13 Jun 1884
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Newspaper
The Grafton Eagle
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1884
Page
1
A large cluster of church service times and society notices for Grafton including Lutheran and Catholic parishes, Sabbath school schedules, prayer meetings, and fraternal lodge announcements. Also mentions regional rail timetable and local public notices.
The People’s State Convention at Buckhannon on May 21 1884 adopts a declaration of principles from the National Greenback Labor Party of West Virginia. It lauds the Supreme Court’s recent legal tender decision, calls for protection of industrial labor, opposes contract foreign labor, and urges reform of state taxation, convict labor, and railroad regulation, while criticizing current administration and seeking honest, anti Bourbon officials.
A fragmentary clipping recounts a commuter struggling to settle a baby on a crowded Third Avenue elevated train at Grand Street. It contrasts humor with a note about Cynthia Ceres, a teacher from Illinois who homesteaded in Dakota and praises self sufficiency and frontier opportunity.
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