Treasury holdings puzzle and calls to release cash
The Trans-Post presents a analysis of national treasury cash, arguing the treasury held large sums since 1860 with a peak modern surplus. It contends prosperity occurred without a cash reserve, cites 1876 to 1879 coinage, and urges abolishing reserve requirements to boost circulation, linking money hoarding to economic ills and past panics.
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Trans-Post
Treasury
Sherman
National Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Debating Free Silver and Government Purchases
A reader question from the Huntingburg Argus and New Albany Tribune discusses why the government buys corn at a set price but not silver, arguing that free coinage affects both metals. It notes mining profits under free coinage and the impact on silver’s bullion value, suggesting gold supporters resist restoring a 100 cent dollar while demonetizing silver.
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Huntingburg Argus
New Albany Tribune
Value and protection taunt over market expansion
The text argues enlarging markets harms value and calls for market restriction. It accuses The Tribune and the Argus of inconsistent protectionism, praising American industries while opposing protection for silver despite its large domestic output.
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The
Tribune
the Argus
America
Silver Value Debate Echoes In Fort Wayne Journal
The Times-Post laments a possible shift in the Journal's stance on currency. It details a Chicago coinage debate over the 1792 unit of value, argues the silver dollar was the immutable standard, and notes silver advocates plan events with Hon. W. Bryan. It mocks the demonetization, urges coin-based proof, and promotes job printing at the Times-Post office.
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Trues-Post
The
Journal
New York
L. Bradford Prince
New Mexico
Chicago
Washington
Hamilton
Jefferson
Vincent
U.S. of America
United States
W.d. Bryan
Nebraska
Fort Wayne
Ada,o
Times-Post
Summer Millinery Shows Bold New York Styles
Summer millinery in New York shops displays vast hats decorated with big flowers and rhinestones. Sailor hats feature high crowns or are wreath-trimmed with daisies and violets, while new straws arrive in countless colors with butter color favored. Panama hats edged in velvet with pheasant wings suit seaside wear.
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New York
Panama
Oarsman Dominates Campus Scene Captures Headlines
A New York Recorder note exalts the college oarsman as the era’s hero, eclipsing valedictorians and athletes. while the Albany Journal cites editorials on woman suffrage with broad church and preacher reactions. The piece contrasts public figures and opinion across campuses and clergy.
Venetian Ironwork: Easy Patterns For Amateurs
An article explores bent iron branches in Venetian ironwork, detailing ornamental boxes of various sizes and shapes. It highlights light iron scrolls as table and dresser ornaments, used to hold scarfs, cuffs, collars, handkerchiefs and small items, with a pretty box lined in colored silk as a decorative highlight.
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Berlin
Department of Ironwork
Artistic ironwork and riding fashions in 19th century news
The article describes decorative cuffbox and matchbox ironwork designs with slim metal strips and Berlin black finish, plus patterns for a collar box. It also surveys riding wear, including a conventional habit, jeweled riding whips, and the shift from sidesaddle to riding astride with the divided skirt. It references Alice Varnum as the author tabled at the end.
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New York
Chicago
Alice Varnum
The New Woman and Horseback Riding Fashion
An 19th century column discusses women riders adopting protective riding gear and safer saddles as they ride across fields and fences with male companions. It notes bodily attire limits and that horse breeders supply better saddle horses trained for women.
Hygienic Hints On Fashion, Health And Frames
A London style column offers tips on reducing flushed skin from tight lacings and red noses, eye strain relief with boiled linen compresses, and wart remedies with potato or vinegar. It also notes France's female conscription debate, slimming methods like front banding, a rubber tubing back massage, and describes a blue crepon walking gown with a plastron bodice and rye straw hat.
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France
Tomato Prep Tip From a Fragmented Note
A fragmented cooking snippet suggests taking eight tomatoes and peeling them with a sharp knife. It advises placing them on ice to chill before making a mayonnaise dressing. The text is incomplete but centers on prep and chilling of tomatoes.
Fifty Years Ago in New England Labor Celebration
A fragment from an old labor paper recalls a July 4, 1845 gathering at a Woburn grove with delegates from Lowell Boston Lynn and nearby towns about 2000 strong. Officers and speakers from Brook Farm Boston and beyond urged unity in labor rights and opposed exploitation while highlighting the Lowell offering and lasting labor reforms.
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W. F. Young
Fitchburg
Reading
Voice of Industry
Lowell
Boston
Woburn
Lynn
John McMullen
Willam Todman
Louis Furst
I. Holbrook
Stoneham
William Todman
A. J. Wright
L. W. Rydowan
Brook Farm
G. Bagley
Mr. Watson
Mr. Allen
South Boston
Pinkham
Messrs
Leavitt
Richardson
Ryckman
The
Brook Farm Association
White
Watertown
America
Horace Seaver
Reed
Thomas Campbell
J. M. L. Babcock
Dana
Linsly
Charlestown
Ford
Lowell Factory Girls
S. G. Bayley
Albert Brisbane
New York
Albert J. Wright
Wright & Potter
Boston Investigator
Charles A. Dana
New York Sun
Charles Sumner
Pioneer
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