Department Report: Interior urges Indian disarmament and education
Secretary Teller outlines Indian affairs, urging disarmament to reduce conflicts, expansion of education with Carlisle style schools, and greater funding for industrial training. He proposes land titles patents for tribes, reform of preemption and timber laws, and tighter control of cash annuities and homestead entries.
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Secretary of the Interior
Washington
Henry M. Teller
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Arizona
United States
Lawrence
Kan
Carlisle
Hampton
Forest Grove
Indian Service
Department
Disposals of Public Lands Reported by Land Office
The Commissioner of the General Land Office reports total public land disposals under all acts of Congress amount to 19,450,002.80 acres with 359 to follow in the record.
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Land Office
United States
Commissioner of the General Land Office
Pension Fraud Abuse Warned by Interior Office
Circulars urged soldiers to apply for pensions while charging fees, with many swindled by agents or attorneys who hid their true entitlement. Several offenders have been suspended or disbarred. The report notes the issue’s magnitude and urges Congress to enact penalties. Construction costs totaled 176970.14 with heating apparatus contract under budget. remaining funds 223129.46 for building and 39480.55 for heating.
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Department of the Interior
Congress
Board of Commissioners
Utah
Yellowstone National Park
Postmaster General Gresham reports 1883 postal year figures
The annual department report honors Timothy Howe, notes revenue 45,508,692.61 for year ended June 30, 1883, outlines expenditures 43,282,944.43 and surplus 1,001,281.83, comments on postage rate changes and money order growth, and discusses presidential post offices, telegraph ideas, dead letters, lotteries law, and army and river harbor appropriations.
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Gresham
Timothy O. Howe
Department
Geman
Pacific Railroad Companies
TGR
Pacific Railroads
United States
Congress
New York City
War Department
Army and Military Academy
Commissioner of Education reports surge in office work and reform
The Commissioner notes a sharp rise in activity with 30 745 communications sent and 67 875 received. A full reorganization of the document division, a 823 592 distributed documents, and extensive inquiries into shorthand, school laws, hygiene, institutes, and rural education are reported. He urges federal aid to primary education based on illiteracy data from the tenth census.
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Louisville
Quassia Cup Factory Finds New Beer Niche
In New Britain Connecticut a quassia cup maker’s waste wood and shavings are now used as a bittering substitute for hops in lager beer. The factory, once known for tonic cups, now profits mainly from scraps, boosting the proprietor’s income beyond cup sales.
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New Britain
Conn
New Haven Register
Pittsburgh Adopts Dual Time Standards For Trains
Pittsburgh now follows two time standards, eastern standard for trains heading east and Central standard for trains heading west. The city’s longitude makes it one of the few places with two official time references.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post
Contraction of National Bank Circulation Explored
The report by Comptroller Knox analyzes plans to shrink national bank circulation by redeeming three percent bonds, discusses converting long bonds to three percents, repealing the circulation tax, and the risks of a rapid currency contraction. It warns against silver standard shifts and warns treasury notes would worsen fiscal control.
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Knox
Wasu Hinoton
Comptroller
United States
Treasury
Congress
The Laws of Trade in a Maryland Town
A shopper protests a twenty three dollar ore stove while a Wall Street News man notes iron's decline and failed iron firms. A local widow laments child deaths as nursing bottles stay costly. A ministerial note adds that ministers are ineligible to the Maryland Legislature.
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Wall Street
Maryland
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Commissioner of Pensions
Casipa
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Cewek
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Key
M. A. Dauphin
New Orleans
Dauphin
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Jackson
U. S
Europe
the War Department
Scar Aden
Csecseeese
Atoran
State, War, and Navy Department
Potmmard
Oye Sete
Sigral Benvices O Oe
Cit Sata Inc
Fea di
Signal Office
Ordnance Office
Bureau of Military Justice
Secretary of War
Signal Service
the Army
Army
Sherman
Sheridan
South Pass
Mississippi River
Interior Department
The
Utah Commission
Bureau of Education
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