[COMPLETE] State of the Union Addresses 1877-1884 - tg

realisticspeakers · February 25th, 2019, 4:02 pm

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[39:46]

I am so glad I don't have to read these numbers in German, because I couldn't.

Post by **ColleenMc** » March 1st, 2019, 5:45 pm

Section 2 is ready:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_02_various_128kb.mp3

51:26

Note: around 8:51 there is a word that looks like "east" in the text but I believe it should have been "cast" given the context (voting), so I read it that way. If there is disagreement I can change it.

Colleen

linny · Post by **linny** » March 2nd, 2019, 9:00 am

realisticspeakers wrote: ↑February 25th, 2019, 4:02 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_09_various_128kb.mp3
[39:46]

I am so glad I don't have to read these numbers in German, because I couldn't.

"Section9 of State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1877-1884). This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
I hear 1844

15:59 - It has been the aim of this negotiation to open such a favored reciprocal exchange of productions carried under the flag of either country as to make the intercourse between Cuba and Puerto Rico and ourselves scarcely less intimate than the commercial movement between our domestic ports, and to insure a removal of the burdens on shipping in the Spanish Indies, of which in the past our shipowners and shipmasters have so often had cause to complain.
I hear ship powers

31:03 The Secretary estimates the total receipts for the fiscal year which will end June 30, 1885, at $330,000,000 and the total expenditures at $290,620,201.16, in which sum are included the interest on the debt and the amount payable to the sinking fund.
I hear $333,000,000
Normally it wouldn’t be a problem but he calculates on the next line.

Awesome job rallying your energy to show interest in this ridiculously long list of numbers. Bravo!

realisticspeakers · Post by **realisticspeakers** » March 2nd, 2019, 9:39 am

"Section9 of State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1877-1884)...
I hear 1844

Corrected.

15:59 - ... and to insure a removal of the burdens on shipping in the Spanish Indies, of which in the past our shipowners and shipmasters have so often had cause to complain.
I hear ship powers

Another masterful edit

31:03 The Secretary estimates the total receipts for the fiscal year which will end June 30, 1885, at $330,000,000 ...
I hear $333,000,000
Normally it wouldn’t be a problem but he calculates on the next line.

Apparently I can't count in any language!

3 million dollars withdrawn.

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_09_various_128kb.mp3
[39:46]

linny · Post by **linny** » March 2nd, 2019, 10:14 am

ColleenMc wrote: ↑March 1st, 2019, 5:45 pm Section 2 is ready:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_02_various_128kb.mp3

51:26

Note: around 8:51 there is a word that looks like "east" in the text but I believe it should have been "cast" given the context (voting), so I read it that way. If there is disagreement I can change it.

Colleen

Nailed it! PL OK. I found this one interesting. It's been a number of years since we've heard about making improvements and how Indian relations were going.

linny · Post by **linny** » March 2nd, 2019, 11:03 am

realisticspeakers wrote: ↑March 2nd, 2019, 9:39 am Apparently I can't count in any language!
3 million dollars withdrawn.

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_09_various_128kb.mp3
[39:46]

Well it was a tremendous amount of numbers!

All corrections are spot check PL OK!

Post by **ColleenMc** » March 2nd, 2019, 11:52 am

Section 8:

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_08_various_128kb.mp3

29:47

Less wordy, LOTS of numbers!

Colleen

linny · Post by **linny** » March 3rd, 2019, 7:10 am

Colleen,
President Arthur certainly did like numbers! Nice work with it.

There is one typographical error. Would you mind making the change?

22:44 - Of loan of July and August, 1861, continued at 3 1/2 per cent - 20,594,600.00
Of funded loan of 1907 - 1,418,850.00

I went to the prior year to compare the lists and I believe this should be 1863

Post by **ColleenMc** » March 3rd, 2019, 9:32 am

I thought that was super-weird, I even went back and checked it against the Gutenberg text directly (I had copied it into a text file for easier reading) to make sure it was 1907! I figured it was some kind of 40-year loan that was taken out in 1867....

I will make the change, but I'm about to leave my quiet dogsitting gig and head back to my noisy house, and then to Florida for the rest of the week on a family visit, so it might not be until I get back next week and have another dogsit around the 13th or 14th!

Colleen

5Tommy00 · Post by **5Tommy00** » March 3rd, 2019, 2:07 pm

I'll take section 6 "Chester A. Arthur, December 6, 1881" and section 7 "Chester A. Arthur, December 4, 1882" if you would like me to.

linny · Post by **linny** » March 3rd, 2019, 2:24 pm

5Tommy00 wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2019, 2:07 pm I'll take section 6 "Chester A. Arthur, December 6, 1881" and section 7 "Chester A. Arthur, December 4, 1882" if you would like me to.

It's good to have you. Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions along the way.

realisticspeakers · Post by **realisticspeakers** » March 3rd, 2019, 11:15 pm

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[36:21]

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

linny · Post by **linny** » March 4th, 2019, 6:56 am

realisticspeakers wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2019, 11:15 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_10_various_128kb.mp3
[36:21]

I think I'm getting the hang of this.

I certainly agree. There again I would have agreed 7 or 8 projects ago.

31:22 - The system has fully answered the expectations of its friends in securing competent and faithful public servants and in protecting the appointing officers of the Government from the pressure of personal importunity and from the labor of examining the claims and pretensions of rival candidates for public employment.
I hear protections

Post by **ColleenMc** » March 4th, 2019, 8:20 am

The bit on section 8 should be fixed now...I realized I didn't need quiet, I was able to cut/paste "1863" from another line in the list!

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/stateoftheunion_1877_1884_08_various_128kb.mp3

Colleen

linny · Post by **linny** » March 4th, 2019, 8:51 am

Colleen,
Great thought!

The correction didn't save however. 1907 is still there.