Cabinet Shuffle Foreshadows Garfield Era Posts
The passage outlines rapid cabinet reshuffles following Garfield's inauguration. It details Garfield naming and reassigning officials such as James of New York to postmaster general, Windom moving toward treasury, Hunt becoming navy secretary, and Kirkwood unexpectedly slated for interior, with others adapting to new roles amid the star route scandal backdrop.
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Conkling
Mr. Morton
Garfield
James
New York
Navy Department
Post Office Department
Star Route Service
Wayne MacVeagh
John Alden
Miles Standiah
John
Judge Hunt
Elss
Windom
Treasury Department
Allison
the Treasury
Kirkwood
Senate
Bansett
Women Eligible for Office in Missouri, Court Says
The Missouri supreme court has ruled women may hold any elective office unless barred by statute. The decision states office holding is not tied to voting rights, noting that offices have long been filled by men with few statutes addressing sex. The Philadelphia Record commentary views the ruling as a natural extension of rights.
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Supreme Court of Missouri
Missouri
Philadelphia Record
Ashland Home Displays Jerusalem Cherry and Golden Hatchet
Yesterday afternoon Mrs J P Hoffman of Ashland Avenue hosted a Bravel 4 colonial party in which a Jerusalem cherry tree hung with white fruit stood in the parlor. A golden hatchet rested at the base and portieres in national colors framed the scene. Score cards featured miniature golden hatchets tied with red white and blue ribbon.
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Mra
Population growth warned by General Brialmont
Belgian Lt Gen Brialmont warned at the Academy of Sciences in Brussels that world population will surge beyond capacity. He cited medieval to modern growth rates, predicting a 3260 date for doubling and a likely food shortage within 176 to 386 years, depending on calculations. The note adds a Texas inventor patenting a steel knife protection vest.
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Academy of Sciences
Brusels
Brialmont
Russia
England
Germany
Belgium
Italy
France
United States
Ravenstein
Mr. Ravenstein
New York Sun
General Local Market Prices and Quotations Summary
The weekly reviewed quotations list cotton ring prices from Shreveport Market Board of Trade and a broad range of staples. Cotton receipts show 6 bales by rail and 1 by wagon. bacon, lard, flour, cornmeal, crackers, coffee, tea, sugar, molasses, chewing and smoking tobaccos, onions, beans, potatoes, cabbage, and other staples priced or noted with measured advances and steadiness. Local farm items include oats, rye, barley, millet seed, and seed cotton meal with per unit prices, while bagging, twine, and iron ties are listed as commerce items.
Wolk sking and farm tools price list fragment
Fragmentary 19th century price sheet listing animal hides and goods like deerskins, axles, bellows, castings, plows, shovels, sweeps, singletrees, trace chains, bull tongues, shovels, wire, rope, and mill goods with unit prices and per-pound rates, including ranges and odd spellings. Names, if any, are garbled. the entry resembles a general merchant catalog page.
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Morse Shaw
Dhaven
Kelly
Dazen
Kelly Landstich
Haven
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Philadelphia Press
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VIA
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Vicksburg
Shreveport
Queen & Crescent
W. B. McGroarty
A. Jackson
Miss
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Muse
Fannin Street
Pelaghona Connection
Mechanics Exchange
H. Junwan
Tony Faust
Anheuser-Busch
Lopurne Be
Texas Btreet
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