How He Ran the Texas Legislature and Other Things
Johnny Spilkins, a Galveston boy, returns from Austin with sharp legislative wit. He debates a clergyman over state funding for orphans, mocks constitutional limits, and mocks lawmakers. Back home he swears the governor cannot run the legislature and ends with a strangled dream of politics.
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Texas
Johnny Spilkins
Galveston
Austin
Johnny
Capitol
Parson
John
Goodman
Jobnoy
Johnaoy
Galveston Island
Spilkins, Sr
Brady cloud swells as Republican papers condemn his crimes
The New York Sun questions the innocence of Brady’s superiors Tyner Key and Maynard, arguing if Brady is guilty the others must have known or been indifferent to the evidence. The piece calls Brady’s alleged crimes a growing dark cloud over multiple officials.
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Brady
Republican
Tyner
Judge Key
Maynard
New York Sun
Henry Brown
Kendall
P. N. Granger
St. Albans
J. B. Kendall
P.N. Granger
Stoughton
Mass
B. J. Kendall & Co
Coss
KE. Parker
Kelley’s Island
Erie Co
Ohio
B. J. Kendall
R. A. Gaines
Enosburg Falls
Joan G. Jenne
Concord N. H
Concord
Underhill & Kittredge, Apothecaries
ZL. T. Foster
Youngstown
Chicago Express
L. T. Foster
Bakersfield
Gents
J. Boutell
Vermont
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Charter Oak
New Harmony
Indiana
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Hasha
Rapld
Eveenrs Tunass
Horace P. Owen
New Harmony Banking Company
Eugene S.thrall
Yuomas Mumford, Jr
Eugene F. Owen
Horace P.owen
Charles A.parke
William S. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
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Williams
George I. Williams
Third Avenue
High Street
Evansville
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Hovey & Menzies
United States
Supreme Court of the State
Posey
Vanderburgh
Court House
Seps
Mount Vernon
Ind
John W. Miller
WATC
Posey County
Walter A. Wood
Sis
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F. Grafton
Story B. Ladd
Halbert F. Paine
Patents
Paine, Grafton & Ladd
Fifth Street
Washington, D.C
Patent Ofice
Supreme
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A. EL. Fretageot S. Cco
Posey Co
New "Harmony, Indiana
Mott & Co., Family Grocery Store
Mott & CO
Peter Weber
John Walz
Boots & Shoes
Main Street
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H. Han Lett & Co
Portland
Maine
THE
Detroit Free Press
Tur Free Press
Free Press
Detroit
Michigan
Pas
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William Hartman
Main St
Bet
William P. Ford
West Main Street
True & Co
Augusta
Stinson, & Co
Portland, Maine
Louis Pradob
Joseph West
JOS. West & Co., Commission Merchants
Cor. Poydras and Magazine
New Orleans
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