Public Debt Mismanagement Blamed on Grant Administration
The December 25 1869 Register denounces Grant's handling of the public debt, arguing taxes burden labor and industry while debt rises in November. It contrasts Johnson’s wartime debt reduction with Grant's nine months of figures, accuses Treasury blunders, political uses of funds, and warns of an approaching reckoning by Radical Congress.
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Grant
Congress
Treasury Department
Johnson
Mr. Grant
New York
Treasury
Guardian
Court of Common Pleas
Posey County
Indiana
New Harmony
Jine
Enet
County of Posey
Snelling
Hall Square
Working Men's Institute
John R. Hugo
Ford & Fitton
Old
Tavern
John Walz
Henry Fitton
Reduction of Postage to the United Kingdom and Ireland
The Post Office announces that from January 1 1870 the single rate prepaid letter to the United Kingdom and Ireland will be nine cents. If not prepaid a six cent deficiency is added on delivery. Newspaper and book packet rates stay unchanged. Josefa H Brack Jr signs the notice as Superintendent of Foreign Mails.
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England
Ireland
Post Office Department
Washington, D. C
United States
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Josefa H. Brack, Jr
Shall Constitutional Government Be Abolished Debate
A Republican critique of Drake's bill to strip Supreme Court power and police habeas corpus, arguing Congress cannot erase constitutional checks. praises the Supreme Court as liberty’s safeguard while warning that radical centralization threatens liberty and the balance among branches. The piece cites Magna Carta and Blackstone to condemn military despotism and calls for preserving a true constitutional government.
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New York Sun
Charles A. Dana
Stanton
Dana
the Sun
The
Sun
Drake
Missouri
Supreme Court
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Philadelphia Age
American Republic
Danky
Trumbull
England
Blackstone
Matthew Hale
Thomas
Earl of Lancaster
Pontefract
Edward II
American Senate
State Sentinel
The Next canvass and party papers urged
The Paoli Eagle urges Democrats to mobilize for the January 8 state convention and subsequent canvass. It condemns Republican press use and calls Democrats to circulate papers and documents to inform voters about opponents’ wrongs to win power and restore flourishing times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nand
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Paoli
Eagle
Jenner Followers and Opponents Split by Vaccination Views
A fragment notes there is little difference between Jenner supporters and vaccine skeptics, labeling one side as vaccine proponents and the other as vaccine haters. No other facts or figures are provided in the readable text.
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Wyoming
Council
House of Representatives
Wyoming Territory
Congress
Dr. Jenner
Picsgnlitor
Vuccine
Family Makes Fortune From Whisky Rutsch on 23rd Street
A St. Louis paper notes a New York family on Twenty third Street earned wealth from whiskey. The write up portrays their lifestyle as a delirium tremens of splendor and hints at the sensational success as a moral caution.
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St. Louis
New York
Death of Mary Axton at New Harmony aged 26
Mary Axton widow of Robin Axton died at New Harmony on Sunday December 19 1869 at age 26.
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Axton
New Harmony
Mary
Robin Axton
New York Mercury 1870 Prospectus and Subscriptions
The New York Mercury announces its thirty-first volume for 1870 with continued specialty content including stories poems and essays. It pledges independence from commissions and advocates direct ballot elections, offers 56 columns of original material and a low price of 250 per copy with club rates for nine copies, specimen copies and mailing details provided.
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New Yorke Mercury
The
New York Mercury
America
Cauldwell & Whitney
New York
Mercury
Fulton St
New York City
Scientific American at Twenty Fifth Year in 1869
The Scientific American enters its twenty fifth year on January 1, 1869. It boasts abundant engravings of machinery, inventions, tools, and buildings. With 16 imperial pages per issue and a yearly price of $3, it claims wide circulation and accessible, engaging content.
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Scientific American
Europe
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Gax
American Agriculturist
Andy Johnson
White House
House Military Committee
Suzzman
Macrniss
Transville
Pax
Georgia
Croorgia
Ohio
Great Central Directory
Washington
National House of Representatives
Caniroas
Indianapolog
Mirror
Carlyle Banna
John Sartain
Philadelphia
Tan
Munn & CO
Park Row
Alker's
California Bitters
Thrall & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumford
Barrett
Allen
Ayer
Ring
Jatamansi
Mumford's
Hrall & Mumford
Ross & Blackwell
Trrall & Mumford
Yarmouth
Det Thrall & Mumford's
Noel
J. B. Davis & Co
John B. Davis
WM. M. Holton
John R. Robson
Lichtenberger & Co
F. W. Lichtenberger & CO
Dell FW. Lichtenberger & CO
Dell F.W. Lichtenberger & Co
ACTIC
Dell W. Lichtenberger & CO
Becey
Dell Flw - Lichtenberger & CO
Dell F. W. Lichtenbergr & CO
Dell F. W. Lichtenberger
CITZ
R. S. Hornbrook & Cos
Hornbrook & CQ
Jasper N. Franklin
Edward Homer
Adm.r
Ap Owen & Owen
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