U S 10 40 Bonds Promising Tax Exemption and High Interest
Advertises U S 10 40 bonds issued under the March 6 1864 act offering tax exemption by state or municipal authority. Describes redemption terms payable in coin, interest dates March and September, subscription options from $50, yield around eight percent, and applicability across the nation with offerings to all lenders.
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Gpg
United States
National Banke
Separmte
Silday
Marphy
Seattle Weekly Gazette advertising rates brief
Advertising rates for ten line ads and smaller are listed with first insertion at 50 cents for subsequent insertions, and a monthly advertiser deduction. Payment must be in advance with tender notes taken at market value.
Fragmented War Ballad and Moral Tales From an 19th Century Page
A damaged excerpt blends a Civil War style march with moralistic notes on female chastity and a homicide case. It references a flag bearer heroism moment, a general battle chant, and a court-involved tragedy where a father faces death as recompense for a daughter's love and a murder linked to jealousy.
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Clark
Impromptu dispute erupts in home on violent confrontation
An account describes a disturbing incident in a neighborhood house where a mother and two women faced a man and his alleged partner. Tense moments included threats with a knife and fleeting attempts to restrain the situation as bystanders and a team of people intervened to end the confrontation.
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Ischief
Beth
Pati
Maresis
The President on the War and Lincoln's Policy
President Lincoln closes a long message with firm war aims and a refusal to negotiate with the insurgent leader. He argues national resources are ample, victory must decide the conflict, and peace depends on the rebels laying down arms and submitting to the Constitution. The speech hints at future clemency limits and continuing executive power constraints.
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Lincoln
Sndh
Ple
Congress
Bordofone
Ben Cotton Declares Enfolement Over Political Play
Ben Cotton, accused of being ousted from a melodeon job for a binding engagement with a rival, confronts a man enforcing an injunction against him. The irrepressible Union man wanders to the stage door and challenges the injunction, vowing to vote as he pleases. The confrontation ends without enforcement.
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Bex
Ben Cotton
Secoley
Ben
Et Ae
Exemption Rules For Duart Exports Revealed
The list includes aliens and those aged under twenty or over forty five, veterans honorably discharged from U S military or naval service, and those drafted or unable due to physical or mental disqualifications.
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Duart
United States
Gifts Gave My Country a Silent Goodbye
A first meeting turned into a hopeful union built on faith and love. The narrator recalls a summer night before a draft and the fatal certainty of war and distant rest in Farmbath, with a brother’s potential sacrifice weighing on their hearts.
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Gog
House of God
Ben
New Jorforth
Man Dies After Alleged Arsenic Cure Distasteful Scam
In France a man sought a cure from a builder named M. K- claiming a sovereign remedy in a white powder. He drank it, suffered a fatal emotional collapse, and died of paralysis from distress. Post mortem found no poison. the white powder proved sugar of milk.
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Balaban
France
M. K
Caox
Young Cornelis Vanderbilt Built Wealth With Steamship Gift
The text recalls Cornelis Vanderbilt starting with $50 to buy a sailboat and hauling freights along shoals by pole when wind failed. He later built and ran steamboats, growing wealthy and reportedly worth over nineteen million dollars after gifting the government a steamship valued at $800,000.
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Cornelis Vanderbilt
Staten Island
New York City
Poets Quote on Tears and Female Tears Reframed
An exchange argues that a woman's tear may be dried with a dress, reversing a line about wiping tears with address. The remark shifts from a smile to a practical, humorous suggestion about comforting tears.
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Cowper
Signs of Drunkenness and a Nation in Flux
An extended passage contrasts drunkenness with mood decline and paralyzed faculties, detailing progressive bodily failure from intoxication to death. It then shifts to scattered political notes from Congress and Civil War era concerns, including constitutional amendments, Confederate threats, and a Cape Cod estate dispute between a first and second wife.
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Brunkard
Hs Hou
Bedford
Cape Cod
Ilia
Auud
Wisney
Yankee invention and Paris faux pas headline
A quip filled item notes a Yankee inventor with odd claims from reaping to whistling, while Paris reports demand for fabric for a petticoat and an Olney, Illinois story about a man deemed real estate for being so dirty. The piece ends with a remark on friendship as a best possession.
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Illinois
Olney
Spinn er Urges Official Statement On Lincoln Salary Tale
The Oregonian reports General Spinn er United States Treasurer responded with an official statement addressing rumors that Mr Lincoln drew and invested his salary in gold. He cites delays in monthly drafts and questions who could best secure payments, noting the sensitivity and mixed public reaction amid political tensions.
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The
Oregonian
Spinnner
United States
Lincoln
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