Connecticut Mutual Life Plans 3 Percent Interest Policy Shift
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford announces it will compute net premiums and reserves on future policies using a 3 percent earning rate instead of 4 percent, citing long term investment safety, mortality assumptions, and enhanced surplus safety. The plan introduces a whole life policy with cash value buildup, surrender options, and paid up insurance after premiums, aiming to maximize protection while keeping premiums affordable.
Weekly Grose Adopts Diverse Agricultural Weekly Style
The Weekly Grose advertises itself as blending features from an agricultural weekly and multiple magazine types to suit every family member. It promotes year round adaptability, year round subscriptions, and the idea that clubs can form in any season.
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Grose
Tariff reform debate shapes next presidential election
The piece argues the tariff issue will dominate 1884 politics and criticizes the plan to appoint a tariff commission. It warns the commission would delay action, preserve existing laws, and burden labor with $150 million yearly while awaiting the next Congress. It also offers mental health guidance for workers.
Brain health risks of overwork and fatigue
An article warns that brain strain from overwork imperils health and nervous systems. It notes busy workers neglect self care, stresses the brain’s delicate limits, and cites scientific views that exhausted brains recover slowly and may never regain former powers.
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America
Sanitary conditions and sewer gas menace city health
The New York Academy of Medicine warns that improper sewerage and defective plumbing raise disease risk in homes and offices. Pressure mounts on landlords and authorities to enforce sanitary standards as residents suffer from epidemics linked to water closet systems and poor drainage.
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New York Academy of Medicine
Devernus
F. H. Hamilton
Garfield
Academy
Croton
Boston
Board of Health
Wealthy residents urged to separate dangerous appliances from homes
The text argues that the rich, unlike poorer tenants, can fund improvements and remove dangerous devices from living areas. It praises building a house with appliances kept at a distance from living rooms as a remedy against a great evil.
Tariff Commission bill would risk labor and industry
The Senate passed a tariff commission bill to appoint nine members who roam the country gathering testimony on industrial sectors to craft a just tariff revision. Critics warn the panel would rely on cash rewards and influence from capitalists, while Congress delays action and preserves a $150,000,000 annual surplus.
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Senate
United States
Congress
Messrs
Kasson
Iowa
Carlisle
Kentucky
Treasury
Tariff Commission
Irish Grievances in 1882 and Home Rule Call
Edmund Harvey's eight page pamphlet argues Irish grievances under English rule, urging local self government. He lists ten complaints including coercion and arms acts, imprisonments, biased magistrates, educational failures, franchise inequalities, and police arming, claiming increased agrarian violence after Parnell and Dillon's arrest and Land League rise.
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Edmund Harvey
Waterford
Ireland
Harvey
Her Majesty
West of
Messrs. Parnell and Dillon
Land League
Ulster
Home Rule for Ireland Advocated as Cure for Evils
The speaker argues for Home Rule as a panacea for Ireland's ills and condemns secret associations and violence. He presents a strong case that self government is the remedy for the old evils, urging trust in constitutional reform.
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Ireland
Beecher and public figures in heated political and social airing
A compilation of satirical and opinion items cites Beecher defending Chinese settlers, Beecher jokes, ministerial conduct, flood pests, Garfield related bills, and public moral debates. It notes political lobbying, pensioning phrases, and varied editorials from New York to Nashville and Chicago.
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Gloucester
Henry Ward Beecher
New York
Egypt
Louisville Courier- Journal
Garfield
N. Y
Herala
Jack
Brooklyn
Beecher
Sergeant Mason
London
Grant
Washington
Fitz John Porter
France
Mercantile Navy
Mr. Arthur
White House
Nashville
Great Britain
South
Republican Party
Arthur
Hayes
Bell
New Hampshire
Brooklyn Eagle
Chicago News
Chicago
Jesse James
Mason
Guiteau
Rochester Express
Louisville
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Connecticut Mutual
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Hartford, Conn
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Jacob L. Greene
Jonx M. Tayor
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D. H. Weazs
Sidney F. Tyler
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Committee On Finance
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Daniel Webster
Tariff Commigsion
Maine
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Breaux Bridge
Duluth
Minn
Sage
Ted Pees
Washington, BD. C
Lynn
Prinkkham
Showshoe
Centre County
Lydia E. Pinkham
All Drugziats
Fred H. Carr
Sangerville
Knox County
Chicopee
Newport
R. I
Biddeford
Worcester Times
Meredith
N. H
Samuel Fish
Sally Stockwell
Brattleboro
Sally
Wellesley
Yale
John Sherburn
Wheelock
Dartmouth
Utah
Imla Wright
Antrim
George Gardner
New Haven
Drury Lane Theatre
Edmund Kean
Macready
Booth
Shrewsbury
Asa Briggs
Shutesbury
Job Stanley
North Head
Fish Head
Bates Mills
Lewiston
Belford
Moore
Nantucket
Downs
Custom House
Bedford
Massachusetts
R. V. Prerer
Thomas J. Mullvin
Hatcher's Station
Portland
Daniel Deshon
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