Indiana tariff debate and Atlantic steamship race
Poston Bost reports on McKinley tariff implications for manufacturers warning higher costs and tighter sales. Indiana Civil Service reform advocates press for classified service changes amid GOP scrutiny. A New York Tribune view favors the bill for farmers, while a three-ship race to New York shows no clear speed advantage as vessels depart from Queenstown under full steam.
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Indiana Civil Service Reform Association
Fort Wayne
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Maryland Association
Harrison
Fort Wayne Gazette
Bonaparte
Indiana
Civil Service Commission
Wallace
Paul
New York
Rome
Aurania
Alaska
Queenstown
End of the Road Deficit Alarm in Congress
Secretary Windom warned of a future surplus risk yet six months later deficits loom as Congress faces pension, river and harbor, World’s Fair, and other large appropriations. The Boston Journal and Philadelphia Press call for accountability amid Republican expenditures and mounting debt. The deficit is projected around 97 million dollars.
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Windom
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Peters
House Committee On Appropriations
Philadelphia Press
Boston Journal
House
Journal
Washington
Treasury Department
Senate
Galveston Harbor
Hay Lake
Philadelphia
Bismarck interviews stir debate over authenticity
The article questions the authenticity of recent Bismarck interviews with European journalists. It notes a claimed comment on his dismissal embittering him and a French correspondent's assertion that Germany will not attack France. The piece doubts the reliability of such statements from the ex chancellor now out of office.
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Prince Bismarck
Germany
G. W. Smouxry
New York Tribune
Authen
Bismanen
France
Bismarck
Joseph Porter
K.C.B
Political critique denounces wasteful pensions and river works
The piece condemns extravagant public pensions and spending on river and harbor projects, citing the Hennepin Canal as a prime example. It argues the party must be halted before its proposed legislation runs its course.
Misrule in trade and city grime across a sprawling page
The article examines US Mexico trade frictions and a Republican stance on tariffs harming domestic manufacturers. It contrasts Mexican industrial shifts with American farm tool exports and a Monterrey smelting plant contract. It then shifts to city cleanliness criticisms in Boston’s Back Bay and West End, plus Chicago’s river odors and World Fair prep.
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Mexico
House
Senate
Illinois
Kansas
Europe
United States
West
L. D. KIN@sLAND
Kingsland & Douglas Manufacturing Company
St. Louis
Chihuahua
Laredo
Senor ArRoyo
Anda
Mexican Congress
Rio Grande
England
Monterey
High Tariff Party
Boston Streets in Need of Reform Spurred by Medical Society
The Suffolk branch of the Massachusetts Medical Society leads a civic push for street cleaning reform. Doctors and influential residents urge City Hall to act, citing health risks from spring dust and overall neglect. The piece notes only three cleaning gangs citywide, with Charlestown and Roxbury operating separately.
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Suffolk
Massachusetts Medical Society
City Hall
Post
Boston
Charlestown
Roxbury
Architectural Club Exhibition at Horticultural Hall
This week marks the final days of the Boston Architectural Club exhibit at Horticultural Hall with a larger crowd than before. The show, praised for excellence and variety, features many works from abroad and offers public access before its close.
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Architectural Club
Boston Architectural Club
Horticultural Hall
Atlantic Monthly and Scribner’s Magazine June Selections Highlight
The June issue opens with The Atlantic Monthly essays on The Novel and the Common School, Eight-Hour Law, and Turn of the Tide, with notes on Symmachus letters and Christian Antiquity. Scribner’s Magazine features Stanley’s Emin Pasha Retief expedition and Millet letters, plus Rosamond and Jerry. Harper’s highlights James Tarascon sketches, The American Burlesque, and Caucasus travel notes.
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Atlantic
Atlantic Monthly
Charles Dudley Warner
Walker
L.D
Miss Preston
Rome
Symmachus
Flavian
Ambrose
Milan
Theodosius
Augustus
H. C. Merwin
Merwin
Holmes
Miss Repplier
Brian de Bois- Guilbert
Iago
Mephistopheles
Camelot
Cadbury
Hannis Taylor
National House of Representatives
Sidney
Elion
Rod
Mrs. Fields
Mary C.gates
Coleridge
Scribner’s
Scribner’s Magazine
Mr. Stanley
Emin Pasha
Nelson
Stanley
Explorer
Stairs
Mr. Bartlett
Millet
Bartlett
Duns
Milletas
Somerset
Seth Low
Harold Frederic
Valey
Barratt Wendel
Fair Rosamond
Queen Eleanor
Jerry
Seating Scarcity on Commonwealth Avenue Draws Attention
The writer laments the lack of public seating on Commonwealth Avenue beyond the Hotel Vendome and in the Public Garden and Back Bay Park. Nurses with children and pedestrians suffer fatigue, and holidays worsen crowding, prompting calls for ample benches and better rules adherence. The piece also discusses gagging in theater and asks readers for sources on carriage horse origins and whether a coaching stallion equals a carriage horse.
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Commonwealth Avenue
Hotel Vendome
Commonwealth Avenue Mall
Back Bay Park
Burning Indian Graveyard Sparks Siwash Uprising Threat
In Wrynirea Manitoba on May 25 Indians of northern British Columbia react with extreme distress over a forest fire that burned a burial site where 300 ancestors were hung in trees. They mourn deeply and threaten revenge as bodies burned like tar.
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Wrynirea
Man
British Columbia
Excavations at Inwood examined by Harvard archaeologist
May 25 in New York Professor Putnam head of Harvard archaeology visited Inwood to inspect bones stones and pottery dug up by Alexander C Chenoweth He plans to ship the skulls and skeletons to Harvard for examination next fall and compare them with skulls from races in the area before stating their antiquity.
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Inwood
N. Y
New York
Putnam
Harvard Department For Archeology
Alexander C. Chenoweth
Putman
Harvard
Whimsical Clippings and Inventions Tattle from the Era
A collage of jokes notes and curiosities from the period includes lamp remarks about Europe and gold fish pond trespass signs and a tale of maple sugar as a nonessential item. It highlights a busily odd mix from Harper’s Weekly Burlington Free Press and Boston Post with a bulb of humor about Edison phonographs and Horace Greeley sculpture notes.
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Europe
Philadelphia
Harper’s Weekly
Boston Post
Burlington Free Press
Imperial Mint
British Museum
Boomer
Museum of Antiquities
Gottingen
Bismarck
Edison
J. Q. A. Ward
Horace Greeley
Old Country
Information Bureau
Mr. Shoreman
Atchison Buyout of Frisco Becomes Clear Cut Deal
The Boston News Bureau reports the Atchison circular details a stock exchange for the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. It shows par stock, treasury transfers, and net cost around 22.6 million, with Atchison stock worth about 11 million. Negotiations dated from April with no leaks, and no bankers or stockholder assessments were involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston News Bureau
Atchison
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
St. Louis & San Francisco Treasury
St. L. & Sin &, Atchison
P.d
Frisco Treasury
Frisco
Treasury
Atchison Capital Stock
Thomas Nickerson
Atlantic & Pacific
Huntington
Gould
State Street
Wall Street
Magoun
McCook
Baring
Reinhart
Seligmans
Frost
Winslow
Bankers’ Commission
George Francis Train Completes World Trip in Tacoma
George Francis Train finished his journey around the world arriving in Tacoma Washington last evening at seven o clock. The total time from start to finish was sixty seven days three minutes and three seconds.
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Tacoma
Wash
George Francis
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Chicago River
William
Italy
Spain
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Oxford
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Tarascon
Alphonse Daudet
Mr. James
Rossi
Montégut
Laurence Hutton
Evert Jansen Wendell
Julian Rolph
Birmingham
Howard Pyle
Jack Sheppard
Dick Turpin
Mr. Hibbard
Matt Crim
Mattie
Godey
Curtis
Ing
la Revue Française
la Revue Francaise
Jules Lemaitre
Paul Bourget
Portraits Littéraires Contemporains
Jules Simon
Colas, Colasse Et Colette
Witholette
Neuvaine
Taverner
Gregorio
Homére
Cleveland
Hambletonian
Atchison Redivivus
George Francis Train
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