New York Silver Ballot Sparks Unexpected Support
The June 24 Mercury ballot on free coinage of silver drew 35,716 votes for Yes and 1,966 for No. Readers, mostly workingmen, sent in letters and envelopes with stamps, showing strong popular understanding of silver's demonetization and urging reform without external agreement.
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Mercury
New York City
Brooklyn
Great Britain
Atlanta Constitution
Cincinnati Enquirer
New York
The
N. Y. Mercury
Sugar output and resources for California factory
The China Cal sugar factory produced 22 million pounds of sugar from beets. It required 75 thousand barrels of crude oil and 125 thousand tons of lime rock, with a daily water flow of 8.7 million gallons. About 250 workers earned 100 thousand dollars in wages. total beets used were 210,566 tons.
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China, Cal
Copper Queen Mining bonds Arizona copper mines south of Tucson
Prof Douglass bonds a group of copper mines eighteen miles south of Tucson on Thos Highes and H & Birnes land for 87 009 with 33 0090 paid down. Six months is named in the land but payment may occur soon. A large workforce is at the claims, and Copper Queen plans extensive development in the Bradshaw range which has long yielded more bullion than any Arizona district. Other prospects are advancing and will boost bullion output. the Monroe doctrine is discussed in relation to naval power and international law.
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Copper Queen Mining Company
Tucson
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Bradshaw
Arizona
Monroe doctrine under debate and hemisphere policy
The Picayune warns that abandoning the Monroe doctrine could place South America and Mexico under European powers. It questions whether the United States will maintain a clear policy or leave the hemisphere to great robber nations exploiting Africa and Asia.
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New Orleans Picayune
South America
Mexico
Africa
Asia
Free coinage stance shifts US gold standard policy
An editorial in the S F Chronicle urges the United States to abandon the single gold standard, proposing a free coinage measure to reduce foreign manipulation. It argues emancipation is possible if pursued. An official Treasury report notes 28,000 seal pups starved on Prybiloff Island after mothers were killed at sea, with 5,000 more starving and at risk of death, warning Behring Sea seals may go extinct in 3–4 years.
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Prybiloff Island
Sume
Behring Sea
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Treasury
England
Prst
el Paso Times
President Blames Wall Street for Monetary Policy
The essay criticizes President Cleveland's annual message to Congress on foreign relations and the nation’s finances. It argues for expanding silver coinage and a broad money stock, opposing a strict gold standard and national bank constraints. It warns the gold standard would curb money supply and harm wages and prices.
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Cleveland
Congress
Wall Street
Aries
Shaft Cost Per Foot in Johannesburg Star Report
The Star notes a 404 foot shaft in Johannesburg with a price of £2088 18s per foot, while mentioning a rival figure of $109 per foot as seeming high. The piece contrasts currency and unit costs to question affordability.
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Johnnesburg
South Africa
Star
Aeak
Turmoil in Europe Portends Turkish Rise and Bloodshed
The Boror note predicts dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after a prolonged struggle. It warns that European discord will provoke a Mohammedan mobilization of millions to defend autonomy, portraying the Ottoman realm as populous and fanatical, ready to exploit continental divisions.
Indescribably sad obituary note from Arizona
A somber oblique prose piece describes a death and funeral mood with clouded heaven and mountains. An agricultural reporter interrupts, noting a cold night as he returns from his task, hinting at a rustic, mournful scene in the desert.
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Nole
Arizona
Featherbed Trial of the Indian Man
A fragment describes a man and his attempt with a feather. He places one feather on a board and sleeps overnight. In the morning he declares that white money feathers show he is a fool. The text is terse and unclear.
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