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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1894
Page
8
An advertisement touts Howard's Combination Corn Planter and Wire Check Rower as the best in the land. It claims consistent planting depth on hills or hollows, high coverage, and a light design with no neck weight, enabling 3 to 5 acres more per day. View at the store for examination.
The Hamilton Jr open frame planter offers one grain hill drop continuous drill or full hill drop with a special check tower and automatic drop out for wire. It is praised as the finest kind of planter and is described as easily cued and light running. Come and see the planter.
Barbour one horse drill offered as good as other dealers. Cheap price and solid quality praised. Justus Rogers and Go invite customers to inspect both models.
In a Paris publication a late Octave Feuillet letter recounts Empress Eugenie at Fontainebleau. A bat enters a tea gathering and is stunned by a gentleman with a vane. Eugenie gifts the bat to stroke and blows air to revive it, sparking a quip that the bat must be dead to receive such homage.
The American Industries column argues steel mill shutdowns are driven by the McKinley tariff. Frederick W. Wood says Michigan ore and high freight costs, plus coppered imports, push eastern mills out. Removing the tariff on raw materials would restore parity with western and other producers.
A London Gentlewoman letters notes two friends photo sitting on a bench, yet the developed image shows a second figure, a woman unknown to both. She wonders how such a sighting happens and what it could mean, noting occasional professional awareness of similar events.
The advertisement touts children's suits from 65 cents to 7 dollars, sizes from 3, men’s shoes from 1 to 5 dollars up to 14 years, and a full line of boys' shoes. It urges shoppers to inspect before buying elsewhere, claiming unbeatable goods and prices.
A New York Sun editorial argues production outpaces consumption, linking overproduction to industrial depressions. The piece cites labor-saving machinery as harming workers, contrasts France’s employment, and raises whether patents should continue. It notes Tell City Indiana’s tariff views favoring price reductions over protection and argues trusts demand stronger measures beyond current anti trust laws.
The text notes that despite British regulations, early American industry expanded as population rose, with key sectors such as iron and textiles firmly established by 1789, growing largely without tariffs until then. It mentions a regulatory echo and a reference to money or value at the end.
A forum excerpt argues taxation should be based on ability and benefits received not sectional lines. It cites Sherman Rogers Mill and Thurlow Rogers on income and consumption taxes, warns of future broader tax reforms, and condemns sugar lobby corruption linking lawmakers to sugar interests.
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