Municipal debt burden in 180 cities highlights tax payers' mortgaged value
A Porter's paper before the American Social Science association flags a 6190,000,000 rise in municipal debt across 180 U S cities over ten years. He cites 16 percent mortgaged taxpayer value and debt totals by state, noting Eastern dominance, per capita costs, and calls for radical reforms to curb rising public outlays.
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Porter
American Social Science
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New Jersey
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M. Barnard
C. Amery
Boston
Jane Sherman
C. Lea
Philadelphia
Woolsay
New Maven
Martin Ob. Alderson
Rochester
J. J. Moyt
Mailison
State Treasury Report Shows 1877 Receipts and Fund Balances
State treasurer Gates reports for the year ending December 31 1877 total receipts 4 108 080 81 and disbursements 3 597 608 17 leaving a balance of 570 251 64 in various funds including State Interest, School, Library, and Land Redemption. Receipts from taxation declined versus 1876 while interest on state debt remained meeting obligations. 250 000 00 transferred to the sinking fund. Notes warn of shortfalls in the revenue fund and projected needs to cover appropriations for 1877 and 1878, with 1878 tax receipts needing to exceed 1877 by 311 903 07 to meet obligations. The Missouri six percent bonds and certificates form the school fund balance, with 2 900 074 61 total and four $1 000 bonds maturing and paid this past year.
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Pherpe
Insurance Department
Londe
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Miesouri
Fashionable journalist mocks tight coats with buttoned sleeves
The excerpt cites John Grighe end critiquing lawyers and law purity while a fashionable journal describes sleeves so tight a wearer must struggle to bend the elbow. It questions whether coat sleeves should be similarly adapted, noting the impracticality.
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John Grighe
Folklore hearsay about Ringe-Si Ringe and marriages
Gatley recalls a bizarre Littleboro tale of Ringe-Si Ringe and a series of marriages. A fisherman claims a man married a barber’s wife then another, and all were the same woman, leading to a comic, improbable mess the old resident dismisses as fanciful.
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Gatley
Littleboro
Ringe
Marriel
Doston Globe
Brain Sleep Restores Power and Strength
The author argues that resting sleep is the sole recovery method for brain power. During sleep the brain can rebuild consumed brain substance from nutritive blood particles derived from previously eaten food, while wakefulness drains brain fuel and exhausts mental capacity.
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Avery
Mjerald
Meulth
Wet Boots and a Clever Drying Method
A European correspondent recounts the misery of wet boots and offers a home remedy. Fill boots with dry oats to absorb moisture, then air them by the fire, shake out oats, hang to dry, and resume wear. The advice blends practical thrift with rustic humor from a playful letter.
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Europe
Lex
Fragmentary note from Auidraln Mich paper on a Mexican helper
Grainy excerpt from The Auidraln Michigan newspaper shows a garbled line about a genuine Mexican helper for a teacher. The fragment mentions a Miss planeso or planeto and an excuse, with unclear surrounding context.
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Tracher
The Woman Sufrage Convention Adopts Reform Resolutions
The Washington suffrage convention adopts resolutions urging federal action on equal rights regardless of sex, challenging anti suffrage denials at the Supreme Court, and advocating tax and education reforms. It condemns the 16th amendment’s sectarian edge, seeks broader educational criteria, and calls for fair widows tax rules. Morgan of Mississippi notes DC colored women claim suffrage under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments without joining white allies.
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Sih
Jane
Alias Morgan
Mississippi
District of Columbia
Missouri Tobacco Interest Amid County Factory Boom
Mr. W. V. Usll owner of a large tobacco factory in Itoanoke Howard county visited Columbia this week. Tobacco sells at 1 to 2 dollars in Howard and Randolph. Howard’s crop is about 6,000,000 pounds, Randolph over 6,000,000, Chariton 12,000,000, and Boone 2,000,000. About a dozen factories operate in Howard, 15 or 20 in Randolph, around 50 in Chariton, and two in Boone. Chariton is described as the banner tobacco county of America. The present crop surpasses the county’s total from a few years ago.
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Missouri Tobacco
W. V. Usll
Itoanoke
Loward County
Columbia
Saya Tobacco
Howard
Randolph
Foleward
Chariton
Boone
Charlton
Banner Tobacco County
America
Erald
Prominent Gentleman Meets Stoughton at Arcadian
A colorful Arcadian account mentions Mr Stoughton being introduced to a wealthy prominent man who admires his bitters. The piece satirically contrasts social classes and income by quoting various locals, including a cemetery remark and questions about earnings.
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E. M. Stoughton
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