The Democracy and Wages Debate in a 19th Century Speech
A long excerpted speech argues for rising wages as essential to civilization and consumer power, praising the Republican stance while criticizing free trade. It discusses past elections, party fortunes in Alabama, Oregon, and Tennessee, and cites Mr Cleveland and Mr Blaine era politics. The text defends protectionist policy and warns against free trade doctrines, urging steady wage growth and national prosperity.
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Boston
Philadelphia
Wool and eggs debate under new tariff law stance
A historical tract argues that new tariff measures will devastate western sheep farming and wool production while protecting egg and poultry output. It cites 19th century United States egg and wool statistics, praising protective duties and warning farmers of economic peril without protection.
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Mississippi River
United States
Ava
Elon
Democratic Congress
Carnigas
United
Stalea Aa
Ibex
Amuchail
BYTOM
Hat chase on windy Chicago streets ends in muddy straw
A windy day in a South Side Chicago club house leads to a comical hat chase. A reporter’s straw hat is blown along State Street by gusts, dodging passengers, a furious crowd, and a pursuing officer before finally being crushed by a truck. The original owner’s claim is settled as the hat is ruined.
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Halsted
State Street
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Wabash Avenue
Fragmented vignette collection from 19th century papers
A collage of comic quips and brief jokes from various newspapers. Snippets reference political money, math quips about a dozen, age tricks, invented remedies, and social banter. The items resemble a humor column or montage of one-liners and ephemeral gags.
Merchant Reflects On Baseball Awareness In Casual Observation
A wary merchant notes he knows little of baseball beyond casual observation. He mentions his office boy's mindfather has died twice this summer, a line that underscores the reader’s sense of local color and humor.
A Sympathetic Strike On Record in Boston Sermon
In a sermon by Willian E. Bartow of Boston a sympathetic strike is illustrated by a fable: a widowed woman commands a dog to bite a pig and a stick to beat the dog. After a chain of refusals the cat overcomes the rat, triggering a cascade ending with the pig jumping over the stile. It marks the first sympathetic strike on record.
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Willian E. Bartow
Boston
Cata
Hiw
Tejorelog
All Had Seen Ward Luck In Comic Opera Tale
A hazy reminiscence recalls actors in a summer garden engagement. The troupe faced arctic cold and a dead crowd, while rent woes grew for a theater hand and a dry goods clerk recounts misfortune, debt pressure, and a fatal sign mix up at work.
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Urs
Sorengo
Payilon
Sumer Garden
Bull
Nor Tin
Natives Slain as Foreign Powers Intervene in Suniga
A San Francisco dispatch reports fresh fighting in Suniga with British and German warships interceding. Natives suffer from crop shortages and famine, leading to robbery and violence as foreign intervention proceeds. Collisions occurred between natives and intervening forces, resulting in numerous deaths.
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Suniga
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Samed
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Germany
The Professor and Miss Nomer Astronomy Exchange
The Professor enthuses about astronomy pointing to Mars Jupiter and Sirius while Miss Nomer wonders how astronomers name stars. A father warns misbehavior with punishment involving medicine.
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Indiaespolls Journal
Gen Banks Dies After Illness in Massachusetts
Gen. Nathan P. Banks, veteran soldier and statesman born in Waltham in 1816, died in Waltham after a long illness. He served as governor of Massachusetts, led Union forces as major general, commanded the Army of the Potomac and later the Army of Virginia, and played a key role in the Vicksburg Port Hudson campaigns and Red River operations.
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Democrats Endorse Bacroft in Seventh Iowa District
Des Moines August 21 The Democrats of Iowa seventh district endorse R Bacroft of Des Moines the Populists candidate for Congress.
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Des Moines
Democrata
Iowa
R. Baceroft
Congress
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