Roosevelt Opens Campaign With Open Fight Message
Vice Presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt speaks at St Paul for the Republican national campaign. He urges Democrats to face public debate, defends expansion policy, attacks free silver, and savages Populist Democracy as chaotic and disloyal while stressing McKinley’s record and the Philippines, Cuba, and Porto Rico policies.
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Theodore Roo Vvelt
St. Paul
Guy Roosevelt
Republican National League
George Stone
California
League
Pacific Coast
Minnesota
Davis
Nelson
Gov
Roosevelt
Kansas City
Gov. Roosevelt
McKinley
New York
United States
Ice Trust
Hawaii
Philippines
Gold and Silver and the Value of Coinage Ratios
The article traces historical debates on gold to silver coinage ratios in the United States. It explains how shifting ratios affected circulation, notes acts from 1834 and 1884, cites figures on silver coinage, and quotes opinions of Albert Gallatin and Robert Young Hayne on monetary stability and market value.
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United States
Albert Gallatin
Treasury
Jefferson
Europe
Ingham
House of Representatives
Mr. Benton
Gould
Mexico
South America
West Indies
Benton
France
A Million a Day What We Pay for Tropical Products
A historical note on U S imports showing tropical products costing about a million dollars daily. The piece lists major import categories such as India rubber fibers silk cotton gums and cabinet woods with sugar coffee tea tobacco tropical fruits and cacao as additional big items. It comments on the Dutch East Indies as a sugar source and cites a Connecticut Valley tobacco study with projected farmer gains and improved fermentation methods.
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United States
India
Dutch East Indies
Philippines
Open the mills McKinley tariff shows rising factory payrolls
The piece argues McKinley’s tariff opened mills and boosted employment. It cites 200 manufacturers reporting payrolls rising from 90,483 in 1894 to 174,645 last year, and wages climbing from 1,149,081 to 3,149,? million across 1894–1899 with substantial bank deposits increases cited to show national prosperity.
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McKinley
Charles Dick
Republican National Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
Istat
Tnnu Oe
Tacoma
Ees Oomlats
Lee
Yatowas
National Association
Pew
Meliiley
Bible named as best selling book by trade source
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece cites a northern publisher claiming the Bible outsells all titles every month and year. It notes 1,426,801 copies issued by the American Bible Society in 1899–1900 and widespread Bible editions from 50 cents to 25 dollars, with war and battlefield legends boosting demand.
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United States
France
Algiers
Russia
Purkestan
Germany
Japan
America
China
American Bible Society
England
Europe
Oxford
Philippines
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Garden Party Hint of Scandal As Hands Buried In Pockets
A subdued suburban charity garden party turns tense as a young couple, Charley or Dick and a woman in a light organdy dress, appear in dim light. The man keeps his hands in his pockets while the woman gasps, and the scene moves toward a potential theatrical thrill.
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Charley
Washington Post
Mexican olla peddler with water cooler pot
A Mexican peddler stands with a traditional olla used as a water cooler. The vessel is crafted from a clay pot designed to keep beverages cool.
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Mexico
Southwest
Peru Vast Mineral Resources Highlight Ore Riches
Peru's soil hosts the widest mineral variety with deposits at Piura in the north and Cerro de Pasco central Peru. The southern fields at Arequipa and Carabaja yield phosphate quicksilver and borax. There are 2,500 mines in exploitation employing 70,000 workers. Ore values rose over 50 percent in the last two years.
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Peru
Piuria
Cerro de Pasco
Arequipa
Carabaja
Matches and Materials Feed Fortune’s Unyielding Debt
An Austrian firm consumes ten tons of phosphorus yearly and produces over 25 billion matches. Nearby a British company uses 100000 pounds of sulfur, 100000 feet of white pine timber, and 150 tons of strawboard in the same period. The piece notes that a man’s creditors are the most tireless followers of fortune.
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Austria
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