Bankers debate Rothschild plan on silver standard
John A. Stewart and J N Dolph weigh the proposed plan to fix a silver ratio for ten years. Henry Clews references and European powers are cited as relief for the gold market while warnings about the plan's impracticality and potential contraction of currency are raised.
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New York Pisa
J. Raw
Simmonscof
Oumecitd
Jecal
Henry Clews
Prester
Rothschild
Europe
United States
Amy
Bngland
Germany
France
Ausney
John A. Stewart
United
N. Dolph
Oregon
Rand
Rochechtld
Boys in Blue Organization Forms In Topeka
Topeka reports a new Soldiers organization named Boys in Blue forming to rival the Grand Republic. Originators include former Union soldiers from the People’s party. Trustees listed are EF D Fea, W C Ely, KR Soutth, and H W Parker.
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Boys In Blue
Republic
Soliers
People’s Party
A. J. KR. Bof
Topeka
Hound of Trustees
Folley Of-Union Soldiers of
EF. D. Fea
W. C. Ely
KR Soutth
H.W. Parker
Accident at Mexican arena injures crowd as bulls gore
Report from Arteaga Mexico describes a stadium accident during a bull fight at which about 5 000 spectators gathered. A barricade failed causing a stampede and many spectators suffered broken limbs and severe injuries while bulls killed one and injured ten others.
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Ted
Gould Begins Work on White Oaks Railroad Link
J Gould starts preliminary balling of the White Oaks railroad after purchasing it from river Charles Davis for 850000. He has engineers in the field and plans a rapid survey as he may visit El 8 January to oversee construction intended to connect the Texas Pacific and Union Be systems.
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J Gould
White Oaks
Rothschild Proposals At Brussels Monetary Conference
Baron Alfred de Rothschild submits eleven page plan urging extended use of silver with America to continue purchases and Europe to buy £5,000,000 in silver yearly for five years at 40 pence. They may suspend if price rises. Conference discusses gold standard, bi metallicism, and a proposed permanent international coinage commission.
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Brussels
Baron Alfred de Rothschild
Mr. Rothschild
America
de Rothschild
London
England
Itte
Associated Press
Rothschild
Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson
Poem excerpt describing a final voyage and a peaceful sea crossing. The speaker speaks of sunset, the final farewell, and hoping for a reunion with a Pilot face to face beyond time and place.
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Alfred Tennyson
Floods devastate Costa Rica with landslides and loss
Reports describe severe flooding across Costa Rica with rivers swelling and mountains eroded. A moving mass of soil blocks a valley while ravines fill with debris as homes and crops are destroyed and commerce stalls. An Indian woman loses two children the engineers Mercado and a lineman are swept away but survive.
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Costa Rica
Pascura
Mercado
Mistaken Identity On a Chicago Cincinnati Wedding Trip
A man travels from Chicago to Cincinnati with plans to marry next day and encounters a mysterious double who asks him to assume another name. After mistaken arrest for a crime he did not commit, the real culprit Link Murphy is revealed, and the fiancé's family clears the situation with police help.
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Chicago
Ohio
Cincinnati
Leonard
Mr. Leonard
John Loyd Evans
Boston
Parker M. Leonard
Evans
Philadelphia
Link Murphy
Stoop Meadows
Job Printing Office
Thad
Cuthroats
Tomor
Hiladelin
Mus
Parken Lrovano
Lory Evans
Frightful Austrian Rail Crash Kills and Wounds Many
A terrible collision near Szelna Austria thirty five miles northeast of Trentachin after a signal misread leaves many dead and injured. One car crushed, a passenger woman impaled by a splinter died after lengthy agony. Numerous others crippled and rescue slow. Territorial groups plan a World’s Fair building costing about seventy five thousand dollars with spaces for New Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma featuring a lawn terrace roof garden and cactus decor.
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Szelna
Austria
Trentachin
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Chasing a Fairy on West Seventy Second Street
A playful toddler of about six or seven leads a merry chase with a dozen companions on West Seventy second street. She dodges a pursuer with a football half back’s agility and laughs until breathless, then declares she was caught because her laugh gave way.
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West Seventy-second Street
Bar
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Electrified Raindrops Captivate Cordoba Engineer
Maurice Despres an electrical engineer of Cordoba reports a winter thunderstorm event where raindrops crackled as they fell and emitted tiny sparks toward walls trees and ground before the rain grew heavier and the phenomenon ceased.
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Maurice Despres
Cordoba
Despres
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