Bankers versus people in a postwar currency clash
A historical analysis cites Salmon P. Chase and Thaddeus Stevens warning of a banker led currency battle after the Civil War. It recounts the greenbacks, the coin standard push, and the political maneuvering that favored bonds, gold, and bank interests while sidelining silver and public money. The piece notes growing banker power, policy shifts, and looming conflict between financial elites and ordinary citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salmon P. Chase
Treasury
Lincoln
Siylocks
House of Representatives
Thaddeus Stevens
House
Senate
Fee
Wall Street
United States
Thad Stevens
Grant
Stevens
Frank Blair
Horatio Seymour
Congress
Greenbatks
Presiden Hayes
London
Cmnmerece
McKinley
Chase
Army of Bankers
Cincinnati Enquirer
He Needs a Provider
A judge questions grounds for divorce as the attorney cites coercion and reversal. The applicant’s husband claims his wife, a “new woman,” pushed reforms and kept him away from home, noting he has been employed only as a homemaker for the last three months amid a political campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candile
Sihiool
Court heckles housekeeper alimony remark in contest ruling
Fragmentary Detroit Press item notes a court scolding a defendant Candle for attempting to play multiple roles in a household and denying a contest, with a sharp remark about alimony. The snippet also touts Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey for winter health and mentions election contest filings among defeated Democratic candidates and a marriage near Millerville on November 14, 1996.
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Pocrees
Dmpet
Candle
Detroit Press Press
Oh Bell
Dr. Bell
E. E. Sutherland Medicine Co
Sander & Son
Marble Hill
E. F P. Biggs
Lutesville
Millerville
Andrew J. Arnold
Louisa A. Brown
Geo. W. Cobbie
J. P
Two Barns Burned At Douglass Farm Near Caruth
Two large barns on T. J. Douglass farm nine miles south of Kennett burned last Saturday between 1 and 2 pm. Cause is unknown as hands were in the field and Douglass was away. Loss about 4000 dollars with 1900 dollars insured, plus 4500 bushels corn 300 loads hay 500 bushels oats wagon and various farm implements and 22 hogs. Nearby Chailand’s barn also burned on election night, prompting speculation of incendiaries.
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T. J. Douglass
Caruth
Kennett
Douglass
Patterson
Mr. Douglass
E. A. Chailland
McEndianes
Daunklin Democrat
Fragmented collage of quirky 1910s style notices
A garbled collection of quips and snippets from early 20th century newspapers. The text includes stray phrases about a wife, ideas, protection of identity, and humorous exchanges on a car and a tailor shop. It reads like a patchwork page with multiple voices and misread OCR.
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Roe Weeveans
J C. A. Sanderbark
George Elihu Conrad
Marel J. Bill
Missouri
W. K. Chandler
Bardle Mill
Joseph W.caldwell
Bollinger Co
Marble Hall
Co. P. Caldwell
Atlaw Isae
Coint
Supreme Court of
C. M. Witmer
Marble Hill, Mo
A. Sander
C. A. Sander
Physicians and Surgeons
M. Wells
R Bollinger
County Bank
L. Mayer & Son
Marsie
Henry Gaines
Zama
Zalma
Brownwood and Northwestern
F. G. Lambert
Scheperville
A. Bohnsack
H. Schwering Merchant Tailor
Warren Building
Lutesville, Mo
Bollinger County
L. A. Pool
Carrie Pool Baldwin
Wale Bn
Bullinger County
Roney
Columbus
Delta
Charleston
Cairo
Belmont Branch
Glen Allen
ST Louis
H. C. Townsend
St. Louis
E. C. Caldwell
Dean B. Hill
Fedgewickville, MO
Pdair
Elmer E. Bair
Mannie Hitt
Henry N. Phillips
Poplar Bluff
Ballinger County
L. P. Ruff
Union Trust Building
Twin City Hotel
Scholl Hotel
High Street
Orgosite
Courthouse
W. P. McCans
Prop’r
Charles Vollmer
Mayfield-Smith Academy
Bright Prospecta
Cccotes Tranez
Pribe Es
Jennie Satterfield
Degtone
Detroit Free Press
Marble Hill Press
Chum
So Hiindred Inventions
Detroit
Newark Weekly
Algy
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