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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1876
Page
3
The message reviews eight years of administration focusing on reconstruction, finances, and foreign relations. It notes debt reduction, tax cuts, trade balance improvements, Indian policy shifts, and changes in diplomacy and territorial boundaries with Britain and Mexico, plus treaty actions and administrative challenges.
The Montigo steamer award payments are complete. The US Mexico claims commission reports 1017 US claims with 831 dismissed and 187 awards totaling 4 125 122 02 dollars. Mexican claims amount 150 496 41 dollars after offsets. Venezuela proposes bond payments. naturalization and expatriation issues urged for uniform records and citizen protection.
In a closing message from the Executive Mansion on December 5, 1876 President Ulysses S. Grant discusses the idea of Santo Domingo offering a home and labor markets for emancipated African Americans. He argues such a settlement could mitigate oppression while noting it is not a recommendation to renew annexation. He concludes his official life with a pledge to remain a citizen devoted to the nation.
Paris correspondence reports a pioneering gastrotomy at Hospital de la Pitie by Dr Verneuil. A 17 year old patient swallowed caustic solution, endured esophageal constriction, and after surgery recovered substantially, gaining weight and showing saliva-driven chewing-like motion. First confirmed success since 1849 by Sedillot.
The article sketches a young Shelley as eccentric and mischievous. It notes his habit of tormenting sisters with pretend fiends, lighting a stove with flammable fluid, and a love of deviling his infant brother’s words. It describes his nocturnal ghosts at Eton and a frugal bread heavy diet.
A London biography notes Turner left a clouded will aiming to aid poor artists. The 140000 pound estate and many sketches were divided on March 19 1856: real estate to heir, pictures to the National Gallery, one thousand pounds for a monument, funds to the Royal Academy, remainder to kin. Lawyers profited while art benefited.
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