06 Sep 1890
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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1890
Page
1
A damaged OCR passage evokes night noises and imagined scenes with bumble bees, bullfrogs, a small boy, a cat, a mare, and a moonlit bedroom. Vague, lyrical lines describe creatures, sounds, and shifting light as the speaker drifts toward sleep.
A broad critique denounces tariff increases as a sham and outlines steep duties on pocket knives razors and carving knives plus guns and farm tools. The writer cites article by article rate changes ad valorem percentages and per dozen charges while contrasting alleged protection with rising living costs and taxpayer impact. The piece references a foreign edition of the American Mail and Export Journal from Buenos Ayres and argues the tariff boosts employment for artisans yet raises prices for consumers. It laments the distribution of benefits and questions the equity of the policy amid the domestic manufacturing push.
A garbled tract from the New York Tribune argues that nearly half of government expenditures fund provisioning and governance. It mentions a yearly tax on each adult and questions who bears the burden as the state costs rise.
A professor of languages remarks on the obstacles foreigners faced when mastering English. He cites archaic phonetic shifts and typographic misspellings as examples, noting how sounds and letter combos transformed into unexpected forms, reflecting the era’s pedagogical challenges.
A distorted clipping describes a scene with a tethered object, poles, and garbled phrases about a person, distance, and a mentioned location or event. The text is largely unreadable, providing few concrete details to identify names, places, or outcomes.
A fragmentary notice references a death, a dispute over payment, and an estate matter. Details are garbled, but the text suggests a local legal or financial dispute tied to a deceased individual and unsettled debts.
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