Republican weather and political currents in the era
The New York Tribune calls the hot days Republican weather while predicting Democratic gains in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Iowa. It notes New York’s debt repayment and the pension rolls, Drift of federal office influence, and critiques McKinley and free coinage. It mentions Mary Hannock Footr’s new Century serial and cautions about “Republican weather” headlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Iowa
Mary Hannock Footr
Mars
Footer
Great West
Indifference of Tariff Law and Wealth Inequality
The piece denounces a Republican tariff act as causing wealth concentration. It claims pre passage 70 percent of wealth lay with producers and workers, while now 45 percent remains with them and 55 percent with 25,000 newcomers. It blames government interference and names McKinley and Sherman as beneficiaries.
Political patronage wars and tariff hypocrisy exposed
Editorial excerpts attack patronage in the Wanamaker era with posts and removals of postmasters, compares to Balmaceda’s government, and cites regional papers on inspections and charges. It blasts the McKinley tariff for protecting speculators while harming consumers, and ends with a provocative Oklahoma remark about a negro hearing an Indian war whoop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.M. G. Wanamaker
Diit Service Chronicle
Clarkson
Cedar Rapids
Daniels
Wanamaker
Cleveland Hain Dealer
Oklahoma
New Zealand Senator Proposal Aims at Women-Only Senate
The Convict Journal reports a New Zealand figure recommends a Senate composed exclusively of women. Reactions vary from praising suffrage expansion to criticizing gender-based qualifications and arguing for gender neutrality in officeholding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Senate
George
Converted Editor and Moral Jest in Shelbyville Tale
A Shelbyville editor is depicted as converting a churchgoer and paying a grocery bill, provoking a sting from a mortgage collector. The piece shifts to poetic imagery about stars and virtue, then a humorous scene at a Red Men lodge where a wife suspects her husband has faked degrees, joking about masons and counting orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Shelbyville Democrat
The
Red Men
John Brown
Chamberlains Eye and Skin Ointment advertised cure
Chamberlains Eye and Skin Ointment offered as a cure for chronic sores eczema and related conditions. Promoted as cooling and soothing with hundreds of cases cured after other treatments failed. Available in 25 and 50 cent boxes from HEBEBEART and Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebebeart & Son
Pension Roll Surges to 676,160 as U S
The annual pensions report shows 676,160 people on the rolls as of June 30 1891 up 138 216 from the prior year. It details pension categories incl widows soldiers and veterans across Revolutionary War War of 1812 Mexican War and Army Navy targets. It notes first payments total 222 521 costing 88 552 274 and forecasts a deficiency of about 800000 for surgeon exam fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raum
Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Secretary of the Interior
Army
Navy
Treasury
Bureau
Congress
Chicago Pension Agency
Explosion at Detroit Star Line dock rocks Griswold area
An afternoon blast at the Star line dock foot of Griswold street Detroit damaged a tobacco warehouse smashing the wall and windows 8000 pounds of tobacco torn apart a drum hurled into a neighboring building McCorkle injured with a skull fracture from the blast Schools closed in Syracuse due to unprecedented heat with 92 degrees in the afternoon hardware store fire in Slatington and a Des Moines carpenter sprain treated with Chamberlains Pain Balm priced at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Griswold Street
Star Line
Toledo
Charles W. McCorkle
Syracuse
N. Y
M. 8. Powers
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Hrsunnart & Son
Julyldawim
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Gov. Hill
Theiri Service Chronicle
England
Italy
McKisey
Cleveland
Majah
McKinley
Port of
Henchman
Tom Platt
Balmaceda
Eve
Cain
Praire
Interior Department
Mavoc
Slatington
Cross, Fritzinger & Comany
Alling & Lodce
Madison
Indiana
Branham & Ritchie
Branham & Chambers
East Main ST
Ind
East Main Street
Eckstein White
Hawlin
Swormstedt & CO
Madison, Ind
George E. Currie
John W. Scott
Main Street
Marow
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Oakaloosa
Dan Moines
Winterset
Audubon
Harlan
Council Bluffs
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sto Falia
Dakota
Cameron
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Omaha
Faird
Nelson
Nebraska
Horton
Topeka
Hutchinson
Wichita
Belleville
Abilene
Caldwell
Kansas
Pondreek
Hennessey
Kingfisher
el Reno
Indian Territory
Denver
Colorado
Pueblo
Dodge City
Palace
Hutchingon
Pacific
Chi- Sige
Colorado Springs
California
Salt Lake
Ogden
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pike’s F
Northwest
Seneca
K&aneakee
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Atchison
Leavenworth
United States
Canada
E. ST. John
John Sebastian
Gon’ Ticket & Pass
Chicago, Ill
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