Washington Letter on tariff fight and pensions
Regular correspondent reports on the Cleveland tariff bill strategy in Congress. Republicans seek full defeat rather than amendment, while Democrats resist protections for certain districts. Coverage cites Senatorial dynamics, pension debates, and territorial statehood votes tied to tariff support.
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Hawaii
Grover Cleveland
Joe’ Cannon
House Committee On Appropriations
Lochrep
Pension Bureau
Joe
Tts
Cannon
Lacey
Stratn
Georgia
William A. Taylor
Obio
Congress
Taylor
Ihe
Taylore Doea
Grover Clevel
Tayior Saya
Obie Penajonerée
House Committee
Martin
Indiana
Iowa
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
de Witt
Clouse & Stamm
Yale
Hervard
Washington
Electric Bitters and Bucklen salve stories linger in clipped notes
Specimen cases recount cures by Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Amica Salve for neuralgia rheumatism leg ulcers and fever sores. Also a brief profile of C W Williams Independence Iowa tracing a fortune rise and fall in horse ventures. Ends with a Sylvan Laxative claim.
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H. Clifford
New Cassel
Wis
Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
John Speaker
Catawba. O
Doctora
J. B. Wright
C. W. Williams
Independence
Iowa
Axtell
Allerton
Grippe remedies and a bleak city night report
A Texas publisher cites Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective against the grippe with short illness. The piece shifts to a Chicago night of hunger and poverty with crowded shelters and hungry men seeking bread, described starkly as a public horror. It notes Missouri colonels and a Washington dispute involving Champ Clark and royalists in Hawaii.
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Jas © Jones
Mexia Texas
Chamberlain
J. K. Wright
Chicago
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Missouri
Col
Champ Clark
Book of the Bair Part Eight Promotes The Fair Exhibits
The Book of the Bair eighth part extols the Woman's Building and the Children’s Building at the fair, with machinery images and Palate of Mechanic Arts. It lists costs and subscription details. Other features include Pomona's Travels in Ladies' Home Journal and practical entertainment ideas.
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Mechanic Arts
Bancroft Co
Chiago
Frank R. Stockton
Pomona
Radder Grange
Adelaide Ristori del Grillo
Miss Scovill
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Curious remedies and a farmer’s payment method story
A mishmash note recounts odd cures for coughs and colds and a Sterling woman’s birthday lamp gift. It also tells of a Fulton County doctor who retrieves payment with a gun and forces a farmer to load a wagon with corn as settlement.
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Clarke
Gandy
Baldaby
Elliot
Otto
Fulton County
Weather Guess Contest Sets $1000 Award in Louisville
The Weekly Courier-Journal of Louisville Ky offers $1000 in cash to subscribers who name the coldest February day in 1894 at Louisville and guess the day’s lowest temperature. Contests open to new subscribers with $1 and renewals with a $0.50 guess.
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Weekly Courier-Journal
Louisville
Loulaville
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