Wool Free in Tariff Plan Shifts for New England
The draft tariff bill submitted to the Ways and Means Committee by Democratic committeemen is lengthy and open to modification after full examination. Major changes include removing duties on wool and related goods, expanding the free list to raw materials, and significant reductions on cotton fabrics, carpets, and iron products. The plan would lower customs revenue by about 55 million dollars, with roughly 22 million from expanding the free list while maintaining protection for manufacturers.
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Waysound Means Committee
New England
Paris
Tariff Bill Aims At Cash Reduction Not Industry Shatter
The measure reduces cash taken from the people while keeping the protective tariff intact. Wool and woollen goods face a $12 million cut, with moderate sugar reductions and only small metal cuts. The bill follows conservative lines of the President’s message and avoids radical change, avoiding alarms to major industries.
A Ticket for the Republicans
A satirical proposal suggests Sam Small of Georgia for president and Rolano Worth Hindon of Massachusetts for vice president with a platform opposing saloons. It notes the New York World objects to alliteration and offers an alternative ticket tied to Reading and Vanderbilt monopolies with a platform protecting American labor.
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Sam Smmaalu
Georgia
Rolano Worth Hindon
Massachusetts
New York World
LosTon Globe
Sam Small
Free Trade cry stirs labor foes and monopolies echoes
The article argues that opponents of the administration will push the slogan Free Trade as a strike against wages, while monopolies use the issue to shield low wages. It suggests protected monopolies exploit tariff debates to sway workers.
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Minnesota
Mr. Carlisle
Protective tariff stance aims to curb monopolies and protect labor
The piece rejects free trade and warns against tax drains feeding corporate monopolies. It argues the public supports tariffs that shield labor while limiting monopolies, urging voters to take finances into their own hands and resist misrepresentation by free traders. The administration supporters face ongoing campaigning to defend tariffs.
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Pennsylvania
West
Free Traders
New Comet and political jests in mixed notes
A string of satirical observations covers a new comet, political shifts, and social curiosities. It jokes about PowpeRty, Readjuster MAHONE, Texas border clashes, Uncle Sam’s profits, Manitoba deficits, and tariffs. It notes a hanging in New York, betting on British turf, and various quips about doctors, religion, and labor.
The Afghan and Sofa Pillow Mission For Generations
An essay forwarded a lighthearted plan to start an Afghan and Sofa Pillow Mission to furnish these comforts to overworked women. It argues such a movement would improve nerves, health, and family vigor, detailing inexpensive Afghan patterns and stitches while praising domestic respite.
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Af Han
Perighan Mission
Amercan
Afghan star stitch crochet piece from Germantown
Describes an afghan crocheted in star stitch with colors and quantities, including four 15-row stripes and three blended stripes. Documents colors, pattern order, and finishing with knots. Also details the Afghan or Victoria stitch technique and required tools, including a long slender crochet hook.
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Germantown
Chain Length Pattern Instructions From a Crochet Text
Instructional crochet note describes creating a loop through stitches, forming chains of four, looping through several chains, passing over chains, and repeating rows to maintain pattern alignment. It then details working between scallops, making four chains, drawing loops through stitches and scallops, and pulling through all loops on hook before repeating.
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M. E. W. Lowell
Mass
Roulette Stitch Chain Length Required
Instructions describe starting with 8 double trebles, keeping the top loop on the hook, drawing through all, finishing with a chain and pass over one stitch to reveal from row start. Break wool, begin next row at the right hand, and work tuft stitch over one plain stitch of previous row.
Afghan Project Notes From Craft Column
Materials include Star Light Scotch yarn in dark blue and old gold with a medium-sized wooden hone or rubber hook. The afghan is described in a concise crafting snippet.
Fringe for Flake Afghan Crochet Instructions
Frayed fringe crochet guide describes making blue v4 stitch chain, 1 DC into 1 stitch, turning, looping, and joining. Instructions mention picot clusters, rolling points, rows at right, and sewing strips together to create a yard wide afghan.
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St.t.h
Nee
Innes
Afghan Crocheted in Blocks Instructions and Colors
The article details an Afghan crocheted in blocks with Star Light Scotch yarn and browns. It describes starting with a chain of 6, creating a center of treble stitches in bright yellow or orange, then adding scarlet rows, then a final black edge. Blocks sewn together in a 9 by 12 grid. 108 blocks total. For carriage robes, line with old gold canton flannel. Eva Maris MvEs.
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Combia Germantown
Germantown
Orental
Eva Maris MvEs
Knitting and Crochet Directions by MRS M E W Lowell
Describes materials and step by step crochet and knitting techniques to create a scalloped edge and square tube cord. Includes needle types, stitch counts, rounds, shell work, and finishing with a ribbon in the spaces. Signed by MRS M E W Lowell, Lowell Massachusetts.
Knitting Guide and Crochet Quilt Book Offer
An ad from Morse Kaley Milford NH and Calavares County California offers a quilt design book for six cents in stamps. It also contains a detailed sock knitting pattern using Starlight yarn with steps for heel construction and finishing, plus an inquiry about a Boston industrial school at 3 North Bennet Street and superintendent Mss E P Rudd.
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Milton
Calavares County
Cal
Morse & Kaley
Milford
N. H
C L
Groton
Mass
Lady Gray
Starlight
Germantown
Nogson
Paper Car Wheels Inventor Visits City and Pullman Ties
Richard N. Allen, creator of the paper car wheel, is in Chicago to meet George Pullman. His early skeptics gave way to orders from the Pullman Palace Car Company, with 17,000 wheels produced in a year. A tester’s wheel on exhibit in Hudson, New York shows 500,009 miles. The process uses rye straw board layers, pressed under 500 tons to form circular inner wheels for railroad tires.
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Chicago Journal
Richard N. Allen
George Pullman
Allen
Pullman Palace Car Company
Allen Paper Car Wheel Company
Hudson
N. Y
Morris, Lil
Grabbed Him Quick
A Chicago Times snippet shows a dry goods store manager testing a job applicant. Asked what first step would stop shoppers, the applicant replies by proposing a large shop window mirror. The manager rejects him as an employee but offers partnership instead.
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Chicago Times
When George got Indignant
A Minneapolis Tribute item presents a comic exchange where George asks what an anthropoid is and is answered it is an animal resembling man. The scene ends with a lamp flickering and going out after a remark about riding eight blocks in a car this afternoon.
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George
Minneapolis
Lee
Hat Forgotten as Crowd Rushes for Church Collection
At Columbus on Sunday night a church announced a collection drawing a crowd of young men who came to see the girls. In the rush a young man bolted and left behind his hat as he hurried to leave.
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Manitoba
Lonestreet
Gainesville
Blue
Savannah
Columbus
Many named for Republican presidential nomination in 26 candidates
Washington February 28 There are 26 U S citizens mentioned as probable or possible Republican presidential candidates. The list spans Maine New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts New York Vermont Hartford Hartford Hartford and beyond featuring James Gillespie Blaine Henry Blair George F Edmunds Joseph Hawey Chauncey Denew Don Cameron Governor Beaver William H Seward Sherman Blaine Alger Rusk Sheridan Cullom Stanford and others. The piece notes Blaine aging and discussion of various party figures and regional support patterns.
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Washington
United States
John Sherman
Maine
James Gillespie Binine
Blaine
White House
Europe
New Hayshire
Heniham Blair
Blair
George F. Edmunds
Vermont
Republican Party
Massachuset
Mr. Edmunds
Hartford
Joseph K. Hawey
Gener Harwick
Empire State
Chauncey Mitchell Denew
William H. Anderbot
New York Central
Deven
Malara
Levi Perry Morton
New York
Northwest
Veen
William Maxwell Kevarts
Senate
Pilgagne
Brank Hiscock
Mr. Hiscock
Bey
Iliam Walter Phelps
Passaic
Phelps
Mr. Reed
Bony
Klitlps
Pennsylvania
Don Cameron
Govenor
William Tecumseh Sherman
Russia
Joan Sherman
Joseph
Oraker
Ohio
Chicago
Herman’s
Garfied
William McKinley
McKinley
Indiana
Benarrison
Secon
Walter
J. Gresham
Wall Street
Gresham
Shelby M.cullom
Avraham Lncoln
Lincoln
Channel 4
Burwell
Hig Brother
Charles Is & Wicked
John Y
Dick Axlesby
Illnois
Busness
Illinois
Mississippi
William Areil
Love
Congress
Leland Stanford
Sherman
Mall
Moras
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