Michigan News Roundup on Elections and Officials
In Marshall Michigan the Statesman reports legal and political events including Jupen Buer’s Kalamazoo opinion on Van Duren county local option law, a dire forecast on Geo W Childs, Kaiser and Bismarck reconciliation, and debates over the Wilson bill. It notes appointments, gubernatorial talk, and calls for full investigations into the salaries amendment scandal with a push for grand jury action and accountability across parties.
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Jupean Buer
Kalamazoo
van Duren
Statesman
Board of
Agnvassers
Michigan
Grand Jury
Grand Rapidy Democrat
Hia Party
Hia
Presitent Hamer Defends Myth Theory And Salary Refund
President Hamer of Chicago University questions Cain and Abel as myth, cites greater truth than Trojan horse or Rome legends. Attorney-general refunds 296.28 to state for seven months’ salary under 1892 increase, refuses further sums unless courts rule. Other officers’ January salaries paid at old constitutional rate pending amendment decision.
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Presipent Hamer
Chicago University
Cain
Abel
Troy
Remus
Remulis 8
Rome
Gogebic
Gratiot
Eminent Dead of the Year in History List
A year in review salutes leaders and luminaries across states, empires, and arts. Names include Blaine Hayes Butler Lamar Blatchford Fish Beauregard Derby Ferry Stanford Galt Abbot Rusk Tirard Tryon de Lesseps plus Brooks Peabody Schaff Evans and many others.
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James G. Blaine
Alexander of Battenberg
Bulgaria
Hayes
Benjamin F. Butler
Lamar and
Blatchford
Hamilton Fish
Beauregard
Smith
Earl of Derby
Miribel
MacMahon
France
Jules Ferry
Stanford
Leland Stanford University
A. T. Galt
John Abbot
Canada
Jerry Rusk
Tirard
Tryon
Victoria
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Church
King
Phillips Brooks
Church Universal
A. P. Peabody
Philip Schaff
Frederick Evans
Shaker
Kip and
Bissell
Azarias
Men of Letters
Taine
Francis Parkman
Guy de Maupassant
John Addington Symonds
Lucy Stone
Maria Lamb
Magazine of History
de Mille
Lucey Larcoin
Jewett
William Smith
Tyndall
Charcot
Horsford
Harvard
Craven
Lichtenthaler
Decandolle
Anderson
Joseph
Viner
Meteoroogist
Sephénson
Rug
Harvey
General Armstrong
Hampton Institute
Anthony Drexel
George S. Seney
Colonel Auchmaty
Edwin Bouth
Funny Kemble
J. E. Murdock
Gounod
Tschaikowsky
Buffalo
Lost Opportunity for Jefferson Folding Bed Pitch
Comedian Joseph Jefferson refused a bold money making proposition offered during a Rip Van Winkle run at Walnut Street theater. A fur niture man proposed a mid act joke about Blank's patent folding beds to be used on stage, promising a high payment, but Jefferson did not respond. The bed owner had not heard back.
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Joseph Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Walnut Street
Hblank
Blank
Philadelphia Record
Delayed Wakefield Journal Found Hidden Behind Iron Beam
A London post office uncovering aged papers amid roof repairs found a copy of the Wakefield Journal dated August 17 1666 addressed to De Beauvoir Town. It bears the pre-stamp red penny mark and apparently arrived long ago but was only now sent for delivery. The addressee’s fate remains unknown.
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General Post Office
Wakefield Journal
Buckingham Road
de Beauvoir
London
Blackburn
England
Tariff Principles Defeat the Wilson Bill, McKinley Still Best
In a Chattanooga piece by WitLarp WarneR, the author argues the Wilson tariff bill lacks principle, harms American labor and capital, and undermines the McKinley framework. It contends protection favors domestic industry, warns of wage cuts, and urges defeating the Wilson bill to let McKinley be amended as needed.
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Chicago
Washington
Harony
Alabama
Tennessee
Congress
Wilson
WitLarp Warner
Chattanooga
English investor letter doubts American policy impact
A Nashville reader relays a letter from a prominent Englishman seeking investors in the old country. He warns that English and continental investors will not back southern iron or steel ventures until the American public demonstrates a stable, settled policy. He states that America’s unsettled policy unsettles the world.
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Nashville
England
Old Country
America
Yalney
Urge Congress to back Wilson tariff bill today
Send a postal card to a member of Congress urging a vote on the Wilson free trade tariff. The message warns that untaxed foreign competition drives down prices and wages, leading to cheaper labor and possible human harm, framing the tariff as a safeguard against slavery by market forces.
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Congressiman
Congress
Obdurate Bridget Sullivan Denies Bankbook Return
A New York Times snippet reports Bridget Sullivan, jailed at Ludlow Street by Surrogate Ransom for refusing to surrender a bankbook tied to the Michael Adams estate. She insists Adams owed her money and vows to stay in jail, saying it would spare her chores. Her lawyer urged compliance. the estate’s counsel urged surrender, but she clings to the book.
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Bridget Sullivan
Ludlow Street
Michael Adams
Ale
Mia
Sullivan
New York Times
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