Bryan's Missouri Swing Ends Short on Busy Day
Across Missouri last Saturday William Jennings Bryan toured towns from Kansas City to St Louis with brief stops and rousing crowds. He spoke in Birmingham Lexington junction Carrollton and others defying fatigue and praising free coinage while criticizing the gold standard and bank power.
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Bryan
Misouri
Moberly
Kansas City
Lincoln
Birmingham
Lexington Junction
Wakanda Prairie
Lexington
Richmond
Bryan and Sewall Club
Dowan
Carrollton
Champ Clark
Clark
Mr. Bryan
Col
John S. Martin
Col. Martin
Miami Junction
de Witt
Brunswick
Chariton
George W. Hyde
Huntsville
Mexico
Cook
Peale
Bob White
Montgomery City
St. Charles
St. Louis
Carlin
J. Allen
Bryan Repub
Ted
Drummers Push Gold and Silver Coinage as State Politics
Champ Clark speech excerpt at Concordia Park in St. Louis warns that Drummers of St. Louis backed a governor winner and will back more, linking prosperity to gold and silver coinage at 16 to 1. He argues consumer wealth drives retail sales, influencing employment and farmers’ prices, and notes farmers are strained after years of gold standard debates.
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Concordia Park
St. Louis
Republican Party
United States
Bryan
Treasury Department
Treasury
Peerie
Easury
Chas. E. Pierce
Str
London
New York
Champ Clark
Concordia Park St. Louis
Missouri
McKinley
Bryan to Go to Town Speech Planned for Sept
Burlington announces that on September 14 Chair man Jones telegraphed the committee that Bryan will attend the semi centennial celebration to deliver a speech in town.
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Bryan
Burlington
Town
Jones
Old-Fashioned Banks Hidden in Plain Sight
A Boston Traveler piece outlines how rural households still employ traditional hiding places for savings and valuables. Women store money in coal scuttles, under mattresses, inside Bibles and dictionaries, beneath carpets, in clocks, in pockets of old dresses, under furniture, in pocketbooks, and even in old shoes, highlighting ingenuity and risk.
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Boston Traveler
New Hampshire
Ohio
Hand Embroidered Stockings Beadwork Fad For Young Girls
Hand embroidery of stockings is a current fad with girls sewing up elaborate hosiery for low prices. Cotton and lisle replace silk for ease and fineness. Embroiderers begin by looping silk around the leg to form stripes and patterns, choosing colors to match the gown, with designs like pileur-do-ite and crescents as favorites.
Shakespeare for a Man Out of Joint Atlantic Monthly
A skeptical portrait of a man without firm beliefs who flits through life like a wanderer, unable to claim a chosen stance. The piece argues that such a person doubts disinterested motives, denies human dignity, and mocks noble feelings, concluding Shakespeare is Europe’s greatest believer in humanity.
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Europe
Atlantic Monthly
Irish Letter Request Sparks Spelling Joke at Post Office
In a rush at the general delivery window a poor Irishman showed wit when asked to spell his name for a letter. He replied that if a smart clerk cannot spell it, how could a poor man expect to spell it himself. The anecdote, from Harper's Round Table, captures the humor of a busy postal scene.
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Harper
Round Table
Prodigious violence and a medical plea for relief
Noting malarial danger and violence, the text urges immediate relief with Hoster’s Stomach Hitters as a long proven remedy. It claims benefits for disordered liver bowels kidneys and for dyspepsia nervous debility and rheumatism. Also mentions thirteen original languages including Greek Latin German and Irish.
Hall’s Catarrh Core and Teething Remedies Mentioned
The item includes references to Hall’s Catarrh Core as a remedy and Ma WrosLow’s Sootitixe Synch for Teething. It also notes Mr. Smyser of Summerville Ga in his ninety seventh year firing seven bullets at a two inch bull’s eye from 60 feet and Sir Henry Bessemer paying about £50000 in patent duties on his inventions.
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Mr. Smyser
Summerville, Ga
Henry Bessemer
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