Tim Tompkins Confesses Past and Lucy Cary Mystery
The narrative recounts Timothy Tompkins returning to Burlington to face Uncle Jason and Lucy Cary. He reveals money from his Chicago days amounts to a thousand dollars and uncovers Lucy’s influence on his former guardian, ending with Lucy’s death and reflections on college days and lost romance.
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Timothy
Mrs. Pember
Wilmington
Lucy
Tney
Uncle Jason
Chicago
Jason
Lady
Gray
Lucy Cary
Mra Pember
Timothy Tompkins
Mr. Pember
Mra
Pember
Caroline
York
California
Burlington
Steamboat Landing
Old Champlain
Phad
Tompkins
Free coinage movement gains ground in Europe and US
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that gold monometallists push sound money while silver advocates gain momentum worldwide. It cites Germany France Britain and the United States as examples, with European banks showing silver gains and calls for a monetary conference increasing.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Wall Street
United States
Europe
New York Evening Post
Germany
Great Britain
France
Bank of France
San Francisco Chronicle
Silver Democrats in Illinois Urged to Pick a Side
The Illinois silver Democrats are urged to support bimetallism by backing Hinrichsen Altgeld or Fithian rather than William R. Morrison. The piece condemns Morrison as bowing to Wall Street and warns fence-sitting on gold versus bimetallism loses trust from both sides. It notes a president’s influence via patronage and veto power, urging clear stance in the national debate.
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Silver Democrats
Illinois
William R. Morrison
Morrison
Wall Street
Hinrichsen
Altgeld
Fithian
Democratic Party
Friends of the Gold Standard
Friends of
Omaha World-Herald
Simmons Liver Regulator
Simmons Liver
J. H. Zeilin & Co
Philadelphia
Free coinage backs Western support says Senator West
Senator West of Missouri tells Associated Press in Carlsbad that the silver question will not be dropped in America until free coinage is passed and that Western and Southern sentiment favors it. He asserts passage is likely despite East Coast opposition and bank leverage.
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America
West
Missouri
Associated Press
Carlsbad
East
South
Democratic tariff woes echo through Holland N Y letter
Marcus W. McKinns of Holland New York condemns the German tariff law and Democratic measures blamed for money scarcity and business stagnation. He laments low prices for farm produce and unemployment while predicting a political upheaval in November 1896 as free trade is said to ruin democracy.
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Ove Cross
Marcus W. McKinns
Holland, N. Y
Free Trade in Poultry Sparks Debate on Home Market
The article argues that Britons pay millions for foreign poultry, mainly from France Belgium Russia and the United States, while English farmers miss the home market. It cites 1885 1892 and 1895 trade figures for cotton rice tobacco and manufactured rice products to critique Democratic free trade policies and sugar protection impacts on southern farmers.
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Europe
United States
United Kingdom
France
Belgium
Russia
Congress
Free Trade Party
Sugar Trust
Free Trade Administration
Funda Jong
American cutlery chosen for liner St Louis by U S firm
Landers Frary Clark supply all cutlery for the new American liner St Louis showing support for American industry. Transatlantic travelers will find no drop in quality versus English makers on the ship and its sister, the St Paul. An unrelated item notes a western farmer feeding a cow mash in sawdust, mistaken from bran, with the cow producing half a gallon of turit.
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Messrs. Landers
Frary & Clark
St. Louis
International Navigation Company
St. Paul
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W. B. Pratt
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