Tariff law changes heavy on acids oils and ceramics
Bradstreet's digest notes shifts in the new tariff law across chemistry schedules and glassware, metals, cotton, wool, and wood products. Specifics include higher duties on camphor, sulfuric acid removal from free list, reduced rates on iron ore and steel, and freer duties on aluminum, with numerous ad valorem to specific rate changes and a reciprocity provision affecting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides.
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Bradstreet’s
Marbe
United States
Ed Valorem
Metz
Buenos Ayres
New Zealand
Australia
Cape of Good Hope
Russia
Turkey
Greece
Egypt
Syria
Aubusson
Axminster
Moquette
Chenilie
Saxony
Wilton
Conferrees
Carlisle
Aldrich
Week of notable events in the Northwestern states
A compilation reports suicides and accidents in St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, a large iron property option potential sale by an English syndicate, debtors flee, fires destroying grain and oats, a labor union stance on early closing, a train wreck injuring a brakeman, and a county seat election in Sibley County favoring Henderson. Additional items cover prison railroading thefts, beets and sugar beet trials, prairie fires, and various local incidents and agricultural yields.
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John Kopp
St. Cloud
Sauk Rapids
Anderson Iron
Ely
Levalie
Hall
Benton County
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joinna of
St. Paul
Johnson
Brandon
John McCarty
Sibley County
Henderson
Gaylord
Mra. J. L. Noves
School For the Deaf
Faribault
Artesian well boosted by hydraulic drilling claim
The article notes a claimed ability to sink artesian wells in fifteen days by hydraulic drilling. It also reports various local incidents including robberies in Grandin and Fargo, a fatal runaway near York Leeds, a violent assault in Turtle River, and legal developments in Fargo court with post office cases and liquor injunctions.
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R. J. Pratt
Grandin
Fargo
Moorhead
Gordon
Mayville
Grand Forks
Buckley
York
Leeds
Victor Catani
Turtle River
Pro’ Stoitsbridgs
Indianapolis
Fargo Agricultural College and Experimental Station
Congregational College
Fargo College
Congregational Church
Vorgin
New York City
Miler
Clapp
W. A. Gray
Jim River
Black Hills
Dakota
Missouri Valley
Bismarck
N. W. Nutting
North Dakota
Iowa City
Mills
Jackson
Mich
McConnell
Robbery at Bayfield Hotel and other state news
William Shields was robbed of 140 dollars at a Bayfield Hotel. N Wood faces charges in the case. Improvements in Superior waterworks expand. intake pipe extends 2000 feet into the lake. Gov Heard to hear Con Hogan pardon application after four years’ sentence. Edward Gruel fends off a wolf while walking from Boscobel to Fennimore. A log earer accident near Marinette draws doctor and undertaker to the scene. A novel street fight unfolds in Boscobel over a rat and mink encounter. A plow sharpener swindle risks debts when a receipt becomes a note. Kenosha debates Sunday closing as saloons test endings. Old Man Schneider recovers a barrel of gold and money found behind a Ashland saloon. suit filed for recovery.
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Superior
Heard
Hogan
Ashland County
Edward Gruel
Boscobel
Fennimore
Gruel
Marinette
Boscobel Dial
Diverse Iowa items span trials, thefts, and a famed ancient coin
The Webster City Kemp case drags on with juries at a cost of about 4000 dollars in Hamilton county. Mahaska county lists 24 divorce cases with wives as plaintiffs in most. Des Moines reports a tall farmers’ street corner sight with six foot one to six foot three men from multiple states. Oskaloosa notes the death of albino child Richard Levi Taylor at seven months, described with striking features.
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B. C
Dubuque
Webster City
Hamilton County
Mahaska County
Lyons
Galesburg
Clinton
Stephen Gurlickson
Northwood
Anamosa
Des Moines
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
North Carolina
Iowa
Oskaloosa
Richard Levi Taylor
Anecdote of Sheridan and the Matamoras Duel
During the Civil War era Sheridan observes the Matamoras fight from the Rio Grande area as Juarez forces clash with Maximilian loyalists. The scene shows a brief riverbank engagement with Juarez storming fortifications and driving Maximilian’s adherents away. Sheridan cannot commit troops without authorization and instead grants a brigade leave to address the matter.
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Sheridan
United States
France
Austria
Mexico
Maximilia
Grant
Appomattox
Rio Grande
Congress
Juarez
Matamoras
Eac
Maximilian
Con
War Department
Wealth and Protection Power U S Growth in 1860s 1880s
A historical summary asserts the United States quadrupled wealth and expanded industries under protective policy. It cites per capita wealth rising from 415 in 1860 to 1000 in 1887, industry boosts, rail expansion, and high wages. It contrasts protection with free trade and endorses keeping protective policy.
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United States
Great Britain
England
Europe
India
New York
Protection and the economics of large scale production
The text argues that protection lowers prices and raises profits by expanding production. When many workers specialize on components of goods like carriages, efficiency and scale push costs down, enabling cheaper goods for the home market and broader domestic manufacture of essential items.
Pathan shoots Mullah then targets Sahib in Peshawar
A Pathan in Peshawar district killed a Mullah and fled across the border but found no shelter with Buneyr or Swat Valley. He returned to Peshawar to attack a cavalry sergeant, missing once but killing the sergeant with a second shot. He was captured, tried by the commissioner, and hanged at dawn under summary powers.
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Peterson
Henning
Northern Pacific
Pierce
Wis
Red Wing
Huron Lake
Joe Golda
Alois Sontag
Peshawar
Buneyr
Swat
Sahib
Pathan
Sign Reading Paint Triggers Comical Door Confusion
In Detroit a passerby misreads a door sign painted simply says Paint. He enters, complains of a daub on his sleeve, while the observer questions whether the sign meant paint for sale or paint on the door, revealing a humorous misunderstanding.
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Detroit Free Press
Express
Dairy prices shift as grain and butter tests vary
A dairy authority states that $100 worth of cheese uses less than one sevenths the feed strength of $100 of grain, while $100 of butter requires no feed if skim milk and buttermilk are fed on the farm.
Tin Plate Industry Debate and Tariff History
The passage argues tin plate is iron coated with tin and cites a long history of tariffs, Treasury rulings, and foreign imports. It claims Dakota tin discoveries could support domestic production, condemns gold outflows and English competition, and urges revitalizing an American tin plate industry to employ workers and boost resources.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Tim
Black Hills
Dakota
Treasury
England
Wages in Allegheny County Protecting Industry Growth
The payrolls of Allegheny County workers show high wages in iron and steel with 37,350 employed earning 959,500 every two weeks and 23,487,500 annually. Added metal works and locomotive and glass industries lift totals to 34,850 workers and 33,225,000 yearly, underscoring the benefits of protection and arguing against tariff-free prices.
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Allegheny County
Iron and Steel
England
Protection for American labor and the American idea
Congressman Brumm advocates protectionist policy to safeguard American industry wages and prices against cheap labor and foreign competition. He argues internal commerce vastly exceeds foreign trade, urging national emphasis on protection and opposition to class legislation benefiting cotton whiskey and Britain.
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Great Britain
Congressman Brumm
A Pleasant Word to the Poor
A young woman walking without money encounters a girl with a basket of bookmarks and needle books. She cannot buy, then speaks kindly to the child who says her words helped more than a purchase would. The moral urges sympathy and gentle speech to the poor.
Not Much All The Year Round Deathbed Testimony
A priest attends a wealthy old lady's deathbed make a nuncupative will. She mutters Father I've given you a great deal of trouble then dies. The cleric calls in the family to witness the testament.
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Theamily
Venus for Five Cents Swindle at Street Corner
A street hawker touts viewing Venus for five cents using a telescope. Two farmer types urge readers to try, but one customer calls it a swindle after peering through the device, noting only a star instead of Venus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Venus
A Sage Chef Uses All Scraps to Create Dishes
A cook embraces zero waste by transforming every bread crumb meat scrap and veg bit into palatable dishes using inventive techniques and careful prep.
Quiet Meadows and Sleep in the Grave
Poetic lines describe stillness in the yard, wheat, grass, waves, ships, and a lone walker. The speaker contrasts rest and labor with the question of a grave’s fate, echoing a Good Housekeeping quotation about silence and mortality.
Hat Dazzles Onlookers As Child Sparks Gaffe In Car
A wry New York Herald observer recalls a woman in a tropical garden hat with artificial butterflies in a New York elevated car. A curious child asks if the butterflies are alive, provoking snickers and an abrupt exit as onlookers debate the hat’s realism.
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Triumph of
Millinery
Willie
Mamma
New York Herald
Smooth John Macnab and the Macnab Head Tale
Chambers' Journal recounts the Highland clan Macnab legend of Smooth John Macnab who led a raid against the marauders Macneish. The tale features a severed head on Macnab tombstones and the island descent of a boat over mountains to surprise attackers, ending with Macneish’s fear of Smooth John.
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Macnabs
Loch Tayside
Macneish
Macnab
John
Loch Tay
Old Macneish
John Macnab
Chambers
Honeymoon by Private Furniture Van Travel
A Viennese bridegroom adds a three horse furniture van with driver to a two month honeymoon. The couple travel in a luxuriously fitted interior with comforts for the wife. They expect to spend about $100 per month rumbling about the country in their own conveyance with modest accommodations.
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Philadelphia
Lbuic
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Shail
Commissioner of
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Manila
London
John Brannon
Edinburgh
Itaut
Bailie Walcot
Paby
Northwest
Northwestern States
Great Northern
Barnesville
St Paul
Fereus Falls
Grand Jury
Wallace Moon
Lovell Spaulding
Squire L. Kidder
Chauncey Kidder
Minnesota
D. N. Harper
St. Anthony Park
Trout Brook Lugar Works
Goodhue County
Richard Caton
Mankato
Lawrence Township
Grant County
Donehower
Frank Glidden
George Young
Winona
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Richmond
Heron Lake
Joseph Golda
Golda
Deadwood
M. M. Price
Letcher
Sioux Falls
Wyoming
Reservation
Chamberlain
Michael Stearns
Parkston
Madison
The
Madison Chautauqua Associatiation
Alliance Publishing Company
State Farmer's Alliance
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Wil
Robt. Atchison
Seventh Cavalry
Haskins
Terraville
Barclara
South Dakota
Nick
Artesian State
Wisconsin
William Shields
Bayfield
N. Wood
Schneider
Ashland
America
Honeymoon
Barthleson
Pittsburg Dispatch
Archbishop Walsh
Ireland
la Londe
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Vatican
Italy
Hood
B.C. Jaxxs
Alma
Lincoln Co
Sigkhe ‘Carters
Caster Medicine CO
Easliz
PGS
B. N. Little Rubber Co
Chicago
Ola
Iola, Waupaca Co. Wis
ASTH
BR. Schiffran
D. EN
Jiorris
Washington, D.C
D.b.lowe Medical Institute
PLY & Co
Aina
James Tanner
Washington, D. C
Patrik O’farrell
Maine
Tito
Detroit
Ais
Cleveland
G. EL Ingraham
Amsterdam
N. Y
D. R. Dyche & CO
Draggista
Jark Dragrist
Kelief
Chichester Chem’i Cos Matises Sq
Phila. Pa
Furwa
Chesebrough Manufacturig CO
State Street
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Cts
Supolio
Western Machinery 60
17Th St
Denver, Colo
Addre Lazerine
Warren
Northwestern Newspaper Union
ST. Paul, Minn
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