Iowa Farmers Clash With Southern Alliance Over Politics
The piece reviews a decisive Iowa vote against fusion with the Southern Farmers Alliance, contrasting farmer and planter aims on wheat and wool prices, beef and pork markets, local industry, and tariffs. It critiques Democratic state policy, prohibition debates, and yields on mortgages, colleges, and McKinley era trade effects, with figures cited on farm debt and income.
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Ers
Iowa
Union of Agriculturists
Ocean
Alliance
Farmers’ Alliance South
Democratic Party
America
England
Southern Farmers’ Alliance
Republican Iowa Platform Endorses Tariff Reform and Probes Democratic Abuse
The Iowa Republican convention declares renewed devotion to national Republican principles, praises Harrison administration, backs tariff revision favoring home industry, pensions for veterans, and silver coinage experiment. It condemns Democratic lawlessness on temperance, opposes Horace Boies, denounces Ottumwa platform, McKinley misrepresentations, and asserts unity with pro business, anti-saloon policies for state-wide reform and protection of labor.
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Cedar Rapids
Republican Party of
Iowa
Ips
Harrison
Blican Party
United States
Republican Party
General Assembly
Republican
Democratic Party
Horace Boies
Northwest
Grover Cleveland
Owa
Reform Club
City of
New York
Why He Stands for Protection and American Identity
A Columbus Grove man recalls prices from his youth to argue for protectionism. He describes farm wages, country goods, local industry, and home weaving to illustrate his stance as a proud American supporter of free trade’s decline.
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J. F. Jones
Columbus Grove
Putnam
Miami County
France
Cross Roads
Tenting on the Old Camp-Gnd In Tariff Debate
The Marlboro Enterprise notes St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Dubuque Times claiming Republicans will drive tariff changes. Democrats are accused of cowardice and obstruction, while Republicans claim a satisfactory tariff system. A nine month old baby traveling from Chicago to Mexico to Massachusetts to Portland and Maynard is cited as a comment on mobility and world familiarity.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dubuque Times
Pilgrims Progress
White House
Chicago
City of
Mexico
Massachusetts
Portland
Maynard
Marlboro Enterprise
Plants and plants facts from a midwestern page
Plant growth peaks from 4 to 6 a m with faster rates than any other time of day. A southern Arizona plant yields rope and twine that last long. Myrrh comes from a southwestern Asian tree, once nearly a mystery to botanists. A scrubby shrub, not over twelve feet tall, is its source. The world’s largest grapevine grows in Oys Portugal, bearing since 1802. Its 1884 harvest produced wine from 165 gallons of grapes. Marshallville Georgia hosts a famed peach orchard of 6000 trees planted in squares, neatly tended with limbs bowed under heavy fruit.
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Baies
Des Moines Fair
Burlington
Ottumwa i
Arizona
Asia
Oys
Portugal
Marshallville
Bill Paid After Many Years
A young man once employed at Emerson Hall forgot a small bill to Dr. H C Newell from twenty six years ago. He recently found the old bill and promptly paid it, saying honesty is worth notice in St Johnsbury Vermont.
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Emerson Hall
H. C. Newell
Tenty
St. Johnsbury
Caledonian
Abdul Hamid II Faces End of Turkish Rule
The piece argues Abdul Hamid II may be the last sultan of Turkey as Arabia revolts and the empire loses territories in Africa and the Balkans. It notes Mecca and Medina loss and a growing national debt near one billion dollars.
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Abdul Hamid
Abdul Hamid II
Turkey
Arabia
Africa
Balkan
Mecca
Medina
Boston City Hall Needs Enlargement in Italian Renaissance Style
Boston proposes a new city hall similar to New York in aspiration while praising the old building as handsome yet too small for the city. The current hall cost about $500,900 and features Concord granite on the front and west facades with plain stone on other sides, reflecting Italian Renaissance design with French modernist modifications.
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Boston
New York
Concord
Sir Provo Wallis Celebrates 100th Birthday
Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, senior admiral of the British fleet, marked his centennial on April 12, 1891. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he joined the Royal Navy at thirteen and served with distinction, including as a lieutenant aboard the Shannon during the 1813 Battle of the Chesapeake.
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Provo Wallis
Provo William Parry Wallis
Halifax
N. 8
Royal Navy
Admiral Wallis
Shannon
Chesapeake
Editor of Texas Siftings Alexander E Sweet
Alexander E Sweet editor of Texas Siftings born in Canada in 1841. His family moved to San Antonio as a child, studied in New York and Germany, served as a private in the Thirty third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War, practiced law briefly, then founded Texas Siftings in Austin in 1881. He later resided in New York City with his family.
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Alexander E. Sweet
Texas Siftings
Canada
San Antonio
Tex
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Germany
Carlsruhe
Texas
Thirty-third
Texas Cavalry
Austin
Mr. Sweet
New York City
Simonds Named Commissioner of Patents with War Record
Hon William Edgar Simonds, named commissioner of patents, is a Connecticut native, 58, wartime lieutenant, former state legislator and congressman. He has practiced patent law in Hartford with Simonds and Burdette, bringing long experience to the role. The piece notes a lament about books news days lacking novelty.
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William Edgar Simonds
Connecticut
Simonds & Burdette
Hartford
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Monona County
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the Intelligencer
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H. & S. K. Wilson
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