Catching a Tartar in a Royal Intrigue Tale
A serialized historical sketch recounts Charles XII of Sweden in disguise as Count Olsen courting Ikla by a chateau. Baron Gortz aids a risky plan to save Gustavus Reinold, facing royal orders to execute a traitor. Ikla’s scheme wins pardon and shifts power, ending with Reinold’s fate as a potential ally.
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Charles the Twelfth
Sweden
North
Chateau Gortz
Volga
Baron Gortz
Pultowa
Ikla
Tartars
Gorts
Strausland
Baron de Gortz
Hulans
Gustavus Reinold
Ciarles
Ilo
Ife
Iklan
Skla
Gustavus
Tam
Count D'Olfen
Count D'Olsen
Charlies the Twelfth
Ile
Kta
Lam
Lila
Charles
Tkla
Charles the
Reinold
Steinold
Pullowa
Dreas
Sam
Capt
Dean
Gehateau
Eply
Seacaie
Indiana Democrats Endorse Union and Opposition to Reconstructions
The January eighth, 1870 delegate convention of Indiana Democrats adopts a series of resolutions. They defend the Federal Union, condemn reconstruction, demand congressional restraint on the Supreme Court, advocate tariff reform, favor currency expansion, and oppose a forced fifteenth amendment. They call for taxation of U S bonds and protest Know Nothingism. The page also notes New Hampshire population decline and a New Haven clothier quitting clothing.
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Indiana
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Legislative
Judicial Department
United States
Iast
Unitedtates
To my Wife Emma Tam dreary My heart is weary and cold
A dated verse from the New Harmony Register in March 1870 pleads with Emma. The writer, signing as YOUR JLUSBAND, laments apathy and longing, asking for warmth and blessing as a husband vows affection. The poem invokes sunlight, angels, and distant seas to comfort a weary heart.
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Emma
Tam
Odds and Enas in a Fragmented News Snippet
A garbled column touches on Senator Jim Lane and a proposed monument, moral reflections, and assorted quips. It references Gladstone, Brigham Young, and a clergyman involved in a $4,000 settlement, with miscellaneous notes on employment, dictionaries, and a Detroit Tribune item about an elderly man and dental work.
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Bar A. Bawl-Room
China
Jim Lane
Aarst
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Howard
Eas
Gladstone
ReaerThe Children’s Kingdom
lLap- Jand
Senator Morton
Grasshoppers
Brigham Young
Pat
Besx
Long Branch
New Jersey
Ohio
Ilo
Max
The
Detroit Tribune
St. Louis
Radical rule and NC turmoil threaten election will
The Vinbennes Sun reports outrage over Radical governance in North Carolina criticizing Judge Brooks for enforcing writs while Kirk resists. It alleges Radical leaders in Washington plot to contest Democratic seats in Congress and restore military despotism, urging action to preserve the people’s will.
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North Carolina
Kirk
Brooks
Washington
National Republican Committee
XLIL
Bia
Vincennes Sun
The Tariff Question and Democratic Free Trade
The dispatch argues the tariff taxes sugar tea and coffee, harming the poor while enriching bondholders. It claims Democrats favor removing duties on iron steel coal salt tools and other materials to fund a revenue level that could exempt luxuries and admit sugar tea and coffee freely. The piece denounces the idea as infamy and insists on a revenue tariff with free trade in necessaries.
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Juafayette Dispetch
U. S.treasury
Democratic Party
Internal revenue law changes and tax adjustments in 1870 71
The article outlines repeals and alterations to internal revenue taxes effective from May 1 1871 and October 1 1870. It covers licenses repeals for most taxes, exemptions on schedule A items, sales taxes, promissory notes under $100, and stamped proofs for certain goods. It also notes income tax rates remaining at 24 percent for 1870 and 1871 with higher exemptions. A brief local anecdote from Troy New York recounts two young women debating Franco-Prussian War outcomes.
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Troy
New York
France
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Jacksonville
Champaign County
Decatur Republican
the Democratic Platform
New Hampshire
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New Haven
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