Marble Hill Press notes big city miscellany
A jumble of brief items from Marble Hill Press touching on Tammany Hall planning for headquarters at the Democratic convention, odd anecdotes from Portland primaries, a contested Fair estate will dispute, Vassar theft, an anti lynching law in Ohio, and a forecast of three Californian gold strikes. It also notes a leap year nuptial trend, a Brooklyn Pratt library elevator with ventilation, Dutch Charlie’s typhoon prophecies, Ellis Island immigrant processing tensions, and a boost in federal troop readiness at New York’s harbor.
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New Pratt Library
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
New York
Ellis Island
United States
Trade totals for eight months ending February show surplus
Exports valued at 692,614,991 dollars, up 10 percent from prior year. Imports at 541,999,774 dollars, up about 74,000,000. Free imports 260,237,648. dutiable imports 250,575,126, with sizable year over year gains. Overall excess of exports over imports noted, totaling 1,659,002 for the period.
Letter on sound currency battles with Reform Club in New York
W Stearns of Press in Adrian Michigan rebukes the Reform Club for offering free plate matter and supplements advocating a gold standard. He defends free silver and greenbacks, condemns monetary reformers, praises honest money, and argues that the United States should restore the 1873 law and maintain a plentiful, interchangable currency for all classes.
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Reform Club
Adrian
Mich
New York
Calvin Tompkins
United States
Grover Cleveland
Sherman
McKinley
Fairchild
Hoar
Reed
Brice
Carlisle
Mortons
Jeff Davis
Republican Party
W. Stearns
Two Petitions to Congress Spark Debate on Coinage
On Thursday April 2 two petitions were presented to Congress. The Massachusetts State Board of Trade urged maintaining the single gold standard, while Drill Press and Milling Machine Union No. 6505 urged free coinage of silver. The gold petition was referred to the Finance Committee, while the silver plea was laid on the table. The item includes sharp commentary on the actors and irony surrounding the debate.
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Congress
Massachusetts State Board of Trade
Boston
Drill Press and Milling Machine Union
American Federation of Labor
Toledo
Ohio
Committee On Finance
Joan Sherman
Judas Iscariot
Finance
American
Sodom
Rock Island murder mystery grips Illinois farm scene
Henry F. Bastian, a church member from near Mill Creek, is linked to seven murders and other crimes. Neighbors insist he led a double life, with three farm hands and a nurse among those slain or vanished, while suspicions grew after his baby’s death and Kuschmann’s murder. Sheriff Hemenway faced mob pressure yet pursued evidence as crowds reclaim relics from the Bastian farm amid a case that now hangs over Milan and surrounding rural areas.
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Henry F. Bastian
Rock Island
Illinois
Bastian
Ill Creek
Heme
Lauderbach
Kremsen
McCaffrey
Parish
Hemenway
Kuschmann
Milan
Mill Creek
Potters’ Field
Henry Bastian
Carrie
Searle
Bas
Henry F. Bastlan
Han
Ani
Fred Kusctmann
Hastian
Anton Weigle
Kuachmann
Bastian Sid
Bleached hair drives vaudeville actress to asylum
Dell De Forrest once the Newark stage sensation is confined at Amityville asylum after years of bleaching hair with hydrogen peroxide. She believes enemies plot to chloroform or poison her and has shown escalating paranoia and instability. Doctors note the hair bleaching as a key factor in her mental decline.
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Amityville
L. L
Jg Dell de Forrest
Miss de Forrest
New York City
Amityville Asylum
Long Courtship Ends in May 7 Wedding at Last
James Mote and Madge Pennington of Newark Delaware finally wed after nearly thirty years of courting. Miss Pennington now age 50, has waited through repeated postponements as the couple announced their wedding for May 7 following a 16th birthday celebrant in June and the townspeople’s longstanding curiosity.
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James Mote
Madge Pennington
Newark
Del
Miss Pennington
James
Ttme
Madeg Pennington
Fire rescue turns tragic as soldiers poison themselves
Report from France notes residents rescued from a burning building near Saveur Church and hospital. Three patients died from fright, while fifteen soldiers tasked with quenching the blaze drank poison at a druggist's shop. Six died in the aftermath, the others injured.
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Lite
France
St. Saveur
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