Woman suffrage debate and Paraguay war notes
The piece surveys the broad push for women’s voting rights with quotations from Julia Ward Howe and critique of Radical and conservative factions. It also reports on the ongoing war between Lopez’s Paraguay and the allied forces, detailing troop strength, armaments, battles near Angostura and Veleta, and public opinion in Brazil and Argentina.
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Boston
Julia Ward Howe
Paraguay
Lopez
Hamaita
Angostura
Veleta
Spencer
Europe
America
Fnteen
M. Sarmiento
Brazil
Argentine
Ife
Woman Suffrage Petition Calls for Universal Suffrage
The Woman suffrage association of America publishes a petition form to Congress urging universal manhood and woman suffrage. The appeal argues women tax and law rights, urges citizen participation, and calls readers to circulate petitions nationwide. Signatories include Murzanerit Dany Staxton and Amy Hoven Gusneys. November 17 1868, New York.
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Waffeage Association of America
District of Columbia
Congress
General Sherman
Chattanooga
Charleston
Woman's Suffrage Association of America
Murzanerit
Dany Staxton
Amy Hoven Gusneys
Mrs
Horace Greenery
Seaay BH. Antony
Whisky tax scandal and election graft cited in Radical defeatism
The item claims the present year whisky tax totals 50 million dollars while only a sixth has been paid. the balance allegedly funded the Presidential campaign for Radicals, with stolen funds used by power brokers. It accuses Gary of withholding certifying Henry D. Foster and pushing John Covode in Congress, urging support for Grant.
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Miners' Journal
Miners’ Journal
Philadelphia
Judge Reed
Philadelphia Morning Post
State Guard
Mjdl
Gary
Henry D. Foster
Twenty-first
Geary
John Covode
Labor News From Cities And Factories
The New York plasterers vow to return to the eight hour day. The Tabor Union in first division maintains wages at 275 dollars daily for winter. Burlington manufacturers adopt ten hour shifts, ending eleven hour days. Liverpool shoemakers resume old wages after a four month strike and set up a joint masters and men committee for future disputes. Amoskeag of New Hampshire plans four hundred new worker houses next year.
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Péorte
Operative Plasterers of
New York City
Bricklayers’ Society
Tabor
Burlington
Liverpool
Amoskeag
N. H.) Manufacturing Company
Death of Grover G Leen Prominent Pennsylvania Politician
Grover G Leen died at his Delaware county residence on November 17 in the eighty third year. He served as a Pennsylvania congressman from 1829 to 1831 and was twice a presidential elector, casting ballots for Andrew Jackson both times.
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Hox
Grover G. Leen
Delaware County
Pennsylvania
Congress
Andrew Jackson
President Quant's 53,000 Offices and $30 Million Salaries
The statement claims Quant will control 53,000 offices with annual salaries totaling 30 million dollars and an unspecified amount of patronage. The remark emphasizes vast power and potential patronage in the administration.
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Quant
General Grant Says Cabinet Kept Secret Until Inauguration
President elect General Grant states no one in the public will know who his Cabinet officers are until after the inauguration. He emphasizes secrecy to prevent early politicking and safeguard the new administration.
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Grant
Sarens
Hookland
Smithsonian digs yield idols skulls and relics from midwest mounds
Smithsonian Institute reports large consignment of box shaped skulls pottery and relics from mounds in Tennessee Missouri and Indiana. Mary Broadhead identified as murdered girl near Accord New York with two suspects Morse and Ivy Hard arrested. Vigilant news includes Erie railroad wreck at Allendale and political notes from New York Vermont and New Hampshire with General Grant support in Alabama and Philadelphia arrival.
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Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Tennessee
Missouri
Indiana
Accord
New York
Mary Broadhead
Morse
Hard
Ivy
Kavanagh
Moldyville
Schryver
Erie
Allendale
Democratic Union Convention of
John Kelley
Abraham R. Lawrence
New England
Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum Fire Claims Six Inmates
A Wednesday night blaze at the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum smothered six female inmates to death. Additional fires in New York caused extensive damage with losses near $76,000 and a fireman killed. A Housatonic Railroad derailment near Suffield injured all aboard, including a seriously injured passenger. Eight small fires in New York prompted arrests of three youths. Mrs Pattie B Johnson sues the Indianapolis and St Louis Railroad for $25,000 in damages over her husband’s death. Secretary Schofield has returned to Washington.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Housatonic
Suffield
Mass
New York
Pattie B. Johnson
Indianapolis and
St. Louis Railroad
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