Nebraska impressions from Monticello traveler in 1880
Letter from Mrs. A. Moore to The Hapresa recounts a Nebraska journey near Scranton and the Platte River. She notes dry winds and lack of timber, prairie land value around eight to fifteen dollars per acre, early settlement about a decade old, opportunities for a creamery, and grazing stock with three miles to the railroad.
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ScHtvien
The
Hapresa
Monticello
Nebraska
Colums
Scranton
Railroad ‘Company
Lowa
Omaha
Jones County
Platte
Mus. A
P. Moore
Strawberry Festival at Hanna's Captures City Sweet Spirit
June 10 festival at Mr H D Hanna's store to raise funds for an organ purchase. The event drew merchants clerks and professionals into Hanna’s new store with elaborate display and celebratory decor across the town.
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Scoren Grove
the Express
Christian Church
H. D. Hanna
Bittle
Tremendous crowd floods Scotch Grove temperance festival
The town sees a record turnout as visitors arrive by excursion trains and by horse, filling livery barns and Hanna's store. Food and seating are improvised on the spot while groups of locals assist behind the boards. The event, in a temperance town, nets about fifteen hundred dollars.
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Brickbat
Starvation Avenue
Hanna's
Elanna
McKain
Everthing
Scotch Grove
Early teaching careers of Arthur and Gartiel linked in Vermont
The 1851 record shows Chester A. Arthur teaching at North Pownal Vermont in the same room later used by James A. Gartiel who, as a Williams College student, started a writing school in 1853.
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Chester A. Arthur
North Pownal
James A. Gartiel
Williams College
Schurz Demands 25 Percent Cut for Campaign Talks
Carl Schurz in the St. Louis Globe Democrat says he is so pleased with the Republican ticket that he will take a 25 percent discount on his usual campaign speech rates.
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Carl Schurz
St. Louis Grobe- Democrat
Garfield to Give Own Stump Speeches to Voters
The Dubuque Dispatch notes Garfield will personally address voters to make his case, believing direct speeches will more effectively secure support than any other method. His addresses are described as the ladder by which he rose to prominence.
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Garfield
Dubuque
Garfield names Sherman in speech urging broad Republican support
Gen Garfield declared that victory requires the vote of every Republican including Grant and Blaine factions, and of all anti-Grant and anti-Blaine supporters, to ensure success. He identified Sherman as the man for the effort.
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Garfield
Mr. Sherman
America
Blaine
Garfield Nomination Pleases Wyoming Republicans
The Wyoming Journal reports the Chicago Convention’s nomination of Gen. Garfield as eminently satisfactory to Republicans in Wyoming and believes it will unite the party for a glorious victory in the campaign against Gen. Grant.
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Gen. Garfield
Chicago
Wyoming
Gen
Grant
Wyoming Journal
Garfield's Pace From Poverty to Presidential Candidacy
A portrait of James A. Garfield rising from poverty to education, serving as Shire Senator, Army officer, Major General, and nine-term congressman. The Ohio elect moves toward the presidency at age 48 as his party nominee.
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Garfield
Ohio
United States
State Register
Third term scarecrow consigned to rubbish heap
The piece denounces the third term scarecrow and its supporters as worn-out fabric and ridicule, urging Barntain to discard the sham and stop fooling the world. It lists past hoaxes and urges cynicism toward political contrivances and demagogic promises.
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Barntain
Joice Heth
Hureka
Nearsighted Man Intercepts Handkerchief Drop on Streetcar
A Milwaukee streetcar passenger seated near the fare box reads a newspaper when a woman accidentally drops her handkerchief into his lap. A passerby taps him with a cane to point out the loss. The man hides the handkerchief under his paper, blushes, and resumes reading.
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Milwaukee Street
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Hanna’s
Kahn
John M. Shaffer
King’s Grocery Store
D. C. Tice
Times
D. GC
Tice
North Cedar St
Iowa
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