Farmers say protection hurts amid rising debts and mortgages
The St Louis Republic reports widespread farmer distress across Illinois Kansas and Missouri with tales of profitable harvests never paying costs. Mortgage data shows 309 real estate mortgages recorded in White County since July 1889 amid calls against tariff protection.
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Dissolution Talk Rises as Parliament Debate Intensifies
Rumors of a pre summer dissolution gain strength as Parliament faced further strain from the week long suspension of Mr. LaBouCHERE. The move heightens party bitterness and hinders useful legislation, with Liberal votes split and Lord Salisbury’s parliamentary-law breach drawing rebuke.
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Labou-Chere
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Mr Harrison First Year Review Sparks Bitter Debate
A critical analysis argues Harrison’s first year shows mixed results with diplomacy, tariffs, civil service reform, and scandals like Tanner and Sandford. The piece notes Dawes praise masks omissions and urges accountability, citing fiscal and governance concerns and the Strauss orchestra landings.
Anti Tax Limit Dinner Features Beacon Society Panel
Beacon Society symposium Saturday evening closes a push for raising the tax limit. The after-dinner event is not expected to yield new arguments on the public issue, though it showcases leading advocates and their positions.
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Beacon Society
Alaska Purchase Costs and Treasury Returns Cited
The piece notes Alaska costing 87 million dollars with an expected 3 million annual revenue to the national Treasury for twenty years, calling it a fair return yet highlighting the tax on consumers. It also references Home Journal source Miss Winthrop Emery as a critic’s misjudgment of her career and London praise of her work.
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National Treasury
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Notable Remarks and Opinions From a 19th Century Paper
The piece surveys various figures and opinions. It praises THOMAS STARR KINO for awakening Union loyalty in California and notes a planned statue in Golden Gate Park. It critiques Abraham Lincoln’s medical treatment, comments on Postmaster General Wanamaker and Dr Green, and muses on funeral brass bands. It references Sam Jongs and BicGar family details with terse judgments.
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Thomas Starr Kino
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Our loathsome Chicago contemporaries in print
The St. Louis Republic criticizes Chicago peers with sharp, candid prose hinting at professional rivalry and regional pride in its colonial era journalism voice. The piece gauges press manners and mutual snubs within late 19th century American newspapers.
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St. Louis Republic
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Death of Boston merchant William Dudley Pickman
The death of William Dudley Pickman, a prominent Boston merchant long tied to the Salem era East India trade, saddens friends who recall his vigor despite a past paralytic stroke. He embodied dignity, benevolence, and a zest for city life, especially in Commons and Public Garden walks, and his firm Silsbes & Pickman in Salem linked him to a storied mercantile lineage.
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Personal items sweep world theater and politics
Emin Pasha arrives in Zanzibar as Lord Salisbury returns to London. Dr Herra Obes elected Uruguay president. Henry James rumored to be dramatizing a novel. Mme Judie to accompany Coquelin on South American tour. Abraham Lincoln’s condition unchanged. Mme Modeska to perform in Baltimore tonight. M Nagnet elected Pantheon division Seine second ballot. Emma Eames hopes to appear in Ascania in Paris on March 19. Capoul wrote opera set in Ivan IV era Russia. US publisher plans May release. Portuguese government reportedly offers Major Serpa Pinto a Washington post, avoiding Lisbon. Augustus Daly’s company to take Lyceum Theatre in May. Henry Irving to revive Louis XL and The Bells at Islington, then Macbeth readings with Miss Terry. Mme Tacon named Countess of Peralta for service to King Alfonso XIII’s family. governess to Queen Isabella’s children.
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Dramas of Shakspere lecture at Chickering Hall
Mrs Clapp continued her course on the dramas of Shakspere with a focus on The Merchant of Venice. She examined Portia and the suitors, contrasted Portia with other heroines, and argued Shakespeare made women distinct yet bound by love.
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Tea Making Rules From a Treatise at the Table
The narrator acknowledges uncertainty about taste and renal bias but praises others who know tea preparation. The treatise prescribes heating a hot pot, pouring just-boiling water, adding tea, steeping two to seven minutes, and avoiding oversteeping. It warns of poor decoctions from underheated water or overboiling tea, claiming the latter may be poisonous. Tavener adds a closing aside.
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Tribute to Saltonstall Draws Broad Political Praise
A Boston Evening Post report notes a large cross party tribute by leading Republicans and Democrats praising Saltonstall for four years of nonpartisan, businesslike Custom House administration. The piece questions impact on his successor and suggests he will remain unchanged in routine priorities.
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In Fashion and Fame from Late Nineteenth Notes
A collage of worldly quotes and social snippets ranging from a tailor’s death in fitting clothes to the Prince of Wales inaugurating a Forth Bridge ceremony. It touches on Dr. Phillips Brooks’ sermons, Lillian Russell’s hardships, and a Parisian look at marriage, celibacy, and taxation.
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Tennyson
London
Lillian Russell
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France
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The Swallow Remembers a Lost Home
From Karl Bect J See comes a German verse about a swallow grieving over a ruined nest. A careless act destroys a sacred home, leaving a mother bird and child in sorrow while the father recalls happier days and a home forsaken.
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The Speaker's Victory and House Rules Debate
Harper's Weekly analyzes how Reed era rules bolster the Speaker's power, curbing minority filibuster and altering check and balance. The piece argues such changes threaten responsible debate, listing possible policy enactments the majority might pursue and questioning whether public demand justifies these measures.
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