Debated Tariff Impacts On Wages And Iron Prices
The Iron Age piece argues that wage cuts at Harrisburg iron works reflect price pressures in a dull market, while defending free trade reasoning. It cites declines in pig iron and steel rail prices since 1870, links wages to supply and demand, and condemns the McKinley tariff as harming labor. It notes broader European and American trends and urges abolishing protective tariffs as harmful to workers.
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Chesapeake Nail Works
Harrisburg
Central Iron Works
Tarif
Louisville Courier-Journal
Blaine
Europe
America
Congress
Parliament
Tin Plate Tax Hurts American Consumers
The article notes American buyers face higher costs after the McKinley tariff on tin plate. Wholesale price jumped from 4.40 to 65.35 per box, with buyers paying an extra 5 cents per unit due to the tax. The piece comments on the burden without altering other details.
Sien New Partise Mari in Local Debate
Fragmentary text notes a faction favoring a partition or state action amid a local political dispute. Mentions men supporting a change and a potential vote or decision, but details are unclear and names or places are unreadable.
Tariff Theory Versus Practice in Tax on Consumers
An 1890s debate argues the tariff functions as a tax on American consumers, not foreign producers. It criticizes McKinley era compensating duties and drawbacks, citing examples on wool and tin plate can making, and highlights discrepancies between theory and legislation according to the New York World.
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McKinley
Chicago Herald
Treasury
Commissioner of Customs
House
Thetes, Hungry Which would you deather be an' dumb
Unclear OCR text from the Ge llapapolis Journal fragment presents phrases about thetes and hunger. No coherent event or names to summarize into a complete news item.
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Gellapapolis Journal
Carlyle and the Bride on a Honeymoon Journey
On a mail coach to Sligo a young bride and groom joined the travelers. The bride teased a famed Scotch philosopher, Carlyle, about talking too much, prompting a laughing fit and a clash of vanity between youth and age. Sir Gavan Duffy notes the scene in the Contemporary Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sligo
Carlyle
Belfast
Gavan Duffy
Carlisle
Vox Populi
Shamed the King How a Poet Won a Reward From Augustus
A daily supplicant poet waited at the palace to recite verses hoping for pay. The emperor mocked him by reciting lines of his own, leaving the poet unmoved and undeterred by the humiliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus
Mrs Marshall Publishes Royal Culinary Standard Volume
Four years after Mrs A B Marshall’s Cookery Book, London Queen lauds her second volume as a fitting companion to Gouffe Francatelli Urbain Dubois and Ude. The book expands from a planned second volume into a comprehensive standard work, reflecting the author’s wealth of material and high-class English cookery.
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Marshall
A. B. Marshall
London
Gouffe
Francatelli
Urbain
Dubois
Ude
Perpetual Motion Bureau Front in Washington
A motor at the patent office appears to meet perpetual motion criteria by running with metal expansion changes and stable temperature. The device is described as carefully built and capable of continuous operation if room conditions remained unchanged, with the clocking starting thirty eight days prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patent Office
Washington
Teoceypion
The Plea of Sanity and Domestic Mischief
A fragmentary excerpt parodies medical quackery and humorous dialogue. It cites Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for constipation and other ailments while lampooning sensational claims. The piece notes a drug store move by Dr. C. R. Burrage and closes with a gag about a Kansas man becoming bald from teaching his wife to eat pie with a fork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Burrage
California Root TV
North Fourth Street
Kansas
Victor Hay Press touted as best baler by Ertel firm
The Ertel Victor Hay Press from Geo. Ertel & Co claims superior material, workmanship, symmetry, simplicity, usability and power efficiency. Advertises long-established reliability, trial shipping, and references a testimonial as proof of quality. Also mentions Judd Electric Balm and a dated joke about misprints at dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ertel Victor Hay
Geo. Ertel & Co
Follo
Atton
Travel tips and cough drops in 1900s ad copy
An old newspaper snippet urges travelers to carry Syrup of Figs for kidney and bowel relief and warns of fever and headaches. It notes 50 and 1 dollar bottles by leading druggists and mentions Brown's Bronchial Troches for bronchial ailments at 25 cents. A Milan to Dallas ad tone ends with a base burner remark.
August Flower Proven Effective Remedy Letter
I C Frost of Springfield Massachusetts states his wife used August Flower for sick headache and heart palpitations with satisfactory results. After years of suffering and medical treatment in this city and Boston, she found immediate relief and he credits the remedy highly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Flower
Boston
I. C. Frost
Springfield
Mass
Deafness and cured remedies amid odd ad snippets
An OCR fragment blend discusses ear inflammation and catarrh with claims of cures like Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hanson’s Magic Corn salve. It includes mock dialogue about a riding school, shorthand pay offers, and generic ads. The text mixes medical assertions with unrelated vendor pitches and comments on local politics.
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Hall
PF. J. Cheney &Co
Tololedo, O
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