Veterans Rally in Chicago for McKinley and Sound Money
Veterans fill Chicago Auditorium for the inaugural Veteran Union League campaign as Grand Army speakers plan tours in support of McKinley and sound money. Gen. Sickles rails against Chicago platform and Bryan, praising Lincoln and Washington while warning against sectional divides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Chicago
Union League
Lincoln
Leiiage
Howard
Gen
Douglas
Freea Silver
America
Mexico
Russia
East Indies
China
England
Japan
India
United States
Escapades and Scandals in Morning Sun and Des Moines
A patchwork despatch recalls Peter Lever, Swiss born pioneer and LeMars resident, with tales of frontier life across Iowa and the Midwest. Reports describe a runaway romance and a public café confrontation, including a Morning Sun attempted child snatching and a pistol shot to a city marshal.
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Des Moines
Peter Lever
Tlamars
Switzerland
Lever
America
Dubuque
Mississippi
Farragut
St. Louis
Tennessee
Missouri
Sioux City
Sioux
Parragat
Floyd
Merrill
LeMars
Hinton
Melborne
M. J. Sells
Hastings
Lovejoy
Council Bluffs
Lew Genung
Lew
Genung
Congress
Artist-priest CERTEL paints Scriptural works in Belair
Johannes A Certel, the artist-priest now over forty, lives in Belair Massachusetts. His noted painting Rock of Ages was created for Augustus Storrs of Brooklyn. He spent years in New York City painting cartoons for the Church of the Heavenly Rest titled Waiting at the Gate and is now assisting at Belair Episcopal church while developing a series of Scriptural pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannes A. Certel
Belair
Augustus Storrs
Brooklyn
New York City
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Bryant
Episcopal Church
Coercing Integrity and the Free Silver Policy Debate
A political tract condemns the Bryanites for backing free silver and criticizes their claim of British domination. It argues the Chicago platform seeks to make a debased silver dollar legal tender for all debts, infringing individual rights and forcing acceptance of 48 to 51 cent coins in all payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mx Brynn
Mr. Bryan
Chicago
Bryan
Harrison
Debtor Farmers Rally Against Bryan’s Free Silver Plan
A Chicago firm’s secret poll of 4000 western loan-debtor farmers shows strong repudiation of debt restructuring and distrust of populist help to cheat creditors. Results challenge claims that debtor farmers back free silver and repurchase of their obligations. The survey cites Illinois Nebraska Iowa and other states to refute sound money Democrat urban defections.
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Bryan
West
Omaha
Chicago
Ilinois
Nebraska
Iowa
Debate over sound money and Bryanite policy reshapes voter views
Chicago Times-Herald notes Leslie's Weekly critique of a policy to devalue currency and warns that populist alliances could hurt creditors like banks and insurers. It cites farmers leaning toward sound money and argues debtors prefer stable currency, while predicting a nationwide Democratic loss if trends persist.
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Free Silver Democrats
Chicago ‘Times
Lerald
Coinage equity and political caution in Bryan verse
The piece cites a coinage paradox about silver and gold values and mocks a political scene, quoting W. J. Bryan’s poem Nope Deferred, Lament. It notes Bryan’s travels and his remarks on Maine and Sewall, ending with a metaphor of climbing a ladder of silver rungs and needing strong lungs.
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Nebraska
Maine
Watson
Sewall
W. Jennings Bryan
Thomson, Ga
Watson Printing Shop
Indianapolis News
Ind
Opinion voices split over Bryan and McKinley
A collection of editorials from major newspapers debates Bryan versus McKinley. Several papers praise civil service while others attack Bryan’s plans. Highlights reference sound money, silver value, and political divisions among Populists and veterans.
From Tiny Seeds to Noble Life in Young Hearts
A reflective poem urges young readers to grow through small acts daily. It links patience, learning, and virtuous conduct to a higher life and judgment, praising quiet efforts over flashy feats.
The German Princes Learn Many Hard Lessons Early
The article recounts a royal program where German princes endure rigorous training from age nine. Crown princes and brothers study intensely, with strict daily routines of lessons, physical training, military drills, and gardens. The piece notes miniature fortifications and Krupp-style weapons as part of war education, alongside duties like tending their own ponies after riding.
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Queen Victoria
Potentiates
Europe
Royal Garden
Tevery
Champion Jumper and Enfield’s Vast Room Featured Together
The piece highlights a world class jumper from Borneo famed for 60 to 70 foot leaps and a pouch like kangaroo cousin. It also notes Enfield England’s government factory room claimed to be the largest with 2000 machines across 180 patterns.
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Borneo
Enfield
England
Paper Smith and His Basket of Books at Vesey Street
An elderly man known as Paper Smith collects discarded reading material from the New York post office and delivers it to a red box by Broadway and Vesey Street for the Associated Hospitals. At 60 he began his mission, and 16 years later his daily basket brings comfort to the suffering and curious, guided by steady purpose and faithful service.
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New York
Blass Paper Smith
New York’ Post Office
Broadway
Vesey Street
Associated Hospitals
Ife
Smith
Post Office
W. Iail
Animal friendships emerge between unlikely pairs in captivity
Westminster Gazette reports on unusual bonds in a Sompalliond enclosure where a lioness accepts a bull terrier puppy and a Maltese cat adores a brood of chicks. The lioness warms a puppy, while the cat nestmates with newborns and calls them back if they wander.
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Cape
Enpge
Westminster Gazette
Lantern Fly and its use by Central American peoples
The piece describes the lantern fly a large firefly from Central and northern South America with lacey wings and an elongated abdomen. It notes its gathering by Costa Rican and Yunama Indians for decorations and likens its glow to torches used to navigate dark woods, per Atchison Globe.
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Central
South America
Central America
Costa Rica
Yunama
Renard
Guatemala
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Veterans Rally
Argentine Republic
Democratic Party
Wat‘son
Congress of the United States
O ‘Bryan
Trish Brigade
Milholland
Trish
Tim
Mike
First Avenue
Georgia
Gen. Stewart
Corporal Tanner
Tvo
Washington
Tillman
St. Paul
Maryland
Lloyd Lowndes
Messinley
Baltimore
Chicago Tribune
Lease
Hoke Smith
Pension Bureau
Kansas
San Francisco Chronicle
Connecticut
Hartford Times
Troy Times
Carser
R. J. McKernan
Cedar Rapids
Castalia
Kansas City
McPherson
Slimo
Finley
Wapello
Louisa County
Continental Match Company
Edwid Gould
Jee Silvar
Leslie’s Weekly
Chicago Times-Herald
Inter Ocean
Tlt
Elc
Kansas City Journal
Bryan Seeme
Lexington
Addad
Courlands
Jagson
Chadwieck
Washington Times
Atchison Globe
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