Prosperous Island Shows Tariff Benefits in May Trade Boost
Treasury data reveal Porto Rico exports more than doubled from May 1899 to May 1900 and imports from the island nearly doubled. In May 1900 US imports from Porto Rico reached 1.10 million, while Porto Rican exports to the US stood at about 696 thousand dollars, challenging claims of tariff oppression.
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Congress
Porto Rico
United States
Treasury
United
Cuba
Hawaiian Islands
Philippine Islands
Tariffs and Trusts Reflect Industry Growth
The Brooklyn Times argues tariff laws alone did not create trusts but enabled profitable manufacturing. They helped expand national wealth and, while enforced since Washington, trusts emerged in the last generation as labor and capital consolidate.
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Washington
Brooklyn Times
What would happen if Bryan won the election
The Philadelphia Inquirer asks voters this fall what a Bryan victory would mean for the country and how reversing McKinley era prosperity would impact everyday life. The piece frames the election as a choice about national direction and economic policy.
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McKinley
Bryan
Philadelphia’ Inquirer
Advance Agent of Prosperity in Philadelphia Enquirer
Fragmentary text discusses an advance agent of prosperity with reference to Philadelphia and the Enquirer. The passage hints at the agent’s role and firm people, but details are unclear.
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Philadelphia
Enquirer
Wool and Price Trends Across Farm Markets
Farmers grow wiser about future prices as they read market data and hold crops. Wool holders in California and Texas keep prices high while speculators fail to move markets. The piece urges coordinated farmer action to stabilize corn wheat cotton and wool and warns against rushing to one market.
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J. P. Smith
California
Texas
Poteen Lore From Connaught and West Ireland
The article describes poteen illicit whisky as a regional staple in Connaught and western Ireland. It notes remote mountain bogs aid smuggling, cold-water condensing, and that doctors claim well-made poteen aids illness more than common adulterated whiskey. It mentions Donegal and Kerry coast counties as also touched by its lure.
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Ireland
Connaught
Kerry
Donegal
Connemara
Chambers’ Journal
Great Star Photograph by Professor Wadsworth at Alleghany Observatory
Professor Wadsworth captured a curved plate celestial photograph at the Alleghany observatory showing Orion and adjacent sky regions. The image depicts the entire constellation and surrounding star field in a single exposure.
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Alleghany Observatory
Wadsworth
Orion
Russian Railways Guard Work Among Trains and Families
A Siberian railway correspondent describes guards living in log houses with families of five children near the Transsiberian line. Guards stand on tracks with flags and lanterns, sometimes many in curves, while women patrol the rails barefoot. A humorous legal anecdote follows about hearsay evidence in a judge’s courtroom.
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Transsiberian
Chicago
Grandfather's Hymns and The Contributors' Club
The Atlantic excerpt discusses grandfather’s hymns with a New England meeting house scene. It quotes bleak spiritual verses portraying a fiery day of judgment and torment, depicting the sinner’s shrieks and the living worm while the blessed look on.
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Atlantic
New England
Doubling His Joy and a Sailors Tale in One Clip
A father questions a suitor about marrying his daughter and losing a child. The young man promises to live with the father and adds a playful twist about another child. In a separate quip a couple jokes about club dining and the pleasure of complaining. Sailors’ trousers are described as expanding to bell shapes to ease kicking them off if they fall overboard.
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Chicago News
Detroit Free Press
A Summer Trip to the East by Salt Lake City Route
A summer rail journey to the East via Salt Lake City and the Rio Grande West ERN Railway offers grand scenery and novelty. Salt Lake City is praised as quaint and picturesque with attractions including the Mormon Temple and Great Salt Lake noted as uniquely buoyant.
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Salt Lake City
Rio Grandz Western Railway
Denver & Rio Grande
Colorado Midland Railways
Rocky Mountains
Sal Lake City
United States
Mormon Temple
Tabernacle
Sanitarium
Great Salt Lake
Dead Sea
Palestine
Salt Bath
Burlington
Denver
Chicago
Ogden
Salt Lake
Provo
Omaha
Rio Grand Western
Ten Cent Classics Offer From Harper’s List Across Great Authors
An old promotional list claims top English literature can be bought for ten cents, featuring works by Hawthorne Hardy Dickens Dumas Haggard Doyle and Stevenson. It notes the dime novel era ending as readers seek affordable, high quality fiction. The catalog mixes classics with varied authors, suggesting broad demand for affordable literature.
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Fletcher Harder
House
Harper Bros
Rev. Abbott
Boston
America
Price
Hugh Conway
Mrs. Lorrester
Chiffon
Gyp
God and the
Man
Robt. Buchannan
Sam's
Helen B. Mathers
F. Anstey
Weavers and West
Miss M
Braddon
Cleopatra
H. Rider Haggard
Phyllis
the Duchess
Ear
Thomas Hardy
Miss Kate
Ritta
W. Clark Russell
Joan Halifax
Gentleman
Miss Mulovk
Rhoda Broughton
Florence Margat
Maimie
Grant Allen
Quaritch, V. C
Auroria Floyd
Mark
Anthony Hope
Dinah Shadd
Rudyard Kippling
Monte Christo
Alexander Dumas
Henry ‘Séton
Merriman
Lady Audley
E. W. Hornung
Edmond Dantes
Olive Schreiner
Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Henry Seton Merriman
Mremma D. EN. Southworth
Mrs. Emma
E. N. Southworth
Henry
Hall Caine
Jess
The
Transvaal
Inez
Augusta J. Evans
A. Conan Doyle
Meadowbrook
Mary J. Holmes
Merryman
Frank I Bullen
Mate
R. L. Stevenson
Dead Man's Rock
Edna Lyall
Firm of
Girdlestone
Jack
Alphonse Daudot
Wilkie Collins
Lena Rivers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Worth Winning
Iron Pirate
Max Pemberton
Wormwood
Marie Corelli
Octave Foullet
Waiting
Mies Milne and
Rov
J. H. Ingraham
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Beautiful Jim
John Strange Winter
Mildred Trevanion
Ray Blas
Coragie’s Son
Alpert Delpit
Allan Quatermain
the Great Helper
Frank Barrett
Jules Verne
David C. Murray
Hanl
Iceland
Sappho
Alphonse Dandet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack and Three
Jills
E. &J. deGoncourt
A. Jamer Dole
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Ottumwa
Iowa
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Clay, Robinson & CO
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Michigan &St
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Werner
Webster’s Dictionary
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U.S. Naval
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Mhrary
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