Tariff Debates and Republican Shifts Highlight 1880s Politics
A political speech rebukes the Republican party for abandoning past pledges on tariff reform and fiscal restraint. It recalls Garfield's presidency and argues against monied interests steering policy, criticizing surplus spending, whiskey taxes, and protectionist rigidity while defending Cleveland era tariff reductions and free raw material imports.
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Garfield
Cleveland
Republican Party
Thomas Jefferson
New York
Republican and
Protectionist
Tariff Commission
Henry Clay
Tariff Reform and World Markets in the 1892 Debate
C. Schurz argues for free raw materials and temperate tariff reform, describing how American ingenuity and production can thrive abroad if artificial protections are removed. He challenges Republican calls that wages hinge on tariffs, warns of a looming angry reaction, and endorses President Cleveland's approach while urging prudent, gradual change.
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Henry Clay
United States
Europe
England
America
Germany
New York Tribune
France
Belgium
European
Cleveland
Republican League
Republican Party
Tweed
Trusts
Standard Oil Trust
Republic
Notable London Visit and Atlantic Literary Ties
Alphonse Daudet is in London to arrange a complete translation of his works. Sir George Grove, 68, author of the Dictionary of Music and Musicians, is described with white hair and a benign countenance. Professor Bryce’s forthcoming book on the United States is expected to be a major foreign study of U. S. government and society. London dispatch notes Bryce’s strong insight and familiarity with the Atlantic world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonse Daudet
London
Anton Rubinstein
George Landor Perin
Shawmut Universalist Church
Walton Street
Roxbury
T. Russell Sullivan
Glen House
Francis Blake
Weston
Professor Salisbury
Yale
Boston
Evelyn Baring
Egypt
Lady Baring
Venice
Peninsular & Oriental Company
Britannia
Alexandria
George Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Macmillan’s
Bryce
United States
American Republic
England
Atlantic
N. Y
Fire record details multi-building loss and hazards
Three alarms answered for a six story building at 74 76 Purchase street and 411 413 Atlantic avenue with losses near 50000. Beach Co W L Waterhouse and others insured their stock and machinery. Electric wires caused shocks to firemen including Ladder 13 crew. Fire put out by 10 pm. Also Dole Fertilizer works on Spectacle Island burned causing about 20000 loss. Freeman Me building burn losses 1500. Lincoln Neb wife and five children killed in house fire with a tramp. cause suspected accidental fire amid drinking.
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Purchase Street
Atlantic Avenue
Beach & Co
S. Waterhouse
E. J. Waterhouse
John Gill
I. B. Pratt
Gill
Franklin King
Chase
C. H. Webber
Ladder 13
Bartlett
Charlestown
Dole Fertilizer Company
Spectacle Island
Farmington
Freeman
C. V. Starbird
Lincoly
Neb
Richier
Geneva
Ohiowa
Richter
Kump
Carey Dies in Jail Suicide Amid Trial Awaiting Deaths
Salem reports Thomas F. Carey aged 29 died in jail after taking paris green while awaiting trial. He had been arrested for drunkenness and released on bail, but bondsmen surrendered him last week. Brought from Lynn, he consumed poison before leaving the city. This marks the third self inflicted death of detainees awaiting trial at this term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Thomas F. Carey
Paris Green
Lynn
Superior Court
Temperance Women Mark Fourteenth Boston Meeting
The Boston Women’s Christian Temperance Union celebrated its fourteenth anniversary at Clarendon Street Baptist Church. The year saw fourteen public meetings, eighty-one gospel sessions, two public lectures, and evangelistic work in prisons. Mrs Clara Hoffman of Kansas City gave the address on heredity and the lasting scars of vice, noting physicians’ claims that temperance affects insanity and that drunkenness fuels disease. She cited Kansas City ladies aiding newsboys as an example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Women's Christian Temperance Union
Clarendon Street Baptist Church
Boston
Clara Hoffman
Kansas City
Hoffman
Sermon at Appleton Chapel on Scorn and Evil
Rev. F. G. Peabody preached at Appleton Chapel drawing from Psalms 1.1 on three chief evils irreligion immorality and contempt. He argued scorn underpins both irreligion and immorality, noting Carlyle as a leading advocate of contempt for wrong. He warned contempt cannot cure evils but only reveal them and opposing scorn toward the unfamiliar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appleton Chapel
F. G. Peabody
Carlyle
New Books and Essays on Books and Men Review
A literary critique of Agnes Repplier s Books and Men from the Atlantic Monthly, praising her essays on sentiment criticism and child literature with sharp satire on literary gossip and mutual admiration culture. It surveys translations and new volumes from Hugo and others, noting illustrations and educational aims in marine painting and poetry by various publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Monthly
Agnes Repplier
Claverhouse
Edgar Fawcett
Telemachus
Ernest Myers
Childe Harold
Macaulay
Mr. Collins
Mr. Gosse
Collins
Master of
Trinity
London
Boston
Houghton, Miffin & Co
New Reading Picks Include Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring
The Knickerbocker Nugget previews Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring adapted for a charming illustrated edition from G P Putnam’s Sons. Also reviewed are a compact Europe art guide by Mr Boyd and Nordhoff’s Peninsular California monograph, with notes on climate resources and land titles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Thackeray
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York
Irving
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Victor Hugo
Huntington Smith
Thomas Y Crowell
T. Y. Crowell & Co
Notre-Dame de Paris
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Aline Delano
Walter W. May
Cassell & Co., Limited
London
Paris
Melbourne
Abram Lent Smith
G. W. Dillingham
Charles Nordhoff
Peninsular
California
International Company
Nordhoff
Knights of Labor Weakening Amid Decline and Debt
Pittsburg October 7 Knights of Labor facing internal strain as Thomas Barry resigns from the general board. Ex master workman McGaw says the order will not die soon though membership has fallen sharply in two years. Evans disputes the claim, noting Barry’s illness. A member cites historical counts from 1885 to now, showing declines from about 643 000 to 252 571 and adds the order is about $10 000 in debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights OF Labor
Pittsburg
Thomas Barry
General Board of Knights of Labor
Homer L. McGaw
District Assembly No. 3
Workman Evans
Soneene Barry
Tom Barry
General Assembly
Hamilton
Ont
Richmond
Minneapolis
Auction of Genteel Residence No 30 Yarmouth Street
Public auction by S R Knights Co. for a South End residence at 30 Yarmouth Street. Sale Thursday Oct 11 at 3 pm on the premises. House of 12 rooms, 2 stories finished in hardwood, furnaces, baths, full plumbing, open grates. Viewing daily 2-6 and 7-9 pm by applying at the house. Terms liberal, $300 cash at sale.
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Yarmouth Street
South End
Executor's Sale of Dorchester House at Adams Street
An executor sells a two story wooden dwelling with 10 rooms and about 2300 feet of land at No 11 Adams Street Meeting House Hill Dorchester facing Dorchester Square by auction on Tuesday October 16 at 4 pm on the premises. The property accommodates two families with Cochit uate water on two floors on high land near churches schools stores and two lines of horse cars about 10 minutes from Bird Street Station NY & NE RR. $200 to be paid at sale. Terms and particulars of auctioneers.
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Adams Street
Meeting House Hill
Dorchester
Dorchester Square
Bird Street
N.Y
N. E.R
Beacon Street
William Parsons
W. C. Codman
J. G. Freeman
Kilby Street
Log Cabin Health Regal Remedy Promotes Lifespan
This old prospectus-style piece extols Warner's Cabin sarsaparilla as a blood purifier to regulate the body's regulator the blood as the key to health and strength. It links physical vigor with moral character and urges daily use to prevent breakdown in the modern fast pace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner’s
Executor's Sale at 507 Main Street Charlestown
Real estate auctioneer Charles W Sawyer announces an executor's sale at the corner of Main Street and Bunker Hill Street in Boston area. About 13,400 feet of land accompanies a large mansion. Auction to commence at twelve o'clock. Located at 244 Washington Street Boston and 9 City Square Charlestown addresses listed.
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Charles W. Sawyer
Washington Street
Boston
City Square
Charlestown
Main Street
Bunker Hill Street
Massachusetts Tithe Company
Three Story Brick House at 262 Main Street for Sale
At 12 30 o clock the brick residence on 262 Main Street offers a handsome three story house with 10 rooms a wash room bath room hot and cold water set nbs set range and many conveniences The lot spans about 1300 feet located on the wide part of Main street near Hancock square, promising a pleasant home for the purchaser.
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Main Street
Hancock Square
Two-Story House At 2 Walker Avenue For Rent
At 1 O'Clock a old-fashioned two-story house at 2 Walker Avenue, on a 240 foot lot about 22 feet wide, rent two hundred forty per month. Also a large two-story frame building 60 by 30 feet, well built, now used as a storehouse, with potential as tenements yielding strong dividends.
Investment Prospect: Bakery Property at 56 Khustell Street
Rents set at 400 dollars per year for a property with a bakery and a basement oven, about 1200 feet of land, described as a good investment. Terms require 100 on each place at sale. properties will be sold separately.
Front and rear house plan for two tenants sale
Two story front and three story rear house with lower floor kitchen dining room parlor sitting room separated by folding doors, second floor chamber and third floor four rooms. Lot about 1160 feet with a pleasant yard. property viewable prior to sale in a pleasant area.
Fine Three Story Dwelling at 111 High Street Sold In Place
At two o clock NICE FRAME DWELLING 111 High Street three story mansard roof nine rooms bathroom hot and cold water furnace and other conveniences about 860 feet of land excellent location first rate investment sold subject to present tenant right to remain at 50 dollars per month until April 1 1889.
Twin family rental with 12 rooms on 1500 ft lot
A well laid out property offers 12 good rooms in order arranged for two families and rented at 360 dollars per year. Located on a nice street in a good neighborhood, it represents a first rate investment with about 1500 square feet of lot space.
Property Near Monument Grounds Describes 10 Rooms and Features
A compact property description notes a substantial building near the monument grounds with ten rooms, cold water, a furnace, and fencing. The lot covers about 1159 feet on a pleasant site near Fnaz High Street and the monument grounds.
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Fnaz
Inker
Isa
Sore
Brick Dwelling on Mt Vernon Street with Eleven Rooms
At 3:30 O Clock a substantial brick dwelling on Mt Vernon Street corner Mt Vernon Avenue offers 11 rooms in good order. The lot spans about 1160 square feet in a first class upper street location.
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Mt. Vernon Street
Descriptions of a Pleasant City Rental Property
A rental residence noted as three and a half stories high with 12 rooms and bath, both hot and cold water, furnace and conveniences. It sits on 1450 feet of land with a large yard in a good neighborhood near City square, suitable for residence or rental income.
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City Square
Well Built House For Sale With 8 Rooms And 40 Foot Frontage
At four eighty o clock the house is described as well built and in first rate order. It contains 8 spacious rooms, a shed, and a cemented cellar. The lot fronts about 40 feet and runs 67 feet deep with space to build another house in a good investment or home location.
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Harrison
C. ScuHuRz
Temperance
Harvard
NEW Books
Crowell
Isabel F. Hapgood
Notre- Dame de Paris
Notreame
Abbas Beati Martini
Cassell & Co
R.I
Ercles
Byron
Swinburne
Poe
Venus
Alhambra
Washington Irving
Boyd
St. Agnes School
Albany
S. R. Knights & Co
Cambridgeport
Holbrook & Fox
Postoffice Square
Brice S. Evans & Son
Equitable Building
Cazenove Street
Columbus Avenue
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Richards , CO
Walker Avenue
Khustell Street
Ziussell Street
High Street
Pearl Street
Cedar Street
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Harvard Street
Hutherford Avenue
Samuel Hatch & CO
Congress Street
Brosto
Trustees’ Sale
Horatio Harris & Coo., Aectioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
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