Wild political chatter and economic musings from the Weekly Comet
The June 4 1891 issue notes factional strife over Senate seats and election certainties involving Gov Fixation. It critiques Alliance subtreasury schemes, debates warehouse storage impact on cotton prices, and highlights fuel and coke issues for iron production. Director Dalgleish of Embreville Freehold stresses strong positions from a London stockholders meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Bolivar Bulletin
United States
Liverpool
Tonneskee
Alabama
Dalgleish
Embreville Freehold, Land Tron and Railway Company
London
Editorial on Alliance party demands and Polk as 1892 nominee
The Progress Farmer argues the new party adopts the Alliance platform and will sweep the country unless Allies concede each demand. It condemns old party leaders, praises Col. Polk, and notes his potential but impractical presidential nomination. An unrelated Galveston item mocks corset publicity and a backward lover.
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The
Progress Farmer
State Alliance
L. J. Polk
National Alliance
Western Alliance
Farmers’ Alliance
Col. Polk
Paris
Galveston
Johnson City Gains as Eastern and Western Capitalists Unite
Johnson City grows from a farming hub into a booming steel town with new blocks and hotels. Investors from Illinois Connecticut Kentucky and New England back the Carnegie and Proctor land companies while Cranberry ore from North Carolina and Pocahontas coal fuel a future iron center in East Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
South
Alabama
East
Tennessee
Virginia
Nashville
Johnson City
New England
Carnegie
Carnegie Land Company
General Wilder
Illinois
Governor Fifer
John RB. Tanner
Dan Hagen
Barnes
Bloomington
F. W. Warner
Clinton
Tom Scott
Fairfield
Thad
A. Cantwell
Springfield
Carnegie Company
Proctor Land Company
W. E. Gibbins
J. W. Fletcher
A.B. Bowman
East Tennessee
John R. Proctor
Kentucky
Connecticut Land Company
Electric Companies
Edmond Day
Seymour, Conn
J. L. Pier
North Carolina
William Whitwell
Stockton-on- Tres
Cranberry District
Cranberry Mining Company
Pittsburg
Great Pocahontas
Charleston, Cincinnati
Board of Equalization Adopts Complaints Process
The Tennessee board of equalization adopted procedures allowing taxpayers or their agents to inspect County Assessor W. B. Hall's books and file written complaints if adjustments fail. Verbal complaints are not to be considered. The piece questions whether the board creates or follows the law and warns of a future reckoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Equalization
W. BR. Hall
Chattanooga News
Tennessee
Assessor and Equalization Board
An 1891 Letter to Edgar Nye on Heredities and London Signs
A Harlem era letter to Edgar W Nye discusses his essays on heredities and genealogies. The writer mentions a European voyage, observations of London business signs claiming royal patronage, and asks Nye for discussion without hostility, reflecting old humor and public notices of the era.
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Edgar W
Nye
Samplea
Edgar W. Nye
Lawrexex
Kan
Europe
London
Prince of Wales
Princess Maud
Walton Street
English Descent and Nye Family Stage Gossip
The letter discusses English origins of the Nye family and a humorous clash over a Mrs B Nye chimney sweep column. It then pivots to theater notes with plans for lithographs, actor travels, and new stage productions, including mentions of Charles J. Davis, James Owen OConor, Colonel John L Sullivan, Mary Anderson, and Uncle Tom themed acts, plus other show business items and ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Nye
Mrs. B. Nye
Nye
Mrs B. Nye
South Hutchinson
Charles J. Davis
Alvin Joslin
Players
James Owen O'Conor
Europe
Booth
Hoboken
N. J
John L. Sullivan
Sardou
Colonel Sullivan
Mary Anderson
Blaze
Clemenceau
Percy Mushrush
East Perth Amboy
Shakespeare
Rapien Vna
Uncle Tom Company
Comic anecdotes and weathered science snippets from a bygone paper
A collage of jokes about doctors and trains, a quip on portraits, a wry exchange on train seats, and short vignettes. Light humor blends with a stray note on fifty second parallel geography and Elizabethan military dress, reflecting a curious scrapbook of era lore.
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Tenn
Tris
SexaTon Cart
Senate
Fixatxe
Amos Crumeses
Gorswox
Johnson. City
Son C
Carnegie Iron Company
Hewitt
Freestone
William Boswett
Bill Nyes
William
Eiowlesse Cesar
Joseph Cook
New World
Bowersock
England
Ashesses
Royal
America
Bird
Uncle Tom
West Post
Mesers, Barney & Bradley
Tacs
Little Petio
Haddem
Browning
Palace Rink
Long Island
Birdie Coonpelter
Stetson
Palmer
Napoleon Musser
O. Red
Erie Road
Scott
New York Evening World
Academy
Detroit Prep Press
Harper’s Bazar
Norce
Valencia
Ireland
Orsk
Snell &Co
Jent
Snell
City Nationalis
Corner Reservoir
Gay
Olive Bo
Richau
Michau
Rigwau
Cutanelo Hotctis
D&e Richau
D. B. Richards
Vaerick Etrect
New York
J. Crumley
Terry
Terry M
Nasaville
Ten
Boti
David B. Fouts
Baltimore, MD
J. D. Faucetie & CO
W. L. Douglas
Wilt Buuglas Brockion
Penland, Hurst& Co
Ro Ane
NAIC
Terry M’f’g CO
Washville
MONEY
Sheer Ei
Ben Usb
Pollie
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