Democratic Platform Resolutions Adopted in Indiana 1870
A delegate convention in Indiana adopted unanimously a platform defending the Federal Union and Constitution, opposing centralization, criticizing Reconstruction, supporting a revenue tariff with free essentials, favoring greenbacks over bond redemptions, calling for abolition of the National Bank, opposing currency contraction, taxing national bank shares and U S bonds, resisting the fifteenth amendment, and opposing restrictions on naturalization tied to Know-Nothingism.
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Indiana
Congress
Supreme Court of the
United States
Legislative
Judicial Department
Fashionable Pittsburg tailor faces false pretense charge
A stylish Pittsburg tailor was brought before the court on charges of false pretenses after failing to properly fit a fashionable young man. He was bound over on a $300 bond to answer the accusation, though he claimed he did not know his business was at fault.
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Sax
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
United States
Germany
West Rutland
Vermont
Canadian watchman files charge of suspicion against official
A Canadian watchman records suspicions of wrongdoing against his principal official in a terse note. Details are sparse, outlining alleged misconduct and formal suspicion without action or dates.
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Cherge
Duankan
The Noble Red Man and Fiery Nose’s Daughter Tale
The piece includes advertising rates for The Register and a satirical fiction titled The Death of Fiery Nose. It mockingly portrays an Indigenous chief Fiery Nose and his daughter Prairie Flower amid Buffalo Bull’s attempted romance and a comic, rambling narrator.
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Prairie
Fiery Nose
Buffalo Bull
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Buffalo
Tupper
Paducha
Grizzly Bear
Law of Newspapers for Subscriptions and Discontinuance
A historic outline states that subscribers who do not oppose are presumed to want continued service. Publishers may charge and continue sending papers until bills are settled. Refusing to take papers or moving without notice makes recipients liable. Courts deem leaving a paper unclaimed as prima facie fraud.
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Tuk Register
Gara
New Hampshire
Lirchange
Boston
Odds and Ends in a Patchwork of Daily News
A collage of quirky items from various locales and eras. Notes on population shifts in Dayton, labor struggles in Boston, and a Texas editor’s jab at a rival. Local vignettes include travel tunnels between Omaha and Sacramento, a Vermont lunch thief, and a New York Police Commission salary raise.
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Dayton
India
Boston
Sara Texas
testLouston
Texas
Ohio
Alexander I. Stephens
Tingland
Buenos Ayres
Juarez
Omaha
Sacramento
Vermont
gayCarl Schurz
Germany
Police Commissioners
New York
Fernando Wood
Washington
Cheyenne
Memphis
Sar Lt
Philadelphia
Rae Rochefort
Sera
Maysville
Seward
Sage
Auburn
Sar Root
Rogg
Dye
Dramatic political figures skewered in a satirical sketch
A caustic critique compares Morton Butler Drake in a dramatic, stagey portrayal of political figures. Morton is praised for vigor yet labeled sensational. Butler is shown as an actor overacting as he hammers audiences. Drake is briefly mentioned, implying similar dramatic traits.
Morton on stage and politics in Louisville critique
A critical review rails at Mr. Morton as an overacted performer, likening him to Bottom in a lion’s skin and contrasting his melodramatic style with genuine statesmanship. It notes his faults in temper and reason, mocks his indictments of Democrats and secessionists, and ends with a wary forecast of improvement. The piece then shifts to a brief, tersely reported quail domestication attempt at Nevada City amid unrelated notices.
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Gen. Butler
Sumner
Indiana
Butler
Drake
Mr. Morton
Hecuba
Beldame
Butler and Drake
Rip van Winkle
Mr. Jefferson
Smolhet
John Phoenis
Ife
Av. Morton
Jesus
Louiisville
New Definitions to Gid Words From Punch Fragments
A garbled OCR fragment collecting humorous and altered word definitions and literary notices. Includes satirical takes on punctuation, biographical snippets about Punch editors, and assorted curiosities such as penciling origins, strange anecdotes, and a prophecy of San Francisco's submersion in 1873.
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Prairie Flower
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Nevada City
Bruin
Wire
Danage
Davison
Dynasty
Mark Livon
London Punch
Thackeray
Douglas Jerrola
Gilbert A’ Becket
Robert LB. Brough
Sherley Brooks
Phomis Taylor
John Junch
Punch
Brooks
Tom Taylor
Marl Lemnon
Household Words
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Victor Hugo
John Brown
Holly Springs
Mississippi
New Orleans
Long Branch
Kay Sickles
California
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Earst
Albany
Sar Spurgeon
America
Virginia
Richmond
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