Nebraska Items Ajumble of 1884 News From Omaha to Valentine
Nebraskans face a busy range of notes from the 1884 scene. The Nebraska Teachers Association meets in Lincoln March 25 26 27 1884. Fires destroy O Neill Frontier office and livery stables at North Auburn. A boxing match near Omaha ends with Smith defeating Miller after a foul. Poison and suicide plague several communities including Wm Fisher and Enos Morris. Post office changes and railroad talks ripple across counties.
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Nebraska Teachers’ Association
Lincoln
Auburn
Burk
Gandy
Broken Bow
Post Office
Washington
Kearney
Cass County
Albert Worth
Plattsmouth
Wm. Fisher
Omaha
Enos Morris
Oakland
W. H. Tibbets
Nebraska City
General Land Office
O'Neill Frontier Office
Campbell Power
Smith
Chicago
Miller
St. Mary’s Avenue
Wisner
Valentine
Sam Peterson
Superior
Constable Peterson
Neligh
Richards
Burke
Nebraska
Wm. van Vieck
Wide range of 1883 era US headlines report strikes and politics
News items include a San Francisco labor clash over Chinese workers, Kansas election results with Funston leading, a South Boston iron works rifled mortar project, fire losses, counterfeiting arrests in Illinois, and a Missouri money clerk missing with $75,000. Other notes cover railroad rate cuts, Dalivian auctions, duels, and political developments across several states.
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New York Daily Commercial Bulletin
Smithfield
Illinois
United States
House Committee On Judiciary
McGarrahan
Khartoum
Gordon
Post Offices and Senate Tariffs Highlight Washington Items
Washington reports assign third class postmasters in North Bend and Weeping Water Nebraska with salaries. A senate bill would fund a three member Central and South American trade commission at 5000 yearly. House panels approve relief cuts for Mississippi flood sufferers and pensions for Gen Blair's widow. Copyright bill targets newspapers for eight hour print window. Morrison tariff bill favors free salt coal lumber with Canada proviso. Public petition against Chinese laborers. Foot and mouth disease prompts cattle import ban review. Atlantic Pacific land forfeiture recommended. Lincoln named for new Dakota territory with New Mexico legislature irregularities questioned. Postcard use drops since two cent stamp. Civil service reform bill advances to limit terms for several offices.
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Marshall
R. W. Owens
North Middleton
Alex McClintock & Son
Millersburg
St. Louis
Nebraska
Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee
Madison
Louisiana Republicans
John A. Stevenson
Wm. Burwell
F. W. Liggins
John H. Stone
New York Times
Duncan
Uaker City
New York Weekly
Consolidated Paper Company
Chicago
Pittsburg
Congress
Davis Plantation
New Orleans
North Bend
Neb
Senate
Cockrell
Central and
South America
House Committee On Appropriations
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Denver and
Circuit Court of the United States
District of Colorado
Colorado
House Committee On Invalid Pensions
Frank P. Blair
Missouri
Sherman
United States
Virginia
Folger
Morrison
Ways and Means
House Committee On Ways and Means
Canada
Mills
Blount
Blackburn
Herbert
Hurd
Jones
Kelley
Kasson
McKinley
Hiscock
Russell
Finerty
Treasury Department
Great Britain
Seaboard
House Committee On Public Lands
Atlantic and Pacific
Mojave
California
Senate Committee On Territories
Lincoln
Dakaota
Executive Department
New Mexico
Harrison
Committee On
Civil Service
Territories
Customs
Harrison Introduces Pensions for Disabled War Veterans
Senator Harrison files a bill in the Senate to grant pensions to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served six months in the Civil War and are now disabled. The measure sets a top pension of $24, boosts widows’ pensions by $12 for those disabled or already receiving $8, and applies from the filing date of the application.
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Harrison
Washington
Senate
Local Seller Endorses Chamberlain Cough Remedy
DeFiance Iowa October 11 1883 C A Toppine testifies he has sold Chamberlain’s Cough remedy for eight or nine years with complete satisfaction in every case.
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Deefiance
Iowa
Chamberlain
C. A. Toppine
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the Tribune
E. M. Kimmell
Pubs
Woman’s Aid Society of
New York
Alma
Minnecaduza
High
Custer County
William Daggett
Locust
Franklin County
Ben. D. Stephenson
Berne
Webster County
John Blaine
Harting
Kearney County
Irving Kaws
Turlington
Otoe County
Irving Ry Andrew
Lonell
Sherman County
Snowflake
Barnston
Gage County
A. G. Keys
Elling
W. Lindsay
Hampton
Hamilton County
J. H. Lants
Millroy
Thos
Noakes
Prairie Home
Lancaster County
Jos
L. Ryans
Genoa
Yankton
Major Ridpath
Dan Whiston
Sarpy
Bellevue Presbyterian Church
Papillion
James 5. Rouse
Greenwood
Juniata
Cupid
Hastings
Charles Gestrin
Palmer House
Gestrin
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Town Site Company of
Dorchester
John Cain
Fairfield Herald
Theatre Comique
James Nugent
Tom Price
Stout
W. H. B. Stout
News OF the
San Francisco
Burlington
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Chicago and Alton
Kansas
Dudley C. Haskell
E. H. Funston
Samuel A. Riggs
Funston
South Boston
Lopez Martablo
Edinburg
Texas
Brownsville
Cronista
Matamoras
Boston Board of Trade
Arthur
City of
Toronto
James Crawford
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
J. H. Trees
Lawrence
Masss
Jno. Trees, Jr
Central Mexican Railway
Mexico and Vera Cruz
House
Treasury
Department
McKenzie
United States Army
Isaac Kennedy
Phillippi
Bourbon County
West Va
John McGinnis
Philadelphia
Kenneth Paynor
The
National Hotel
St. Paul
Fisk
Sibley
Osceola County
William McMillan
Huron
Ohio
McMillan
Geo. Thompson
Kimball
Anoka
Minn
South Carolina
W. B. Cash
Cheraw
M. O. van Fleet
Huron County
Emporia
Kan
Edward D. Payne
Dayton
H. B. Payne
Vinton
Western Export Association
John McMahon
Hoboken
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