Farmers Hear Tax Talk On Corn And Cloth
A Jefferson county farmer argues that labor values in corn and cloth should be weighed before laws. Governors and senators face election results and party shifts as Republicans Teller Mitchell West and Gallinger win seats, while eastern protectionist rhetoric faces western farm worker voices.
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Jefferson County
Boies
Teller
Colorado
Mitchell
Oregon
United States
Senate
Jones
Arkansas
Missouri
Jacob H Gallinger
Blair
New Hamp
Tin plate factory tale exposes Chicago import loophole
The Chicago Tribune probes a new tin plate venture finding only tin melting and dipping done locally while plates and ore were imported from Wales and cheap labor came from Wales. The paper notes the McKinley law imposes four cents per pound duty on tin ore, which could doom the Chicago mill when the tariff takes effect, calling the measure a contrivance.
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Muchado
Chicago
The
Chicago Tribune
Wales
Dubuque
The Decline of Agriculture in Rural New England
Prof Currier’s synopsis in Popular Science Monthly is presented to show scientific analysis of social and economic shifts in New England farming. It argues that farms face depressions while towns thrive, and farmers pay tariffs without benefits, taxed to fund protected industries that drain labor.
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Currier
Popular Science Monthly
New England
Amos N. Currier
State University of Iowa
Warning on political power and rural decline in New England
A Philadelphia Zines warning critiques policy shifts by Republicans and echoes national power grabs seen in New Hampshire and Montana. It highlights how electoral manipulation erodes constitutional security, then turns to Professor Amos N. Currier’s Rural New England analysis showing farms abandoned, land subdivided, youthful migration, shrinking schools, closed churches, and overall rural decline near Boston and beyond.
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Philadelphia
Republican Party
New Hampshire
Reed
House of Representatives
Harrisburg
United States
Montana
Assembly
House
Board Resume Exam of January 15 Proceedings
The Board resumed the examination of the matter on January 15 with continued questioning and review. No further specifics were provided in the fragment.
Town board refunds taxes on fire destroyed property and considers bridge petitions
On Friday January 6 1841 the board ordered refunds of 52 and 144 taxes on J W McReynolds property destroyed by fire without insurance. Petitions asked for a bridge at creek southeast quarter section 28 Liberty township and to rebuild Troy creek bridge in Cedar township. A stone culvert across a slough in Fairfield township was proposed. Petitions referred to A F Cassel committee on bridges. Change of highway petition by J W Price and others discussed.
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Pairfieid Ledger
Fairfield Tribune
Shell
Jefferson County
Jourd
J. W. McReynolds
Hinshaw
Alex. Wilson
Liberty Township
Oscar Snook
Troy Creek
Cedar Township
W. 8. McClellan
Fairfield Township
J.T. Rodgers
McClethin
A. F. Cassel
J. W. Price
Joh
Howard
John McLain
Cassel
Vacation and widening of highways and county orders
The board orders highway vacation and changes upon petition by W. Rapp and others, Wmn Brown and others, J. W Holmes and others, with costs due within sixty days. It approves vacating the county line road and appoints John Wy McLean as overseer of the poor. It allocates funds from court buildings, handles notes in school funds, approves taxes be released for widows of deceased soldiers, and sets adjournment for the next day.
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W. Rapp
Wmn. Brown
Dhamwe Ba
J. W. Holmes
Dethersom
Henry
Westeorer
Henry County
John Wy McLean
Putrfield
Jethersom County
Court House
A. Howard
E. Sampson
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EB. A. Howard
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Fairfield
J. C. Wickett
Frairfield
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Locust Grove Township
Isaac Coates
Cedar
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Curtis Houghton
Polk
Andrew Wilson
Pultefield
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Vanostrard
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Penn Township
Henry Unkrieh
Round Prairie
Geo
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C. E. Noble
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J. A. Howard
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Jeferson
Iowa
Fon. Hackney
John McOlane
Speer
Barton
I. Oliver
M. Stephenson
Brewer
Isabel Sampson
Warner
M. Z. Bain
Richard Myers
Fred Johnson
Charles Baili
David Burden
Jacob Westenhuver
Poothacre
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Fred Dabiner
Cassady
Frazey
B.C. Ashmesa
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James W Stump
Harris & Cuddy
Jefferson Cnity
Lona
Gent's Furnishing Store
First National Bank
South Side Square
Lawn
Joan McLane
Fln. Hackney
Bourd
Junkin
Bob. Brown
M.A. Brown
Glasgow
G. AL RR
Round Prairie Township
Ciluszow
Maggie Kiger
Ben. Bowers
Post
Old Congregational Church
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A. J. Oberg
Lowa
Carson
Sheriff Crane
Paiffeld
J. V. ‘Payler
Miles
Bradshaw &Thoma
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