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A weekly digest from Washington highlights Senate rejection of Edward J. Taylor as Niagara customs collector and the completion of the appropriations bill bundle. The piece notes Senate action on rescue funds and banking reform proposals, plus notable personal notices, accidents, fires, deaths, and international items, all drawn from broad world coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Edward J. Taylor
Niagara
N. C
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Faa
Jon
Boen
Minnesota
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Protective Tariff Wars and Democratic Tariff Attacks
A long critique on protection versus free trade, detailing British views on American prosperity under tariffs, the wool and sugar tariff debates, and warnings about wage-earner impacts. It cites Thomas Reed, Binger Hermann, and various speakers, arguing for strong protective measures and denouncing the Bourbon tariff agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Thomas BE. Reed
Maine
Deligi
J. Stephen Jeans
Hantor Mithy Yeats
Edmund Burke
Burke
Ommittee of
Ways and Means
Carr
Cardiff Mail
W. H. Mitchell
Textile Society
Bradford
May
Wilson
Carrale
England
Binger Hermann
Oregon
Mississippi
United States
TSGO
Obia
Australia
River Platte
Boston
Washington
Chee Wen
Mug
Providence Journal
Cleveland
Europe
Congress Ca
New York Press
Manning
Wy York
Colhonp
Che Min
John GC. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Calehoun
Calhoun
Congress
Cuihoun
Jlniess
Ist
North
Water in the Desert and the Flood at Last River
A party of trappers endures weeks of drought along a winding yellow dirt channel. With no water, despair grips the men and horses until a sudden flood roars down Last River, sweeping away many, drowning several, and leaving only scattered corpses and debris as Roasts City Times recounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost River
Luc
Erin
Kentucky Bride Kiss Custom Recalled In Old Record
A Louisville item recalls a bygone wedding custom where a magistrate kissed brides after ceremonies in Lexington. Exanire Hise notes the practice faded as fees and times grew hard, while brides often objected to the kiss and grooms avoided insisting on it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Wissime
Lexington
Fidelity of Whales and a Brooklyn Money Sieve
A discussion of whale fidelity cites Anderson History of Greenland noting a male and female whale pair. After a hunter wounded the male, the female protected its mate until both perished. The item closes with news that a Brooklyn deacon invented a money sieve to sort church collection coins.
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Anderson
Greenland
Brooklyn
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William Minor
Minos
Sarah A. Beach
Fall Dury
Mlinois
Col
Bacon
Maj
Ham
Georgia
John C. Eno
Wall Street
Thomas S. Wright
Rock Island Railroad
New York
Porter
Chicago
Iowa & Dakota
John Collins
Moline
Prince Roland Bonaparte
Palace
Paris
Lillian Trussell
George J. Loomis
Michigan Central Railroad
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Tey. O. A. Walker
Rock River Conference of the
Methodist Church
Pennecton
Sweden
Denmark
Ives
Tda Piatt
Ilinois
Chicago College of Law
John A. Murray
Topeka
Kansans
Mexico
Herman F. Frede
Detroit
Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company
Atlantic City
Benjamin ZL. Beall
Baltimore
Marshall
Linois
Israel
M. Meyers
Morris, IL
Dan Boland
Polo, U
Roger Taylor
Alton
Bloomington
St. Joseph
Patton Street
New Martinsville
W. Va
John Kable
Drusilla Hook
Hooke
Judge Pendleton
Glasgow
Edmonton
Marysville
Conda M. Beck
Grace Cohee
Columbus
Ind
Beck
Ed Dineen
Joe Prenoski
Ils
Minonk
Minois
Harmony
Illinois
A. B. Young
John Mol
Palmer City
James Kirkenbaugh
J. T. Smith
Maud Maddox
Trixie Bennett
Hot Springs
Ark
Charles Stafford
William Bruseher
New Carlisle
Ohio
Joseph Wilson
Gen
Tarsney
Colorado
Neyidta
Louw Frankford
Frankfort
Tnd
Willie A. Murdock
Gainesville
Tex
Danville Junction
Bert Byrnes
Horatio Henriques
William Randle
Rockwell
Philip HW. Jackley
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
D. J. Wolf
Kansas City
Barney Murray
Genessee Oil
Buffalo
N. Y
William HH
Thomas Stinson
Tipton
Gov
Alfield
Kansas
Florence Morrill
Reng County
Ta County
E. B. Hammon
Bank of
Ilkart
J. B. Sutter
Suttler
Winfield Memorial Church
Ledochowski
Lucerne
Winkwad
Hawaii
Onll
Varzin
Bishnirek
Lerhed
Mandanao
Ericsson
Jong Kons
Russia
Porto Alegre
State
Rio Grande Do Sul
Burrows
People’s Bank
Sterling
Til
Ashland II New Christian Church
J. A. Joyce
Terre Haute
W. C. Daly
Brighton Beach
San Francisco
Hmerson
McGrath
Whiteway
Newfoundland
H. B. Burleigh
South Dakota
Bualo
Archbishop Corrigan
Wine and Spirit Gazette
New York City
Mgr Latolli
Sigar Trust
Madison
Wisconsin
Wis
Union
Army
Sugar Trust
Samuel Thomas
J and Gay
Trust
Sore B. Gibson
Gibson
Democratic Committee
George B. Shaw
Bau
House of Representatives
le Cavolimea
Canada
Old Dominion
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