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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
2
The piece argues silver and wheat align in value, criticizing dollar wheat arguments. It links shortages in Europe’s food supply to American farming gains, and dismisses silver activists by stating price moves are driven by supply, demand, and production costs rather than silver.
The article reports on the suit against Postmaster General Gary and First Assistant Heath by John G. Woods to define civil service authority, with a temporary restraining order in place and a Supreme Court appeal planned. It also covers M Potenotre seeking tariff reductions with Secretary Sherman, possible reciprocity treaties, and Navy docking plans for the Indiana at Halifax.
A large portion of the South Jersey tomato crop rots on the vines signaling a near total fail. The nineteenth annual reunion of the Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers is set for Red Bank on September 16. The New Jersey Methodist Protestant Churches conference opens in Glassboro on October 19.
The Swiss Minister alleges Iowa taxes European insurance premiums more than American ones, violating treaty rights. Attorney-General McKenna will publish his view on the Dingley tariff discriminations as Secretary Gage requested. Delays are not due to President McKinley’s return, and no interests will suffer from careful consideration.
An oil portrait of the late General Theodore Runyon was placed in the State House corridor at Tren ton on Wednesday morning. The likeness is prominent near the main Capitol entrance and joins an existing Runyon portrait in the Chancery Chamber. Runyon, New Jersey jurist, was Governor hopeful in 1865, Chancellor from 1873 to 1887, and later Ambassador to Germany where he died last year.
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