Debunking Free Coinage Facts in 19th Century Debate
A dialogic examination challenges the claim that silver free coinage contracts the money supply. It presents data on money in circulation rising from 1872 to 1896, per capita circulation increases, and vast world gold production. It argues grain and cotton price declines stem from expanded production, not money contraction, and that inflation would not aid farmers.
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United States
North America
South America
Asia
England
Great Britain
India
Russia
Repubic
Aleo
Figures quoted come from top national authorities
The figures cited are undisputed even by free coinage men as they come from the United States Treasury reports the Department of Agriculture director of the United States Mint the United States Bureau of Statistics and the British Board of Trade all in their respective spheres and are the highest known authorities.
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United States Treasury
Department of Agriculture
United States Mint
United States Bureau of Statistics
British Board of Trade
A Southern Democrat on Free Coinage Endorsing Free Silver
A statement attributed to a prominent southern Democrat argues that free silver would rapidly lower labor costs to 50 cent dollars, enabling the US to compete globally. It claims wage inflation blocks trade and asserts party endorsement of free coinage would secure commercial supremacy and broaden markets worldwide.
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England
Gold and Gold Bonds in U S Money Policy
Ex President Harrison argues in Ladies' Home Journal that gold at par for United States notes cannot be compelled. Premiums on gold would drive it from circulation as such coins can’t be used in trade. Treasury is bound to provide gold but cannot force payment in gold. Gold returns come from those exchanging paper for gold or paying taxes in gold. Imports duties were gold only. When gold reserves fall, restoration relies on selling bonds under specie payment resumption powers.
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Harrison
Ladies’ Home Journal
United States
Treasury
Free coinage impact on prices sparks worker fear
The merchant under a free coinage of silver system can raise prices on goods, a right not afforded to the workingman, highlighting inherent inequality in monetary policy and market power.
New Zealand Wingless Bird Arrives in America
Englishman EB Harrow brings a kiwi to Mariposa, a wingless night bird native to New Zealand. The creature is about the size of a domestic fowl, covered in a hairy brown coat, active at night while feeding on worms. It lacks wings, has a large egg over twelve ounces, and uses a long bill to probe the earth and seize glowing fireworms.
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Harrow
New Zealand
Mariposa
San Francisco
America
Europe
Salzer Seed Co Fall Catalogue Offers Grains Samples
How to Grow 40 Cent Wheat described in Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue promising thousands in value to the alert farmer. Request four-cent stamps for the catalogue and free grain and grass samples for fall feeding. LaCrosse Wisconsin.
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Salzer
John A. Salzer
Smallest Typewriter in Fenergal Use Described
A Denver traveler reports a tiny aluminum typewriter about two and one eighth inches in diameter and three quarters inch deep, weighing three and a half ounces. It resembles a watch in size and uses a center radiating rack of type bars. A single key over the mid letter prints, with felt as a ribbon and a clamp attaching it to a writing pad. High speed not claimed, but feasible for ordinary use.
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Denver
New York Tribune
A Wonderful Phenomenon Prompts Curiosity and Cure
A curious claim suggests a man could pass through Mfe with no discomfort, a notion the writer dismisses as unlikely. The piece touts Hosetter’s Stomach Bitters as a polar remedy for daily relief from dyspepsia, fever and ague, debility, constipation, rheumatism, and kidney troubles.
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Mfe
Hosetetter
Coolness in Crisis on Hyde Park Train Wreck
A Massachusetts congressman aboard the Hyde Park train wreck recalls the moment a passenger was pitched over several seats as a water cooler spilled ice water down his back. The wet man told a frantic passenger to keep cool, boasting I am the coolest man in the car after two buckets of ice water drenched him.
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Massachusetts
Hyde Park
San Francisco
Annual G A R Encampment Tickets via Union Pacific
Announcement for the 1896 G A R encampment in St Paul Minnesota. It notes Union Pacific ticket sales for September 14 and return routes from Denver with common point rates at $25. Includes instruction to read tickets as via Union Pacific and contact Geo Ady for reservations and sleeping car info. Also contains miscellaneous quotes and ads embedded in the text.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Union Pacific
Denver
Uocket
Geo. Ady
Blinker
Teething Remedies and Quips from a 1895 Paper
An 1895 reader letter recalls Mra Winslow’s SouTube Syrup for teething and rouses a chatter about old settlers meetings. A Sunday School quip revolves around an “honest man” defined by a child, with a patient father’s occupation noted.
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Johnnie
Hal’s Catarrh Care Controversy and Cheery Words Dialogue
The fragment discusses Hal's Catarrh Care as a constitutional cure with repeated lines about price and a witty exchange. A quip about Pilkerton and cheerful words hints at domestic humor and cost. The snippet presents dialogue cues and a marginal cartoonish mood from a period voice.
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Hal
Price, Tie
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Prism
Prine
Thon
Ted
Treasury Bulletin
Wilson
Mra Winslow
Old Settlers
Pilkerton
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