Editorial Notes on Religion and Reform Across Regions
Editorial notes survey rising Mormon influence in Idaho with one third of the population and ten legislators including a bishop, plus aggressive proselytizing and organized immigration. It also notes a marriage license fraud case, Ohio railway sentiment, Pennsylvania gambling law stance, Des Moines rail center status, a proposed Pennsylvania prohibition amendment, silver coin reserves, and Danish anti drinking campaigns with strict licensing and age rules.
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Idaho
Telegraph line proposal links Portland to Topeka
Kansas figure Beegsentive Anderson proposes a transcontinental telegraph from Portland Maine to Topeka Kansas with branches to other points. Offices to be in larger post offices until feasible in small offices. Messages at 25 cents for ten words. Bond issue of 3 million dollars authorized to cover costs and reserve 300 thousand for bond redemption. Milwaukee and St Paul Railway shows heavy debt and low earnings per mile.
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Beeegsentative Anderson
Kansas
Portland
Maine
Topeke
Earrier
Postmeter General
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Transcontinental line progress and Michigan political notes
The Northern Pacific reports thousands at work to finish gaps and complete the transcontinental line by year end. Earnings for the eastern division show significant growth amid falling passenger and freight rates. The Republican State Convention in Saginaw nominates Austin Blair for Supreme Court justice and Thomas J. O’Brien for the vacancy, with Henry B. Hutchins and Joseph Jones named for Regents. John S. Newberry presides as permanent chairman as the convention notes harmony. Prof. Gilliam’s piece in Popular Science Monthly cites faster Black population growth than whites in the United States, with Black doubling in 25 years under a 3.5 percent annual rise.
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The
Supreme Court
Austin Blair
Jackson
Thos. J. O'Brien
Kent
State University
Harry B. Hutchins
Macomb
Joseph C. Jones
Saginaw
Northern Pacific
Larz
Titk
Blair
Michigan
Marston
Thomas J. O' Barren
Grand Rapids
Mr. O'Brien
Mich
J.C. FitzGerald
Hughes, O'Brien & Smiley
Wa. A. Howard
Tommy O’brien
Thomas J. O'Brien
Joseph ©. Jones
Henry B. Hutchins
Jones
East Saginaw
Hutchins
Clemens
Oa Sowe
John 8. Newberry
Detroit
Cheirwan
Popular Science Monthly
Gilliam
United States
Gillian
Grant era reflections and race and suffrage notes in one column
The piece discusses postwar black progress, labor value of the negro in the South, and fears of colonization. It compares racial mixing to European immigrant labor, predicts social change, and cites education commission findings on women voting rights in various states. It ends with a note on A. S. Grant Jr and wife visiting Adrian for their baby.
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Grant
San Domingo
Gilliam
Liberia
South
England
Grant, Jr
Adrian
Europe
A. H
Lansing Letter from February 24 1883
A Lansing letter notes that the constitutional period for introducing bills has closed. Bills listed include proposals for a painting walls structure and a sanitary infirmary for the insane, a commission to remove obstructions on Grand River/Ford the river, and various road and school measures. The fragmentary text also references a proposal to permit increased funding and improvements, with unclear details and several garbled phrases.
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Lansing
Lansina
Michigan Ass
Grand
Jaekoon
Michigan Legislature Proposal List Of State Reforms
A long OCR fragment outlines numerous proposed acts and amendments in Michigan, covering primary education books uniformity, railroad regulation, land disposition for rail use, protection of livestock, formation of social clubs, property offense laws, insurance company organization, writs and mandamus, prohibiting free passes by officials, highway taxes, funding for the state normal school, environmental protections for sawdust disposal, foreign cooperative business, tax exemptions for reclaimed swamp lands, liquor traffic regulation, wage payments for public works, road maintenance, school textbooks, state printing, and advertising contracts. It also references abolition of medical departments at Ann Arbor, standard unified education, compulsory drawing in schools, lumberman protections, circuit judge reports, organization of service companies, supreme court organization, asylum for insane criminals, support for insane soldiers, culverts for roads, establishment of an infant asylum, appeals from justices’ courts, dog tax, mortgage foreclosure by advertisement, widows’ inheritance, political assessment bans, duties of justices of the peace, compulsory schooling, legal holidays on election days, freight uniformity and unjust discrimination, paralegal matters, taxation of textbooks, jury verdicts in civil cases with fewer than six jurors, chancery notices, distribution of general laws volumes, weather service establishment, obsolete election acts repeal, conduct and canvass of elections, elector registration, rail taxation, mortgage exemption from assessment, bonuses for enlisted soldiers, labor bureau duties, university department establishment, railroad classifications and rates, toll discrimination prevention, attorney fees, and various other regulatory measures.
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Michigan
Uaé
Ann Arbor State University
Supreme Courts
State of
Michigan Asylum
Mere Cavalry
Michigan Battery
Michigan Southern
University of To
Trai Ang
Veohoek
State Board of F
Nanan
Ohio flood reshapes city appointments and political moves
In the flood’s wake in Ohio, Prof. H R Gass of Jonesville becomes Sup t of Public Instruction replacing Prof. Cochran who moves to the U S land office at Marquette as Register. David Parsons of Detroit becomes Deputy Sup t, with W L Smith kept as Chief Clerk. Henry Chamberlain of Three Oaks joins the State Board of Agriculture and Wm Woodward of Owosso becomes Inspector of State Prison. Greenback factions meet, a fusion with Democrats may form a straight ticket. otherwise Greenback groups plan unity. Jesse Harper and Theodore Tilton spoke to gathered crowds, and the 21st Michigan Cavalry reunion included a banquet at the Hudson House.
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Ohio
H.R. Gass
Jonesville
Public Instruction
Cochran
U. S. Land Office
Marquette
David Parsons
Detroit
Jesse Harper
Abe Lincoln
Theodore Tilton
Opera House
Michigan Cavalry
Hudson House
Notable contributors and works in St Nicholas March issue
Ilan lists a March St Nicholas lineup with Archibald Forbes and WW A Ovarend collaborating on a Turco Russian war piece. Terry Cooke offers The Wrong Coat about Michigan fires. Poems by Lucy Larcom Celia Thaxter. Profiles of Hokusai and Mrs Peterkin. Multiple stories sketches and pictures by Barnard Winter Kellogg Stacy Birch Share Sheppard Smith and others. Frontispiece engraving The Broken Pitcher.
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Rowe
Terry Cooke
Michigan
Ben Bruio
Lucy Larcom
Celia Thaxter
Lucretia P. Hale
Peterkins
Peterkins, and Tells How “Mrs. Peterkin Faints On the Great Pyramid.” Prof. Wm
Eliot Grifis
Hokusai
Woodchuck
W. O. Stoddard
Mies Anna Eichberg
Leander
E.S. Brooks
Frank R. Brockton
Vitean
J. T. Trowbridge
March edition of the American Agriculturist reviewed
The March issue of the American Agriculturist features numerous contributors including Dr. C. W. Dabney and H. A. Haigh with articles on cotton stalks, market gardening, pear culture, and poultry experiments. It showcases extensive engravings such as Early Spring Time and Antwerp Carrier Pigeons, highlights farm and household departments, notes pension fraud exposés, and is published by Orange Judd Co. at 751 Broadway New York priced $1.50 yearly.
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C. W. Dabney
N.C
Sato
Japan
H. A. Haigh
Detroit Bar
C. PB
Dewey
Geo. Thurber
D. Z. Evans
Joseph H. Reading
South Guinea
West Africa
Orange Judd
W. W. Meech
Daniel Currie
J. E. Scott
E. E. Rexford
Byron D. Halated
P. H. Jacobs
L. D. Snook
Agnes Carr
Antwerp
Merina Harms
Orange Judd Co
Broadway
N.Y
March Zelechic issue listed with varied contents
The March Zelechic table of contents lists articles and authors such as The Americans by Herbert Near and On the Shakespeare Female Characters by one who burned Peruvianed Them Faucit Martin. It includes pieces like The Last Extremity and The Captain of the Pole, plus poems, reviews, and notes.
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Herbert Neer
Poor Matthies
Matthew Arnold
Henry Norway
Prince Kre Ine
Erningham
Stanley Lane
anthony _Teallope
Edward A
Ty Freserick
New-York
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National Republican Committee
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Presbyterian Church
Fan Ame
Attorney AT Law
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Firat Wat Bank
Marshallis Mice
Wea Ern Lund Association
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Telonsha
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Momeopathic
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