President Cleveland’s Message to Congress on State Affairs
The president submits a comprehensive annual message outlining national and foreign policy. He reviews relations with China, Japan, France, Germany, and Britain, discusses Hawaii, Samoa, Nicaragua, and the Mosquito Coast, and recommends warship additions and post office reform. He urges a firm but just foreign policy and notes arbitration efforts, treaty issues, and upcoming legislation.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Brazil
China
Washington
Senate
United States
Japan
Corea
France
Germany
Prussia
Secretary of State
Bering Sea
British Guinea
Great Britain
Venezuela
Russia
Bennington
Spain
Turkey
Samoa
Congress
Department Reports on Treasury and War Policies
The secretary of the treasury reports a fiscal year deficit of 69 803 260 58 with revenue 372 802 498 29 and expenditures 412 605 758 57. It notes customs receipts 131 818 530 62 and internal revenue 147 168 449 70, plus land sales and other sources. The document covers budgets for War Justice Navy Interior Agriculture and the push for naval expansion and pension and land reforms. It calls for repeal of the American registry restriction on ships built abroad and owned by Americans.
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Nicaragua
Mosquito
Bluefields
Manaus
Republic
Wilson
Rama
Mosquito Territory
Arguello
Hig
Canal Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Desco
United States
Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Department—Livestock Inspection
Weather Bureau
Statistical Service
National health board urged to protect public health
A longstanding push for civil service reform and a national health board is urged as essential for safe governance. The Labor Commission’s 1881 statute appoints Kernan Worthington Wright to investigate railroad labor conflicts. Their report, submitted for congressional consideration, is praised for thoroughness and insight.
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Congress
Tam
Board of Health
Heath
National Board of Health
Labor Comminnion
United States
John D. Kernan
New York
Nicholas KE. Worthington
Ilinois
Carroll D. Wright
Important Amendments Proposed to Enforce Tariff Act
The speaker urges amendments to the tariff act to ensure effective execution without changing duty rates. He supports freeing coal and iron from duties and seeks removal of all differential duties favoring refined sugar. He notes sugar refining’s distress despite current tariff advantages and calls for legislative aid.
Questions of Finance and New Currency Scheme Discussed
President Cleveland defends the gold reserve policy and endorses a treasury plan to reform banking. He notes bond sales reduced interest, warns of rapid gold depletion, and champions state bank notes with a government guarantee fund and safety levy to stabilize currency.
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Congress
Lamn
Thas
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Treasury
Pernetpal
Grover Cleveland
Baltimore and Ohio Southwest excursion tickets for homeseekers
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway offers excursion tickets to homeseekers for round trips to Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana with a Dec 4 excursion date and liberal stop over on tickets. For rates and information contact B O S W Ray agents or Trav Pass'r Agent W P Townsend Vincennes Ind General Passenger Agent J M Cuxssroun.
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Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
W. P. Townsend
Vincennes
Ind
J. M. Cuxssroun
Cicneral
Avent
Rev Hicks Almanac 1895 Offered With Word and Works
The Rev Hicks Almanac for 1895 is praised as a rare, useful publication. It sells for 50 cents, contains 151 pages, and is offered as a premium to yearly Word and Works subscribers at $1 per year. Send orders to Word and Works Publishing Co., St. Louis, Missouri.
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Tr. R. Hicks
America
Srl R. Hicks
Word and Works
Worp and Works Publishing Co
St. Louis
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertised With Reward Notice
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure failure. W J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. West & Traux Walching Ky? and Kinnan & Marvin Toledo Ohio endorse Cheney. Cure taken internally, acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
W.j.cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Traux
O. Walching
School leadership under pressure and a record corn yield
Superintendent Burt J. Tice urges a balance of firmness and humanity in school principals while praising a model, and George Hopping reports seven acres yielding 110 bushels per acre after drainage investment.
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George Hopping
Loans on Improved Farms and Abstracts Offered
See Slinkard and Hendren for loans on improved farms with eastern lenders at 6 percent on $1000 or more and 6 percent on $500 or less. We also furnish first class abstracts on short notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slinkard & Hendren
Equal Sharing in Protection
Seymour Democrat David Lubin of Sacramento advocates export bounties funded by import duties to balance protections for farmers. He argues this would give farmers a share of revenue from government regulation of industrial profits, though the idea clashes with sound economics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
David Lubin
Sacramento
Cal
Lublin
Short Memory on Record in Washington Clerks Office
A humorous incident in a Washington clerk’s office features a young man seeking a marriage license who cannot recall his fiancée’s given name. Deputy Clerk Walters stifles laughter as the man recalls she is often called darling or pet, after which the license is issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walters
Terre Haute
Oliver Wendell Homes
Holmes
Emerson
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Cleveland
Pew Financial
Dorsed
The
Congress of the United
Congress of the
Hawaii
House of Representatives
Italy
Mexico
Department Reports
Lion White
Department of War
Department of Justice
Circuit Court of Appeals
Indian Territory
Union Pacific Hailyod Company
Postoffice Department
Post Office Department
Abe
Universal Postal Unron
Congress of the Union
Public Service
Navy Department
Coast Survey
Department of the Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Pensione
Commissioner of Pensions
Duan
PorRigess
Homeseekers
Burt J. Tice
Wrentham
Mass
New England Association of
Crawfordsville
Bucklen
Arnica
S. Stalcup
Washington Democrat
F. A. Quillen
Huntington
Crawfordsville Journal
South Bend Times
Doctors of Finance
Destoy
Tri-Weekly
Andrew Carnegie
Vincennes Sun
Greene Smith
James C. Denny
D. P. Baldwin
Smith
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bland
Silve
Missouri
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