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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1886
Page
1
A lengthy editorial and reports describe widespread distress from strikes and unemployment across the country. It condemns protective tariffs, asserts a cancer at the heart of legislature, and links economic injustice to political power concentrated among few.
Wastuxorox D.C May 8 President Cleveland Waday returned to the house of representatives a number of pension bills without Nix approval and sent a message vetoing one. He notes the pension bureau adjudicates such claims and argues pensioners deserve justice without extra Congress proceedings. He says the bureau should be reorganized if it cannot better serve pensioners.
A Dublin despatch claims armor buyers in Ulster over three years have been secretly identified. Shippers provided purchaser addresses and arm shipment details. The report sparks London alarm that the government may disarm loyalists.
A girl admires a Broadway display missing the liquor store clue while a poemish collage contrasts Duke of Westminster Derby wins with a moonshiner. Big Bear and three others gain liberty after Riel rebellion. Senate and House bills debate ship railway guarantees ranging from 7 to 37.5 million with complex conditions and a 6000 ton vessel requirement.
The St James Gazette denounces the meeting at the Academy of Music New York to approve Gladstone's Irish home rule measure as rebel and outlaw sympathizer rhetoric. It notes Englishmen oppose rebellion, cites Revising A Dictionary progress at Yale, and recounts various unrelated notes and anecdotes.
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