{"id":1752,"date":"2012-10-17T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2012-10-18T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:07:09","slug":"president-grover-cleveland-visits-memphis-october-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1752","title":{"rendered":"President Grover Cleveland visits Memphis October 1887"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported on October 16, 1887 the following:<\/p>\n

As might have been expected the huge crowd in the city for the visit of President and Mrs. Cleveland proved to be a rich harvest for the pick-pockets and sneak thieves, with large sums of money and many pieces of jewelry nipped from the people lining the streets.\u00a0 Police arrested 10 of the fine-fingered operators and on them found cash and valuables amounting to several thousands of dollars.\u00a0 But many more of their ilk escaped arrest.<\/p>\n

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The previous week, President\u00a0and Mrs. Cleveland arrived in St. Louis Mo where they took a riverfront tour of the city on a steamboat.\u00a0 The above picture is\u00a0from a post card commemorating\u00a0their visit to the city.\u00a0 Apparently,\u00a0 the Presidential party disembarked on to the St. Louis Lee Line wharf-boat.\u00a0 The trip continued down the west side of the Mississippi River before taking the KATE ADAMS across the river to thousands of people lining the bluffs of Memphis\u00a0who welcomed President and Mrs. Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported on October 16, 1887 the following: As might have been expected the huge crowd in the city for the visit of President and Mrs. Cleveland proved to be a rich harvest for the pick-pockets and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}