Centennial year urged reforms and territorial fixes
President Grant urges Congress to amend mail laws to exclude merchants from mail matter, address Indian rights in the Black Hills, regulate land and timber laws, adjust pensions and education, and push polygamy and immorality reforms ahead of the 1876 Centennial. He calls for a joint committee to study mining territories and favors a stronger currency and education access. Signed December 7, 1875.
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Accident at Keokuk Junction injures Frank Rose
Frank Rose night operator for T W & W 3 R at Keokuk Junction suffered a severe accident Saturday while moving freight on platform trucks near an approaching freight train. He was squeezed between the train and platform, bruised all over with painful injuries but no broken bones. The narrow gap kept him from being crushed.
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Finance and Commerce in the week of market reports
Light receipts of grain and produce with wheat dull and lower while corn firm. Real estate transactions for the past week, cattle and sheep unchanged, hogs slightly lower. Money market quiet but steady. supply of currency sufficient and loans available at 10 percent. New York trade remains mixed with export cotton strong and government bonds firm. The outlook notes cautious investment and a predicted revival in activity during 1876.
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Real Estate Transfers Lead Week of Market Gains
Transfers reported for Tun Wan show marked real estate activity with aggregate sales near 75000 dollars. Listings include Quincy English and German College lands to the Board of Education and multiple 80 to 230 acre parcels in Mendon and Melrose Townships.
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Grain Market Update in Quincy Receipts Slow
Commercial report notes Yoreson Grain Market and Quincy Market seeing uneven receipts as last days bring some wagon deliveries amid ongoing market activity.
New York and Chicago Markets Mixed on Wheat and Provisions
Grain and market notes show wheat and corn unsettled to firmer in New York with No 2 Fall at 1.40 to 1.41 cash and 1.41 bid for December while Chicago reports wheat unsettled and firmer, corn firm and a shade higher, oats active and higher, rye steady, and provisions like pork and lard firmer with mixed bid levels and receipts around 2,600. Cattle remain dull with receipts about 3,600 and prices modestly higher for good to choice cuts.
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