MR BRYAN ON MONEY QUESTION AND PLANKS
W J Bryan argues the 1896 Democratic Chicago platform elevates the money question to paramount importance. He defends free coinage at 16 to 1, silver as legal tender, and opposing the gold standard, urging unity against foreign financiers and party deserters while stressing the necessity of independent bi metallism for national policy.
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Chicago
Democratic Party
United States
Congress
Cnld
Monetary Commission
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Republican Party
Gage
Philandelphia
France
Reichstas
England
America
Europe
National Silver Party
Silver Republicans
Taumsee
Wajoy
W.J. Bryan
Woman Refuses to Be Prompted for Wife Beating Statistics
In a tense streetcar encounter a man questions a woman about wife beating as a crime while she retorts with her own statistics from three marriages. The moment ends with her vowing to share numbers if he delays. The piece shifts to a Georgia planter Andrew Bonner who funds a church with meager means and no land, highlighting ambition over obstacles. John D. Rockefeller donates a 327000 law to Cleveland.
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America
Jong
Washington
Missouri
Fou
Nol
Andrew Bonner
Georgia
Nira
College Pack
Atlanta
Andrew
Darky
The Blood Bath of Moranda and the Telephone Ghost
A man recounts a nightmare from Moranda near Marseilles where a telephone line connects him to his wife and child during a stormy vacation. He loses family and servants to a brutal break in, hearing their cries from a distance and feeling utterly helpless as tragedy unfolds.
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Nanette
Blasius
Paris
Marcel
Papa
Louiss
Louise
Marseilles
Great God
Hein
Woman Builds Sixty Mile Rail Road In California
A pioneering California woman leads the San Joaquin and Tuolumne railroad project from Summerville to Tuolumne. Annie Kline Rikert serves as promoter and president, surveying the route on horseback with Snowflake and promising an independent line with women in major roles.
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California
Golden State
Annie Kiine Rikert
Summerville
Stockton
Tuolumne
San Joaquin & Tuolumne Railroad
Southern Page
Prejudice against railroads halts Pekin Hankow survey
The Uninese prejudice against railroads persists as surveyors chart a Pekin to Hankow line. After months of work, stakes and landmarks are found removed. An edict from the provincial governor bans disturbing survey markers under threat of death.
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Pekin
Hankow
JO Sparyzomy
Buried by Ocean Sands Across Coastal Europe and U S
Observations note lighthouses raised by shifting sands along the New Jersey coast and buried fences marking former fields. North Carolina dunes reveal chimney remnants from an old fishing village while European villages vanish under sand. In Gascony Sonlac a cross uncovered above sand leads to a 13th century church now in use.
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New Jersey
North Carolina
France
Europe
Sonlac
Gascony
Rector refuses wedding over love for bride in Louinvitte
A Louisville Kentucky rector declines to marry a friend after admitting he is in love with the bride. The bride agrees to wed him, dismissing her lover Geraldine, who learns of her father's money late and reacts with surprise.
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A Louinvitte
No. L
Bowser Flat Chaos Over Charity Caller and Headache
In a Brooklyn flat a sick Mr Bowser rages at every doorbell rung by visitors from charity canvassers to peddlers and solicitors. Mrs Bowser endures, while a minister and a pummeled canvasser flee. Tense quarrel ends with a plan to separate.
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Lockwood
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
Maroux
Silense
Vaulvard
Non
Fighthy
Marowx
Moranda
Mar-seilles
Shaw
Louisé
Geraldine
Gerald
Mr. Bowser
Halifax
Lake
Als
Bowser
Br. Bowser
Jones
Green
Dews
Brooklyn
Mrs. Bowser
Mr Bowser
States Island
Jersey City
Ms. Bowser
Iibaral
Texas
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