Questioning Bryan and silver at Carthage camp meeting
The Carthage item questions the fate of a $1,500 Bryan speech at a Ohio silver camp meeting and notes its failure, then argues that Democrats misread the silver issue. It criticizes free silver and cites Treasury gold reserves under McKinley versus Cleveland era bond sales, doubting a money power plot behind global crop prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Ohio
Treasury Department
McKinley
Cleveland
Washington Letter Special Correspondence on Dingley Tariff
The Washington Letter notes farmers' benefit from the prompt Dingley tariff law and critiques the Wilson tariff era. It cites July 1897 import surges in live animals, cattle, sheep, raw cotton, hides, and wool as evidence of a last-gasp raid by importers before the new duties took effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Cington
Senate
Conference Committee
Import Trends Under Dingley and Wilson Laws Highlight Shifts
July 1897 imports reach 53.8 million dollars with heavy inflows of raw materials under Wilson law while flax hemp and other vegetable fibres rise. Farmers gain as farm product values climb and wool and cotton seed rise, but silver prices fall sharply amid shifting duties and tariff policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Portable Tailor Shop Moves by Trolley Car
Otto Nack, a German tailor in Belleville New Jersey, operates a mobile shop from two old cars dragged along railroad tracks. After a dispute with his landlord six months ago he set up in a vacant lot, then began touring to new fields. He plans further relocations until a town needs his services permanently, after which the cars will be stripped for good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
N. J
Otto Nack
Nack
New York Press
Freak Will Attracts Attention In Court Filing
A Cincinnati attorney notes a strange last will of an elderly woman named Koll. The will leaves 700 dollars to a local church in trust with weekly masses for Mrs. Koll and her husband for 25 years on their death days. The filing drew chatter from clerks and lawyers in Washington.
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Kendall H. Frazier
Cincinnati
Washington
Koll
Maysville
Liza Wellington
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Carthage
William G. Allan
Jones
Iowa
Gorman
Maryland
London
P’roprietor
Henley Bros
Veety
Sanborn
Rio
Japan Tea
Ilies
the Crown Grocery
R. E. Henley
J. R. Rakestraw
Henley’s
East Mill Street
Ind
The
Carthage Building, Loan and Savings Association
Jesse Henley
Owen
Hill
Hill’s Drug Store
United States Benevolent Society
Edgar J. Bundy
Scientific American Agency For Trade
Munn & CO
Broadway
New York
Bureau
America
Scientific American
Positsons
East Mill St
Carthage, Ind
H. C. Phelps
Cc. G. Clark
Refi Beatae Wina
Otto PB Hibbs
Sherwin- Williams
Coffin
Mary EF
Odell
Main Street
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