Tariff Bill Reveals Major Shifts in Lumber and Metals
The proposed tariff bill lowers rough lumber to 1.25 per thousand feet, trims iron ore and pig iron rates, and reshapes the cotton and wool schedules. It imposes free hides, increases hosiery duties, and preserves some Dingley-era protections while adding a Panama Canal bond plan and a corporation tax.
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Panama Canal
Washington
Conference Committee
House
Senate
Canada
United States
Free Het
Ad Valorem
Treasury
Wickersham
Secretary of the Treasury
Canal
Cuba
Dean's Kidney Pills Remedy Ad
A testimonial from Charles Cole of Iola Kansas endorses Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney troubles. He says irregular secretions, backache, swelling and weakness disappeared and claims two years of good health. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Fromember Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Charles Cole
Buckeye St. Iola
Xans
Frometer-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Singular and plural in debt and nerves note
Dialogue from Catholic Standard and Times highlights how debt worries affect a woman and her husband. The exchange emphasizes the singular impact on the husband’s nerves and mentions a attempted borrowing of one hundred dollars.
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Catholic Standard and Times
Widow seeks match through London police court missionary
A widow writing to Mr. Robert Marshall, a London police court missionary, asks if he knows a well regarded man who wishes to remarry. She notes years of widowhood and loneliness and signs as Mia, a middle aged woman.
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Robert Marshall
London Police Court
Mia
Distress Signal Conversation Echoes in Store Note
Esther Way recounts Mr. Wilking reading a paper found on a counter. He mistakes a wireless telegraph signal for COD or CQD and asks about the meaning. Holbrook the grocer notes it is a signal of distress.
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Wilking
Holbrook
The Water Bite
A six year old, unused to microscopes, views slides of animalcula. He focuses on a drop of water and tells his mother that water is what bites you when you drink soda, revealing childlike wonder at tiny life.
A Colony of Good Samaritans in the Slums
The text extols a living religion’s power to reconstruct individual lives in the mission of the slums. It claims faithful transformation occurs regardless of literacy or education, curing bodies and souls and creating a simple, brotherly bond among adherents who call each other brothers. The piece cites American Magazine.
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Chris
He A Woman Or A She Peculiar In Way
A garbled dialogue suggests confusion over gender identity and emotion as one speaker notes a woman will not tear up love after forgetting it, revealing a tense exchange about affection and memory.
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Dingley
Onyx
Customs Court of Appeals
Sereno E. Payne
Republican House
Nelson W. Aldrich
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