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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1896
Page
3
Britain faces agriculture collapse as prices plunge across crops and meat. The piece argues forceful return to silver standards to restore parity and competition, noting farmer cooperatives and government action as essential, with warnings about gold-standard harm and global factory shifts to silver-based economies.
The article critiques the notion of honest money and explains how money that appreciates in purchasing power harms debtors and producers. It argues that “dear money” benefits money centers, while “cheap money” may ease relief for the producing classes, linking this to the gold standard’s effects and widespread distress.
Bradstreet's reports the Senate majority blocks reform efforts as free coinage senators push a substitute for the house bond bill while vowing to block the tariff bill without a free coinage amendment. The row centers on restoring an honest monetary system so farmers can access money to buy sugar and pay taxes amid syndicate profits.
A Cleveland era editorial argues American policy must be staunchly Monroe Doctrine focused and self reliant, contending England controls U.S. monetary policy. It denounces gold standard schemes, calls for coinage, and praises independence through monetary self rule and bimetallic history. It cites Perry Prentiss and critiques bond syndicates as British-aligned.
A Goshen shoemaker Joseph Piro allegedly offered $600 to Elin Collander’s father for his thirteen year old daughter to wed the Italian girl. Police intervened delaying the marriage plan. Ella returned to Goshen with plans to continue school and Piro resumed shop life.
In Park Place Pennsylvania a cold blooded murder interrupted the planned marriage of John Shanosky to Miss Carowitz. A large crowd gathered at Carowitz home as party bees were present, reflecting local Polish wedding customs. A shot rang out during the celebration and guests rushed outside to find the victim.
Charles Johnson, a grubby gaunter from Fulton county, faced Madison Georgia judge H W Baldwin for vagrancy. He pleaded guilty, received a nominal fine or five months in the chain gang, and admitted to cursing a lady at a house he requested food at while drunk.
New York lawyer Ira Shafer files a codicil to his will offering his wife and daughter city property worth 100000 dollars if Mrs Shafer refrains from seeking an absolute divorce. Longstanding discord is noted with colorful anecdotes including a typewriter girl, broomsticks, and a horse whip. Shafer once gained attention in Highland by flashing 15000 dollar checks like cigars. A Midland witness reports a bizarre fight between an American eagle and two owls.
The article contrasts President Cleveland and President Harrison as sportsmen. It notes Cleveland's patience and cautious, deliberate shooting style versus Harrison's quick, riskier approach. Observers say their temperaments shape how they hunt and their overall hunting success.
The London critic Clement Scott and actress Mrs Kendal have long sparred over a backstage incident. Scott recalls visiting her room during a provincial tour and being shouted away while he joked I need to persuasion. He jokes about which insult bothered her more the intrusion or the remark.
A woman in an uptown grocery sought novelty for a stag supper and, after exhausting suggestions and knowing she had all items, was advised to stock bromo-seltzer. Frank Gould of South Wordsboro, Vermont, found a strange dead bird on the road with a ducklike shape, crowlike beak, black head and back, white body, andwebbed feet larger than a partridge.
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