Ocean Depths and a Century of News from 19th Century Letters
Reads like a miscellany of science and human interest notes from 1870s newspapers. Salmon from Oregon to England at twenty cents per pound, Pacific depths near Tahiti 1525 fathoms, a waterbound phosphorous light box, a fatal Eau Claire ball incident, wartime and Napoleon veterans, English primogeniture debate, steam boiler inspections urged, and German industry slump with Krupp wage cuts are reported alongside Bryant’s meditation on the flood of years and human history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ToHe
Crowe
Great Britain
Rhenish
Germany
Krupp
A Father's Tale of Bessie Design Dreams and Marriage
A father's six daughters strain his finances as the eldest Bessie pursues pattern design. After costly schooling she finds little work, faces a pay scandal, and finally marries publisher Mr Ingrain who promises support. The outcome ends Bessie's carpet designs and her independent career.
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Bessie
School of Design
Johannes
Essie
Papa
Smithson
Simpson
Livingston
John Jones
Bessie Smithson
Brooks
Mr. Ingram
Mr. Ingrain
Crow feast taunts politics in Cincinnati verse
A satirical poem mocks political figures Storey Watterson and Dorsheimer with crow imagery. The speaker laments culinary excess and mocks a public feeding as a metaphor for political appetites. References to Raven broth and crow dishes appear beside a dream of wilderness refuge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storey
Watterson
Amphitryon
Dorsheimer
Reform or ruin in 1876 campaign glare in the press
The piece attacks Samuel J. Tilden and Senator Randall as corrupt reformers, citing charges from the Graphic, Harpers Weekly, and Cincinnati Times. It portrays Tilden as disloyal in the war, linked to Tweed and railroad scandals, and argues for Republican leadership and strict money and education policy.
Hayes's Vision for Civil Service and National Harmony
Governor Hayes's letter calls for a civil service system ensuring purity experience efficiency and economy in appointments along with tough prosecution of public officers who betray trusts. He urges a sound currency free education unsectarian and frugal public life to foster harmony and progress in the nation’s second century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
Hayes
Wheeler Accepts Republican Vice Presidential Nomination
Malone dated July 15 reports Hon William A Wheeler acknowledges unanimous nomination for Vice President by the Cincinnati National Republican Convention. He expresses gratitude for the confidence and accepts the duty with a pledge to serve in fear of the Supreme Ruler and for the nation. He notes attention to the convention platform and its doctrines.
Tilden the Author of Credit Mobilier
The piece accuses reformer Samuel J. Tilden of links to Credit Mobilier fraud and cites testimony that his counsel advised the legality of stock payments. It follows with a graphic recounting of a Hamburg South Carolina violence episode and calls for further coverage as summer heat rises.
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New York
Credit Mobilier
Oakes Ames
Pacific Railroad Company
Sam Tilden
Congressional Committee
Wilson
Oliver Ames
Samuel J. Tilden
Charles Tracy
Judge Allen
John B. Allen
Tilden
Cornelius S. Bushnell
Credit
Democratic Peace Resolutions debated by 1864 Chicago Convention
Report states the committee on resolutions included Samuel J. Tilden as New York chairman and a sub committee of five led by Tilden drafted the peace resolution declaring the war a failure. The full committee and convention adopted the resolution without dissent. The item notes authorship questions remain.
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Chicago
Geo. B. McClellan
McClellan
Lincoln
Tilden
Gallipolis
Kentucky
James Guthrie
Maine
John W. Dana
New Hampshire
E. Keyes
Massachusetts
George Lunt
Connecticut
Charles R. Ingersol
Vermont
D. P. Redfield
Rhode Island
Charles S. Bradley
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Charles Brown
Maryland
Thomas G. Pratt
Ohio
Clement L. Vallandigham
Indiana
James M. Hanna
Illinois
S. S. Marshall
Michigan
A.C. Baldwin
Missouri
William A. Hall
Wisconsin
George B. Smith
Iowa
J. F. Bates
California
John B. Weller
Kansas
Wm. C. McDowell
Oregon
Benjamin Stark
Marshall
Clermont Courier Advertising Rates Display
Legal and transient advertisements priced at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at 6.00 per unit.
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Legal and Gil
Democratic Platform Resolution on Peace and Union End
The text records a Chicago convention resolution urging immediate end to hostilities and peace through a reunion of states under the federal Union. It notes wartime abuses of power, calls for peace by constitutional means, and credits 1864 repudiation of treasonous measures while associating Samuel J. Tilden with past positions.
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Cincinnati Times
Samuel J. Tilden
Hoffman
New York
Griswold
Boss Tweed
New York City
Tammany
New York Times
Tweed
Erie Railway
Fort Wayne
Continental Improvement Company
Credit Mobilier
Oakes Ames
Tilden
Tweed and Company
Union
Democratic Party
Chicago
Andigham
Committee On
Congress
R. B. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Washington
TILDEN IN 1864 NOMINATION COMMENTARY AND REACTION
Excerpted remarks discuss Civil War policy, peace aims, and public opinion. It notes President Lincoln’s example and the 1864 Democratic stance on ending hostilities, arguing a people driven reform movement chose the nomination and seeks a fair trial and prayers.
Col Robertson Named Republican Candidate for Indiana Lt Governor
Washington County praises Col Robert Robertson a War of 1861 veteran born in Argyle 1839. He rose from private to second lieutenant in the Ninety third New York volunteers and fought at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor. After the war he moved to Indiana became a successful lawyer and politician. The convention nominated him unanimously. If elected he will visit Eastern friends and campaign in Troy.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Watterson
Courier-Jouvre
Harper’s Weekly
Hayes
Tilden
Tweed
Dix
New York Commercial
Heaven Save the Mark
Robertson
Troy
Washington County
Robert 8. Robertson
Indiana
Fe Roberta
Argyle
Ninety-third
New York Regiment of Volunteers
Samuel McConsbe
Spottsylvania
Tolepotamy
Col. Robertson
Tilden Tax Claims Dissected as Faulty Reform Message
The article criticizes Samuel J. Tilden’s boast of tax cuts in New York as misleading. It notes the Republican legislature approved taxes, and that any reductions came from debt extinguishment by Republicans, not Tilden. August Belmont is quoted calling such claims dishonest.
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St. Louis
Samuel J. Tilden
New York
Tilden
August Belmont
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Pacific Ocean
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Burlington
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France
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von Bromssen
Brunswick
Blucher
Waterloo
House of Commons
Cross
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William Cullen Bryant
Delver
Reese
Scribner’ S Magazine
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Iir
Little Big Horn
Cincinnati
Rocuheester Democrat
Phebbe Cozzens
Graphic
Sammy
Phebe Cozzens
Henry B. Carrington
United States Army
Indianapolis Journal
General Custar
New York Historical Society
Phil. Kearney
United States
Gath
Sam Randall
Randall
Bill
Tom Bayard
Bayard
Wallace
Republican Party
Louisiana
St. Lawrence
United States House of Representatives
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Hoar
Tracy, Olmstead and Company
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Wm. F. Allen
Jere Black
Chicago Tribune
Hamburg
D. C
Rade
Butler
Confederate States Army
Augusta
South Carolina
Georgia
Charleston
Cincinnati Gazette
Che Clermont Courier
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