Indiana Democratic Platform Highlights and Tax Reform Promises
The Indiana Democratic platform asserts pride in enacted labor and education laws, opposes tariff protection, and pledges to maintain reform measures. It condemns Republican obstruction, endorses direct election of senators, and supports taxation of greenbacks and immigration controls. It denounces the American Protective Association and calls for law and order amid economic concerns.
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Democratic Party of
Indiana
Pinkerton
Barrett
State Board of Charities
Republican Party
Fifty-first Congress
Cleveland
Democratic House of Representatives
Daniel W. Voorhees
David Turpie
Congress
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Senate
Democratic Congress
United States
Democratic plank on silver and pensions in Hawaii era
The text outlines positions on arbitration, opposition to sumptuary laws, the silver question, and pension policy. It endorses restoration of silver in currency, equal coinage parity, and paper currency at par, while praising Grover Cleveland and Governor Matthews for law and order and good governance. It calls for generous pensions for veterans and a veterans’ home.
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Democratic Party
Hawaii
Cleveland
Matthews
Grover Cleveland
Union
Postponed Exchange Sparks Thoughtful Quip
A brief exchange features Robbie deferring a request to improve, replying he will try next month. The other speaker questions why delay, and a Chicago inter ocean quote notes the water is still suitable for swimming.
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Robbie
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Making It All Right
A clerk requests a salary raise while noting Boggs earns $6 more for no additional work. The employer agrees the situation is unjust and proposes to adjust Boggs’ pay by six tenths of a dollar.
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Boggs
Roduce Boggs
Philadelphia
Anxious to Ride Now
Clara plans to ask her father for a bicycle as her mother inquires about medical advice. Clara replies she has consulted a dressmaker instead, signaling hopeful news.
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Clara
Life of Marlborough cited portrait of Sarah Jennings
The passage portrays Sarah Jennings as unromantic and unimpressionable yet steadfast as wife and widow. It notes her unchanged nature through time, her deep bond with the duke, and their marriage free of mercenary motive while marked by mutual egotism and worldly focus.
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Sarah Jennings
Queen Anne
Sye
Marlborough
The Kiss of Bosham Land Deal Tale
A medieval tale from the London Telegraph describes how Earl Godwin used a linguistic ruse at a cathedral ceremony to claim Bosham in Sussex. The anecdote laments modern legal complexity that followed simpler times in land transfers.
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Bosham
Sussex
Canterbury
Earl Godwin
Godwin
London Telegraph
Misplaced Insulation On Ship And Hats
An ocean steamer ran off course after a passenger stored an iron deck chair in the pilothouse amid a storm. A professor and his head student tested insulation readings in cold wind, discovering an extreme result caused by a stiffened felt hat with a steel wire brim.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
The Progress of Woman and a Bold Servant Request
A woman on North Pennsylvania street refused a stranger’s demand to bring her servant to the stranger’s house for work. The visitor offered to pay more and waited on the next door porch for the servant to return, a stunt the mistress called bold piracy.
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Pennsylvania Street
Indianapolis Sentinel
Everyday Wisdom Framed by a Bantering Exchange
A quip from the Chicago Record features Tom and Dick debating a match safe. Dick argues it is reliable, the only pocket place where a match is always available without searching. The exchange returns to humor and practical small talk.
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Tom
Chicago
Preposterow Celebrated Lawyer Narrates Bank Robbery
In a sharp exchange, a client mocks a celebrated lawyer asking if the crime was real. The lawyer deflects, while the client insists on their own guilt and disbelief at employing such representation.
The Goat’s Peculiar Bond With Humankind
The goat has long been underappreciated by humans, yet widespread among both barbarian and civilized societies. It closely bonds with households, displays notable intelligence, provides milk and edible flesh, and its hair offers varied uses, though its status beside man remains modest.
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Scribner's
Kitchi-ta-Kipi The Big Spring of the Chippewas
A Chicago Record account describes Kitchi-ta-Kipi in Michigan as a near circular spring 200 feet across and 65 feet deep. The water shows many green shades, magnifies objects, and features numerous bubbling craters. Cedars draped with moss frame the site while legends tell of a healing flight for a princess and a drowned rival, explaining the spring’s vivid green.
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Michigan
Chicago
Ashantee Sacrifices Describe Savage Royal Funerals
Professor W. G. Steadman recounts Ashantee rites that accompany a king’s death. The practice includes killing wives and slaves to accompany the ruler into the afterlife, with rude ceremonies continuing for about a week and volunteers offering themselves.
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Africa
W. G. Steadman
Washington
A Talented Listener and Monologist Maurice
A biographical reminiscence praises Maurice as a gifted listener and monologist. He recalls an afternoon with Sir James Mackintosh where Maurice spoke little while Sir James dominated the conversation, yet Mackintosh praised Maurice for his agreeable and well expressed sentiments.
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Maurice
James Mackintosh
James
Sir James
Tie
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Errect One
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Ling
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