Sound money critique of Treasury policy and gold standard arguments
JOHN H. CHERRY argues that the Treasury under Secretary Gage manipulated bond buybacks to placate Wall Street gamblers, defending a gold backed system while criticizing the public for not understanding money creation. The piece ridicules “sound money” claims, warns of panic risks, and questions future electability based on monetary policy.
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Wall Street
Russell Sage
Gusge
Gage
John H. Cherry
Ex Gov Boutwell on Hours Worked and Vacations
Ex governor Boutwell argues in a Boston Globe letter that fewer hours today do not mean easier labor. He notes modern work demands greater mental effort, precision, and sustained focus across trades, farms, and factories, contrasting with past slower, looser, and less hurried tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boutwell
Massachusetts
Boston Globe
The Anglo American Alliance and How It Is Working
A historical excerpt discusses early Anglo American ties, noting a slower past without railroads telegraphs or steamers. It contrasts 18th century anxieties with modern tensions and cites Carl Lichurx’s speech to anti imperialists in China about loyalty and resistance to imperial pressure.
Trusts and hardships echo across the nation
A compilation of sharp opinions attacks trusts as monopolies that squeeze producers, laborers, and consumers. It argues government power is overreaching and cites wage and cost abuses from coal and industry. Satirical notes reference mining labor, a horseless carriage, and wireless telegraphy as modern clamor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anni
National Waterman
Hypothetical French Aims After Yorktown Debate
A reflective hypothetical asks readers to imagine France allegedly forcing Britain to cede American sovereignty for 20 million dollars and then demanding Washington and Congress surrender independence to France. The piece probes loyalties and the peril of imperial manipulation in revolutionary times.
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France
England
Yorktown
Washington
Continental Congress
Advance in Prices From Stove Concern of Chicago
A Chicago stove concern announces a broad price advance due to rising costs in raw materials. Pig iron copper wire lumber asbestos and pipe show large increases averaging over 100 percent. The firm imposes a five percent store price rise and shifts terms to sixty days with two percent cash discount.
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Chicago
Ene Tomers
Silver Dollars Dwindle as Paper Sheets Rise in East
A Washington shopkeeper notes silver dollars dwindling in circulation as silver certificates dominate, remarking Westerners prefer silver while preferring paper money. A customer tests a silver certificate, only to reveal its necessity for silver dollars to sustain such notes.
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Washington
Private Life Around a Difficult Time
A fragment recalls people who aimed to kill chickens as troublemakers and used eggs to lampoon a plan. The text hints at social strife and covert actions during a tense period.
How She Swears in a Washington Family Tale
A Washington newspaper man’s daughter is described as having a strong temper and a vivid vocabulary for her years. The piece notes she vents with expletives when upset, stomps, and uses a graded scale of words from “Bug” to a dramatic “Caterpillar.” Washington Post.
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Washington
KeaRne
Do Not Obey and Die: Boer Captains and Giraffe Helplessness
An excerpt notes Captain and soldiers refusing to obey orders, claiming conscience and courage. It also reports that Boers are blamed for near extinction of the giraffe in South Africa, describing thick hides and tough skin that resist bullets, and mentions lions being killed during settlement of the Transvaal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teried
South ‘Africa
South Africa
I Tranavaal
New Tide Power Effort Seen For London Supply
European strides in tidal energy hinge on large scale plants like the Southend works on the Thames. If successful, these efforts promise a major new electricity source and a shift in industrial power use for coastal cities. The project’s cost is cited at about 3 million dollars, with high expectations for reliable rise and fall tides powering London.
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Europe
France
England
Long Island Sound
Southend
Thames’ Mouth
London
A New Wind of Brick in Germany
German industry uses granulated blast furnace slag to make brick. Unlike mild slag bricks of the past, the new slag bricks are strong, heat resistant, more permeable to air, and absorb water more slowly, making them better suited for building hollows and structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Inoculation Effort Against Typhoid in South Africa
Typhoid fever is spreading among troops en route to South Africa. British soldiers offered inoculation with a typhoid serum, seven percent declining. London Lancet notes serum life work at Tulane ports and large scale trials abroad to curb enteric fever in field armies.
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Natal
South Africa
Tulan
South
Aflica
Snow Scene Illusions in Theaters
A New York inventor patents a device to simulate falling snow on stage by feeding paper flakes into a hopper and broadcasting them over the set. The mechanical system uses a strong air flow to scatter the imitation crystals, enhancing realism for theatre productions.
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New York City
Inventions From Cambridge and Paris Show Novel Devices
A report describes two English inventors Ernest Kifiths and Willian Dampier of Cambridge presenting a heat regulating valve for gas stoves to control milk heating and water boiling with a fusible alloy device. It also notes automatic tunnel lights near Paris driven by train wheels, along with various other curiosities including flash powder ignition, a bird whistle, a safer streetcar floor, a germ blocking telephone attachment, pneumatic tire armor, an animal feeding box, and Jagot’s perpetual calendar showing leap year rules.
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Ernest Kifiths
Willian Dampier
Cambridge
Ip Asouda
Ohio
New York
Tan Bean
Jagot
Incomplete Acute Armptoma Quote Beats Workplace Claim
Fragmentary Chicago area note presents garbled dialogue about love and work strain. The misspelled lines suggest a faulty transcription of a speaker describing irritation with a person and resulting inability to function, but the exact context and subject remain unclear.
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Treasry Degs
United States Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Bonda
Bank of England
China
Ilex
Great Britain
Ley
Carl Lchurx
Chino
Uncle Sam
Earth
Heaven
Humanity
Orient
John Bill
Herald
Omaha
Sdldiers
Ernest H. Crosby
Conservator
Varnoralag
Flanis
Heewat
Pinchot
Department of Agriculture
EB. C. Pickering
Harvard Observatory
Friends of Science
Batignolles
Paris
Areaal
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