South Holds Future If Bryan Is Chosen, Say McKinley Backers
In a Chicago Post influenced interview, Illinois Central President discusses southern growth, silver currency fear, and the need for sound money. He argues southern prosperity requires McKinley’s gold standard and warns against free coinage. He cites banking rules, rail costs, and public lending effects on the region.
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Gulf
South
Grasty
Manufacturers’ Record Staff
Fish
Chicago
Silver
Bryan
McKinley
Irish
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Bryan’s rhetoric on labor and free coinage debated
The piece attacks Mr. Bryan and popocratic orators for labeling employers as selfish when supporting sound money and opposing free coinage. It argues that sane workers know employer prosperity aligns with worker prosperity and questions Bryan’s critique of employers as hypocrites. It notes Bryan’s call for free silver and a free silver senate and his fear of a president with a hostile Congress.
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Bryan
Men of Sense
Cleveland
Congress
Washington Star
Social legislation for workers summarized by John L. Thomas
John L. Thomas assistant attorney general outlines fifty years of labor reforms aimed at the poor and working classes. Measures include debt imprisonment abolition exemptions for homesteads and property, wage and attorney protections for laborers, seven to nine hour public service days, preferred wage claims, railroad and warehouse regulation, lower interest rates, longer mortgage redemption, fence requirements, safer workplaces, labor organization legality, and a cabinet headed Department of Agriculture with seeds costing 150000 dollars annually.
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United States
Boards of Arbitration
National
Bryanites
John L. Thomas
Post Office Department
Bryan
Thomas
Department of Agriculture
Detroit magnate opposes free silver in Leadville mine tale
Capt William H Stevens a 78 year old mine owner with 1 5 of stock in a $100,000,000 silver vein says Bryan is a charlatan and the silver craze will fade. He urges sound money and an honest dollar, foresees silver to rise with more gold, and warns debts cannot be paid in silver. He notes vein size and past dividends while forecasting the mine's profitable future if gold dominates.
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Bryan
North
Mr. Bryan
South
Maj. McKxinley
Teller
Colorado
Big Pick
Mr. Teller
Detroit Free Press
Dem
Leadville
Detroit
William H. Stevens
United States
Eilher
Hie
Political drift and free silver opinions across papers
The Chicago Tribune notes free silver eyes opening among workers while the Toledo Bee questions price effects. Nebraska farmers ride long to Republican meetings. the Albany Journal cites Alabama credit loss and unpaid teachers amid Bryanism, with the Chicago Inter Ocean summarizing the national impact.
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Chicago Tribune
Toledo Bee
Nebraska
Louis Globe-Democrat
Albany Journal
Alabama
Chicago
McKinley Draws Seven Delegations in Canton Campaign Day
Maj McKinley met delegations from Massachusetts New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois in Canton on Monday It marked the day s most important campaign event with nearly 3000 workers and wives from Erie lines and local railroads plus wheelwomen from Massillon Ohio and Chicago. He urged cooperation between labor and capital and called for protection of industry and a strong home market. He attended William K Miller s funeral and spoke to 400 railroad employees in Seymour Washington Indiana.
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McKinley
Canton
Maj. McKiney
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
William K. Miller
Miller
Mas. McKinley
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Seymour
Washington
Ind
C. H. Montgomery
Maj
Messinley
Cleveland, Loraine & Wheeling
Lh, Eddy
Maj. McKinley
Salamanca
N. Y
Chicago
Erie
McKinley Yard
George T. Menish
North Judeen
Tnd
United States
Union
Massillon
Melkinley Club
Robert Skinner
The Wide World in Odd Small News Bits
A collage of curious notes reports Paris meat trends and Russian fashion, Australian burial rites, sailor superstitions, a Paris bread accident, an Indian illuminated nest, and the baya bird binding fireflies to its nest.
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Paris
Russia
Australia
India
Abaya
Holiday Excursions From the West to Virginia and North Carolina
November and December excursion tickets from west and northwest points to Virginia and North Carolina sell at one fare plus two dollars for the round trip. For details contact U S. Truitt N P A Big Four C and O Route 234 Clarke Street Chicago Illinois. Miss Yam isn t at all musical. How do you know I offered to sing Oh promise me last night and she said she d hear me anything if I wouldn t Pittsburgh Chronicle.
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Homeseeker's
Virginia
North Carolina
U. S. Trurtt
Big Four
Claiie St
Chicago
Yam
Pittsurgh Chronicle
No-To-Bao Cure Ad Promises Quick Health Boosts
An old marketing blurb touts No-To-Bao as a miracle tobacco remedy, claiming rapid weight gain and broad cures. It lists Sterling Remedy Co. as the maker with free booklets and samples, and cites druggists as distributors.
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Ad. Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Farm Opportunity in Northern Wisconsin Rail Corridor
Classified ad notes a farm opportunity in Northern Wisconsin along the Lake Superior division of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line. Describes low prices, reliable crop potential, and saleability in lumber towns served by the railroad, cites OC Rollins Chicago address.
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Wisconsin
Lake Superior
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Rollins
la Balle Street
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Uch
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Chicago Post
Silver Tall
Uncle Sam
MR. Farmer
Max
Empryilie Journal
MoeVicker
My. Crane
Kentucky
Kyrorrnookrr
Norristown Herald
Krison
Thatcher
Philadelphia
Fonraarren
Louisiana
Shaith Nuranry
Yucatan
Sere
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Sais
Walter Baker & CO
Leute Dorchester, Mass
Walter Baker & Cos
Dorchester
Mass
Pandy Cathartig
Sterling Remedy CO
Can
Demorest
London
Timea
Numsbera
Loudon Soy
Demarcat
van Vredenburgh
Demorest Publishing Co
Fifth Avenue
Family
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