Prominent Figures and Events in Gilded Age News
A collage of brief items mentions Congressman E B Lewis’s repute, a surge in Southern mule exports to Cape Town, the Chicago birth and a survivor of the Chicago massacre, Cronje’s isolation on St Helena, and a note on obiter dictum by Col Watterson. J Bryan’s Chicago visit and Bryan delegation talk surface amid Populist Barker’s 1890 banking record. A marriage gift of 1,000,000 dollars prompts caution about matrimony. Additional notes cover Brice’s Harvard link, Florence La Vergne Ricketts’ marriage, Mazet’s tax appraiser post, and Postmaster General Smith’s public position amid a Collier’s Weekly piece.
Dem and gold standard clash with Bryan urged to drop issue
The Philadelphia Record urges Mr. Bryan to avoid the gold standard debate for now, noting that statutory gold backing is entrenched for the next term. It cites Democratic papers on Vice Presidential woes, observing both parties face mediocre vice presidential timber and lack of decisive candidates for Kansas City.
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Philadelphia Record
Bryan
United States
Jet
Kansas City
Hall's Great Discovery Kidney and Bladder Cure Ad
An advertisement from W. Hall's Great Discovery promises cures for kidney and bladder troubles and related ailments. The message includes mail order details from St Louis Missouri and notes a testimonial from Rev. L. B. Pounds mentioning a Waco Texas origin.
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St Louis
Waco
Texas
W. A. Rembert
Americus, Ga
Clinton
Ala
Waco Texas
L. B. Pounds
Ralston Wounded. Lawyer Fatally Injures Jeweller
In Chattanooga on May 15, Graham T. Holtzclaw, son of a late judge and a Georgia figure, returned home and found E. H. Ralston dead in a bedroom. Holtzclaw fired three shots, wounding a man in the forepart abdomen. he was arrested but later released on bond. Mrs. Holtzclaw, Miss Finker, comes from a prominent local family.
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Starving Residents Reported on Palmerston Island
May 15 dispatches from San Francisco describe Empire mails noting Palmerston Island between Tahiti and Samoa as starving after Elihu Williams, the trader who owned it, died. His son and remaining residents face severe hunger prompting relief ships like Cotton M M to aid, as Adelaide coordinates Quiruas relief operations through mid May.
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Samoa
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