglary grand larceny horse stealing robbery forgery or counterfeiting. A third bill imposes at least five years for night burglary in an inhabited dwelling, with possible life imprisonment.
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Illinois Senate
New Telecommunication Breakthrough Shocks Cleveland
In a Cleveland patent office the American Postal Telegraph Company tested a copper No. 6 wire link between Cleveland and New York that may revolutionize telegraphy. Messages of 600 to 800 words transmitted in 30 to 45 seconds impressed observers including Commodore Garretson and Governor Charles Foster. The system uses Gray and Leprad tech with near instantaneous transmission and even supports telephone at both ends.
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Wessace Hetlofementia
Merwin Street
C.F. Stumm
Brooklyn
Cleveland
American Postal Telegraph Company
Commodore Garretson
New York
Charles Foster
Ohio
Odern
New York City
Herald
America
Olean
New York, Lake Erie
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Newburgh
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Greenwich
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di Ronally
Lake Shore Road
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la Porte
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