Economic Snippets From The Week Of Oct 28 1897
A collection of brief notes on global mining and trade. New York syndicates buying gold mines in Mexico. Baltimore exports of whiskey valued at 52 million yearly. Gold output worldwide estimated at 240 billion with a rise of 35 million over last year. North Carolina gold mining booming with rich outputs. Southern cotton mills surpassing one million bales this year. Yellow fever opinions sparked by Galveston Opera Glass. Education for diligent work debated by scholars. Kentucky political strife leaves several dead. Peanut crop shows good business outlook. Gouder quality reported excellent in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. Baltimore grain shipments for August reach a record 9,230,680 bushels worth 10.24 million.
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McKinley
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mark Hanna
J. P. Morgan
Union Pacific
Sugar
Cleveland
Carlisle
New York
Prairie life or city wife, a man’s frontier vow
An exchange quotes a speaker preferring squatters life on a western prairie with a dugout to living in Chicago with a fashionable wife and a poodle for a child. The line contrasts frontier hardship and domestic modernity.
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Littl
Chicago
Tax concession sparks debate on morals and betting risk
The passage questions legislators lowering the tax concession from $1,000 to $200, arguing it could tempt young men to bet on games, doubting the wisdom of the move and its societal impact.
Farm and Ranch Critiques Wealth Gap and Tax Burden
A Texas Farm and Ranch brief argues that money in treasury vaults or held by 500 millionaires signals prosperity for elites while the vast majority struggle to pay taxes or feed families without taxable property. The item highlights income disparity and the burden on working people.
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Texas
Business leaders favor annexation over autonomy in Cuba
The business element of Matan zas and Havana Cuba conclude Madrid cannot end the war via autonomy as autonomists lack enough loyalists to govern. They advocate annexation to the United States as the only feasible path to peace and stability.
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Matanzas
Havana
Cuba
Madrid
United States
Perder
Prosperity claims meet sharp skepticism across readership
A Texas Farmer editorial counters McKinley era prosperity boasts, cites wheat price cuts and stock market drops, questions tariff benefits for workers, and blames trusts and usury. it contrasts with UK India policy, Masonic edicts in Sonora, and Hillsboro Herald defense of homestead protections amid constitutional reform debate.
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England
India
Hastings
Ireland
Little Island
West
Thickest Coal Seam in World Found in Wyoming
The thickest known coal seam lies in Wyoming near Twin Creek in the Green River coal basin. It reaches 80 feet in thickness with more than 300 feet of solid coal beneath 4,000 acres.
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Wyoming
Twin Creek
Green River Coal Basin
Cedar Road Unearthed 38 Feet Deep Near Ashtabulah
A cedarwood corduroy road in perfect preservation was found 38 feet underground, seven miles east of Ashtabula. Oberlin College geologist O Prof Carl Wright examined the site and believes the wood has remained there since the glacial epoch.
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Ashtabula
Carl Wright
Oberlin College
Wonders of the World Services Waste Cottonseed
William George Jordan notes in Ladies' Home Journal that cottonseed waste is worth about 330 million annually. He explains oil yields fine soap plus lard substitute, hulls feed cattle and fuel, and ash fertilizer. A 10 percent rubber imitation from cottonseed oil and crude india rubber is claimed.
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William George Jordan
Ladies’ Home Journal
India
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the Weekly Banner
John G. Rankin
Brenham
Mexico
Baltimore
North Carolina
Tus
Galveston Opera Glass
Memphis
Kentucky
Virginia
Nogales
Arizona
Sonora
Republic of Mexico
Lopez
Masonic Fraternity
Masonic Order
Hillsboro Herald
Houston Post
Herald
F. W. Schuerenberg
West Sandy Street
Brenham, Texas
The
Art of Preservation
New York State
Boh
Emian
L, Nowokowsky & Go
Louis Korff
Hugh Clemor
Korff & Clemons
Ibutchers
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