Taing Leave to Lexington Junction and Other Points
Train schedule fragment shows departures to Lexington Junction at 7 40 p m and 4 0 a m with a note for can’t hop. Additional trains to St Joseph Kansas City Richmond and Decatur with even times. Tickets sold at city office offering reduced rates through agent Jon Taubman.
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Richman
Loth
Lexington Duretion
Kanna City
St. Joseph
Richmond
Lexington Junction
Lexsington
Junee
Hichmond
Kansas
Ewat
Jon Taubman
When a Kiss Proves Too Long a Mist of Rain
A fragment speaks of love gone awry and a lingering fog of sorrow. The verse hints at a moment when affection oversteps and leaves a life altered by rain like memory.
Haiku of Spring Messenger in the Grove
A lyrical fragment greets a beauty from the grove as a spring messenger arriving to repair heaven and evoke woodland welcome. The verse frames nature as welcoming and renewing in a pastoral scene.
Class politics and local history mix in Missouri notes
Editor Wade rails against class politics while reporting Col Estill's claim on Columbia's naming. The piece threads through local history, Missouri marriage laws, farmers alliances, tariff reform clubs, and colorful notes on residents, scandals, and curiosities from Howard to Monroe counties.
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Williams
Columbia Herald
Col. Estill
Columbian
Noonday gloom over tariff tax and a farmer's debt
A Kansas farmer sits at his door at noon, counting assets and debts amid rising costs. He laments high tariffs, claims deception by protective rhetoric, and vows to investigate the tariff as a tax after years of hard work and mounting mortgage payments.
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Payne
Independence Sentinel
Mississippi River
Jackson County
Independence
Kansas City
Waa
Iere
Will
Caliornia
Kingman
Kas
Ile
Lisax
Indispensable Intelligencer praised in Lafayette County
A letter from Lafayette County Missouri dated April 21 1800 extols the Intelligencer as essential in well regulated households. The writer includes one dollar and signs as John Cl Shavkei Ord voicing gratitude for the newspaper.
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Lafayette County
Fashion Notes On Silk Jersy and Summer Millinery Trends
Silk jersey waste in delicate openwork dazzles for evening wear with light fabrics. White silk with silver stripes suits white flowers, while beaded nets and gauzes frame summer resorts. Independent waists, waistcoats with shirt fronts, and brocade jackets dominate, as rasl of Vandyke embroidery and gray or tan shoes. Easter toques, Parma violets, and velvet remain key, with empire and surplice gowns pulling classic revival trends. Lucy Carter.
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M. L
Inet Vear
E.” Vandyke
Batton
Duchess of Marlborough
Parma
Lucy Carter
Startling figures on farm prices and wheat yields
From the Courier-Journal the prices of corn and oats fall to the lowest in twenty-six years. The December farm price average and wheat yields show gains in production but lower crop value, highlighting taxation on the home market and questions about protection's impact. The piece compares 1879, 1849, 1881, and 1889 yields and values, noting depressed real returns despite higher production and critiquing taxation and protection.
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Agricultural Department
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
United States
Australian ballot reform shown to split parties across states
The clipping argues the Australian ballot system faced GOP opposition in many states while Democrats largely supported it. It cites Indiana Tennessee Maine Pennsylvania Delaware Arkansas and the line house to claim Republicans opposed the reform and Democrats backed it, challenging claims that Republicans are its friends.
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Globe-Democraat
Amd
Howard Co. Advertiser
G. L
Indiana
Senate
House
Tennessee
Maine
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Arkansas
Repubican
Wild Beasts as India's Curse and Death Toll
The piece critiques wild beasts as India’s curse, citing official figures of snake bites and other animals killing vast numbers. It notes British India rewards for slaying beasts, reports rising human and animal deaths, and compares vast populations to the hostile forests where snakes, tigers, leopards, and other dangers prevail.
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India
London Times
Saint Patrick
Ireland
A True Story of Taxed Living in 19th Century Patroit Tale
A bystander narrative from The Atchison Patriot portrays a workingman’s evening meal under heavy taxes. It lists numerous household items and actions with percentages, highlighting the burden of taxation on daily life and wages as the family scrapes by to pay installments on a house.
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Atchison, Kansas
Tariff Revision Sham Exposed By Reform Critics
From the St Louis Post Dispatch critics charge the Republican tariff bill preserves trusts and maintains protections for monopolists. They contend promises to destroy trusts and remove tariffs were false as protected manufacturers backed the House majority with funds for voters. The article notes sham reductions and favored taxes on grain vegetables and dairy while protecting the sugar trust, predicting little change in the bill.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Ways and Means
Sherman and the Trusts
From the New York World the piece argues only foreign competition can curb trusts. It cites metal, sugar, oilcloth, and oil trusts, claiming American manufacturers would collapse if faced with foreign products. It notes Mr Sherman’s past stance on weaponizing the Pecaniee law and suggests he has repented his pledge.
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