Great Silver Rally Delgates from Fifteen Hundred Attend Memphis Convention
Fifteen hundred delegates from the South and West gathered in Memphis for a two day convention of the Central Bimetallic League. Leaders and lawmakers from Tennessee Arkansas Mississippi and beyond attended as Senators Turpie Harris and others spoke on free coinage of silver and bimetallic principles. The assembly elected Turpie as permanent chair and heard speeches urging independent political action in 1896.
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Friends of Silver
South
West
Memphis
Atege
Mieigie
United States
Bate and
Barris
Tennessee
Jones
Berry
Arkangaz
George and Walthall
Mississippi
Mariée “Butler
North Carolina
Tillmen
South Carolina
Prinze
New México
Turpie
Indiana
Alexander Delmar
California
Sibley
Pennsylvania
Thomas
Denver
Aaron Wilcott
W. N. Brown
Central Bimetallic League of Semphis
Fudge L. H. Nites
Brown
Shom G. Harris
Tenhessee
David Turpie
Mc Harris
Central Bimetallic League
Shelby County
William M. Stewart
Nevada
Joseph G. Sibley
Poonastvania
Thundera
Applanas
Garlisle
Sherman
Apeech
Presidential and federal notes from Atlantic to Washington
The President invited to the Cotton States exposition in Atlanta on Oct 21. Postmaster General Wilson gave the Alabama College address in Farelle Missouri. Kerbert spoke at Auburn commencement. J Walter Blandford to serve as Secretary of State. Howgate forgery trial began. Berlin forms ministry of industry and labor. Norse ns named to direct offices. Treasury circular on duplicate appraisals and certificates. Fraud order against Wilson Foster and Foster's Art College of St Louis for unfilled crayon portraits. Beam death sentence denied commutation. Indian bureau notes Bride case against Creek chief and treasurer over tribal funds. Washington officials view the trouble as a political squabble.
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Atlanta
Wilson
General College
Farelle
Kerbert
Alabama Ag-rienitnness and Mechanical College
Auburn
J. Walter Blandford
Olney
Uie
Henry W. Howgate
Winister Ewing
Department of State
Ministry of Industry and Labor
Berlin
Norsens
Louran
J. P. Baliwin
Treasury Department
Joseph A. Beam
Washington
Anna Leah
Indian Bureau
Eolbe Ag
wGwly
Literary Notes on Autographs and Authors of the Era
A compact roundup discusses autograph sales of Robert Louis Stevenson era relics, British copyright acts, and Oscar Wilde works. It covers Mrs. Oliphant’s planned biographical project with William Blackwood & Sons and a Stevenson denial about fearing waning popularity. The piece also notes Henry Norman’s Far East illustrations and a critic view of Dickens era storytelling trends.
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Robert Louis Steven
Ubreran
Musum Hag
Oscar Fingall
O’flaher de Wills
Wilde
ParHament
William, Blackwood & Sons
London
Blackwood
England
Robert Louisa Stevenson
Henry Norman
Far East
Norman
Americas
Chicago Tibien-Herald
Dickens
New York
Florence
Birest
Coincidence On A New York Train At Great Northern
Two New York men, strangers before, met on the Great Northern train after noon yesterday and agreed to travel together. At the hotel desk they accidentally registered under each other’s names C B Sherwood and O B Sherwood. Both men discovered the mix up when cards appeared, noting the odd coincidence.
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New York
Great Northern
Chicago
Sherwood
What He Admired in a Father Interaction
A man recalls his father’s reaction when asked for his hand. Augustus says the father praised something in him and added his impudence as the notable trait. The Washington Star quotes the exchange between a young woman and Augustus.
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Father
Wworman
Augustus
Washington Star
Preparing for War UK Built Thirty One Warships Last Year
In the United Kingdom last year thirty one warships were built and in all other countries twenty seven.
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United Kingdom
Tax Reform Studies Open to Public Input
A notice invites readers to contribute articles on taxation for the Studies column. It encourages opinions within reasonable limits and quality writing while excluding tariff topics. It notes improvements or social progress chiefly benefit land value and directs correspondence to the office or 10 Lock Street, Buffalo.
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Lock Street
Buffalo
The Overshadowing Question on Political Economy
Harph E Hoyt argues political economy is engaging and essential for managing public affairs. He contrasts federal, state, and local governments with heavy taxation and urges study of Henry George's Social Problems to reform taxation without harming private enterprise.
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Harph E. Hoyt
Noah Webster
United States
Henry George
New York Tax Reform Letter From Indiana Resident
A letter from an Indiana resident denying ownership of any property in New York City or state and declining tax pursuit. He says he traveled for an eastern manufacturer, last in Broadway, and that he appears in old directories. He states he previously affine before a state tax commissioner in Stewart Building and resists further notices as futile and costly.
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Font Warns
Ind
New York Tax Reform Association
New York City
Broadway
New York
Stewart Building
Social reforms and personal responsibility in common sense
The excerpt contrasts willingness to support social institutions with inaction and outlines the need for fundamental changes. It cites a quote about proactive building and cultivation as benefitting mankind, while leaving land idle harms society, attributed to Judge Maguire.
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Common Sense
Bronkinn
S. Y
Tax option bill could lure manufacturers to Albany
Albany Argus argues that exempting personal property and factory equipment from taxation while taxing land value would attract capital to Albany. The proposal would boost industrial growth, raise real estate values, and benefit workers and businesses, with minimal burden on other taxpayers.
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Ainsworth
New York Central
North
Albany
Albany N.Y. Argus
Local option taxation and double taxation debated in reform letters
Letters from anti double taxation group and local option advocates argue for allowing communities to decide taxation methods by vote. The debate cites state and Massachusetts leagues opposing unfair tax structures and railroads as public franchises. Julian of Kansas City comments on railway power and taxation.
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New York
Furture
State Wariners’ League
Julian
Kansas City
The Dirge of Cupid in St James Gazette
An old poem satirizes modern love and feminism as Cupid laments changing courtship in a Green Park setting. The narrator, Cupid, laments shifting female focus from romance to suffrage and social issues, referencing Ibsen and Zola as he laments lost traditional affection.
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Cupid
Merry Son
Ibsen
St. James’ Gazette
Man Out of Work Sings for Pennies at Drought Salvage Saloon
A destitute laborer, an old rider named Jack Brown, sings hopeful ditties in a crowded saloon to lift spirits during a brutal August drought. Patrons respond with sympathy, a wealthy farmer the richest man present slips him a nickel, and a later encounter reveals a former acquaintance now prospering as the man who rode out of town.
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Hell
Ant Ottler
Batordas
Drayman
Lnmber
Atkanden
Hke
Sal
Unicaga
Lottie Calling
Tower
Trovatore
Ford
Jack
Siarger
Prosperity
Yate
Nebraska
Richard
Jack Barrow
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BR. RR Ca
Metropolitan Traction Co Ae
Supreme Cov Bai
Maguire
Dirge
Bonaparte
House of Commod
Washington Post
Minde
Big Springs
Sontla
New Mexico
Baltimore
Ylenry Zickler
Canada
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