Washington Letter on Race Status and Mount Vernon Franchises
A Washington Letter analyzes racial dynamics in the capital, noting African Americans occupy many federal posts and whiteness politics affect social standing. It condemns Mount Vernon Ladies Association leadership for slow restoration, criticizes the wharf monopoly, and mocks a Mount Vernon usher while lamenting missing artifacts and furniture. The piece ends with a reader Q&A defining a bobtail flush as a poor bluff in various social arenas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Washington
District of Columbia
Fred Douglass
Register Bruce
Tallapoosa
Chile
Peru
Norway
New Jersey
Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association
Ladies’ Association
Mount Vernon
St. Peter
Pearly Gates
Caution Against Growth Stifling Dwellings and Trade
In a letter Horace Greely urges townsfolk to avoid hoarding housing and overpricing land, to welcome newcomers and local commerce, and to support newspapers. He warns selfishness harms town growth and business, urging inclusive development and active trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Greely
Moral Education Speech On Purity From Mrs Stockham
A speech urging equal standards of purity for boys and girls, insisting men share responsibility for preventing prostitution and emphasizing reverence for procreative trust and motherhood. It calls for teaching girls that womanhood surpasses wifehood and for mutual purity expectations in marriage.
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Business Directory
United States Land Office
McCook, Nebraska
G. L. Laws
Register
C. F. Babcock
J. KE. Cochran
Attorney AT Law
Red Willow County
Neb
State
Kansas
A Land Office
Land Department
U. S. Land Office
Jennings & Starbuck
Attorneys AT Law
Nebraska
Zfolice
North Green's Drug Store
Page T. Francis
Hitchcock Land District
BE. C. Towne
Mccook Land District
Oberlin Land District
L. Leek Johnson, M. D
Graduate Medical Department University
Tribune
Jefferson and
Madison Streets
4. L. Kay
S. L. Green
T. B. Stutzman, M. D
TrRisvine
A. J. Willey
B. & M. Railroad
B. & M. Pharmacy
A. T. Gatewood
Mccook Hotel
John F. Collins
Dennison St
McCook House
C. L. Nettleton
Superintendent Public Instruction
Indianola
W. M. Sanderson
William McIntyre
McCook
Jackson Tubbs
West Dennison Street
A. C. Towne
City Bakery
A. Probst & Bro
Proprietors
Graham Bread
R. H. Hamilton
A. P. Sharp’s
Harlen
St. Slanter
Harter
Strange and Waere
Dr. Harter
Fremont
Bee
Frank James
Mcberly
Missouri
Col. James
W. C. Latourette
BIG AX
Menard’s
Lytle Bros
General Dealers
Citizen's Bank
America
the Citizen’s Bank OF
Europe
First National Bank
Lincoln, Neb
Chase National Bank
New York
J. W. Dolan
W. Franklin
W. F. Wallace
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