Slow progress at World’s Fair exhibits slows opening day
Chicago reports slow installation of exhibits across most World’s Fair buildings with promised ten day pace unmet to date. Labor has no major troubles, but lighting and overtime costs deter night work while British pavilion equipment arrives ready to install. Educational displays such as Fratt Institute show strong craft work and promise, while other sections remain largely vacant.
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Jackson
Chicago
Great Britain
Germany
France
Trane
Austria
Switzerland
Belgium
Exposition Booths and Oddities Mix Colorful Displays
Reporters tour the Exhibition halls noting the British, Canadian, French, Austrian, German, and Swiss pavilions as they fill spaces with artful wares. The piece highlights gold ingot fakes in British Columbia, heavy coal samples from England, and nitrate and mineral samples from Chile and Mexico, while observers comment on progress, crowding, and slow electricity installations.
Tax Reform Debate on Credits and Personal Property Taxation
The piece argues personal property divides into chattels and credits with credits dominating. It warns that credits escape taxation, citing absurd wealth gains from mortgage chains while noting farmers face easier, fairer assessment than merchants whose inventories are hard to value.
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Fortunatus
New York City
Tiffany's
Tiffany
Time to Stop Class Legislation Says Farmers Voice
A Farmers Voice warns that the few have gained government favors while millions of farmers suffer. It notes class laws and favored courts disfigure statutes, urging the public to recognize systemic wrong as farmers across the nation rejected old political organizations and voted in protest.
Where Should the Tax Burden Rest
A farmer debates tax reform with a reformer who argues not the size of the burden but how it is laid on. A boy leads a horse with corn bags illustrating uneven distribution and the tax load. The moral: tax weight matters as much as structure.
SHY ON THEIR TAXES Disclosures of Unregistered Property Stir Ind Ire
In ConcmBrs Indiana County Treasurer Brown uncovers more than 600000 in unregistered mortgage property. Wealthy residents face arrest and $75 fines for failing to list assets for taxation as records are added to the tax duplicate.
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ConcmBrs
Ind
Brown
Single Tax League Calls National Conference in Chicago
The national committee of the Single Tax League of the United States adopts a resolution to hold a second conference in Chicago after the World congress. Credentials issued by the national committee. applications due by August 20, 1893 to Geo st. John Leavens. Louis F. Post chairs the committee. The piece argues for broader tax ideas and a national conference of income or personal property taxes advocates.
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National Committee of the
Single Tax League of the
United States
Chicago
National Committee
Geo. St. John Leavens
Lexington Avenue
New York City
National Committee of the Single Tax League of the United States
Louis F. Post
Gro. Str
Joan Leavens
Arguments Against the Single Tax Debated
A lengthy editorial condemns the single tax on land value as fiscally ruinous and socially unfair. It argues the scheme would raise excessive revenue encouraging corruption while starving local, state, and national governments. It warns city landlords would bear the burden and urban development would falter.
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D. Heade
Blondes Rebel Over Uniform Dress Code in Scranton Hotel
In Scranton Pennsylvania a hotel proprietor orders nine or ten dining-room girls to wear matching white aprons and ruffles with hair braided, selects light blue and pink dresses at his expense, and fires blondes who resist. Brunettes stay, and the hotel ends up with a brunette staff after a week of upheaval.
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Pennsylvania
Scranton
Cloude
Great December 22 1892 Atlantic Storm Charted by Bureau
A special chart by the U S Hydrographic Bureau documents the grand December 22 1892 Atlantic storm. It swept Newfoundland to Ireland and Labrador to Madeira, with reports from eighty six vessels and likely more. Waves over thirty feet struck many near the track and a 27 75 inch barometer reading was recorded aboard the Werkendam.
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Atlantic
United States Hydrographic Bureau
Newfoundland
Ireland
Labrador
Madeira Islands
Werkendam
Azores
Spain
British Islands
House mistress and milkman clash over thin milk
A domestic quarrel opens with the mistress criticizing milk as thin and lacking cream. The milkman replies with a brash defense implying city life changes opinions, while a broader economic note says the cloud over American finances has no silver lining and is ad silver.
Birthplace of Robber Gangs Revisited in Coffeyville Skirmish
The Coffeyville region near Kansas recalls the Dalton gang and a history of fierce outlaws. Locals, many descended from the Cracker-Neck area near Missouri, fear retaliation for recent killings. Jesse James and kin are linked through regional lore as the Ford brothers helped end the famous gang era.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Dalton
James
Northville
Minn
Missouri River
Missouri
Kansas Line
Jameses
Youngers
Valtone
Ford Boys
Jesse James
Carolinas
Ike
Jessa James
Bob Ford
Lotg
South
Bunyan Auctioneer Pitches Pilgrim’s Progress Farce
An auctioneer hawks a library itemizing Bunyan titles with exaggerated claims. He flubs prices while praising Pilgrim's Progress and related works, joking about readers and the famed allegory. The scene skewers the reading public and book sales theatrics.
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Bunyan
John Bunyan
Plymouth
Liver Ailments Warned of and Bitter Remedy Promoted
A health notice warns of liver congestion and possible fatal abscesses with right side pain and digestive symptoms. It touts Stomack Bitters as a precise remedy to regulate the liver and relieve bile stagnation, headaches, nausea, and indigestion. It also mentions fever, rheumatism, and kidney troubles.
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Japan
Fratt Institute
Brooklyn
V Gallery OF Manufactures
Canaan
Allison
Columba Avenue
South Wales
Cuebée
Ontario
British Columbia
England
South Africa
Mexico
Wisconsin
Iowa
Jedge
Waxsem
Nashuns
Sam
Amily
Poteks
Tower OF Oranges
Vorticultural Buildinq
TAX Reform Department
Taxation Society
P.Q. Bar
Bufclo
N. Y
Robert Bruce
National Treasury
Chattanooga Times
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Memphis
New York
London
New Zealand
Australia
Thames
Central America
West Indies
Hovod
Hood’s
E. MH. Burt
West Kendall, N. Y
Hood's
Tve
Gures
Hood
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