Panic and the gold standard drive 1893 crisis debate
The Chicago Record excerpt argues that the 1893 panic was engineered by gold interests to push a genuine silver reform out of the public eye. It cites Wm Solomon and Henry G. Miller, tracing bank alignments, the Sherman act repeal, and how tariff talk masked currency aims. It warns that a pure gold standard would strand workers and collapse prices.
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Henry G. Miller
Chicago
Wm. Solomon
New York City
Cleveland
Reform Club
New York
How
Democratic Party
Congress
New York Evening Post
West
South
Chicago Tribune
Carlisle
Treasury
Williams
Chemical Bank
House
Senate
The Winning of Fame and Founding Enduring Names
A New York Sun piece argues fame comes by founding learning institutions that bear a founder’s name. It cites Cornell Harvard Yale Stanford Johns Hopkins Vanderbilt Vassar Whitman and Williston as examples and urges others to establish a university college or seminary to perpetuate memory.
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New York Sun
Cornell
England
United States
Ezra Cornell
University At
Ithaca
N. Y
Andrew Johnson
John Harvard
Massachusetts
Harvard College
Harvard University
Elihu Yale
New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Yale College
California
Stanford University
Leland Stanford
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Vanderbilt University
Tennessee
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
Matthew Vassar
Marcus Whitman
Whitman College
University
Washington
East Hampton
Williston Seminary
Resurrection tale ends with basement sighting
A west side mother explains the resurrection to her young sons Bennie and Fritz then searches for them. In the basement she finds Bennie on the coal bin and Fritz stretched on the floor with hands over his chest. Fritz then cries to Father and Bennie responds as if Jesus is coming up.
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West Side
Bennie
Fritz
Woman's Greatest Charm in Society
Ethel Ingalls argues men prize sweet simplicity in women not a simpering or bold mannish air. True charm lies in sincerity and candor without abruptness. A hopeful, healthy person is said to have everything, echoing Arabian wisdom.
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Ethel Ingalls
There Are Two Kinds of People in This World
A syndicated verse contrasts lifters and leaners, urging readers to choose the former. An Atlanta paper reports a strange discovery, a jawbone in a Carroll County tree, with theories of murder and a compassionate shipboard rescue involving a starving man and a Havana-bound lifeboat. The tale closes with a humane gesture on a Yucatan voyage.
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Atlanta
W. A. Blair
West Peters Street
Carroll County
W. B
P. H. Hesterly
Carroll
W. F. Turner
Will Bequeaths Five Dollars For A Treatise On Commandments
Richard L. Edwards who died at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia leaves his daughter Mary Elizabeth Edwards a bequest of 5 dollars to buy a work on the fifth commandment. He condemns his wife Mary F. Edwards for four years absence and a prior release from support, and leaves his daughter 3 dollars for a treatise on the fourth commandment as a mark of distaste for her supposed undutiful conduct.
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Richard L. Edwards
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
Mary F. Edwards
Mary Eliizabeth Edwards
A Lizard Finds a Friend
A Cuba imported lizard falls from a vendor’s wagon into a street. Hundreds pass, women fear the creature as a battered man lifts it, defends his action, and carries it toward a nearby barroom.
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Cuba
Whitecaps Force Doctor Out of Corydon
In Corydon Indiana a renowned New York physician Dr Newman reportedly fled the area after unknown assailants linked to Harrison County whitecaps issued a menacing notice. The doctor who had built a large local practice four to five years prior, faced envy and threats from locals including two young lawyers. He departed promptly to avoid further danger.
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Corydon
Ind
Newman
New York
Whitecap
Harrison County
No Use for Cigarettes Wisconsin Board Opposes Smoking
Wisconsin's state board of health, meeting in Milwaukee, formally declared cigarette smoking deleterious to health. An Eau Claire alderman sought the board's opinion before enacting a city cigarette ordinance. A committee reported a resolution condemning smoking, especially harms youth, which the board unanimously adopted. The secretary noted consideration of a general state measure to curb cigarette use by children.
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Wisconsin
State Board of Health
Milwaukee
Eau Claire
Wingate
Heir to 225000 Fortune Claimed by Releasee Dahner
August Dahner, recently released from Sonia prison after a two year sentence for whipping a nonpayer, learns he may inherit 225000 from an uncle who struck Calico mining wealth in California. Dahner, son of a single, is to return home before travelling to California to press the claim as one of six heirs.
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August Dahner
Sonia
Mich
Dahner
Daliner
Calico
San Bernardino County
California
Toothless Anderson family baffles dentists near Indiana
An Indiana story details James Leonard a toothless father and his four grown children all lacking teeth yet capable of cracking nuts with their jaws. The family’s gums sit unusually low and firm, yet all members function normally despite the absence of dental structures. The article also mentions Mrs. Devine and Ohio figure Allen Thurman in a quoted verse line.
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Anderson
Ind
James Leonard
Leonard
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John Bull
New York Tribune
American Bankers’ Association of
Bankers of the
Williams’ House
Thern
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Harper's Weekly
Carlona
New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company
Yucatan
Havana
Mrs. Devine
Allen Thurman
Ohio
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