Mexico as a monetary model a controversial view
The Chicago Inter Ocean argues Mexico under a free silver regime shows prosperity for capital and infrastructure, but extreme poverty and illiteracy among the masses skew real conditions. It notes wage gaps, serfdom-like peon labor, and tax-driven gold output while dismissing Mexico as a price model for the United States.
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Mexico
America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Chicago Inter Ocean
Silver craze peaks then wanes across states
The article notes mounting evidence that silver fever has peaked and is fading nationwide, with strong Republican support for McKinley in Colorado and Kansas. Nebraska eyes a 25,000 vote McKinley majority, Missouri backs sound money, and Bryan’s tour struggles to revive enthusiasm as critics spotlight the Silver Mine Owners Syndicate.
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Colorado
McKinley
Hobart
Kansas
Sunflower
Nebraska
Bryan
Commonwealth
Missouri
Kansas City Journal
Free coinage turmoil and its backers debated
The New York Press questions the motives of supporters and financiers of free coinage and coinage advocates. It warns that silver basics would harm workers and farmers, lowering purchasing power and enriching mine owners and debtors at the expense of common people.
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New York
St John Advocates Free Coinage at House Hearing
William P. St John of New York testified before the House Banking and Currency Committee in 1894 proposing a bill for free coinage of silver. He suggested the silver dollar could be coinable without limit with bullion, on the same terms as gold. He warned the country might briefly tilt to a silver basis, and predicted actual bimetallism within one to two years depending on foreign conditions outside France.
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St. John's Patel
William P. St. John
New York
S Liver
House Committee On Banking and Currency
United States
France
Tan's Education Pay Envelope From Easton Influences Rail Era Devices
An Easton Pa educational pay envelope devised by Charles Hansel and produced by the National Switch and Signal Co highlights a practical device linked to railroad work. The article blends archival notes on Nimrod with Sayce scholarship and remarks on biblical narratives, suggesting cross-disciplinary curiosities from the era.
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Tan
Easton
National Switch and Signal Company
Monadnock
Charles Hansel
California
Conditions Before 1873 Spark Silver Debate
Free coinage supporters urge restoring pre 1873 conditions. They cite 1873 world silver output of 61,160,000 ounces with silver in a dollar worth $1.04 in gold versus last year’s 165,000,000 ounces and silver in a dollar at 56.7 cents. They question if miners will push 1878 production as the first step toward that goal.
Swindling Fares’ Pennsylvania Papers
A fragment describes a swindle targeting farmers in a Pennsylvania neighborhood. It mentions a double-ended contract scheme, with one end securing harvesting work and the other pressuring farmers to sign, though the details are unclear and partly garbled.
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Pennsylvania
Kittan
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Enoragh
Petit
Sara XVI
Allah
Cuta
Abraham
D'Herbelot
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