Treat Canada Fairly Misleading Tariff Statistics
A historical editorial argues against the Payne Aldrich tariff, contrasting U S and Canadian duties. It contends misused statistics inflate Canada’s burden and calls for fair comparison of tariffs on similar goods while noting Canadian duties remain higher on manufactured imports. The piece also recounts a Nebraska origin story about the Niagara suspension bridge and a kiteflier boy.
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Canada
France
The
New York Herald
Washington
America
Journal of Commerce
Nebraska
Walsh
Niagara
Niagara Falls
Niagara River
Harper’s Weekly
Ancient Spanish Court Etiquette Guards Madrid Palace Gates
The article describes Spain’s strict royal etiquette under King Ferdinand VII. Each night at 11, officials with lanterns demand a large key to lock Madrid's royal palace doors, despite electric lighting. The key often doesn’t fit modern locks, and officials patrol corridors to guard the king’s slumbers.
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Europe
Spain
Ferdinand VII
Royal
Madrid
Remarkable New Cancer Treatment Demonstrated at Clinic
Dr. William S. Bainbridge of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital described ligation as a method to cut off blood supply to cancer and isolate tumors. He presented cures, including facial cancer cases where most of the face was removed and a new cheek was grafted from skin.
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William S. Bainbridge
New York
Bainbridge
Surgeon recounts cancer operations yielding surprising recoveries
Dr Bainbridge describes ligation as starving the cancer growth and presents cases where patients with extensive facial cancer, a sergeant with abdominal pain, and others were revived, regained weight, and resumed normal life after operations. Several patients showed no recurrence and others lived for years with the disease controlled.
Firearms Ended Armor in Historic Battles
The New York American notes Waterloo as the last major battle to use body armor with cuirassiers falling to swift English cavalry. It cites Pavia 1525 as the first large use of muskets, Crecy 1346 as an artillery milestone, and declares gunpowder would soon render armored knights obsolete.
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Waterloo
Pavia
Crecy
New York American
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J. S. Waugh
Grand Theatre
Mort H. Singer Presents
Henry Woodruff
Grays Harbor
Wishkah
AA Plain Business
Martha Washington
Dry Sox
Billy Buster
Washington Shoe Mfg. Co
Seattle, Wash
Aberdeen Carriage Company
Peter Ibsen
General Blacksmiths
Wishkah Street
F. Fredrickson
Summit St
Patterson & Locke Co
A. J. Stewart
West Heron St
Aberdeen, Washington
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